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Round: 13   Venue: Subiaco Oval   Date: Sat, 14-06-2014 2:40 pm   Crowd: 32,942  
West Coast 4.3.279.7.6114.10.9415.13.103 C:  Adam Simpson
Gold Coast 3.3.216.4.409.5.5915.10.100 C:  Guy McKenna
  WCE by 6WCE by 21WCE by 35WCE by 3  
Weather
min temp  1.9°C      max temp  18.2°C
rainfall  0mm    humidity  47%    air pressure  1030.0mb
wind speed 4km/h      wind direction  NE
Brownlow Medal 3 Josh Kennedy (WCE)2 Dion Prestia (SUNS)1 Matt Priddis (WCE)

Match Report

West Coast withstood a withering last-quarter burst from Gold Coast to winning a thrilling contest by three points at Subiaco on Saturday afternoon. The Suns came back from 35 points down at three-quarter time to kick six unanswered goals and snatch a one-point lead at the 19-minute mark but the Eagles' only goal of the final term came three minutes later from the boot of young Jeremy McGovern in just his third game. That goal restored a five-point lead for West Coast but the Suns attacked again with a Harley Bennell shot at goal travelling wide and reducing the margin to four points. Gary Ablett then had a snapshot from an acute angle in the last minute of the game that would have almost certainly given the Suns victory, but it slammed into the goal post and the Eagles were able to cling on for a win in the final seconds of the match.

Earlier, after a relatively even first term which saw West Coast ahead by six points at quarter time, the Eagles got on top gradually across the second and third terms, taking a 21-point lead into the long break, and leading by just a point shy of six goals at the last change of ends. New captain Josh Kennedy, who took over the leadership role after the surprise retirement of Darren Glass during the week, relished the promotion and had kicked 7.0 up until the last break. The Suns threatened to spoil the party in the last quarter but ultimately his first match at the helm was a victory.

As well as Kennedy, the Eagles had fine players in Nic Natanui, who played his best game for a long time, garnering 34 hitouts and 22 disposals, and McGovern, whose 14 possessions yielded three goals. For the Suns, Dion Prestia (38 disposals, five tackles), Gary Ablett (33 possessions, eight tackles) and Jaeger O'Meara (22 touches and six marks) all played important roles in keeping the Suns in the match.

The win leaves West Coast two games shy of the eighth-placed Suns and still an outside chance of competing in September. The Eagles will be expected to win, and win well, when they take on bottom-placed St Kilda at Docklands next Sunday. The Suns, having now lost three matches on end, face another tough task at Carrara this Saturday when they take on Geelong.

GOALS
West Coast: Kennedy 7; McGovern 3; LeCras, Cripps, Hutchings, Lycett, Wellingham
Gold Coast: Dixon, Lynch 3; Matera, Rischitelli 2; Hall, Bennell, Harbrow, Prestia, O'Meara

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West Coast: Naitanui, Kennedy, Priddis, McGovern, Hurn, Hutchings, Wellingham
Gold Coast: Presita, Ablett, Swallow, May, Bennell, McKenzie, Lynch, Shaw

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West Coast: Naitanui, Kennedy, McGovern, Priddis, Hurn, Rosa
Gold Coast: Prestia, Ablett, O'Meara, Swallow, Bennell, McKenzie

INJURIES
West Coast: Shuey (ankle) replaced in selected side by Butler.
Gold Coast: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
West Coast: Sam Butler replaced Elliot Yeo in the third quarter.
Gold Coast: Alex Sexton replaced Aaron Hall at three-quarter time.

UMPIRES: Donlon, Leppard, Dalgleish

TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy

COMMENTATORS: Dwayne Russell, Dermott Brereton, Tony Shaw, Barry Hall

Source

Match Report by Andrew Gigacz

Footnotes

Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.

