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CONTENTS aflrecord.com.au AFL RECORD 3 FINALFEATURESFOUR It’s down to four as another enthralling preliminary finals weekend awaits. ASHLEY BROWNE reports. SHOW ME THE MONEY The AFL is celebrating a new $4.5 billion TV rights deal. We break down what it means to viewers. ASHLEY BROWNE reports. 105 One Week At A Time 5 Epic Grand Final Moments 30 Answer Man 46 Kids’ section 50 Match Centre 59 Opinion: Ashley Browne 90 REGULARS FINALS WEEK 3, SEPTEMBER 16-17, 2022 20 BROWNLOW BEST: Ollie Wines was crowned Port Adelaide’s first Brownlow medallist in 2021. We preview this year’s main chances – page 20. aflrecord.com.au THIS SPECCYWEEK’SLEGEND IS... Congratulations, you took our Local Legends Mark of the Week. You’ve won 250 Four’N Twenty pies for your club and Local Legend status forever. Know a Local Legend? To enter, post your photo or video by 12 noon (AEST) every Wednesday on Instagram @Fourntwenty #FNTmarkoftheweek and hashtag your club. T&Cs apply. Mitch Crapper West Preston Lakeside Football Club Photo Credit: Nathan McNeill THIS WEEK’S COVERS » There are dedicated covers for the two preliminary finals (only available at games or order via aflrecord.com.au). The retail cover features both games. AFL Record Editor Michael Lovett Production Editor Gary Hancock Senior Writer Ashley Browne Writers Lachlan Geleit, Jack Makeham, Seb Mottram, Nic Negrepontis, Laurence Rosen, Vas Shipp, Andrew Slevison, Sam Watson, Alex Zaia Statistician Col Hutchinson Production Manager Amahl Weereratne Art Director Rohan Voigt Graphic Designer Alex Levonis
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HISTORIC DOUBLE: Cats skipper Joel Selwood will equal the record for most finals, while coach Chris Scott (inset) will bring up his 500th game.
u Finals football was played amid a somewhat sombre backdrop last weekend.
Scott has a veteran squad at his disposal, but the likes of Tom Atkins, Cameron Guthrie and Max Holmes are doing the heavy lifting in the midfield.
News from in and around the AFL at a
Her Majesty also graced the cover of the Record in that round. We delved into the archives and have published that cover on our Facebook page.
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They have been here a few times before. Since their last premiership in 2011, they are 1-5 in preliminary finals.
He has an interesting relationship with his former club and was famously embroiled in a war of words with Brisbane players and coach Chris Fagan at quarter-time of the round two game at GMHBA Stadium last year.
LIONS COACH CHRIS FAGAN ON HIS STAR
In this week’s Record, we feature a special photograph (see page 42) of the Queen meeting Richmond and Fitzroy players during the half-time
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And as fans prepare to get their heads around next year’s King’s Birthday round, the League also sprang into action by bringing the Brownlow Medal count forward a day.
he penultimate weekend of the season is here. The 24-hour period in which both preliminary finals are staged is usually the most magical of theItseason.invariably delivers something special and there is every reason to think that both the Geelong-Brisbane and Sydney-Collingwood games will keep fans at a packed MCG and sold-out SCG, and the millions watching around the country, fullyTheengrossed.Catshave been the best team all year. They enter Friday night with 14 successive wins and, if defender Jake Kolodjashnij overcomes a knee complaint, they will be at full strength.
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II on the morning (Australian time) of last Friday’s semi-final between Melbourne and the Brisbane Lions saw the AFL pay its respects to the longest-serving British monarch that night and the following night.
semi-finals at the MCG and various state league games around the country.
after 215 games and two flags as a tough Lions defender.
In the qualifying final a fortnight ago, Joel Selwood and Patrick
This will allow TV networks to bring live coverage of the Queen’s funeral on Monday night Australian time, thus saving the Seven Network – official broadcaster of the AFL – the dilemma of how to cover both events at the same time.
It’s been a win-win for us. We’ve got a fresh Joey Daniher next week and we got a win tonight
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Traditionally held on the Monday night of Grand Final week, the count will now take place on Sunday.
break of the 1970 opening round match between the Tigers and the Lions at the MCG.
A minute’s silence was observed at both
Friday night will also be big forItScott.willbe his 500th AFL outing –his 284th game as coach of Geelong
As is his wont, coach Chris Scott will dismiss entirely any suggestion that recent history will come into play, but Cats fans should feel particularly optimistic this time around.
Dangerfield were on the interchange bench for the start of the opening threeTomquarters.Hawkins and Jeremy Cameron are the best power forward combination in the AFL, but have Tyson Stengle and Brad Close playing at their feet and both areItlethal.willbe an evening to savour for Selwood, who will be playing his 39th final, equalling Hawthorn legend Michael Tuck’s record for the most finals in League history.
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Finally, a reminder a match-day edition of the Grand Final Record will return this year. Go to aflrecord.com.au for more details.
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De Goey is one of many Pies who bring their best the bigger theScottoccasion.Pendlebury and Steele Sidebottom have been performing grandly on the big stage for years and will need to do so again.
The Swans will be the home team come late Saturday afternoon, but perhaps in name only.
He remains football’s greatest showman and, if this is to be his last game in front of his adoring fans at the SCG, he will want it to beOfmemorable.course,if there is a venue Franklin cherishes even more, it is theHeMCG.would be craving one last match at the home of football next Saturday in the biggest game of Doesall. the 35-year-old still have it in him to help the Swans get there?
And it was missing the electric Jordan De Goey, who has been in blazing form over the second half of the season. Contract year anyone?
But he will only play on Friday night if he can overturn a one-match rough conduct suspension at the AFL tribunal.
The Swans take an eight-game winning streak into the preliminary final and their takedown of Melbourne a fortnight ago remains vivid.
A win to the Cats and they will be back in the Grand Final for the second time in three years.
qualifying final, the Pies bossed Fremantle when it mattered last week at the MCG and, really, it was little more than a training drill. The 20-point final margin flattered the CollingwoodDockers.lostby 27 points to Sydney in round 22 at the SCG, but coming off those 11 mainly
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The Lions had some swagger then and they have it now.
All eyes will be on Franklin. He has reached the end of his monster nine-year deal with Sydney and has parked talks with the club about his future until the end of the year.
Written off before the finals after a 10-goal thrashing at the hands of Melbourne in round 23, they stared down Richmond at the Gabba and then overpowered the Demons at theTheMCG.portents weren’t good when Joe Daniher pulled out on the morning of last week’s game to return home for the birth of his daughter, but the forward line performed perfectly well without him, with Eric Hipwood booting four goals in arguably his best and most important game for the club.
nail-biting wins, it was flat and listless from the get-go.
They have won plaudits for their attacking football these past two years, but the win over the Demons was based on defence, tackling and relentless pressure, the sort of football that routinely winsVeteranfinals.Luke Parker led the way, but they didn’t get all that much from Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner and Lance Franklin, all proven match-winners.Itsuggeststhat the Swans have another gear in them on Saturday afternoon.
The Lions will be seeking to make their first flag-decider since 2004.
Theystands.make the journey full of Ratheroptimism.than be shaken by the tight loss to Geelong in the
The planes, trains and roads to Sydney have been crammed with Collingwood fans all week and there will be more than a healthy sprinkling of black and white in the SCG
BIG-GAME PERFORMERS: Swans superstar Lance Franklin and Magpie skipper Scott Pendlebury (right) are two players who love the big stage.
Lachie Neale got off the chain in the second half, but the star was Jarrod Berry, who had 22 touches after half-time, while shutting Melbourne prime mover Clayton Oliver out of the game.
STRAIGHT-SETS EXIT: Skipper Max Gawn leads his players off the MCG after their loss to the Lions; (inset) coach Simon Goodwin.
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After starting the season with 10 successive wins, they went on a downward trajectory which started with a loss to Fremantle at the MCG in round 11 and culminated in another loss at the home of football –this time a shock 13-point semi-final defeat to Brisbane.
“Clubs are no different to what we do,” Goodwin said. “We attack teams’ vulnerabilities and clearly there was a pattern throughout the year of what we struggled with. We’ll unpack all of them.
MOST FINALS JOEL SELWOOD GEELONG Will play final No. 39 and equal the AFL/VFL record for most finals with Michael Tuck (Hawthorn). TOM HAWKINS GEELONG Will play final No. 31, equal fifth most finals alongside Harry Taylor (Geelong) and Gordon Coventry (Collingwood). SCOTT PENDLEBURY COLLINGWOOD Will play final No. 28 and move into the top 10 for most AFL/VFL finals. 500 GAMES PLAYER/COACHASCHRISSCOTT GEELONG/BRISBANE 215 as player for Brisbane/ 284 as coach of Geelong. 200JACKGAMESCRISP COLLINGWOOD/BRISBANE 150JEDGAMESBEWS GEELONG GAMES PLAYED – TOP 20 SCOTT PENDLEBURY COLLINGWOOD Will play game No. 358 to move past Gary Ablett jnr (Geelong/Gold Coast) into 14th for most AFL/VFL games. FINALS WEEK MILESTONES3 ONE WEEK at a TIME
Originally from Koondrook in northern Victoria, he played 14 games for Geelong in 1979 and 1980, but he was surplus to needs for the Cats and was smart enough to move to Carlton the following season, where his hardness across half-back was welcomed.
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And once again it was largely because of the same issues that have plagued the Demons in the back half of the season.
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Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin could do nothing except lament that his side’s issues during the home and away season came to the fore when it mattered most.
More than 62,000 fans gathered last Friday night in the expectation Melbourne would bounce back from its qualifying final loss to Sydney, but instead they were witness to a premiership defence that came crashing down.
“But, once again, in finals your vulnerabilities find you. They find
He played only 30 games in three seasons for the Blues and sat on the bench for the entirety of the 1981 Grand Final against Collingwood. He got a premiership medal nonetheless, as well as an apology from coach David Parkin.
he post-mortem at Melbourne has started in earnest as the Demons search for the meaning behind their spectacular straight-sets finals exit.
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arlton is mourning the passing of dual premiership player Mario Bortolotto, who died last week after an illness. He was 65.
Sydney set the blueprint the previous week to beat Melbourne –manic pressure around the ball and smarter ball movement going inside 50 to largely negate the influence of key defenders Steven May and Jake Lever in the air.
The first order of business for the Demons is to establish whether ruckman Luke Jackson will seek a trade to Fremantle. If he does, they are likely to target Collingwood’s Brodie Grundy as his replacement.
was defined by its manic style and pressure around the ball.
“We tried to address it on the run throughout the season and we couldn’t do that to a level where we could get results.
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Bortolotto is the first of the club’s 1981-82 premiership cohort to pass away and is survived by wife Birgit, son Marcello and daughters Bella and Stephanie.
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He badly injured his ankle the following season and looked set to miss the finals.
But a training injury to Rod Austin in Grand Final week opened the door for Bortolotto and he played in defence in the win over Richmond.
He was named Carlton’s best clubman in that 1982 premiership season and figured in the club’s 1983 night premiership.
you in big games where it matters and, if they’re not corrected, they’ll keep finding you. We’ve got to go away and fix it.”
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Brisbane turned the tables on the Demons after two heavy defeats this year, prevailing in a contest that
SATURDAY FOOTBALL
NOW: All marquee matches are on Seven, including Dreamtime, Anzac Day Eve, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday and Queen’s Birthday.
FROM 2025: Foxtel/Kayo will have a ‘Super Saturday’ over the first eight weeks of the season with exclusive coverage of all games. The only exceptions will be if Anzac Day eve or Anzac Day falls on a Saturday or Dreamtime at the ’G is fixtured during this time. Saturday football will return to Seven later in the season.
NOW: Foxtel has games throughout the day, Seven broadcasts one game each Saturday night.
The AFL fielded lucrative offers from Nine/Stan and Paramount/Ten before sticking with the incumbents – Seven (free-to-air), Foxtel/Kayo (Pay TV/streaming) and Telstra (digital).
FROM 2025: 7+ Digital will have streaming rights to all games broadcast by Seven.
FROM 2025: Nothing changes. Seven will broadcast the game exclusively at a start time determined solely by the League.
FROM 2025: As above, plus at least three additional marquee matches – such as the season-opener and Queen’s Birthday eve will be on Seven.
In what is comfortably the largest media rights agreement inked by any sports league in Australia, the AFL will pocket $4.5 billion, mainly in cash, but with some contra thrown in for the deal, which will run for seven years from 2025 to 2031.
GRAND FINAL START TIME AND BROADCASTER
NOW: Fox takes the Seven feed of all the games it has no exclusive broadcast rights for, such as Friday and Saturday night games, as well as Sunday afternoons.
NOW: 7.50pm (AEST) is the locked-in start time for the remaining two seasons of the existing broadcast agreement.
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AFL RIGHTSMASSIVESECURESTVDEAL
It was a close-run deal, with competitive last-minute bids driving up the price significantly.Seven’sfocus will shift from Saturday footy to Thursday nights but, overall, the number of games on free-to-air TV will not change. But there will be discernible differences from 2025 when the new deal kicks in.
NOW: Thursday night games feature for a few weeks at the start of the season and again in the middle of the season around the school holidays.
FROM 2025: Selected games involving South Australian and West Australian teams will be shown on delay on Seven in their home markets. Selected games in the first eight rounds involving NSW and Queensland teams won’t be available live on free-to-air.
FROM 2025: At least 30 NAB AFLW home and away games, AFLW finals and the AFLW Grand Final will be on Seven and 7+.
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FROM 2025: Foxtel will take a clean feed from Seven and will have its own commentary teams for all games, the same arrangement it has with Seven for the cricket and Nine with the NRL.
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he AFL has grand plans to grow the game across the country and last week’s announcement of a massive TV rights deal will go a long way towards helping to pay the bills.
NOW: Variable number of home and away games, finals and Grand Final on Seven.
u The current agreements expire at the end of the season. Negotiations for 2024 and beyond are continuing.
STREAMING
FROM 2025: There are provisions in the agreement for the opening bounce to be brought forward to 7.20pm.
NOW: Selected games involving South Australian and West Australian teams are shown on delay on Seven in their home markets. All New South Wales and Queensland team games are live on Seven.
NON-VICTORIAN GAMES
NOW: Kayo has the exclusive streaming rights to all games.
COMMENTARY TEAMS
NOW: The AFL Commission determines the start time of the Grand Final, which is exclusive to Seven. This year’s Grand Final will start at 2.30pm.
FROM 2025: The people have spoken and the TV ratings back this up. Fans want their footy week to start on Thursday nights (as in the NRL) and it will become a permanent arrangement for the first 15 weeks of the season.
FRIDAY NIGHT START TIMES
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MARQUEE GAMES
BIG PAY DAY: AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan with Telstra’s Kim Krogh Andersen, Seven Network’s James Warburton and Foxtel’s Patrick Delaney and Siobhan McKenna.
THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
C: Errol Gulden (UNSW-Eastern Suburbs), Callum Mills (Mosman Swans), Isaac Smith (Cootamundra)
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HB: Harry Perryman (Collingullie), Harry Himmelberg (Mangoplah CUE), Nick Blakey (UNSW-Eastern Suburbs)
The rising star from Tongala in northern Victoria joined a prestigious list of scholarship winners, including Joel Selwood, Luke Hodge, Nic Naitanui, Sam Walsh, Darcy Parish and Andrew Gaff.
Reid has already played senior football with Tongala in the Murray Football League and once kicked 140 goals in a season in the under-14s.Thekeen Geelong supporter made his debut for the Pioneers in 2021 as a marking forward, but has spent more time in the midfield and on the half-back flank this season.
FOLL: Jarrod Witts (Sydney University), Jacob Hopper (Leeton-Whitton), Matthew Kennedy (Collingullie)
Reid, a Year 11 student at St Joseph’s College in Echuca, is touted a potential No. 1 selection in next year’s NAB AFL Draft.
THE CREAM OF NSW
Stiff was a South Sydney star who won the best player award at the ANFC interstate carnival in Sydney in 1933.
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IC: Jeremy Finlayson (Culcairn), Nick Murray (Henty), Lachie Schultz (Moama), Will Setterfield (Albury)
ark and Vanessa Reid have done the hard yards in every sense, driving their son Harley to all parts of country Victoria to help him realise his AFLThatdream.included a two-hour round trip to Bendigo twice a week to get him to training with the Bendigo Pioneers.
Mills, who won the Carey Bunton Medal for the best player from NSW in the AFL this season, is vice-captain.
“I was told about a month ago that I’d get the award. I saw the past and present players who had won the scholarship and the opportunity to have my name up alongside those guys was pretty sick, I’ll cherish it.”
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ll-Australian captain Tom Hawkins and fellow 2022 team members Callum Mills and Isaac Heeney head the list of players in this year’s New South Wales State of Origin team.
The team is:
First awarded in 1989, the scholarship assists in the development and education of “I’mplayers.really grateful for the award,” Reid told AFL.com.au
The 17-year-old is a bottom-aged player for the Pioneers in the NAB League, as well as representing Vic Country in the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships.
Coach of the team is Sydney’s John Longmire, who played State of Origin for NSW in 1988 and 1990, and his senior assistant is former Giants caretaker coach Mark McVeigh.
Draft watchers will get to see Reid and a host of potential 2022 and 2023 draftees in
B: Isaac Cumming (North Broken Hill), Dougal Howard (Wagga Tigers), Dane Rampe (UNSW-Eastern Suburbs)
F: Isaac Heeney (Cardiff), Tom Hawkins (Finley), Todd Marshall (Deniliquin)
Blakey was winner of the Jimmy Stiff Medal for Emerging Talent following a breakout season with the Swans.
Hawkins is again captain of the team. This season he also won the Bill Mohr Medal (named in honour of St Kilda’s goalkicking champion of the 1930s who hailed from Wagga) for leading NSW goalkicker this season with 59 goals.
BRIGHT FUTURE: AFL Life Members scholarship recipient Harley Reid, pictured with parents Mark and Vanessa, is touted as a potential No. 1 selection in the 2023 draft.
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the final of the under-18 championships at Marvel Stadium next Thursday.
So when Reid was awarded the Jack Collins-Alan Schwab AFL Life Members scholarship last week, the $10,000 cheque that went with it will help cover a few petrol bills.
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HF: Charlie Spargo (Albury), Taylor Walker (North Broken Hill), Luke Breust (Temora)
MEDAL MISSES
Senior writer ASHLEY BROWNE tries to work it out.
Over the course of history, most of those who deserved to win a Brownlow Medal managed to win it. But there has been the odd howler and a few of the greats of the game whose list of achievements includes everything but a Brownlow Medal. Who are they and why did they miss?
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On the morning of the count, four of The Age football writers tipped him to win. The Tigers were aiming for back-to-back flags and Bartlett was their most dominant player.
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u If there is any player in the history of the game who should have at least one Brownlow Medal to his name, it is the 403-game champion Richmond rover.
In those days, the one votes were counted first, followed by the twos and then the threes, not like the game-by-game counting of today.
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u The Tasmanian wizard made his way to St Kilda amid a blaze of glory in 1962 and, by his second season, at just 24, was already captain and a superstar centre half-forward.
But they have a point when they say that the brilliant Baldock was a trifle unlucky over his 119-game career not to have won the medal himself.
In 1963, he finished with 17 votes, tied for second behindGeelongSkilton.ruckman Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer also polled 17 votes that year.
Like Baldock, Farmer was in his second season in the VFL, having come from Western Australia as a highly-vaunted recruit.
There were five times in his career he started Brownlow night as a warm favourite and ended it empty-handed.Hewasthemedia darling in 1968, winning six awards, including a new car and a return trip to Japan.
North Melbourne’s Noel Teasdale also polled 20 and was beaten on a countback, however, the rules were amended in 1989 and he was awarded the medal retrospectively.In1966,theyear the Saints did win the flag, Baldock polled 14 votes to finish equal fourth. Stewart, with 21 votes, won the medal again.
OVERLOOKED: Footscray’s Ted Whitten (above) and Melbourne’s Ron Barassi (below) were greats of the game, but were out of favour with the umpires.
His highest finish was a three-way tie for third in 1960, when his great mate from South Melbourne, Bob Skilton, won the first of his three Brownlow Medals.
Yet he polled just 10 votes to finish in 17th place, 14 votes behind Skilton, who won for the third time.
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He had 672 disposals for the year, 68 more than the next player. But he polled just eight votes and finished 19 behind North Melbourne’s Keith Greig. He won the Cazaly Award again the following season.
Baldock polled 18 votes in 1965. But in a measure of just how good a team the Saints were – even though their maiden flag didn’t come for another 12 months – the winner was
His Melbourne side won five flags and played in seven Grand Finals between 1954 and 1960, yet in that time, Denis Cordner and John Beckwith were the only Demons, apart from Barassi, to regularly poll double-figure votes and make the top 10.
In 1973, he won the first Cazaly Award, sponsored by Carlton and United Breweries and the Truth newspaper. It is considered the forerunner to what is now the AFLPA MVP award.
Not only that, throughout that period when he was Footscray’s best player, teammates Peter Box (1956) and John Schultz (1960) won theBarassi’smedal. best finish was in 1956, when his 13 votes were good enough for equal fourth behind Box.
