2025 AFL Round 18: West Coast v Greater Western Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 4 July 2025 between West Coast and Greater Western Sydney during round 18 of the 2025 AFL season. West Coast hosted Greater Western Sydney at Optus Stadium. Toby Greene captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Andrew McQualter and the visitors were coached by Adam Kingsley.

West Coast
Back: R. Ginbey, H. Edwards, T. McCarthy
Half-back: L. Baker, S. Brock, L. Duggan
Centre: J. Cripps, H. Reid, J. Hutchinson
Half-forward: C. Hall, J. Shanahan, E. Hewett
Forward: L. Ryan, J. Williams, R. Maric
Follower: M. Flynn, B. Hough, T. Kelly
Int.: B. Allan, T. Brockman, J. Graham, B. Williams
Sub.: M. Champion

Greater Western Sydney
Back: C. Idun, L. Aleer, J. Fonti
Half-back: H. Himmelberg, J. Buckley, L. Ash
Centre: R. Angwin, T. Bedford, J. Kelly
Half-forward: X. O'Halloran, A. Cadman, D. Jones
Forward: J. Riccardi, C. Brown, T. Greene (capt.)
Follower: K. Briggs, F. Callaghan, T. Green
Int.: M. Gruzewski, J. Leake, H. Rowston, J. Stringer
Sub.: H. Thomas

West Coast (8.4.52) were defeated by Greater Western Sydney (16.15.111).

Goalkickers
West Coast: J. Shanahan (2), L. Baker, J. Cripps, J. Graham, J. Hutchinson, L. Ryan, B. Williams
Greater Western Sydney: T. Greene (3), A. Cadman (2), D. Jones (2), J. Kelly (2), X. O'Halloran (2), T. Bedford, C. Brown, F. Callaghan, J. Riccardi, J. Stringer

As a result of this match, West Coast remained 18th on the ladder and Greater Western Sydney were then 7th on the ladder (up from 9th) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: West Coast v Greater Western Sydney
Date: Friday 4 July 2025
Time: 6:20 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 38,152

Match Results

Outcome: West Coast def. by Greater Western Sydney
Score: 8.4.52 - 16.15.111

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
West Coast	1	.	0	3	.	1	5	.	2	8	.	4	8	.	4	(52)
Greater Western Sydney	5	.	3	8	.	6	13	.	9	16	.	15	16	.	15	(111)
Margin	GWSY by 27			GWSY by 35			GWSY by 55			GWSY by 59			GWSY by 59
Duration	31:01			30:26			33:10			31:52			2:06:29

Honour Roll

Coaches: Andrew McQualter (West Coast), Adam Kingsley (Greater Western Sydney)
Captains: unknown (West Coast), Toby Greene (Greater Western Sydney)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Finn Callaghan	GWSY	17	3
Toby Greene	GWSY	4	2
Xavier O'Halloran	GWSY	33	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	INT	84%	0	0	10	2	8	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
3	Baker, Liam	HBFL	83%	1	0	11	8	3	4	0	1	0	4	1	2	1	1
41	Brock, Sandy	CHB	89%	0	0	14	10	4	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	0
10	Brockman, Tyler	INT	74%	0	0	12	5	7	1	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	2
37	Champion, Malakai	SUB↑	35%	0	0	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
15	Cripps, Jamie	WL	89%	1	0	10	7	3	4	0	2	1	3	0	2	0	3
14	Duggan, Liam	HBFR	85%	0	0	28	25	3	8	0	4	0	8	1	2	14	4
42	Edwards, Harry	FB	87%	0	0	10	7	3	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	4	0
25	Flynn, Matt	RU	80%	0	0	15	12	3	5	19	1	0	7	0	2	2	2
7	Ginbey, Reuben	BPL	90%	0	0	16	9	7	5	0	2	0	2	1	1	3	2
17	Graham, Jack	INT	79%	1	0	16	10	6	3	0	4	4	4	1	1	2	2
29	Hall, Clay	HFFL	81%	0	0	18	12	6	3	0	4	1	4	0	1	3	1
8	Hewett, Elijah	HFFR	80%	0	0	21	10	11	1	0	3	7	3	1	1	1	6
19	Hough, Brady	RR	77%	0	0	18	7	11	8	0	4	3	1	0	0	2	2
44	Hutchinson, Jack	WR	76%	1	1	11	5	6	1	0	2	1	4	2	0	1	3
11	Kelly, Tim	RO	78%	0	1	14	9	5	5	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	5
23	Maric, Ryan	FPR	78%	0	0	20	12	8	2	0	4	2	1	0	0	4	0
45	McCarthy, Tom	BPR	82%	0	0	19	14	5	6	0	2	1	2	1	1	11	1
9	Reid, Harley	C	86%	0	0	24	14	10	5	0	7	7	7	1	3	0	4
1	Ryan, Liam	FPL	87%	1	1	12	9	3	5	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	3
35	Shanahan, Jobe	CHF	84%	2	0	14	8	6	5	0	4	0	1	2	1	0	1
32	Williams, Bailey	INT	79%	1	0	6	5	1	1	14	1	2	2	0	0	0	2
34	Williams, Jack	FF↓	36%	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				8	4	326	206	120	82	35	56	31	68	13	20	51	47

