2009 Adelaide Football Club season

Playing list

Statistics are correct as of start of 2009 season. Flags represent place of birth.

Player changes for 2009

In

Out

NAB Cup

The despite an opening round loss to Geelong, the 2009 NAB Cup was not a total loss; Trent Hentschel made his return after 2 years off with a knee injury. The Crows lost to the Geelong Cats by 35 points, 1.17.8 (119) - 2.9.12 (84).

Home and away season

Main article: 2009 AFL season

(In the table below, green rows are wins, red rows are losses. In the Score column Adelaide scores are always shown first.)

All times are adjusted to Australian Central Standard Time.

Round 1

Davis, Swan, Pendlebury 1 Van Berlo, Porplyzia 2 Bock, Knights, Douglas, Dangerfield, Walker, Petrenko 1

Round 2

Hentschel, Maric, Vince, Walker 1 Riewoldt, Schneider 2 Milne, Gardiner, King, Goddard, Montagna, Ray, Geary 1

Round 3 (Easter)

Crowley 2 Hasleby, Schammer, Tarrant, Mundy, Hinkley, Hill 1 Walker 3 Edwards, McLeod, Symes, Van Berlo, Douglas, Tippett, Gill, Dangerfield 1

Round 4

Mackay, Dangerfield, Walker 2 Edwards, Thompson, Tippett, Petrenko 1 Mooney, Rooke, Stokes 2 Chapman, Blake, Mackie, Byrnes, Selwood, Mumford 1

• Geelong midfielder Gary Ablett, Jr. recorded 46 disposals with 33 handpasses, equalling 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.

Round 5 (ANZAC Day)

McDonald, McLean 1 Johncock, McLeod, Stevens, Porplyzia, Walker 1

• Melbourne's first half score of 3-point was their lowest since Round 1, 1991 against West Coast.

Round 6

Cornes, Pearce 2 Ebert, Lade 1 Vince, Petrenko, Dangerfield 2 Thompson, Doughty, Walker 1

• This was Adelaides second loss to Port Adelaide in as many games, leaving the overall record at 12 - 14, Port Adelaide with two more showdown victories.

Round 7

Knights 3 Porplyzia 2 Tippett, Goodwin, Edwards 1 Akermanis 3 Hill, Eagleton 2 Cooney, Johnson, Giansiracussa, Gilbee, Hahn, Minson 1

• This was Adelaide's first loss to the Western Bulldogs at AAMI Stadium since 2001.

Round 8

Sherman 3 Brown, Polkinghorne, Proud 2 Black, Rich, Clark, Harding 1 Edwards, Mackay, Dangerfield, Moran, Reilly, Tippett 1

• Daniel Bradshaw surpassed Alastair Lynch's record of 460 goals for Brisbane.

Round 9 (Indigenous Round)

Tippett, Porplyzia, Vince 2 Doughty, Otten, Reilly, Dangerfield 1 Betts, Fevola 1

• This was the second time for the season that Adelaide had kept its opposition goalless to half time, the first being in Round 5 against Melbourne.

Round 10

Knights 4 Doughty 2 Vince, Tippett, Dangerfield, Douglas, Stevens 1 Franklin 3 Bateman 2 Lewis, Roughead, Dew 1

Round 11 (Women's Round)

Watson 3 Monfries, Skipworth 2 Ryder, Dyson, McPhee, McVeigh, Lovett, Reimers, Davey 1 Knights 5 Walker, Douglas 2 Dangerfield, Maric, McLeod, Porplyzia, Vince 1

• This game was Tyson Edwards' 300th, notably gaining 41 possessions.

Round 12 (Split Round)

Knights, Edwards, Bock, Tippett, Walker, Vince 1

• This game was North Melbourne's Adam Simpson's 300th game.
• North Melbourne’s score was the lowest in the AFL since Round 4, 1999, when Essendon kicked 3.5 (23) against West Coast.
• It was the first score of three or fewer goals since Fremantle kicked 3.7 (25) against Geelong in Round 20 of 2004.
• North Melbourne last kicked a lower score in Round 12, 1971 when they kicked 3.5 (23) against Carlton.

Round 13

Knights, Edwards, Bock, Tippett, Walker, Vince 1 Mattner, Jack, Shaw, Kirk, Brabazon, Crouch 1

• This game was infamous for Barry Hall punching Ben Rutten in the chin; he was reported for this.

Round 14

Round 15

Jackson, Morton 2, Hislop, Tambling, Deledio, Graham, Riewoldt 1 Mackay, Stevens, Knights 2 Thompson, Douglas, Porplyzia, McLeod 1 Dangerfield 3 Stevens, Knights 2 McLeod, Shirley 1

• This was the third occasion that Adelaide had held their opponents goalless in the first half, in 2009.
• This was Fremantle's lowest score in its AFL history.
• The loss was Fremantle's biggest defeat in its history.
• This was the lowest score by any team in VFL/AFL history since Round 16, 1961, when Richmond kicked 0.8 (8) against St Kilda.
• It was the first score of 0, 1 or 2 goals since Round 11, 1991 when Carlton kicked 1.10 (16) against Footscray.

Round 16

Schneider 2 Gram, Koschitzke, McEvoy, McQualter, Ray 1 Dangerfield, Knights, Martin

Round 17 (Rivalry Round)

Knights 3 Goodwin, McLeod, Tippett, Doughty 2 Dangerfield, Vince, Bock, Porplyzia 1 Pearce, Cornes, Westhoff, Cassisi, Davenport, Boak 1

Round 18

Johnson, Stokes, Bartel, Selwood 1 Johncock, Doughty, Knights, Stevens, Reilly 1

Round 19

Knights 2 Burton, Tippett, McLeod, Symes 1 Dawes, Didak, Cloke, Wood 2 Dick, Thomas 1

Round 20 (Green Round)

Lewis, Sewell, McGlynn, Rioli, Morton 1 Thompson, Porplyzia 2 Tippett, Vince, Doughty, Douglas, Knights 1

• Rory Sloane made his AFL debut this week

Round 21

Thompson, Hentschel, Douglas, Maric, Knights 2 Tippett, Rutten 1 Swift, Lynch, Embley 1

Round 22

Stevens 2 Carrazzo, Joseph, Walker, Gibbs, Yarran, Simpson, Murphy, Hampson, O'hAilpin 1 Vince 3 Burton, Dangerfield, Hentschel 2 McLeod, Symes, Mackay, Sellar, Goodwin, Thompson 1

• This was Adelaide's fifth highest score in the club's history.
• Brett Burton's mark in the third quarter went on to win the AFL Mark of the Year award.

Finals

Main article: 2009 AFL finals series

Week one

Tippett 4 Knights, Burton 3 Dangerfield, Douglas 2 Vince, Edwards, Maric, Hentschel, Thompson, Mackay, Sellar 1 Skipworth 2 Monfries, Quinn, Stanton, Lovett 1

• This was Essendon's first final since 2004.

Week two

Lockyer, O'Brien, Wellingham, Swan, Cloke, Macaffer, Brown, Anthony 1 Dangerfield, Thompson 2 Hentschel, Knights, Burton 1

Statistics

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Individual

Ladder

References

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