Match

West Coast Eagles vs Carlton

Commentary / 12 Aug 2017

Pre Game

59:30
Welcome to Domain Stadium for the West Coast Eagles v Carlton Round 21 clash.
59:33
Outs for Eagles: M.LeCras, W.Schofield, C.Masten, M.Karpany
59:34
Ins for Eagles: M.Priddis, L.Jetta, N.Vardy, S.Wellingham
59:35
Outs for Blues: C.Marchbank
59:36
Ins for Blues: T.Williamson
59:40
Don't forget to enter your tips for this match, you have until the bounce to make your selection.
00:00
Of the Blues scores this season, 65 per cent have been made from an intercept, the highest percentage recorded by a side.

Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
02:59
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Marc Murphy)
03:00
Carlton captain Marc Murphy opens the scoring tonight with his tenth goal in 20 games for 2017.
05:24
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Jed Lamb)
08:36
West Coast has already given away three free kicks for holding the man.
08:51
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
10:13
Carlton has six of the first seven clearances, including three to Matthew Kreuzer.
14:11
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
17:33
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Charlie Curnow)
17:52
In his fourth season of AFL football, Jeremy McGovern is averaging a career-high 7.6 marks per game for West Coast. With four at this stage of the game tonight, he is well on track to eclipse this mark.
18:13
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
20:15
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Marc Murphy)
22:30
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Bryce Gibbs)
24:02
Matt Priddis' seven disposals place him atop the leaderboard to this point. The Eagle midfielder is also responsible for three of his teams seven tackles.
26:33
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
26:34
Three goals for Jamie Cripps matches his season-high, which he achieved in the Eagles Round 1 victory over North Melbourne.
29:47
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Rushed)
30:45
The siren has sounded to end Q1.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
00:01
The Blues closed out the first term with nine of the last ten inside 50s. However, they did not take full advantage of this dominance, only outscoring West Coast 1.2 to 1.0 during this period.
04:52
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
05:26
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
06:43
Four intercept marks for West Coast's Jeremy McGovern equates to one third of the game total across both teams. The Eagles and Blues each have six total.
13:14
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
13:49
Matthew Kreuzer holds a slight edge over Nathan Vardy in head-to-head ruck contests, 11 to 10, and hitouts to advantage 4 to 3.
14:18
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark Hutchings)
15:32
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
16:04
The Blues have given away five free kicks for holding the ball, to be their most-common indiscretion to the point.
17:03
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Redden)
17:04
Jack Redden with just his second goal in his fifteenth game for 2017.
19:06
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
21:17
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Matthew Kreuzer)
22:13
In the last ten minutes, West Coast has disposed of the ball at 74 per cent efficiency compared to Carlton's 46 per cent. In this time, they have also kicked 4.1 to 0.1.
23:17
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Jed Lamb)
24:53
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Dale Thomas)
27:52
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Bryce Gibbs)
29:00
After Carlton lead by 12 points early in the game, West Coast has kicked nine of the last ten goals.
30:54
The siren has sounded to end Q2.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
00:48
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
02:32
Five of West Coast's nine goals have been from inside a distance of 30 metres. In contrast, all three of the Blues goals have been from beyond 30 metres.
03:05
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Zac Fisher)
03:06
After their final seven inside 50s of the first half produced four behinds, the Blues first inside 50 of the second half results in a goal.
09:37
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Rushed)
10:41
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Marc Murphy)
10:42
Marc Murphy has a game-leading eight score involvements for the Blues, including kicking 2.1 himself. The most for an Eagle has been six score involvements for Jamie Cripps.
12:30
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Jack Silvagni)
15:06
Carlton's Sam Kerridge has eight disposals at 80 per cent efficiency for the third term. This gives him a total of 20 disposals for the game at 80 per cent.
17:14
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Jack Silvagni)
18:45
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
19:39
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Jarrod Pickett)
21:19
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Jack Silvagni)
21:20
Four of Carlton's five third quarter majors have been sourced from a West Coast turnover.
25:43
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Jed Lamb)
26:58
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Blaine Boekhorst)
28:46
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
30:38
The siren has sounded to end Q3.

Quarter 4

00:00
Q4 is now underway.
00:01
For the third term, the Blues won the disposal count 114 to 77. Their disposal efficiency in that term was 82 per cent compared to the Eagles 70 per cent.
00:20
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Rushed)
01:20
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Sharrod Wellingham)
04:11
Blues defender Jacob Weitering is the only player to have not been interchanged tonight.
08:20
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
08:21
Going into this round, the Eagles Josh Kennedy had an average of 3.9 goals per game, comfortably best in the AFL. His five goals so far tonight leave him tied with Joe Daniher of Essendon for the most kicked in the league in 2017.
12:08
Blues Interchange - Dennis Armfield off due to an injury.
13:03
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Levi Casboult)
13:16
West Coast has the final term advantage in inside 50s ten to two. However, both sides have kicked just a single goal each.
14:33
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Luke Partington)
16:03
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
18:01
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Luke Partington)
18:47
Marc Murphy's 710 metres gained is easily the most of any man of the ground. Next best is Eagle Sam Mitchell with 457.
19:09
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
21:51
SCORE BEHIND - Blues (Marc Murphy)
23:15
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Charlie Curnow)
24:37
In the last ten minutes, Eagles ruckman Nathan Vardy has won seven of twelve hitouts. Critically, four have gone to the direct advantage of a teammate.
25:02
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
26:47
SCORE GOAL - Blues (Levi Casboult)
29:03
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
29:43
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jeremy McGovern)
31:34
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Redden)
33:21
The siren has sounded to end Q4.