Match

West Coast Eagles vs Melbourne

Commentary / 22 Sep 2018

Pre Game

00:00
The Demons won the uncontested possession count by 116 in the forward half of the ground in Round 22. This is the most won by any team against the Eagles at Optus Stadium.

Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
01:08
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Willie Rioli)
04:45
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
04:53
The Eagles strike first through a forward 50 intercept. In 2018, the eagles average 9.3 points from forward 50 intercepts (ranked seventh).
07:16
O. McDonald has four early marks, his most for a first half in 2018 is five.
08:22
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Joel Smith)
08:58
In the forward half, the Demons lead uncontested possessions 10 to five, and contested possessions 10 to three.
09:08
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
11:21
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Rushed)
11:52
Of the three chains starting in their defensive 50, the Eagles have converted two to inside 50s and one to a goal.
13:38
Eagles Interchange - Jeremy McGovern off due to an injury.
14:23
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
14:51
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Rushed)
15:09
The Demons have won the first four throw in clearances of the game.
16:21
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
18:08
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
19:05
The Eagles lead forward half marks ten to two.
19:23
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Daniel Venables)
20:54
23 of the Eagles 24 points have been sourced from Melbourne turnovers. 14 of those were turnovers in Melbourne's attacking midfield.
21:08
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
23:56
In the last ten minutes, the Eagles have had the ball in their forward half for 85 per cent of time.
25:18
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Rushed)
27:17
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Rushed)
28:11
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
30:40
The Demons have an efficiency of 65 per cent by hand. Their lowest efficiency for the season is 70.5 per cent, which came in round 4.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
00:47
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
02:00
Eagles Interchange - Luke Shuey off due to an injury.
02:29
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
03:44
To start the second quarter, the Eagles lead disposals 13 to two, inside 50s two to zero and have kicked two goals to zero.
06:30
In 2018, the Demons average differential of 17.7 contested possessions (ranked first). The next best average differential is Collingwood with 9.8. Today, the Eagles lead this stat 60 to 44.
06:48
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Willie Rioli)
08:27
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Liam Ryan)
10:05
West Coast leads marks inside 50 nine to zero.
10:13
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
16:15
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Clayton Oliver)
16:22
Melbourne average a differential of plus 19 in scores from turnovers in 2018 (ranked second). The Eagles have outscored them 50 to two from turnovers today.
18:43
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
21:59
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Charlie Spargo)
23:31
The Eagles have converted 71 per cent of defensive midfield chains to an inside 50.
24:21
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
29:11
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Christian Petracca)
31:10
Melbourne's score of six is their lowest in a first half since round 5, 2009.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
00:43
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Clayton Oliver)
01:01
The Demons finally get on the board through Oliver with their first goal from their 21st forward 50 entry.
02:36
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
02:56
The Eagles hit straight back with their ninth goal from an intercept and their fourth from the attacking midfield.
05:55
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Jake Melksham)
09:14
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
09:51
The Eagles lead marks ten to two in the third term and 71 to 41 for the game.
11:18
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Mitch Hannan)
13:08
The Demons have converted just one of 27 defensive 50 chains into an inside 50.
13:51
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Angus Brayshaw)
15:12
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Jake Melksham)
17:00
The Demons lead third quarter inside 50s 12 to two.
17:53
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Daniel Venables)
18:11
The Eagles have have kicked a goal from all three of their third term inside 50s.
19:32
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Mitch Hannan)
21:02
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
22:10
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
25:46
In the third quarter, West Coast has scored from 83 per cent of entries whilst the Demons have scored from 33 per cent of entries.
27:44
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Joel Smith)
29:04
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
30:31
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Joel Smith)
33:01
Despite leading inside 50s by 14 for the quarter, the Demons were only able to decrease the half time margin by two points.

Quarter 4

00:00
Q4 is now underway.
00:58
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Max Gawn)
03:11
SCORE GOAL - Demons (James Harmes)
04:44
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
06:05
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Liam Ryan)
07:12
Eagles Interchange - Willie Rioli off due to an injury.
08:31
The Eagles have won four of the first five clearances of the final term.
10:37
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Sam Weideman)
10:38
The Demons lead inside 50s 26 to 11 in the second half.
12:57
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark Hutchings)
14:57
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Christian Petracca)
15:06
Jack Redden has backed up his good form from the qualifying final with another strong performance. So far he has collected 27 disposals, 12 marks, eight tackles and five inside 50s.
17:00
Demons Interchange - Aaron vandenBerg off due to an injury.
17:09
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
18:49
Jack Viney leads all comers with 11 clearances, the next best is five.
19:21
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Sam Weideman)
21:37
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Willie Rioli)
24:26
The Eagles have been dominant in the air, they lead marks 104 to 64 and contested marks 14 to eight. Barrass and Hurn have nine intercept marks between them.
24:48
Eagles Interchange - Luke Shuey off due to an injury.
26:25
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Redden)
27:38
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Aaron vandenBerg)
29:48
The siren has sounded to end Q4.