2007 AFL season
Appearance
2007 AFL premiership season | |
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![]() Official 2007 AFL logo | |
Teams | 16 |
Premiers | Geelong 7th premiership |
Minor premiers | Geelong 12th minor premiership |
Pre-season cup | Carlton 3rd pre-season cup win |
Brownlow Medallist | Jimmy Bartel (Geelong) |
Coleman Medallist | Jonathan Brown (Brisbane Lions) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 185 |
Total attendance | 7,050,945 (38,113 per match) |
Highest | 98,002 (first preliminary final, Geelong vs. Collingwood) |
The 2007 Australian Football League season was the 111th season of the elite Australian rules football competition. The regular season commenced on 30 March 2007, and concluded with the 2007 AFL Grand Final on 29 September 2007, with Geelong defeating Port Adelaide by 119 points, the highest winning-margin in an AFL Grand Final, to claim the 2007 AFL premiership.
Preseason competition
Round One | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
St Kilda | 1 | 5 | 6 | 45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brisbane Lions | 0 | 7 | 10 | 52 | Brisbane Lions | 2 | 12 | 12 | 102 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Western Bulldogs | 1 | 12 | 16 | 97 | Western Bulldogs | 2 | 7 | 10 | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sydney | 1 | 9 | 7 | 70 | Brisbane Lions | 3 | 8 | 10 | 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geelong | 3 | 17 | 10 | 139 | Geelong | 0 | 10 | 13 | 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richmond | 1 | 14 | 3 | 96 | Geelong (aet) | 0 | 9 | 6 | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port Adelaide | 2 | 9 | 17 | 89 | Port Adelaide | 0 | 7 | 15 | 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adelaide | 2 | 10 | 8 | 86 | Brisbane Lions | 0 | 10 | 12 | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Melbourne | 2 | 9 | 14 | 86 | Carlton | 2 | 12 | 7 | 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawthorn | 3 | 11 | 17 | 110 | Hawthorn | 2 | 7 | 8 | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carlton | 1 | 10 | 14 | 83 | Carlton | 1 | 9 | 12 | 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Essendon | 1 | 9 | 16 | 79 | Carlton | 1 | 13 | 13 | 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kangaroos | 1 | 15 | 18 | 117 | Kangaroos | 1 | 12 | 4 | 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collingwood | 1 | 8 | 9 | 66 | Kangaroos | 1 | 14 | 7 | 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fremantle | 4 | 11 | 10 | 112 | Fremantle | 0 | 13 | 13 | 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
West Coast | 0 | 10 | 15 | 75 |
2007 NAB Cup Grand Final | |||||
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17 March (7:20 pm) | Brisbane Lions 0.10.12 (72) | def. by | Carlton 2.12.7 (97) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 46,094) | Report |
Premiership season
Round 1 (season launch)
Round 1 - Season Launch | |||||
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Friday, 30 March (7:40 pm) | Melbourne 9.8 (62) | def. by | St Kilda 13.15 (93) | MCG (crowd: 49,490) | |
Saturday, 31 March (2:10 pm) | Kangaroos 10.19 (79) | def. by | Collingwood 12.10 (82) | MCG (crowd: 42,402) | |
Saturday, 31 March (2:10 pm) | Fremantle 16.9 (105) | def. by | Port Adelaide 19.7 (121) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 37,425) | |
Saturday, 31 March (7:15 pm) | Brisbane Lions 9.15 (69) | def. | Hawthorn 6.8 (44) | The Gabba (crowd: 27,104) | |
Saturday, 31 March (7:15 pm) | Sydney 10.13 (73) | def. by | West Coast 11.8 (74) | ANZ Stadium (crowd: 62,586) | |
Sunday, 1 April (12:40 pm) | Adelaide 10.14 (74) | def. by | Essendon 16.9 (105) | AAMI Stadium (crowd: 43,064) | |
Sunday, 1 April (2:10 pm) | Western Bulldogs 17.11 (113) | def. | Geelong 13.15 (93) | Etihad Stadium (crowd: 42,626) | |
Sunday, 1 April (5:10 pm) | Carlton 15.25 (115) | def. | Richmond 15.8 (98) | MCG (crowd: 59,847) | |
Round 2 (Easter)
Round 3 (Rivalry Round)
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9 (Indigenous Round)
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12 (Split Round)
Round 13
Round 14 (Heritage Round)
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Ladder
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Finals Series
Qualifying and Elimination Finals
Semi Finals
- West Coast became the second team since the current Finals system was established in 2000 to lose both of its finals after qualifying for the double chance by finishing in the top four.
Preliminary Finals
Grand Final
Awards
- The 2007 Brownlow Medal for the AFL's best and fairest player was awarded to Jimmy Bartel, of Geelong, who polled 29 votes.
- The Leigh Matthews Trophy as the AFL's most valuable player was awarded to Gary Ablett, Jr., of Geelong.
- The Coleman Medal was awarded to Jonathan Brown of Brisbane Lions, who kicked 77 goals.
