2025 AFL Season Round 2: West Coast v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 16 March 2025 between West Coast and Gold Coast during round two of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. West Coast hosted Gold Coast at Optus Stadium. Noah Anderson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Andrew McQualter and the visitors were coached by Damien Hardwick.

West Coast (7.7.49) were defeated by Gold Coast (20.16.136).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: West Coast v Gold Coast
Date: Sunday 16 March 2025
Time: 3:10 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 46,532

Match Results

Outcome: West Coast def. by Gold Coast
Score: 7.7.49 - 20.16.136

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
West Coast	2	.	1	2	.	4	5	.	5	7	.	7	7	.	7	(49)
Gold Coast	4	.	5	9	.	7	14	.	11	20	.	16	20	.	16	(136)
Margin	GCST by 16			GCST by 45			GCST by 60			GCST by 87			GCST by 87
Duration	31:00			32:19			33:41			32:05			2:09:05

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (West Coast) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Gold Coast) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

West Coast

Captain: unknown
Coach: Andrew McQualter

Gold Coast

Captain: Noah Anderson
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Matt Rowell	GCST	18	3
Ben King	GCST	34	2
Touk Miller	GCST	11	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

West Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
12	Allen, Oscar	FF	93%	2	0	8	6	2	5	0	3	0	3	1	1	0	1
3	Baker, Liam	HBFR	82%	0	1	21	14	7	3	0	1	2	3	0	3	10	4
10	Brockman, Tyler	INT	84%	0	1	15	3	12	1	0	3	2	5	0	2	1	2
28	Cole, Tom	INT	79%	0	0	19	10	9	8	0	4	1	1	1	0	4	3
15	Cripps, Jamie	HFFR	90%	0	0	14	11	3	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3
43	Dewar, Tyrell	HBFL	83%	0	0	15	12	3	2	0	1	0	6	0	2	5	3
14	Duggan, Liam	WR	67%	0	0	20	11	9	4	0	3	3	5	2	2	2	1
42	Edwards, Harry	FB	85%	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	0
25	Flynn, Matt	RU	85%	1	0	13	7	6	4	13	3	4	1	0	1	1	0
7	Ginbey, Reuben	BPL	93%	0	0	16	10	6	3	0	4	1	1	1	0	4	1
17	Graham, Jack	HFFL	81%	0	0	23	11	12	3	0	10	2	3	0	3	2	5
8	Hewett, Elijah	INT	73%	0	1	11	6	5	1	0	4	4	1	2	1	0	1
19	Hough, Brady	BPR	88%	0	0	16	8	8	4	0	2	1	3	0	0	2	0
5	Hunt, Jayden	WL	82%	0	0	8	3	5	1	0	1	3	2	0	0	1	0
44	Hutchinson, Jack	RR	67%	0	0	12	7	5	5	0	7	1	2	0	1	2	2
11	Kelly, Tim	C	74%	0	1	14	7	7	2	0	6	4	4	0	1	1	1
13	Long, Noah	FPR	87%	0	1	6	2	4	1	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	0
23	Maric, Ryan	SUB↑	33%	0	0	9	5	4	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
20	McGovern, Jeremy	CHB	87%	0	0	19	14	5	1	0	2	0	3	1	1	7	0
16	Owies, Matthew	FPL	84%	1	0	11	5	6	5	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	2
22	Reid, Archer	INT	66%	0	0	6	1	5	0	6	3	3	1	1	0	1	1
9	Reid, Harley	RO	78%	1	1	12	6	6	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	3
2	Waterman, Jake	CHF↓	58%	2	0	5	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				7	7	296	163	133	62	19	65	33	55	10	20	47	34

R. Maric replaced J. Waterman.

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ainsworth, Ben	HFFR	82%	0	0	18	9	9	5	0	2	1	3	1	0	1	5
15	Anderson, Noah (c)	RO	80%	0	0	36	16	20	3	0	5	9	5	0	0	5	9
10	Ballard, Charlie	CHB↓	45%	0	0	6	5	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
35	Budarick, Connor	INT	77%	0	0	17	8	9	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	4
33	Clohesy, Sam	WR	93%	0	1	9	7	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
25	Collins, Sam	FB	88%	0	0	12	8	4	7	0	2	1	1	0	0	4	2
26	Graham, Will	HFFL	79%	1	1	9	7	2	2	0	7	2	2	1	1	0	2
7	Holman, Nick	INT	77%	0	1	14	7	7	1	0	5	2	1	2	0	0	2
19	Humphrey, Bailey	RR	86%	0	0	20	8	12	4	0	2	5	4	1	1	1	6
40	Jeffrey, Joel	INT	79%	0	0	20	14	6	4	0	3	0	1	2	0	3	4
34	King, Ben	FF	87%	6	2	11	8	3	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
22	Long, Ben	FPL	79%	4	1	12	9	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
11	Miller, Touk	CHF	73%	2	1	26	12	14	4	0	2	10	4	1	1	1	3
2	Noble, John	HBFL	83%	0	0	19	14	5	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	2
27	Powell, Wil	BPL	85%	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	3	0	5	0	0	4	2
20	Read, Ethan	FPR	82%	2	2	10	7	3	3	9	2	0	2	1	1	0	0
17	Rioli, Daniel	HBFR	82%	2	0	21	12	9	5	0	0	1	5	0	1	2	3
29	Rogers, Jake	INT	75%	3	0	13	6	7	4	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	1
18	Rowell, Matt	C	79%	0	0	30	17	13	0	0	8	10	3	2	1	0	6
6	Sexton, Alex	SUB↑	41%	0	1	3	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
32	Uwland, Bodhi	BPR	92%	0	0	15	7	8	2	0	3	1	4	1	2	2	0
14	Weller, Lachie	WL	71%	0	0	21	9	12	2	0	6	3	4	3	1	0	5
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	83%	0	0	13	6	7	2	68	4	5	1	3	0	0	3
Rushed					6
Total (23 players)				20	16	368	206	162	77	77	64	50	49	20	10	27	67

