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| Round: 1 Venue: M.C.G. Date: Sat, 18-03-2023 7:25 pm Crowd: 48,103 | |||||
| Melbourne | 3.3.21 | 9.4.58 | 13.8.86 | 17.13.115 | C: Simon Goodwin |
| Western Bulldogs | 2.4.16 | 5.9.39 | 8.10.58 | 9.11.65 | C: Luke Beveridge |
| MELB by 5 | MELB by 19 | MELB by 28 | MELB by 50 | ||
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Match Report
GOALS
Melbourne: Pickett, Brown 4; Spargo, Gawn 2; Sparrow, Melksham, Grundy, Chandler, Neal-Bullen
Western Bulldogs: Williams, Ugle-Hagan, Treloar, Naughton, Macrae, Liberatore, Johannisen, Bontempelli, Baker
BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Callum Twomey)
Melbourne: Pickett, Brown, Gawn, Petracca, Rivers, Lever
Western Bulldogs: Liberatore, Richards, Bontempelli, Treloar, Macrae
BEST - HERALD SUN (Russell Gould)
Melbourne: Petracca, Gawn, Pickett, Lever, Oliver, Sparrow
Western Bulldogs: Bontempelli, English, Liberatore, Treloar, Macrae
INJURIES
Melbourne: Nil
Western Bulldogs: Jones (neck)
SUBSTITUTES
Melbourne: Jake Melksham (replaced Bailey Laurie at three-quarter time)
Western Bulldogs: Toby McLean (replaced Liam Jones at half-time)
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Seven Network
COMMENTATORS: Hamish McLachlan, Alister Nicholson, Jobe Watson, Patrick Dangerfield, Abbey Holmes, Dale Thomas
Match stats
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 17 | Bowey, Jake | 10 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20y 187d | 25 | 2 |
| 10 | Brayshaw, Angus | 14 | 10 | 8 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 27y 68d | 144 | 47 |
| 50 | Brown, Ben | 12 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 30y 118d | 163 | 346 |
| 37 | Chandler, Kade | 11 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 23y 64d | 11 | 1 |
| 11 | Gawn, Max | 14 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 31y 78d | 182 | 90 |
| 6 | Grundy, Brodie | 7 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 28y 337d | 178 | 61 |
| 4 | Harmes, James | 6 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 27y 164d | 144 | 77 |
| 12 | Hunter, Lachie | 8 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 28y 95d | 174 | 73 |
| 15 | Langdon, Ed | 12 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27y 45d | 133 | 61 |
| 16 | Laurie, Bailey | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20y 359d | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Lever, Jake | 17 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27y 13d | 137 | 4 |
| 25 | McDonald, Tom | 8 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 30y 181d | 203 | 157 |
| 41 | McVee, Judd | 11 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19y 223d | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | Melksham, Jake | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31y 201d | 209 | 161 |
| 30 | Neal-Bullen, Alex | 11 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 27y 68d | 129 | 89 |
| 13 | Oliver, Clayton | 15 | 6 | 18 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 25y 239d | 148 | 45 |
| 5 | Petracca, Christian | 18 | 3 | 12 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 27y 73d | 152 | 142 |
| 35 | Petty, Harrison | 9 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 23y 126d | 49 | 7 |
| 36 | Pickett, Kysaiah | 15 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 21y 289d | 63 | 92 |
| 24 | Rivers, Trent | 15 | 9 | 9 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21y 231d | 53 | 5 |
| 9 | Spargo, Charlie | 12 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 23y 113d | 84 | 54 |
| 32 | Sparrow, Tom | 7 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 22y 291d | 52 | 18 |
| 20 | Tomlinson, Adam | 15 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29y 220d | 169 | 35 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 251 | 117 | 135 | 386 | 17 | 13 | 36 | 65 | 22 | 13 | 25y 339d | 2604 | 1567 | |
| Western Bulldogs | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 13 | Baker, Oskar | 10 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24y 297d | 16 | 5 |
| 4 | Bontempelli, Marcus | 13 | 3 | 12 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 27y 114d | 194 | 182 |
| 17 | Bruce, Josh | 8 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 30y 283d | 156 | 234 |
| 31 | Dale, Bailey | 15 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 26y 239d | 109 | 76 |
| 35 | Daniel, Caleb | 17 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 26y 254d | 154 | 37 |
| 10 | Darcy, Sam | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 19y 242d | 5 | 3 |
| 15 | Duryea, Taylor | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31y 328d | 173 | 25 |
| 44 | English, Tim | 12 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 25y 220d | 86 | 47 |
| 29 | Hannan, Mitch | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 29y 9d | 75 | 73 |
| 39 | Johannisen, Jason | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 30y 130d | 177 | 71 |
| 19 | Jones, Liam | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32y 22d | 162 | 84 |
| 42 | Keath, Alex | 5 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 31y 57d | 87 | 5 |
| 21 | Liberatore, Tom | 13 | 4 | 19 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 30y 306d | 196 | 74 |
| 7 | Lobb, Rory | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30y 37d | 141 | 143 |
| 11 | Macrae, Jack | 14 | 4 | 19 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 28y 227d | 209 | 48 |
| 16 | McLean, Toby | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27y 46d | 97 | 62 |
| 33 | Naughton, Aaron | 9 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 23y 108d | 101 | 148 |
| 20 | Richards, Ed | 21 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23y 258d | 86 | 24 |
| 28 | Scott, Anthony | 7 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 28y 18d | 36 | 17 |
| 6 | Smith, Bailey | 19 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22y 101d | 85 | 40 |
| 1 | Treloar, Adam | 11 | 5 | 21 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 30y 9d | 213 | 126 |
| 2 | Ugle-Hagan, Jamarra | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20y 348d | 23 | 26 |
| 34 | Williams, Bailey | 8 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25y 159d | 105 | 19 |
| Rushed | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 208 | 77 | 166 | 374 | 9 | 11 | 27 | 53 | 13 | 23 | 27y 86d | 2686 | 1569 | |