- The Norm Smith Medal as the player adjudged best afield in the AFL Grand Final was awarded to Steve Johnson, of Geelong.
- The AFL Rising Star award (Ron Evans Medal) was awarded to Joel Selwood, of Geelong.
- The McClelland Trophy was awarded to Geelong for holding top position on the ladder after 22 rounds.
- The Wooden Spoon was awarded to Richmond for coming in last place on the ladder after 22 rounds.
- Andrew McLeod from Adelaide was named the captain of the 2007 All-Australian Team.
- The AFL Mark of the Year was awarded to Michael Newton of Melbourne.
- The AFL Goal of the Year was awarded to Matthew Lloyd of Essendon.
- The AFL Army Award was awarded to Alwyn Davey of Essendon as the footballer who displayed the most courageous and/or team related act of the season.
Best and Fairests
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Notable events
- On Thursday 8 February it was announced that the Seven Network (who had not broadcast AFL for five years) and Ten Network had reached an agreement to on-sell four games per round to pay-TV provider Foxtel.
- In Round 6, Geelong scored 35.12 (222) against Richmond, the highest score kicked in an AFL game since quarters were shortened from twenty-five to twenty minutes in 1994 and the first time a team has scored over 200 points since Round 22, 1995. Their winning margin of 157 points also broke the record for the same period, and they scored an all-time record 23 more goals than behinds, and an all-time record three-quarter time score of 29.9 (183). This was also Richmond's biggest loss in its 99-year VFL/AFL history.
- In Round 8, Hawthorn and St Kilda were widely criticised for their game, which in perfect weather yielded only seven goals in the first three quarters (before opening up in the final quarter), and was described as boring by Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy.[17]
- Round 12's game between Carlton and Hawthorn attracted 53,459 fans, breaking the record for the highest AFL crowd at Telstra Dome. In the same game, Hawthorn kicked their highest ever score against Carlton: 27.18 (180), and also achieved their greatest winning margin against Carlton, 100 points.[18]
- Robert Harvey became just the 10th player in VFL/AFL history to reach 350 games, helping St Kilda defeat West Coast. The win was the second time in 60 games that a Victorian team had beaten West Coast at Subiaco Oval.[19]
- The Round 16 game between Brisbane Lions against Carlton at The Gabba saw Jonathan Brown become the first Brisbane Lions player to kick 10 goals in a match, kicking 10.1 for the game. This surpassed Daniel Bradshaw's 9 goals in 2005 v Melbourne at The Gabba. After this match Denis Pagan was sacked as the coach of Carlton.[20]
- On 24 August, the Seven Network broadcast some details obtained from players' confidential medical records on its nightly news program relating to the use of non-performance enhancing drugs. It allegedly purchased these details for $3000 from a woman who found them in a gutter outside a medical clinic in Melbourne. The network broadcast the name of the club involved was revealed by Seven on air, but before the end of the news program (at which time Seven had promised to actually reveal the names of the players), the AFL obtained a court injunction from the Supreme Court of Victoria which prevented this – and which continues to suppress the publication of any part of the records, including the name of the club.[21] Because anonymity was guaranteed under the AFL's "three-strikes" drugs policy, the AFL players responded by boycotting the Seven Network, refusing to answer any questions posed by its journalists, including in matches broadcast by the network.[22] Shortly after the completion of Round 22, faced with the possibility of ongoing player boycotts – including of the Brownlow Medal count[23] – the Seven Network issued a statement "regretting" any harm the broadcast may have caused to the AFL, the clubs and the players, and promised not to broadcast or reveal any of the details of the medical records in future.[24] The AFLPA took the "statement of regret" as an apology and the boycott was lifted.[25] The scandal has came to be known as "Guttergate".[26]
- The final game of the home-and-away season became particularly controversial through circumstance. The two teams, Melbourne and Carlton, each had records of 4–17, and had no chance of winning the wooden spoon, which had been won by Richmond (record of 3-18-1). Under priority draft pick rules, this meant that whichever team won the game would lose a potential priority draft pick (which would have been the first overall selection if Carlton had it, or pick No. 18 if Melbourne had it). Melbourne won by five goals in a game noted for a lack of defensive pressure, while many in the crowd openly supported their teams to defeat.
- The second semi-final between West Coast and Collingwood went into extra time after scores were level at the end of regulation. This was only the second time that extra time has been used in an AFL game, and was also the second time that these teams had drawn in a final.
- Geelong set a new record for the highest winning margin in a Grand Final against Port Adelaide, winning by 119 points.
Club captains
Umpires
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Player changes
Debuts
Retirements
The 2007 AFL season is notable for the unusually large number of players who retired, particularly senior and "champion" players.
