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Greater Western Sydney vs Essendon
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| Round: 9 Venue: Sydney Showground Date: Sat, 26-05-2012 7:40 pm Crowd: 11,887 | |||||
| Greater Western Sydney | 0.5.5 | 2.9.21 | 4.11.35 | 7.11.53 | C: Kevin Sheedy |
| Essendon | 3.1.19 | 8.1.49 | 13.8.86 | 18.11.119 | C: James Hird |
| ESS by 14 | ESS by 28 | ESS by 51 | ESS by 66 | ||
| Brownlow Medal | 3 Jobe Watson (ESS) | 2 Tom Bellchambers (ESS) | 1 Brent Stanton (ESS) |
Match Report
Greater Western Sydney’s first home game at their new home ground, Skoda Stadium, was a surprisingly tight contest for the first half. The Giants had more scoring shots (11-9) but were extremely wasteful in front of goal. The competition’s newest team battled hard against second-placed Essendon, but there was only ever going to be one winner. The win took Essendon to an 8-1 record, their best start to a season since the year of their last Grand Final, 2001. Bombers coach James Hird went to head-to-head with his long-time mentor Kevin Sheedy, who was in charge of the Giants. Promising young Giants forward Jeremy Cameron kicked three goals after a few poor games, while the Bombers had a good spread of goalkickers. Alwyn Davey, Stewart Crameri and Tom Bellchambers all kicked three each for the Bombers. An aspect probably more disappointing than the result for the Giants was the crowd. The opening of the new stadium attracted a modest crowd of 11,887. (The ground's capacity is around 25,000.) Sheedy said after the game it would take a “generation” to build up Giants crowds to where they need to be.
GOALS
Greater Western Sydney: Cameron 3; Shiel, Treloar, Giles, McDonald
Essendon: Crameri , Davey , Bellchambers 3; Ryder , Monfries 2; Zaharakis, Watson, Melksham, Hurley, Colyer
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Greater Western Sydney: Treloar, Tyson, Kennedy, Cameron, Power, Shiel
Essendon: Dyson, Crameri, Lovett-Murray, Dempsey, Zaharakis, Davey
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Greater Western Sydney: Ward, Treloar, Reid, Shiel, Power, Scully
Essendon: Howlett, Dempsey, Watson, Bellchambers, Dyson, Zaharakis.
COACHES COMMENTS
Kevin Sheedy (GWS): I thought that for a first half, if we had had some goal power and kicked accurately … we worked really hard to get back into the game. We fought for contested balls and we were pretty good. Obviously the score doesn’t show it that way because they kicked very, very straight. But our players in the end need to be better at goal scoring.
James Hird (Ess): I just think maybe we were a little bit surprised at how good they (GWS) were around the contest. We'd planned for them being good, but even planning for it, they were better than we thought they were around the contest. I wouldn't like to play them here in two years time.
Umpires: McBurney, Ryan, Hosking
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 |
| 30 | Adams, Taylor | 11 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18y 249d | 5 | 1 |
| 14 | Bugg, Tomas | 5 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 19y 51d | 8 | 1 |
| 18 | Cameron, Jeremy | 13 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19y 55d | 7 | 13 |
| 3 | Coniglio, Stephen | 8 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 18y 163d | 8 | 1 |
| 11 | Cornes, Chad | 6 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 32y 196d | 246 | 175 |
| 13 | Darley, Sam | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19y 101d | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | Davis, Phil | 6 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 21y 270d | 27 | 4 |
| 26 | Giles, Jonathan | 12 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 24y 139d | 9 | 11 |
| 2 | Hampton, Curtly | 9 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19y 77d | 7 | 5 |
| 40 | Kennedy, Adam | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19y 319d | 7 | 0 |
| 54 | McDonald, James | 10 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 35y 234d | 256 | 58 |
| 39 | Mohr, Tim | 6 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23y 220d | 8 | 1 |
| 27 | Phillips, Andrew | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 20y 328d | 3 | 1 |
| 6 | Power, Luke | 17 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 32y 139d | 290 | 226 |
| 23 | Reid, Sam | 8 | 3 | 13 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22y 201d | 14 | 1 |
| 9 | Scully, Tom | 11 | 3 | 15 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 21y 11d | 39 | 8 |
| 5 | Shiel, Dylan | 11 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 19y 78d | 8 | 2 |
| 34 | Smith, Devon | 9 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19y 6d | 8 | 3 |
| 31 | Townsend, Jacob | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18y 341d | 7 | 2 |
| 17 | Treloar, Adam | 20 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 19y 78d | 6 | 3 |
| 29 | Tyson, Dom | 8 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18y 353d | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | Ward, Callan | 14 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 22y 46d | 69 | 37 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 199 | 78 | 141 | 340 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 77 | 28 | 21 | 22y 33d | 1040 | 555 | |
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 44 | Bellchambers, Tom | 12 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 22y 322d | 34 | 15 |
| 22 | Carlisle, Jake | 8 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 20y 238d | 17 | 6 |
| 32 | Colyer, Travis | 6 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 20y 276d | 24 | 15 |
| 12 | Crameri, Stewart | 6 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 23y 290d | 32 | 57 |
| 29 | Davey, Alwyn | 11 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28y 11d | 76 | 90 |
| 15 | Dempsey, Courtenay | 15 | 9 | 10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 24y 272d | 61 | 15 |
| 2 | Dyson, Ricky | 14 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26y 241d | 109 | 42 |
| 39 | Hocking, Heath | 6 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 24y 151d | 70 | 25 |
| 26 | Hooker, Cale | 11 | 9 | 13 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23y 226d | 56 | 5 |
| 40 | Howlett, Ben | 15 | 6 | 12 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 23y 218d | 47 | 18 |
| 18 | Hurley, Michael | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 21y 360d | 53 | 56 |
| 14 | Lonergan, Sam | 7 | 3 | 15 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 25y 61d | 72 | 36 |
| 42 | Lovett-Murray, Nathan | 15 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 29y 190d | 131 | 69 |
| 10 | McVeigh, Mark | 16 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31y 121d | 232 | 107 |
| 17 | Melksham, Jake | 7 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 20y 271d | 46 | 18 |
| 6 | Monfries, Angus | 9 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 25y 128d | 141 | 157 |
| 16 | Pears, Tayte | 11 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 22y 63d | 53 | 3 |
| 30 | Ryder, Paddy | 11 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 24y 73d | 126 | 82 |
| 20 | Slattery, Henry | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26y 125d | 95 | 12 |
| 5 | Stanton, Brent | 16 | 4 | 11 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 26y 25d | 171 | 114 |
| 4 | Watson, Jobe | 13 | 4 | 13 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 27y 108d | 141 | 66 |
| 11 | Zaharakis, David | 19 | 5 | 13 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22y 95d | 62 | 62 |
| Rushed | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 234 | 105 | 186 | 420 | 18 | 11 | 45 | 57 | 21 | 27 | 24y 225d | 1849 | 1070 | |