St Kilda fans had little to grumble about over that period given the success of the team and that rover Ross Smith made it a hat-trick of Brownlows when he won in 1967.
u Between them, they were the biggest names in the game through the 1950s and 1960s, but for all their fame, the Brownlow eluded themThroughboth. 321 games for Footscray between 1951 and 1970, the most votes polled by Whitten was 14 in 1958 and 1959 and 12 in 1957 andThis1961.isdespite being considered, year in and year out, as the best key-position player in the game.
teammate Ian Stewart, who finished with 20.
The Kangaroos and Tigers had established a healthy rivalry by that stage and officials from both clubs nearly came to blows in the aftermath as emotions ran high.
To his credit, Bartlett immediately disassociated himself from the Tiger tantrums, saying he was “embarrassed” by the behaviour of some of the officials and declaring Greig a worthy winner.
But he fell one vote short.
Bartlett played in five Tiger premierships and accumulated all sorts of individual awards over a glittering career, but he should also have been a Brownlow medallist.
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And he usually polled well, finishing in the top dozen in 1976 and 1977 and running third to Blight in 1978.
In The Herald the following day, sports editor Terry Vine wrote, “There is a sickening sensation in the gut today over Richmond’s reaction to Keith Greig winning a second Brownlow Medal last night ... an outburst of sour grapes and wretched sportsmanship not from the players but the responsible officials.”
League boss Eric McCutchan built up the suspense, saying, “And the final vote, ladies and gentlemen is K …WithGreig.”that the North wingman was the back-to-back Brownlow medallist, but a surprise winner both times.
He was the warm favourite heading into the count, especially as there was a buzz factor surrounding the Lions, who had been part of their first finals campaign for 19 years.
Bartlett ran second to South Melbourne’s Graham Teasdale in 1977 and fourth to North’s Malcolm Blight in 1978 in an incredibly tight result.
Wilson polled double-figure tallies in two of the next three seasons, but 1979 was his best shot and he was awfully stiff.
u From 1972 and for about the next decade, Matthews was the best player in the game, and like Bartlett, his trophy cabinet is bursting with individual honours, but no Brownlow Medal.
u The skilful, prolific Fitzroy rover was an outstanding player through the second half of the 1970s and early into the next decade as well.
His best result was in 1973 when he polled 23 votes, four behind Greig as he collected his firstMatthewsBrownlow.finished in the top 10 in 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980 and 1981 and came close to winning in 1982, finishing third with 17 votes, six behind eventual winner Melbourne’s Brian Wilson.
Matthews should have won it in 1977. That was the season he brutalised the competition with 10 matches during which he had 25 possessions or more and kicked at least four goals.
But he was the best player in 1979, winner of several media awards and comfortably leading the League for disposals.
With one vote remaining, Bartlett was on 22 votes, two behind Greig.
Collingwood ruckman Peter Moore polled 22 votes to win the first of his two Brownlow Medals, in what The Age declared was the greatest Brownlow upset since Geelong’s Alistair Lord in 1962.
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the first time it was held in Grand Final week, coach David Parkin said, “I was delighted to see Leigh do so badly. It will probably make him an even better player on Saturday (in the Grand Final).” It did.
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The mantra at Hawthorn at that time was in keeping with club legend John Kennedy’s belief that team success was all thatButmattered.hislack of Brownlow recognition did rankle some at the club and, when he polled just three votes the following year,
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All up, he polled 133 votes over his career and was one of the best players of the decade. A Brownlow Medal would not have looked out of place.
u Another unlucky superstar Lion. He was the best and most consistent player in the competition in 1985 and 1986, polling 16 Brownlow votes both years.
1998: 23 (third, 11 votes behind Robert Harvey)
would admit several years later that West should have also won the medal that season.
He had a modest 17 touches on the day, with 14 players from both clubs winning more of the Woewodinfooty.
But it didn’t get him the Brownlow, with Footscray ruckman Scott Wynd polling 20 votes to finish two votes clear of WyndDunstall.remains the last true ruckman to win the Brownlow. Tony Lockett in 1987, was the last full-forward to win it.
In ’85, that was good enough to finish third, six votes behind first-year phenomenon, Footscray’s Brad Hardie.
2000: 22 (second, two votes behind Shane Woewodin)
2004: 20 (equal fourth, 10 votes behind Chris Judd)
It was the 2000 count that especially aggrieved Bulldogs fans.
Woewodin was one vote clear of West heading into the final round.
1999: 14 (ninth, 14 votes behind Shane Crawford)
West polled one vote in the loss to Hawthorn, drawing him level, but somehow, Woewodin received two votes in Melbourne’s 70-point win over West Coast despite spending most of the final term on the bench.
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In 1986, he finished one vote behind joint-winners, Sydney’s Greg Williams and Hawthorn’s Robert DiPierdomenico.
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There have been very few players in League history unluckier than West not to win a Brownlow Medal.
But if ever there was going to be an outlier, it was the champion Hawthorn spearhead in 1992.
2005: 17 (fourth, three votes behind Ben Cousins)
u Geelong was a wonderful team from 1989 through to the middle of the next decade and the dynamic midfielder was a key reason why.
2006: 23 (second, three votes behind Adam Goodes)
He kicked 145 goals that season, which included that famous 17-goal haul against Richmond at Waverley.
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u By the late 1980s, the Brownlow was evolving towards becoming the midfielders medal that it is today.
He polled 12 votes in 1989, the year teammate Paul Couch was the surprise winner, and from 1991 through to 1996, he polled 19, 17, 20, 17 and 19 votes.
All Roos needed was a vote in the final game of the year as his Lions beat Williams’ Swans. But they went to Bill Lokan (Fitzroy, three votes), Gary Pert (Fitzroy, two votes) and Stephen Wright (Sydney, one vote).
He came third in 1994, albeit 10 votes behind Carlton’s Greg Williams, third to Sydney’s Paul Kelly in 1995 (although ineligible again) and sixth in 1996, but just two votes behind joint-winners Michael Voss (Brisbane) and James Hird (Essendon) in an incredibly tight finish.
It was the lowest tally for a winner since the move to 3-2-1 voting in 1931.
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He twice went in three-year streaks during which he could have easily won the medal.
West then had a second run at it in the mid-2000s.
He finished third to Melbourne’s Jim Stynes in 1991 and second (by one vote) to Essendon’s Gavin Wanganeen in 1993, although he was ineligible to win it after a one-match suspension for striking West Coast’s Guy McKenna.
u The ball magnet from the Western Bulldogs was a noted vote-getter, amassing 175 votes over his 324-game, 16-year career, the 19th most in League history and the fifth highest of any player not to win it.
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 18 goals. Averages – 25 disposals, 69.3 per cent disposal efficiency, 5.5 marks, 3.8 clearances, 4.4 inside 50s, 4.8 tackles, 6.6 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 20
u Polled 30 votes last year, an incredible feat for such a young player. Could be among the leaders around the bye period.
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 11 goals. Averages – 30.1 disposals, 69.7 disposal efficiency, 7.3 clearances, 4.5 tackles, 4.4 inside 50s, 6.6 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 128
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 20 games, 5 goals. Averages – 32.1 disposals, 74.5 per cent disposal efficiency, 4.6 marks, 4.4 clearances, 3.3 tackles, 4.7 inside 50s. CAREER VOTES: 44
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but Cripps finished strongly and will poll some votes to close the season. If he can steal a few votes in the middle third of the season, he should be a fair chance to win the medal.
in at least one other outing. Although he was regularly tagged in the back end of the season, he should still comfortably be his side’s top vote-getter, and probably by double-digits, as well as finishing top five in the overall count.
u Best remembered for his after-the-siren Showdown winner, the recruit averaged 25.4 disposals in the Crows’ eight wins.
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u The 2020 Brownlow medallist is every chance of claiming the coveted award for a second time after another stellar season. Neale started the year on fire and could easily have more than 20 votes before Brisbane’s round 14 bye. From his first 13 games, Neale could well have seven three-vote performances, while polling
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u The inspirational skipper’s incredible start to the year should see him comfortably poll the most votes of any Carlton player. The star on-baller is one of the leading fancies, and he could poll between 15 and 18 votes in the first eight rounds. A quiet patch in the middle of the season may cost him in the end,
Mark Ricciuto (2003)
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Bert Deacon (1947), John James (1961), Gordon Collis (1964), Greg Williams (1994), Chris Judd (2010)
u The All-Australian squad member was Neale’s running mate in the midfield and should earn votes in at least seven games.
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 10 goals. Averages – 24.6 disposals, 75.8 per cent disposal efficiency, 3 tackles, 6.6 marks, 6.8 rebound 50s, 4.6 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 7
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INELIGIBLE Liam Stocker, Will Hayes PAST WINNERS
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 20 games, 7 goals. Averages – 33 disposals, 73.1 per cent disposal efficiency, 7.6 clearances, 8.1 tackles, 4.7 inside 50s, 7.2 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 63
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 20 goals. Averages – 28.1 disposals, 70.9 per cent disposal efficiency, 15.3 contested possessions, 7.7 clearances, 5 tackles, 4.5 inside 50s. CAREER VOTES: 90
successive season, Laird is near certain to poll in six of them, including monster games against North Melbourne (round 15), Carlton (round 20) and West Coast (round 21) which should go a long way to netting him at least nine votes.
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u Laird was billed as Adelaide’s top performer last season and, 12 months on, not a lot has changed. The 28-year-old was the shining light in the midfield, racking up 33 disposals, 8.1 tackles and 7.6 clearances a game, all career-highs. While Adelaide again struggled, managing just eight wins and missing the finals for a fifth
KEEP AN EYE ON JORDAN DAWSON
INELIGIBLE Jordan De Goey PAST WINNERS
North Melbourne and Adelaide, and could easily poll maximum votes across that period. There is every chance the classy ball-user will poll enough votes to finish in the top 20 of the count, a remarkable feat for a first-year player in a top-four team.
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 11 goals. Averages – 29.1 disposals, 73.1 per cent disposal efficiency, 4.5 marks, 6.3 tackles, 4.1 clearances, 4.3 inside 50s, 6.1 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 20
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Dick Reynolds (1934, 1937, 1938), Bill Hutchison (1952 tied, 1953), Graham Moss (1976), Gavin Wanganeen (1993), James Hird (1996 tied) TOP PERFORMER TOP PERFORMER TOP PERFORMER
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Brisbane Lions and North Melbourne, he will be in the frame for the maximum votes. While the Bombers struggled for most of the season, Merrett was the club’s best-performed player, averaging 30 disposals a game, and should catch the umpires’ attention.
u Essendon’s vice-captain is widely t ipped to be the club’s best performer on Brownlow night. Despite 2022 being a tough year for the Bombers, Merrett was arguably their most consistent performer across the course of the season. Look out for him to poll well after the mid-season bye when Essendon’s form started to improve. In the wins over the Gold Coast Suns,
Syd Coventry (1927), Albert Collier (1929), Harry Collier (1930 tied), Marcus Whelan (1939), Des Fothergill (1940 tied), Len Thompson (1972), Peter Moore (1979), Nathan Buckley (2003 tied), Dane Swan (2011)
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 6 goals. Averages – 26 disposals, 75.8 per cent disposal efficiency, 2 tackles, 3.9 marks, 4 rebound 50s, 4.5 score involvements.
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 6 goals. Averages – 27.6 disposals, 72.3 per cent disposal efficiency, 5.7 clearances, 5 tackles, 4 inside 50s, 5.5 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 0
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 16 games, 3 goals. Averages – 31.3 disposals, 74.1 per cent disposal effiency, 6.1 clearances, 3.7 marks, 3.3 tackles, 4.8 inside 50s, 6.9 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 28
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INELIGIBLE Mason Redman PAST WINNERS
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and should poll in at least 13 games, including best-on-ground performances on at least six occasions. With his ability to accumulate possessions and the Dockers’ impressive record, the exciting young midfielder will be eyeing off a top-five finish.
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 19 games, 6 goals. Averages – 30.1 disposals, 74.1 per cent disposal efficiency, 3.9 marks, 4.6 clearances, 4.3 tackles, 5.5 inside 50s, 7 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 94
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u Brayshaw led the way as the Dockers won 15 games and returned to September action for the first time since 2015. The 22-year-old averaged 29.1 disposals, 6.3 tackles and 4.1 clearances, all career-bests, earned his first All-Australian blazer and won the AFLPA MVP award. A consistent performer all season, Brayshaw never collected below 20 disposals,
u While his season did not hit the heights of his career-best 2021, he should still challenge Merrett as highest vote-getter.
u The star rookie is a genuine chance to be his club’s top Brownlow Medal vote-getter in his first season at AFL level. The 19-year-old could receive votes in four or five games before the Magpies’ bye, but it was after that when his season really took off. In three successive games, Daicos was arguably Collingwood’s best player in wins against the Gold Coast Suns,
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 8 goals. Averages – 23.6 disposals, 67.2 disposal efficiency, 4.2 marks, 3.8 clearances, 5.5 tackles, 5.3 inside 50s, 5 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 21
u Brodie hit the ground running in his first season in the west. The former Sun played every game, averaging 27.6 disposals.
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u Named in the All-Australian squad, Crisp will be among the Pies’ top vote-getters for the second successive season.
MICHAEL LOVETT
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 18 games, 29 goals. Averages – 13.4 disposals, 63.2 per cent disposal efficiency, 1.6 goals, 2.2 marks, 2.2 tackles, 6.2 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 1
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Edward ‘Carji’ Greeves (1924), Bernie Smith (1951), Alistair Lord (1962), Paul Couch (1989), Jimmy Bartel (2007), Gary Ablett (2009), Patrick Dangerfield (2016)
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career-highs for clearances (7.9, second in the AFL) and contested possessions (15.2, fourth in the AFL) , while also racking up 28.5 disposals and six tackles a game. He’s a real chance to become just the second Suns player to win football’s most-coveted award.
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 59 goals. Averages – 16.2 disposals, 67.4 per cent disposal efficiency, 2.8 goals, 6 marks, 1.1 contested marks, 1.4 tackles, 7.9 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 55
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u The silky-smooth midfielder has had another prolific individual season, ranking in the top 25 for disposals in the competition. Kelly should feature heavily in the votes for wins in round seven (41 touches against Adelaide), round 10 (29 against West Coast) and round 16 (30 against Hawthorn) and in the round 22 loss to the Western Bulldogs
INELIGIBLE None PAST WINNERS Gary Ablett PERFORMER PERFORMER TOP PERFORMER
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 9 goals. Averages – 26.6 disposals, 76.2 per cent disposal efficiency, 4.4 marks, 3.8 clearances, 4.8 tackles, 4.2 inside 50s, 5.2 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 67
when he had 35. He has polled eight or more votes in each of the past five seasons, including 11 last year. The Giants won only six games in 2022, so don’t expect too many votes to come their way, but Kelly should top their standings.
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KEEP AN EYE ON CAMERON GUTHRIE
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 17 goals. Averages – 24.9 disposals, 70.4 per cent disposal efficiency, 3.7 marks, 5.2 tackles, 4.5 clearances, 3.2 inside 50s, 6.6 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 59
u Won’t get close to Miller, but enjoyed a career-best season that resulted in 29 goals and plenty of eye-catching performances.
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assists (equal 16th in the AFL). Ranked third in the League for marks inside 50 (65), fourth for score involvements (166) and averaged just over 16 disposals a game. Had a career-high 30 disposals against North Melbourne in round 16, having kicked seven goals against the Roos in round six.
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u Now an elite midfielder, Guthrie’s 38 touches and 10 clearances against the Power in round 10 should earn maximum votes.
u Already entering the season as an A-grade midfielder, Miller took another step forward to become one of the fancies for the 2022 Brownlow Medal. With Gold Coast’s improved form, finishing with 10 wins, Miller enjoyed several best-on-ground performances across the season and now has a reputation as one of the hardest players going around. He averaged
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u The recruiting headline act of 2021 more than paid his way in 2022, showing greater durability and versatility. After playing 12 of a possible 22 home and away matches last season, Cameron played all but one this year. With his body in good shape, it allowed him to move further up the field where his class and talent created many goalscoring opportunities. He booted 59 goals (third overall), but had 17 goal
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 11 goals. Averages – 25.1 disposals, 69.6 per cent disposal efficiency, 3.7 marks, 5 tackles, 4.5 clearances, 6.3 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 42
u The co-captain roared backed into form in 2022. He was back towards the numbers that saw him poll 17 votes in 2019.
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 8 goals. Averages – 28.5 disposals, 63.3 per cent disposal efficiency, 7.9 clearances, 6 tackles, 5.5 inside 50s, 5.7 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 31
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stoppages sure to attract the umpires’ attention. He should also see a few one and two votes coming his way and could hit double digits. Davies-Uniacke is one to watch for future Brownlow counts, but for 2022, he is a lock to lead the Roos for voting.
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 8 goals. Averages – 22.5 disposals, 66.9 per cent disposal efficiency, 4.3 marks, 4.6 tackles, 3.9 clearances, 4.1 inside 50s, 5.4 scoring involvements. CAREER VOTES: 0
Col Austen (1949 tied), Robert DiPierdomenico (1986 tied), John Platten (1987 tied), Shane Crawford (1999), Sam Mitchell (2012 tied), Tom Mitchell (2018)
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INELIGIBLE Kade Chandler PAST WINNERS
in the AFL. He should have been an All-Australian lock, but the selectors had other ideas. As for the umpires, they should have noticed that Sicily was the best performer on a near-weekly basis for a team that won eight games and narrowly lost several others and he was on his best behaviour.
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u After an absence of nearly a season-and-a-half following ACL surgery, Sicily performed magnificently for the Hawks, serving a timely reminder to the competition as to how badly he was missed. He was the linchpin of Hawthorn’s backline, but so often the first line of attack, averaging 23.8 disposals, 1.5 tackles, 6.6 spoils and 2.6 intercept marks, all above average
u Davies-Uniacke has clearly been North Melbourne’s breakout player this season and was incredible after the bye period with his dominant centre clearance work. While it’s hard to see North Melbourne players polling prolifically given it won only two games, the young midfielder should receive maximum votes in rounds 17 and 22, with his eye-catching work around the
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u In his first full season, was one of the best young midfielders in the AFL. Disposal and decision-making improved markedly.
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Ivor Warne-Smith (1926, 1928), Don Cordner (1946), Brian Wilson (1982), Peter Moore (1984), Jim Stynes (1991), Shane Woewodin (2000) TOP PERFORMER TOP PERFORMER TOP PERFORMER
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 9 goals. Averages – 24.9 disposals, 76.1 per cent disposal efficiency, 4.3 marks, 4.4 tackles, 5.3 clearances, 5 inside 50s, 5 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 6
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 19 goals. Averages – 28.3 disposals, 68.3 per cent disposal efficiency, 4.6 clearances, 3.3 tackles, 6.6 inside 50s, 8.5 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 48
KEEP AN EYE ON JAI NEWCOMBE
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 1 goal. Averages – 23.8 disposals, 80 per cent disposal efficiency, 8.6 marks, 2.6 intercept marks, 1.5 tackles, 6.6 spoils, 8.1 rebound 50s. CAREER VOTES: 20
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 3 goals. Averages – 33.5 disposals, 68.1 per cent disposal efficiency, 3.6 marks, 17.7 contested possessions, 8.7 clearances, 5 tackles, 5.4 inside 50s. CAREER VOTES: 85
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INELIGIBLE Sam Frost, Will JiathChangkuothDay,
form as it went on a 10-0 winning streak. He led the Demons in disposals (703), handballs (383), contested possessions (372) and clearances (182). Played all but one game and is hard to miss with his constant attack on the ball and his opponents.
u Will poll his fair share of votes and, ironically, could take a few off his midfield partner Oliver.
Noel Teasdale (1965 tied), Keith Greig (1973, 1974), Malcolm Blight (1978), Ross Glendinning (1983)
u Oliver isn’t just likely to be Melbourne’s top performer in 2022, he’s one of the favourites to take out the Brownlow and become the Demons’ first winner of the AFL’s highest individual honour since Shane Woewodin in 2000. Oliver is expected to poll extremely well, especially in the early part of the season when Melbourne was at its absolute peak
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u With Nick Larkey ineligible, Simpkin is the next most likely to poll a few votes for the Kangaroos this season.
KEEP AN EYE ON CHRISTIAN PETRACCA
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 7 goals. Averages – 26.6 disposals, 63.7 per cent disposal efficiency, 3.4 marks, 4.5 tackles, 5.3 clearances, 4.7 inside 50s, 5 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 10
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u Prestia gained some continuity in 2022 after two injury-interrupted seasons. Expect him to get busy from round nine onwards and later in the season when he really started motoring in Richmond’s charge towards a finals berth. He had 28 or more disposals in seven of the Tigers’ wins and was arguably his club’s best player in five of those. The gun
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u The smooth-moving Rozee had a n outstanding season, transitioning into the midfielder Port Adelaide had been envisaging he would eventually become. The 22-year-old moved into a permanent on-ball role early in the season and took his game to a whole new level. The Power star played every game, averaging career-best numbers in disposals while also hitting the
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 18 goals. Averages – 23.2 disposals, 74.9 per cent disposal efficiency, 4 marks, 3.8 tackles, 4.1 inside 50s, 5.9 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 5
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 4 goals. Averages – 27.7 disposals, 78 per cent disposal efficiency, 5.8 marks, 1.2 intercept marks, 2.5 tackles, 4.9 rebound 50s. CAREER VOTES: 0
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 18 games, 5 goals. Averages – 27.1 disposals, 74.2 per cent disposal efficiency, 5 marks, 7.2 tackles, 5.2 clearances, 4.1 inside 50s, 4.7 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 51
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the competition. Sinclair topped the AFL for kicks and ranked third for effective kicks. He gathered more than 30 disposals on eight occasions, highlighted by a career-high 37 touches in the Saints’ big win over Carlton in round 16.
