2025 AFL Round 9: West Coast v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 3 May 2025 between West Coast and Melbourne during round 9 of the 2025 AFL season. West Coast hosted Melbourne at Optus Stadium. Max Gawn captained the visitors with Jack Viney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Andrew McQualter and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

West Coast
Back: R. Ginbey, J. McGovern, L. Baker
Half-back: L. Duggan, O. Allen, J. Hunt
Centre: B. Hough, T. Kelly, B. Allan
Half-forward: M. Owies, J. Waterman, J. Graham
Forward: J. Cripps, J. Williams, L. Ryan
Follower: M. Flynn, J. Hutchinson, H. Reid
Int.: T. Brockman, E. Hewett, R. Maric, A. Reid
Sub.: T. Cole

Melbourne
Back: J. Bowey, S. May, J. McVee
Half-back: X. Lindsay, T. McDonald, C. Windsor
Centre: T. Sparrow, J. Viney (vice-capt.), E. Langdon
Half-forward: K. Tholstrup, J. Melksham, D. Turner
Forward: C. Spargo, H. Petty, K. Pickett
Follower: M. Gawn (capt.), C. Petracca, H. Langford
Int.: K. Chandler, B. Fritsch, T. Rivers, C. Salem
Sub.: H. Sharp

West Coast (11.10.76) were defeated by Melbourne (16.12.108).

Goalkickers
West Coast: E. Hewett (3), J. Waterman (3), J. Cripps (2), T. Brockman, J. Hunt, J. Williams
Melbourne: D. Turner (3), B. Fritsch (2), E. Langdon (2), K. Chandler, M. Gawn, J. Melksham, C. Petracca, K. Pickett, H. Sharp, C. Spargo, J. Viney, C. Windsor

As a result of this match, West Coast remained 18th on the ladder and Melbourne were then 14th on the ladder (up from 15th) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: West Coast v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 3 May 2025
Time: 5:35 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 41,991

Match Results

Outcome: West Coast def. by Melbourne
Score: 11.10.76 - 16.12.108

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
West Coast	0	.	5	4	.	7	6	.	7	11	.	10	11	.	10	(76)
Melbourne	2	.	2	3	.	7	10	.	12	16	.	12	16	.	12	(108)
Margin	MELB by 9			WCST by 6			MELB by 29			MELB by 32			MELB by 32
Duration	30:20			32:51			34:47			36:17			2:14:15

Honour Roll

Coaches: Andrew McQualter (West Coast), Simon Goodwin (Melbourne)
Captains: unknown (West Coast), Max Gawn (Melbourne)
Vice-Captains: unknown (West Coast), Jack Viney (Melbourne)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Max Gawn	MELB	11	3
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	2
Ryan Maric	WCST	23	1

Player Statistics

West Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
26	Allan, Bo	WR	77%	0	0	7	3	4	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	0
12	Allen, Oscar	CHB	95%	0	0	15	12	3	2	0	2	0	1	4	1	9	0
3	Baker, Liam	BPR	86%	0	0	24	11	13	2	0	1	1	4	2	2	1	4
10	Brockman, Tyler	INT	74%	1	2	14	8	6	2	0	2	5	2	0	2	1	2
28	Cole, Tom	SUB↑	47%	0	0	9	1	8	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
15	Cripps, Jamie	FPL	86%	2	0	11	6	5	2	0	3	1	3	1	0	0	3
14	Duggan, Liam	HBFL	86%	0	0	18	15	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4
25	Flynn, Matt	RU	82%	0	0	9	4	5	2	22	5	3	5	2	2	1	0
7	Ginbey, Reuben	BPL	91%	0	0	19	13	6	5	0	5	0	6	2	3	8	0
17	Graham, Jack	HFFR	81%	0	0	15	9	6	2	0	10	3	4	2	1	1	5
8	Hewett, Elijah	INT	73%	3	0	15	7	8	3	0	4	2	0	1	0	0	4
19	Hough, Brady	WL	78%	0	1	12	5	7	2	0	3	2	4	1	1	0	0
5	Hunt, Jayden	HBFR	85%	1	1	13	5	8	3	0	3	2	3	1	2	0	1
44	Hutchinson, Jack	RR	82%	0	0	16	8	8	6	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	3
11	Kelly, Tim	C	83%	0	0	14	8	6	0	0	5	3	5	1	2	2	3
23	Maric, Ryan	INT	81%	0	0	26	20	6	7	0	4	0	3	0	0	6	1
20	McGovern, Jeremy	FB↓	37%	0	0	13	9	4	3	0	1	0	3	2	2	1	1
16	Owies, Matthew	HFFL	74%	0	1	15	8	7	3	0	0	2	3	0	1	0	3
22	Reid, Archer	INT	62%	0	1	5	4	1	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
9	Reid, Harley	RO	87%	0	1	13	4	9	1	0	1	0	4	0	2	0	3
1	Ryan, Liam	FPR	83%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	1
2	Waterman, Jake	CHF	95%	3	2	11	9	2	7	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
34	Williams, Jack	FF	74%	1	1	13	8	5	6	2	1	0	6	1	1	1	2
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				11	10	317	183	134	74	27	58	26	61	22	23	42	43

