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| Round: 16 Venue: Kardinia Park Date: Sat, 13-07-2013 2:10 pm Crowd: 23,172 | |||||
| Geelong | 4.5.29 | 7.10.52 | 11.12.78 | 13.20.98 | C: Chris Scott |
| Melbourne | 1.2.8 | 2.4.16 | 3.5.23 | 4.6.30 | C: Neil Craig |
| GEEL by 21 | GEEL by 36 | GEEL by 55 | GEEL by 68 | ||
| Weather |
 6.5°C
 12.3°C
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 0mm
 93%
 1023.2mb
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 15km/h
 ENE
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| Brownlow Medal | 3 Steve Johnson (GEEL) | 2 Joel Selwood (GEEL) | 1 Nathan Jones (MELB) |
Match Report
The rain and records tumbled on Saturday afternoon as Geelong defeated Melbourne by 68 points at a soggy Kardinia Park in front of just over 23,000 fans.
26 millimetres (just over an inch) of rain fell on the two sides as the Cats mastered the slippery conditions to restrict the Demons to just one goal in each quarter and record a comprehensive, if not unexpected, victory.
In losing, the Demons set an unenviable record, going inside their forward-50 zone just 19 times, the lowest number ever recorded since that statistic was first recorded in 1989. By contrast the Cats went inside their forward-50 zone 70 times and the differential of 51 was also a record.
On the positive side for Melbourne, the torrential rain probably prevented Geelong from kicking a much larger score. The Cats' accuracy was certainly affected, as evidenced by their final score of 13.20.
For the Cats Joel Selwood (29 possessions) and James Kelly (21 touches) were excellent but perhaps the best player on the ground was Steve Johnson who provided Cats' fans with both good and bad news. Returning from suspension, "Stevie J" had 38 possessions and kicked a goal in a consummate performance but he was also cited by the Match Review Panel for dropping his knees into Melbourne's Nathan Jones, and incurred another one-match suspension.
Melbourne were well served former Cat Shannon Byrnes, who kicked two goals and had 19 disposals, and the "Jones boys", Nathan (31 disposals) and Matt (24 possessions).
The Cats remain in equal-top place on the ladder with Hawthorn - both sides have registered 13 wins - and will travel to Adelaide to take on the Crows next Sunday. Melbourne, languishing in 17th place on the ladder, will take on Brisbane in Darwin next Saturday night.
GOALS
Geelong: Horlin-Smith, Caddy, Hawkins, Podsiadly 2; Stringer, Duncan, Smedts, Motlop, Johnson
Melbourne: Byrnes 2; Dawes, Howe
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Geelong: Selwood, Johnson, Kelly, Caddy, Podsiadly
Melbourne: Byrnes, M. Jones, N. Jones, Garland
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Geelong: Johnson, Selwood, Kelly, Caddy, Podsiadly, Simpson
Melbourne: N Jones, Byrnes, Gawn, M Jones
INJURIES
Geelong: Nil
Melbourne: Nil
SUBSTITUTES
Geelong: Cam Guthrie replaced Andrew Mackie in the third quarter
Melbourne: Sam Blease replaced Jack Fitzpatrick in the third quarter
Umpires: Ryan, Hosking, Wenn
Source
Match report by Andrew GigaczFootnotes
Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.
