Match

Port Adelaide vs Sydney Swans

Commentary / 03 Aug 2024

Pre Game

00:00
Chad Warner has contributed to a score for the Swans from 65 per cent of his kicks into Sydney's forward 50 since Round 16, the best conversion rate of any of the top 50 players for total kicks inside 50 over the last five rounds.

Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
02:49
SCORE GOAL - Power (Charlie Dixon)
03:19
Port Adelaide get the first goal of the game through a contested mark to Charlie Dixon. Since Round 16, only GWS have kicked more goals (15) from contested mark shots at goal than the Power (12).
05:45
Seven of the Power's 10 kicks have been effective to start the match. By comparison, none of Sydney's first six kicks have been effective.
10:00
SCORE GOAL - Power (Jason Horne-Francis)
10:24
Port Adelaide's gameplan is evident early in the first term, as they have taken 16 marks, 12 of them uncontested. The Power average 98 marks per game in 2024, ranked fourth in the AFL.
11:25
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Connor Rozee)
14:26
Sydney's pressure on the ball outside of the stoppages has been well down at 161, allowing the Power to record nine of the last 10 inside 50 entries. The Swans have won the inside 50 count by an average of 5.5 per game in 2024, ranked fourth in the league.
16:51
SCORE GOAL - Power (Francis Evans)
19:28
SCORE GOAL - Power (Mitch Georgiades)
23:20
SCORE GOAL - Power (Willie Rioli)
23:26
Swans Interchange - Logan McDonald off due to an injury.
24:30
Sydney have recorded a disposal efficiency of 15.7 per cent in their forward half, including a zero per cent kicking efficiency for the quarter thus far. The Swans have not recorded a forward half kicking efficiency of zero per cent in any quarter since the start of the 2021 season.
26:35
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Mitch Georgiades)
28:09
SCORE GOAL - Power (Mitch Georgiades)
28:37
With that goal, the Swans have conceded the most points in any opening quarter of the season in tonight's match. In addition, Port Adelaide have taken eight marks inside 50, which ties the most Sydney has conceded in any quarter in 2024, which Geelong recorded in the final term in Round 13.
30:44
Sydney have been held scoreless in the opening term for the first time since Round 13 last year against St Kilda. They did not record a possession inside their forward 50 in the first quarter.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
00:33
SCORE GOAL - Power (Darcy Byrne-Jones)
04:18
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Jase Burgoyne)
04:19
More of the same in the second quarter, as the Power score from their first two inside 50 entries. The Power score from 47 per cent of their forward 50 entries in 2024, ranked fourth in the AFL this year.
08:33
Chad Warner has recorded six disposals so far in tonight's match but he leads all players on the ground with eight tackles. No other Swan has more than two tackles for the match.
11:18
SCORE GOAL - Power (Mitch Georgiades)
11:50
Mitch Georgiades gets his third goal of the match, which makes it four weeks in a row with at least three goals in each game for the Power forward. His 11 goals in the last four rounds is the equal fourth most of any player in the AFL.
13:01
SCORE GOAL - Power (Willie Rioli)
14:33
SCORE GOAL - Power (Willie Rioli)
16:06
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Jase Burgoyne)
17:21
SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Rushed)
17:30
A rushed behind gets the Swans on the board. The Swans have been able to get the upper hand in the intercept game, leading the count 10-9, but have failed to generate a score from this source.
21:29
SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Isaac Heeney)
21:50
Port Adelaide have applied a pressure rating of 194 so far in tonight's match. The Swans have not had such hot pressure on them in recent weeks, sustaining the second-lowest average pressure rating of any side over the last three weeks (174).
21:51
Sydney's Corey Warner has been replaced by the tactical substitute Luke Parker.
22:09
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Rushed)
23:06
SCORE GOAL - Swans (Isaac Heeney)
23:43
Isaac Heeney finally gets the Swans their first goal of tonight's match. This is the longest wait in any match the Swans have played this season for them to score their first goal of a match.
25:59
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Jason Horne-Francis)
27:13
SCORE GOAL - Power (Mitch Georgiades)
29:28
SCORE GOAL - Power (Jordon Sweet)
30:06
Port Adelaide have been able to generate 17 inside 50's from 26 stoppage clearances in tonight's match. The Power average an inside 50 from 55 per cent of their clearances in 2024.
32:10
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Zak Butters)
33:46
SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Rushed)
34:06
Tonight marks the fourth match since 1997 that the Swans have been held to less than 10 points at half-time. They scored eight behinds against Fremantle in Round 15, 1997, and 1.3 (9) against Fremantle in Round 4, 2015 and again against the Bulldogs in Round 4, 2020.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
04:47
SCORE GOAL - Power (Esava Ratugolea)
06:27
SCORE GOAL - Power (Charlie Dixon)
06:43
The Power pick up where they left off, with back-to-back goals from back-to-back contested marks. Six of their 15 marks inside 50 have been contested, and they have scored 5.1 (31) from the resulting shots at goal.
09:59
Swans Interchange - James Rowbottom off due to an injury.
12:55
SCORE GOAL - Swans (Will Hayward)
13:03
Will Hayward gets his name on the scoresheet with his 32nd goal of the season to move him within two of his single-season record. His goal came from the Swans second uncontested mark inside 50 of the night. Sydney average 10 uncontested marks inside 50 per game in 2024, ranked eighth in the AFL.
13:24
Power Interchange - Aliir Aliir off due to an injury.
15:38
SCORE GOAL - Power (Charlie Dixon)
17:03
Two of the shortest players on the field are the leading intercept possession players in tonight's match with Kane Farrell (eight) and Errol Gulden (seven) leading their respective sides in this category.
17:33
SCORE GOAL - Power (Willie Rioli)
19:58
SCORE GOAL - Swans (Taylor Adams)
20:51
Two of Sydney's three goals in tonight's match have come from free kicks. They have scored 30 goals from free kicks in 2024, which ranks them equal-fifth in the AFL in this category.
23:30
SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Taylor Adams)
23:58
Port Adelaide's pressure rating has steadily increased with each passing quarter in tonight's match. From 186 in the first term to 196 in the second and now 202 in the third quarter, they have not let up despite the ever-increasing margin on the scoreboard.
29:10
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Mitch Georgiades)
29:14
While Port Adelaide didn't put as many points on the scoreboard as the previous two, they controlled the pace of the game by taking 39 marks for the quarter. This is the second-most marks any side has recorded against Sydney in a single quarter this year, after Brisbane took 41 in the third term in Round 19.