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 18 games, 60 goals. Averages – 12.3 disposals, 3.3 goals, 67.4 per cent disposal efficiency, 5.9 marks, 1.4 tackles, 2.2 inside 50s, 6.8 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 35 PORT ADELAIDE
INELIGIBLE Rhyan NickMarlionMansell,Pickett,Vlastuin
KEEP AN EYE ON OLLIE WINES
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TOM LYNCH
Colin Watson (1925), Brian Gleeson (1957), Neil Roberts (1958), Verdun Howell (1959 tied), Ian Stewart (1965, 1966), Ross Smith (1967), Tony Lockett (1987 tied), Robert Harvey (1997, 1998)
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 18 games, 6 goals. Averages – 25.6 disposals, 68.7 per cent disposal efficiency, 3.5 marks, 3.2 tackles, 5.9 clearances, 4.1 inside 50s, 6.2 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 44
The reigning Brownlow medallist polled a record-equalling 36 votes last year and was again prolific through the midfield in 2022.
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 6 goals. Averages – 28.4 disposals, 68.3 per cent disposal efficiency, 4 marks, 4 tackles, 5 clearances, 4.6 inside 50s, 5.8 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 107
KEEP AN EYE ON JACK STEELE
u In the mix for best-on-ground in multiple games, kicking seven goals against West Coast and eight against Hawthorn.
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on-baller’s clearance game was back to its best this year, meaning he will be right under the watchful eyes of the umpires. Played 18 games and should top Richmond’s voting and may even push into the top 10 overall for the count.
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scoreboard with 18 goals. His stellar year was rewarded with All-Australian selection for the first time, being named on the interchange bench. Rozee also finished in the top five in the AFL Coaches Association’s Champion Player of the Year Award.
INELIGIBLE Paddy Ryder, Brad Crouch
u Has polled well in recent years, receiving 26 votes last year. Missed four games due to injury, but was a consistent performer.
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u Sinclair had a career-best year t hat was rewarded with a maiden All-Australian blazer, being named on a half-back flank. The classy small defender starred in several of St Kilda’s 11 wins and was a clear standout performer for the club in 2022. He put up career-high numbers in disposals and defensive rebounds and is one of the best ball users in
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should ensure he cracks double figures in votes. The 25-year-old earned his first All-Australian blazer and has solidified his standing as an A-grade midfielder, but the Swans’ even spread of contributors could limit his overall vote count.
u Made his mark in the final chapter of a great career, with eight goals in his last game enough to get him into the votes.
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maximum votes in Bulldogs wins in rounds 10 (24 touches and three goals against the Gold Coast Suns), 18 (34 and two against St Kilda) and 19 (26 disposals against Melbourne), ensuring he reaches double figures.
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 17 goals. Averages – 25.5 disposals, 73.1 per cent disposal efficiency, 6.4 marks, 5.7 tackles, 4.3 clearances, 7 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 26
KEEP AN EYE ON CHAD WARNER
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 17 goals. Averages – 23 disposals, 66 per cent disposal efficiency, 4 clearances, 4.1 tackles, 5.5 inside 50s, 7.3 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 1
u The strong-marking key defender was a bright light for West Coast throughout a tough season that resulted in just two wins for the Eagles. The 26-year-old averaged career-highs across the board and was in the top 10 for marks and intercepts this season. A 30-disposal, 18-mark effort against the Hawks in round 18 stands out as his best performance, while 26 possessions
Herbie Matthews (1940 tied), Ron Clegg (1949 tied), Fred Goldsmith (1955), Bob Skilton (1959 tied, 1963, 1968), Peter Bedford (1970), Graham Teasdale (1977), Barry Round (1981 tied), Greg Williams (1986 tied), Gerard Healy (1988), Paul Kelly (1995), Adam Goodes (2003 tied, 2006)
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 19 games, 1 goal. Averages – 15.5 disposals, 86.8 per cent disposal efficiency, 7.6 marks, 1.6 contested marks, 3.8 intercept marks, 7.5 spoils, 4.1 rebound 50s. CAREER VOTES: 5
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u The Swans co-captain carried his good form from last season into his 2022 campaign, notching 24.9 disposals, 6.7 marks and 6.3 tackles a game as Sydney returned to the top four. Due to the Swans’ habit of sharing the load in their midfield, Mills cracked the 30-disposal mark only twice, but consistent all-round performances and Sydney’s 16 wins
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 15 games, 37 goals. Averages – 8.9 disposals, 67.7 per cent disposal efficiency, 2.5 goals, 3.9 marks, 1.4 tackles, 4.9 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 84
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against the Saints (round 19) and 20 touches paired with 12 marks against the Dockers (round 22) will also earn votes. After claiming West Coast’s best and fairest award, Barrass should easily lead the Brownlow count for an underwhelming Eagles side.
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INELIGIBLE Bailey Smith PAST WINNERS
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u Dunkley had an ultra-consistent year for the Dogs, but went to another level in rounds 21 and 23. Could poll well.
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Allan Hopkins (1930 tied), Norm Ware (1941), Peter Box (1956), John Schultz (1960), Gary Dempsey (1975), Kelvin Templeton (1980), Brad Hardie (1985), Tony Liberatore (1990), Scott Wynd (1992), Adam Cooney (2008)
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u While Bontempelli didn’t have the dominant season that saw him finish second in last year’s count with 33 votes, the Bulldogs skipper should again top the club’s count in 2022. The 26-year-old missed just one game and his ability to have an impact with his clean disposal should see him poll well once again. He has plenty of teammates who could take votes off him, but he should poll
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2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 22 games, 8 goals. Averages – 24.9 disposals, 74.8 per cent disposal efficiency, 6.7 marks, 4 clearances, 6.3 tackles, 4.2 inside 50s, 5.8 score involvements. CAREERVOTES: 23
u Had a breakout third season, averaging 23 touches and kicking three goals against both Essendon and North Melbourne.
INELIGIBLE Liam Ryan, Jai TimCulley,Kelly
2022 HOME & AWAY STATS: 21 games, 22 goals. Averages – 23.2 disposals, 72.5 per cent disposal efficiency, 5.1 marks, 5.3 clearances, 5.1 tackles, 5.7 inside 50s, 7.8 score involvements. CAREER VOTES: 130
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iven how high the stakes are, it is no wonder Grand Final day has produced some epic moments.
This week, we also include a truly epic Grand Final between West Coast and Collingwood in 2018 and Richmond’s back-to-back flags in 2019 and 2020 where Dustin Martin again starred for the Tigers.
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u The West Coast Eagles claimed their fourth premiership with an epic five-point win in a Grand Final for the ages. The Eagles recovered from an early Collingwood onslaught – the Magpies kicked the first five goals – to claw their way back and secure a last-gasp win. With scores tied at three-quarter time, Collingwood booted two goals in the first two minutes of the final term, but the Eagles held their nerve. The unlikely hero was Dom Sheed, who threaded the needle from a tight angle to put West Coast four points in front at the 28-minute mark. The Eagles stood tall in a frantic final few minutes, with Norm Smith medallist Luke Shuey leading the way.
2019 RICHMOND 17.12 (114)
2021 MELBOURNE 21.14 (140) WESTERN BULLDOGS 10.6 (66)
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u The Tigers made it two flags in three years with an 89-point demolition of the GWS Giants, who were found wanting in their first Grand Final appearance. A miserly defence, a dominant midfield and multiple goalkicking options gave Richmond its 12th premiership. Dustin Martin again starred to collect his second Norm Smith Medal, while the majority of the 2017 team backed up for their second premiership medal. The game will be remembered for the debut of mature-age Tiger recruit Marlion Pickett, who was the first player since Collingwood’s Keith Batchelor in 1952 to make his debut in a Grand Final – and he didn’t disappoint.
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u Melbourne ended a 57-year premiership drought to claim its 13th flag with a 74-point victory over the Western Bulldogs in an all-Victorian Grand Final at Optus Stadium in Perth. After jumping to a 21-point lead at quarter-time, the Demons were hauled in during the second term and the Bulldogs enjoyed an eight-point buffer at half-time. But incredibly Melbourne kicked 16 of the last 17 goals. Bayley Fritsch booted six goals – the most since Crows star Darren Jarman kicked six in the 1997 decider. The star of the show was Norm Smith Medal winner Christian Petracca, who gathered an equal-Grand Final record 39 disposals.
u Richmond confirmed its standing as the dominant team of this era, claiming its third premiership in four years. The Tigers didn’t have it all their own way and late in the second quarter the Cats were leading by 21 points. But the momentum changed as Dustin Martin started to stamp his authority on the contest, including a team-lifting goal just before half-time. By three-quarter time, Richmond had surged to a two-point lead, before Martin rammed home the advantage with two final quarter goals. He collected a record third Norm Smith Medal and further enhanced his big-game reputation. The Cats tried hard in a disappointing farewell for superstar Gary Ablett.
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Over the past 40 years, we have seen some outstanding team and individual efforts on the biggest day of all – and over the past few months we have relived them in a special AFL Record feature.
Each week, we brought you four Grand Finals, taking you through to the finishing point –Melbourne’s drought-breaking premiership in 2021.
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Brisbane looked no hope, but with Melbourne squandering good looks, the Lions were never far away.
In a defining third quarter, the visitors stepped up and laid the groundwork for an enthralling fourth term.
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Brisbane kicked 11.4 in the second half to the Demons’ 5.5, despite having only six more inside 50s (the final count was 55-53 in Melbourne’s favour).
The only stat that heavily favoured Brisbane in the second half was disposals, as the Lions took more uncontested marks (85 by the final siren) and won the disposal count 340-316 overall.
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The half-time stats make for astounding reading, given the eventual 13-point win to the Lions.
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There is no doubt footy is a game of inches, but Brisbane had the bounce of the ball and momentum when it mattered most.
At the main break and 22 points behind, Chris Fagan’s side was convincingly down in contested possessions (59-83), inside 50s (22-30) and disposals (151-174).
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u In what has been a special finals series, Brisbane’s come-from-behind win against Melbourne in last Friday’s semi-final deserves its place in history.
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On stats alone, it’s easy to assume Melbourne was a convincing winner.
The Lions recorded a slight win in second-half contested possessions, but the Demons still won that stat 156-137. The home side also continued its clearance dominance throughout the game, winning 51-37.
Fagan’s troops didn’t blow the Demons away in the second half, but broke even in the major stats and, unlike Melbourne, took their chances.
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Not including Grand Finals, last Saturday night’s MCG clash attracted the second-largest crowd for a game featuring a non-Victorian team.
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The Dockers, who overcame momentum swings within the home and away season, were brave to the final siren. But Longmuir and his coaching staff will embark on a summer of investigation as to why the club’s forward line broke down on the big stage.
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Collingwood kept the foot on Fremantle’s throat, a Jamie Elliott spoil and tackle greeted with a standing ovation by the Magpies faithful early in the final term.
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But it was hard to remember many occasions where Fremantle was able to slice through the middle of the ground as the visitors were constantly forced to the widths of the MCG.
he AFL’s most dramatic fairytale is charging on for another week, after Collingwood downed Fremantle by 20 points last Saturday night at the MCG to book a preliminary final berth.
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Butchances.thefinal margin flattered the Dockers, whose forward line simply couldn’t function outside of those last-quarter goals.
Fremantle great David Mundy departed the game as one of the greatest Dockers, but it was a sad finish to a wonderful career.
“We’re better for the experience. We played them (Sydney) three weeks ago. Jordy (De Goey) told me he didn’t play, so we’re much better for it. I think we learned some good lessons and there will be time to talk about those lessons we learned. Tonight we’re going to just celebrate the fact we’ve managed to make it to a prelim.”
The Dockers stuck to their game-plan and controlled the footy with uncontested marks.
It was almost as though Collingwood was inviting another close game, as it kicked nine behinds in a row.
The tale was told with 15 inside 50s to two in the second term favouring the Magpies, but after six successive goals to start the game, they refused to put Fremantle away.
The Dockers simply had no overlap – but the opposite was true for the Magpies.
As for the Magpies, they basked in the glory of reaching their first preliminary final since 2019, before focusing on Saturday’s all-important clash with the Swans.
The 37-year-old champion booted a goal late in the final term to hand the purple haze a final play to remember. Plenty of Dockers had good nights on the scoresheet, but few had the impact to match it.
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The Magpies, on the other hand, needed fewer touches to influence the clash.
In typical Collingwood fashion, the Magpies refused to put the final nail in the coffin until late in the game, as Fremantle booted five goals in the last term to maintain just the smallest of
Rory Lobb was the focus of plenty of Fremantle forward forays, but the key tall was well held by Jeremy Howe as the Dockers’
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“I thought we started the game reasonably well and got the ball in our front half, but we just got shown up defensively. Their speed of ball movement really cut through us early. It put us on the back foot. It was a big occasion in terms of a 90,000 crowd against us, and I thought they had a lot more players who handled that situation over us.”
As it did the previous week, Fremantle flopped out of the blocks, kicking just two points in the first term.
The Magpies will take on the Sydney Swans at the SCG on Saturday and thoroughly deserve to be among the final four teams in 2022 as their famous and most unlikely run rolled on.
OUT OF MY WAY: Jordan De Goey was dominanant in the Magpies’ midfield.
Jack Crisp dominated the first half and booted two goals from 24 disposals by the final siren, while Jordan De Goey continued his brilliant finals campaign and gathered 24 touches and kicked a goal.
Mason Cox got the first goal of final term out the back courtesy of some crafty play, and Magpies supporters let out an almighty cheer with the knowledge a date with Sydney was now a certainty.
inside-50 entries dried up in the thirdFremantleterm. faced a 32-point deficit at three-quarter time, and after kicking just 28 points to that stage, there was little hope of a comeback.
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A crowd of 90,612 fell just short of Richmond’s dominant 2017 preliminary final win over GWS which attracted 94,258 fans.
Craig McRae’s men were slick through the middle, and while the Dockers couldn’t find troops in space, Collingwood had choices of which free player to hit up inside 50.
TAKING FLIGHT: Magpie big man Mason Cox soars over the pack for a spectacular grab, while (inset) Dockers champion David Mundy’s fine career came to an end after 376 games.
CLOSE COMPANY: Held by Angus Brayshaw early in the game, Lachie Neale broke free in a dominant second half.
Melbourne started well and led by three goals 15 minutes into the opening quarter.
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And Oliver, after 14 first-half touches, was held to just seven for the rest of the game by best-on-ground Jarrod Berry, who had 22 after half-time after just four before then.
The Demons were well-served early by the usual trio of Clayton Oliver, Christian Petracca and Max Gawn.
They might also have then won a holding-the-ball free kick inside their attacking 50 when Berry appeared to dispose of the ball incorrectly.
They had been here a few times this year, most recently against Sydney just last week.
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It is onwards and upwards for the Lions, who will return to the MCG to face Geelong in the preliminary final with plenty of confidence.
Key defender Harris Andrews was back to his best, the evergreen Daniel Rich was prolific off half-back and under-pressure skipper Dayne Zorko got better as the game progressed.
“I always think you need to go through a process. All the lessons that we’ve learned in finals over the last few years are starting to come to fruition. We were getting a bad rap for our finals record and the truth is we lost one game by a point and another game by three points (in finals). We were a whisker away from two more prelims.”
Two big positional changes helped swing the game Brisbane’s way.
If McStay is Collingwood-bound next year on big coin, he showed his worth with a tireless performance.
“It’s devastating, the result. There’s no question about that. I can only imagine our supporters and how they would feel. Our players and staff are all feeling exactly the same. Clearly, to give up 70 points in the second half … you’ve got to give credit to Brisbane. The game swung a bit back their way. We weren’t able to execute the basics of the game for long enough in the phases that we really value.”
By the second term, Brisbane was on top in general play, but it didn’t really translate on the scoreboard.
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In their past few meetings, it is bursts like that which have brought the Lions undone against Melbourne, but this time they did not buckle.
Yet Darcy Fort and Hipwood still found time in the last minute to level the scores again.
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The Demons led by 22 points at half-time, but Melbourne fans were shifting uncomfortably in their seats.
The Demons and their fans gave him their best, but like so much in a season that started with 10 straight wins before hitting the wall, it wasn’t good enough.
A few Brisbane reputations were enhanced. Joe Daniher withdrew from the team on the morning of the game to return home for the birth of his daughter, but Hipwood stepped up and kicked four goals in a powerful performance.
But it was all over moments later when Jake Lever had a brain-fade, dropping the ball in the back pocket when tackled by Daniel McStay and then not returning him the ball swiftlyFromenough.thetop of the goal square, McStay sent the Lions into the preliminary final.
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Melbourne’s goals came against the run of play, including two acts of brilliance from Kysaiah Pickett, who was otherwise well held by Brandon Starcevich.
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Brownlow Medal favourite Lachie Neale had been kept to nine touches in the first half, but had 17 thereafter when he had Tom Sparrow, rather than Angus Brayshaw, for company.
And when the Lions kicked the first two goals of the third term –one from an Eric Hipwood mark and the other to Charlie Cameron after lightning quick transition from end to end – to reduce the margin to 10 points, there was an air of inevitability about it all.
As coach Chris Fagan noted afterwards, they were able to start winning contested possessions and went long and direct.
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The second half was wildly entertaining.Brisbanedrew level late in the third term only for Melbourne to kick clear late in time-on with goals to Bayley Fritsch and Alex Neal-Bullen.
Petracca was immense, carrying a fractured fibula and a corked calf into the game. TV coverage showed a massive bruise up the back of his leg.
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Whatever demons – and Demons – were hanging over the heads of the Brisbane Lions, they were sent summarily packing at the MCG last Friday night in what might have been the club’s best win since the 2003 Grand Final.
Zero-11 at the MCG since 2015? Gone. Four successive defeats to Melbourne by an average of 44 points? History.
The Lions then kicked 20 points clear in the final term, only for the Demons to claw within seven points with two minutes remaining.
STANDING TALL: Without key-forward partner Joe Daniher, Eric Hipwood stepped up with a brilliant four-goal display for the Lions.
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After unfurling Richmond’s premiership flag from the season before, and then being driven around the ground, the royal party watched the second half of the game in the MCC Members’ Stand, together with League officials. Footscray’s 1960 Brownlow medallist John Schultz and Melbourne star Ross Dillon were enlisted to sit with them and explain the rules. They had plenty of questions around the shape of the ground and its history, but few at the MCG had any explanation for the result, a shock 20-point win by the lowly Lions over the reigning premier.
following day, which made the day doubly historic – the first Sunday game in League history. The Football Record produced a special, finals-sized edition replete with full colour cover, while Channels Two, Seven and Nine televised the game. Prince Charles and Princess Anne accompanied the Queen to the game, but because they only arrived at the MCG at half-time, they missed an all-in brawl during the first quarter. The players were required to change into clean uniforms at half-time before being presented to the Queen. She is pictured here being introduced to Fitzroy players by club president Ernie Joseph.
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other once. Essendon won its three finals matches and was declared premier. Geelong was runner-up, but had to wait until 1925, and 479 games, to take home a VFL flag to Corio Oval. Of the other inaugural clubs, St Kilda took the longest to win its first flag, in 1966, in its 1202nd game. Fitzroy was the first club to win multiple premierships. It won back-to-back pennants in 1898 and 1899, claiming its second in its 51st match. Three new clubs
STILL WAITING: Following its loss last week, Fremantle is still without a premiership after 28 seasons, while the Saints (left) played in more than 1200 games before their first flag in 1966.
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joined the VFL for the 1925 season, and of those, Footscray was the first to claim a premiership, in 1954, after 549 games. Hawthorn won its first flag in 1961, in its 670th game, while North Melbourne, under coach Ron Barassi, finally reached the pinnacle in 1975, after 962 games. Of the current clubs yet to hold aloft the premiership cup, Fremantle has played 628 games, the Gold Coast Suns 259 and the GWS Giants 250.
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He busted his guts out in Collingwood’s heart-wrenching loss to Geelong in the qualifying final with some key plays.
There were none better than his two goals streaming through the middle in the final term to give the Magpies a genuine chance of causing an Unfortunately,upset.some superb work from Geelong forward Gary Rohan got the Cats over the line, but De Goey could hold his headFast-forwardhigh. to last Saturday night’s semi-final and De Goey again stamped his authority on the contest, this time causing all sorts of headaches and match-up issues for his Fremantle opponents.
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The talented but headline-attractingoftenMagpie has been his side’s best performer this September and, from a team and personal perspective, his timing couldn’t be better.
But it was his bullocking work that paved the way for the Magpies’ 20-point win –his six clearances, 12 score involvements, 627 metres gained and eight inside 50s were all game-high figures.
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The thought of the soon-to-be out-of-contract De Goey playing for a rival club in 2023 would sit uncomfortably with Collingwood fans right now, but his asking price has sky-rocketed.
