2025 AFL Round 2: Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 16 March 2025 between Melbourne and Greater Western Sydney during round 2 of the 2025 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Greater Western Sydney at MCG. Max Gawn captained the hosts with Jack Viney as vice-captain. Toby Greene captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Simon Goodwin and the visitors were coached by Adam Kingsley.

Melbourne
Back: H. Petty, T. McDonald, C. Salem
Half-back: C. Windsor, J. Lever, J. Bowey
Centre: T. Sparrow, C. Petracca, X. Lindsay
Half-forward: J. Henderson, M. Jefferson, J. Viney (vice-capt.)
Forward: B. Fritsch, J. van Rooyen, K. Chandler
Follower: M. Gawn (capt.), C. Oliver, E. Langdon
Int.: B. Howes, A. Johnson, T. Rivers, H. Sharp
Sub.: H. Langford

Greater Western Sydney
Back: C. Idun, S. Taylor, H. Himmelberg
Half-back: L. Whitfield, J. Buckley, L. Ash
Centre: J. Wehr, J. Kelly, S. Coniglio
Half-forward: C. Brown, T. Greene (capt.), B. Daniels
Forward: D. Jones, A. Cadman, C. Ward
Follower: L. Keeffe, T. Bedford, F. Callaghan
Int.: T. Green, J. Leake, X. O'Halloran, C. Stone
Sub.: M. Gruzewski

Melbourne (11.8.74) were defeated by Greater Western Sydney (11.11.77).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: M. Jefferson (2), C. Petracca (2), J. Bowey, J. Henderson, A. Johnson, H. Sharp, T. Sparrow, J. van Rooyen, C. Windsor
Greater Western Sydney: S. Coniglio (3), T. Greene (3), A. Cadman (2), T. Green, L. Keeffe, J. Wehr

As a result of this match, Melbourne were then 10th on the ladder and Greater Western Sydney were then 1st on the ladder (up from 3rd) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney
Date: Sunday 16 March 2025
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 23,278

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Greater Western Sydney
Score: 11.8.74 - 11.11.77

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	2	.	2	5	.	4	10	.	6	11	.	8	11	.	8	(74)
Greater Western Sydney	3	.	1	6	.	5	8	.	7	11	.	11	11	.	11	(77)
Margin	GWSY by 5			GWSY by 7			MELB by 11			GWSY by 3			GWSY by 3
Duration	30:41			34:26			33:58			31:35			2:10:40

Honour Roll

Coaches: Simon Goodwin (Melbourne), Adam Kingsley (Greater Western Sydney)
Captains: Max Gawn (Melbourne), Toby Greene (Greater Western Sydney)
Vice-Captains: Jack Viney (Melbourne), unknown (Greater Western Sydney)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jack Viney	MELB	7	3
Finn Callaghan	GWSY	17	2
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	HBFR	73%	1	0	19	16	3	3	0	4	0	0	2	0	3	2
37	Chandler, Kade	FPR	81%	0	0	11	7	4	4	0	4	2	2	0	1	1	3
31	Fritsch, Bayley	FPL	89%	0	0	12	7	5	2	0	3	0	3	1	0	1	2
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	83%	0	1	24	12	12	3	46	2	7	5	6	1	1	5
43	Henderson, Jack	HFFL	78%	1	0	13	6	7	1	0	3	2	5	1	2	0	1
22	Howes, Blake	INT↓	48%	0	0	12	4	8	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	1
21	Jefferson, Matthew	CHF	75%	2	0	5	3	2	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0
42	Johnson, Aidan	INT	71%	1	2	7	5	2	1	5	5	2	4	0	4	1	1
15	Langdon, Ed	RO	100%	0	0	19	13	6	8	0	2	2	1	0	0	4	3
19	Langford, Harvey	SUB↑	21%	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8	Lever, Jake	CHB	89%	0	0	22	13	9	9	0	3	0	1	0	1	4	0
20	Lindsay, Xavier	WR	74%	0	0	22	12	10	3	0	6	2	2	5	0	3	4
25	McDonald, Tom	FB	100%	0	0	18	10	8	5	0	1	0	1	2	0	5	0
13	Oliver, Clayton	RR	83%	0	0	25	10	15	5	0	5	5	6	1	4	0	3
5	Petracca, Christian	C	88%	2	1	27	13	14	2	0	3	4	4	0	1	1	5
35	Petty, Harry	BPL	95%	0	0	16	12	4	8	0	3	0	3	2	2	1	4
24	Rivers, Trent	INT	72%	0	0	25	14	11	7	0	1	1	4	0	1	5	1
3	Salem, Christian	BPR	90%	0	0	30	27	3	8	0	3	1	2	1	0	8	4
30	Sharp, Harry	INT	64%	1	1	9	7	2	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	0	1
32	Sparrow, Tom	WL	84%	1	1	21	14	7	4	0	5	3	2	1	0	0	8
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	83%	1	0	6	2	4	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	HFFR	77%	0	0	27	15	12	4	0	1	5	7	0	1	0	3
6	Windsor, Caleb	HBFL	83%	1	0	16	8	8	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				11	8	391	233	158	84	51	60	36	59	26	19	40	56

