2025 AFL Round 7: Sydney v Port Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 20 April 2025 between Sydney and Port Adelaide during round 7 of the 2025 AFL season. Sydney hosted Port Adelaide at SCG. Connor Rozee captained the visitors with Zak Butters as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Dean Cox and the visitors were coached by Ken Hinkley.

Sydney
Back: J. Hamling, L. Melican, D. Rampe
Half-back: M. Roberts, N. Blakey, S. Wicks
Centre: J. Lloyd, I. Heeney, J. McInerney
Half-forward: O. Florent, H. McLean, J. Jordon
Forward: W. Hayward, T. McCartin, B. Campbell
Follower: B. Grundy, Chad Warner, J. Rowbottom
Int.: R. Bice, C. Cleary, T. Hanily, Corey Warner
Sub.: A. Francis

Port Adelaide
Back: E. Ratugolea, A. Aliir, L. Jones
Half-back: M. Bergman, C. Rozee (capt.), K. Farrell
Centre: J. Burgoyne, W. Drew, C. Moraes
Half-forward: D. Byrne-Jones, J. Mead, W. Rioli
Forward: S. Powell-Pepper, M. Georgiades, O. Lord
Follower: J. Sweet, Z. Butters (vice-capt.), J. Horne-Francis
Int.: T. Boak, T. Cochrane, J. Sinn, O. Wines
Sub.: R. Atkins

Sydney (10.17.77) were defeated by Port Adelaide (13.7.85).

Goalkickers
Sydney: A. Francis (3), W. Hayward (2), I. Heeney (2), H. McLean (2), J. Rowbottom
Port Adelaide: M. Georgiades (3), W. Rioli (3), S. Powell-Pepper (2), D. Byrne-Jones, T. Cochrane, W. Drew, O. Lord, C. Rozee

As a result of this match, Sydney were then 14th on the ladder (down from 12th) and Port Adelaide were then 10th on the ladder (up from 13th) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Sydney v Port Adelaide
Date: Sunday 20 April 2025
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 36,636

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Port Adelaide
Score: 10.17.77 - 13.7.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	1	.	2	2	.	7	5	.	9	10	.	17	10	.	17	(77)
Port Adelaide	4	.	2	7	.	4	10	.	7	13	.	7	13	.	7	(85)
Margin	PADL by 18			PADL by 27			PADL by 28			PADL by 8			PADL by 8
Duration	31:03			31:29			31:45			35:11			2:09:28

Honour Roll

Coaches: Dean Cox (Sydney), Ken Hinkley (Port Adelaide)
Captains: unknown (Sydney), Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide)
Vice-Captains: unknown (Sydney), Zak Butters (Port Adelaide)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Zak Butters	PADL	9	3
Jason Horne-Francis	PADL	18	2
Aliir Aliir	PADL	21	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
26	Bice, Riley	INT	87%	0	0	22	9	13	5	0	1	2	3	0	0	6	3
22	Blakey, Nick	CHB	86%	0	3	27	20	7	3	0	1	2	2	1	0	3	8
16	Campbell, Braeden	FPR	81%	0	2	16	5	11	1	0	3	1	3	0	2	0	2
33	Cleary, Caiden	INT	70%	0	0	13	4	9	1	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	3
13	Florent, Oliver	HFFL	83%	0	0	18	4	14	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	4
10	Francis, Aaron	SUB↑	33%	3	1	14	7	7	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	78%	0	0	26	5	21	1	32	3	9	5	2	1	1	5
29	Hamling, Joel	BPL	75%	0	0	7	5	2	1	1	1	1	1	3	0	2	0
40	Hanily, Tom	INT↓	47%	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
9	Hayward, Will	FPL	83%	2	0	9	7	2	1	0	3	2	2	0	2	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	C	87%	2	0	22	10	12	2	0	4	4	4	2	1	2	2
17	Jordon, James	HFFR	85%	0	1	17	5	12	0	0	1	1	3	2	2	0	2
44	Lloyd, Jake	WL	90%	0	0	22	12	10	6	0	1	2	5	1	2	2	2
30	McCartin, Tom	FF	94%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	0	0	5	2	3	1	1
27	McInerney, Justin	WR	83%	0	0	17	7	10	5	0	2	3	2	1	1	2	2
2	McLean, Hayden	CHF	85%	2	4	16	13	3	9	8	3	2	4	1	1	0	3
43	Melican, Lewis	FB	74%	0	0	5	4	1	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1
24	Rampe, Dane	BPR	85%	0	0	19	15	4	2	0	2	2	1	2	0	7	2
34	Roberts, Matt	HBFL	82%	0	1	30	15	15	6	0	2	1	4	0	2	4	4
8	Rowbottom, James	RO	74%	1	1	23	12	11	1	0	8	6	3	2	2	3	3
1	Warner, Chad	RR	85%	0	1	21	16	5	2	0	1	5	4	2	0	4	4
37	Warner, Corey	INT	71%	0	1	9	6	3	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	2
15	Wicks, Sam	HBFR	85%	0	0	19	15	4	3	0	2	0	1	3	0	2	4
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				10	17	382	202	180	61	41	42	46	62	28	20	40	61

