2025 AFL Season Round 3: Fremantle v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 23 March 2025 between Fremantle and Sydney during round three of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Fremantle hosted Sydney at Optus Stadium. Alex Pearce captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Justin Longmuir and the visitors were coached by Dean Cox.

Fremantle (9.11.65) were defeated by Sydney (9.14.68).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Fremantle v Sydney
Date: Sunday 23 March 2025
Time: 3:10 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 43,882

Match Results

Outcome: Fremantle def. by Sydney
Score: 9.11.65 - 9.14.68

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Fremantle	4	.	3	5	.	5	8	.	8	9	.	11	9	.	11	(65)
Sydney	0	.	5	3	.	8	7	.	12	9	.	14	9	.	14	(68)
Margin	FREM by 22			FREM by 9			FREM by 2			SYDN by 3			SYDN by 3
Duration	28:46			29:57			29:49			29:22			1:57:54

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Fremantle

Captain: Alex Pearce
Coach: Justin Longmuir

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Dean Cox

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	3
Alex Pearce	FREM	25	2
Andrew Brayshaw	FREM	8	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Amiss, Jye	FPR	91%	1	0	8	5	3	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1
41	Banfield, Bailey	INT	79%	1	0	10	4	6	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	2
15	Bolton, Shai	HFFR	77%	0	0	15	9	6	0	0	4	4	5	0	3	0	2
8	Brayshaw, Andrew	RO	86%	0	0	19	6	13	2	0	8	3	2	1	2	0	6
5	Chapman, Heath	HBFL	75%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	0
6	Clark, Jordan	HBFR	92%	0	0	24	15	9	5	0	2	0	3	0	1	8	4
36	Cox, Brennan	BPR	84%	0	0	12	9	3	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
37	Draper, Josh	SUB↑	46%	0	0	7	5	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1
28	Erasmus, Neil	INT	66%	0	1	14	8	6	3	0	2	1	4	2	2	2	3
32	Frederick, Michael	CHF	83%	0	2	12	6	6	3	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	1
9	Jackson, Luke	RU	85%	1	0	20	6	14	3	28	5	0	5	1	2	0	5
44	Johnson, Matthew	WL	70%	0	0	17	11	6	6	0	2	0	7	0	1	2	8
30	O'Driscoll, Nathan	INT	71%	0	0	25	15	10	3	0	2	4	3	0	1	3	8
2	O'Meara, Jaeger	C	88%	0	0	32	11	21	4	0	2	5	6	1	3	3	1
25	Pearce, Alex (c)	FB	93%	0	0	11	6	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
16	Reid, Murphy	FPL	68%	0	1	14	9	5	1	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	4
13	Ryan, Luke	INT	91%	0	0	23	19	4	7	0	1	0	2	0	0	8	1
3	Serong, Caleb	RR	87%	1	1	19	9	10	2	0	6	5	2	2	1	2	3
14	Sharp, Jeremy	WR	82%	0	0	18	10	8	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
35	Treacy, Josh	FF	92%	4	2	13	8	5	7	5	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
20	Voss, Patrick	HFFL	75%	1	3	13	9	4	6	1	1	0	6	0	1	1	1
34	Wagner, Corey	BPL	85%	0	0	20	13	7	5	0	3	0	0	1	0	7	2
31	Walker, Brandon	CHB↓	34%	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				9	11	363	203	160	83	34	48	25	54	15	18	45	59

J. Draper replaced B. Walker.

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Amartey, Joel	FPL	73%	2	0	8	5	3	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
26	Bice, Riley	INT	80%	1	0	14	8	6	3	0	4	0	2	0	1	2	1
22	Blakey, Nick	BPL	88%	0	0	20	19	1	7	0	1	0	3	2	0	5	4
16	Campbell, Braeden	WR	80%	0	1	16	10	6	4	0	3	1	3	0	1	2	1
13	Florent, Oliver	HBFR	79%	0	1	11	6	5	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	3
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU↓	64%	0	0	11	7	4	6	23	3	0	1	0	0	1	1
29	Hamling, Joel	BPR	87%	0	0	12	6	6	5	0	1	0	2	2	0	1	1
40	Hanily, Tom	HFFL	66%	1	0	7	2	5	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
9	Hayward, Will	CHF	79%	1	2	7	5	2	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
5	Heeney, Isaac	C	87%	0	0	21	12	9	3	0	5	6	5	2	2	2	5
17	Jordon, James	RO	82%	0	0	24	7	17	1	0	2	10	8	0	1	4	4
19	Ladhams, Peter	INT	68%	1	0	12	7	5	2	7	2	3	1	1	1	1	1
44	Lloyd, Jake	WL	90%	0	0	25	18	7	10	0	1	2	1	0	1	3	4
30	McCartin, Tom	FF	94%	0	0	15	10	5	5	0	1	0	4	1	2	5	0
2	McLean, Hayden	HFFR	78%	2	1	9	6	3	1	1	5	0	3	1	1	0	3
11	Papley, Tom	FPR	84%	0	2	19	15	4	4	0	2	1	3	0	2	0	5
24	Rampe, Dane	FB	81%	0	0	12	12	0	9	0	4	0	1	0	0	8	0
34	Roberts, Matt	CHB	94%	0	0	25	19	6	5	0	2	3	2	3	0	5	5
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	76%	0	0	22	11	11	3	0	4	4	4	1	1	2	3
12	Sheldrick, Angus	SUB↑	14%	0	1	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
1	Warner, Chad	RR	88%	1	2	26	22	4	9	0	5	4	4	3	1	3	10
37	Warner, Corey	INT	85%	0	1	14	10	4	4	0	4	1	3	1	0	1	2
15	Wicks, Sam	HBFL	81%	0	0	15	7	8	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	3	1
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				9	14	348	226	122	94	31	57	37	54	18	15	49	55

