2025 AFL Season Round 8: Carlton v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 27 April 2025 between Carlton and Geelong during round eight of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Carlton hosted Geelong at the MCG. Patrick Cripps captained the hosts. Patrick Dangerfield captained the visitors with Tom Stewart as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Michael Voss and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Carlton (14.10.94) defeated Geelong (12.4.76).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Carlton v Geelong
Date: Sunday 27 April 2025
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 67,658

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Geelong
Score: 14.10.94 - 12.4.76

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Carlton	3	.	3	8	.	5	12	.	8	14	.	10	14	.	10	(94)
Geelong	3	.	2	5	.	4	8	.	4	12	.	4	12	.	4	(76)
Margin	CARL by 1			CARL by 19			CARL by 28			CARL by 18			CARL by 18
Duration	32:02			32:02			30:49			31:25			2:06:18

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Carlton

Captain: Patrick Cripps
Coach: Michael Voss

Geelong

Captain: Patrick Dangerfield
Vice-Captain: Tom Stewart
Coach: Chris Scott

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Harry McKay	CARL	10	3
Patrick Cripps	CARL	9	2
Bailey Smith	GEEL	3	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Acres, Blake	INT	76%	0	0	16	9	7	3	0	5	1	0	1	0	1	6
32	Carroll, Matt	INT	77%	0	0	15	13	2	6	0	1	0	6	1	3	2	3
5	Cerra, Adam	WL	80%	0	0	25	14	11	4	0	4	5	3	2	1	0	5
46	Cottrell, Matt	HFFL	88%	0	0	15	7	8	3	0	2	1	4	0	1	1	3
9	Cripps, Patrick (c)	C	83%	0	2	29	12	17	7	0	9	8	2	2	0	1	3
30	Curnow, Charlie	FF	87%	3	1	14	12	2	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
12	De Koning, Tom	RU	86%	1	0	20	12	8	2	39	3	5	6	2	0	2	3
19	Durdin, Corey	FPR	70%	1	0	6	5	1	2	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	3
8	Fogarty, Lachie	INT	81%	2	0	11	7	4	3	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	3
26	Haynes, Nick	HBFL	87%	0	0	20	12	8	13	0	1	1	3	0	1	2	1
29	Hewett, George	RO	86%	1	0	29	9	20	4	0	8	5	6	3	2	0	4
20	Hollands, Elijah	INT	83%	1	0	25	16	9	3	0	4	2	3	1	0	1	2
4	Hollands, Oliver	WR	88%	0	0	23	12	11	6	0	7	2	1	0	0	1	5
36	Lord, Cooper	SUB↑	52%	0	0	10	6	4	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2
11	McGovern, Mitch	CHB	81%	0	0	20	15	5	7	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	1
10	McKay, Harry	CHF	86%	3	0	19	14	5	12	4	2	2	2	1	2	0	2
3	Motlop, Jesse	FPL	70%	0	0	5	2	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
42	Saad, Adam	BPR	85%	0	0	21	12	9	4	0	4	5	2	1	0	3	2
1	Silvagni, Jack	BPL	88%	0	0	15	12	3	7	0	2	0	2	0	1	6	0
18	Walsh, Sam	RR	87%	0	0	30	10	20	6	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	3
23	Weitering, Jacob	FB	98%	0	0	15	12	3	8	0	2	0	0	2	0	4	0
38	White, Will	HFFR	73%	1	3	9	4	5	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
6	Williams, Zac	HBFR↓	10%	1	0	3	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				14	10	395	230	165	117	43	70	40	45	20	11	30	63

C. Lord replaced Z. Williams.

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	RO	75%	0	0	18	9	9	0	0	14	5	3	2	1	2	0
46	Blicavs, Mark	BPR	92%	1	0	14	7	7	5	5	2	3	2	0	0	2	1
12	Bowes, Jack	INT	77%	0	1	17	12	5	1	0	5	5	3	0	1	3	1
5	Cameron, Jeremy	FPL	94%	4	2	14	12	2	8	0	2	0	6	0	2	0	4
13	Clark, Jhye	INT	63%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	3	1	3	0	1	3	2
45	Close, Brad	HFFL	80%	1	0	10	3	7	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
35	Dangerfield, Patrick (c)	FF	78%	1	0	13	5	8	2	0	1	2	2	2	1	0	3
16	De Koning, Sam	FB	91%	0	0	16	8	8	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2
28	Dempsey, Oliver	WR	83%	2	0	11	9	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5
39	Guthrie, Zach	HBFR	78%	0	0	21	13	8	3	0	0	0	4	1	0	5	1
36	Henry, Ollie	SUB↑	30%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1
9	Holmes, Max	C	83%	0	0	20	10	10	2	0	3	1	3	0	1	5	1
17	Humphries, Lawson	HBFL	93%	0	0	21	14	7	6	0	3	0	2	1	0	6	2
7	Mannagh, Shaun	CHF	86%	0	0	26	21	5	2	0	11	7	7	1	2	0	7
34	Mullin, Oisin	WL	79%	0	0	8	6	2	5	0	2	0	7	0	5	4	0
33	Neale, Shannon	FPR	83%	0	1	4	2	2	1	3	0	0	3	1	1	0	1
42	O'Connor, Mark	INT	67%	1	0	16	7	9	4	0	1	1	3	0	0	3	2
14	O'Sullivan, Connor	BPL	90%	0	0	17	8	9	8	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	1
3	Smith, Bailey	RR	85%	1	0	29	19	10	5	0	9	2	5	1	1	5	5
1	Stanley, Rhys	RU	80%	0	0	14	8	6	2	30	1	6	5	1	2	1	3
18	Stengle, Tyson	HFFR	83%	1	0	8	5	3	2	0	5	0	1	0	1	0	0
44	Stewart, Tom (vc)	CHB	82%	0	0	13	9	4	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	4	0
21	Wiltshire, Oli	INT↓	47%	0	0	6	4	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				12	4	328	198	130	69	38	67	34	65	11	20	49	44