Quarter 4

00:00
Port Adelaide's Darcy Byrne-Jones has been replaced by the tactical substitute Quinton Narkle.
01:15
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Esava Ratugolea)
02:49
SCORE GOAL - Power (Dan Houston)
03:31
After their previous 17 goals all came from shots at goal inside 50, the first goal of the final term comes from a long bomb by Dan Houston. The Power have scored 23 goals from outside the 50 metre arc in 2024, ranked third in the AFL. Sydney lead the league in this regard with 38 goals from 50 metres or more.
04:35
Swans Interchange - James Rowbottom off due to an injury.
04:46
SCORE GOAL - Swans (Hayden McLean)
06:16
Sydney finally get a score from a centre clearance chain with their first goal of the last quarter. The Swans have outscored their opponents by an average of 4.4 points per game over the last five weeks, ranked third in the AFL. The Power have been the number one team in the league in this regard, outscoring their last five opponents by eight points per game from centre clearances, and they have have scored 3.2 (20) from this source tonight.
06:39
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Esava Ratugolea)
08:27
SCORE GOAL - Swans (Hayden McLean)
10:40
Port Adelaide are still racking up the uncontested possessions in the final term, recording 18 uncontested marks among 31 total uncontested possessions. Since Round 17 they average 225 uncontested possessions per game, ranked sixth in the AFL.
10:42
SCORE GOAL - Power (Dan Houston)
11:53
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Rushed)
13:13
SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Peter Ladhams)
15:47
Swans Interchange - James Rowbottom off due to an injury.
16:08
SCORE GOAL - Power (Francis Evans)
16:34
Power Interchange - Jackson Mead off due to an injury.
16:47
With that goal to Francis Evans, this stands to be Sydney's worst loss in John Longmire's tenure as head coach. His previous biggest loss was against Geelong in Round 6 last year (130-37).
18:54
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Miles Bergman)
19:20
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Kane Farrell)
20:50
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Esava Ratugolea)
22:42
SCORE BEHIND - Swans (Sam Wicks)
22:57
Sydney's effort to win the contest has lifted in the final term, winning contested possessions 20-15 for the term, however they have recorded just four tackles and their lowest pressure factor in any quarter of tonight's match at 141. This would be the first quarter in 2024 where the Swans record a pressure factor lower than 150.
24:29
SCORE GOAL - Power (Travis Boak)
27:14
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Connor Rozee)
28:37
21 goals from 68 inside 50's has been one of the most dominant and efficient performances of the season over the ladder leading Swans. The Power average a goal from 22 per cent of their inside 50 entries, ranked 13th in the AFL in 2024.
29:53
SCORE GOAL - Power (Ollie Wines)
29:56
Ollie Wines kicks a goal after the siren to make it a massive 112 point win. The Power scored 90 points from intercept possessions and 57 points from clearances while conceding just eight points to Sydney from clearance chains in an incredibly balanced performance.