M. Champion replaced J. Williams.

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Aleer, Leek	FB	100%	0	0	9	6	3	3	0	1	0	2	2	2	1	2
9	Angwin, Ryan	WL	78%	0	0	24	11	13	4	0	4	1	4	3	0	6	4
7	Ash, Lachie	HBFR	85%	0	0	29	20	9	5	0	2	1	1	1	0	3	4
14	Bedford, Toby	C	84%	1	0	14	4	10	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	1	2
32	Briggs, Kieren	RU	71%	0	0	10	7	3	6	38	5	1	1	0	0	1	6
46	Brown, Callum	FF	82%	1	0	16	12	4	4	0	1	1	3	1	0	0	3
44	Buckley, Jack	CHB↓	58%	0	0	12	3	9	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
5	Cadman, Aaron	CHF	87%	2	1	11	10	1	7	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	2
17	Callaghan, Finn	RR	82%	1	0	37	23	14	4	0	1	6	4	1	0	4	8
37	Fonti, Joe	BPR	78%	0	0	16	8	8	4	0	3	0	2	1	1	2	1
12	Green, Tom	RO	78%	0	0	35	17	18	7	0	0	9	6	2	2	3	3
4	Greene, Toby (c)	FPR	86%	3	4	18	15	3	8	0	2	3	4	1	2	1	3
35	Gruzewski, Max	INT	65%	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1
27	Himmelberg, Harry	HBFL	96%	0	0	21	15	6	9	0	3	1	2	0	1	7	2
39	Idun, Connor	BPL	84%	0	0	20	13	7	10	0	1	0	3	2	1	2	0
2	Jones, Darcy	HFFR	82%	2	2	17	11	6	3	0	4	1	3	1	0	0	6
22	Kelly, Josh	WR	90%	2	1	27	12	15	3	0	5	3	2	1	0	2	5
30	Leake, James	INT	79%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
33	O'Halloran, Xavier	HFFL	80%	2	2	27	19	8	1	0	4	6	4	1	0	2	6
26	Riccardi, Jake	FPL	77%	1	1	12	7	5	3	3	6	0	2	0	0	0	1
24	Rowston, Harry	INT	75%	0	1	12	10	2	4	0	2	1	2	0	0	1	4
20	Stringer, Jake	INT	76%	1	2	14	9	5	5	0	1	2	2	1	1	0	3
1	Thomas, Harvey	SUB↑	25%	0	0	6	5	1	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				16	15	399	243	156	99	41	52	39	55	20	13	39	68