O. Henry replaced O. Wiltshire.

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

Carlton							Coach: Michael Voss
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	14	C. O'Sullivan	16	S. De Koning	46	M. Blicavs	12	T. De Koning	13	B. Acres
	19	C. Durdin	30	C. Curnow	3	J. Motlop	18	S. Walsh	32	M. Carroll
FORWARD							29	G. Hewett	8	L. Fogarty
HALF-BACK									20	E. Hollands
	17	L. Humphries	44	T. Stewart (vc)	39	Z. Guthrie			36	C. Lord
	38	W. White	10	H. McKay	46	M. Cottrell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	34	O. Mullin	9	M. Holmes	28	O. Dempsey
	4	O. Hollands	9	P. Cripps (c)	5	A. Cerra	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							1	R. Stanley	12	J. Bowes
HALF-FORWARD							3	B. Smith	13	J. Clark
	45	B. Close	7	S. Mannagh	18	T. Stengle	30	T. Atkins	42	M. O'Connor
	6	Z. Williams	11	M. McGovern	26	N. Haynes			21	O. Wiltshire
HALF-BACK									36	O. Henry
FORWARD
	5	J. Cameron	35	P. Dangerfield (c)	33	S. Neale
	42	A. Saad	23	J. Weitering	1	J. Silvagni
BACK
Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	CARL	Will White behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:10
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	02:14
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	06:24
	CARL	Zac Williams goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	07:27
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	12:32
	CARL	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	17:06
	GEEL	Jack Bowes behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	21:40
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	2.2.14	-	2.2.14	23:14
	CARL	Lachie Fogarty goal	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	27:14
	CARL	Patrick Cripps behind	3.3.21	-	2.2.14	29:57
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	3.3.21	-	3.2.20	31:58
Q2	CARL	Harry McKay goal	4.3.27	-	3.2.20	03:21
	CARL	Will White behind	4.4.28	-	3.2.20	05:36
	CARL	Lachie Fogarty goal	5.4.34	-	3.2.20	07:47
	CARL	Elijah Hollands goal	6.4.40	-	3.2.20	12:56
	GEEL	Shannon Neale behind	6.4.40	-	3.3.21	14:56
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	6.4.40	-	3.4.22	16:53
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	7.4.46	-	3.4.22	19:04
	GEEL	Mark O'Connor goal	7.4.46	-	4.4.28	21:21
	CARL	Charlie Curnow behind	7.5.47	-	4.4.28	24:25
	CARL	Tom De Koning goal	8.5.53	-	4.4.28	25:33
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	8.5.53	-	5.4.34	29:02
Q3	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	8.5.53	-	6.4.40	02:23
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	8.5.53	-	7.4.46	04:21
	CARL	Rushed behind	8.6.54	-	7.4.46	09:14
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	9.6.60	-	7.4.46	10:57
	CARL	Corey Durdin goal	10.6.66	-	7.4.46	13:33
	CARL	Patrick Cripps behind	10.7.67	-	7.4.46	14:49
	CARL	Will White goal	11.7.73	-	7.4.46	17:23
	CARL	Rushed behind	11.8.74	-	7.4.46	22:14
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	11.8.74	-	8.4.52	23:33
	CARL	Harry McKay goal	12.8.80	-	8.4.52	25:17
Q4	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	12.8.80	-	9.4.58	00:14
	GEEL	Mark Blicavs goal	12.8.80	-	10.4.64	05:54
	GEEL	Bailey Smith goal	12.8.80	-	11.4.70	07:54
	CARL	Rushed behind	12.9.81	-	11.4.70	10:27
	CARL	Harry McKay goal	13.9.87	-	11.4.70	13:31
	CARL	Will White behind	13.10.88	-	11.4.70	18:04
	GEEL	Brad Close goal	13.10.88	-	12.4.76	18:34
	CARL	George Hewett goal	14.10.94	-	12.4.76	24:54

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