1989 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1989 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: Windy Hill

Team Results

Ladder Position: 2nd (W-D-L: 17-0-5, P%: 131.4%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Geelong (Preliminary Final)
Players: 37
Brownlow Leader(s): Tim Watson (16)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Paul Salmon (36)
W. S. Crichton Medal Recipient(s): Tim Watson

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Tim Watson

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Anderson, Greg #11 23 R01-R06, R09-R22, QF, SF, PF 14 9
Antrobus, Tony #2 13 R01-R04, R08-R09, R14, R20-R22, QF, SF, PF 21 4
Bailey, Dean #31 17 R03-R05, R07-R08, R11, R13, R15-R20, R22, QF, SF, PF 4 1
Barnes, John #20 2 R22, QF 1 0
Bewick, Darren #8 13 R01-R04, R15-R16, R19-R22, QF, SF, PF 30 1
Clark, Steven #12 3 R18-R19, R22 3 0
Considine, Ed #37 13 R01-R10, R13, R16, R21 3 0
Daniher, Anthony #6 25 R01-R22, QF, SF, PF 6 3
Daniher, Chris #7 3 R05-R06, R08 1 0
Daniher, Neale #36 4 R12-R14, R22 1 0
Daniher, Terry #5 23 R01-R11, R13-R20, R22, QF, SF, PF 26 3
Duckworth, Bill #22 13 R07-R12, R15-R19, R22, QF 7 1
Ezard, Alan #15 19 R01-R14, R17, R22, QF, SF, PF 24 2
Foulds, Garry #10 12 R01-R03, R06-R07, R10, R16-R21 2 0
Grenvold, David #29 12 R01-R07, R13, R15-R18 2 0
Hamilton, Paul #16 19 R02-R06, R11-R21, QF, SF, PF 0 3
Harvey, Mark #1 12 R03-R06, R09-R14, R20-R21 11 2
Johnston, David #39 6 R07-R12 1 0
Long, Michael #4 24 R01-R03, R05-R22, QF, SF, PF 19 8
Madden, Simon #27 25 R01-R22, QF, SF, PF 33 3
Manning, Andrew #41 3 R18, SF, PF 2 0
O'Brien, Craig #45 2 R21-R22 1 0
O'Donnell, Gary #44 25 R01-R22, QF, SF, PF 3 3
Parker, Geoff #25 2 R12-R13 0 0
Plain, Bradley #14 19 R07-R22, QF, SF, PF 27 7
Salmon, Paul #3 16 R01, R04-R09, R12, R14-R20, SF 39 0
Somerville, Peter #19 3 R05, R21-R22 2 0
Spencer, Trevor #23 6 R01-R03, R15, R20-R21 3 0
Sporn, Kieran #17 20 R01-R19, PF 24 0
Thompson, Mark #26 10 R14-R17, R19-R21, QF, SF, PF 0 3
Underwood, Andrew #9 11 R01-R02, R04-R12 4 2
Vander Haar, Paul #18 12 R01-R04, R10-R11, R14-R17, QF, SF 13 5
Wallis, Dean #21 9 R17-R22, QF, SF, PF 2 0
Walsh, Kevin #30 25 R01-R22, QF, SF, PF 2 2
Watson, Tim #32 24 R01-R21, QF, SF, PF 23 16
Werner, Michael #24 12 R06-R15, R18, PF 16 0
Williams, Darren #13 20 R01-R02, R04-R14, R19-R22, QF, SF, PF 5 7

Team Line-Up

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This is an approximation for the typical team line-up based on available position records from this season.

Coach Results

Coach Match(es) (W-D-L) Round(s)
Sheedy, Kevin 25 18 -0- 7 R01-R22, QF, SF, PF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
31/03/1989 Round 1 West Coast AWAY WIN ESS by 16 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
08/04/1989 Round 2 Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 26 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
15/04/1989 Round 3 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 44 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
25/04/1989 Round 4 Carlton AWAY WIN ESS by 28 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
29/04/1989 Round 5 St Kilda HOME WIN ESS by 54 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
07/05/1989 Round 6 North Melbourne AWAY LOSS NOR by 16 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
14/05/1989 Round 7 Brisbane Bears AWAY WIN ESS by 31 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
20/05/1989 Round 8 Richmond HOME WIN ESS by 58 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
27/05/1989 Round 9 Collingwood HOME WIN ESS by 67 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
03/06/1989 Round 10 Fitzroy HOME WIN ESS by 53 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
12/06/1989 Round 11 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 54 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
17/06/1989 Round 12 Sydney HOME LOSS SYD by 5 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
24/06/1989 Round 13 Footscray HOME WIN ESS by 5 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
08/07/1989 Round 14 Carlton HOME WIN ESS by 3 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
15/07/1989 Round 15 West Coast HOME WIN ESS by 142 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
22/07/1989 Round 16 Richmond AWAY WIN ESS by 33 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
29/07/1989 Round 17 St Kilda AWAY WIN ESS by 27 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
06/08/1989 Round 18 Footscray AWAY WIN ESS by 28 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
12/08/1989 Round 19 Brisbane Bears HOME WIN ESS by 54 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
19/08/1989 Round 20 North Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 16 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
25/08/1989 Round 21 Sydney AWAY LOSS SYD by 6 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
02/09/1989 Round 22 Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 19 Kevin Sheedy unknown
10/09/1989 Qualifying Final Geelong HOME WIN ESS by 76 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
16/09/1989 Semi Final Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 36 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson
23/09/1989 Preliminary Final Geelong HOME LOSS GEE by 94 Kevin Sheedy Tim Watson