A. Francis replaced T. Hanily.

Port Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Aliir, Aliir	FB	100%	0	0	16	12	4	5	0	0	1	3	1	0	6	1
32	Atkins, Rory	SUB↑	43%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	4	0
14	Bergman, Miles	HBFL	86%	0	0	12	5	7	1	0	1	1	4	0	1	5	0
10	Boak, Travis	INT	70%	0	1	12	6	6	4	0	3	2	4	0	2	3	2
7	Burgoyne, Jase	WL	97%	0	0	15	10	5	5	0	3	2	3	1	0	2	3
9	Butters, Zak (vc)	RR	83%	0	0	27	13	14	5	0	8	7	2	3	1	3	5
33	Byrne-Jones, Darcy	HFFL	79%	1	0	13	7	6	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
37	Cochrane, Tom	INT	57%	1	0	7	3	4	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
28	Drew, Willem	C	82%	1	0	9	5	4	0	0	10	2	2	0	2	0	3
6	Farrell, Kane	HBFR	83%	0	0	26	23	3	11	0	1	0	5	0	2	7	6
19	Georgiades, Mitch	FF	90%	3	0	9	7	2	5	0	0	0	4	1	2	0	0
18	Horne-Francis, Jason	RO	78%	0	1	20	18	2	9	0	5	3	3	2	1	0	7
34	Jones, Lachie	BPR	74%	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	4	0	1	4	0	2	1
30	Lord, Ollie	FPR	88%	1	0	6	2	4	1	4	0	0	6	0	4	0	0
44	Mead, Jackson	CHF	83%	0	0	15	9	6	2	0	1	3	1	0	1	1	3
31	Moraes, Christian	WR	68%	0	0	10	3	7	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	0
2	Powell-Pepper, Sam	FPL	85%	2	1	15	10	5	3	0	3	0	2	3	1	0	4
27	Ratugolea, Esava	BPL	95%	0	0	7	5	2	7	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	0
15	Rioli, Willie	HFFR	87%	3	1	14	13	1	7	0	1	3	2	0	2	0	2
1	Rozee, Connor (c)	CHB	95%	1	0	27	21	6	4	0	3	3	7	2	2	5	6
8	Sinn, Josh	INT	68%	0	0	9	8	1	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	4	1
24	Sweet, Jordon	RU	83%	0	0	9	5	4	1	39	3	3	7	2	5	2	3
16	Wines, Ollie	INT↓	25%	0	0	8	6	2	4	0	2	0	1	1	1	2	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				13	7	307	203	104	86	43	57	33	66	20	28	49	53

