2026 VFL Season Semi Final 2: Werribee v Port Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 5 September 2026 between Werribee and Port Melbourne in the second semi final of the 2026 season of the Victorian Football League. Werribee hosted Port Melbourne at Avalon Airport Oval. Jesse Clark captained the hosts with Dom Brew as vice-captain. Tom Hird captained the visitors with Kaine Baldwin as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Dan Lowther and the visitors were coached by Brendan McCartney.

Werribee (9.15.69) were defeated by Port Melbourne (12.13.85).

Match Details

Season: 2026 VFL Season
Round: Second Semi Final
Teams: Werribee v Port Melbourne
Date: Saturday 5 September 2026
Time: 12:05 PM
Venue: Avalon Airport Oval

Match Results

Outcome: Werribee def. by Port Melbourne
Score: 9.15.69 - 12.13.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Werribee	1	.	4	3	.	8	4	.	11	9	.	15	9	.	15	(69)
Port Melbourne	3	.	4	6	.	12	8	.	12	12	.	13	12	.	13	(85)
Margin	PMLB by 12			PMLB by 22			PMLB by 25			PMLB by 16			PMLB by 16
Duration	32:04			30:55			27:49			37:13			2:08:01

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Werribee

Captain: Jesse Clark
Vice-Captain: Dom Brew
Coach: Dan Lowther

Port Melbourne

Captain: Tom Hird
Vice-Captain: Kaine Baldwin
Coach: Brendan McCartney

Player Statistics

Werribee

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
2	Andrews, Daly	RR	?	0	1	10	9	1	3	0	4	3	?	3	2	0	5
19	Azzi, Sam	CHB	?	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	1	0	?	1	1	1	0
29	Brew, Dom (vc)	INT	?	0	1	19	10	9	0	0	13	10	?	2	0	2	2
3	Busuttil, Jordan	HFFL	?	0	0	12	8	4	0	0	7	2	?	5	0	1	3
27	Clark, Jesse (c)	HBFL	?	0	0	11	8	3	4	0	4	0	?	0	0	3	1
14	Cousins, Mace	HBFR	?	0	0	11	8	3	4	0	1	0	?	1	0	2	2
7	Depasquale, Anthony	WL	?	1	2	8	6	2	2	0	3	1	?	1	0	0	1
12	Donegan, Sam	FPR	?	0	1	12	8	4	3	0	3	4	?	1	1	0	4
6	Elliott, Will	FF	?	2	4	15	12	3	5	11	4	2	?	6	2	0	1
31	Gardiner, Caiden	RU	?	0	0	7	2	5	1	43	3	2	?	0	6	1	1
8	Ivisic, Xavier	INT	?	0	1	12	5	7	2	0	1	0	?	0	0	0	1
21	Keighran, Zane	INT	?	0	0	8	4	4	2	0	0	0	?	1	0	1	0
1	Lazzaro, Charlie	RO	?	0	0	20	9	11	6	0	10	5	?	1	2	3	3
30	Lloyd, Mitchell	FB	?	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	5	0	?	1	1	2	1
17	Maguire, Harry	FPL	?	5	0	10	8	2	3	0	1	1	?	0	0	0	1
34	Pavlidis, Jaelen	BPR	?	0	0	21	13	8	7	0	0	0	?	0	0	0	1
9	Pinnuck, Louis	BPL	?	0	0	21	17	4	2	0	3	1	?	2	1	8	3
13	Raso, Massimo	INT	?	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	?	0	0	0	0
33	Riding, Jack	HFFR	?	0	1	27	18	9	2	0	8	11	?	2	2	2	12
45	Robb, Micah	C	?	0	0	4	2	2	2	0	3	0	?	0	0	0	1
35	Smith, Jake	INT	?	0	0	11	4	7	2	0	2	3	?	2	1	0	1
4	Whyte, Cooper	WR	?	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	3	0	?	0	1	0	1
28	Wright, Brady	CHF	?	1	1	6	3	3	3	0	0	0	?	1	0	0	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				9	15	276	170	106	57	54	79	45	0+	30	20	26	45

