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'''Nominations''' |
'''Nominations''' |
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* Round 1 – [[Daniel Rich]] (Brisbane)<ref>{{cite web|first=Luke|last=Holmesby|title=NAB AFL Rising Star: Rd 1|url=http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/default.aspx?newsid=74036|publisher=AFL BigPond Network|date=31 March 2009|accessdate=7 April 2009}}</ref> |
* Round 1 – [[Daniel Rich]] (Brisbane)<ref>{{cite web|first=Luke|last=Holmesby|title=NAB AFL Rising Star: Rd 1|url=http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/default.aspx?newsid=74036|publisher=AFL BigPond Network|date=31 March 2009|accessdate=7 April 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5hSNplpxJ|archivedate=2009-06-11|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* Round 2 – [[David Zaharakis]] (Essendon)<ref>{{cite web|first=Luke|last=Holmesby|title=Zaharakis NAB AFL Rising Star for Rd2|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/74506/default.aspx|publisher=AFL BigPond Network|date=7 April 2009|accessdate=7 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=|last=|title=Bomber debutant grabs Rising Star nomination|url=http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/zaharakis-is-rising-star-nominee/2009/04/07/1238869939324.html|publisher=[[Fairfax Media#Australian digital|realfooty.com.au]]|date=7 April 2009|accessdate=7 April 2009}}</ref> |
* Round 2 – [[David Zaharakis]] (Essendon)<ref>{{cite web|first=Luke|last=Holmesby|title=Zaharakis NAB AFL Rising Star for Rd2|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/74506/default.aspx|publisher=AFL BigPond Network|date=7 April 2009|accessdate=7 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=|last=|title=Bomber debutant grabs Rising Star nomination|url=http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/zaharakis-is-rising-star-nominee/2009/04/07/1238869939324.html|publisher=[[Fairfax Media#Australian digital|realfooty.com.au]]|date=7 April 2009|accessdate=7 April 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5hSNq9Zab|archivedate=2009-06-11|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* Round 3 – [[Patrick Dangerfield]] (Adelaide)<ref>{{cite web|first=Luke|last=Holmesby|title=NAB AFL Rising Star: Rd 3|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/74893/default.aspx|publisher=AFL BigPond Network|date=14 April 2009|accessdate=27 April 2009}}</ref> |
* Round 3 – [[Patrick Dangerfield]] (Adelaide)<ref>{{cite web|first=Luke|last=Holmesby|title=NAB AFL Rising Star: Rd 3|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/74893/default.aspx|publisher=AFL BigPond Network|date=14 April 2009|accessdate=27 April 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5hSNqZcmA|archivedate=2009-06-11|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* Round 4 – [[Jaxson Barham]] (Collingwood)<ref>{{cite web|title=Barham a rising star nominee |
* Round 4 – [[Jaxson Barham]] (Collingwood)<ref>{{cite web|title=Barham a rising star nominee |
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|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/barham-a-nominee/2009/04/21/1240079641495.html|publisher=The Age|date=21 April 2009|accessdate=27 April 2009}}</ref> |
|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/barham-a-nominee/2009/04/21/1240079641495.html|publisher=The Age|date=21 April 2009|accessdate=27 April 2009}}</ref> |
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* Round 5 – [[Garry Moss]] (Hawthown)<ref>{{cite web|title=Moss wins Rising Star nomination |
* Round 5 – [[Garry Moss]] (Hawthown)<ref>{{cite web|title=Moss wins Rising Star nomination |
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|url=http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/moss-wins-rising-star-nomination-20090428-alew.html|publisher=WA Today|date=28 April 2009|accessdate=5 May 2009}}</ref> |
|url=http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/moss-wins-rising-star-nomination-20090428-alew.html|publisher=WA Today|date=28 April 2009|accessdate=5 May 2009}}</ref> |
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* Round 6 – [[Stephen Hill (Australian footballer)|Stephen Hill]] (Fremantle)<ref>{{cite web|title=Fremantle's Stephen Hill awarded round six Rising Star nomination |url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25431129-23211,00.html|publisher=Fox Sports|date=5 May 2009|accessdate=5 May 2009}}</ref> |
