2025 AFL Season Round 24: Sydney v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 17 August 2025 between Sydney and Geelong during round twenty-four of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Geelong at the SCG. Callum Mills captained the hosts. Patrick Dangerfield captained the visitors with Tom Stewart as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Dean Cox and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Sydney (10.8.68) were defeated by Geelong (16.15.111).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 24
Teams: Sydney v Geelong
Date: Sunday 17 August 2025
Time: 3:15 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 37,656

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Geelong
Score: 10.8.68 - 16.15.111

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	4	.	3	7	.	4	8	.	6	10	.	8	10	.	8	(68)
Geelong	4	.	3	8	.	7	12	.	8	16	.	15	16	.	15	(111)
Margin	level			GEEL by 9			GEEL by 26			GEEL by 43			GEEL by 43
Duration	32:07			35:42			29:13			30:33			2:07:35

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: Callum Mills
Coach: Dean Cox

Geelong

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Bailey Smith	GEEL	3	3
Shannon Neale	GEEL	33	2
Shaun Mannagh	GEEL	7	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
22	Blakey, Nick	CHB	85%	0	0	23	20	3	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	11	2
39	Buller, Jack	CHF	81%	1	1	8	4	4	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
16	Campbell, Braeden	FPR	79%	1	0	12	6	6	1	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	3
33	Cleary, Caiden	SUB↑	32%	0	0	8	2	6	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1
7	Cunningham, Harry	BPL	83%	0	0	15	9	6	5	0	4	2	2	2	1	2	1
18	Dattoli, Jesse	INT↓	50%	0	0	7	1	6	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
13	Florent, Oliver	WL	82%	0	0	18	7	11	4	0	3	4	1	0	0	3	0
21	Gulden, Errol	RO	87%	0	0	23	13	10	2	0	7	6	2	1	2	2	4
9	Hayward, Will	FPL	82%	0	0	8	2	6	1	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	2
5	Heeney, Isaac	RR	82%	1	1	15	9	6	4	0	5	2	5	3	3	0	4
17	Jordon, James	HFFR	80%	0	0	9	4	5	1	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	2
19	Ladhams, Peter	RU	80%	2	1	17	10	7	1	35	3	10	5	2	0	3	3
44	Lloyd, Jake	WR	82%	0	1	21	12	9	5	0	2	2	3	0	2	0	9
30	McCartin, Tom	BPR	97%	1	0	13	11	2	7	0	1	1	2	0	1	3	1
2	McLean, Hayden	FF	78%	2	1	9	8	1	6	8	1	0	2	1	1	1	1
43	Melican, Lewis	FB	80%	0	0	6	3	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
14	Mills, Callum (c)	INT	86%	0	0	25	10	15	7	0	4	0	3	0	0	2	1
11	Papley, Tom	HFFL	85%	2	1	20	11	9	6	0	1	1	6	0	0	0	5
24	Rampe, Dane	HBFL	83%	0	0	13	9	4	4	0	3	1	0	1	0	3	1
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	69%	0	0	14	10	4	4	0	3	1	3	1	2	1	3
12	Sheldrick, Angus	INT	69%	0	0	21	5	16	2	0	5	6	1	0	0	0	0
1	Warner, Chad	C	82%	0	0	23	13	10	5	0	6	1	1	0	0	1	2
15	Wicks, Sam	HBFR	86%	0	0	21	14	7	1	0	3	2	4	1	1	2	1
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				10	8	349	193	156	79	43	62	43	53	13	14	36	47

C. Cleary replaced J. Dattoli.

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	RO	70%	0	0	21	13	8	3	0	5	7	3	0	2	2	5
46	Blicavs, Mark	WR	80%	0	2	12	4	8	3	13	3	0	1	0	1	0	0
12	Bowes, Jack	SUB↑	5%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1
5	Cameron, Jeremy	FF	86%	0	1	10	6	4	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2
45	Close, Brad	INT	82%	0	0	8	4	4	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	3
35	Dangerfield, Patrick (c)	FPL	74%	1	1	14	9	5	5	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
16	De Koning, Sam	FB	88%	0	0	14	5	9	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	0
28	Dempsey, Oliver	WL	88%	1	1	21	10	11	6	0	5	1	2	1	1	0	4
39	Guthrie, Zach	INT	84%	0	0	17	13	4	9	0	3	0	2	1	1	3	1
38	Henry, Jack	BPL↓	83%	0	0	18	12	6	7	0	1	0	3	0	0	4	1
9	Holmes, Max	C	86%	0	1	21	16	5	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	6	7
17	Humphries, Lawson	HBFL	77%	0	1	12	8	4	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	2
7	Mannagh, Shaun	CHF	80%	3	3	19	15	4	7	0	7	4	2	0	1	0	4
19	Martin, Jack	INT	64%	2	1	17	12	5	8	0	1	1	1	1	0	2	2
32	Miers, Gryan	INT	78%	2	0	18	14	4	7	0	2	1	2	1	0	1	2
34	Mullin, Oisin	HFFR	84%	0	0	9	6	3	1	0	3	2	2	2	0	2	2
33	Neale, Shannon	FPR	89%	4	1	10	6	4	5	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	2
42	O'Connor, Mark	HBFR	83%	0	0	9	6	3	1	0	4	3	4	3	3	2	0
14	O'Sullivan, Connor	BPR	94%	0	0	12	10	2	8	0	4	0	1	0	0	3	1
3	Smith, Bailey	RR	86%	0	0	30	18	12	6	0	4	5	4	0	1	0	7
1	Stanley, Rhys	RU	78%	0	0	14	11	3	7	33	2	4	2	1	1	1	3
18	Stengle, Tyson	HFFL	82%	3	2	12	9	3	2	0	4	1	2	1	1	0	2
44	Stewart, Tom (vc)	CHB	80%	0	0	25	19	6	11	0	2	1	3	0	0	6	2
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				16	15	344	227	117	114	47	63	33	41	14	13	37	55

