Match

Sydney Swans vs Adelaide Crows

Commentary / 27 Mar 2021

Pre Game

00:00

The Swans come into this round being the highest scorers of the opening round of the season with 125 points. The Swans recorded a goal from 32 percent of their inside 50s last round – ranked first in the competition.

Quarter 1

00:00

Q1 is now underway.

00:59

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Shane McAdam)

03:20

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Taylor Walker)

04:32

Within the first five minutes, the Crows have been inside 50 on two occasions for two goals. Walker kicks his first goal from his first disposal of the day following on from his five goal performance of last week.

05:59

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Tom Hickey)

09:52

Clearances even at five apiece early in the match. Sloan with a current match-high of three clearances from his four disposals, also a current match-high

14:54

15 minutes into the match and Lance Franklin is yet to have a disposal in his return game, although there are still a number of players yet to register a disposal. The Crows lead the total disposal count 30-27, with their disposal efficiency at 73 percent to the Swans' 48 percent.

15:17

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Taylor Walker)

18:29

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Taylor Walker)

19:48

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Lance Franklin)

19:59

Franklin one kick for one goal and now only 55 goals from the magical 1000 goal mark. Franklin's goal came courtesy of a mark inside forward 50 for the Swans, the first mark inside 50 for the match.

25:35

A very even physical contest unfolding at the SCG today, both sides have registered 24 contested possessions and both sides have executed 14 tackles. Sloan for the Crows leads the contested possession count with four and Berry for the Crows leads the tackle count with four.

27:10

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Logan McDonald)

28:50

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Logan McDonald)

29:20

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Tom Lynch)

29:38

McDonald takes the first contested mark of the match for the Swans but is only able to add a behind to the scoreboard from his shot on goal. McDonald has four first quarter disposals and three marks.

32:58

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Tom Hickey)

33:00

A very even and entertaining first quarter sees the Swans with a five point margin at the first break. Adelaide leads clearances 13-8 and inside 50s 16-12 while Sydney leads total disposals 84-75.

Quarter 2

00:00

Q2 is now underway.

00:27

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Lachlan Murphy)

00:58

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Isaac Heeney)

04:14

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Taylor Walker)

04:45

Walker for the Crows wins a free kick for holding the ball against Rampe, his third free kick earned this match so far. The resulting goal to Walker was the Crows' second from a free kick as they lead the total free kick count 11-5.

06:18

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Isaac Heeney)

09:42

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Sam Berry)

10:13

Berry for the Crows wins another holding the ball free kick for his team inside forward 50, however is only able to register a behind with his shot of goal. The Crows have now laid five tackles inside forward 50 to the Swans' three.

12:55

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Sam Berry)

13:39

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Tom Papley)

14:06

The Swans have now kick four goals from 21 possession chains originating in their defensive 50, on this occasion through Papley. Of these 21 possession chains, nine have ended inside the forward 50 zone for the Swans.

15:36

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Braeden Campbell)

16:13

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Errol Gulden)

18:18

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Errol Gulden)

19:01

The Swans on top through the middle part of this quarter with the last four scores and three goals of the game, as well as the last five inside 50 and the last eight of ten inside 50s.

21:57

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Luke Parker)

22:59

The Swans' dominance this quarter can also be demonstrated through the total disposal count which they lead by more than double 94-46, the inside 50 counts which they lead 15-9, and total marks which they are dominating 17-4.

25:52

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Rushed)

26:46

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Logan McDonald)

28:21

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Chad Warner)

28:31

With that behind to Warner, Gulden now up to an impressive nine score involvements, leading the next best player by four in only his second AFL match. The season high score involvement count to this point is 13 to Tim Kelly of the Eagles in round 1.

29:10

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Sam Berry)

30:58

A totally dominant quarter by the Swans has seen them extend their lead out to 30 points at the main break. Second-gamer Gulden was everywhere for the Swans with a quarter high 12 disposals while Heeny kicked two goals for the home side.

Quarter 3

00:00

Q3 is now underway.

01:34

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Lance Franklin)

03:19

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Taylor Walker)

04:07

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Rory Laird)

05:46

Dawson takes the eighth intercept mark for the Swans, finding Reid with his kick inside 50 who goes back and kicks truly. The Crows have only taken three intercept marks for the match while McCartin for the Swans has a match high three to his name alone.