* Round 6 – [[Stephen Hill (Australian footballer)|Stephen Hill]] (Fremantle)<ref>{{cite web|title=Fremantle's Stephen Hill awarded round six Rising Star nomination |url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25431129-23211,00.html|publisher=Fox Sports|date=5 May 2009|accessdate=5 May 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5hSNr0SN1|archivedate=2009-06-11|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* Round 7 – [[Jack Ziebell]] (North Melbourne)<ref>{{cite web|title=North Melbourne's Jack Ziebell awarded round seven Rising Star nomination |url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25431129-23211,00.html|publisher=Fox Sports|date=12 May 2009|accessdate=12 May 2009}}</ref> |
* Round 7 – [[Jack Ziebell]] (North Melbourne)<ref>{{cite web|title=North Melbourne's Jack Ziebell awarded round seven Rising Star nomination |url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25431129-23211,00.html|publisher=Fox Sports|date=12 May 2009|accessdate=12 May 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5hSNr0SN1|archivedate=2009-06-11|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* Round 8 – [[Jarryn Geary]] (St Kilda) |
* Round 8 – [[Jarryn Geary]] (St Kilda) |
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* Round 9 – [[Andy Otten]] (Adelaide) |
* Round 9 – [[Andy Otten]] (Adelaide) |
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Revision as of 01:23, 12 June 2009
| 2009 AFL premiership season | |
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| File:AFL 2009 Logo.jpg | |
| Teams | 16 |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 72 |
| Total attendance | 2,563,330 (35,602 per match) |
| Highest | 86,972 |
The 2009 Australian Football League season commenced on 26 March 2009 and will conclude on 26 September, 2009. The season will mark the 113th season of the VFL/AFL competition. The season will consist of 22 home and away rounds and 4 rounds of finals, culminating in the Grand Final, to determine the 2009 AFL Premier.
Pre-Season 2009
AFL Pre-season Draft
The main hype around the 2009 pre-season draft was fallen ex-eagle star Ben Cousins' draft by Richmond after they were refused by the AFL to place injured player Graham Polak on the rookie list and have two draft picks.
AFL Rookie Draft
NAB Cup
Geelong won their second Pre-Season cup after beating Collingwood in the final.
Rule Changes
Three rule changes were introduced into the regular season:
- A field umpire can recall a centre bounce if it is offline, throwing it up the second time;
- A player who deliberately rushes behind would be penalised by a free kick at the spot that the ball was rushed;
- If a player tackles an opponent after he disposes of the ball, preventing him from taking further part in the play, then a free kick and 50m penalty is paid.
Premiership season
Round 1 (Season Launch)
- In the season-opener on Thursday night, Carlton easily defeated Richmond, and Richmond's high-profile recruit Ben Cousins injured his hamstring in the final quarter; he had suffered the same injury in his final match with West Coast in 2007.
- Michael Voss began his Brisbane Lions coaching career with a win; the Lions beat West Coast by 9 points at the Gabba, after trailing by 38 points during the second quarter.
Round 2
- All home teams except Adelaide won their round 2 matches.
Round 3 (Easter)
- Brisbane Lions snapped a 9-match winless streak against Sydney, beating them by 33 points, their first win over the Swans since Round 1, 2004.
Round 4
- Sydney won its twelfth straight match over Carlton.
- St Kilda defeated Fremantle by 83 points, and restricted them to 4.4 (28), their second-lowest ever score, and the equal-lowest score ever recorded at Etihad Stadium (tied with St Kilda's 3.10 (28) in 2002).
- Geelong midfielder Gary Ablett, Jr. recorded 46 disposals with 33 handpasses as his side defeated Adelaide by 48 points. It broke West Coast's Matt Priddis' year-old record for most handpasses in a game, and equalled Collingwood's Nathan Buckley's ten-year-old record for the most disposals in a game since the length of the quarters was shortened to twenty minutes in 1994.