H. Langford replaced B. Howes.

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Ash, Lachie	HBFR	82%	0	0	19	10	9	6	0	0	2	1	0	1	3	1
14	Bedford, Toby	RR	89%	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	9	2	1	0	1	0	3
46	Brown, Callum	HFFL	82%	0	0	14	6	8	0	12	5	5	3	3	1	0	3
44	Buckley, Jack	CHB	92%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	3	2	3	1	1	3	0
5	Cadman, Aaron	FF	83%	2	0	9	5	4	4	0	1	0	3	0	2	1	1
17	Callaghan, Finn	RO	78%	0	1	31	12	19	1	0	3	3	2	2	0	0	5
3	Coniglio, Stephen	WR	87%	3	0	13	8	5	2	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	1
16	Daniels, Brent	HFFR↓	33%	0	0	8	3	5	1	0	1	2	1	1	0	1	1
12	Green, Tom	INT	76%	1	1	35	14	21	1	0	4	9	4	0	2	3	9
4	Greene, Toby (c)	CHF	98%	3	3	23	16	7	5	0	4	5	4	1	1	1	5
35	Gruzewski, Max	SUB↑	27%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
27	Himmelberg, Harry	BPR	93%	0	0	22	15	7	9	0	2	0	2	2	0	9	0
39	Idun, Connor	BPL	81%	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	2
2	Jones, Darcy	FPL	83%	0	0	12	6	6	1	0	4	1	6	1	2	2	4
25	Keeffe, Lachie	RU	79%	1	0	13	10	3	1	14	6	4	7	1	6	3	1
22	Kelly, Josh	C	84%	0	1	23	11	12	0	0	10	3	3	0	0	2	5
30	Leake, James	INT	60%	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
33	O'Halloran, Xavier	INT	78%	0	1	16	11	5	2	0	2	0	6	0	1	1	1
18	Stone, Conor	INT	72%	0	0	11	4	7	2	0	2	0	3	0	0	3	1
15	Taylor, Sam	FB	97%	0	0	15	8	7	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	0
8	Ward, Callan	FPR	81%	0	0	16	6	10	2	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	3
10	Wehr, Jacob	WL	81%	1	1	16	9	7	1	0	4	3	4	2	2	1	1
6	Whitfield, Lachie	HBFL	82%	0	0	34	19	15	5	0	4	3	6	2	3	3	5
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				11	11	363	193	170	56	26	71	48	65	19	26	44	52