Port Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Luca	FPR	?	0	1	9	5	4	2	0	2	0	?	2	1	0	0
11	Baldwin, Kaine (vc)	FF	?	3	0	12	7	5	3	0	1	0	?	0	0	1	4
2	Bedendo, Dominic	HFFR	?	0	1	13	5	8	3	0	6	2	?	2	0	0	1
13	Downie, Connor	WR	?	3	0	18	13	5	2	0	2	1	?	1	0	1	5
32	Gahan, Matt	BPR	?	0	0	26	20	6	7	0	0	0	?	0	1	9	4
34	George, Roy	INT	?	0	1	5	3	2	0	0	1	0	?	0	3	0	2
28	Graham, Tom	FB	?	0	0	8	6	2	3	0	1	0	?	0	2	3	0
14	Green, Josh	INT	?	0	0	21	3	18	1	0	2	7	?	1	2	0	1
18	Hawkins, Ned	HBFR	?	0	0	12	5	7	2	0	5	0	?	0	2	4	0
4	Hird, Tom (c)	RR	?	1	0	13	8	5	2	0	6	2	?	1	2	1	2
8	Hobbs, Ben	RO	?	0	0	24	16	8	3	0	6	8	?	3	5	2	3
45	Hughes, Fletcher	INT	?	0	0	6	5	1	0	24	5	2	?	5	1	0	1
5	Mulady, Owen	INT	?	1	0	8	6	2	1	0	1	0	?	0	0	2	1
33	Penry, Flynn	RU	?	0	0	9	2	7	0	17	2	3	?	2	3	2	1
24	Polkinghorne, Riley	CHF	?	2	1	13	10	3	2	0	1	0	?	0	1	1	2
15	Rankin, Lachlan	HBFL	?	0	0	13	6	7	2	0	5	1	?	1	1	0	2
21	Rider, Max	HFFL	?	1	0	13	5	8	5	0	8	1	?	0	4	0	1
36	Rudd, Michael	BPL	?	0	0	13	9	4	6	0	1	1	?	0	0	6	0
43	Sparkman, Joshua	INT	?	0	0	13	8	5	2	0	2	0	?	0	0	2	3
12	Stubbings, Harry	WL	?	0	0	13	6	7	5	0	2	0	?	0	0	0	3
31	Tonelli, Alex	FPL	?	0	2	8	3	5	1	0	3	0	?	0	1	0	0
10	Tovey, Josh	C	?	1	0	9	5	4	0	0	2	2	?	2	0	0	3
6	Van Es, James	CHB	?	0	0	7	3	4	5	0	1	0	?	0	1	2	1
Rushed					7
Total (23 players)				12	13	286	159	127	57	41	65	30	0+	20	30	36	40

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

Werribee							Coach: Dan Lowther
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	36	M. Rudd	28	T. Graham	32	M. Gahan	31	C. Gardiner	29	D. Brew (vc)
	12	S. Donegan	6	W. Elliott	17	H. Maguire	2	D. Andrews	8	X. Ivisic
FORWARD							1	C. Lazzaro	21	Z. Keighran
HALF-BACK									13	M. Raso
	15	L. Rankin	6	J. Van Es	18	N. Hawkins			35	J. Smith
	33	J. Riding	28	B. Wright	3	J. Busuttil
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	12	H. Stubbings	10	J. Tovey	13	C. Downie
	4	C. Whyte	45	M. Robb	7	A. Depasquale	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							33	F. Penry	34	R. George
HALF-FORWARD							4	T. Hird (c)	14	J. Green
	21	M. Rider	24	R. Polkinghorne	2	D. Bedendo	8	B. Hobbs	45	F. Hughes
	14	M. Cousins	19	S. Azzi	27	J. Clark (c)			5	O. Mulady
HALF-BACK									43	J. Sparkman
FORWARD
	31	A. Tonelli	11	K. Baldwin (vc)	27	L. Alessio
	34	J. Pavlidis	30	M. Lloyd	9	L. Pinnuck
BACK
Port Melbourne							Coach: Brendan McCartney