H. Thomas replaced J. Buckley.

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
	39	C. Idun	21	L. Aleer	37	J. Fonti	25	M. Flynn	26	B. Allan
	23	R. Maric	34	J. Williams	1	L. Ryan	19	B. Hough	10	T. Brockman
FORWARD							11	T. Kelly	17	J. Graham
HALF-BACK									32	B. Williams
	27	H. Himmelberg	44	J. Buckley	7	L. Ash			37	M. Champion
	8	E. Hewett	35	J. Shanahan	29	C. Hall
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	9	R. Angwin	14	T. Bedford	22	J. Kelly
	44	J. Hutchinson	9	H. Reid	15	J. Cripps	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							32	K. Briggs	35	M. Gruzewski
HALF-FORWARD							17	F. Callaghan	30	J. Leake
	33	X. O'Halloran	5	A. Cadman	2	D. Jones	12	T. Green	24	H. Rowston
	14	L. Duggan	41	S. Brock	3	L. Baker			20	J. Stringer
HALF-BACK									1	H. Thomas
FORWARD
	26	J. Riccardi	46	C. Brown	4	T. Greene (c)
	45	T. McCarthy	42	H. Edwards	7	R. Ginbey
BACK
Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Adam Kingsley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GWSY	Darcy Jones goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:17
	GWSY	Callum Brown goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	04:00
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	0.0.0	-	2.1.13	08:29
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	0.0.0	-	3.1.19	11:07
	GWSY	Xavier O'Halloran behind	0.0.0	-	3.2.20	14:19
	GWSY	Toby Bedford goal	0.0.0	-	4.2.26	15:03
	GWSY	Jake Stringer behind	0.0.0	-	4.3.27	17:58
	WCST	Jamie Cripps goal	1.0.6	-	4.3.27	19:54
	GWSY	Jake Riccardi goal	1.0.6	-	5.3.33	26:03
Q2	GWSY	Jake Stringer goal	1.0.6	-	6.3.39	03:43
	WCST	Tim Kelly behind	1.1.7	-	6.3.39	07:25
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	1.1.7	-	6.4.40	12:22
	GWSY	Jake Riccardi behind	1.1.7	-	6.5.41	15:16
	WCST	Bailey Williams goal	2.1.13	-	6.5.41	15:52
	GWSY	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	6.6.42	17:50
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	2.1.13	-	7.6.48	19:53
	GWSY	Finn Callaghan goal	2.1.13	-	8.6.54	21:10
	WCST	Jack Hutchinson goal	3.1.19	-	8.6.54	24:21
Q3	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	3.1.19	-	8.7.55	01:29
	WCST	Jobe Shanahan goal	4.1.25	-	8.7.55	06:38
	GWSY	Darcy Jones goal	4.1.25	-	9.7.61	08:53
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	4.1.25	-	10.7.67	10:55
	GWSY	Josh Kelly goal	4.1.25	-	11.7.73	13:15
	GWSY	Darcy Jones behind	4.1.25	-	11.8.74	16:02
	WCST	Jack Graham goal	5.1.31	-	11.8.74	18:15
	GWSY	Josh Kelly goal	5.1.31	-	12.8.80	24:59
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	5.1.31	-	13.8.86	27:08
	GWSY	Harry Rowston behind	5.1.31	-	13.9.87	28:25
	WCST	Rushed behind	5.2.32	-	13.9.87	29:39
Q4	GWSY	Aaron Cadman behind	5.2.32	-	13.10.88	01:00
	GWSY	Xavier O'Halloran behind	5.2.32	-	13.11.89	02:09
	WCST	Jack Hutchinson behind	5.3.33	-	13.11.89	04:00
	GWSY	Darcy Jones behind	5.3.33	-	13.12.90	08:01
	WCST	Liam Baker goal	6.3.39	-	13.12.90	11:20
	GWSY	Jake Stringer behind	6.3.39	-	13.13.91	12:36
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	6.3.39	-	14.13.97	13:27
	GWSY	Xavier O'Halloran goal	6.3.39	-	15.13.103	14:55
	WCST	Jobe Shanahan goal	7.3.45	-	15.13.103	18:18
	GWSY	Josh Kelly behind	7.3.45	-	15.14.104	22:47
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	7.3.45	-	15.15.105	24:48
	WCST	Liam Ryan behind	7.4.46	-	15.15.105	26:05
	WCST	Liam Ryan goal	8.4.52	-	15.15.105	26:28
	GWSY	Xavier O'Halloran goal	8.4.52	-	16.15.111	27:57

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