J. Bowes replaced J. Henry.

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
	38	J. Henry	16	S. De Koning	14	C. O'Sullivan	19	P. Ladhams	18	J. Dattoli
	16	B. Campbell	2	H. McLean	9	W. Hayward	5	I. Heeney	14	C. Mills (c)
FORWARD							21	E. Gulden	8	J. Rowbottom
HALF-BACK									12	A. Sheldrick
	17	L. Humphries	44	T. Stewart (vc)	42	M. O'Connor			33	C. Cleary
	17	J. Jordon	39	J. Buller	11	T. Papley
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	28	O. Dempsey	9	M. Holmes	46	M. Blicavs
	44	J. Lloyd	1	C. Warner	13	O. Florent	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							1	R. Stanley	45	B. Close
HALF-FORWARD							3	B. Smith	39	Z. Guthrie
	18	T. Stengle	7	S. Mannagh	34	O. Mullin	30	T. Atkins	19	J. Martin
	15	S. Wicks	22	N. Blakey	24	D. Rampe			32	G. Miers
HALF-BACK									12	J. Bowes
FORWARD
	35	P. Dangerfield (c)	5	J. Cameron	33	S. Neale
	30	T. McCartin	43	L. Melican	7	H. Cunningham
BACK
Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Tyson Stengle behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:20
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	01:17
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	2.0.12	-	0.1.1	04:36
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	06:16
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell goal	3.1.19	-	0.1.1	07:43
	SYDN	Peter Ladhams behind	3.2.20	-	0.1.1	10:45
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	3.3.21	-	0.1.1	14:29
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh behind	3.3.21	-	0.2.2	17:36
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	3.3.21	-	1.2.8	19:43
	GEEL	Lawson Humphries behind	3.3.21	-	1.3.9	22:01
	GEEL	Jack Martin goal	3.3.21	-	2.3.15	22:32
	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	3.3.21	-	3.3.21	25:00
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	3.3.21	-	4.3.27	27:31
	SYDN	Peter Ladhams goal	4.3.27	-	4.3.27	29:53
Q2	SYDN	Jack Buller goal	5.3.33	-	4.3.27	02:05
	SYDN	Tom McCartin goal	6.3.39	-	4.3.27	06:29
	GEEL	Max Holmes behind	6.3.39	-	4.4.28	07:35
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	6.3.39	-	5.4.34	08:58
	SYDN	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	5.4.34	12:08
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	6.4.40	-	6.4.40	13:19
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh behind	6.4.40	-	6.5.41	15:48
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey behind	6.4.40	-	6.6.42	18:19
	GEEL	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	6.7.43	22:30
	GEEL	Jack Martin goal	6.4.40	-	7.7.49	25:21
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	6.4.40	-	8.7.55	29:17
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	7.4.46	-	8.7.55	31:10
Q3	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	7.4.46	-	9.7.61	01:07
	SYDN	Jack Buller behind	7.5.47	-	9.7.61	05:01
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	7.5.47	-	10.7.67	06:05
	SYDN	Peter Ladhams goal	8.5.53	-	10.7.67	10:40
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	8.5.53	-	11.7.73	12:34
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	8.5.53	-	12.7.79	16:37
	GEEL	Mark Blicavs behind	8.5.53	-	12.8.80	19:50
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	8.6.54	-	12.8.80	26:22
Q4	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	8.6.54	-	13.8.86	00:39
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd behind	8.7.55	-	13.8.86	02:47
	GEEL	Mark Blicavs behind	8.7.55	-	13.9.87	03:44
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	9.7.61	-	13.9.87	04:41
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	9.7.61	-	14.9.93	06:35
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	9.7.61	-	14.10.94	08:25
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh behind	9.7.61	-	14.11.95	15:23
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	9.7.61	-	15.11.101	16:26
	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	9.7.61	-	16.11.107	17:34
	GEEL	Jack Martin behind	9.7.61	-	16.12.108	20:53
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle behind	9.7.61	-	16.13.109	22:16
	SYDN	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	16.13.109	23:33
	GEEL	Shannon Neale behind	9.8.62	-	16.14.110	25:06
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	10.8.68	-	16.14.110	26:26
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	10.8.68	-	16.15.111	30:30

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