2025 AFL Round 4: Melbourne v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 29 March 2025 between Melbourne and Gold Coast during round 4 of the 2025 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Gold Coast at MCG. Max Gawn captained the hosts with Jack Viney as vice-captain. Noah Anderson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Simon Goodwin and the visitors were coached by Damien Hardwick.

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

Gold Coast
Back: M. Andrew, W. Powell, S. Collins
Half-back: J. Noble, B. Uwland, D. Rioli
Centre: L. Weller, M. Rowell, S. Clohesy
Half-forward: W. Graham, C. Budarick, T. Miller
Forward: B. King, B. Long, E. Read
Follower: J. Witts, B. Humphrey, N. Anderson (capt.)
Int.: S. Flanders, N. Holman, J. Jeffrey, J. Walter
Sub.: J. Rogers

Melbourne (8.14.62) were defeated by Gold Coast (18.12.120).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: H. Sharp (2), J. Bowey, K. Chandler, H. Langford, J. Melksham, C. Petracca, J. van Rooyen
Gold Coast: B. King (4), T. Miller (3), W. Graham (2), N. Anderson, S. Flanders, B. Humphrey, B. Long, J. Noble, E. Read, J. Walter, L. Weller, J. Witts

As a result of this match, Melbourne remained 16th on the ladder and Gold Coast were then 3rd on the ladder (up from 7th) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: Melbourne v Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 29 March 2025
Time: 1:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 24,506

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Gold Coast
Score: 8.14.62 - 18.12.120

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	1	.	4	2	.	9	6	.	12	8	.	14	8	.	14	(62)
Gold Coast	4	.	5	5	.	8	12	.	10	18	.	12	18	.	12	(120)
Margin	GCST by 19			GCST by 17			GCST by 34			GCST by 58			GCST by 58
Duration	31:05			28:53			34:42			31:37			2:06:17

Honour Roll

Coaches: Simon Goodwin (Melbourne), Damien Hardwick (Gold Coast)
Captains: Max Gawn (Melbourne), Noah Anderson (Gold Coast)
Vice-Captains: Jack Viney (Melbourne), unknown (Gold Coast)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Matt Rowell	GCST	18	3
Touk Miller	GCST	11	2
Noah Anderson	GCST	15	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Billings, Jack	WL	90%	0	0	14	5	9	2	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	1
17	Bowey, Jake	HBFR	84%	1	0	26	14	12	6	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	1
37	Chandler, Kade	FPR	84%	1	0	13	7	6	5	0	3	0	3	1	2	2	1
31	Fritsch, Bayley	INT	76%	0	3	15	10	5	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	2
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	84%	0	1	15	8	7	5	30	2	1	7	1	3	4	2
43	Henderson, Jack	HFFL	78%	0	1	11	5	6	4	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	2
22	Howes, Blake	INT	74%	0	0	9	7	2	1	0	2	0	1	1	1	4	1
42	Johnson, Aidan	CHF	76%	0	0	5	2	3	1	5	4	2	3	0	2	0	0
15	Langdon, Ed	RO	97%	0	0	29	13	16	7	0	4	1	1	0	0	2	4
19	Langford, Harvey	FPL	66%	1	1	26	10	16	3	0	1	6	5	2	3	1	5
20	Lindsay, Xavier	WR↓	3%	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1	May, Steven	FB	90%	0	0	20	15	5	4	0	0	0	8	0	3	8	0
25	McDonald, Tom	BPL	97%	0	0	17	12	5	6	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	0
18	Melksham, Jake	SUB↑	77%	1	2	8	6	2	2	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	4
13	Oliver, Clayton	C	77%	0	0	31	13	18	3	0	6	5	7	0	0	2	2
5	Petracca, Christian	RR	87%	1	1	23	9	14	3	0	3	2	5	3	2	0	2
35	Petty, Harry	CHB	87%	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	1
24	Rivers, Trent	INT	85%	0	0	22	13	9	9	0	2	1	1	2	1	7	3
3	Salem, Christian	BPR	84%	0	0	20	14	6	9	0	1	1	3	0	0	3	0
30	Sharp, Harry	INT	71%	2	0	12	9	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	3
32	Sparrow, Tom	HBFL	78%	0	1	14	8	6	5	0	4	1	3	0	0	0	2
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	76%	1	0	7	3	4	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	HFFR	81%	0	0	19	8	11	2	0	5	1	5	1	1	1	3
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				8	14	369	199	170	93	35	52	24	64	13	21	46	40