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DISPOSALS KICKS HANDBALLS MARKS PRESSURE POINTSMETRES GAINED TACKLESCONTESTED MARKS HIT-OUTS ADVANTAGETO CLEARANCESSTOPPAGE INSIDE 50s CLEARANCESCENTREINVOLVEMENTSSCORE AFL RATINGSPLAYER PLAYER MTS AVE EFF % PLAYER MTS AVE EFF % PLAYER MTS AVE EFF % PL AYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE PLAYER MTS AVE Disposing of the ball via a handball or kick.Disposing of the ball by foot. Disposing of the ball by hand. Catching a kicked ball that has travelled 15m. Weighted sum of pressure acts – 3.75 for physical pressure, 2.25 for closing, 1.5 for chasing and 1.2 for corralling. Distance gained with the ball by running, kicking or handballing, combining measures towards and away from goal. Using physical contact to prevent an opponent in possession of the ball from getting an effective disposal. A mark under physical pressure of an opponent or in a pack. A hit-out that reaches an intended teammate. Moving the ball from the midfield into the forward zone. Excludes multiple entries within the same chain of possession.
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15 28.5 79.2 1 J.Sinclair (StK) 22 19.5 74.3 2 J.Short (Rich) 23 19.3 70.0 3 S.Docherty (Carl) 22 19.3 76.4 4 J.Sicily (Haw) 22 19.0 79.2 5 S.Hurn (WCE) 19 18.7 84.8 6 J.Dawson (Adel) 22 18.5 75.5 7 D.Rich (BL) 21 18.5 82.3 8 N.Anderson (GCS) 21 18.2 56.1 9 T.Stewart (Geel) 18 18.1 84.4 10 B.Dale (WB) 23 18.0 7 7.8 1 R.Laird (Adel) 20 18.8 85.3 2 S.Walsh (Carl) 20 17.8 84.8 3 C.Oliver (Melb) 23 17.8 81.4 4 D.Parish (Ess) 16 17.5 84.3 5 P.Cripps (Carl) 21 17.4 81.6 6 G.Hewett (Carl) 15 17.1 89.5 7 T.Mitchell (Haw) 21 16.7 81.4 8 L.Neale (BL) 24 16.4 80.4 9 O.Wines (PA) 21 15.8 79.2 10 J.Macrae (WB) 23 15.8 84.8 1 J.Sicily (Haw) 22 8.6 2 M.Duncan (Geel) 20 8.1 3 N.Vlastuin (Rich) 17 7.7 4 A.Witherden (WCE) 13 7.7 5 T.Barrass (WCE) 19 7.6 6 T.Stewart (Geel) 18 7.6 7 S.Hurn (WCE) 19 7.5 8 H.Young (Frem) 22 7.5 9 C.Wilkie (StK) 22 7.4 10 L.Duggan (WCE) 20 7.4 1 S.Berry (Adel) 18 7 7.1 2 M.Rowell (GCS) 22 67.0 3 J.Crisp (Coll) 24 63.3 4 J.Steele (StK) 18 62.9 5 J.Viney (Melb) 22 60.3 6 R.Laird (Adel) 20 59.6 7 A.Brayshaw (Frem) 24 59.5 8 T.Kelly (WCE) 17 59.0 9 C.Oliver (Melb) 23 58.7 10 T.Liberatore (WB) 22 57.2 1 J.Dawson (Adel) 22 604 2 J.Sicily (Haw) 22 598 3 J.Short (Rich) 23 587 4 D.Rich (BL) 21 578 5 B.Dale (WB) 23 557 6 N.Anderson (GCS) 21 540 7 I.Cumming (GWS) 21 537 8 B.Smith (WB) 17 535 9 B.Smith (Adel) 21 531 10 T.Miller (GCS) 22 521 1 J.Witts (GCS) 22 13.0 2 S.Darcy (Frem) 21 11.3 3 R.O’Brien (Adel) 20 11.0 4 M.Gawn (Melb) 22 9.1 5 T.Nankervis (Rich) 23 8.0 6 O.McInerney
21 6.0 4 M.Bontempelli (WB) 22 5.6 5 T.Miller
24 5.5 8 C.Warner
23 5.3 1 D.Shiel
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16 7.4 9 S.Draper
65.7 10 G.Hewett
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21 7.8 7 T.Goldstein
23 5.4 10 J.Macrae
22 5.5 9 C.Oliver
2 L.Neale
22 5.5 6 Z.Merrett
22 7.2 10 T.De Koning (Carl) 19 6.2 1 C.Petracca (Melb) 24 6.5 2 B.Smith (WB) 17 6.2 3 N.Anderson
The first kick or effective handball in a chain that clears the centre bounce area.
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16 31.3 74.1 5 J.Macrae
19 30.1 74.1 8 A.Brayshaw
20 3.1 6 C.Oliver (Melb) 23 3.0 7 D.Prestia (Rich) 19 3.0 8 P.Cripps (Carl) 21 3.0 9 D.Parish (Ess) 16 2.9 10 T.Miller (GCS) 22 2.9 1 T.Hawkins (Geel) 23 8.6 2 C.Petracca (Melb) 24 8.3 3 J.Cameron (Geel) 22 8.1 4 T.Walker (Adel) 18 7.9 5 M.Bontempelli (WB) 22 7.8 6 S.Bolton (Rich) 23 7.5 7 C.Curnow (Carl) 22 7.2 8 C.Warner (Syd) 22 7.2 9 R.Laird (Adel) 20 7.2 10 Z.Merrett (Ess) 19 7.0 1 C.Oliver (Melb) 23 5.7 2 T.Miller (GCS) 22 5.0 3 P.Cripps (Carl) 21 4.7 4 T.Liberatore (WB) 22 4.6 5 R.Laird (Adel) 20 4.5 6 L.Neale (BL) 24 4.3 7 J.Macrae (WB) 23 4.0 8 L.Parker (Syd) 23 3.8 9 T.Boak (PA) 21 3.6 10 L.Shuey (WCE) 17 3.6 1 C.Oliver (Melb) 23 18.2 2 M.Bontempelli (WB) 22 18.1 3 T.Miller (GCS) 22 16.8 4 L.Neale (BL) 24 16.7 5 P.Cripps (Carl) 21 16.0 6 C.Petracca (Melb) 24 15.8 7 Z.Merrett (Ess) 19 15.5 8 T.Liberatore (WB) 22 15.5 9 R.Laird (Adel) 20 15.4 10 T.English (WB) 16 15.3 1 S.Berry (Adel) 18 9.5 2 R.Laird (Adel) 20 8.1 3 M.Rowell (GCS) 22 7.2 4 J.Steele (StK) 18 7.2 5 B.Crouch (StK) 21 7.1 6 J.Rowbottom (Syd) 22 6.7 7 C.Mills (Syd) 23 6.5 8 H.Greenwood (NM) 21 6.3 9 A.Brayshaw (Frem) 24 6.2 10 T.Atkins (Geel) 23 6.1 1 T.Lynch (Rich) 19 3.3 2 M.Gawn (Melb) 22 2.5 3 H.McKay (Carl) 19 2.3 4 M.King (StK) 22 2.2 5 B.McKay (NM) 15 2.1 6 J.Hogan (GWS) 18 2.1 7 C.Curnow (Carl) 22 1.9 8 A.Naughton (WB) 22 1.9 9 P.Wright (Ess) 22 1.9 10 T.Hawkins (Geel) 23 1.8 60 AFL RECORD aflrecord.com.au
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19 5.5 7 J.Crisp
The first kick or effective handball in a chain that clears the ball-up or throw-in area.
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1 R.Laird
23 30.7 76.7 6 L.Neale
Scoring chains where the player had a disposal, hit-out to advantage, kick-in or knock-on.
4 P.Dangerfield
20 32.1 74.5 4 D.Parish
24 30.4 69.5 7 Z.Merrett
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ROOKIES: Andrew Adair, Matthew Baigent, Peter Bailes, Tom Bryce, Jordan Fry, Dean Garroway, Courtney Gibson, Louis Jago, Nicholas Jankovskis, Giles Lewis, Nicholas McGinness, Chris Melin, Luke Porter, Martin Rodger, Leighton Rowe, James Strybos, Gabby Simmonds. BOUNDARY: Jordan Andrews, Michael Baker, Michael Barlow, Peter Bock, Chris Bull, Ian Burrows, Sean Burton, Adam Coote, Patrick Cran, Damien Cusack, Brett Dalgleish, Chris Delaney, Patrick Dineen, Nathan Doig, Chris Esler, Benjamin Fely, Kieran Ferguson, Daniel Field-Read, Josh Furman, Josh Garrett, Christopher Gordon, Matthew Jenkinson, Matthew Konetschka, Drew Kowalski, Mitchell Le Fevre, Tim Lougoon, Ben MacDonald, Damien Main, Michael Marantelli, Josh Mather, Jason Moore, Sean Moylan, Lachlan Rayner, Adam Reardon, Jordan Russell, Michael Saunders, Sam Stagg, Nick Swanson, Shane Thiele, Matthew Tomkins, David Wood. GOAL: Jesse Baird, Dylan Benwell, Sally Boud, Matthew Bridges, Peter Challen, Alex Chisholm, Michael Craig, Matthew Dervan, Luke Edwards, Mark Ensbey, Daniel Hoskin, Sam Hunter, Brodie Kenny-Bell, Callum Leonard, Matt Maclure, Taylor Mattioli (rookie), McKenzie-Wills, Rogers,
Alistair Meldrum, Rhys Negerman, Steven Piperno, Simon Plumridge, David Rodan, Chelsea Roffey, Brett
Sam Walsh, Stephen Williams, Adam Wojcik, Jason Yazdani (rookie). DonlonChris Games 378 Fi nals 19 FisherLeigh Games 196 Finals 1 RoseburyBrett Games 481 Fi nals 49 GavineHayden Games 115 Finals 3 BrownNick Games 105 Fi nals 0 FootNick Games 186 Finals 2 DalgleishJeff Games 238 Fi nals 6 StephensAndrew Games 175 Finals 6 PowerJustin Games 67 Finals 1 StevicMatt Games 449 Fi nals 51 HaussenLeigh Games 104 Fi nals 0 O’GormanRobert Games 169 Finals 1 1 JohansonDan Games 40 Finals 0116 83 14131227 49 5 ChamberlainRay Games 360 Fi nals 31 WhettonAlex Games 75 Finals 0 BroadbentJamie Games 45 Finals 0 18 19 2010 FindlayRobert Games 302 Fi nals 12 HarrisDavid Games 163 Finals 1 23 24 NichollsMathew Games 389 Fi nals 28 15 DoreCameron Games 58 Finals 0 28 HeffernanAndrew Games 36 Finals 0 29 HoworthJohn Games 64 Finals 0 17 WilliamsonNathan Games 133 Finals 6 22 GianfagnaAndre Games 78 Finals 1 TonerNathan Games 16 Finals 0 27 25 WallaceBrent Games 94 Finals 0 33 TeeEleni Games 65 Finals 0 3432RebeschiniPaul Games 37 Finals 0 311621 DeboyCurtis Games 130 Fi nals 5 MollisonJacob Games 305 Fi nals 8 HoskingBrendan Games 209 Fi nals 4 MeredithSimon Games 439 Fi nals 41 OFFICIAL 2022 TOYOTA AFL PREMIERSHIP SEASON LADDER AFTER ROUND 23, 2022 For Against Mtch Home Away Form Scores Av margin W < pts7 L < pts7 usedPls Rnd202123 1st PlayersYr WonQtrs Qtrs4thWPWLD Gls Beh Pts Gls Beh Pts % pts WLDWLD W/L High Low WL 1 Geelong Cats 22 18 40 310 286 2146 219 174 1488 144.22 72 10 1 0 83 0 13W 144 66 39 13 11 35 3 4 61 17 2 Melbourne 22 16 60 279 262 1936 212 211 1483 130.55 64 83 0 83 0 2W 120 56 35 20 10 33 1 1 57 12 3 Sydney Swans 22 16 60 3002672067 232 224 1616 127.91 64 92 0 74 0 7W 126 59 34 16 10 35 6 2 58 17 4 Collingwood 22 16 60 268 231 1839 259 209 1763 104.31 64 83 0 83 0 1W 115 50 13 22 70 38 17 6 45 12 5 Fremantle 22 15 61 251 233 1739 214 202 1486 117.03 62 74 0 82 1 3W 111 33 28 29 20 35 11 3 45 12 6 Brisbane Lions 22 15 70 319 233 2147 262 227 1799 119.34 60 92 0 65 0 1L 156 53 34 24 01 36 4 3 52 13 7 Richmond 22 13 81 318 257 2165 254256 1780 121.63 54 91 1 47 0 4W 165 52 38 14 04 37 12 5 55 12 8 Western Bulldogs 22 12 10 0 287 251 1973 265 222 1812 108.89 48 74 0 56 0 2W 161 61 33 24 11 41 5 4 49 13 9 Carlton 22 12 10 0 268 249 1857 248 226 1714 108.34 48 83 0 47 0 4L 116 55 28 19 23 40 13 3 43 9 10 St Kilda 22 1111 0 247 221 1703 247 233 171599.30 44 56 0 65 0 3L 142 32 26 27 01 35 10 4 43 11 11 Port Adelaide 22 10 12 0 261 240 1806 233 240 1638 110.26 40 74 0 38 0 2W 146 36 40 19 23 37 2 5 43 11 12 Gold Coast Suns 22 10 12 0 271 24 5 1871 261 254 1820 102.80 40 74 0 38 0 1W 121 5535 25 22 40 16 4 40 13 13 Hawthorn 22 8 14 0 262 215 1787 291 245 1991 89.75 32 65 0 29 0 2L 121 5026 29 12 39 14 8 41 12 14 Adelaide Crows 22 8 14 0 249 227 1721 293 228 1986 86.66 32 56 0 38 0 1L 115 54 23 32 23 38 15 3 38 9 15 Essendon 22 7 15 0 249243 1737 307 245 2087 83.23 28 56 0 29 0 3L 114 47 25 35 11 39 8 7 31 8 16 GWS Giants 22 6 16 0 237 209 1631 280 247 1927 84.64 24 47 0 29 0 2L 138 29 39 33 01 39 7 5 34 6 17 West Coast Eagles 22 2 20 0 212 157 1429 355 259 2389 59.82 81 10 0 1 10 0 8L 107 30 11 49 01 47 9 10 22 5 18 North Melbourne 22 2 20 0 193 179 1337 349 303 2397 55.78 829 0 0 11 0 5L 92 24 9 53 10 39 18 6 20 4 PellMichael Games 17 Finals 0 30
Ess 9.8 (62) v PA 23.8 (146) (MRVL) (T)
BL 16.9 (105) v WCE 4.6 (30) (G) (N)
ROUND 13
ROUND 4
ROUND 20
ROUND 22
ROUND 23
Friday, June 17
Sunday, April 10
2nd PF – Sydney Swans v Collingwood (SCG) (T)
2nd SF – Melb 11.13 (79) v BL 14.8 (92) (MCG) (N)
Frem 15.12 (102) v NM 3.6 (24) (OS) (N)
Friday, May 20
Geel 17.8 (110) v St K 10.5 (65) (GMHBA) (N)
Friday, April 1
Haw 10.4 (64) v WB 12.15 (87) (UTAS)
Carl 14.17 (101) v Rich 11.10 (76) (MCG) (N)
Syd 17.5 (107) v Geel 10.17 (77) (SCG) (N)
PA 4.12 (36) v Melb 10.8 (68) (AO) (N)
Friday, April 8
Haw 10.8 (68) v Syd 16.13 (109) (UTAS)
Melb 16.21 (117) v BL 7.11 (53) (MCG) (N)
Sunday, March 20
Melb 14.13 (97) v WB 11.5 (71) (MCG) (N)
Haw 11.12 (78) v NM 8.10 (58) (MCG)
GCS
ROUND 15
Coll 17.13 (115) v GCS 14.6 (90) (MCG)
Haw
Friday, March 25
Ess 17.12 (114) v NM 9.12 (66) (MRVL) (T)
NM 6.11 (47) v GCS 16.11 (114) (MRVL)
Adel 10.5 (65) v Melb 14.10 (94) (AO) (T)
WCE 5.8 (38) v Melb 16.16 (112) (OS) (T)
GCS 11.14 (80) v BL 21.6 (132) (MS) (T)
WCE 9.9 (63) v Geel 12.9 (81) (OS)
(MCG) (T) WCE 9.6 (60) v WB 25.11 (161) (OS) (T) GCS 18.13 (121) v Haw 7.12 (54) (TIO) (N) Sunday, May 29 St K 16.7 (103) v NM 7.8 (50) (MRVL) Coll 11.13 (79) v Carl 11.9 (75) (MCG) PA 9.12 (66) v Ess 6.14 (50) (AO) (T)
Thursday, April 7
Ess 16.12 (108) v Haw 11.15 (81) (MRVL) (N)
Friday, June 10
Haw 14.10 (94) v Rich 17.15 (117) (MCG)
Friday, August 19
PA 7.14 (56) v Haw 19.6 (120) (AO) (N)
Thursday, April 14 15.8 (98) 14.7 (91) (G) (N)
ROUND 5
Rich 8.6 (54) v Melb 9.22 (76) (MCG) (N)
Carl 15.12 (102) v Syd 13.9 (87) (MRVL) (N)
Saturday, June 18
Carl 10.18 (78) v St K 14.9 (93) (MRVL) (N)
GCS 9.5 (59) v Geel 18.11 (119) (MS) (T)
Sunday, May 8
Wednesday, March 16
Geel
NM
WB 9.8 (62) v Adel 8.15 (63) (MARS)
Thursday, July 7
Adel 15.13 (103) v NM 10.14 (74) (AO)
Sunday, July 3
Sunday, July 31
Sunday, August 21
St K 4.18 (42) v PA 5.13 (43) (CS) (N)
Rich 15.14 (104) v BL 14.13 (97) (MCG)
v WB
v Coll
Saturday, May 7
Friday, July 1
Syd 11.11 (77) v Coll 7.8 (50) (SCG)
Geel 12.19 (91) v Melb 9.9 (63) (GMHBA) (N) Friday, July 8
ROUND 7
Carl 17.12 (114) v NM 10.4 (64) (MRVL) (N)
ROUND 11
Rich 20.8 (128) v WCE 13.15 (93) (MCG)
Friday, August 5
Friday, September 9
Friday, April 29
ROUND (85) (OS)
BL 10.18 (78) v St K 8.9 (57) (G) (N) Sunday, June 12 NM 7.11 (53) v GWS 15.12 (102) (MRVL)
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Friday, May 6
GCS 8.14 (62) v Coll 9.13 (67) (MS) (N)
Thursday, March 31
Melb 13.11 (89) v Coll 15.6 (96) (MCG) (N)
GCS 10.9 (69) v Frem 4.9 (33) (MS) GWS 11.9 (75) v Carl 15.15 (105) (GS)
St K 11.6 (72) v Ess 15.17 (107) (MRVL) (N)
v Carl
v BL
Monday, April 25
BL 17.12 (114) v Carl 12.9 (81) (G)
ROUND 3
ROUND 9
NM 9.7 (61) v Geel 17.19 (121) (BA)
Friday, March 18
Coll 13.13 (91) v Geel 16.8 (104) (MCG) (N)
Syd 14.21 (105) v Ess 6.11 (47) (SCG) (N)
Syd
Thursday, June 16
Saturday, April 16 St K 13.9 (87) v GCS 9.7 (61) (MRVL) Adel 15.11 (101) v Rich 12.10 (82) (AO) (T) Melb 19.6 (120) v GWS 7.11 (53) (MCG) (N) Sunday, April 17 Carl 14.10 (94) v PA 13.13 (91) (MCG) Ess 8.11 (59) v Frem 16.11 (107) (MRVL) (T) Monday, April 18 Haw 14.8 (92) v
Carl 12.9 (81) v Frem 7.8 (50) (MRVL)
Saturday, August 13
ROUND 2
Rich 11.15 (81) v Carl 9.12 (66) (MCG) (N)
Ess 12.10 (82) v Coll 15.3 (93) (MCG)
Rich 20.8 (128) v Haw 9.13 (67) (MCG)
Frem 13.10 (88) v GWS 8.6 (54) (OS) (T)
WCE
ROUND 17
Saturday, March 26
Syd 13.8 (86) v NM 12.3 (75) (SCG)
St K 9.12 (66) v BL 12.9 (81) (MRVL) (N)
(T) Twilight match; (N) Night match; (AO) Adelaide Oval; (AS) Accor Stadium, Sydney; (BA) Blundstone Arena, Hobart; (CS) Cazalys Stadium, Cairns; (G) Gabba, Brisbane; (GMHBA) GMHBA Stadium, Geelong; (GS) Giants Stadium, Sydney; (MO) Manuka Oval, Canberra; (MARS) Mars Stadium, Ballarat; (MRVL) Marvel Stadium, Melbourne; (MCG) Melbourne Cricket Ground; (MS) Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast; (OS) Optus Stadium, Perth; (SCG) Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney; (TIO) TIO Stadium, Darwin; (TP) TIO Traeger Park, Alice Springs; (UTAS) University of Tasmania Stadium, Launceston.
