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Sydney vs Geelong

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Round: 4   Venue: S.C.G.   Date: Fri, 19-04-2013 7:50 pm   Crowd: 31,060  
Sydney 8.1.4910.3.6311.6.7216.7.103 C:  John Longmire
Geelong 7.2.449.4.5816.7.10319.10.124 C:  Chris Scott
  SYD by 5SYD by 5GEEL by 31GEEL by 21  
Brownlow Medal 3 Joel Selwood (GEEL)2 Dan Hannebery (SYD)1 Mathew Stokes (GEEL)

Match Report

Geelong has maintained its perfect start to the 2013 season after it defeated Sydney in a highly entertaining match at the SCG on Friday night. The two sides put on a magnificent display of high-quality football, particularly in the first quarter, when the Cats kicked 7.2 but we still outscored by an amazing effort from Sydney, who kicked 8.1 in thew same period. The combined total of 15.3 was the 14th highest first-quarter total in VFL/AFL history.

Neither side could maintain the scoring frenzy in the second term. Sydney managed to shut Geelong's scoring ability early on and scored goals through Lewis Roberts-Thomson and Daniel Hannebery to grab a 19-point lead after 11 minutes. Steven Motlop replied for the Cats at the 15-minute mark and the match then took on the opposite complexion to the first quarter, with only one more goal - to James Podsiadly at the 23-minute mark - being scored prior to the main break.

A string of behinds opened the third quarter before Billie Smedts marked and goaled to give Geelong the lead at the eight-minute mark. The Cats then followed up with three more goals, two to Tom Hawkins and one to Paul Chapman, to jump out to a 20-point lead. Mike Pyke got one back for the Swans but further goals to Steve Johnson, Joel Selwood and Taylor Hunt saw Geelong take a commanding 31-point break into the final change.

To gives themselves any chance the Swans needed to kick the first goal of the last quarter but it was the Cats' Allen Christensen who did so at the six-minute mark, giving Geelong a 37-point lead and putting the result beyond doubt. Sydney fought on well, kicking five of the next seven goals but in the end the Cats prevailed by 21 points to become the first side in 2013 to have a 4-0 record.

Captain Joel Selwood was at his brilliant best for the Cats, with a 31 touches and a goal beside his name at game's end, while Motlop and Harry Taylor were also very good. Hannebery and Nick Malceski were amongst the best for Sydney.

The Cats next assignment will be to take on the 15th-placed Bulldogs at Docklands on Saturday night, while Sydney will "cross the ditch" to take on St Kilda in Wellington, New Zealand on ANZAC Day.

GOALS
Sydney: McVeigh 3; Goodes, Bolton, Hannebery, Malceski 2; Reid, Roberts-Thomson, Pyke, McGlynn, Kennedy
Geelong: Motlop, Hawkins 3; Taylor, Chapman, Stokes 2; Horlin-Smith, Podsiadly, Smedts, Johnson, Selwood, T. Hunt, Christensen

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Sydney: Hannebery, Bolton, Pyke, O'Keefe, Malceski, Goodes
Geelong: Selwood, Taylor, Hawkins, Motlop, Corey, T. Hunt

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Sydney: McVeigh, Hannebery, Malceski, Jack
Geelong: Selwood, Stokes, Motlop, Taylor, Mackie, Horlin-Smith

COACHES' COMMENTS
John Longmire (Syd): [That was] not how we should be playing our footy. We didn't apply the pressure we should have, and when you come home with 47 tackles, I just think that's not the way we like to play our footy.

Chris Scott (Geel): Against really high quality opposition, when the game got a bit tighter, I thought our guys in close were really influential. We respect the opposition and they were playing pretty good football. In the congestion we started to look a little bit better and a little bit surer with our hands.

INJURIES
Sydney: Roberts-Thomson (right knee)
Geelong: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
Sydney: Lewis Roberts-Thomson (right knee) replaced by Mitch Morton in the second quarter
Geelong: Billie Smedts replaced by Josh Caddy at three-quarter time

UMPIRES: Donlon, Stevic, Stewart

Source

Match report by Andrew Gigacz

Footnotes

Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.