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WERB	Sam Donegan behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	02:46
	WERB	Anthony Depasquale behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	03:51
	PMLB	Connor Downie goal	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	04:43
	PMLB	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	06:19
	PMLB	Kaine Baldwin goal	0.2.2	-	2.1.13	08:44
	PMLB	Luca Alessio behind	0.2.2	-	2.2.14	10:44
	PMLB	Dominic Bedendo behind	0.2.2	-	2.3.15	15:45
	PMLB	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	2.4.16	16:54
	PMLB	Josh Tovey goal	0.2.2	-	3.4.22	19:01
	WERB	Anthony Depasquale goal	1.2.8	-	3.4.22	23:54
	WERB	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	3.4.22	28:43
	WERB	Xavier Ivisic behind	1.4.10	-	3.4.22	29:38
Q2	WERB	Harry Maguire goal	2.4.16	-	3.4.22	01:51
	PMLB	Riley Polkinghorne behind	2.4.16	-	3.5.23	05:22
	PMLB	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	3.6.24	06:10
	PMLB	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	3.7.25	06:52
	PMLB	Connor Downie goal	2.4.16	-	4.7.31	08:02
	PMLB	Tom Hird goal	2.4.16	-	5.7.37	11:21
	WERB	Dom Brew behind	2.5.17	-	5.7.37	13:38
	WERB	Will Elliott behind	2.6.18	-	5.7.37	15:27
	PMLB	Alex Tonelli behind	2.6.18	-	5.8.38	16:50
	PMLB	Alex Tonelli behind	2.6.18	-	5.9.39	19:30
	PMLB	Rushed behind	2.6.18	-	5.10.40	20:08
	PMLB	Rushed behind	2.6.18	-	5.11.41	20:27
	PMLB	Roy George behind	2.6.18	-	5.12.42	21:45
	PMLB	Riley Polkinghorne goal	2.6.18	-	6.12.48	24:59
	WERB	Will Elliott behind	2.7.19	-	6.12.48	27:21
	WERB	Harry Maguire goal	3.7.25	-	6.12.48	28:22
	WERB	Will Elliott behind	3.8.26	-	6.12.48	30:21
Q3	WERB	Brady Wright goal	4.8.32	-	6.12.48	04:48
	WERB	Daly Andrews behind	4.9.33	-	6.12.48	11:23
	WERB	Anthony Depasquale behind	4.10.34	-	6.12.48	17:05
	PMLB	Riley Polkinghorne goal	4.10.34	-	7.12.54	17:56
	WERB	Brady Wright behind	4.11.35	-	7.12.54	21:41
	PMLB	Kaine Baldwin goal	4.11.35	-	8.12.60	24:51
Q4	WERB	Jack Riding behind	4.12.36	-	8.12.60	00:13
	PMLB	Kaine Baldwin goal	4.12.36	-	9.12.66	04:36
	WERB	Harry Maguire goal	5.12.42	-	9.12.66	07:56
	WERB	Will Elliott goal	6.12.48	-	9.12.66	10:36
	WERB	Harry Maguire goal	7.12.54	-	9.12.66	13:09
	PMLB	Max Rider goal	7.12.54	-	10.12.72	14:59
	WERB	Will Elliott goal	8.12.60	-	10.12.72	17:45
	WERB	Will Elliott behind	8.13.61	-	10.12.72	23:45
	PMLB	Rushed behind	8.13.61	-	10.13.73	27:08
	PMLB	Connor Downie goal	8.13.61	-	11.13.79	29:24
	PMLB	Owen Mulady goal	8.13.61	-	12.13.85	32:00
	WERB	Rushed behind	8.14.62	-	12.13.85	33:01
	WERB	Harry Maguire goal	9.14.68	-	12.13.85	33:42
	WERB	Rushed behind	9.15.69	-	12.13.85	34:46

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