A. Sheldrick replaced B. Grundy.

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

Fremantle							Coach: Justin Longmuir
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	22	N. Blakey	24	D. Rampe	29	J. Hamling	9	L. Jackson	41	B. Banfield
	24	J. Amiss	35	J. Treacy	16	M. Reid	3	C. Serong	28	N. Erasmus
FORWARD							8	A. Brayshaw	30	N. O'Driscoll
HALF-BACK									13	L. Ryan
	15	S. Wicks	34	M. Roberts	13	O. Florent			37	J. Draper
	15	S. Bolton	32	M. Frederick	20	P. Voss
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	44	J. Lloyd	5	I. Heeney	16	B. Campbell
	14	J. Sharp	2	J. O'Meara	44	M. Johnson	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							4	B. Grundy	26	R. Bice
HALF-FORWARD							1	C. Warner	19	P. Ladhams
	40	T. Hanily	9	W. Hayward	2	H. McLean	17	J. Jordon	8	J. Rowbottom
	6	J. Clark	31	B. Walker	5	H. Chapman			37	C. Warner
HALF-BACK									12	A. Sheldrick
FORWARD
	36	J. Amartey	30	T. McCartin	11	T. Papley
	36	B. Cox	25	A. Pearce (c)	34	C. Wagner
BACK
Sydney							Coach: Dean Cox

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	02:09
	FREM	Patrick Voss behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	03:12
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	0.1.1	-	0.2.2	04:09
	FREM	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	0.2.2	05:28
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	0.2.2	-	0.3.3	06:08
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	1.2.8	-	0.3.3	08:47
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	2.2.14	-	0.3.3	12:13
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	2.2.14	-	0.4.4	15:39
	FREM	Luke Jackson goal	3.2.20	-	0.4.4	21:01
	FREM	Patrick Voss behind	3.3.21	-	0.4.4	25:28
	FREM	Patrick Voss goal	4.3.27	-	0.4.4	26:40
	SYDN	Rushed behind	4.3.27	-	0.5.5	28:43
Q2	SYDN	Peter Ladhams goal	4.3.27	-	1.5.11	03:25
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	4.3.27	-	2.5.17	07:30
	FREM	Josh Treacy behind	4.4.28	-	2.5.17	09:06
	SYDN	Corey Warner behind	4.4.28	-	2.6.18	11:59
	SYDN	Rushed behind	4.4.28	-	2.7.19	12:37
	FREM	Michael Frederick behind	4.5.29	-	2.7.19	14:31
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	4.5.29	-	3.7.25	20:25
	FREM	Caleb Serong goal	5.5.35	-	3.7.25	22:09
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	5.5.35	-	3.8.26	24:48
Q3	FREM	Caleb Serong behind	5.6.36	-	3.8.26	01:23
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	6.6.42	-	3.8.26	02:34
	SYDN	Rushed behind	6.6.42	-	3.9.27	05:06
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	6.6.42	-	4.9.33	06:59
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	6.6.42	-	5.9.39	09:18
	FREM	Michael Frederick behind	6.7.43	-	5.9.39	10:43
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	7.7.49	-	5.9.39	14:23
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	7.7.49	-	6.9.45	18:25
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	7.7.49	-	6.10.46	20:09
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	7.7.49	-	6.11.47	21:06
	SYDN	Oliver Florent behind	7.7.49	-	6.12.48	21:38
	FREM	Josh Treacy behind	7.8.50	-	6.12.48	22:48
	SYDN	Tom Hanily goal	7.8.50	-	7.12.54	23:50
	FREM	Bailey Banfield goal	8.8.56	-	7.12.54	26:01
Q4	FREM	Neil Erasmus behind	8.9.57	-	7.12.54	03:14
	FREM	Murphy Reid behind	8.10.58	-	7.12.54	04:35
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	8.10.58	-	7.13.55	05:55
	FREM	Jye Amiss goal	9.10.64	-	7.13.55	14:11
	FREM	Patrick Voss behind	9.11.65	-	7.13.55	16:58
	SYDN	Angus Sheldrick behind	9.11.65	-	7.14.56	17:29
	SYDN	Riley Bice goal	9.11.65	-	8.14.62	18:59
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	9.11.65	-	9.14.68	25:51

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