Match stats

Sydney Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
19 Armstrong, Tony 10 3 7 17 0 0 0 3 2 0 23y 202d 25 2
24 Bolton, Jude 10 1 7 17 2 0 0 4 1 3 33y 35d 305 176
37 Goodes, Adam 9 4 2 11 2 2 0 2 2 0 33y 101d 323 395
39 Grundy, Heath 7 4 9 16 0 0 0 2 1 1 26y 321d 118 21
4 Hannebery, Dan 13 5 16 29 2 0 0 2 0 0 22y 54d 81 31
15 Jack, Kieren 20 4 9 29 0 1 0 3 1 1 25y 295d 118 82
32 Jetta, Lewis 6 3 1 7 0 0 0 2 0 0 23y 350d 69 63
12 Kennedy, Josh 6 2 17 23 1 0 0 1 0 3 24y 303d 90 57
9 Malceski, Nick 24 6 4 28 2 0 0 3 0 1 28y 247d 130 56
29 Mattner, Martin 11 5 5 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 30y 256d 219 40
21 McGlynn, Ben 7 4 6 13 1 0 0 5 1 2 27y 256d 108 118
3 McVeigh, Jarrad 15 1 12 27 3 0 0 3 0 1 28y 12d 198 151
10 Morton, Mitch 4 1 5 9 0 0 0 1 2 0 26y 81d 77 110
41 Mumford, Shane 2 0 3 5 0 0 30 5 3 4 26y 288d 82 31
5 O'Keefe, Ryan 9 1 15 24 0 0 0 3 2 1 32y 85d 261 251
26 Parker, Luke 8 0 7 15 0 0 0 1 2 1 20y 176d 36 17
38 Pyke, Mike 4 5 4 8 1 0 15 1 1 2 29y 26d 50 18
43 Rampe, Dane 8 3 1 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 22y 321d 2 0
20 Reid, Sam 3 2 7 10 1 0 0 3 0 1 21y 113d 50 57
25 Richards, Ted 11 6 9 20 0 0 0 0 3 2 30y 98d 185 31
30 Roberts-Thomson, Lewis 4 3 2 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 29y 223d 174 52
40 Smith, Nick 5 1 5 10 0 0 0 5 2 0 24y 311d 78 8
  Rushed   3  
  Totals 196 64 153 349 16 7 45 50 23 23 26y 339d 2779 1767
Geelong Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
3 Bartel, Jimmy 9 7 8 17 0 0 0 2 0 2 29y 136d 229 149
46 Blicavs, Mark 1 1 6 7 0 0 11 1 0 0 22y 22d 4 0
23 Caddy, Josh 3 0 2 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 20y 203d 28 18
35 Chapman, Paul 10 2 12 22 2 0 0 4 0 3 31y 165d 247 329
28 Christensen, Allen 13 2 7 20 1 1 0 2 1 0 21y 335d 40 34
11 Corey, Joel 6 1 18 24 0 0 1 2 2 0 31y 61d 257 74
22 Duncan, Mitch 13 6 10 23 0 1 1 3 1 0 21y 313d 55 53
44 Enright, Corey 12 6 7 19 0 1 0 1 0 1 31y 217d 248 53
26 Hawkins, Tom 5 5 4 9 3 0 0 2 1 3 24y 272d 105 180
33 Horlin-Smith, George 10 1 13 23 1 0 0 2 2 2 20y 118d 5 3
19 Hunt, Taylor 10 2 10 20 1 0 0 2 2 0 22y 165d 45 14
20 Johnson, Steve 16 5 7 23 1 0 0 6 3 1 29y 289d 198 383
13 Lonergan, Tom 5 3 1 6 0 1 0 2 1 0 28y 337d 101 48
4 Mackie, Andrew 16 10 7 23 0 0 0 1 0 1 28y 255d 177 81
32 Motlop, Steven 10 4 5 15 3 0 0 2 1 0 22y 38d 31 35
31 Podsiadly, James 11 9 5 16 1 0 1 1 0 2 31y 221d 64 141
25 Rivers, Jared 4 1 7 11 0 0 0 4 0 1 28y 183d 152 18
14 Selwood, Joel 12 2 19 31 1 1 1 10 4 3 24y 328d 139 65
2 Smedts, Billie 4 2 2 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 20y 315d 18 11
27 Stokes, Mathew 15 3 16 31 2 0 0 2 3 1 28y 148d 135 183
7 Taylor, Harry 17 7 3 20 2 3 0 3 1 0 26y 311d 116 27
12 West, Trent 3 0 5 8 0 0 23 2 1 2 25y 184d 45 19
  Rushed   1  
  Totals 205 79 174 379 19 10 38 55 23 23 26y 28d 2439 1918

Match highlights

Joel Selwood had 10 tackles for Geelong vs. Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R4)

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.