M. Gruzewski replaced B. Daniels.

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	39	C. Idun	15	S. Taylor	27	H. Himmelberg	11	M. Gawn (c)	22	B. Howes
	37	K. Chandler	2	J. van Rooyen	31	B. Fritsch	13	C. Oliver	42	A. Johnson
FORWARD							15	E. Langdon	24	T. Rivers
HALF-BACK									30	H. Sharp
	6	L. Whitfield	44	J. Buckley	7	L. Ash			19	H. Langford
	7	J. Viney (vc)	21	M. Jefferson	43	J. Henderson
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	10	J. Wehr	22	J. Kelly	3	S. Coniglio
	20	X. Lindsay	5	C. Petracca	32	T. Sparrow	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							25	L. Keeffe	12	T. Green
HALF-FORWARD							14	T. Bedford	30	J. Leake
	46	C. Brown	4	T. Greene (c)	16	B. Daniels	17	F. Callaghan	33	X. O'Halloran
	17	J. Bowey	8	J. Lever	6	C. Windsor			18	C. Stone
HALF-BACK									35	M. Gruzewski
FORWARD
	2	D. Jones	5	A. Cadman	8	C. Ward
	3	C. Salem	25	T. McDonald	35	H. Petty
BACK
Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Adam Kingsley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Matthew Jefferson goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:16
	MELB	Tom Sparrow behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	02:00
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	04:19
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	09:28
	GWSY	Tom Green behind	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	12:47
	GWSY	Jacob Wehr goal	1.1.7	-	3.1.19	16:02
	MELB	Max Gawn behind	1.2.8	-	3.1.19	20:41
	MELB	Jack Henderson goal	2.2.14	-	3.1.19	23:14
Q2	MELB	Harry Sharp behind	2.3.15	-	3.1.19	01:07
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	3.3.21	-	3.1.19	06:46
	GWSY	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	3.2.20	08:28
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	3.3.21	-	3.3.21	11:41
	GWSY	Josh Kelly behind	3.3.21	-	3.4.22	13:38
	MELB	Harry Sharp goal	4.3.27	-	3.4.22	16:50
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	5.3.33	-	3.4.22	18:19
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	5.3.33	-	4.4.28	21:50
	MELB	Aidan Johnson behind	5.4.34	-	4.4.28	26:26
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	5.4.34	-	5.4.34	27:44
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	5.4.34	-	6.4.40	29:39
	GWSY	Xavier O'Halloran behind	5.4.34	-	6.5.41	31:17
Q3	MELB	Caleb Windsor goal	6.4.40	-	6.5.41	00:18
	MELB	Tom Sparrow goal	7.4.46	-	6.5.41	01:31
	MELB	Jake Bowey goal	8.4.52	-	6.5.41	04:01
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	8.4.52	-	7.5.47	08:37
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	8.4.52	-	7.6.48	10:31
	MELB	Rushed behind	8.5.53	-	7.6.48	13:15
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	9.5.59	-	7.6.48	13:53
	MELB	Aidan Johnson goal	10.5.65	-	7.6.48	20:48
	GWSY	Rushed behind	10.5.65	-	7.7.49	25:10
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	10.5.65	-	8.7.55	26:16
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	10.6.66	-	8.7.55	31:31
Q4	GWSY	Tom Green goal	10.6.66	-	9.7.61	01:31
	MELB	Matthew Jefferson goal	11.6.72	-	9.7.61	06:58
	GWSY	Finn Callaghan behind	11.6.72	-	9.8.62	09:05
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	11.6.72	-	9.9.63	10:16
	GWSY	Jacob Wehr behind	11.6.72	-	9.10.64	12:06
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	11.6.72	-	10.10.70	15:47
	GWSY	Rushed behind	11.6.72	-	10.11.71	22:01
	MELB	Rushed behind	11.7.73	-	10.11.71	24:58
	MELB	Aidan Johnson behind	11.8.74	-	10.11.71	28:08
	GWSY	Lachie Keeffe goal	11.8.74	-	11.11.77	29:13

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