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Brisbane vs Geelong
| Brownlow Medal | 3 Tom Hawkins (GEEL) | 2 Paul Chapman (GEEL) | 1 Tom Rockliff (BRIS) |
Match Report
Torrential rain and a Geelong onslaught ruined Brisbane Lions legend Simon Black’s 300th game. If not for three last quarter goals, it could have been a record-breaking night for the Lions - but for all the wrong reasons. Brisbane couldn’t adapt to the monsoonal rain, failing to kick a goal until Ash McGrath kicked truly 20 minutes into the third quarter. Despite that, the Lions were competitive and actually led the inside-50 count - and had more scoring shots - but couldn’t convert that to the scoreboard. On the other hand, the Cats made the most of their opportunites, particularly Tom Hawkins who finished with six goals, including the first three of the match. He took his season goal tally to 18, to lead the race for the Coleman Medal. Andrew Raines ran with Cats captain Joel Selwood all night, with things getting extremely heated at times. Both players were cited by the Match Review Panel, Selwood later escaping without punishment, while Raines received a three-match suspension, with the option of that being downgraded to one week after a guilty plea.
GOALS:
Brisbane Lions: McGrath, Rockliff, Black, Brown
Geelong: Hawkins 6, Chapman 2, Corey, Duncan, Motlop, Selwood
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Brisbane: Rockliff, Rich, Hudson, Black, Redden
Geelong: Hawkins, Chapman, Christensen, T.Hunt, Selwood, Taylor
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Brisbane: Rockliff, Rich, Hudson, Black
Geelong: Hawkins, Chapman, Corey, Christensen, Selwood, Hunt
COACHES COMMENTS
Michael Voss (Bris): On a wet night, they made the most of limited opportunities. We had lots of chances but in the end we just didn't defend our goals well enough. The pleasing part was I asked the guys to finish the game strong and they did that.
Chris Scott (Geel): We came to play what we think is a competitive team … they’re pretty honest. And the conditions made it even more of an honest contest - really contested and hard to get possession and play free-flowing footy. Given those things, we got what we hoped we’d get out of it.
Umpires: Kamolins, Ryan, McInerney
Source
Match report by Oliver CaffreyMatch stats
| Brisbane | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 7 | Adcock, Jed | 10 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 26y 165d | 125 | 36 |
| 18 | Banfield, Todd | 5 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21y 305d | 46 | 56 |
| 20 | Black, Simon | 12 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 33y 25d | 300 | 164 |
| 16 | Brown, Jonathan | 8 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 30y 182d | 213 | 502 |
| 44 | Cornelius, Aaron | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 21y 335d | 16 | 23 |
| 47 | Crisp, Jack | 8 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 18y 209d | 2 | 0 |
| 39 | Drummond, Josh | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29y 9d | 82 | 32 |
| 41 | Golby, Mitchell | 10 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 20y 208d | 13 | 0 |
| 11 | Hanley, Pearce | 10 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23y 165d | 39 | 8 |
| 22 | Hudson, Ben | 9 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 33y 64d | 147 | 16 |
| 28 | Karnezis, Patrick | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 20y 5d | 12 | 17 |
| 35 | Lester, Ryan | 7 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19y 246d | 8 | 4 |
| 36 | Maguire, Matt | 5 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 27y 334d | 133 | 19 |
| 9 | McGrath, Ashley | 10 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 28y 344d | 181 | 137 |
| 21 | Merrett, Daniel | 11 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 27y 138d | 118 | 23 |
| 24 | Patfull, Joel | 8 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 27y 143d | 122 | 21 |
| 4 | Polec, Jared | 15 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19y 199d | 8 | 4 |
| 29 | Raines, Andrew | 10 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 26y 51d | 85 | 3 |
| 30 | Redden, Jack | 16 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 21y 141d | 59 | 25 |
| 10 | Rich, Daniel | 11 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21y 326d | 67 | 39 |
| 38 | Rockliff, Tom | 18 | 5 | 14 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 22y 66d | 45 | 22 |
| 3 | Sheldon, Sam | 6 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23y 51d | 43 | 11 |
| Rushed | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 201 | 30 | 124 | 325 | 4 | 17 | 47 | 111 | 30 | 21 | 24y 268d | 1864 | 1162 | |
| Geelong | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 3 | Bartel, Jimmy | 8 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 28y 146d | 210 | 141 |
| 35 | Chapman, Paul | 21 | 2 | 8 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 30y 175d | 227 | 292 |
| 28 | Christensen, Allen | 15 | 1 | 14 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20y 345d | 24 | 19 |
| 11 | Corey, Joel | 13 | 1 | 10 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 30y 71d | 239 | 72 |
| 22 | Duncan, Mitch | 10 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 20y 323d | 34 | 34 |
| 44 | Enright, Corey | 13 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 30y 227d | 227 | 51 |
| 29 | Guthrie, Cameron | 6 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19y 253d | 7 | 0 |
| 26 | Hawkins, Tom | 11 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23y 282d | 84 | 125 |
| 8 | Hunt, Josh | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 30y 45d | 170 | 22 |
| 19 | Hunt, Taylor | 12 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21y 175d | 25 | 3 |
| 20 | Johnson, Steve | 17 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 28y 299d | 180 | 367 |
| 13 | Lonergan, Tom | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 27y 347d | 80 | 44 |
| 4 | Mackie, Andrew | 18 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 27y 265d | 155 | 69 |
| 32 | Motlop, Steven | 10 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21y 47d | 10 | 8 |
| 31 | Podsiadly, James | 7 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 30y 231d | 47 | 114 |
| 30 | Scarlett, Matthew | 11 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 32y 328d | 270 | 17 |
| 14 | Selwood, Joel | 9 | 0 | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 23y 338d | 119 | 50 |
| 2 | Smedts, Billie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19y 325d | 3 | 1 |
| 27 | Stokes, Mathew | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 27y 158d | 115 | 167 |
| 41 | Stringer, Jesse | 7 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 21y 25d | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | Taylor, Harry | 13 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 25y 321d | 95 | 9 |
| 12 | West, Trent | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 24y 194d | 25 | 10 |
| Rushed | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 226 | 52 | 116 | 342 | 12 | 7 | 49 | 94 | 21 | 30 | 25y 306d | 2348 | 1615 | |
Match highlights
Jesse Stringer had 10 tackles for Geelong vs. Brisbane (AFL, Premiership Season, R5)Jed Adcock had 10 tackles for Brisbane vs. Geelong (AFL, Premiership Season, R5)
Simon Black played his 300th V/AFL game: Brisbane vs. Geelong (AFL, Premiership Season, R5)