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| Round: 1 Venue: Stadium Australia Date: Sat, 24-03-2012 7:20 pm Crowd: 38,203 | |||||
| Greater Western Sydney | 1.2.8 | 3.3.21 | 3.4.22 | 5.7.37 | C: Kevin Sheedy |
| Sydney | 4.1.25 | 8.4.52 | 13.8.86 | 14.16.100 | C: John Longmire |
| SYD by 17 | SYD by 31 | SYD by 64 | SYD by 63 | ||
| Brownlow Medal | 3 Josh Kennedy (SYD) | 2 Kieren Jack (SYD) | 1 Shane Mumford (SYD) |
Match Report
The league's newest (and most adventurous) franchise, Greater Western Sydney, was given the honour of starting the 2012 season with a Saturday night game against crosstown 'rival', Sydney. And despite a 10-goal thumping the new boys didn't disgrace themselves, doing enough to suggest they might even sneak a win or two in their debut season. Much of the focus was on rugby league convert Israel Folau who never got going but several of his young teammates, notably Tomas Bugg, Toby Greene and former Docker Rhys Palmer, shone out against their bigger and more experienced opponents.
Co-captain Callan Ward kicked the club's first goal in AFL football but, after a competitive first half, his Giants were steamrolled in the third quarter, managing a lone point against Sydney's 5.4. Kieren Jack, Josh Kennedy and Jude Bolton were strong in the midfield clinches and gave the Swans plenty of drive. In the end, the striplings wearing Giants guernseys were simply overpowered - as had been expected - but coach Kevin Sheedy was pleased with their spirit and the fact they outscored Sydney in the final quarter (owing largely, it has to be said, to the Swans' inaccuracy.) Compared to the 119-point hammering Gold Coast endured in their debut clash last year, it was a performance full of promise. The crowd figure of 38,203 was impressive enough but perhaps fell short of initial AFL expectations.
GOALS
GWS: Ward, Wilson, Giles, Hoskin-Elliott, McDonald
Sydney: Kennedy, Bird, Jetta 2; McVeigh, Everitt, Jack, Rohan, McGlynn, Bolton, Roberts-Thomson, Mumford.
BEST PLAYERS - AFL.COM.AU
GWS: Palmer, Bugg, Greene, Hampton, McDonald, Cornes
Sydney: Jack, Kennedy, McGlynn, Jetta, Bird, Bolton.
BEST PLAYERS - THE AGE
GWS: Ward, Cornes, McDonald, Davis
Sydney: Kennedy, Jack, Bird, Bolton, McVeigh, Jetta, Johnson.
COACHES COMMENTS
Kevin Sheedy (GWS): The thing that we found out today is that this team has got a bit of spirit. We had three guys who couldn't come back on the ground because they were cramped and we may have luckily just outscored them in the last quarter, which was terrific.
John Longmire (Syd): I thought we were fumbling a little bit around the ball and we were giving away too many free kicks [in the first half]. I've been watching them over the past month and so it didn't surprise me at all [that GWS would be competitive]. We knew it was going to be a bit of a battle.
UMPIRES: Stevic, Meredith, Mollison
Source
Match report by Oliver CaffreyMatch stats
| Greater Western Sydney | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 14 | Bugg, Tomas | 14 | 5 | 13 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18y 354d | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | Cameron, Jeremy | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18y 358d | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Coniglio, Stephen | 6 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18y 100d | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | Cornes, Chad | 17 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 32y 133d | 240 | 175 |
| 1 | Davis, Phil | 12 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21y 207d | 19 | 1 |
| 4 | Folau, Israel | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22y 356d | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | Giles, Jonathan | 6 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 24y 76d | 1 | 1 |
| 35 | Greene, Toby | 12 | 3 | 15 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 18y 181d | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Hampton, Curtly | 14 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19y 14d | 1 | 0 |
| 36 | Hombsch, Jack | 9 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19y 17d | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | Hoskin-Elliott, Will | 12 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18y 204d | 1 | 1 |
| 40 | Kennedy, Adam | 17 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19y 256d | 1 | 0 |
| 54 | McDonald, James | 9 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 35y 171d | 252 | 57 |
| 39 | Mohr, Tim | 9 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23y 157d | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Palmer, Rhys | 13 | 4 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 23y 40d | 54 | 23 |
| 5 | Shiel, Dylan | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 19y 15d | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | Smith, Devon | 8 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18y 309d | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | Tomlinson, Adam | 9 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18y 227d | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | Townsend, Jacob | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18y 278d | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | Tyson, Dom | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18y 290d | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Ward, Callan | 17 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21y 349d | 61 | 34 |
| 16 | Wilson, Nathan | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19y 77d | 1 | 1 |
| Rushed | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 210 | 96 | 157 | 367 | 5 | 7 | 37 | 63 | 24 | 16 | 21y 122d | 643 | 293 | |
| Sydney | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 14 | Bird, Craig | 15 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 23y 63d | 63 | 27 |
| 24 | Bolton, Jude | 12 | 2 | 13 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 32y 9d | 280 | 145 |
| 44 | Cunningham, Harry | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18y 109d | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Everitt, Andrejs | 6 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 23y 11d | 48 | 17 |
| 37 | Goodes, Adam | 13 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 32y 76d | 301 | 352 |
| 39 | Grundy, Heath | 12 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25y 296d | 91 | 19 |
| 4 | Hannebery, Dan | 5 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 21y 29d | 53 | 16 |
| 15 | Jack, Kieren | 20 | 2 | 10 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 24y 270d | 90 | 52 |
| 32 | Jetta, Lewis | 11 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22y 325d | 41 | 18 |
| 34 | Johnson, Alex | 17 | 8 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20y 22d | 21 | 1 |
| 12 | Kennedy, Josh | 13 | 2 | 14 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 23y 278d | 62 | 26 |
| 9 | Malceski, Nick | 15 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 27y 222d | 105 | 48 |
| 29 | Mattner, Martin | 9 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29y 231d | 192 | 39 |
| 21 | McGlynn, Ben | 7 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 26y 231d | 83 | 82 |
| 3 | McVeigh, Jarrad | 12 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26y 352d | 170 | 124 |
| 41 | Mumford, Shane | 4 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 25y 263d | 62 | 19 |
| 26 | Parker, Luke | 7 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19y 151d | 14 | 8 |
| 20 | Reid, Sam | 8 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 20y 88d | 25 | 23 |
| 25 | Richards, Ted | 12 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 29y 73d | 157 | 31 |
| 30 | Roberts-Thomson, Lewis | 5 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28y 198d | 149 | 27 |
| 16 | Rohan, Gary | 6 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20y 291d | 19 | 16 |
| 40 | Smith, Nick | 11 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 23y 286d | 53 | 8 |
| Rushed | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 224 | 107 | 164 | 388 | 14 | 16 | 43 | 79 | 16 | 24 | 24y 291d | 2080 | 1098 | |
Match highlights
Jonathan Giles debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Curtly Hampton debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Will Hoskin-Elliott debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Rhys Palmer debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Callan Ward debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Tomas Bugg debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Dylan Shiel debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Devon Smith debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Nathan Wilson debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Adam Tomlinson debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Adam Kennedy debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Harry Cunningham debuted for Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Jeremy Cameron debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Phil Davis debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Stephen Coniglio debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Toby Greene debuted for Greater Western Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)