2025 AFL Round 5: Richmond v Brisbane Lions

This is the match report for the match played on 5 April 2025 between Richmond and Brisbane Lions during round 5 of the 2025 AFL season. Richmond hosted Brisbane Lions at MCG. Toby Nankervis captained the hosts. With the presence of multiple Brisbane Lions co-captains, namely Harris Andrews and Lachie Neale, playing for the side, it is not yet known who specifically captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Adem Yze and the visitors were coached by Chris Fagan.

Richmond
Back: N. Broad, B. Miller, J. Blight
Half-back: K. Smith, J. Short, L. Trainor
Centre: S. Banks, K. McIntosh, J. Trezise
Half-forward: S. Campbell, J. Ross, S. Green
Forward: T. Lynch, S. Lalor, N. Vlastuin
Follower: T. Nankervis (capt.), T. Taranto, J. Hopper
Int.: H. Armstrong, T. Brown, T. Dow, T. Sonsie
Sub.: J. Bauer

Brisbane Lions
Back: D. Zorko, J. Payne, R. Lester
Half-back: N. Answerth, H. Andrews, D. Wilmot
Centre: C. Ah Chee, Z. Bailey, J. Berry
Half-forward: C. Cameron, E. Hipwood, H. McCluggage
Forward: C. Rayner, S. Day, L. Ashcroft
Follower: O. McInerney, J. Dunkley, L. Neale
Int.: W. Ashcroft, J. Fletcher, L. Morris, B. Reville
Sub.: W. McLachlan

Richmond (13.12.90) were defeated by Brisbane Lions (18.10.118).

Goalkickers
Richmond: H. Armstrong (2), S. Banks (2), S. Campbell (2), S. Green (2), S. Lalor (2), J. Blight, T. Lynch, T. Taranto
Brisbane Lions: Z. Bailey (3), C. Cameron (3), W. Ashcroft (2), H. McCluggage (2), L. Morris (2), C. Ah Chee, L. Ashcroft, J. Berry, J. Fletcher, E. Hipwood, B. Reville

As a result of this match, Richmond remained 15th on the ladder and Brisbane Lions were then 2nd on the ladder (up from 4th) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Richmond v Brisbane Lions
Date: Saturday 5 April 2025
Time: 4:15 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 42,578

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. by Brisbane Lions
Score: 13.12.90 - 18.10.118

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Richmond	3	.	1	6	.	4	9	.	8	13	.	12	13	.	12	(90)
Brisbane Lions	4	.	5	10	.	6	16	.	8	18	.	10	18	.	10	(118)
Margin	BRIL by 10			BRIL by 26			BRIL by 42			BRIL by 28			BRIL by 28
Duration	32:39			33:22			33:38			30:12			2:09:51

Honour Roll

Coaches: Adem Yze (Richmond), Chris Fagan (Brisbane Lions)
Captains: Toby Nankervis (Richmond), unknown (Brisbane Lions)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Lachie Neale	BRIL	9	3
Hugh McCluggage	BRIL	6	2
Tim Taranto	RICH	14	1

Player Statistics

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
34	Armstrong, Harry	INT	81%	2	1	11	7	4	6	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	3
41	Banks, Sam	WL	78%	2	0	12	5	7	3	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1
43	Bauer, Jacob	SUB↑	20%	0	2	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	Blight, Jacob	BPR	89%	1	0	10	5	5	5	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	2
35	Broad, Nathan	BPL	96%	0	0	19	12	7	5	0	1	2	1	1	1	6	0
30	Brown, Tom	INT	76%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	0
44	Campbell, Seth	HFFL	74%	2	0	15	6	9	1	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	2
27	Dow, Thomson	INT	71%	0	1	21	5	16	4	0	5	5	7	1	1	2	3
48	Green, Steely	HFFR	78%	2	0	14	10	4	4	0	0	1	3	1	1	1	2
2	Hopper, Jacob	RO	74%	0	0	32	11	21	5	0	4	8	2	0	1	1	2
22	Lalor, Sam	FF	83%	2	1	24	8	16	2	0	4	2	3	4	0	0	3
19	Lynch, Tom	FPL	83%	1	1	7	5	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
33	McIntosh, Kamdyn	C↓	65%	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	8	1	3	0	2	0	3
12	Miller, Ben	FB	93%	0	0	10	8	2	9	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0
25	Nankervis, Toby (c)	RU	80%	0	0	15	8	7	2	41	2	2	5	0	1	1	0
5	Ross, Jack	CHF	85%	0	0	19	10	9	7	0	4	2	5	1	1	1	10
15	Short, Jayden	CHB	86%	0	0	25	19	6	9	0	1	0	2	0	1	5	2
49	Smith, Kaleb	HBFL	84%	0	0	11	9	2	3	0	0	1	6	0	2	1	1
40	Sonsie, Tyler	INT	77%	0	2	12	9	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	1
14	Taranto, Tim	RR	81%	1	0	29	14	15	2	0	5	6	7	1	1	2	1
31	Trainor, Luke	HBFR	81%	0	0	19	15	4	4	0	2	2	4	1	0	5	0
36	Trezise, James	WR	81%	0	0	21	9	12	4	0	2	1	3	1	1	3	1
1	Vlastuin, Nick	FPR	84%	0	0	16	14	2	5	0	4	0	2	0	1	5	1
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				13	12	364	203	161	93	42	53	35	66	14	18	42	40