T. Cole replaced J. McGovern.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	BPL	79%	0	0	18	12	6	6	0	2	1	5	2	2	2	2
37	Chandler, Kade	INT	91%	1	1	26	17	9	5	0	8	1	3	1	0	3	3
31	Fritsch, Bayley	INT	71%	2	1	7	4	3	4	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	90%	1	1	35	13	22	8	47	0	9	4	3	2	2	5
15	Langdon, Ed	WR	77%	2	0	18	8	10	3	0	2	3	1	2	0	0	3
19	Langford, Harvey	RO	78%	0	1	25	14	11	4	0	0	5	3	1	0	4	4
20	Lindsay, Xavier	HBFL	78%	0	0	11	7	4	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	1
1	May, Steven	FB	97%	0	0	10	9	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	2	0
25	McDonald, Tom	CHB	100%	0	0	13	9	4	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	1
4	McVee, Judd	BPR	76%	0	0	7	3	4	0	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	1
18	Melksham, Jake	CHF	75%	1	0	12	11	1	6	0	3	0	4	2	3	0	9
5	Petracca, Christian	RR	83%	1	1	29	12	17	4	0	8	8	3	0	0	2	4
35	Petty, Harry	FF↓	36%	0	0	4	2	2	2	2	1	0	2	1	2	0	1
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	FPR	77%	1	1	14	11	3	4	0	3	4	5	0	2	0	4
24	Rivers, Trent	INT	83%	0	0	25	17	8	6	0	1	5	8	2	1	1	3
3	Salem, Christian	INT	76%	0	0	14	8	6	4	0	1	1	1	0	1	4	4
30	Sharp, Harry	SUB↑	44%	1	1	4	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Spargo, Charlie	FPL	81%	1	1	14	5	9	3	0	1	2	0	2	0	0	2
32	Sparrow, Tom	WL	80%	0	0	7	3	4	1	0	2	1	1	1	1	0	1
12	Tholstrup, Koltyn	HFFL	76%	0	3	14	7	7	1	0	4	0	5	3	1	0	1
10	Turner, Daniel	HFFR	85%	3	0	19	12	7	7	0	0	1	2	0	1	3	1
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	C	82%	1	0	18	11	7	3	0	10	6	2	3	1	1	4
6	Windsor, Caleb	HBFR	85%	1	0	20	12	8	5	0	2	1	3	0	1	1	5
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				16	12	364	210	154	87	49	56	49	62	23	22	31	59