J. Melksham replaced X. Lindsay.

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
15	Anderson, Noah (c)	RO	87%	1	0	35	14	21	3	0	4	3	8	2	0	1	6
1	Andrew, Mac	BPL	84%	0	0	9	7	2	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	1
35	Budarick, Connor	CHF	84%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	4	1	2	0	1	0	4
33	Clohesy, Sam	WR	91%	0	0	21	14	7	9	0	4	1	1	0	0	3	6
25	Collins, Sam	BPR	97%	0	0	10	7	3	6	0	2	0	1	2	1	0	0
3	Flanders, Sam	INT	67%	1	1	25	13	12	4	0	1	6	7	3	0	0	1
26	Graham, Will	HFFL	81%	2	1	16	8	8	5	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	3
7	Holman, Nick	INT↓	57%	0	1	8	3	5	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
19	Humphrey, Bailey	RR	80%	1	1	23	10	13	3	0	6	4	4	0	1	0	7
40	Jeffrey, Joel	INT	80%	0	1	16	9	7	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	4	1
34	King, Ben	FPL	87%	4	3	12	9	3	4	0	2	0	2	3	0	0	0
22	Long, Ben	FF	89%	1	1	14	10	4	5	0	2	1	3	0	0	0	4
11	Miller, Touk	HFFR	79%	3	1	23	14	9	9	0	3	2	2	2	2	1	5
2	Noble, John	HBFL	87%	1	1	29	22	7	8	0	3	1	4	0	2	6	2
27	Powell, Wil	FB	90%	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	2	1
20	Read, Ethan	FPR	68%	1	0	7	5	2	3	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	2
17	Rioli, Daniel	HBFR	78%	0	0	20	13	7	3	0	0	1	2	1	0	4	5
29	Rogers, Jake	SUB↑	25%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
18	Rowell, Matt	C	83%	0	0	36	15	21	5	0	7	13	6	2	1	1	8
32	Uwland, Bodhi	CHB	84%	0	0	15	9	6	3	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	2
4	Walter, Jed	INT	66%	1	0	12	4	8	2	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	3
14	Weller, Lachie	WL	73%	1	1	10	4	6	2	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	1
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	83%	1	0	13	4	9	1	25	4	3	1	2	1	2	2
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				18	12	388	212	176	91	29	52	40	60	21	13	31	65

J. Rogers replaced N. Holman.

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
	1	M. Andrew	27	W. Powell	25	S. Collins	11	M. Gawn (c)	31	B. Fritsch
	37	K. Chandler	2	J. van Rooyen	19	H. Langford	5	C. Petracca	22	B. Howes
FORWARD							15	E. Langdon	24	T. Rivers
HALF-BACK									30	H. Sharp
	2	J. Noble	32	B. Uwland	17	D. Rioli			18	J. Melksham
	7	J. Viney (vc)	42	A. Johnson	43	J. Henderson
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	14	L. Weller	18	M. Rowell	33	S. Clohesy
	20	X. Lindsay	13	C. Oliver	14	J. Billings	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							28	J. Witts	3	S. Flanders
HALF-FORWARD							19	B. Humphrey	7	N. Holman
	26	W. Graham	35	C. Budarick	11	T. Miller	15	N. Anderson (c)	40	J. Jeffrey
	17	J. Bowey	35	H. Petty	32	T. Sparrow			4	J. Walter
HALF-BACK									29	J. Rogers
FORWARD
	34	B. King	22	B. Long	20	E. Read
	3	C. Salem	1	S. May	25	T. McDonald
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Damien Hardwick