Adel 8.6 (54) v GWS 17.11 (113) (AO)
Ess 15.13 (103) v Adel 15.9 (99) (MRVL) 10.13 (73) K 22.10 (142) (MCG) 13.14 (92) 8.14 (62) (MS) (T)
WB 9.17 (71) v Syd 9.6 (60) (MRVL) (N)
Coll 7.9 (51) v WB 14.15 (99) (MRVL) (N)
12 Friday, June 3 WB 10.10 (70) v Geel 12.11 (83) (MRVL) (N) Saturday, June 4 Adel 13.10 (88) v WCE 8.9 (57) (AO) GCS 15.19 (109) v NM 7.5 (47) (TIO) (T) Melb 9.7 (61) v Syd 10.13 (73) (MCG) (N) Sunday, June 5 Haw 10.8 (68) v Coll 10.12 (72) (MCG) Frem 15.9 (99) v BL 13.7
ROUND 14
Melb 14.15 (99) v Ess 10.10 (70) (MCG) (N)
Saturday, April 9
1st SF – Coll 11.13 (79) v Frem 9.5 (59) (MCG) (N)
Geel 20.18 (138) v Ess 11.6 (72) (MCG)
Byes: Carlton, Essendon, GWS Giants, Port Adelaide, Richmond, St Kilda
Friday, April 22 GWS 8.12 (60) v St K 10.17 (77) (MO) (N)
WCE 12.8 (80) v GCS 16.11 (107) (OS) (T)
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Friday, May 13
BL 16.12 (108) v WB 9.13 (67) (G) (N)
Saturday, July 2
Friday, September 16
Byes: Brisbane Lions, Collingwood, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne
Ess 15.5 (95) v Syd 12.14 (86) (MCG)
Carl 17.14 (116) v Adel 10.8 (68) (MRVL) (T)
Thursday, June 30
Coll 11.22 (88) v GWS 12.5 (77) (MCG)
Rich 11.14 (80) v Ess 7.6 (48) (MCG) (N)
Ess 11.9 (75) v Rich 21.15 (141) (MCG) (N)
WCE 8.8 (56) v Rich 25.15 (165) (OS) (N)
Geel 21.18 (144) v NM 5.2 (32) (GMHBA) (N)
1st PF – Geelong Cats v Brisbane Lions (MCG) (N)
Friday, September 2
Sunday, June 26
Rich 16.13 (109) v GWS 10.13 (73) (MCG)
GWS 13.14 (92) v Syd 17.10 (112) (AS) (T)
Frem
WCE 7.5 (47) v Frem 15.12 (102) (OS) (T)
ROUND 10
St K 13.12 (90) v Geel 11.14 (80) (MRVL) (T)
GWS 21.12 (138) v WCE 13.8 (86) (GS) 18.9 (117) 17.10 (112) (UTAS) 6.8 (44) 12.8 (80) (OS)
v Frem
Thursday, June 23
Friday, June 24
Friday, July 29
Frem 8.7 (55) v St K 9.11 (65) (OS) (T)
Saturday, July 30
Thursday, September 1
1st QF – Geel 11.12 (78) v Coll 10.12 (72) (MCG) (T)
Saturday September 17
ROUND 1
WB 13.12 (90) v Carl 16.6 (102) (MRVL) (N)
BL 8.9 (57) v Melb 18.7 (115) (G) (N)
Saturday, September 24
GCS 10.9 (69) v Melb 12.10 (82) (MS) (N)
St K 18.9 (117) v Rich 13.6 (84) (MRVL)
Saturday, August 20
GWS 10.9 (69) v Frem 13.11 (89) (MO)
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Sunday, March 27
WB 16.7 (103) v Ess 10.11 (71) (MRVL)
St K 12.13 (85) v Coll 15.12 (102) (MRVL) (N)
Carl 11.8 (74) v Haw 11.7 (73) (MCG)
GWS 12.11 (83) v GCS 8.9 (57) (GS) (T)
Rich 11.11 (77) v PA 10.5 (65) (MCG) (N)
Saturday, April 30
Saturday, April 23
Sunday, June 19
WB 19.11 (125) v Haw 12.11 (83) (MRVL) (N)
ROUND 21
ROUND 8
v
NM 10.14 (74) v WCE 8.11 (59) (MRVL)
Coll 10.14 (74) v WCE 14.3 (87) (MRVL) (T)
Syd 17.10 (112) v GWS 5.9 (39) (SCG)
Melb 11.13 (79) v Carl 10.14 (74) (MCG) (N)
Melb
Thursday, March 24
WCE 13.8 (86) v Adel 16.6 (102) (OS)
v Rich
PA 18.9 (117) v WCE 4.9 (33) (AO) (T)
1st EF – Frem 11.7 (73) v WB 8.12 (60) (OS) (N)
Friday, August 12
Geel 11.14 (80) v BL 11.4 (70) (GMHBA) (N)
Friday, May 27 16.10 (106) 15.10 (100) (SCG) (N) May 28 15.7 (97) 7.13 (55) (GMHBA) 16.14 (110) GWS 15.6 (96) (G) 7.14 (56) 14.10 (94)
Adel 12.12 (84) v Carl 8.7 (55) (AO) (N)
Ess 10.15 (75) v BL 15.7 (97) (MRVL) (T)
Saturday, May 21
v Adel
Byes: Adelaide Crows, Geelong Cats, Gold Coast Suns, Sydney Swans, West Coast, Western Bulldogs
Adel 9.15 (69) v St K 14.6 (90) (AO) (N)
Frem 5.9 (39) v Melb 12.13 (85) (OS) (N)
NM 6.10 (46) v PA 17.13 (115) (BA)
Saturday, August 6
Frem 9.17 (71) v WCE 7.5 (47) (OS) (N)
St K 11.8 (74) v Syd 13.10 (88) (MRVL) (T)
PA 12.10 (82) v Syd 8.11 (59) (AO)
PA 16.15 (111) v Adel 7.13 (55) (AO) (N)
GWS 14.12 (96) v Ess 10.9 (69) (GS)
Sunday, May 1
Saturday, June 25
Adel 9.12 (66) v BL 16.6 (102) (AO) (N) Sunday, May 15
GWS 11.6 (72) v Haw 7.8 (50) (GS) Frem 15.9 (99) v PA 14.7 (91) (OS)
Saturday, September 10
Sunday, April 24
Rich 17.11 (113) v Coll 12.14 (86) (MCG)
Syd 12.11 (83) v St K 4.8 (32) (SCG) (N)
BL
Coll 13.10 (88) v PA 12.10 (82) (MCG)
Saturday, June 11
Sunday, August 14
NM 8.10 (58) v Adel 17.13 (115) (BA)
Frem 14.13 (97) v Carl 9.8 (62) (OS) (T)
Syd 8.13 (61) v GCS 10.15 (75) (SCG)
2nd QF – Melb 10.9 (69) v Syd 14.7 (91) (MCG) (N)
ROUND 6
Coll 13.10 (88) v NM 12.9 (81) (MCG)
ROUND 16
Geel 19.17 (131) v WCE 7.4 (46) (GMHBA) (T)
Sunday, April 3
(T) St K 10.10 (70) v Frem 17.9 (111) (MRVL) (N) PA 12.12 (84) v GWS 3.11 (29) (AO) (N) Sunday, July 10 BL 13.12 (90) v Ess 15.10 (100) (G) Haw 13.8 (86) v Adel 8.6 (54) (MRVL) WCE 8.5 (53) v Carl 17.14 (116) (OS) ROUND 18 Friday, July 15 WB 13.6 (84) v St K 7.14 (56) (MRVL) (N) Saturday, July 16 Adel 13.8 (86) v Coll 14.7 (91) (AO) GWS 9.5 (59) v BL 15.9 (99) (MO) NM 14.8 (92) v Rich 11.22 (88) (MRVL) (T) Carl 8.7 (55) v Geel 12.13 (85) (MCG) (N) Frem 9.11 (65) v Syd 11.16 (82) (OS) (T) Sunday, July 17 Haw 15.12 (102) v WCE 12.5 (77) (MCG) Melb 12.11 (83) v PA 10.9 (69) (TP) Ess 14.19 (103) v GCS 8.7 (55) (MRVL) (T) ROUND 19 Friday, July 22 Rich 7.10 (52) v Frem 7.10 (52) (MRVL) (N) Saturday, July 23 NM 11.9 (75) v Haw 19.7 (121) (BA) Syd 17.16 (118) v Adel 12.13 (85) (SCG) PA 14.10 (94) v Geel 16.10 (106) (AO) (T) BL 16.14 (110) v GCS 14.9 (93) (G) (N) WB 17.8 (110) v Melb 15.10 (100) (MRVL) (N) Sunday, July 24 Carl 13.12 (90) v GWS 8.6 (54) (MRVL) Coll 12.8 (80) v Ess 11.10 (76) (MCG) WCE 10.2 (62) v St K 14.6 (90) (OS)
WB 9.8 (62) v GWS 8.9 (57) (MRVL)
Adel 15.6 (96) v PA 13.14 (92) (AO) (N)
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Coll 15.10 (100) v Adel 8.10 (58) (MCG)
BL 11.14 (80) v PA 10.9 (69) (G) (N)
WCE 16.11 (107) v Ess 14.13 (97) (OS) (N)
2nd EF – BL 16.10 (106) v Rich 16.8 (104) (G) (N)
Rich 15.9 (99) v WB 7.19 (61) (MCG) (N)
Haw 10.10 (70) v GCS 8.15 (63) (UTAS)
Ess 7.12 (54) v Carl 12.8 (80) (MCG) (N)
GCS 14.10 (94) v Rich 13.14 (92) (MS)
Saturday, July 9
Thursday, March 17
v Syd
v St
GWS 16.9 (105) v WB 19.11 (125) (GS) (N)
Frem 14.11 (95) v Haw 12.10 (82) (OS)
GCS 18.8 (116) v Adel 10.13 (73) (MS)
Carl 10.14 (74) v Coll 11.9 (75) (MCG)
PA 10.11 (71) v Rich 16.13 (109) (AO) (N)
Syd 13.11 (89) v BL 17.11 (113) (SCG) (T)
Bris
Syd 17.18 (120) v WB 9.13 (67) (SCG) (N)
Melb 14.9 (93) v St K 8.7 (55) (MCG)
Friday, April 15 11.5 (71) 21.13 (139) (MRVL) (T) 9.4 (58) 18.13 (121) (OS) (T) Geel 11.14 (80) (MCG)
PA 13.15 (93) v GCS 13.13 (91) (AO)
WB 11.12 (78) v Frem14.11 (95) (MRVL) (T)
St K 10.15 (75) v Haw 9.9 (63) (MRVL) (T)
GCS 16.11 (107) v WCE 16.8 (104) (MS)
Adel 12.10 (82) v Frem 11.17 (83) (AO) (T)
Geel 14.10 (94) v WB 9.12 (66) (GMHBA) (N)
Geel 11.16 (82) v PA 7.5 (47) (GMHBA) WB 15.16 (106) v GCS 13.9 (87) (MARS) NM 8.5 (53) v Melb 14.16 (100) (MRVL) (T)
Sunday, May 22
BL 23.18 (156) v NM 7.6 (48) (G) (N)
Melb 13.13 (91) v Haw 11.15 (81) (MCG) (T)
Saturday,
Thursday, June 9
Monday, June 13
PA 12.14 (86) v WB 10.9 (69) (AO) (N)
Sunday, August 7
NM 13.10 (88) v Syd 18.18 (126) (MRVL)
Coll 12.10 (82) v Melb 8.8 (56) (MCG)
Saturday, April 2
Saturday, May 14
Haw
Geel 10.6 (66) v Frem 10.9 (69) (GMHBA)
Saturday, September 3
GWS 4.11 (35) v Geel 12.16 (88) (MO) (T)
Geel 13.11 (89) v Rich 13.8 (86) (MCG) (T)
Saturday, March 19
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Dragons 3. 2 8.6 13.9 14.12 (96) Gippsland Power 3. 2 4.5 6.7 9.8 (62)
u INTERCHANGE CAP
ON THE CATS:
Substitutes: Melbourne – J. Smith (unused). Brisbane Lions –Mathieson (unused).
BEST: Brisbane Lions – Hipwood, Neale, McCluggage, Rich, J. Berry, K. Coleman, Zorko, Cameron. Melbourne – Harmes, Petracca, Petty, Langdon, Oliver, Neal-Bullen.
Sandringham Dragons – Sheezel, Gilbert, Mackenzie, W. Ashcroft, McLennan, Clarke. Gippsland Power – Amoroso,
2. There is six-minutea break;
NAB LEAGUE
66 AFL RECORD aflrecord.com.au Player Cl ub Go als B ehinds % Cha rlie Curnow (C a rl) 6 4 42 60.4 Tom Lynch* (R ich) 63 27 70.0 Jeremy Cameron * (G eel) 62 34 64.6 Tom Hawkins * (G eel) 60 36 62 .5 Bayley Fritsch * (M elb) 55 22 71.4 Peter Wright (E ss) 53 26 67.1 Charlie Cameron * (B L) 53 20 72 .6 Max King (S tK) 52 41 55 .9 Aaron Naughton * (W B) 51 34 60.0 Lance Franklin * (S yd) 50 26 65 .8 * Includes finals SECOND SEMI-FINAL Brisbane Lions 1.3 3.4 9.5 14.8 (92) Melbourne 3.6 6.8 8.11 11.13 (79)
FINALS
FIRST CollingwoodSEMI-FINAL (79)
7. At the end of this period, the siren will sound and the team with the highest score is declared the winner;
Fremantle 0.1 2. 2 4.4 9.5 (59)
Umpires: H. Gavine, B. Hosking, S. Meredith.
Sandringham
6. The ball will be bounced (or thrown up) in the centre and a further three minutes of play (plus time-on) will start;
GOALS: Collingwood – Ginnivan 3, Elliott 2, Crisp 2, Mihocek 2, Cox, De Goey. Fremantle – Logue 2, Schultz 2, Walters 2, Frederick 2, Mundy. Substitutes: Collingwood – Carmichael (unused). Fremantle –Banfield (unused).
4. Three minutes of additional time will be played, plus time-on;
Umpires: B. Rosebury, A. Stephens, M. Stevic.
5. At the end of the first additional time period, the siren will sound and teams will immediately change ends without a break;
4.0 6.6 8.12 11.13
BRING The Lions stormed
BEST: Collingwood – Crisp, De Goey, Pendlebury, N. Daicos, Howe, Ginnivan. Fremantle – Serong, Brayshaw, Ryan, Schultz, Acres.
8. If s cores are still tied, steps 3-8 are repeated until a result is determined.
SCOREBOARD – FINALS WEEK 3 LEADING GOALKICKERS PRELIMINARY FINAL Casey Demons 3.3 7.6 12 .7 15.9 (99) Brisbane Lions 1. 2 2.3 4.3 7.6 (48) BEST: Casey Demons – Dunstan, Weideman, Chandler, Munro, M. Brown. Brisbane Lions – Robinson, H. Smith, Madden, Fletcher. GOALS: Casey Demons – McDonald 3, van Rooyen 3, Moniz-Wakefield, Bedford, Chandler, Grey, Weideman, Bowey, M. Brown, Howes, Valentine. Brisbane Lions – Lohmann 2, B. Coleman, Cockatoo, Mathieson, Sharp, Tunstill. PRELIMINARY FINAL Southport 1. 2 6.9 9.15 14.25 (109) Gold Coast 3. 2 6. 2 12 .3 13.3 (81) BEST: Southport – Foot, Woodcock, Crossley, Joyce, Lockhart, Fields, Dawson. Gold Coast Suns – Bowes, Burgess, Constable, Flanders. GOALS: Southport – Fields 3, Foot 3, Charlesworth 2, Gowers 2, Davis, Joyce, King, Pescud. Gold Coast Suns – Burgess 4, Corbett 2, Bowes, Conroy, Foggo, Oea, Sexton, Sharp, Tsitas. VFL FINALS PRELIMINARY FINAL Tigers 2.4 3.7 6.10 11.13 (79) Clarence 1. 2 5.3 9.7 11.8 (74) BEST: Tigers – Clifford, Gardner, Adams, Golding, Reardon, Collidge. Clarence – Smith, Holmes, Green, Norton, Wylie, Harper. GOALS: Tigers – Carter 3, Lane 2, Graham 2, Salter, Clifford, Gardner, O’Neill. Clarence – Holmes 2, Harper 2, Barwick 2, Norton, Garland, O. Preshaw, Borsboom, Alomes. TSL FINALS STATE LEAGUE Dandenong Stingrays 2.1 6.4 8.6 9.9 (63) Tasmania 2.3 5.6 7.7 9.8 (62) BEST: Dandenong Stingrays – Nelson, Shipp, Binns, Simpson, Latreille. Tasmania – Owen, Callinan, Beaumont, Ollington, Campbell, Jones. GOALS: Dandenong Stingrays – Simpson 2, Davies 2, Collier, Binns, De La Rue, Latreille, Demattia. Tasmania – Splann 2, Hooker 2, Campbell, Callinan, Curtis, Owen, Banks-Smith.
u EXTRA TIME PROCESS
GOALS: Brisbane Lions – Hipwood 4, Cameron 3, Bailey 2, McStay 2, Ah Chee, McCluggage, Fort. Melbourne – Pickett 2, Fritsch 2, Neal-Bullen 2, Langdon 2, Melksham, Brayshaw, Petty.
3. Te ams change ends;
BEST: Walton, Reid, Hanily, Pipicelli, Vickery.
Crowd: 62,162 at the MCG.
Crowd: 90,612 at the MCG.
1. Goal umpires confirm s cores are identical;
GOALS: Sandringham Dragons – Sheezel 3, Browne 2, Clarke 2, W. Ashcroft, Benton. Gippsland Power – Reid 3, Hanily 2, Humphrey, Duursma, Vickery, Pipicelli.
u Clubs will receive 10 interchanges for each two three-minute period (excluding medical substitute). Any leftover interchanges from each period of additional time will not carry over into a subsequent period.
SANFL FINALS PRELIMINARY FINAL Norwood 3.3 7.4 8.6 12 .9 (81) Adelaide Crows 4.3 7.5 9.7 10.10 (70) BEST: Norwood – Lowe, Boyd, Rokahr, Rantall, Nunn. Adelaide Crows –Turner, Himmelberg, Worrell, McAsey. GOALS: Norwood – Lowe 4, Panos 2, Nelligan, Rantall, Jarvis, McLean, Surman, Carroll. Adelaide Crows – Himmelberg 3, McAsey 3, McKenzie, Boyle, Newchurch, Wright.
into the preliminary final with a stunning second-half comeback against Melbourne.
Claremont 2. 2 3. 2 7.9 8.10 (58)
BEST: Richmond – Conti, Egan, McKenzie, Sheerin, Seymour. Hawthorn –Lucas-Rodd, Gilroy, Ashmore, Brown.
Adelaide Crows 0. 2 2. 2 2.4 4.6 (30)
GWS Giants 3.4 5.5 8.6 9.11 (65)
GOALS: GWS Giants – Barr 2, Staunton 2, Goldsworthy 2, Pease, Garnett, Doyle. Sydney Swans – A. Hamilton, Lochland.
Melbourne 6.1 6.3 6.7 6.10 (46)
West Coast Eagles 0. 2 2.3 3.6 4.8 (32)
BEST: East Fremantle – Baskerville, Murdock, Meade, Tassone, Montauban. Claremont – Elliott, Martinis, Sheldrick, Edwards.
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BEST: Adelaide Crows – Randall, Marinoff, Ponter, Hatchard, Gould, Biddell. North Melbourne – Garner, Riddell, Kearney, Bruton.
BEST: Essendon – Prespakis, Wales, Bannister, Vogt, Cain, Scott, Wuetschner. West Coast Eagles – Swanson, Roberts, Schmidt, McCarthy, McDonald.
Crowd: 4233 at the SCG.
GOALS: Brisbane Lions – Wardlaw 4, Bodey 3, Farquharson 2, Anderson, T. Smith, R. Svarc. Gold Coast Suns – Dupuy.
GOALS: Melbourne – Zanker 2, Bannan, Fitzsimon, Hore, Paxman. St Kilda – Shierlaw 2, Matin.
BEST: Western Bulldogs – Wilcox, Lamb, Blackburn, Fitzgerald, Georgostathis. Fremantle – Strom, Bowers, Miller, O’Driscoll, Pugh.
GOALS: Western Bulldogs – Cranston, Wilcox, Newton. Fremantle –Tighe, East, Kauffman.
North Melbourne 2.1 2.3 2.4 2.4 (16)
St Kilda 0.0 1.1 2.1 3. 2 (20)
East Fremantle 4.1 7.7 10.8 16.10 (106)
Umpires: E. Tee, R. O’Gorman, E. Stark. Crowd: 2034 at Wigan Oval.
Umpires: A. Whetton, S. Whetton, G. Devenish. Crowd: 1664 at Ikon Park.
GOALS: Carlton – Dal Pos, Moody, O’Dea, Peterson. Port Adelaide –De Melo 2, Levicki, Moloney.
BEST: GWS Giants – Parker, Brazendale, Pease, Eva, Garnett, Goldsworthy. Sydney Swans – Morphett, C. Hamilton, Szigeti, Eastman, Privitelli.
BEST: Peel Thunder – Sturt, Wilson, Thorne, Bell, Hamling. South Fremantle – Schloithe, Main, Pearson, N. Strom, Headland.
BEST: Collingwood – Allen, Schleicher, Butler, Cann. Geelong Cats –Webster, Prespakis, Emonson, Johnson.
Geelong Cats 0.1 0.1 1.3 1.5 (11)
BEST: Brisbane Lions – Bates, Anderson, C. Svarc, Monahan, Wardlaw, O’Dwyer, Bodey. Gold Coast Suns – Rowbottom, Bella, Darcy.
