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Gold Coast
Melbourne
Q1
4.2.26
2.3.15

    Gold Coast Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, D.MacPherson
  • 9 mins - Behind, T.Miller
  • 16 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 17 mins - Goal, J.Garlett
  • 20 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 26 mins - Behind, A.Saad

    Gold Coast and Melbourne Events

  • 10 mins - Behind, J.Hogan
  • 11 mins - Goal, J.Garlett
  • 25 mins - Behind, C.Petracca
  • 29 mins - Behind, C.Pedersen
  • 31 mins - Goal, M.Gawn
Q2
8.2.50
8.7.55

    Gold Coast Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, J.Grant
  • 16 mins - Goal, J.Garlett
  • 21 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 23 mins - Goal, T.Lynch

    Gold Coast and Melbourne Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, J.Hogan
  • 6 mins - Behind, T.Bugg
  • 7 mins - Goal, D.Tyson
  • 9 mins - Goal, B.Stretch
  • 12 mins - Behind, C.Pedersen
  • 14 mins - Behind, M.Gawn
  • 19 mins - Behind, J.Hogan
  • 24 mins - Goal, N.Jones
  • 28 mins - Goal, M.Gawn
  • 30 mins - Goal, D.Kent
Q3
11.3.69
17.11.113

    Gold Coast Events

  • 3 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 12 mins - Goal, D.Currie
  • 21 mins - Goal, P.Wright
  • 33 mins - Goal, P.Wright

    Gold Coast and Melbourne Events

  • 1 mins - Goal, J.Viney
  • 4 mins - Goal, J.Viney
  • 5 mins - Behind, J.Hogan
  • 7 mins - Goal, N.Jones
  • 9 mins - Goal, J.Harmes
  • 10 mins - Goal, B.Vince
  • 14 mins - Goal, B.Kennedy
  • 16 mins - Behind, J.Garlett
  • 17 mins - Goal, B.Kennedy
  • 18 mins - Goal, J.Harmes
  • 20 mins - Behind, D.Kent
  • 25 mins - Goal, J.Garlett
  • 31 mins - Behind, N.Jones
Q4
14.3.87
24.16.160

    Gold Coast Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, G.Ablett
  • 26 mins - Goal, G.Ablett
  • 30 mins - Goal, A.Hall

    Gold Coast and Melbourne Events

  • 1 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 5 mins - Goal, C.Pedersen
  • 7 mins - Goal, C.Pedersen
  • 10 mins - Behind, M.Gawn
  • 12 mins - Goal, C.Petracca
  • 14 mins - Goal, C.Petracca
  • 16 mins - Goal, J.Harmes
  • 18 mins - Goal, C.Pedersen
  • 20 mins - Behind, J.Watts
  • 22 mins - Goal, J.Garlett
  • 27 mins - Behind, M.Gawn
  • 29 mins - Rushed Behind

Scorers

Gold Coast
Melbourne
Goal Scorers Gold Coast Melbourne
Goals and Behinds Lynch (4.0), Ablett (2.0), Garlett (2.0), Wright (2.0), Currie (1.0), Grant (1.0), Hall (1.0), MacPherson (1.0), Miller (0.1), Saad (0.1) Pedersen (3.2), Garlett (3.1), Harmes (3.0), Gawn (2.3), Jones (2.1), Petracca (2.1), Kennedy (2.0), Viney (2.0), Hogan (1.3), Kent (1.1), Stretch (1.0), Tyson (1.0), Vince (1.0), Bugg (0.1), Watts (0.1)

Team Statistics

Gold Coast
Melbourne

Statistics

 Gold Coast Melbourne
Goals 14 24
Behinds 3 16
Scoring shots 18 39
Goals/scoring shots 78 62
Disposals 317 412
Gold CoastGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
G.Ablett 22 11 4 11 8 4 2 5 0 4
C.Cameron 14 5 3 9 5 5 0 1 0 0
D.Currie 14 7 5 7 11 3 2 4 32 1
S.Day 11 7 5 4 8 2 1 1 0 1
J.Garlett 12 9 4 3 5 2 0 0 0 0
J.Grant 15 12 8 3 4 3 1 1 0 2
A.Hall 21 11 4 10 8 7 1 1 0 3
J.Harbrow 14 7 3 7 5 5 0 4 0 1
K.Kolodjashnij 16 11 3 5 6 0 1 0 0 0
S.Lemmens 14 10 7 4 3 4 0 2 0 1
J.Lonergan 20 9 5 11 7 7 3 4 0 3
T.Lynch 16 8 4 8 9 1 2 0 3 1
D.MacPherson 10 5 3 5 5 9 0 1 0 0
N.Malceski 16 10 3 6 10 4 2 0 0 3
J.Martin 11 4 3 7 5 2 0 4 0 0
T.Miller 22 10 3 12 10 10 0 1 0 4
D.Prestia 20 11 2 9 9 6 1 1 0 5
M.Rosa 4 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 0
A.Saad 15 8 3 7 5 2 0 0 0 1
H.Schade 17 11 8 6 3 0 1 1 0 0
A.Sexton 4 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
P.Wright 9 3 3 6 6 3 1 0 7 0
MelbourneGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
T.Bugg 25 14 3 11 13 7 1 1 0 8
C.Garland 15 6 0 9 6 3 1 1 0 0
J.Garlett 12 9 2 3 6 4 1 1 0 0
M.Gawn 17 11 4 6 13 5 3 1 46 6
J.Harmes 26 11 1 15 11 5 2 0 0 2
J.Hogan 9 8 5 1 1 4 1 2 0 0
J.Hunt 19 10 6 9 4 4 0 0 0 1
N.Jetta 17 6 6 11 5 1 3 0 0 0
N.Jones 33 20 2 13 11 6 1 1 0 5
B.Kennedy 16 10 2 6 9 9 3 2 0 3
D.Kent 14 5 3 9 7 2 1 0 0 0
T.McDonald 10 3 1 7 2 1 0 0 0 0
V.Michie 13 5 1 8 3 1 0 0 0 0
C.Oliver 23 4 3 19 13 6 0 2 0 4
C.Pedersen 14 7 5 7 8 3 2 2 4 2
C.Petracca 24 5 2 19 12 4 1 1 0 1
B.Stretch 16 9 2 7 4 3 1 0 0 2
D.Tyson 21 10 4 11 9 3 1 1 2 5
B.Vince 28 18 1 10 7 1 5 0 0 2
J.Viney 24 8 3 16 10 7 0 2 0 7
J.Wagner 25 12 4 13 9 5 4 1 0 0
J.Watts 11 9 3 2 6 3 0 0 0 0