J. Bauer replaced K. McIntosh.

Brisbane Lions

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
4	Ah Chee, Callum	WL	81%	1	1	9	6	3	7	0	3	2	2	0	1	1	2
31	Andrews, Harris	CHB	95%	0	0	12	9	3	7	0	1	0	4	0	1	1	0
43	Answerth, Noah	HBFL	82%	0	0	9	5	4	4	0	3	1	1	1	0	1	0
10	Ashcroft, Levi	FPR	72%	1	2	22	11	11	4	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	1
8	Ashcroft, Will	INT	76%	2	0	24	16	8	4	0	4	5	2	1	0	2	5
33	Bailey, Zac	C	84%	3	0	13	10	3	2	0	3	0	3	1	0	0	6
7	Berry, Jarrod	WR	79%	1	0	19	9	10	0	0	4	1	6	2	1	2	3
23	Cameron, Charlie	HFFL	84%	3	1	6	5	1	4	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	2
14	Day, Sam	FF	74%	0	0	9	5	4	4	16	4	1	1	1	0	0	1
5	Dunkley, Josh	RR	82%	0	0	30	9	21	3	0	10	8	5	1	1	0	2
3	Fletcher, Jaspa	INT	79%	1	0	23	17	6	10	0	1	1	2	1	1	3	5
30	Hipwood, Eric	CHF	83%	1	0	8	5	3	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	2
35	Lester, Ryan	BPR	85%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1
6	McCluggage, Hugh	HFFR	88%	2	0	26	12	14	6	0	12	6	2	2	1	0	5
46	McInerney, Oscar	RU	79%	0	0	11	5	6	2	35	4	5	2	1	1	0	2
28	McLachlan, Will	SUB↑	16%	0	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
13	Morris, Logan	INT↓	60%	2	1	11	7	4	6	0	2	0	4	1	1	0	3
9	Neale, Lachie	RO	88%	0	0	42	15	27	1	0	4	7	6	0	1	3	3
40	Payne, Jack	FB	89%	0	0	17	12	5	8	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	2
16	Rayner, Cam	FPL	79%	0	1	22	9	13	4	0	6	6	3	1	2	0	7
38	Reville, Bruce	INT	75%	1	0	9	7	2	5	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	1
44	Wilmot, Darcy	HBFR	83%	0	0	21	17	4	4	0	3	2	3	0	1	2	4
15	Zorko, Dayne	BPL	86%	0	0	23	17	6	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	4	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				18	10	376	214	162	94	51	73	47	58	18	14	25	60

W. McLachlan replaced L. Morris.

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

Richmond							Coach: Adem Yze
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	15	D. Zorko	40	J. Payne	35	R. Lester	25	T. Nankervis (c)	34	H. Armstrong
	1	N. Vlastuin	22	S. Lalor	19	T. Lynch	14	T. Taranto	30	T. Brown
FORWARD							2	J. Hopper	27	T. Dow
HALF-BACK									40	T. Sonsie
	43	N. Answerth	31	H. Andrews	44	D. Wilmot			43	J. Bauer
	48	S. Green	5	J. Ross	44	S. Campbell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	4	C. Ah Chee	33	Z. Bailey	7	J. Berry
	36	J. Trezise	33	K. McIntosh	41	S. Banks	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							46	O. McInerney	8	W. Ashcroft
HALF-FORWARD							5	J. Dunkley	3	J. Fletcher
	23	C. Cameron	30	E. Hipwood	6	H. McCluggage	9	L. Neale	13	L. Morris
	31	L. Trainor	15	J. Short	49	K. Smith			38	B. Reville
HALF-BACK									28	W. McLachlan
FORWARD
	16	C. Rayner	14	S. Day	10	L. Ashcroft
	46	J. Blight	12	B. Miller	35	N. Broad
BACK
Brisbane Lions							Coach: Chris Fagan