08:41

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Tom Lynch)

09:18

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Rushed)

10:35

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Ben Keays)

10:44

After kicking 3.2 himself so far in this match, Walker for the Crows turns provider as he registers a goal assist dishing of by hand to Keays who kicks truly on goal. Keays has had 15 disposals for the match so far.

12:53

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Shane McAdam)

13:21

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Lance Franklin)

14:32

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Shane McAdam)

15:52

After that behind to McAdam, from the kick in the Swans are able to move the football uninterrupted to inside forward 50. From 12 kick ins, remarkably the Swans have moved the football to inside forward 50 uninterrupted on eight occasions, scoring 3.1 (19) from these chains.

17:19

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Harry Schoenberg)

18:47

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Rory Laird)

20:12

The Crows have been very efficient in scoring from inside 50s this quarter, nine scores from 12 inside 50s, but have only kicked a wasteful 1.8 (14) from these nine entries.

22:49

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Taylor Walker)

24:26

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Chad Warner)

24:40

Kennedy for the Swans wins the centre bounce clearance from the restart after the Walker goal, his third and team high centre bounce clearance. The Crows lead the total count 12-6 with Keays for the Crows leading the personal count with four.

27:18

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Tom Papley)

28:36

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Rushed)

29:02

Heeney takes his second contested mark inside 50 for the match but fails to score from his shot on goal. That was the Swans' third contested mark inside forward 50 while the Crows have only taken one. The Swans are dominating total marks 80-39.

29:20

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Luke Parker)

30:50

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Oliver Florent)

31:19

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Jordan Dawson)

32:03

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Lance Franklin)

33:12

An inaccurate Crows that quarter with 2.8 (20) allowing the Swans to extend their lead by 21 points to 51 despite having only one more scoring shot 6.5 (41). Campbell for the Swans leads all players with 23 disposals including an equal match high 17 uncontested possessions.

Quarter 4

00:00

Q4 is now underway.

02:19

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Ned McHenry)

03:23

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Rushed)

05:12

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Lance Franklin)

06:12

Although only registering a behind with his last shot on goal, in his return match Franklin is the Swans leading goal kicker with three. Franklin has had eight disposals today (six kicks and two handballs), two marks and two inside 50s.

07:03

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Tom Lynch)

08:40

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Taylor Walker)

10:18

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Isaac Heeney)

10:33

Heeney's goal was the tenth goal originating from a Crows turnover. The Swans have kicked 10.6 (66) to 3.10 (28) from turnovers today. The Crows have committed 58 turnovers to the Swans' 52 for the match.

12:39

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Taylor Walker)

13:51

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Rushed)

14:59

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Taylor Walker)

15:23

With his sixth goal, and ninth scoring shot, Walker is the second highest ranked player on the field today. From full forward Walker is also the fifth ranked metres gained player for the match

17:11

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Justin McInerney)

18:50

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Shane McAdam)

20:06

Hickey for the Swans is the last player on the field with 100 percent disposal efficiency, granted he has only had seven disposals. Hickey only very marginally leads the ruck battle with O'Brien winning the hitout count 22-21 and hitouts to advantage count 5-4.

20:27

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Shane McAdam)

22:45

SCORE GOAL - Crows (Shane McAdam)

23:08

Not quite a hat-trick at the SCG but McAdam for the Crows has kicked the last three goals of the match in a row. McAdam has kicked 4.2 from his 11 disposals today. Eight of his 11 disposals have been inside forward 50.

26:16

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Tom Lynch)

26:52

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Sam Berry)

27:38

Whilst Berry for the Crows has only been able to register 0.4 (4) with his five kicks today, he has contributed in other ways leading the tackle count across all players with 10, which is more than a fifth of the total 47 for his side.

28:06

SCORE BEHIND - Crows (Lachlan Murphy)

29:36

SCORE GOAL - Swans (Chad Warner)

31:33

SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Tom Papley)

32:56

The Swans break 120 points for two weeks in a row, running out 33 point winners over a competitive but inaccurate Crow side. In a loosing side, Walker is the highest ranked player on the field while Laird for the Crows led the disposal count with 30, a third of which (10) were clerances.