H. Sharp replaced H. Petty.

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

West Coast							Coach: Andrew McQualter
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	17	J. Bowey	1	S. May	4	J. McVee	25	M. Flynn	10	T. Brockman
	1	L. Ryan	34	J. Williams	15	J. Cripps	44	J. Hutchinson	8	E. Hewett
FORWARD							9	H. Reid	23	R. Maric
HALF-BACK									22	A. Reid
	20	X. Lindsay	25	T. McDonald	6	C. Windsor			28	T. Cole
	17	J. Graham	2	J. Waterman	16	M. Owies
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	32	T. Sparrow	7	J. Viney (vc)	15	E. Langdon
	26	B. Allan	11	T. Kelly	19	B. Hough	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	37	K. Chandler
HALF-FORWARD							5	C. Petracca	31	B. Fritsch
	12	K. Tholstrup	18	J. Melksham	10	D. Turner	19	H. Langford	24	T. Rivers
	5	J. Hunt	12	O. Allen	14	L. Duggan			3	C. Salem
HALF-BACK									30	H. Sharp
FORWARD
	9	C. Spargo	35	H. Petty	36	K. Pickett
	3	L. Baker	20	J. McGovern	7	R. Ginbey
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:41
	WCST	Harley Reid behind	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	04:07
	WCST	Jake Waterman behind	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	09:26
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	0.2.2	-	2.0.12	12:41
	WCST	Jack Williams behind	0.3.3	-	2.0.12	18:43
	MELB	Rushed behind	0.3.3	-	2.1.13	19:27
	WCST	Jake Waterman behind	0.4.4	-	2.1.13	22:06
	MELB	Koltyn Tholstrup behind	0.4.4	-	2.2.14	23:12
	WCST	Brady Hough behind	0.5.5	-	2.2.14	30:17
Q2	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	0.5.5	-	2.3.15	02:02
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	0.5.5	-	3.3.21	02:50
	MELB	Kade Chandler behind	0.5.5	-	3.4.22	04:30
	WCST	Jayden Hunt behind	0.6.6	-	3.4.22	06:26
	MELB	Max Gawn behind	0.6.6	-	3.5.23	09:42
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	0.6.6	-	3.6.24	12:09
	WCST	Jack Williams goal	1.6.12	-	3.6.24	17:21
	MELB	Charlie Spargo behind	1.6.12	-	3.7.25	19:02
	WCST	Elijah Hewett goal	2.6.18	-	3.7.25	19:44
	WCST	Jayden Hunt goal	3.6.24	-	3.7.25	26:48
	WCST	Tyler Brockman goal	4.6.30	-	3.7.25	28:52
	WCST	Archer Reid behind	4.7.31	-	3.7.25	30:41
Q3	WCST	Jamie Cripps goal	5.7.37	-	3.7.25	01:07
	MELB	Caleb Windsor goal	5.7.37	-	4.7.31	03:35
	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	5.7.37	-	5.7.37	07:15
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	5.7.37	-	6.7.43	08:57
	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	6.7.43	-	6.7.43	10:48
	MELB	Koltyn Tholstrup behind	6.7.43	-	6.8.44	13:00
	MELB	Koltyn Tholstrup behind	6.7.43	-	6.9.45	16:54
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	6.7.43	-	7.9.51	19:21
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	6.7.43	-	8.9.57	21:21
	MELB	Harvey Langford behind	6.7.43	-	8.10.58	23:32
	MELB	Harry Sharp behind	6.7.43	-	8.11.59	25:39
	MELB	Jack Viney goal	6.7.43	-	9.11.65	26:56
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	6.7.43	-	10.11.71	28:44
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	6.7.43	-	10.12.72	31:26
Q4	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	6.7.43	-	11.12.78	05:34
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	6.7.43	-	12.12.84	07:53
	WCST	Elijah Hewett goal	7.7.49	-	12.12.84	09:38
	MELB	Harry Sharp goal	7.7.49	-	13.12.90	11:40
	WCST	Matthew Owies behind	7.8.50	-	13.12.90	12:53
	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	8.8.56	-	13.12.90	15:23
	MELB	Max Gawn goal	8.8.56	-	14.12.96	17:46
	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	9.8.62	-	14.12.96	19:52
	WCST	Jamie Cripps goal	10.8.68	-	14.12.96	21:39
	MELB	Charlie Spargo goal	10.8.68	-	15.12.102	25:25
	WCST	Elijah Hewett goal	11.8.74	-	15.12.102	27:28
	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	11.8.74	-	16.12.108	29:08
	WCST	Tyler Brockman behind	11.9.75	-	16.12.108	32:38
	WCST	Tyler Brockman behind	11.10.76	-	16.12.108	33:16

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