BEST: Melbourne – Purcell, West, Hanks, Mithen. St Kilda – Jakobsson, Patrikios, Vesely, McKinnon.
QUALIFYING FINAL
Crowd: 1501 at Mineral Resources Park.
WAFL FINALS
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Umpires: J. Broadbent, C. Brackenrig, M. Baigent.
GOALS: Richmond – Conti 3, McKenzie, Egan, Reid, Wakefield. Hawthorn – Baskaran.
Port Adelaide 0.1 4. 2 4.3 4.3 (27)
Brisbane Lions 3.3 6.6 10.8 12 .10 (82)
Gold Coast Suns 0.0 0.0 1.1 1.3 (9)
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Umpires: M. Pell, J. Strybos, C. Manthey. Crowd: 2582 at the Gabba.
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Richmond 2.0 4.0 5.1 7. 2 (44)
Umpires: B. Wallace, A. Mitchell, L. Lopes.
GOALS: Peel Thunder – Sturt 3, Barnes 2, Taberner 2, Bell, Treacy, Crowden. South Fremantle Main 4, Ah Chee, Shaw, Schlensog, Datson.
UNDER
Umpires: A. Heffernan, N. Foot, N. Jankovskis. Crowd: 1058 at Ikon Park.
GOALS: Essendon – Wales 3, Scott 3, Prespakis 2, Bannister 2, Wuetschner 2, Vogt. West Coast Eagles – Schmidt 2, Cameron, McCarthy. Umpires: D. Johanson, C. Dore, G. Simmonds.
Peel Thunder 0.3 2.5 8.6 10.10 (70)
UNSW-ES Bulldogs 2.4 2.5 4.8 7.10 (52) North Shore Bombers 0.1 0.5 0.8 2.10 (22) BEST: UNSW-ES Bulldogs – Not available. North Shore Bombers – Brewer, Edwards, Loone, Veale, Campbell, Netting. GOALS: UNSW-ES Bulldogs – Emery 4, O’Callaghan, Kilpatrick, Brown. North Shore Bombers – Rayner, Thomas. AFL SYDNEY GRAND FINAL
Sydney Swans 0. 2 1.4 2.5 2.6 (18)
ELIMINATION FINAL South Fremantle 2.6 4.9 6.11 8.13 (61)
Collingwood 0.1 0.3 1.3 2.3 (15)
Carlton 2.1 2.1 3.1 4.3 (27)
Umpires: N. Toner, J. Howorth, J. Howard. Crowd: 2758 at RSEA Park.
GOALS: Collingwood – Porter, Allen. Geelong Cats – Clarke. Umpires: L. Fisher, M. Nicholls, N. Scott. Crowd: 1957 at the GMHBA Stadium.
Essendon 5. 2 9.4 10.4 13.6 (84)
GOALS: Adelaide Crows – Ponter 2, Munyard, Gould. North Melbourne –O’Loughlin, Wall.
BEST: Carlton – McKay, Peterson, Hill, Moody. Port Adelaide – Ewings, De Melo, Moloney, Dowrick, Dunn.
GOALS: East Fremantle – Marsh 3, Montauban 3, Jansen 2, Holmes 2, Gorringe, Bennett, Smith, Lester-Smith, Schoenfeld, McDonald. Claremont – Mountford 2, Bolton, House, England, Elliott, Spyvee, Evans.
Hawthorn 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.3 (9)
Crowd: 2031 at Swinburne Centre Punt Rd Oval.
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Lowest score: 6.11 (47), round 13, 2005, at the Gabba.
have Joe Daniher back alongside him, although the two talls/four smalls combination took care of Melbourne after half-time. The Cats have won 14 successive games and, really, have been the best team all season. They are rested and pretty much at full strength, so their build-up has been perfect. Brisbane has enjoyed a magnificent fortnight, smashing a few hoodoos, including the MCG where they hadn’t won in 11 encounters. The Lions have the best player in the competition, Lachie Neale, in their midfield arsenal and, if he gets off the chain, they will be in this one up to their eyeballs. But the Cats have been steady and reliable all year. As they did against the Pies a fortnight ago, they’ll find a way.
We’re all big time
NAB Mini Legends
Lowest score: 5.3 (33), round 5, 2009, at GMHBA Stadium.
Longest winning sequence: 10, round 9, 1997, to round 21, 2003.
Since 2017: Geelong Cats 6, Brisbane Lions 2.
Most goals in a game: 8, Jim Edmond, round 2, 1987, at GMHBA Stadium; Roger Merrett, round 19, 1990, at Metricon Stadium; John Hutton, round 7, 1992, at Metricon Stadium.
Highest score: 37.17 (239), round 7, 1992, at Metricon Stadium.
Most recent game: round 4, 2022, Geelong Cats d Brisbane Lions by 10 points at GMHBA Stadium.
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Prediction: Geelong by 14 points
Home record: 19-7-1
MR CONSISTENT: Mark Blicavs is tackled by Darcy Fort in the Cats’ narrow 10-point win over the Lions in round four.
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Greatest winning margin: 69 points, round 15, 2000, at GMHBA Stadium; round 13, 2005, at the Gabba.
Greatest winning margin: 164 points, round 7, 1992, at Metricon Stadium.
Longest winning sequence: 8, round 23, 2013, to round 19, 2018.
Away record: 7-19-1
Home record: 13-14
BRISBANE LIONS
Played 54: Geelong Cats 33, Brisbane Lions 20, draws 1.
Most goals in a game: 11, Gary Ablett snr, round 10, 1988, at Metricon Stadium; Billy Brownless, round 4, 1991, at the Gabba.
Highest score: 25.13 (163), round 19, 1990, at Metricon Stadium.
Cats v Lions
Away record: 14-13
HEAD to HEAD
u The occasion – and the stakes – make this a big enough game with a Grand Final berth awaiting the winner. But there is some recent history between them, notably a war of words at GMHBA Stadium early last season that involved both coaches, Chris Scott and Chris Fagan . Geelong escaped with a lucky win then and the scoreline since is 1-1, with the Cats coming back to win by 10 points at home in round four this year, on the back of five goals from Tom Hawkins. The Lions handled Melbourne’s forward line comfortably last week, but Hawkins and Jeremy Cameron represent a serious step up in class. At the other end, Eric Hipwood booted four goals for the Lions and will
GEELONG CATS
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Highest attendance: 55,768, second preliminary final, 2004, at the MCG.
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POCKET PROFILE
Best social outing organiser at your club: Mark Blicavs
Best storyteller at your club: They aren’t the best stories, but Isaac Smith’s sheer volume of stories leaves little room for others
SELWOOD Joel 14 18 3 84 26/5/1988 20 07 7/2006 Sandhurst (Vic)/Bendigo U18 24 19 35 3 35 3 5 173
SMITH Isaac 7 18 8 83 30/12/1988 20 11 UFA/2020 Wa gga Tigers (NSW)/NSW-ACT U18/Redan (Vic)/N Ballarat (VFL)/Haw 24 22 256 46 12 19 2 STANLEY Rhys 1 20 0 10 2 1/ 12/1990 20 10 TR /2014 Berri (SA)/West Adelaide (SANFL)/St Kilda 19 18 18 1 123 3 10 5 STENGLE Tyson 18 17 5 73 19/10/1998 20 17 DFA/2021 Portland (SA)/W-WT (SANFL)/Richmond/Adelaide/W-WT (SANFL) 0 23 39 23 46 61 STEPHENS Cooper 12 18 8 86 17/1/2001 20 22 16/2019
Your favourite or most influential junior coach: Leon Harris
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Secondary College
SIMPSON Sam 37 18 3 75 14/6/1998 20 17 RE /2019 St Joseph’s, Geel (Vic)/St Joseph’s College, Geel (Vic)/Geel U18 4 0 19 19 0 7
PA RFITT Brandan 3 18 0 83 27/4/1998 20 17 26/2016 Nightcliff (NT)/NT Thunder (NEAFL)/North Adelaide (SANFL) 23 16 111 111 4 45
What TV series are you binge-watching: Yellowstone Best movie of all time: That’s unanswerable (VFL) /12/1993 /2011 Leopold (Vic)/Geelong U18 9 28/3/1991 13 RE /2014 Sunbury (Vic) 22 225 225 7 1/4/1993 12 RFA/2020 Dartmoor (Vic)/North Ballarat U18/GWS 15 22 20 8 37 62 528
C LOSE Brad # 45 18 1 71 30/7/1998 20 20 RD/2020 North Gambier (SA)/Glenelg (SANFL) 22 23 53 53 23 40
Best dish: Creamy potatoes Worst cooking disaster: Set alight the kitchen back in the Adelaide days
Your biggest fear: My daughter when she turns 16
O’CONNOR Mark 42 19 1 89 17/1/1997 20 17 RE /2018 County Kerry (Ireland) 14 20 85 85 0 4
Where did you go to Auskick: Anglesea, Victoria
Can you keep a secret: Yes
EVANS Francis 31 182 83 23/8/2001 20
GOALS / BEHINDS SCORE ASSISTS SCORE INSIDETACKLESCLEARANCESINVOLVEMENTS50sCONTESTED HANDBALLSMARKSKICKSDISPOSALSINTERCEPTUNCONTESTEDPOSS.POSS.POSS. POSSESSION OTHER BALL USE SCOREBOARD GAMES GOALS NAME NO. HT.WT. DOB DEBUTACQUIRED PREVIOUS CLUB 2021 2022 TOTAL THIS CLUB 2022 TOTAL Acquired = How player arrived at this club 1/2000 = National Draft number/year LTA = Local talent access selection MD = Mid-Season Rookie Draft PD = Pre-Season Draft PDN = Previous Draft nomination PDS = Pre-Draft selection PS S = Pre-Season Supplemental selection RD = Rookie Draft RE = Rookie elevation TR = Traded to this club UP S = Uncontracted player selection 17 YO = 17-year-old access UFA = Unrestricted free agent RFA = Restricted free agent DFA = Delisted free agent # = C ategory A Rookie (eligible for AFL selection) * = C ategory B Rookie (only eligible for AFL selection as long-term injury replacement) TIR = Trade Incentive Rule PLAYER LIST ATKINS Tom # 30 18 0 82 18/9/1995 20 19 RD/2019 St Joseph’s Geel (Vic)/Geel College/Geel U18/Geelong
25 21 14 9 14
DA HLHAUS Luke 40 17 9 82 21/8/1992 20 11 UFA/2018 Leopold (Vic)/Geelong U18/Western Bulldogs 21 10 225 71 3 141
NEALE Shannon 33 20 3 10 0 25/7/2002 20 22 33/2020 Jandakot (WA)/Leeming HS (WA)/South Fremantle (WAFL) 0 2 2 2 0 0
DANGERFIELD Patrick 35 18 9 97 5/4/1990 20 08 TR /2016 Anglesea (Vic)/Geelong U18/Adelaide 16 16 30 1 147 6 314
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Favourite non-AFL sporting team: Tom Brady FC Do you go to AFL games when your team is not playing: Yes
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Should the centre bounce be retained: Hell no My non-football wish for 2022 is: World peace and harsher penalties for parole violators Who rules the roost in your household: My daughter
The most tech savvy teammate: Joel Selwood
The biggest compliment you have ever received: “You’re my grandma’s favourite” … it used to be my brother
22 23 80 80 4 13 BEWS Jed 24 18 6 92 14
DE KONING Sam 16 20 4 10 1 26/2/2001 20 21 19/2019 Mornington (Vic)/Dandenong U18 1 21 22 22 0 0 MPSEY 1/2003 20 22 RD/2022 Boroondara (Vic)/Carey Grammar (Vic)/Old Carey (Vic) 0 2 2 2 1 1 10 28/2009 Carine (WA)/East Perth (WAFL) 20 25 6 25 6 8 17 5 21 41/2019 Brunswick North OB (Vic)/Brunswick (Vic)/Rowville (Vic)/Eastern /2015 (WA)/E (WAFL)/Haw Rks/Frem Rks/Subiaco (WAFL) (Vic)/Geelong 81 81 11 70
Oliver # 28 18 5 70 7/
1 16 BLICAVS Mark 46 19 8 10 1
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CEGLAR Jonathon 15 20 4 99 14/2/1991 20 13 TR /2021 Wodonga Raiders (Vic)/Murray U18/Collingwood List/Hawthorn 12 3 10 4 3 0 43
U18 0 0 0 0 0 0 MENEGOLA Sam 27 18 9 89 7/3/1992 20 16 66
N ARKLE Quinton 19 182 88 3/ 12/1997 20 18 60/2016 Maddington (WA)/Wesley College (WA)/Perth (WAFL) 16 8 41 41 4 18
DUNCAN Mitch 22 18 8 85 10/6/1991 20
51 C AMERON Jeremy 5 19 6 94
R ATUGOLEA Esava 17 19 8 10 8 24/7/1998 20 18 43/2016 Cobram (Vic)/Murray U18 15 4 59 59 0 38
Golf, tennis – or neither: Fishing
Which teammate should run for political office in the future: Jack Henry Rate your cooking skills from 1-5: It ranges between 1 and 5
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C ONWAY Toby 6 20 5 10 0 24/4/2003 ** ** 24/2021 St Mary’s, Geelong (Vic)/Geelong College (Vic)/Geelong U18 0 0 0 0 0 0
Have you ever used ‘Dr Google’ to diagnose an injury or illness: I’ll leave that to the anti-vaxxers
23 7 116 116 5 81 MIERS Gryan 32 17 9 81 30/3/1999 20 19 57/2017 Grovedale
Something you are proud of: My kids
SC (Vic)/Calder U18 2 5 7 7 1 3 GU THRIE Cameron 29 187 88 19/8/1992 20 11 23/2010 Sunbury (Vic)/Calder U18 23 23 228 228 11 74 GUTHRIE Zach 39 187 84 30/6/1998 20 17 RE /20119 Sunbury (Vic)/Calder U18 13 19 52 52 4 6 HAW KINS Tom 26 19 8 10 4 21/7/1988 20 07 41/2006 Finley (NSW)/Melbourne Grammar (Vic)/Sandringham U18 25 23 325 325 60 725 HENRY Jack 38 19 2 96 29/8/1998 20 18 RE /2018 St Mary’s, Geelong (Vic)/Geelong U18 24 15 10 5 10 5 4 20 HIGGINS Shaun 4 18 4 89 4/3/1988 20 06 TR /2020 Newtown & Chilwell (Vic)/St Joseph’s Coll, Geel (Vic)/Geel U18/WB/NM 18 5 2 60 23 1 22 9 HOLMES Max 9 18 9 83 29/8/2002 20 21 20/2020 East Malvern (Vic)/Prahran (Vic)/Melb Grammar (Vic)/Sandr U18 12 17 29 29 12 13 K NEVITT Mitch 10 19 3 84 8/ 1/2003 20 22 25/2021 Grovedale (Vic)/Grovedale College (Vic)/Geelong U18 0 2 2 2 0 0 KOLODJASHNIJ Jake 8 19 3 96 9/8/1995 20 15 41/2013 Prospect (Tas)/Launceston (Tas) 22 21 15 3 15 3 2 3 KROEGER Flynn 25 18 5 85 23/7/2003 ** ** 48/2021 Wandin
ROHAN Gary 23 18 9 93 7/6/1991 20 10 TR /2018 Cobden (Vic)/Geelong U18/Sydney 21 10 17 5 69 12 187
Scariest non-football moment: Stuck in a lift full of footballers with high protein diets – Tom Hawkins, I’m looking at you
20 14 86
If you could play an instrument, what would it be: Piano
Did you have a part-time job while still at school: Well, I was at school while on Adelaide’s list, so you could say I was a part-time footballer
35 Patrick Dangerfield
Colac (Vic)/Geelong U18 0 7 7 7 0 0 ST EVENS Nick 21 19 3 85 23/3/2002 ** ** 47/2020 East Point (Vic)/Geelong Grammar (Vic)/GWV U18 0 0 0 0 0 0 ST EWART Tom 44 19 0 88 15/3/1993 20 17 40/2016 South Barwon (Vic)/Geelong U18/Geelong (VFL) 20 18 124 124 0 3 TSAPATOLIS Paul * 36 20 2 10 1 20/6/2002 ** ** RD/2020 Yarraville-Seddon (Vic) 0 0 0 0 0 0 TUOHY Zach 2 187 91 10/12/1989 20 11 TR /2016 County Laois (Ireland)/Carlton 21 22 24 8 128 9 87 W HYTE Cooper 11 18 1 78 24/2/2003 ** ** 64/2021 Grovedale (Vic)/Grovedale College (Vic)/Geelong U18 0 0 0 0 0 0 WILLIAMS Zane # 41 18 3 71 5/6/2001 ** ** MD/2022 Woodville South (SA)/Woodville-West Torrens (SANFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 WILLIS James 20 18 3 78 10/7/2003 ** ** 32 /2021 Ingle Farm (SA)/The Heights School (SA)/North Adelaide (SANFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tom Hawkins 44 Gryan Miers 33 Brad Close 30 Jeremy Cameron 28 Tyson Stengle 28 Tom Hawkins 19 8 Jeremy Cameron 178 Tyson Stengle 15 6 Cameron Guthrie 143 Isaac Smith 13 6 Cameron Guthrie 10 2 Joel Selwood 102 Patrick Dangerfield 89 Mark Blicavs 73 Brandan Parfitt 73 Tom Atkins 14 0 Cameron Guthrie 118 Mark Blicavs 10 6 Brad Close 89 Joel Selwood 80 Isaac Smith 110 Patrick Dangerfield 79 Tyson Stengle 79 Joel Selwood 76 Jeremy Cameron 71 Jeremy Cameron 62 .34 Tom Hawkins 60.36 Tyson Stengle 46 .26 Brad Close 23.20 Isaac Smith 12 .19 Cameron Guthrie 576 Zach Tuohy 47 5 Isaac Smith 46 9 Mitch Duncan 46 2 Tom Stewart 43 4 Tom Stewart 32 6 Zach Tuohy 32 0 Mitch Duncan 311 Isaac Smith 30 8 Cameron Guthrie 29 3 Mitch Duncan 16 1 Isaac Smith 14 3 Tom Stewart 13 6 Tom Hawkins 13 1 Jeremy Cameron 13 0 Cameron Guthrie 28 3 Mark Blicavs 211 Tom Atkins 20 4 Joel Selwood 20 4 Brad Close 18 6 Cameron Guthrie 23 3 Tom Atkins 19 5 Joel Selwood 18 9 Mark Blicavs 18 8 Patrick Dangerfield 17 5 Isaac Smith 34 9 Mitch Duncan 337 Cameron Guthrie 33 2 Zach Tuohy 30 5 Tom Stewart 276 Tom Stewart 16 3 Sam De Koning 14 9 Tom Atkins 110 Zach Tuohy 107 Jake Kolodjashnij 91
