1975 VFL Season Round 2: Footscray v Fitzroy

This is the match report for the match played on 12 April 1975 between Footscray and Fitzroy during round two of the 1975 season of the Victorian Football League. Footscray hosted Fitzroy at Western Oval. Laurie Sandilands captained the hosts. John Murphy captained the visitors with Warwick Irwin as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Bob Rose and the visitors were coached by Kevin Rose.

Footscray (17.14.116) defeated Fitzroy (11.17.83).

Match Details

Season: 1975 VFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Footscray v Fitzroy
Date: Saturday 12 April 1975
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Western Oval
Attendance: 17,700

Match Results

Outcome: Footscray def. Fitzroy
Score: 17.14.116 - 11.17.83

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Footscray 4 . 2 8 . 6 10 . 9 17 . 14 17 . 14 (116)
Fitzroy 4 . 4 7 . 6 10 . 12 11 . 17 11 . 17 (83)
Margin FITZ by 2 FOOT by 6 FITZ by 3 FOOT by 33 FOOT by 33
Duration

Honour Roll

Footscray

Captain: Laurie Sandilands
Coach: Bob Rose

Fitzroy

Captain: John Murphy
Vice-Captain: Warwick Irwin
Coach: Kevin Rose

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

N. Nash

Player Statistics

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
30 Abbey, Ross ? ? 0 0 12 11 1 0 ? 0 6
10 Casey, Gordon ? ? 0 0 18 14 4 4 ? 1 3
12 Dell, Colin ? ? 0 0 4 4 0 1 ? 1 0
24 Dempsey, Gary ? ? 0 2 13 11 2 9 ? 2 4
5 Featherby, Peter ? ? 0 1 33 27 6 3 ? 8 1
17 Gallagher, Adrian ? ? 0 0 21 19 2 3 ? 3 2
7 Huppatz, Ray ? ? 4 2 21 19 2 4 ? 6 2
25 Jennings, Geoff ? ? 0 0 19 13 6 3 ? 5 2
28 Low, Ian ? ? 0 0 18 12 6 4 ? 2 3
16 McMillan, Marty ? ? 0 0 5 5 0 1 ? 0 2
19 Merrington, Gary ? ? 0 0 4 4 0 0 ? 2 2
1 Parke, Greg ? ? 2 1 14 13 1 6 ? 3 3
21 Power, Stephen ? ? 0 0 10 10 0 3 ? 0 2
2 Quinlan, Bernie ? ? 0 0 22 19 3 5 ? 3 3
11 Rasmussen, Ivan ? ? 1 1 12 11 1 4 ? 2 2
14 Round, Barry ? ? 1 2 16 13 3 6 ? 5 3
6 Sachse, Neil ? ? 0 0 17 14 3 10 ? 0 2
9 Sandilands, Laurie (c) ? ? 8 3 19 16 3 8 ? 1 4
4 Welsh, Peter ? ? 1 1 9 7 2 4 ? 0 2
22 Whitten, Ted ? ? 0 1 3 2 1 0 ? 1 0
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 17 14 290 244 46 78 0+ 45 48

Fitzroy

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
2 Appleton, Rod ? ? 1 1 18 16 2 2 ? 4 1
25 Austen, Geoff ? ? 0 1 12 8 4 4 ? 2 1
40 Carter, Rod ? ? 0 0 12 8 4 3 ? 2 1
7 Irwin, Warwick (vc) ? ? 0 2 32 24 8 2 ? 2 0
30 Linton, Wayne ? ? 0 0 18 16 2 8 ? 1 3
28 Lloyd, Trevor ? ? 0 0 10 9 1 1 ? 1 3
6 McCulloch, Ian ? ? 0 1 2 2 0 0 ? 1 3
19 McMahon, David ? ? 2 0 18 13 5 4 ? 3 5
36 Merrigan, Harvey ? ? 0 0 14 11 3 6 ? 2 0
3 Miller, Ian ? ? 0 0 10 7 3 0 ? 0 1
5 Murphy, John (c) ? ? 0 0 15 12 3 1 ? 2 3
11 O'Keeffe, Kevin ? ? 0 0 11 10 1 1 ? 3 5
14 Padley, Barry ? ? 0 0 17 14 3 4 ? 4 3
26 Robertson, Glenn ? ? 0 0 8 6 2 1 ? 1 0
4 Searl, Doug ? ? 3 2 8 8 0 5 ? 1 3
10 Serafini, Renato ? ? 0 2 7 4 3 2 ? 1 1
35 Smith, Chris ? ? 0 1 11 9 2 4 ? 2 1
21 Thompson, Alan ? ? 0 1 23 20 3 1 ? 6 3
33 Wall, David ? ? 5 1 22 15 7 8 ? 3 2
29 Wilson, Garry ? ? 0 1 29 23 6 5 ? 7 6
Rushed 4
Total (20 players) 11 17 297 235 62 62 0+ 48 45

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s