- North Melbourne defender Daniel Pratt became the first player to give away a free kick for deliberately rushing a behind, in his side's win against Essendon.
- Melbourne won its first game of the season at the expense of Richmond.
Round 5 (Anzac Day)
- Port Adelaide were restricted to their second-lowest score in club history, going down to St Kilda 15.12 (102) to 5.6 (36).
- Essendon's David Zaharakis kicked the winning goal in the final seconds, ensuring that Essendon beat Collingwood for the first time on Anzac Day since 2005.
- Richmond won their first match of the season, winning against North Melbourne by 36 points.
- Fremantle also won their first match of the season, defeating Sydney by 21 points, in the process snapping a five-match winless streak against the Swans which had stretched back to 2004.
- Geelong defeated Brisbane Lions by 93 points. The Brisbane Lions' score of 5.3 (33) was the lowest in club history (although both predecessors of the merged club, the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy had scored lower). The club's previous lowest score of 5.5 (35) was also scored against Geelong at Skilled Stadium, two years earlier in 2007 AFL season. Additionally, Geelong amassed 490 disposals, smashing the old record of 469 disposals set by West Coast in 2007 and matched by Geelong in 2008; their 254 handpasses was also a record. These two records would stand for seven days.
- Cold and rainy conditions in Melbourne saw the MCG host its lowest crowd (14,129) since 2004.
Round 6
- In the Hawthorn-Carlton game, Carlton's Brendan Fevola and Hawthorn's Jarryd Roughead both kicked 8 goals for the game. In the final minute of the game, Fevola had a chance to win the game by a point, but his shot nicked the post and Hawthorn held on for a 4-point win.
- Dustin Fletcher played his 300th match for Essendon, but his side went down to Brisbane Lions. In the same game, Matthew Lloyd became the 8th player in the history of the VFL/AFL to kick 900 goals.
- Geelong amassed 498 disposals, including 259 handpasses, against Melbourne at the MCG, breaking the two records which they had set the previous week.
Round 7
- Essendon snapped a six-match losing streak against Hawthorn with its 44-point victory on Friday night.
- Sydney's 51-point loss against Geelong was its heaviest since 2004. Sydney's Michael O'Loughlin did however kick his 500th career goal in that match.
- Brisbane Lions beat Richmond for the first time since 2004, running out 26-point winners. Ben Cousins returned for Richmond and went through the game without injury.
- After leading by as many as five goals, North Melbourne defeated Port Adelaide by 5 points. The crowd of 14,342 is currently the lowest at Etihad Stadium this season.
- Fremantle won in Queensland for the first time ever, beating Carlton at Gold Coast Stadium.
- Western Bulldogs beat Adelaide at AAMI Stadium for the first time since 2001.
- St Kilda and Collingwood played a Monday night game, the AFL's first for several seasons. St Kilda won easily, and Collingwood's score of 5.10 (40) was its lowest with Mick Malthouse as coach.
Round 8
- Sydney defeated West Coast by five points. It was the eighth time in the past ten encounters between the teams that the final margin was less than one goal.
- Both St Kilda and Essendon wore clash jumpers instead of their traditional strips in their game.
Round 9 (Indigenous Round)
- Western Bulldogs lost to Geelong by two points after Brad Johnson missed a shot for goal (from near the behind post) after the siren. It was the second time in twelve months that Johnson had missed a game-winning goal after the siren.
- North Melbourne overcame a 26 point quarter-time deficit to record a 13 point victory against Fremantle.
- Essendon won its first game against Richmond in two years in the annual "Dreamtime at the 'G" match.
- Adelaide snapped a 3 game losing streak to beat Carlton by 44 points. It was the second time for the season that the Crows had kept its opposition goalless to half time (the first being in Round 5 against Melbourne).
Round 10
- Western Bulldogs beat Sydney at Manuka Oval by 40 points. The Bulldogs set up the win with thirteen unanswered goals in the first half, but well after that Sydney's Barry Hall kicked his 600th career goal.
