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| Round: 1 Venue: Docklands Date: Sun, 01-04-2012 1:10 pm Crowd: 24,977 | |||||
| Western Bulldogs | 4.3.27 | 8.5.53 | 10.11.71 | 12.15.87 | C: Brendan McCartney |
| West Coast | 6.2.38 | 10.6.66 | 16.9.105 | 21.10.136 | C: John Worsfold |
| WCE by 11 | WCE by 13 | WCE by 34 | WCE by 49 | ||
| Brownlow Medal | 3 Josh Kennedy (WCE) | 2 Luke Shuey (WCE) | 1 Scott Selwood (WCE) |
Match Report
Although the Western Bulldogs went down by 49 points, there were plenty of positives to take out of the performance for new coach Brendan McCartney. The debut of Clay Smith was undoubtedly a highlight for the Bulldogs. The boom draftee kicked four goals, including a soccer goal while combating with one of the best defenders in the game, West Coast captain Darren Glass. The return to fitness of full-back Brian Lake would have made plenty of Bulldogs fans happy, although his bizarre attempt for Mark of the Year, that resulted in a goal to the Eagles, would have frustrated the coaching staff. With long-term injuries to Mark Nicoski and Mark LeCras, there were worries about where the goals would come from for the Eagles. But kicking 21 goals on the road should allay those fears for Eagles fans. Full-forward Josh Kennedy backed up his 10-goal performance against the Bulldogs in round nine, 2011 with another seven goals, including four in a blistering first quarter.
GOALS:
Western Bulldogs: Smith 4; Dahlhaus, Higgins 2; Jones, Cooney, Giansiracusa, Picken
West Coast: Kennedy 7, Hill 3; Hams, Cox 2; Gaff, Masten, Schofield, Lynch, Embley, Darling, Naitanui
BEST PLAYERS - AFL.COM.AU
Western Bulldogs: Boyd, Smith, Liberatore, Dahlhaus, Cooney, Higgins, Cross
West Coast: Kennedy, Cox, Priddis, Rosa, Naitanui, Gaff, S. Selwood.
BEST PLAYERS - THE AGE
Western Bulldogs: Boyd, Cross, C Smith, Liberatore, Dahlhaus, Giansiracusa
West Coast: Priddis, J Kennedy, Rosa, S Selwood, Hurn, Cox, Gaff.
COACHES COMMENTS
Brendan McCartney (WB): We missed some opportunities [in the third quarter] and then in the next four or five minutes … our defensive work wasn't great. It wasn't [a lack of] effort; it was more a little bit of experience, a little bit of fundamentals and a little bit of just technical know-how, which we can work on as a group.
John Worsfold (WC): We know we still need to get better as a team to become a team that everyone thinks is one of the flag favourites. No one has really put us in that bracket yet; they think we might be in the top five or six, but we've got to show people that we're improving again.
Umpires: Nicholls, Jennings, Mitchell
Official crowd: 24,977
Source
Match report by Oliver CaffreyMatch stats
| Western Bulldogs | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 22 | Addison, Dylan | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 24y 177d | 60 | 11 |
| 5 | Boyd, Matthew | 20 | 6 | 18 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 29y 218d | 186 | 65 |
| 17 | Cooney, Adam | 12 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 26y 184d | 169 | 146 |
| 4 | Cross, Daniel | 6 | 4 | 22 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 29y 2d | 181 | 27 |
| 40 | Dahlhaus, Luke | 12 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19y 224d | 12 | 13 |
| 29 | Dickson, Tory | 6 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24y 188d | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Giansiracusa, Daniel | 15 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 30y 21d | 214 | 253 |
| 1 | Grant, Jarrad | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22y 270d | 38 | 45 |
| 25 | Hargrave, Ryan | 13 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30y 250d | 192 | 36 |
| 7 | Higgins, Shaun | 12 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24y 28d | 88 | 96 |
| 30 | Howard, Christian | 7 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21y 13d | 7 | 1 |
| 19 | Jones, Liam | 10 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 21y 37d | 26 | 26 |
| 36 | Lake, Brian | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 30y 34d | 178 | 28 |
| 21 | Liberatore, Tom | 12 | 4 | 15 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19y 321d | 17 | 4 |
| 37 | Markovic, Lukas | 7 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 25y 87d | 17 | 0 |
| 27 | Minson, Will | 10 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26y 356d | 116 | 62 |
| 2 | Murphy, Bob | 12 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 29y 297d | 210 | 152 |
| 42 | Picken, Liam | 9 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 25y 244d | 66 | 21 |
| 23 | Roughead, Jordan | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 21y 150d | 18 | 6 |
| 14 | Smith, Clay | 10 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 18y 326d | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Wallis, Mitch | 8 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19y 160d | 7 | 0 |
| 10 | Wood, Easton | 7 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22y 210d | 29 | 4 |
| Rushed | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 204 | 81 | 180 | 384 | 12 | 15 | 31 | 52 | 12 | 19 | 24y 255d | 1833 | 1000 | |
| West Coast | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 20 | Cox, Dean | 10 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 30y 244d | 228 | 122 |
| 27 | Darling, Jack | 7 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 19y 293d | 24 | 25 |
| 32 | Embley, Andrew | 7 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30y 279d | 232 | 204 |
| 3 | Gaff, Andrew | 15 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19y 290d | 18 | 8 |
| 23 | Glass, Darren | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 30y 323d | 221 | 8 |
| 43 | Hams, Ashton | 6 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 25y 208d | 16 | 13 |
| 33 | Hill, Josh | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 23y 73d | 67 | 78 |
| 25 | Hurn, Shannon | 15 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24y 210d | 99 | 26 |
| 17 | Kennedy, Josh | 10 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 24y 220d | 91 | 156 |
| 4 | Kerr, Daniel | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28y 321d | 187 | 105 |
| 21 | Lynch, Quinten | 13 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 29y 68d | 189 | 249 |
| 16 | Mackenzie, Eric | 6 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23y 318d | 58 | 0 |
| 7 | Masten, Chris | 7 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22y 335d | 55 | 18 |
| 9 | Naitanui, Nic | 5 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 21y 333d | 56 | 31 |
| 11 | Priddis, Matt | 11 | 2 | 22 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27y 11d | 109 | 32 |
| 24 | Rosa, Matt | 23 | 10 | 8 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25y 130d | 109 | 30 |
| 31 | Schofield, Will | 9 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23y 68d | 59 | 5 |
| 37 | Selwood, Adam | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 27y 336d | 159 | 41 |
| 10 | Selwood, Scott | 16 | 9 | 11 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22y 5d | 69 | 17 |
| 13 | Shuey, Luke | 13 | 0 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 21y 304d | 32 | 30 |
| 28 | Smith, Ashley | 5 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21y 256d | 27 | 6 |
| 8 | Waters, Beau | 10 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 26y 2d | 94 | 17 |
| Rushed | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 206 | 88 | 146 | 352 | 21 | 10 | 45 | 64 | 19 | 12 | 25y 27d | 2199 | 1221 | |
Match highlights
Josh Kennedy kicked 7 goals for West Coast against Western Bulldogs (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Matt Priddis had 22 handballs for West Coast vs. Western Bulldogs (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Daniel Cross had 22 handballs for Western Bulldogs vs. West Coast (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Clay Smith debuted for Western Bulldogs (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Josh Hill debuted for West Coast (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Tory Dickson debuted for Western Bulldogs (AFL, Premiership Season, R1)