Name | Club | Date Retired | Reason |
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Jonathan Hay | Kangaroos | 22 February | Contractual problems resulting from bi-polar issues.[33] |
Darren Gaspar | Richmond | 4 May | To help Richmond's younger players and go for a youth policy.[34] |
Brett Montgomery | Western Bulldogs | 25 May | Disk bulge in neck.[35] |
Rhys Archard | Adelaide | 29 July | Return to family in rural Victoria.[36] |
Luke Darcy | Western Bulldogs | 30 July | Frustrated and angry at game due to knee injuries.[37] |
Anthony Koutoufides | Carlton | 31 July | Hip injury; had already planned to retire at the end of the season.[38] |
Mark Ricciuto | Adelaide | 16 August | Body could no longer cope with AFL football.[39] |
Matthew Robbins | Western Bulldogs | 24 August | Struggled throughout the year despite having a ripping 2006 season.[40] |
Josh Mahoney | Port Adelaide | 24 August | Unable to hold down a regular position.[41] |
Troy Cook | Fremantle | 24 August | It seemed the right time for him to leave the game.[42] |
Shane Parker | Fremantle | 24 August | Was always going to struggle to play the year out and there was no way he could continue.[42] |
Chris Scott | Brisbane Lions | 25 August | Injury.[43] |
Ray Hall | Richmond | 28 August | Serious hip injury that had sidelined him for the entire 2007 season.[44] |
Trent Knobel | Richmond | 28 August | Persistent ankle injury.[44] |
Kent Kingsley | Richmond | 28 August | Injury.[44] |
Darryl Wakelin | Port Adelaide | 29 August | Struggled with injury.[45] |
Matthew Lappin | Carlton | 29 August | To help his club focus on playing younger players.[46] |
Nathan Brown | Melbourne | 29 August | Ready to start the next chapter of his life.[47] |
Clint Bizzell | Melbourne | 29 August | Right time to do so.[47] |
Byron Pickett | Melbourne | 31 August | Waning passion for the game.[48] |
Chris Johnson | Brisbane Lions | 31 August | Decided to leave the game – he was the last ever Fitzroy player in the AFL.[49] |
Andrew Thompson | St Kilda | 1 September | Right time to do so.[50] |
Matthew Clarke | St Kilda | 1 September | One year contract expired; he decided to leave the game.[51] |
James Hird | Essendon | 1 September | Right time to do so. |
Josh Wooden | West Coast | 5 September | Nagging hip injury.[52] |
Richie Vandenberg | Hawthorn | 6 September | Due to a troublesome back injury, his body could not cope any more.[53] |
Brett Voss | St Kilda | 18 September | Made the most of his time as an AFL footballer.[54] |
Ben Dixon | Hawthorn | 19 September | Inability of his body to prepare well enough for senior football.[55] |
Rowan Jones | West Coast | 19 September | Right time to do so.[56] |
Glenn Archer | Kangaroos | 22 September | Right time to do so.[57] |
James Clement | Collingwood | 23 September | Family health; right time to do so.[58] |
Joel Smith | Hawthorn | 25 September | Thought the time was right, it was time to move on.[59] |
Kasey Green | Kangaroos | 26 September | Wanted to move back to Perth.[60] |
Chris Heffernan | Essendon | 2 October | His opportunities to play senior football beyond 2007 were limited.[61] |
Scott Camporeale | Essendon | 2 October | Injury.[62] |
Chris Grant | Western Bulldogs | 2 October | Injury and right time to do so.[63] |
Aaron Hamill | St Kilda | 2 October | Injury and right time to do so; he felt it was in the best interest of the club moving forward.[64] |
Mark Bolton | Essendon | 3 October | Had been struggling to make the starting 22 in 2007 and recognised the right time to do so.[65] |
Nathan Buckley | Collingwood | 5 October | Chronic hamstring injuries had curtailed his ability to remain fit for selection.[66] |
Paul Licuria | Collingwood | 5 October | Battled injury and form problems this season.[67] |
Nathan Ablett | Geelong | 5 October | Ending career after winning 2007 Premiership.[67] |
Justin Longmuir | Fremantle | 31 October | Chronic knee injury.[68] |
Stephen Doyle | Sydney | 31 October | Series of knee injuries.[69] |
Lance Whitnall | Carlton | 12 November | Knee injury.[70] |
Sackings and delistings
Trades
Coaching changes
Name | Club | Date | Reason |
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Neale Daniher | Melbourne | 29 June | Decision that he could take the club no further.[93] |
Chris Connolly | Fremantle | 17 July | Quit after run of poor results.[94] |
Denis Pagan | Carlton | 23 July | Fired after five heavy losses in a row.[95] |
Kevin Sheedy | Essendon | 25 July | Contract would not be renewed at end of season.[96] |
Brett Ratten | Carlton | 20 August | Interim coach Ratten was given a two-year contract.[97] |
Dean Bailey | Melbourne | 31 August | Dean Bailey was appointed Melbourne coach.[98] |
Mark Harvey | Fremantle | 17 September | Fremantle appointed Harvey senior coach.[99] |
Matthew Knights | Essendon | 27 September | Knights promised a new direction at Essendon.[100] |
See also
- 2007 Australian football code crowds
- List of 2007 AFL debuts
- List of Australian Football League premiers
Notes
- ^ Ben Cousins was sacked by the West Coast after he was arrested on drug charges.[86]
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