2025 VFL Season Round 1: Footscray Reserves v Northern Bullants

This is the match report for the match played on 22 March 2025 between the Footscray Reserves and the Northern Bullants during round one of the 2025 season of the Victorian Football League. The Footscray Reserves hosted the Northern Bullants at Mission Whitten Oval. Daniel Orgill captained the hosts with Cooper Craig-Peters as vice-captain. Liam Mackie captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Stewart Edge and the visitors were coached by Rocky Iannello.

The Footscray Reserves (22.16.148) defeated the Northern Bullants (3.4.22).

Match Details

Season: 2025 VFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Footscray Reserves v Northern Bullants
Date: Saturday 22 March 2025
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Mission Whitten Oval

Match Results

Outcome: Footscray Reserves def. Northern Bullants
Score: 22.16.148 - 3.4.22

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Footscray Reserves	2	.	3	9	.	9	16	.	12	22	.	16	22	.	16	(148)
Northern Bullants	1	.	2	2	.	3	2	.	4	3	.	4	3	.	4	(22)
Margin	FOOR by 7			FOOR by 48			FOOR by 92			FOOR by 126			FOOR by 126
Duration	28:56			32:26			33:54			31:04			2:06:20

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Footscray Reserves) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Northern Bullants) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Footscray Reserves

Captain: Daniel Orgill
Vice-Captain: Cooper Craig-Peters
Coach: Stewart Edge

Northern Bullants

Captain: Liam Mackie
Coach: Rocky Iannello (caretaker)

Player Statistics

Footscray Reserves

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
5	Busslinger, Jedd	?	?	0	0	19	11	8	5	0	2	0	?	0	0	4	0
17	Coffield, Nick	?	?	0	0	20	14	6	7	0	0	0	?	0	1	4	2
61	Craig-Peters, Cooper (vc)	?	?	0	0	28	8	20	1	0	6	7	?	4	0	1	2
16	Croft, Jordan	?	?	4	0	13	7	6	5	0	1	0	?	0	1	1	0
54	Crofts, Billy	?	?	0	0	17	5	12	2	0	3	4	?	0	0	1	3
43	Gardner, Ryan	?	?	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	0	0	?	0	3	0	0
69	Gilbee, Jarrod	?	?	0	0	19	8	11	4	0	0	0	?	1	0	2	1
52	Hargraves, Chan	?	?	3	1	14	11	3	3	3	1	1	?	2	0	1	7
56	Hunt, Ethan	?	?	0	0	25	16	9	9	0	1	1	?	0	0	0	4
6	Hynes, Cooper	?	?	1	0	21	12	9	4	0	1	4	?	0	0	3	4
57	Kellett, Josh	?	?	0	0	21	15	6	5	0	4	0	?	0	3	3	4
35	Kennedy, Luke	?	?	0	0	29	11	18	3	0	6	4	?	2	1	1	5
64	Lewis, Will	?	?	1	1	10	7	3	3	0	2	0	?	2	3	0	2
65	Maple, Tristan	?	?	0	0	22	16	6	3	0	3	0	?	4	0	0	5
70	Medwell, Bailey	?	?	0	0	19	9	10	5	0	1	0	?	0	1	2	1
75	Moloney, Diesel	?	?	4	2	13	8	5	2	0	1	0	?	0	2	0	0
68	Muratore, Luca	?	?	4	1	15	8	7	6	0	1	1	?	0	1	0	2
50	Orgill, Daniel (c)	?	?	0	2	30	14	16	4	0	4	4	?	2	2	4	7
25	Poulter, Caleb	?	?	1	1	19	12	7	9	0	3	0	?	0	1	0	3
55	Smith, Connor	?	?	1	0	10	3	7	0	0	4	3	?	2	0	1	2
40	Smith, Lachlan	?	?	1	1	17	7	10	4	42	6	4	?	2	5	0	3
63	Spicer, Phoenix	?	?	2	1	14	11	3	5	0	4	1	?	1	1	1	3
67	Young, Bailey	?	?	0	0	23	15	8	7	0	2	1	?	1	1	2	3
Rushed					?
Total (23 players)				22	16	430	235	195	100	45	56	35	0+	23	26	31	63