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Max Gawn behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	02:26
	GCST	Ben Long behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	03:44
	GCST	Will Graham goal	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	05:13
	MELB	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	07:57
	GCST	Jed Walter goal	0.2.2	-	2.1.13	10:02
	GCST	Nick Holman behind	0.2.2	-	2.2.14	12:14
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	0.3.3	-	2.2.14	13:34
	GCST	Sam Flanders behind	0.3.3	-	2.3.15	16:56
	MELB	Harvey Langford behind	0.4.4	-	2.3.15	17:37
	MELB	Jake Bowey goal	1.4.10	-	2.3.15	19:39
	GCST	John Noble goal	1.4.10	-	3.3.21	22:40
	GCST	Ben King behind	1.4.10	-	3.4.22	26:01
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey goal	1.4.10	-	4.4.28	28:45
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	1.4.10	-	4.5.29	30:36
Q2	MELB	Tom Sparrow behind	1.5.11	-	4.5.29	04:25
	GCST	Touk Miller behind	1.5.11	-	4.6.30	08:55
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.6.12	-	4.6.30	10:42
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	2.6.18	-	4.6.30	11:57
	GCST	Noah Anderson goal	2.6.18	-	5.6.36	13:25
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	2.7.19	-	5.6.36	17:15
	GCST	John Noble behind	2.7.19	-	5.7.37	20:56
	GCST	Joel Jeffrey behind	2.7.19	-	5.8.38	22:25
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	2.8.20	-	5.8.38	27:53
	MELB	Rushed behind	2.9.21	-	5.8.38	28:30
Q3	GCST	Ben King behind	2.9.21	-	5.9.39	03:11
	GCST	Ben King behind	2.9.21	-	5.10.40	05:02
	MELB	Harry Sharp goal	3.9.27	-	5.10.40	05:50
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	3.9.27	-	6.10.46	08:56
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	3.9.27	-	7.10.52	12:58
	GCST	Ben King goal	3.9.27	-	8.10.58	14:12
	GCST	Ben King goal	3.9.27	-	9.10.64	18:03
	GCST	Jarrod Witts goal	3.9.27	-	10.10.70	20:03
	MELB	Jack Henderson behind	3.10.28	-	10.10.70	22:36
	MELB	Harry Sharp goal	4.10.34	-	10.10.70	24:39
	GCST	Lachie Weller goal	4.10.34	-	11.10.76	25:58
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	5.10.40	-	11.10.76	27:53
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	6.10.46	-	11.10.76	30:41
	MELB	Jake Melksham behind	6.11.47	-	11.10.76	32:03
	MELB	Rushed behind	6.12.48	-	11.10.76	34:01
	GCST	Will Graham goal	6.12.48	-	12.10.82	34:39
Q4	GCST	Touk Miller goal	6.12.48	-	13.10.88	02:36
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	6.13.49	-	13.10.88	07:34
	GCST	Sam Flanders goal	6.13.49	-	14.10.94	09:58
	GCST	Ben King goal	6.13.49	-	15.10.100	12:12
	MELB	Harvey Langford goal	7.13.55	-	15.10.100	14:50
	MELB	Jake Melksham behind	7.14.56	-	15.10.100	16:05
	GCST	Lachie Weller behind	7.14.56	-	15.11.101	18:22
	GCST	Ethan Read goal	7.14.56	-	16.11.107	19:46
	GCST	Will Graham behind	7.14.56	-	16.12.108	21:12
	GCST	Ben King goal	7.14.56	-	17.12.114	22:36
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	8.14.62	-	17.12.114	28:40
	GCST	Ben Long goal	8.14.62	-	18.12.120	30:06

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