R. Atkins replaced O. Wines.

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

Sydney							Coach: Dean Cox
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	E. Ratugolea	21	A. Aliir	34	L. Jones	4	B. Grundy	26	R. Bice
	16	B. Campbell	30	T. McCartin	9	W. Hayward	1	C. Warner	33	C. Cleary
FORWARD							8	J. Rowbottom	40	T. Hanily
HALF-BACK									37	C. Warner
	14	M. Bergman	1	C. Rozee (c)	6	K. Farrell			10	A. Francis
	17	J. Jordon	2	H. McLean	13	O. Florent
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	7	J. Burgoyne	28	W. Drew	31	C. Moraes
	27	J. McInerney	5	I. Heeney	44	J. Lloyd	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							24	J. Sweet	10	T. Boak
HALF-FORWARD							9	Z. Butters (vc)	37	T. Cochrane
	33	D. Byrne-Jones	44	J. Mead	15	W. Rioli	18	J. Horne-Francis	8	J. Sinn
	15	S. Wicks	22	N. Blakey	34	M. Roberts			16	O. Wines
HALF-BACK									32	R. Atkins
FORWARD
	2	S. Powell-Pepper	19	M. Georgiades	30	O. Lord
	24	D. Rampe	43	L. Melican	29	J. Hamling
BACK
Port Adelaide							Coach: Ken Hinkley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	PADL	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:44
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	03:33
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	06:45
	SYDN	James Jordon behind	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	09:56
	PADL	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	12:24
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	14:18
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	20:41
	PADL	Ollie Lord goal	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	23:12
	PADL	Connor Rozee goal	1.2.8	-	4.2.26	25:11
Q2	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	4.2.26	02:30
	PADL	Tom Cochrane goal	1.3.9	-	5.2.32	06:20
	PADL	Willie Rioli goal	1.3.9	-	6.2.38	11:45
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	1.4.10	-	6.2.38	14:14
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	2.4.16	-	6.2.38	15:27
	SYDN	Nick Blakey behind	2.5.17	-	6.2.38	17:19
	PADL	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	6.3.39	22:52
	SYDN	Nick Blakey behind	2.6.18	-	6.3.39	25:13
	PADL	Jason Horne-Francis behind	2.6.18	-	6.4.40	26:58
	SYDN	Nick Blakey behind	2.7.19	-	6.4.40	27:37
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	2.7.19	-	7.4.46	28:31
Q3	PADL	Willem Drew goal	2.7.19	-	8.4.52	00:14
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	3.7.25	-	8.4.52	03:13
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	4.7.31	-	8.4.52	04:26
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	5.7.37	-	8.4.52	08:50
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	5.7.37	-	9.4.58	11:13
	SYDN	Corey Warner behind	5.8.38	-	9.4.58	12:27
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper behind	5.8.38	-	9.5.59	13:58
	PADL	Travis Boak behind	5.8.38	-	9.6.60	16:19
	PADL	Willie Rioli goal	5.8.38	-	10.6.66	20:50
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.9.39	-	10.6.66	23:23
	PADL	Willie Rioli behind	5.9.39	-	10.7.67	31:02
Q4	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper goal	5.9.39	-	11.7.73	00:22
	SYDN	Aaron Francis goal	6.9.45	-	11.7.73	03:58
	SYDN	Aaron Francis goal	7.9.51	-	11.7.73	07:07
	SYDN	Aaron Francis goal	8.9.57	-	11.7.73	11:49
	PADL	Willie Rioli goal	8.9.57	-	12.7.79	14:58
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	8.10.58	-	12.7.79	16:59
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	8.11.59	-	12.7.79	20:37
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	8.11.59	-	13.7.85	22:47
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	9.11.65	-	13.7.85	25:03
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	9.12.66	-	13.7.85	26:42
	SYDN	Aaron Francis behind	9.13.67	-	13.7.85	27:54
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	9.14.68	-	13.7.85	29:23
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	10.14.74	-	13.7.85	30:33
	SYDN	James Rowbottom behind	10.15.75	-	13.7.85	31:54
	SYDN	Matt Roberts behind	10.16.76	-	13.7.85	32:51
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	10.17.77	-	13.7.85	34:48

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