Northern Bullants

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Ashwin, Yuyu	?	?	0	0	6	2	4	2	0	0	0	?	0	0	0	1
11	Coghlan, Liam	?	?	0	0	8	7	1	2	0	0	1	?	0	0	2	1
24	Donegan, Sam	?	?	0	0	24	12	12	3	0	4	6	?	3	1	0	4
6	Elliott, Will	?	?	0	1	13	8	5	1	5	2	3	?	4	0	2	2
10	Emery, Kane	?	?	0	0	15	6	9	1	0	4	0	?	1	2	0	1
45	Fairlie, Patrick	?	?	1	0	23	8	15	2	0	5	6	?	1	3	1	2
5	Franks, Caleb	?	?	0	1	27	8	19	0	0	4	4	?	2	1	0	3
16	Goodman, Maison	?	?	0	0	5	2	3	1	0	2	0	?	0	0	0	1
26	Grace, Harrison	?	?	0	0	5	2	3	1	0	3	0	?	0	2	1	0
12	Green, Sam	?	?	1	0	10	6	4	3	1	0	0	?	1	0	1	1
27	Greene, Riley	?	?	0	0	4	2	2	2	0	0	0	?	0	0	0	0
15	Hamilton, Josh	?	?	1	0	27	21	6	4	0	4	0	?	4	1	7	5
1	Jorgensen, John	?	?	0	0	4	3	1	0	11	0	1	?	1	2	0	0
37	Kolar, Liam	?	?	0	0	11	5	6	2	7	2	1	?	1	0	4	0
4	Mackie, Liam (c)	?	?	0	0	26	22	4	5	0	2	2	?	2	3	7	4
23	Madden, Will	?	?	0	0	9	5	4	3	0	2	0	?	0	0	0	0
28	Mantas, Ethan	?	?	0	0	14	11	3	2	0	1	0	?	0	0	3	0
30	Scerri, Chris	?	?	0	0	12	6	6	0	0	5	2	?	2	1	0	3
2	Schreiber, Kaden	?	?	0	0	21	11	10	3	0	10	5	?	0	1	2	4
39	Taylor, Liam	?	?	0	0	10	4	6	0	0	5	2	?	1	3	1	0
31	Varagiannis, Giorgio	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	6	0	1	1	?	0	1	5	0
3	Velissaris, Jean-Luc	?	?	0	1	30	13	17	5	0	5	6	?	2	1	2	3
9	Weidemann, Jackson	?	?	0	0	12	3	9	1	0	2	0	?	1	1	1	0
Rushed					?
Total (23 players)				3	4	331	175	156	49	24	63	40	0+	26	23	39	35

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

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	FOOR	Lachlan Smith goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	07:03
	NBUL	Jean-Luc Velissaris behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	09:17
	NBUL	Patrick Fairlie goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	10:01
	FOOR	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	13:48
	FOOR	Will Lewis behind	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	19:43
	FOOR	Luca Muratore goal	2.2.14	-	1.1.7	21:02
	NBUL	Will Elliott behind	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	22:44
	FOOR	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	1.2.8	26:07
Q2	NBUL	Sam Green goal	2.3.15	-	2.2.14	01:23
	FOOR	Luca Muratore goal	3.3.21	-	2.2.14	05:43
	NBUL	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	2.3.15	09:58
	FOOR	Chan Hargraves behind	3.4.22	-	2.3.15	12:03
	FOOR	Connor Smith goal	4.4.28	-	2.3.15	13:35
	FOOR	Phoenix Spicer goal	5.4.34	-	2.3.15	16:26
	FOOR	Diesel Moloney behind	5.5.35	-	2.3.15	18:41
	FOOR	Rushed behind	5.6.36	-	2.3.15	19:10
	FOOR	Diesel Moloney goal	6.6.42	-	2.3.15	19:50
	FOOR	Daniel Orgill behind	6.7.43	-	2.3.15	20:51
	FOOR	Chan Hargraves goal	7.7.49	-	2.3.15	23:01
	FOOR	Rushed behind	7.8.50	-	2.3.15	24:28
	FOOR	Luca Muratore behind	7.9.51	-	2.3.15	25:55
	FOOR	Luca Muratore goal	8.9.57	-	2.3.15	27:31
	FOOR	Caleb Poulter goal	9.9.63	-	2.3.15	29:26
Q3	FOOR	Rushed behind	9.10.64	-	2.3.15	02:04
	FOOR	Cooper Hynes goal	10.10.70	-	2.3.15	03:32
	NBUL	Caleb Franks behind	10.10.70	-	2.4.16	09:53
	FOOR	Chan Hargraves goal	11.10.76	-	2.4.16	10:56
	FOOR	Daniel Orgill behind	11.11.77	-	2.4.16	14:22
	FOOR	Phoenix Spicer behind	11.12.78	-	2.4.16	15:32
	FOOR	Luca Muratore goal	12.12.84	-	2.4.16	21:19
	FOOR	Diesel Moloney goal	13.12.90	-	2.4.16	23:20
	FOOR	Jordan Croft goal	14.12.96	-	2.4.16	24:39
	FOOR	Jordan Croft goal	15.12.102	-	2.4.16	27:03
	FOOR	Jordan Croft goal	16.12.108	-	2.4.16	29:00
Q4	FOOR	Chan Hargraves goal	17.12.114	-	2.4.16	00:35
	FOOR	Lachlan Smith behind	17.13.115	-	2.4.16	02:43
	FOOR	Rushed behind	17.14.116	-	2.4.16	03:12
	NBUL	Josh Hamilton goal	17.14.116	-	3.4.22	06:10
	FOOR	Diesel Moloney goal	18.14.122	-	3.4.22	10:53
	FOOR	Diesel Moloney behind	18.15.123	-	3.4.22	13:54
	FOOR	Diesel Moloney goal	19.15.129	-	3.4.22	14:13
	FOOR	Will Lewis goal	20.15.135	-	3.4.22	17:42
	FOOR	Jordan Croft goal	21.15.141	-	3.4.22	19:22
	FOOR	Phoenix Spicer goal	22.15.147	-	3.4.22	23:31
	FOOR	Caleb Poulter behind	22.16.148	-	3.4.22	29:35

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