- St Kilda held Melbourne goalless in the second half of their 37 point victory. This was Melbourne's second goalless half of the season (the other was the first half against Adelaide in Round 5), and the second time St Kilda had held its opponent goalless for two consecutive quarters this season (the other was the second and third quarters against Sydney in Round 1).
- Collingwood's Dane Swan amassed 48 disposals in Sunday's game against Port Adelaide, breaking the previous record of 46 held by Nathan Buckley and Gary Ablett, Jr. for most disposals in a game since the quarters were shortened to 20 minutes in 1994.
Round 11 (Women’s Round, Queen's Birthday Holiday Weekend)
- Richmond lost by 68 points against the Western Bulldogs after leading by a mere two points at halftime. It was Terry Wallace's final match in charge of the Tigers, who had announced his retirement earlier in the week.
- St Kilda won its 11th consecutive game, breaking the previous club record of 10 set in 2004 by beating North Melbourne by 46 points, despite trailing by almost five goals in the first quarter.
- The streak of 11 in a row by both St Kilda and Geelong is the best start to a premiership season since Essendon in 2000.
- Adelaide defeated Essendon by 16 points in a game notable for having the highest combined goal-kicking accuracy in VFL/AFL history. The combined score of 39.10 (244) had an overall goalkicking accuracy of 79.6%; the previous best was 76.1%, when Essendon and St Kilda combined for 35.11 (221) in Round 20, 1984.
Round 12 (Split Round)
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17 (Rivalry Round)
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20 (Green Round)
Round 21
Round 22 (Final Round)
Ladder
Finals Series
Qualifying and Elimination Finals
Semi Finals
Preliminary Finals
Grand Final
Notable Events
Awards
AFL Rising Star
The AFL Rising Star is awarded to the best player who, as of the beginning of the season, is under the age of 21 and has played fewer than 10 games. Each week one player is nominated and at the end of the season a selection panel votes to select the overall winner.
Nominations
- Round 1 – Daniel Rich (Brisbane)[1]
- Round 2 – David Zaharakis (Essendon)[2][3]
- Round 3 – Patrick Dangerfield (Adelaide)[4]
- Round 4 – Jaxson Barham (Collingwood)[5]
- Round 5 – Garry Moss (Hawthown)[6]
- Round 6 – Stephen Hill (Fremantle)[7]
- Round 7 – Jack Ziebell (North Melbourne)[8]
- Round 8 – Jarryn Geary (St Kilda)
- Round 9 – Andy Otten (Adelaide)
- Round 10 – Taylor Walker (Adelaide)
- Round 11 – Brad Dick (Collingwood)
Club leadership
Umpires
See also
References
- ^ Holmesby, Luke (31 March 2009). "NAB AFL Rising Star: Rd 1". AFL BigPond Network. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Holmesby, Luke (7 April 2009). "Zaharakis NAB AFL Rising Star for Rd2". AFL BigPond Network. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
- ^ "Bomber debutant grabs Rising Star nomination". realfooty.com.au. 7 April 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Holmesby, Luke (14 April 2009). "NAB AFL Rising Star: Rd 3". AFL BigPond Network. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Barham a rising star nominee". The Age. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
- ^ "Moss wins Rising Star nomination". WA Today. 28 April 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
- ^ "Fremantle's Stephen Hill awarded round six Rising Star nomination". Fox Sports. 5 May 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "North Melbourne's Jack Ziebell awarded round seven Rising Star nomination". Fox Sports. 12 May 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Goodwin to lead Crows again". AFL. 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
- ^ Maxwell announced as Magpie captain; 17 December, 2008; collingwoodfc.com.au
- ^ Cassisi takes over Power leadership; 9 February, 2009; ABC
- ^ Chris Newman now top Tiger; 19 November, 2008; Fox Sports
- ^ Co-captaincy for Goodes; 13 February, 2009; AFL