A. Sexton replaced C. Ballard.

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

West Coast							Coach: Andrew McQualter
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	W. Powell	25	S. Collins	32	B. Uwland	25	M. Flynn	10	T. Brockman
	13	N. Long	12	O. Allen	16	M. Owies	44	J. Hutchinson	28	T. Cole
FORWARD							9	H. Reid	8	E. Hewett
HALF-BACK									22	A. Reid
	2	J. Noble	10	C. Ballard	17	D. Rioli			23	R. Maric
	15	J. Cripps	2	J. Waterman	17	J. Graham
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	14	L. Weller	18	M. Rowell	33	S. Clohesy
	14	L. Duggan	11	T. Kelly	5	J. Hunt	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							28	J. Witts	35	C. Budarick
HALF-FORWARD							19	B. Humphrey	7	N. Holman
	26	W. Graham	11	T. Miller	9	B. Ainsworth	15	N. Anderson (c)	40	J. Jeffrey
	3	L. Baker	20	J. McGovern	43	T. Dewar			29	J. Rogers
HALF-BACK									6	A. Sexton
FORWARD
	22	B. Long	34	B. King	20	E. Read
	19	B. Hough	42	H. Edwards	7	R. Ginbey
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Damien Hardwick

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Ethan Read goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:05
	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:47
	GCST	Ben Long behind	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	07:28
	WCST	Oscar Allen goal	2.0.12	-	1.1.7	08:48
	GCST	Ben King behind	2.0.12	-	1.2.8	11:27
	GCST	Jake Rogers goal	2.0.12	-	2.2.14	14:34
	WCST	Harley Reid behind	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	15:48
	GCST	Will Graham behind	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	16:58
	GCST	Ben King goal	2.1.13	-	3.3.21	18:19
	GCST	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	3.4.22	22:57
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	2.1.13	-	4.4.28	27:04
	GCST	Ethan Read behind	2.1.13	-	4.5.29	29:05
Q2	GCST	Daniel Rioli goal	2.1.13	-	5.5.35	01:11
	GCST	Ethan Read goal	2.1.13	-	6.5.41	08:19
	WCST	Elijah Hewett behind	2.2.14	-	6.5.41	11:02
	GCST	Ben King goal	2.2.14	-	7.5.47	14:03
	WCST	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	7.5.47	15:50
	GCST	Ben Long goal	2.3.15	-	8.5.53	17:05
	GCST	Nick Holman behind	2.3.15	-	8.6.54	19:37
	GCST	Ben Long goal	2.3.15	-	9.6.60	22:35
	WCST	Noah Long behind	2.4.16	-	9.6.60	26:46
	GCST	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	9.7.61	29:52
Q3	WCST	Tyler Brockman behind	2.5.17	-	9.7.61	02:04
	GCST	Touk Miller behind	2.5.17	-	9.8.62	05:18
	GCST	Will Graham goal	2.5.17	-	10.8.68	06:22
	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	3.5.23	-	10.8.68	10:27
	GCST	Alex Sexton behind	3.5.23	-	10.9.69	13:08
	GCST	Ben King goal	3.5.23	-	11.9.75	14:28
	WCST	Harley Reid goal	4.5.29	-	11.9.75	18:16
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	4.5.29	-	12.9.81	19:28
	GCST	Ben King goal	4.5.29	-	13.9.87	22:53
	WCST	Matt Flynn goal	5.5.35	-	13.9.87	25:04
	GCST	Ben Long goal	5.5.35	-	14.9.93	26:20
	GCST	Sam Clohesy behind	5.5.35	-	14.10.94	27:59
	GCST	Ethan Read behind	5.5.35	-	14.11.95	28:59
Q4	GCST	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	14.12.96	01:11
	WCST	Matthew Owies goal	6.5.41	-	14.12.96	02:20
	WCST	Liam Baker behind	6.6.42	-	14.12.96	05:22
	GCST	Ben King goal	6.6.42	-	15.12.102	08:20
	GCST	Jake Rogers goal	6.6.42	-	16.12.108	10:10
	GCST	Jake Rogers goal	6.6.42	-	17.12.114	11:31
	GCST	Ben King behind	6.6.42	-	17.13.115	13:10
	GCST	Rushed behind	6.6.42	-	17.14.116	14:20
	GCST	Rushed behind	6.6.42	-	17.15.117	15:32
	GCST	Ben Long goal	6.6.42	-	18.15.123	16:59
	GCST	Ben King goal	6.6.42	-	19.15.129	18:51
	GCST	Daniel Rioli goal	6.6.42	-	20.15.135	22:44
	WCST	Oscar Allen goal	7.6.48	-	20.15.135	26:31
	WCST	Tim Kelly behind	7.7.49	-	20.15.135	29:12
	GCST	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	20.16.136	31:21

Links

2025 AFL Season

The information provided on this site does not necessarily align with the official record. The purpose of this site is to present its author's attempt to amalgamate a variety of sources of information on the VFL/AFL, VFA/VFL, SANFL, WAFL, TSL and other competitions to provide its users a unified view of the people (e.g. players, coaches, draftees and umpires), places, events (e.g. matches, drafts and awards) and other entities that have contributed to the rich history of Australian rules football.