Match stats

West Coast Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
44 Bennell, Jamie 11 8 0 11 0 0 0 1 2 0 24y 7d 69 24
1 Brown, Mitchell 3 1 2 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 25y 179d 82 11
26 Butler, Sam 3 1 1 4 0 0 0 3 1 0 28y 151d 110 13
15 Cripps, Jamie 5 0 0 5 1 0 0 2 0 2 22y 52d 43 46
27 Darling, Jack 7 4 4 11 0 2 0 6 0 1 22y 1d 80 137
18 Ellis, Xavier 13 7 4 17 0 0 0 3 0 1 26y 106d 96 32
3 Gaff, Andrew 17 5 2 19 0 0 0 3 0 1 21y 363d 75 26
25 Hurn, Shannon 19 12 7 26 0 0 0 1 0 0 26y 283d 142 42
34 Hutchings, Mark 16 4 6 22 1 0 0 2 1 0 23y 20d 16 5
17 Kennedy, Josh 12 9 3 15 7 0 0 1 0 0 26y 293d 131 259
2 LeCras, Mark 8 5 6 14 1 0 0 1 1 3 27y 288d 122 279
29 Lycett, Scott 9 6 7 16 1 1 18 1 0 0 21y 261d 14 7
16 Mackenzie, Eric 18 14 5 23 0 0 0 4 1 1 26y 26d 111 5
7 Masten, Chris 13 7 2 15 0 0 0 5 0 0 25y 43d 108 51
42 McGovern, Jeremy 11 10 3 14 3 3 1 1 0 0 22y 60d 3 6
9 Naitanui, Nic 7 2 15 22 0 0 34 6 1 0 24y 41d 100 66
11 Priddis, Matt 9 2 23 32 0 0 0 7 1 0 29y 85d 163 53
24 Rosa, Matt 9 8 15 24 0 0 0 2 0 0 27y 203d 148 36
31 Schofield, Will 7 2 5 12 0 0 0 1 2 1 25y 141d 101 19
5 Sheppard, Brad 10 3 6 16 0 0 0 5 0 0 23y 22d 55 12
12 Wellingham, Sharrod 13 4 13 26 1 0 0 5 1 1 25y 342d 112 68
6 Yeo, Elliot 5 1 1 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 20y 256d 39 3
  Rushed   7  
  Totals 225 115 130 355 15 13 53 63 12 11 24y 295d 1920 1200
Gold Coast Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
9 Ablett, Gary 20 1 13 33 0 2 0 8 1 2 30y 31d 265 355
11 Bennell, Harley 10 2 10 20 1 2 0 3 1 0 21y 255d 56 67
36 Broughton, Greg 6 2 13 19 0 0 0 3 2 0 27y 258d 97 19
12 Day, Sam 5 3 4 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 21y 281d 54 36
23 Dixon, Charlie 4 1 3 7 3 0 14 2 1 4 23y 264d 43 43
33 Hall, Aaron 2 0 4 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 23y 217d 41 41
5 Harbrow, Jarrod 6 3 7 13 1 1 0 3 0 0 25y 331d 138 40
28 Kolodjashnij, Kade 4 2 6 10 0 0 0 1 0 0 18y 309d 10 4
19 Lynch, Tom 7 6 4 11 3 2 0 1 0 0 21y 226d 50 61
32 Matera, Brandon 6 1 6 12 2 0 0 3 0 1 22y 95d 50 55
17 May, Steven 14 5 1 15 0 0 0 1 0 0 22y 155d 46 15
18 McKenzie, Trent 12 7 4 16 0 0 0 4 0 0 22y 72d 69 19
1 O'Meara, Jaeger 9 6 13 22 1 0 0 5 1 0 20y 111d 34 21
10 Prestia, Dion 20 5 18 38 1 0 0 5 2 0 21y 245d 63 18
35 Rischitelli, Michael 7 3 8 15 2 0 0 5 0 0 28y 157d 169 75
8 Russell, Luke 6 4 7 13 0 0 0 1 0 1 22y 141d 53 21
6 Sexton, Alex 4 2 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 20y 193d 14 4
26 Shaw, Matt 8 4 11 19 0 0 0 2 0 0 22y 129d 64 24
2 Smith, Zac 6 2 9 15 0 0 19 7 0 0 24y 112d 49 28
25 Stanley, Danny 10 2 8 18 0 0 0 1 1 1 26y 116d 70 35
24 Swallow, David 9 3 12 21 0 1 1 8 0 2 21y 207d 63 33
16 Thompson, Rory 9 6 1 10 0 0 0 0 2 0 23y 94d 43 7
  Rushed   1  
  Totals 184 70 162 346 15 10 34 64 11 11 23y 116d 1541 1021

Footnotes

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