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25.12 Lachie Neale 72 9 Hugh McCluggage 57 5 Daniel Rich 49 1 Jarryd Lyons 48 7 Dayne Zorko 42 6 Daniel Rich 38 9 Lachie Neale 33 6 Hugh McCluggage 32 9 Dayne Zorko 317 Jarryd Lyons 316 Harris Andrews 14 9 Hugh McCluggage 12 6 Dayne Zorko 12 5 Daniel McStay 114 Noah Answerth 10 8 Lachie Neale 39 3 Hugh McCluggage 24 6 Jarryd Lyons 17 1 Jarrod Berry 16 1 Cam Rayner 13 8 Lachie Neale 38 9 Hugh McCluggage 210 Jarryd Lyons 20 5 Oscar McInerney 18 0 Cam Rayner 16 8 Hugh McCluggage 37 5 Lachie Neale 341 Dayne Zorko 28 9 Daniel Rich 26 9 Jarrod Berry 26 4 Harris Andrews 151 Brandon Starcevich 13 6 Darcy Gardiner 110 Marcus Adams 107 Daniel Rich 10 4 Favourite non-AFL sporting team: New England Patriots Do you go to AFL games when your team is not playing: No Should the centre bounce be retained: No My non-football wish for 2022 is: Healthy happy arrival of new child Scariest non-football moment: Ran over by mum, hahaha POCKET PROFILE 15 Dayne Zorko
Hugh McCluggage 31
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What TV series are you binge-watching: Ted Lasso Best movie of all time: The Dark Knight
A NDREWS Harris 31 20 2 10 0 11/12/1996 20 15 61/2014 Aspley (NEAFL) 23 23 15 9 15 9 0 10
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Worst cooking disaster: Burnt rice Golf, tennis – or neither: Both Have you ever used ‘Dr Google’ to diagnose an injury or illness: Always
Your biggest fear: Drowning The biggest compliment you have ever received: “Hair looks good” If you could play an instrument, what would it be: Piano
McCLUGGAGE Hugh 6 18 5 86 3/3/1998 20 17 3/2016 South Warrnambool (Vic)/North Ballarat U18 24 23 12 9 12 9 20 84
23 21 10 0 10 0 9 45
McSTAY Daniel 25 19 5 98 24/6/1995 20 14 25/2013 Vermont (Vic)/Eastern U18 19 21 16 0 16 0 25 13 8
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Can you keep a secret: Hopeless
C harlie Cameron 27
AH C HEE Callum 4 18 3 81 9/ 10/1997 20 16 TR /2019 Kelmscott (WA)/South Fremantle (WAFL)/Gold Coast 21 20 10 4 59 7 41
Zac Bailey
McCARTHY Lincoln 11 178 82 22 /10/1993 20 12 TR /2018 Bordertown (SA)/Glenelg (SANFL)/Geelong 24 24 118 89 34 130
ADAMS Marcus 24 19 2 98 30/6/1993 20 16 TR /2018 Upper Swan (WA)/West Perth (WAFL)/Western Bulldogs 17 18 73 46 1 5
CA MERON Charlie 23 18 0 76 5/ 7/1994 20 14 TR /2017 Newman Saints (WA)/Swan Districts (WAFL)/Adelaide 24 24 17 5 10 2 53 30 0
MATHIESON Rhys # 36 18 6 86 10/1/1997 20 16 PL R/2020 Bell Park (Vic)/Geelong U18 15 9 71 71 3 29
74 AFL RECORD aflrecord.com.au GOALS / BEHINDS SCORE ASSISTS SCORE INSIDETACKLESCLEARANCESINVOLVEMENTS50sCONTESTED HANDBALLSMARKSKICKSDISPOSALSINTERCEPTUNCONTESTEDPOSS.POSS.POSS. POSSESSION OTHER BALL USE SCOREBOARD GAMES GOALS NAME NO. HT.WT. DOB DEBUTACQUIRED PREVIOUS CLUB 2021 2022 TOTAL THIS CLUB 2022 TOTAL Acquired = How player arrived at this club 1/2000 = National Draft number/year LTA = Local talent access selection MD = Mid-Season Rookie Draft PD = Pre-Season Draft PDN = Previous Draft nomination PDS = Pre-Draft selection PS S = Pre-Season Supplemental selection RD = Rookie Draft RE = Rookie elevation TR = Traded to this club UP S = Uncontracted player selection 17 YO = 17-year-old access UFA = Unrestricted free agent RFA = Restricted free agent DFA = Delisted free agent # = C ategory A Rookie (eligible for AFL selection) * = C ategory B Rookie (only eligible for AFL selection as long-term injury replacement) TIR = Trade Incentive Rule PLAYER LIST
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DA NIHER (WA)/Claremont (WAFL) 0 0 0 0 0 /8/1992 28/2010 Mulgrave (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 1 16 1 0 46 5/2003 20/2021 Lake Wendoree (Vic)/St Patrick’s College, Ballarat/GWV U18 2 2 2 0 0 /7/1992 12 DFA/2018 St Peters (Vic)/Sandringham U18/Adelaide/Gold Coast 24 22 18 1 89 7 84
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MICHAEL Carter # 39 18 8 83 22 /5/2002 20 22 RD/2020 Maroochydore (Qld)
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17 24 219 84 11 112
RICH Daniel 10 18 3 95 7/6/1990 20 09 7/2008 Sorrento-Duncraig (WA)/Subiaco (WAFL) 24 21 26 7 26 7 1 114
Joe 3 20 1 97 4/3/1994 20 13 RFA/2020 Aberfeldie (Vic)/Calder U18/Essendon 24 18 15 0 42 39 276 FORT Darcy 32 20 4 98 6/8/1993 20 19 TR /2021 St h Barwon (Vic)/Geel U18/Werribee (VFL)/Foots (VFL)/Cent Dist (SANFL)/Geel 0 18 2 6 18 9 15 F ULLARTON Tom 21 20 0 98 23/2/1999 20 20 RE /2020 Caloundra (Qld)/Brisbane (NEAFL) 12 5 19 19 2 6 GA RDINER Darcy 27 19 2 91 22 /9/1995 20 14 22 /2013 Queenscliff (Vic)/St Joseph’s College (Vic)/Geelong U18 9 20 15 3 15 3 0 5 HIPWOOD Eric 30 20 3 92 13/9/1997 20 16 14/2015 Caloundra (Qld)/Aspley (NEAFL) 16 16 12 6 12 6 23 18 6 LANE Kalin # 45 20 5 10 2 5/ 12/2001 ** ** MD/2021 Denmark-Walpole
ROBERTSON Deven 2 18 5 85 30/6/2001 20 20 22 /2019 Manning (WA)/Aquinas College (WA)/Perth (WAFL) 16 7 24 24 3 7
ROBINSON Mitch 5 18 4 89 7/6/1989 20 09 DFA/2014 Lauderdale (Tas)/Tasmania U18/Tasmania (VFL)/Carlton 22 15 247 147 9 12 9
STARCEVICH Brandon 37 187 92 24
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BERRY Thomas 13 18 5 81 1/5/2000 20 20 36/2018 Horsham Saints (Vic)/Ballarat Clarendon College (Vic)/GWV U18 11 3 20 20 1 3
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Dayne Zorko 26
Lincoln McCarthy
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C OLEMAN Blake 34 182 82 6/8/2002 ** ** 24/2020 Morningside (Qld) 0 0 0 0 0 0
NE ALE Lachie 9 178 84 24/5/1993 20 12 TR /2018 Kybybolite (SA)/Glenelg (SANFL)/Fremantle
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BERRY Jarrod 7 19 2 90 5/2/1998 20 17 17/2016 Horsham Saints (Vic)/Ballarat Clarendon College (Vic)/North Ballarat U18 11 22 107 107 8 47
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PRIOR Jaxon 20 18 9 85 4/6/2001 20 21 59/2019 Sorrento-Duncraig (WA)/West Perth (WAFL) 18 12 30 30 4 10
Daniel McStay 25
R AYNER Cam 16 18 6 94 21/10/1999 20 18 1/2017 Hillside (Vic)/PEGS (Vic)/Western U18 0 23 86 86 24 81
SMITH Henry 19 20 6 10 4
SMITH Ely 8 187
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BA ILEY Zac 33 182 84 23/9/1999 20 18 15/2017 Southern Dists (NT)/Prince Alfred College (SA)/Norwood (SANFL) 24 23 93 93 36 91
McINERNEY Oscar 46 20 4 110 10/7/1994 20 18 RE /2019 Montrose (Vic)/Casey (VFL)
SHARP Harry 22 182 74 17/12/2002 20 21 43/2020 East Point (Vic)/St Patrick’s Coll (Vic)/Caulf Gram (Vic)/GWV U18 2 5 7 7 0 0 91 13/9/2000 21/2018 Yarrawonga (Vic)/Sacred Heart College (Vic)/Murray U18 0 0 0 0 0 0 24/9/2002 48/2020 Blackwood (SA)/Woodville-West Torrens (SANFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 /7/1999
Hugh McCluggage 152
Jarryd Lyons McInerney ugh McCluggage am Rayner
Which teammate should run for political office in the future: Rhys Mathieson Rate your cooking skills from 1-5: 0
LYONS Jarryd 17 18 4 88 22
A NSWERTH Noah 43 18 3 85 6/8/1999 20 19 55/2018 Caulfield (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 0 22 50 50 0 2
Your idea for a perfect day: Breakfast with family, straight to the golf course, family dinner Something you are proud of: Bringing up a well-mannered child
M ADDEN James * 14 18 8 88 15/11/1999 20 21 RD/2019 County Dublin (Ireland) 9 2 11 11 0 1
McFADYEN Connor 26 19 0 95 4/ 12/2000 ** ** 42 /2018 Wilston Grange (Qld)
20 18 18/2017 Mt L awley-Inglewood (WA)/Trinity Coll (WA)/East Perth (WAFL) 24 23 70 70 3 5 TUNSTILL James 29 187 75 18/7/2003 20 22 41/2021 Busselton (WA)/Bunbury Grammar (WA)/East Perth (WAFL) 0 3 3 3 1 1 UO SIS Deividas * 41 182 78 28/6/2000 ** ** RD/2020 County Kerry (Ireland) 0 0 0 0 0 0 WILMOT Darcy 44 18 3 75 31/12/2003 20 22 16/2021 Montmorency (Vic)/Hazel Glen College (Vic)/Northern U18 0 2 2 2 1 1 ZORKO Dayne 15 17 5 82 9/2/1989 20 12 TR /2011 Surfers Paradise (Qld)/Broadbeach (Qld) 23 21 22 9 22 9 6 216
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Did you have a part-time job while still at school: At McDonald’s Best storyteller at your club: Chris Fagan
L achie Neale 15 8
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COCKATOO Nakia 12 18 5 90 23/10/1996 20 15 TR /2020 Southern Districts (NT)/NT Thunder (NEAFL)/Geelong 7 8 49 15 2 32
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Lincoln McCarthy
Jarryd Lyons 28
112 Hugh
What was the common theme of your school report card: “Dayne needs to pay attention more”
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COLEMAN Keidean 18 182 81 31/3/2000 20 20 37/2019 Morningside (Qld)/Brisbane (NEAFL) 18 17 40 40 4 12
Who rules the roost in your household: Son Louis
LESTER Ryan 35 19 2 84 26
Best social outing organiser at your club: Ryan Lester
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LOHMANN Kai 1 18 5 77 6/
Best dish: Pasta
Your favourite or most influential junior coach: Dad Where did you go to Auskick: Surfers Paradise
L achie Neale McCluggage Lyons ayne Zorko ac Bailey
The most tech savvy teammate: Mitch Robinson
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Charlie Cameron 13 2
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Zac Bailey 128
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C OX Mitch # 42 19 0 81 24/3/1997 ** ** PS S/2022 Narre Warren / Dandenong Stingrays/Frankston (VFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0
PAYNE Jack 40 197 10 5 15/10/1999 20 20 54/2017 Noosa (Qld)/Brisbane (NEAFL)
1ST QTR2ND QTR3RD QTR FINAL1ST QTR2ND QTR3RD QTR FINAL www.buymystock.com.au Webuystockthatyoucan’tmove Coach Chris Scott Captain Joel Selwood GEELONG CATS GOALS BEHINDS RUSHED 1 Rhys STANLEY 2 Zach TUOHY 3 Brandan PARFITT 4 Shaun HIGGINS 5 Jeremy CAMERON 6 Toby CONWAY 7 Isaac SMITH 8 Jake KOLODJASHNIJ 9 Max HOLMES 10 Mitch KNEVITT 11 Cooper WHYTE 12 Cooper STEPHENS 14 Joel SELWOOD 15 Jonathon CEGLAR 16 Sam DE KONING 17 Esava RATUGOLEA 18 Tyson STENGLE 19 Quinton NARKLE 20 James WILLIS 21 Nick STEVENS 2 2 Mitch DUNCAN 23 Gary ROHAN 24 Jed BEWS 25 Flynn KROEGER 26 Tom HAWKINS 27 Sam MENEGOLA 28 Oliver DEMPSEY 29 Cameron GUTHRIE 30 Tom ATKINS 31 Francis EVANS 32 Gryan MIERS 33 Shannon NEALE 35 Patrick DANGERFIELD 36 Paul TSAPATOLIS 37 Sam SIMPSON 38 Jack HENRY 39 Zach GUTHRIE 40 Luke DAHLHAUS 41 Zane WILLIAMS 42 Mark O’CONNOR 4 4 Tom STEWART 45 Brad CLOSE 46 Mark BLICAVS Field umpires: 8 – Brett Rosebury, 14 – Hayden Gavine, 16 – Brendan Hosking. Emergency: 32 – Jacob Mollison. Boundary umpires: Chris Esler, Michael Marantelli, Ben MacDonald, Ian Burrows. Goal umpires: Stephen Williams, Matthew Dervan. Emergency: Michael Craig. Coach Chris Fagan Captain Dayne Zorko BRISBANE LIONS GOALS BEHINDS RUSHED 1 Kai LOHMANN 2 Deven ROBERTSON 3 Joe DANIHER 4 Callum AH CHEE 5 Mitch ROBINSON 6 Hugh McCLUGGAGE 7 Jarrod BERRY 8 Ely SMITH 9 Lachie NEALE 10 Daniel RICH 11 Lincoln McCARTHY 12 Nakia COCKATOO 13 Thomas BERRY 14 James MADDEN 15 Dayne ZORKO 16 Cam RAYNER 17 Jarryd LYONS 18 Keidean COLEMAN 19 Henry SMITH 20 Jaxon PRIOR 21 Tom FULLARTON 2 2 Harry SHARP 23 Charlie CAMERON 24 Marcus ADAMS 25 Daniel McSTAY 26 Connor McFADYEN 27 Darcy GARDINER 29 James TUNSTILL 30 Eric HIPWOOD 31 Harris ANDREWS 32 Darcy FORT 33 Zac BAILEY 34 Blake COLEMAN 35 Ryan LESTER 36 Rhys MATHIESON 37 Brandon STARCEVICH 39 Carter MICHAEL 40 Jack PAYNE 41 Deividas UOSIS 42 Mitchell COX 43 Noah ANSWERTH 4 4 Darcy WILMOT 45 Kalin LANE 46 Oscar McINERNEY
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ZERO-TURN RIDING MOWER POWER
HEAD to HEAD
Home record: 55-66-1
Longest winning sequence: 8, round 10, 1941, to round 2, 1945.
COLLINGWOOD
Greatest winning margin: 99 points, round 14, 1991, at Victoria Park.
Away record: 31-77
u These finals have shown that recent results count for nought. Brisbane reversed recent form to beat Richmond and Melbourne, and Collingwood will be hoping for the same when it heads to the SCG late Saturday afternoon. The Magpies’ spectacular winning run ended abruptly in round 22 when they lost to the Swans by 27 points, but the belief has never wavered and they’ll be buoyed by the return of Jordan De Goey, who didn’t play that week but has enjoyed a blistering run of form through the last part of the season. These Pies are pressure-tested through big games and Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom, Jamie Elliott and Darcy Moore will relish the occasion. Still, the Swans are rested and
Greatest winning margin: 91 points, round 1, 1987, at Victoria Park.
Match Preview
Played 230: Sydney Swans 86, Collingwood 143, draws 1.
80 AFL RECORD aflrecord.com.au
Home record: 77-31
BIG IMPROVER: Chad Warner shrugs off Isaac Quaynor in the Swans’ comfortable win over the Magpies in round 22.
Since 2017: Sydney Swans 3, Collingwood 3.
Prediction: Sydney Swans by nine points
Most recent game: round 22, 2022, Sydney Swans d Collingwood by 27 points at the SCG.
Most goals in a game: 10, Bob Pratt, round 12, 1935, at the Lake Oval; Tony Lockett, round 7, 1998, at the MCG.
Highest score: 25.15 (165), round 1, 1987, at Victoria Park.
Swans v Magpies
SYDNEY SWANS
Most goals in a game: 16, Peter McKenna, round 19, 1969, at Victoria Park.
Highest attendance: 74,091, Grand Final, 1936, at the MCG.
Highest score: 29.11 (185), round 16, 1985, at the SCG.
Lowest score: 1.7 (13), round 11, 1898, at Victoria Park.
Away record: 66-55-1
Lowest score: 0.8 (8), round 11, 1897, at Victoria Park.
Longest winning sequence: 16, round 15, 1924, to round 3, 1933.
ASHLEY BROWNE
playing on their home deck. They can win with speed on the ball or with the pressure game that was too strong for Melbourne in the qualifying final and they have match-winners of their own, notably Isaac Heeney and Lance Franklin, who could be playing his last home game in front of his adopted fans. What will he have in store? The Swans are riding an eight-game winning streak into this game and are excelling in all facets of the game. If Geelong is the best team in the competition, then the Swans are just marginally behind and, in front of a packed SCG, even with plenty of black and white in the house, they will show us why in another September classic.
