1987 Round 8: Melbourne v Footscray

Match Details

Season: 1987 VFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Melbourne v Footscray
Date: Saturday, May 16th, 1987
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 16,325
Capacity: unknown

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Footscray
Score: 11.15.81 - 15.15.105

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 4 . 4 6 . 7 6 . 13 11 . 15 11 . 15 (81)
Footscray 3 . 5 8 . 10 12 . 13 15 . 15 15 . 15 (105)
Margin MEL by 5 FOO by 15 FOO by 36 FOO by 24 FOO by 24
Duration

Honour Roll

Coach(es): John Northey (Melbourne), Mick Malthouse (Footscray)
Captain(s): Robert Flower (Melbourne), Rick Kennedy (Footscray)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire(s): Ross Castle, Peter Howe
Goal Umpire(s):
Boundary Umpire(s):
Umpire Replacement(s): No known replacements

Brownlow Votes

3 - Peter Foster (FOO #32) 2 - Tony Liberatore (FOO #39) 1 - Garry Lyon (MEL #3)

Player Statistics (Basic)

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
24 Bailey, Bret ? ? 2 1 22 13 9 2 0 2 3 0
16 Battiston, Adrian ? ? 0 0 16 11 5 0 0 2 2 0
23 Dean, Warren ? ? 1 1 16 15 1 3 0 0 3 1
2 Flower, Robert ? ? 1 2 13 12 1 5 0 1 2 1
4 Giles, Peter ? ? 0 0 5 4 1 1 0 0 1 1
14 Grinter, Rod ? ? 0 0 10 9 1 4 0 1 0 1
33 Healy, Greg ? ? 2 2 23 19 4 6 0 1 4 6
10 Hughes, Danny ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 2 0 0 2 1
9 Johnson, Alan ? ? 0 0 18 15 3 4 0 2 5 1
39 Koop, Doug ? ? 0 1 16 9 7 1 0 1 1 2
3 Lyon, Garry ? ? 1 2 17 13 4 4 0 0 1 2
32 O'Dwyer, Steven ? ? 0 0 8 4 4 1 13 0 4 6
19 Payne, Paul ? ? 0 0 7 7 0 3 0 1 1 0
35 Spalding, Earl ? ? 0 0 12 9 3 3 2 2 2 4
42 Sparks, Bradley ? ? 1 0 19 16 3 1 0 1 3 2
18 Stretch, Steven ? ? 0 0 18 16 2 5 0 0 0 0
41 Turner, Steve ? ? 0 2 7 5 2 1 2 1 1 3
27 Wight, Sean ? ? 3 2 13 10 3 4 1 0 2 1
7 Wilson, Brian ? ? 0 1 9 4 5 2 0 0 1 2
8 Yeats, Graeme ? ? 0 0 14 11 3 2 0 0 3 3
Rushed 1
Total 11 15 270 208 62 54 18 15 41 37

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
52 Athorn, Mark ? ? 0 2 16 14 2 4 0 0 1 2
35 Baxter, Darren ? ? 0 0 7 5 2 2 0 0 1 0
18 Beasley, Simon ? ? 5 1 8 7 1 5 0 0 2 5
49 Cordy, Brian ? ? 0 0 14 11 3 4 0 0 1 3
2 Cousins, Richard ? ? 0 1 7 3 4 1 3 0 1 2
17 Cronan, Phil ? ? 1 0 9 6 3 3 0 0 2 2
12 Eppelstun, Greg ? ? 0 0 13 7 6 3 0 0 2 3
45 Ford, Michael ? ? 0 0 11 11 0 4 0 2 2 0
32 Foster, Peter ? ? 2 3 20 15 5 8 0 0 3 2
43 James, Ron ? ? 0 1 8 6 2 0 0 2 0 2
8 Kennedy, Rick ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 2 0 2 2 4
39 Liberatore, Tony ? ? 0 1 22 13 9 1 0 3 1 5
11 McGuinness, Tony ? ? 1 1 25 18 7 1 0 0 2 3
40 Moloney, Troy ? ? 1 1 14 8 6 4 0 0 0 0
1 Purser, Andrew ? ? 0 0 14 12 2 2 15 0 8 3
15 Rance, Murray ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 4 1 0 0 1
33 Royal, Brian ? ? 4 2 23 20 3 2 0 2 3 1
19 Tzatzaris, Zeno ? ? 0 0 13 13 0 4 0 0 0 1
24 Wallis, Steve ? ? 1 0 25 20 5 2 0 4 4 0
6 Williams, Shane ? ? 0 0 11 6 5 1 0 1 2 2
Rushed 2
Total 15 15 274 207 67 57 19 16 37 41

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CP: Contested Posessions, UP: Uncontested Posessions, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s, MF: Marks Inside 50, RB: Running Bounces, OP: One-Percenters, GA: Goal Assists

Player Line-Up

Melbourne Coach: John Northey
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Footscray Coach: Mick Malthouse

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