Match Details

Gold Coast
Melbourne
START TIME
5:10PM
WEATHER
Mostly clear
VENUE
Metricon Stadium
Umpires
Justin Schmitt, Andrew Stephens, David Harris

Melbourne v Gold Coast: Demons crush sorry Suns

Andrew Stafford

MELBOURNE 2.3 8.7 17.11 24.16 (160) GOLD COAST 4.2 8.2 11.3 14.3 (87)
GOALS: Melbourne: Harmes 3, Pedersen 3, Garlett 3, Gawn 2, Viney 2, Jones 2, Kennedy 2, Petracca 2, Hogan, Tyson, Stretch, Kent, Vince. Gold Coast: Lynch 4, Garlett 2, Wright 2, Ablett 2, Macpherson, Grant, Currie, Hall.
BEST: Melbourne: Viney, Gawn, Jones, Vince, Harmes, Kennedy. Gold Coast: Lynch, Day, Harbrow, Saad.
INJURIES Gold Coast: Rosa (hamstring); Sexton (forearm).
UMPIRES: Justin Schmitt, David Harris, Andrew Stephens.
CROWD 12,780 at Metricon Stadium.

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Demons thrash Suns by 73 points

Melbourne stay in touch with the top eight by thrashing the Suns by 73 points.

Maybe the Gold Coast really is the Bermuda Triangle of sport. Players keep mysteriously disappearing. The Gold Coast Suns board need to urgently send out a search party, even if it risks the entire ship going down. What sinkhole did this club's spirit go down in the past fortnight? 

Let's start from the beginning. At quarter-time, the statistics were ominous for the Suns. Melbourne had laid 32 tackles in the first quarter alone. They had doubled the Suns' inside 50 count, 18 to 9, and had 24 more disposals. Yet they found themselves 11 points behind. How could this be so? 

Tunnel vision: Melbourne’s Max Gawn and the Suns’ Daniel Currie compete for the ball.
Tunnel vision: Melbourne’s Max Gawn and the Suns’ Daniel Currie compete for the ball.  Photo: Getty Images

By the end of the second quarter, the Demons had managed to edge ahead, with four late goals from the 24-minute mark. Still, a five-point advantage didn't reflect their utter dominance. Inside 50s now read 34 to 17 the Demons' way; they had 11 more contested possessions and 25 more overall. 

Worse for the Suns, they were two players down, losing Matt Rosa early to a hamstring strain, then Alex Sexton was taken to hospital to assess a possible fracture to his right forearm. They had one player keeping them in the contest, and his name wasn't Gary Ablett, who had an inconspicuous 11 disposals to that point. 

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The player – not for the first time this year – was Tom Lynch, who is starting to look absolutely scary. Lynch had four goals for the half, giving away one to Suns debutante Darcy Macpherson, creating another for Jarrod Garlett and his dominance of the Demons' defence at that stage was complete.

But against the run of play, Lynch wasn't going to be able to keep the Suns afloat forever, and in the third quarter, the Demons started to smash home their statistical dominance on the scoreboard. Jack Viney struck twice, Nathan Jones bobbed up from a boundary throw-in with a second, James Harmes slammed home another. 

When Bernie Vince made it eight in a row for the Demons 10 minutes into the second half, it was game over – and they didn't stop punishing the Gold Coast from there. Not that the Suns put up great resistance. Many just seemed to stop playing. Lynch was powerless by that point; the ball wasn't getting anywhere near him. 

And we have to talk about Gary. The champion looked as powerless as Lynch after half-time, but for different reasons. When he was run down in a tackle as he dashed inside 50 late in the third quarter, it was simply sad. Two junk-time goals aside, he's just going at the moment, struggling to exert any of his old influence on games. 

But we also have to talk about Melbourne. Yes, they're up and down, and yes, Gold Coast were awful. Still, the Demons are playing fast, attractive, direct football, and unlike the Suns at the other end, they weren't reliant on a brilliant key forward to do the job for them. Jesse Hogan, well held by Sam Day, kicked just the one goal. 

Three other Demons kicked three goals and five more two each, Christian Petracca the feel-good story with consecutive efforts in the last quarter, capping an excellent second game. 

But it was well past party time by then, Melbourne slamming on 16 goals to six after half-time.