Match stats
| Geelong | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 3 | Bartel, Jimmy | 15 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29y 221d | 240 | 160 |
| 46 | Blicavs, Mark | 6 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 22y 107d | 14 | 6 |
| 23 | Caddy, Josh | 16 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 20y 288d | 33 | 21 |
| 22 | Duncan, Mitch | 9 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 22y 33d | 66 | 59 |
| 29 | Guthrie, Cameron | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20y 328d | 31 | 4 |
| 26 | Hawkins, Tom | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24y 357d | 115 | 205 |
| 33 | Horlin-Smith, George | 7 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 20y 203d | 10 | 5 |
| 8 | Hunt, Josh | 11 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 31y 121d | 194 | 29 |
| 19 | Hunt, Taylor | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22y 250d | 52 | 16 |
| 20 | Johnson, Steve | 23 | 6 | 15 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 30y 9d | 206 | 391 |
| 9 | Kelly, James | 15 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 29y 196d | 223 | 80 |
| 13 | Lonergan, Tom | 8 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 29y 57d | 112 | 50 |
| 4 | Mackie, Andrew | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28y 340d | 188 | 84 |
| 32 | Motlop, Steven | 12 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 22y 123d | 41 | 51 |
| 21 | Murdoch, Jordan | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 21y 112d | 16 | 13 |
| 31 | Podsiadly, James | 16 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 31y 306d | 74 | 158 |
| 14 | Selwood, Joel | 20 | 1 | 9 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 25y 48d | 150 | 72 |
| 16 | Simpson, Dawson | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 24y 146d | 9 | 1 |
| 2 | Smedts, Billie | 12 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 21y 35d | 24 | 17 |
| 41 | Stringer, Jesse | 9 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 22y 101d | 13 | 6 |
| 7 | Taylor, Harry | 10 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27y 31d | 126 | 32 |
| 5 | Varcoe, Travis | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 25y 94d | 105 | 114 |
| Rushed | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 219 | 55 | 115 | 334 | 13 | 20 | 72 | 102 | 20 | 12 | 25y 60d | 2042 | 1574 | |
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 17 | Blease, Sam | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22y 144d | 28 | 22 |
| 10 | Byrnes, Shannon | 6 | 0 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 29y 97d | 120 | 108 |
| 50 | Clisby, Mitch | 9 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23y 189d | 4 | 0 |
| 36 | Davey, Aaron | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 30y 33d | 171 | 171 |
| 6 | Dawes, Chris | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25y 58d | 80 | 93 |
| 14 | Dunn, Lynden | 13 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26y 60d | 110 | 90 |
| 48 | Fitzpatrick, Jack | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22y 17d | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | Frawley, James | 7 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 24y 296d | 114 | 3 |
| 20 | Garland, Colin | 11 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25y 76d | 95 | 13 |
| 37 | Gawn, Max | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21y 195d | 13 | 8 |
| 31 | Grimes, Jack | 8 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 24y 63d | 61 | 5 |
| 38 | Howe, Jeremy | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23y 14d | 50 | 60 |
| 45 | Jones, Matt | 16 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25y 268d | 15 | 2 |
| 2 | Jones, Nathan | 15 | 1 | 16 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 25y 174d | 150 | 74 |
| 34 | Kent, Dean | 8 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19y 139d | 8 | 3 |
| 25 | McDonald, Tom | 8 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20y 298d | 32 | 0 |
| 26 | Nicholson, Daniel | 6 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 22y 253d | 30 | 4 |
| 12 | Sylvia, Colin | 9 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 27y 247d | 150 | 126 |
| 46 | Terlich, Dean | 5 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 23y 212d | 14 | 0 |
| 5 | Toumpas, Jimmy | 14 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 19y 192d | 9 | 0 |
| 9 | Trengove, Jack | 10 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21y 314d | 72 | 37 |
| 4 | Watts, Jack | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 22y 109d | 66 | 50 |
| Rushed | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 168 | 37 | 134 | 302 | 4 | 6 | 55 | 106 | 12 | 20 | 23y 340d | 1401 | 878 | |
Match highlights
Max Gawn had 48 hitouts for Melbourne vs. Geelong (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)Dawson Simpson had 55 hitouts for Geelong vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)
Jack Grimes had 12 tackles for Melbourne vs. Geelong (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)
James Kelly had 11 tackles for Geelong vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)
Joel Selwood had 10 tackles for Geelong vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)
Colin Sylvia played his 150th V/AFL game: Melbourne vs. Geelong (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)
Nathan Jones played his 150th V/AFL game: Melbourne vs. Geelong (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)
Joel Selwood played his 150th V/AFL game: Geelong vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R16)