2025 AFL Round 5: Gold Coast v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 5 April 2025 between Gold Coast and Adelaide during round 5 of the 2025 AFL season. Gold Coast hosted Adelaide at People First Stadium. Noah Anderson captained the hosts. Jordan Dawson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by Matthew Nicks.

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

Adelaide
Back: J. Worrell, J. Borlase, R. Laird
Half-back: W. Milera, M. Keane, M. Michalanney
Centre: I. Cumming, J. Dawson (capt.), L. Sholl
Half-forward: B. Keays, R. Thilthorpe, I. Rankine
Forward: D. Fogarty, T. Walker, A. Neal-Bullen
Follower: R. O'Brien, J. Soligo, J. Peatling
Int.: D. Curtin, S. Draper, M. Hinge, L. Murphy
Sub.: L. Nankervis

Gold Coast (13.13.91) defeated Adelaide (14.6.90).

Goalkickers
Gold Coast: J. Walter (3), W. Graham (2), B. King (2), B. Long (2), B. Humphrey, T. Miller, E. Read, L. Weller
Adelaide: R. Thilthorpe (5), T. Walker (4), D. Fogarty (3), B. Keays, J. Peatling

As a result of this match, Gold Coast were then 3rd on the ladder (up from 5th) and Adelaide were then 4th on the ladder (down from 2nd) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Gold Coast v Adelaide
Date: Saturday 5 April 2025
Time: 12:20 PM
Venue: People First Stadium
Attendance: 16,211

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. Adelaide
Score: 13.13.91 - 14.6.90

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Gold Coast	3	.	5	5	.	9	10	.	11	13	.	13	13	.	13	(91)
Adelaide	2	.	4	6	.	4	10	.	5	14	.	6	14	.	6	(90)
Margin	GCST by 7			ADEL by 1			GCST by 6			GCST by 1			GCST by 1
Duration	32:40			32:04			32:46			33:19			2:10:49

Honour Roll

Coaches: Damien Hardwick (Gold Coast), Matthew Nicks (Adelaide)
Captains: Noah Anderson (Gold Coast), Jordan Dawson (Adelaide)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Matt Rowell	GCST	18	3
Izak Rankine	ADEL	23	2
Touk Miller	GCST	11	1

Player Statistics

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ainsworth, Ben	HFFL	81%	0	1	16	10	6	6	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	6
15	Anderson, Noah (c)	RO	91%	0	2	24	16	8	3	0	4	6	1	1	0	0	5
1	Andrew, Mac	CHB	92%	0	1	14	7	7	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	3
35	Budarick, Connor	WR	70%	0	2	8	6	2	1	0	3	0	2	1	1	1	2
33	Clohesy, Sam	INT↓	57%	0	0	10	5	5	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1
25	Collins, Sam	FB	97%	0	0	10	5	5	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	5	0
3	Flanders, Sam	HFFR	81%	0	0	26	14	12	8	0	3	3	5	0	1	1	3
26	Graham, Will	RR	79%	2	0	10	6	4	1	0	4	0	3	1	2	0	3
19	Humphrey, Bailey	FF	80%	1	0	13	7	6	1	0	4	2	3	2	0	1	3
40	Jeffrey, Joel	INT	77%	0	0	15	9	6	1	0	6	2	3	3	0	0	2
34	King, Ben	FPL	83%	2	2	9	5	4	3	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	1
22	Long, Ben	INT	83%	2	0	9	7	2	3	0	5	0	4	1	0	0	4
11	Miller, Touk	CHF	85%	1	0	24	10	14	3	0	3	5	1	2	0	3	4
2	Noble, John	HBFL	85%	0	0	20	12	8	4	0	5	1	4	1	1	5	2
27	Powell, Wil	BPL	86%	0	0	17	7	10	6	0	2	2	5	0	3	6	1
20	Read, Ethan	FPR	66%	1	0	3	2	1	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Rioli, Daniel	HBFR	80%	0	0	26	18	8	6	0	6	2	0	1	0	6	5
29	Rogers, Jake	SUB↑	28%	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
18	Rowell, Matt	C	85%	0	1	17	12	5	2	0	8	4	8	1	4	1	6
32	Uwland, Bodhi	BPR	84%	0	0	13	8	5	2	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	1
4	Walter, Jed	INT	63%	3	2	10	9	1	5	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	3
14	Weller, Lachie	WL	82%	1	1	10	7	3	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	2	2
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	87%	0	1	14	5	9	2	45	3	5	2	2	1	1	2
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				13	13	320	189	131	67	49	69	35	55	25	14	39	60