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	BRIL	Callum Ah Chee goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:06
	BRIL	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:41
	BRIL	Cam Rayner behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	05:09
	RICH	Steely Green goal	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	06:23
	RICH	Sam Lalor behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	09:12
	BRIL	Logan Morris goal	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	14:22
	BRIL	Zac Bailey goal	1.1.7	-	3.2.20	18:14
	BRIL	Will Ashcroft goal	1.1.7	-	4.2.26	21:13
	BRIL	Charlie Cameron behind	1.1.7	-	4.3.27	23:10
	BRIL	Levi Ashcroft behind	1.1.7	-	4.4.28	23:52
	BRIL	Logan Morris behind	1.1.7	-	4.5.29	25:59
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	2.1.13	-	4.5.29	27:14
	RICH	Tim Taranto goal	3.1.19	-	4.5.29	30:24
Q2	BRIL	Logan Morris goal	3.1.19	-	5.5.35	02:05
	BRIL	Hugh McCluggage goal	3.1.19	-	6.5.41	04:03
	RICH	Tom Lynch behind	3.2.20	-	6.5.41	07:08
	BRIL	Zac Bailey goal	3.2.20	-	7.5.47	08:45
	BRIL	Zac Bailey goal	3.2.20	-	8.5.53	13:22
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	4.2.26	-	8.5.53	15:10
	RICH	Sam Banks goal	5.2.32	-	8.5.53	20:53
	BRIL	Levi Ashcroft behind	5.2.32	-	8.6.54	23:33
	BRIL	Jaspa Fletcher goal	5.2.32	-	9.6.60	24:10
	BRIL	Charlie Cameron goal	5.2.32	-	10.6.66	26:24
	RICH	Sam Lalor goal	6.2.38	-	10.6.66	28:54
	RICH	Rushed behind	6.3.39	-	10.6.66	30:19
	RICH	Thomson Dow behind	6.4.40	-	10.6.66	32:02
Q3	RICH	Rushed behind	6.5.41	-	10.6.66	00:46
	BRIL	Jarrod Berry goal	6.5.41	-	11.6.72	02:58
	BRIL	Levi Ashcroft goal	6.5.41	-	12.6.78	06:35
	BRIL	Charlie Cameron goal	6.5.41	-	13.6.84	11:14
	RICH	Harry Armstrong behind	6.6.42	-	13.6.84	13:28
	BRIL	Bruce Reville goal	6.6.42	-	14.6.90	16:52
	BRIL	Callum Ah Chee behind	6.6.42	-	14.7.91	19:19
	BRIL	Eric Hipwood goal	6.6.42	-	15.7.97	20:48
	RICH	Tyler Sonsie behind	6.7.43	-	15.7.97	22:27
	BRIL	Rushed behind	6.7.43	-	15.8.98	22:52
	RICH	Sam Lalor goal	7.7.49	-	15.8.98	24:02
	RICH	Rushed behind	7.8.50	-	15.8.98	25:56
	BRIL	Will Ashcroft goal	7.8.50	-	16.8.104	29:33
	RICH	Harry Armstrong goal	8.8.56	-	16.8.104	31:39
	RICH	Harry Armstrong goal	9.8.62	-	16.8.104	33:34
Q4	RICH	Rushed behind	9.9.63	-	16.8.104	01:39
	BRIL	Charlie Cameron goal	9.9.63	-	17.8.110	03:18
	RICH	Steely Green goal	10.9.69	-	17.8.110	09:10
	BRIL	Rushed behind	10.9.69	-	17.9.111	10:29
	RICH	Jacob Bauer behind	10.10.70	-	17.9.111	11:41
	BRIL	Will McLachlan behind	10.10.70	-	17.10.112	13:33
	RICH	Tom Lynch goal	11.10.76	-	17.10.112	14:49
	BRIL	Hugh McCluggage goal	11.10.76	-	18.10.118	16:52
	RICH	Sam Banks goal	12.10.82	-	18.10.118	20:29
	RICH	Jacob Blight goal	13.10.88	-	18.10.118	25:56
	RICH	Tyler Sonsie behind	13.11.89	-	18.10.118	28:25
	RICH	Jacob Bauer behind	13.12.90	-	18.10.118	30:09

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