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MILLS Callum 14 187 87 2/4/1997 20 16 3/2015 North Shore (NSW) 18 23 13 3 13 3 9 18
Can you keep a secret: Yes Your biggest fear: Dylan Stephens
Rate your cooking skills from 1-5: 7
GULDEN Errol 21 176 78 18/7/2002 20 21 32 /2020 UNSW-Eastern Suburbs (NSW) 18 23 41 41 18 32
McCARTIN Paddy # 39 19 5 95 19/4/1996 20 15 PS S/2022 St Joseph’s (Vic)/Geelong U18/St Kilda 0 22 57 22 0 34
Tom Hickey 56
L ance Franklin 50.26
Favourite non-AFL sporting team: LA Lakers
Luke Parker 29 7
BELL James 32 18 3 87 10/2/1999 20 19 RE /2019 University of NSW-Eastern Suburbs (NSW) 12 6 28 28 4 10
C had Warner 12 0
Oliver Florent 119
HAYWARD Will 9 18 6 84 26/10/1998 20 17 21/2016 Walkerville (SA)/North Adelaide (SANFL) 20 23 112 112 33 13 3
James Rowbottom 84
Best social outing organiser at your club: Callum Mills The most tech savvy teammate: Tom Papley
0 0 30 30 0 3
PARKER Luke 26 18 3 88 25/10/1992 20 11 40/2010 Langwarrin (Vic)/Dandenong U18 23 23 25 8 25 8 13 18 9
Callum Mills
RA NKIN Lachlan 41 18 4 73 5/2/2003 ** ** 58/2021 Beverley Hills (Vic)/Caulfield Grammar (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 0 0 0 0 0 0
Isaac Heeney 47.27
22 Nick Blakey
Your favourite or most influential junior coach: Doc Rivers
Paddy McCartin 12 0
Luke Parker 13 1
F LORENT Oliver 13 18 4 81 22 /7/1998 20 17 11/2016 Beaumaris (Vic)/Mentone Grammar (Vic)/Sandringham U18 23 23 116 116 5 37
Jake Lloyd
McANDREW Lachlan # 46 20 9 10 1 26/5/2000 ** ** MD/2021 St Augustine’s Coll (NSW)/Manly Waringah (NSW)/Syd Swans (VFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0
L uke Parker 23
Jake Lloyd 137
Callum Mills 23 0
Callum Mills 91
GOULD Will 17 19 1 97 14/1/2001 ** ** 26/2019 Lucindale (SA)/Glenelg (SANFL)
L LOYD Jake 44 18 0 80 20/9/1993 20 14 RE /2014 Horsham Demons (Vic)/North Ballarat U18 22 22 19 8 19 8 2 33
Best dish: Vegemite toast Worst cooking disaster: Set the house on fire Golf, tennis – or neither: Both Have you ever used ‘Dr Google’ to diagnose an injury or illness: No Your idea for a perfect day: Beach, then skate park Something you are proud of: Logan McDonald
Errol Gulden 314
WARNER Corey 37 182 71 7/ 10/2003 ** ** 40/2021 Willetton JFC (WA)/East Fremantle (WAFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Callum Mills 23 1
C had Warner 15 9
Oliver Florent 28 5
Callum Mills 339 Nick Blakey 32 6
Should the centre bounce be retained: Yes My non-football wish for 2022 is: Start getting along with Justin McInerney Who rules the roost in your household: Me
Nick Blakey 128
Luke Parker 27 3
WICKS Sam # 15 18 0 81 14/9/1999 20 20 RD/2019 Manly-Warringah (NSW)/Sydney (NEAFL) 22 10 39 39 4 24
MELICAN Lewis 43 19 4 10 0 4/ 11/1996 20 17 RE /2017 Birregurra (Vic)/Geelong U18 6 0 52 52 0 1
James Rowbottom 147
SHELDRICK Angus 29 17 9 88 7/ 11/2003 20 22 18/2021 Mosman Park (WA)/Christ Church Grammar (WA)/Claremont (WAFL) 0 2 2 2 0 0
C UNNINGHAM Harry 7 18 1 80 6/ 12/1993 20 12 RE /2012 Turvey Park (NSW)/NSW-ACT U18/Wagga (NSW) 21 10 16 1 16 1 0 48
C AMPBELL Braeden 16 18 1 79 4/2/2002 20 21 5/2020 Pennant Hills (NSW) 8 15 23 23 2 3
CL ARKE Ryan 4 18 6 83 17/6/1997 20 16 TR /2018 Rowville (Vic)/Melbourne Grammar (Vic)/Eastern U18/North Melb 3 12 79 39 4 15
Tom McCartin 13 2
James Rowbottom 10 3
SINCLAIR Callum 18 19 9 98 23/9/1989 20 13 TR /2015 Beaumaris (Vic)/Port Melb (VFL)/Subiaco (WAFL)/West Coast 4 0 118 89 0 63
Callum Mills 10 1
Tom Papley 28.22
C allum Mills 15 0
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STEPHENS Dylan 3 18 4 78 8/ 1/2001 20 20 5/2019 Red Cliffs (Vic)/Walkerville (SA)/St Peter’s Coll (SA)/Norwood (SANFL) 7 13 28 28 4 7
BLAKEY Nick 22 19 5 84 27/2/2000 20 19 10/2018 University of NSW-Eastern Suburbs (NSW) 17 22 76 76 2 32
Errol Gulden 29 3
Tom Papley 27
RONKE Ben 25 18 3 80 18/12/1997 20 18 RD/2017 St Bernard’s (Vic)/Calder U18 2 8 44 44 6 39
Errol Gulden 18.6
McDONALD Logan 6 19 6 92 4/4/2002 20 21 4/2020 Applecross (WA)/Aquinas College (WA)/Perth (WAFL) 7 16 23 23 14 23
FOX Robbie # 42 18 5 84 16/4/1993 20 17 PL R/2020 Burnie Dockers (Tas)/Coburg (VFL)
15 12 65 65 0 8
If you could play an instrument, what would it be: Recorder What TV series are you binge-watching: Spider-Man Best movie of all time: The Hangover
Chad Warner 88
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H ALL-KAHAN Hugo # 45 18 8 78 22 /9/2003 ** ** MD/2022 Ea st Sandringham (Vic)/Hailebury College (Vic)/Old Haileybury (Vic)/Sandringham U18 0 0 0 0 0 0
N AISMITH Sam 10 20 5 110 16/7/1992 20 14 RD/2013 North Shore (NSW)
ROBERTS Matt 34 18 4 84 31/7/2003 20 22 34/2021 Langhorne Creek (SA)/St Peter’s Coll (SA)/South Adelaide (SANFL) 0 1 1 1 0 0
ROWBOTTOM James 8 18 6 82 19/9/2000 20 19 25/2018 Camberwell (Vic)/St Kevin’s College (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 17 22 67 67 7 21
Dane Rampe 10 9
James Rowbottom 20 2
PA PLEY Tom 11 17 7 80 13/7/1996 20 16 RD/2016 Bunyip (Vic)/Gippsland U18 23 17 13 9 13 9 28 217
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McCARTIN Tom 30 19 3 97 30/12/1999 20 18 33/2017 St Joseph’s, Geel (Vic)/St Joseph’s Coll, Geel (Vic)/Geel Gram (Vic)/Geel U18 22 23 9 3 93 0 28
Errol Gulden 10 6
HICKEY Tom 31 20 2 97 6/3/1991 20 11 TR /2020 Morningside (Qld)/Gold Coast/St Kilda/West Coast 21 14 137 35 3 45
C allum Mills 25
Chad Warner 33
Will Hayward 33.22
Luke Parker 26 8
Callum Mills 13 1
Jake Lloyd 170
Luke Parker 88
Isaac Heeney 15 6
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McINERNEY Justin 27 18 8 84 18/8/2000 20 19 44/2018 Banyule (Vic)/Marcellin College (Vic)/Northern U18 21 20 51 51 5 17
TAYLOR Lewis # 28 174 81 17/2/1995 20 14 RD/2022 Terang-Mortlake (Vic)/Geelong U18/Brisbane 2 1 124 12 0 94
Luke Parker 13 6
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McLEAN Hayden # 2 197 98 20/1/1999 20 19 PS S/2019 Beaumaris (Vic)/St Bede’s College (Vic)/Sandr U18/Sandr (VFL) 12 8 30 30 10 26
O’CONNOR Barry * 35 19 3 93 26/6/1998 ** ** RD/2020 County Wexford (Ireland) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Isaac Heeney 18 9
Which teammate should run for political office in the future: Tom McCartin
Luke Parker 142
Jake Lloyd 104 Dane Rampe 85
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RAMPE Dane 24 18 8 91 2/6/1990 20 13 RE /2013 Williamstown (VFL)/Eastern Suburbs (NSW)/Uni of NSW (NSW) 20 23 213 213 1 7
Jake Lloyd 32 3
WARNER Chad 1 18 1 82 19/5/2001 20 20 39/2019 Willetton (WA)/Aquinas College (WA)/East Fremantle (WAFL) 13 22 37 37 17 25
Lance Franklin 14 5
Chad Warner 20 1
Jake Lloyd 36 1
Chad Warner 29 7
Chad Warner 207
Paddy McCartin 16 8
FR ANKLIN Lance 23 19 9 10 6 30/1/1987 20 05 RFA/2013 Dowerin (WA)/Perth (WAFL)/Hawthorn 18 21 33 9 157 50 10 45
LADHAMS Peter 19 20 2 10 1 14/1/1998 20 19 TR /2021 Modbury (SA)/Norwood (SANFL)/Port Adelaide 17 11 43 11 2 23
REID Sam 20 19 6 98 27/12/1991 20 10 38/2009 Wangaratta Rovers (Vic)/Murray U18 10 16 17 9 17 9 17 182
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Did you have a part-time job while still at school: No Best storyteller at your club: Nick Smith
SHEATHER Marc * 33 18 5 87 11/6/2002 ** ** RD/2020 Pennant Hills (NSW) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Isaac Heeney 26
K ENNEDY Josh 12 18 8 95 20/6/1988 20 08 TR /2009 East Sandr (Vic)/Xavier Coll (Vic)/Sandr U18/Hawthorn 21 11 29 0 27 7 2 157
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HEENEY Isaac 5 18 5 87 5/5/1996 20 15 18/2014 Cardiff (NSW) 21 23 152 152 47 19 5
O’ RIORDAN Colin 38 18 6 87 12 /10/1995 20 18 RE /2017 County Tipperary (Ireland) 6 5 34 34 0 1
Isaac Heeney 10 6
AMARTEY Joel 36 197 10 0 2/9/1999 20 20 RE /2020 Beaumaris (Vic)/Mentone Gram (Vic)/Sandringham U18 6 6 13 13 5 10
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MAYNARD Brayden 37 18 9 93 20/9/1996 20 15 30/2014 Hampton Rovers (Vic)/Sandringham U18 22 22 16 0 16 0 1 17
COX Mason 46 211 10 8 14/3/1991 20 16 RE /2017 Oklahoma State University (USA) 7 17 93 93 7 10 0
CRISP Jack 25 19 0 92 2/ 10/1993 20 12 TR /2014 Myrtleford (Vic)/Murray U18/Brisbane 22 24 19 9 (Vic)/Bulleen-Templestowe (Vic)/Oakleigh (Vic)/Camberwell (Vic)/Oakleigh (Vic)/St 3 3 0 1 EUGER Nathan 15 19 6 93 25/6/1999 20 21 TR /2021 Victor Harbour (SA)/South Adelaide (SANFL)/Geelong 2 4 6 4 4 4
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CHUGG Isaac # 34 18 1 84 26/2/2002 20 22 RD/2022 Launceston (Tas) 0 2 2 2 0 0
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LIPINSKI Patrick 1 19 0 86 17/7/1998 20 17 TR /2021 Eltham (Vic)/Northern U18/Western Bulldogs 11 24 80 24 9 39 ACRAE Finlay 18 18 8 83 13/3/2002 20 21 19/2020 Kew Rovers (Vic)/Xavier College (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 9 2 11 11 0 1
CA MERON Darcy 14 20 4 10 1 18/7/1995 20 18 TR /2019 North Albany (WA)/Claremont (WAFL)/Sydney 18 23 52 51 19 45
BI ANCO Trent 8 178 75 20/1/2001 20 21 45/2019 Doncaster (Vic)/Marcellin College (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 12 9 21 21 0 7
McCREERY Beau 31 18 6 84 19/4/2001 20 21 44/2020 Cove (SA)/South Adelaide (SANFL) 13 21 34 34 12 23
U18 17 24 76 76 14 40 DAICOS Nick 35 18 4 73 3/ 1/2003 20 22 4/2021 Kew Rovers
MOORE Darcy 30 20 3 10 0 25/1/1996 20 15 9/2014 Kew Comets (Vic)/Carey Grammar (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 13 23 125 125 2 67 URLEY Cooper 27 178 67 20/6/2003 ** ** 49/2021 Tea Tree Gully (SA)/Pedare Christian Coll (SA)/Norwood (SANFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 RPHY Nathan 28 19 2 97 15/12/1999 20 18 39/2017 East Sandringham (Vic)/Brighton Grammar (Vic)/Sandr U18
Kevin’s College (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 20 18 136 136 18 173 DEAN Charlie # 43 19 5 89 19/6/2001 ** ** RD/2022 Collegians (Vic)/Wesley Coll (Vic)/Sandr U18/Williamstown (VFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 DR APER Arlo 19 18 6 78 30/1/2003 ** ** 45/2021 Willunga (SA)/Cardijn Catholic Coll (SA)/S Adelaide (SANFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 EL LIOTT Jamie 5 178 80 21/8/1992 20 12 TR /2011 Euroa (Vic)/Murray U18 13 18 15 4 15 4 26 225 GINNIVAN Jack # 33 18 5 80 9/ 12/2002 20 21 RD/2020 Strathfieldsaye (Vic)/Bendigo U18 5 22 27 27 39 45 GRUNDY Brodie 4 20 3 10 4 15/4/1994 20 13 18/2012 Unley (SA)/Sturt (SANFL) 20 6 17 7 17 7 2 60 H ARRISON Harvey 36 18 1 76 10/11/2003 ** ** 52 /2021 Golden Grove (SA)/Tyndale Christian Coll (SA)/North Adel (SANFL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 HENRY Oliver 16 18 9 80 29/7/2002 20 21 17/2020 St Mary’s, Geelong (Vic)/St Joseph’s College, Geel (Vic)/Geel U18 10 15 25 25 21 28 HOSKIN-ELLIOTT Will 32 18 6 83 2/9/1993 20 12 TR /2016 North Sunshine (Vic)/Western U18/GWS 20 23 18 0 128 12 157 HOWE Jeremy 38 19 0 85 29/6/1990 20 11 TR /2015 Dodges Ferry (Tas)/Hobart (Tas)/Melbourne 8 23 218 118 1 91 JOHNSON Ash # 40 19 3 87 6/ 10/1997 20 22 MD/2021 Halls Ck (WA)/Clare (WAFL)/N Wang (Vic)/Scotch OC (SA)/Sturt (SANFL) 0 8 8 8 15 15 KELLY Will 20 19 4 92 16/8/2000 20 20 29/2018 Glen Iris (Vic)/Scotch College (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 2 0
McINNES Reef 26 19 4 87 12 /12/2002 20 22 23/2020 Surrey Park (Vic)/Scotch College (Vic)/Oakleigh U18 0 6 6 6 3 3
C ARMICHAEL Josh # 45 19 0 89 23/9/1999 20 22 MD/2022 Imperial (Vic)/Merbein (Vic)/Waratah (NT)/West Adelaide (SANFL) 0 7 7 7 4 4
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McMAHON Liam 29 19 8 89 2/5/2002 ** ** 31/2020 Eltham (Vic)/Northern U18 0 0 0 0 0 0
If you could play an instrument, what would it be: Guitar What TV series are you binge-watching: Yellowstone Best movie of all time: Happy Gilmore
Your biggest fear: Sharks
BROWN Tyler 6 19 2 84 9/ 12/1999 20 20 50/2017 Templestowe (Vic)/Eastern U18 7 11 27 27 2 4
MIHOCEK Brody 41 19 2 97 4/2/1993 20 18 RE /2020 Burnie (Tas)/Tas U18/Maribyrnong Pk (Vic)/Werribee (VFL)/Port Melb (VFL) 21 22 10 1 10 1 40 164
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BROWN Callum 17 17 9 81 27/4/1998 20 17 35/2016 Beverley Hills (Vic)/Marcellin College (Vic)/Eastern U18 15 6 70 70 1 23
Golf or tennis – or neither: Neither
Which teammate should run office in future: Mihocek your cooking skills from dish: 2-minute cooking disaster: 2-minute noodles
18 1 11 62 DAICOS Josh 7 178 78 26/11/1998 20 17 57/2016 Greythorn
84 AFL RECORD aflrecord.com.au NAME NO. HT.WT. DOB DEBUTACQUIRED PREVIOUS CLUB 2021 2022 TOTAL THIS CLUB 2022 TOTAL GOALS / BEHINDS SCORE ASSISTS SCORE INSIDETACKLESCLEARANCESINVOLVEMENTS50sCONTESTED HANDBALLSMARKSKICKSDISPOSALSINTERCEPTUNCONTESTEDPOSS.POSS.POSS. POSSESSION OTHER BALL USE SCOREBOARD GAMES GOALSPLAYER LIST Acquired = How player arrived at this club 1/2000 = National Draft number/year LTA = Local talent access selection MD = Mid-Season Rookie Draft PD = Pre-Season Draft PDN = Previous Draft nomination PDS = Pre-Draft selection PS S = Pre-Season Supplemental selection RD = Rookie Draft RE = Rookie elevation TR = Traded to this club UP S = Uncontracted player selection 17 YO = 17-year-old access UFA = Unrestricted free agent RFA = Restricted free agent DFA = Delisted free agent # = C ategory A Rookie (eligible for AFL selection) * = C ategory B Rookie (only eligible for AFL selection as long-term injury replacement) TIR = Trade Incentive Rule Patrick Lipinski 36 S cott Pendlebury 33 Taylor Adams 19 W ill Hoskin-Elliott 19 Jack Crisp 19 Patrick Lipinski 137 Scott Pendlebury 12 9 Jack Crisp 12 2 Jordan De Goey 12 1 Josh Daicos 118 Taylor Adams 95 Jack Crisp 94 Jordan De Goey 91 S cott Pendlebury 75 Patrick Lipinski 74 Jack Crisp 13 1 Scott Pendlebury 10 6 Taylor Adams 91 Patrick Lipinski 86 B eau McCreery 85 Jack Crisp 13 1 Josh Daicos 89 Jordan De Goey 82 Patrick Lipinski 79 Taylor Adams 73 Brody Mihocek 40.25 Jack Ginnivan 39.19 Jamie Elliott 26 .17 Oliver Henry 21.15 Darcy Cameron 19.7 Nick Daicos 62 1 Jack Crisp 56 6 Patrick Lipinski 53 2 Scott Pendlebury 52 6 Josh Daicos 513 Nick Daicos 347 Josh Daicos 30 3 Jack Crisp 29 6 John Noble 28 0 Patrick Lipinski 26 5 Jeremy Howe 137 Darcy Moore 12 6 John Noble 113 Brayden Maynard 10 5 Steele Sidebottom 10 3 Nick Daicos 274 Jack Crisp 270 Patrick Lipinski 26 7 Scott Pendlebury 26 5 Josh Daicos 210 Jack Crisp 22 1 Scott Pendlebury 20 8 Patrick Lipinski 19 5 Taylor Adams 18 6 Jordan De Goey 18 1 Nick Daicos 413 Josh Daicos 347 Jack Crisp 337 Patrick Lipinski 33 3 John Noble 32 0 Darcy Moore 16 9 Jeremy Howe 161 Brayden Maynard 151 Isaac Quaynor 14 0 Nick Daicos 128 Favourite non-AFL sporting team: Melbourne Storm Do you go to AFL games when your team is not playing: No Should the centre bounce be retained: Yes Scariest non-football moment: Anything with sharks Who rules the roost in your household: My wife POCKET PROFILE 32 Will Hoskin-Elliott Your favourite or most influential junior coach: Brett Azzopardi Where did you go to Auskick: Sunshine What was the common theme of your school report card: Not great in class Did you have a part-time job while still at school: No Best storyteller at your club: Tyler Brown Best social outing organiser at your club: Ollie Henry The most tech savvy teammate: Liam McMahon
1ST QTR2ND QTR3RD QTR FINAL1ST QTR2ND QTR3RD QTR FINAL www.buymystock.com.au Webuystockthatyoucan’tmove Coach John Longmire Co-captains Callum Mills / Luke Parker / Dane Rampe SYDNEY SWANS GOALS BEHINDS RUSHED 1 Chad WARNER 2 Hayden McLEAN 3 Dylan STEPHENS 4 Ryan CLARKE 5 Isaac HEENEY 6 Logan McDONALD 7 Harry CUNNINGHAM 8 James ROWBOTTOM 9 Will HAYWARD 10 Sam NAISMITH 11 Tom PAPLEY 12 Josh KENNEDY 13 Oliver FLORENT 14 Callum MILLS 15 Sam WICKS 16 Braeden CAMPBELL 17 Will GOULD 18 Callum SINCLAIR 19 Peter LADHAMS 20 Sam REID 21 Errol GULDEN 2 2 Nick BLAKEY 23 Lance FRANKLIN 24 Dane RAMPE 25 Ben RONKE 26 Luke PARKER 27 Justin McINERNEY 28 Lewis TAYLOR 29 Angus SHELDRICK 30 Tom McCARTIN 31 Tom HICKEY 32 James BELL 33 Marc SHEATHER 34 Matt ROBERTS 35 Barry O’CONNOR 36 Joel AMARTEY 37 Corey WARNER 38 Colin O’RIORDAN 39 Paddy McCARTIN 41 Lachlan RANKIN 42 Robbie FOX 43 Lewis MELICAN 4 4 Jake LLOYD 45 Hugo HALL-KAHAN 46 Lachlan McANDREW Field umpires: 9 – Matt Stevic, 12 – Andrew Stephens, 21 – Simon Meredith. Emergency: 26 – Craig Fleer. Boundary umpires: Daniel Field-Read, Christopher Gordon, Matthew Konetschka, Matthew Tomkins. Goal umpires: Dylan Benwell, Sam Walsh. Emergency: Sam Hunter. Coach Craig McRae Captain Scott Pendlebury COLLINGWOOD GOALS BEHINDS RUSHED 1 Patrick LIPINSKI 2 Jordan DE GOEY 3 Isaac QUAYNOR 4 Brodie GRUNDY 5 Jamie ELLIOTT 6 Tyler BROWN 7 Josh DAICOS 8 Trent BIANCO 9 John NOBLE 10 Scott PENDLEBURY 12 Tom WILSON 13 Taylor ADAMS 14 Darcy CAMERON 15 Nathan KREUGER 16 Oliver HENRY 17 Callum BROWN 18 Finlay MACRAE 19 Arlo DRAPER 20 Will KELLY 21 Trey RUSCOE 2 2 Steele SIDEBOTTOM 23 Jordan ROUGHEAD 24 Caleb POULTER 25 Jack CRISP 26 Reef McINNES 27 Cooper MURLEY 28 Nathan MURPHY 29 Liam McMAHON 30 Darcy MOORE 31 Beau McCREERY 32 Will HOSKIN-ELLIOTT 33 Jack GINNIVAN 34 Isaac CHUGG 35 Nick DAICOS 36 Harvey HARRISON 37 Brayden MAYNARD 38 Jeremy HOWE 39 Aiden BEGG 40 Ash JOHNSON 41 Brody MIHOCEK 43 Charlie DEAN 4 4 Jack MADGEN 45 Josh CARMICHAEL 46 Mason COX
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In some years it goes to the premiership coach, with Melbourne’s Simon Goodwin last year the most recent example.
But whoever is fortunate enough to become the premiership coach at around 5.15pm next Saturday, well, they will also have some stories of their own to tell.
SIDE BY SIDE: First-year Magpie coach Craig McRae has been a breath of fresh air; (below) fellow preliminary final coaches Chris Scott, John Longmire and Chris Fagan.
And they came to the MCG and had a win there for the first time in 12Invariably,attempts. it is the players who will be hailed the heroes on Saturday week.
Fellow preliminary final coaches Chris Scott, John Longmire and Chris Fagan have also enjoyed terrific seasons and should figure in some way in the 3-2-1 votes of their peers.
Close call but McRae coach of the year
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ne of the hardest awards of all to read in football is the coach of the year.
But if the overall body of work for the season is going to remain the criteria, then it is hard to go past Collingwood’s Craig McRae as the 2022 coach of the year.
After lifting the Magpies from 17th to a preliminary final in his first year, Craig McRae deserves best coach honour.
Buckley was an iconic figure, one of the club’s greatest players who
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Dare it be said, he has made the Magpies likeable.
The Magpies play with speed and on the edge of chaos.
The epitaphs were being prepared for the Lions after their round 23 thrashing against Melbourne, but within the opening fortnight of the finals they stared down Richmond and then the Demons – their bogy teams of not just this year, but many years.
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Sydney’s transformation under Longmire over the past two years has beenTheremarkable.Swanscan beat you with speed and skill, or as was the case against Melbourne a fortnight ago, with monstrous defensive pressure andLiketackling.Scott, Longmire has been in the job for 12 seasons, yet keeps himself fresh and relevant with theFagan’splayers.work over the past two weeks deserves widespread acclaim.
That the award should be held over until after the Grand Final and given to the premiership coach is an idea full of Premiershipsmerit.are not won on talent alone. It also takes masterful coaching.
No coach has lifted his club so far up the ladder in League history. The Pies were 17th last year and can finish no lower than third this year. It has been a remarkable season. Stepping in so successfully to replace Nathan Buckley at Collingwood is no mean feat.
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He doesn’t delve in cliches and he speaks with sincerity andHiswarmth.“wecan win the premiership” remarks after the semi-final win over Fremantle last Saturday night were notable for their candour.
The coaching staff was overhauled (moving on from loyal and longstanding assistants Corey Enright and Matthew Knights could not have been easy), the game-plan was reimagined, and the Cats are riding a 14-game unbeaten streak into the preliminary final.
Comparisons to Richmond 2017-20 are valid given that McRae was a trusted lieutenant there under Damien Hardwick and it is likely no coincidence that bringing fellow former Tiger assistant Justin Leppitsch with him in a strategic role has helped spark Collingwood’s revival.
In other years, the award ends up in the hands of the coach whose team has made a particularly great leap or dominated the home and awayThecompetition.quirkofthe award, and why some downplay its significance, is that four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson has never won it. Not when the Hawks were winning flags, nor when they were coming close.
We don’t hear such talk from coaches very often, so let’s hope we don’t make that a hanging offence if they don’t salute from here. There are 17 coaching jobs in the AFL and then there is Collingwood. The scrutiny and the expectation areTheenormous.Magpies have long thrived on ‘us against the world’ mentality, but McRae has flipped that narrative on itsHehead.has taken all of us in football on their journey, through the many close finishes this year.
Scott deconstructed Geelong at the end of 2021, another year in which the Cats fell agonisingly short.
But Collingwood needed a fresh voice and a different outlook.
Add former Carlton coach Brendon Bolton to the mix and there are few better coaching groups, especially at the top end, in the McRaeAFL.has been a breath of fresh air.
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