J. Rogers replaced S. Clohesy.

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
35	Borlase, James	FB	78%	0	0	8	5	3	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	4	0
44	Cumming, Isaac	WL	86%	0	0	20	13	7	8	0	5	0	3	0	0	2	2
6	Curtin, Dan	INT	77%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0
12	Dawson, Jordan (c)	C	77%	0	0	31	17	14	5	0	6	6	2	0	0	1	8
34	Draper, Sid	INT	60%	0	0	15	6	9	0	0	5	3	3	1	1	1	2
32	Fogarty, Darcy	FPL	85%	3	0	11	7	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
20	Hinge, Mitch	INT	81%	0	0	27	17	10	5	0	2	0	7	1	3	5	2
48	Keane, Mark	CHB	94%	0	0	9	7	2	3	0	1	1	4	0	2	4	0
2	Keays, Ben	HFFL	93%	1	0	17	8	9	5	0	3	1	2	1	1	0	4
29	Laird, Rory	BPR↓	65%	0	0	16	6	10	2	0	4	1	0	0	0	2	2
16	Michalanney, Max	HBFR	92%	0	0	9	7	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	4	0
30	Milera, Wayne	HBFL	80%	0	0	20	11	9	3	0	2	1	2	0	0	6	0
4	Murphy, Lachlan	INT	64%	0	2	13	8	5	2	0	2	3	2	1	1	0	3
27	Nankervis, Luke	SUB↑	25%	0	0	6	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
28	Neal-Bullen, Alex	FPR	81%	0	0	20	7	13	2	0	5	0	5	1	4	0	3
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	81%	0	0	5	3	2	1	35	2	1	3	1	2	0	1
25	Peatling, James	RO	86%	1	0	24	18	6	4	0	6	4	3	4	0	2	10
23	Rankine, Izak	HFFR	82%	0	0	21	8	13	2	0	7	10	7	0	5	2	4
38	Sholl, Lachlan	WR	84%	0	0	13	4	9	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
14	Soligo, Jake	RR	86%	0	0	26	15	11	2	0	6	8	4	1	2	6	3
7	Thilthorpe, Riley	CHF	84%	5	2	16	11	5	5	9	2	4	3	1	1	0	3
13	Walker, Taylor	FF	76%	4	1	14	10	4	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	4
24	Worrell, Josh	BPL	86%	0	0	17	11	6	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	7	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				14	6	370	208	162	70	45	67	46	59	14	25	46	53

L. Nankervis replaced R. Laird.

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

Gold Coast							Coach: Damien Hardwick
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	24	J. Worrell	35	J. Borlase	29	R. Laird	28	J. Witts	33	S. Clohesy
	20	E. Read	19	B. Humphrey	34	B. King	26	W. Graham	40	J. Jeffrey
FORWARD							15	N. Anderson (c)	22	B. Long
HALF-BACK									4	J. Walter
	30	W. Milera	48	M. Keane	16	M. Michalanney			29	J. Rogers
	3	S. Flanders	11	T. Miller	9	B. Ainsworth
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	44	I. Cumming	12	J. Dawson (c)	38	L. Sholl
	35	C. Budarick	18	M. Rowell	14	L. Weller	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							43	R. O'Brien	6	D. Curtin
HALF-FORWARD							14	J. Soligo	34	S. Draper
	2	B. Keays	7	R. Thilthorpe	23	I. Rankine	25	J. Peatling	20	M. Hinge
	17	D. Rioli	1	M. Andrew	2	J. Noble			4	L. Murphy
HALF-BACK									27	L. Nankervis
FORWARD
	32	D. Fogarty	13	T. Walker	28	A. Neal-Bullen
	32	B. Uwland	25	S. Collins	27	W. Powell
BACK
Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Matt Rowell behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:22
	GCST	Ben King goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	02:24
	GCST	Ethan Read goal	2.1.13	-	0.0.0	05:21
	GCST	Ben King behind	2.2.14	-	0.0.0	08:16
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe behind	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	09:24
	GCST	Lachie Weller behind	2.3.15	-	0.1.1	11:17
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	2.3.15	-	0.2.2	12:50
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	2.3.15	-	1.2.8	14:50
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy behind	2.3.15	-	1.3.9	18:02
	GCST	Ben Long goal	3.3.21	-	1.3.9	19:12
	GCST	Jarrod Witts behind	3.4.22	-	1.3.9	22:21
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	3.5.23	-	1.3.9	24:18
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe behind	3.5.23	-	1.4.10	29:58
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	3.5.23	-	2.4.16	32:36
Q2	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	3.5.23	-	3.4.22	04:05
	ADEL	James Peatling goal	3.5.23	-	4.4.28	06:45
	GCST	Jed Walter behind	3.6.24	-	4.4.28	12:00
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	3.6.24	-	5.4.34	13:07
	GCST	Noah Anderson behind	3.7.25	-	5.4.34	14:52
	GCST	Mac Andrew behind	3.8.26	-	5.4.34	17:11
	GCST	Jed Walter goal	4.8.32	-	5.4.34	22:05
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	4.8.32	-	6.4.40	23:56
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey goal	5.8.38	-	6.4.40	28:58
	GCST	Connor Budarick behind	5.9.39	-	6.4.40	31:40
Q3	GCST	Will Graham goal	6.9.45	-	6.4.40	00:20
	GCST	Ben King behind	6.10.46	-	6.4.40	02:02
	GCST	Ben Long goal	7.10.52	-	6.4.40	07:28
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	8.10.58	-	6.4.40	13:27
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	8.10.58	-	7.4.46	15:15
	ADEL	Rushed behind	8.10.58	-	7.5.47	17:05
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	8.10.58	-	8.5.53	18:27
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	8.10.58	-	9.5.59	20:37
	GCST	Ben King goal	9.10.64	-	9.5.59	23:34
	GCST	Jed Walter goal	10.10.70	-	9.5.59	25:22
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	10.10.70	-	10.5.65	28:17
	GCST	Connor Budarick behind	10.11.71	-	10.5.65	29:57
Q4	GCST	Jed Walter goal	11.11.77	-	10.5.65	01:12
	GCST	Lachie Weller goal	12.11.83	-	10.5.65	04:32
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	12.11.83	-	11.5.71	07:17
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	12.11.83	-	12.5.77	10:01
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy behind	12.11.83	-	12.6.78	13:32
	GCST	Will Graham goal	13.11.89	-	12.6.78	17:27
	GCST	Noah Anderson behind	13.12.90	-	12.6.78	18:48
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	13.12.90	-	13.6.84	21:27
	GCST	Jed Walter behind	13.13.91	-	13.6.84	24:22
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	13.13.91	-	14.6.90	26:09

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