Brendon Goddard (140/147): Playing midfield Goddard contributed with 31 disposals, 11 marks, 6 tackles and 2 taps. Zach Merrett (129/127): Playing inside midfield Merrett contributed with 34 touches, 6 marks and 8 tackles. Matthew Leuenberger (101/80): First ruck Leuenberger contributed with 18 touches, 2 marks, 3 tackles, 36 hit outs and managed 0.1. Orazio Fantasia (94/71): Starting forward Fantasia contributed with 10 disposals, 4 marks, 9 tackles and 3.1 on the scoreboard. Kyle Langford (88/85): Playing an outside game Langford contributed with 19 possessions, 7 marks, 3 tackles, 2 ruck taps and kicked 1.0. Darcy Parish (82/89): Playing in midfield Parish contributed with 21 disposals, 5 marks and 4 tackles. Adam Cooney (80/51): Notably poor disposal quality today… 19 disposals and 4 marks with 4 tackles… 0.2 as well. Starting in the guts.
Jayden Laverde (80/66): Starting forward on Hammelmann Laverde contributed with 14 touches, 6 marks, 5 tackles and booted 0.2. Matt Dea (74/67): Playing tall again on Walker Dea contributed with 16 disposals, 6 grabs and 3 tackles. Joe Daniher (73/60): Copped one in the moosh early in Q1 leaving him bleeding profusely… Kicked 4.1 from 5 grabs and 10 touches. Starting at FF on Merrett.
Aaron Francis (72/79): First game… 16 touches and 7 marks plus 2 tackles… 0.1 as well. Starting at halfback.
James Kelly (70/57): Looks like he could use a week off… 16 disposals and 3 marks with 5 tackles. Playing midfield.
David Zaharakis (69/51): Tagged by Robinson… 13 possessions and 2 marks plus 7 tackles… 0.1 as well. Playing inside midfield.
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti (68/68): Starting forward McDonald-Tipungwuti contributed with 13 touches, 4 grabs, 3 tackles and 1.3. Martin Gleeson (59/69): Coming off halfback Gleeson added 17 disposals and 4 marks. Will Hams (57/61): Starting deep forward Hams contributed with 15 touches, 3 marks and 1.1. Conor McKenna (52/55): Playing in defence McKenna contributed with 14 disposals, 2 marks, 2 tackles and 0.2 on the scoreboard. Courtenay Dempsey (51/44): Another terrible day for him with many clangers… 15 possessions with 11 by foot… also 3 marks… and scored 1.0… not helped by 3 FA. In defence on Cutler… switched forward in Q4.
Mitch W. Brown (49/56): Up forward on Gardiner Brown contributed with 12 disposals, 3 marks and 1.2. Shaun McKernan (48/39): Third tall forward on Andrews McKernan contributed with 10 touches, 3 marks, 2 tackles and 5 hit outs. Patrick Ambrose (45/71): At FB on Walker Ambrose added 13 disposals and 3 tackles. Michael Hartley (33/64): In defence on Hipwood Hartley added 7 possessions and 5 tackles. Tom Rockliff (179/148): Massive Q1 to kickstart the Lion surge… 38 possessions and 12 marks plus 9 tackles… 1.0 as well. Leading the inside midfield.
Stefan Martin (130/156): Hip problems in the warmup but did play… 29 hit outs… also 25 possessions and 4 marks plus 5 tackles… 1.1 as well. First ruck.
Ryan Bastinac (113/108): Rotating through midfield roles Bastinac contributed with 30 possessions, 6 marks, 3 tackles and 1.0. Pearce Hanley (110/99): Playing outside midfield Hanley contributed with 31 touches, 4 marks, 6 tackles, managed 1.0 and 5 frees against. Daniel Rich (106/108): Starting in the guts Rich contributed with 27 touches, 5 grabs, 2 tackles and 1.0. Dayne Zorko (102/112): Playing inside midfield Zorko contributed with 28 disposals, 4 grabs and 6 tackles. Tom Cutler (83/67): First goal… 16 possessions with 12 by foot… also 6 marks and 2 tackles… and booted 2.1. Starting forward on Dempsey.
Rhys Mathieson (70/69): Playing midfield Mathieson contributed with 17 touches, 2 marks, 4 tackles, 2.0 and 3 frees against. Josh Walker (65/76): At FB on Dea Walker contributed with 8 disposals, 4 marks, 2 tackles, 4 hit outs and booted 4.0. Josh Green (64/59): Starting deep forward Green contributed with 15 disposals, 2 marks and managed 2.2. Sam Mayes (63/91): Coming off halfback Mayes added 23 touches and booted 1.0. Liam Dawson (60/54): All his goals in late junk time… 13 touches and 6 marks plus 2.0. Playing an outside game.
Josh Schache (59/58): Starting forward on Ambrose Schache contributed with 8 possessions, 5 marks, 6 tackles and 0.1. Eric Hipwood (53/59): Up forward on Hartley Hipwood contributed with 12 touches, 4 grabs and 1.1. Darcy Gardiner (51/54): Standing Brown Gardiner contributed with 11 possessions, 4 marks, 3 tackles and managed 0.1. Rohan Bewick (50/46): Playing a HBF role Bewick contributed with 13 disposals, 3 grabs and kicked 1.0. Mitch Robinson (42/62): Tagging Zaharakis Robinson also had 17 possessions. Ben Keays (38/56): Starting in a FP Keays added 8 touches and 4 tackles. Harris Andrews (35/46): Starting in defence on McKernan Andrews contributed with 5 possessions, 3 grabs and 3 tackles. Reuben William (32/41): Playing in midfield William added 11 touches and 2 marks. Matthew Hammelmann (31/38): In defence on Laverde Hammelmann added 6 disposals and 5 tackles. Daniel Merrett (24/47): At FB on Daniher Merrett added 10 possessions and 2 marks.
