1976 VFL Season Round 1: Footscray v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 3 April 1976 between Footscray and Essendon during round one of the 1976 season of the Victorian Football League. Footscray hosted Essendon at Western Oval. Laurie Sandilands captained the hosts. Graham Moss captained the visitors with Ken Fletcher as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Bill Goggin and the visitors were coached by Bill Stephen.

Footscray (16.16.112) were defeated by Essendon (16.17.113).

Match Details

Season: 1976 VFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Footscray v Essendon
Date: Saturday 3 April 1976
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Western Oval
Attendance: 25,724

Match Results

Outcome: Footscray def. by Essendon
Score: 16.16.112 - 16.17.113

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Footscray 2 . 3 8 . 9 11 . 10 16 . 16 16 . 16 (112)
Essendon 9 . 7 13 . 7 15 . 13 16 . 17 16 . 17 (113)
Margin ESSE by 46 ESSE by 28 ESSE by 27 ESSE by 1 ESSE by 1
Duration

Honour Roll

Footscray

Captain: Laurie Sandilands
Coach: Bill Goggin

Essendon

Captain: Graham Moss
Vice-Captain: Ken Fletcher
Coach: Bill Stephen

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

T. Bryant
I. Robinson
E: J. Williams

Boundary Umpires

I. Wheeler

Umpire Replacements

J. Williams replaced I. Wheeler.

Player Statistics

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
30 Abbey, Ross ? ? 1 2 21 17 4 5 0 0 2
15 Collins, Dennis ? ? 1 0 20 15 5 2 0 4 2
24 Dempsey, Gary ? ? 1 1 22 14 8 15 21 1 2
32 Dunstan, Ian ? ? 1 0 11 6 5 3 0 2 2
5 Featherby, Peter ? ? 0 0 16 10 6 1 0 2 1
27 Gieschen, Jeff ? ? 0 0 12 12 0 3 0 3 2
7 Huppatz, Ray ? ? 2 3 28 25 3 4 0 6 4
25 Jennings, Geoff ? ? 1 0 27 24 3 5 0 4 2
28 Low, Ian ? ? 1 0 16 13 3 5 0 2 2
6 Lynch, Alan ? ? 1 0 6 5 1 3 0 1 0
8 Morrison, Ian ? ? 0 0 11 11 0 4 0 2 1
6 Newland, Ken ? ? 2 4 17 9 8 8 8 1 3
21 Power, Stephen ? ? 0 0 17 12 5 1 0 3 3
2 Quinlan, Bernie ? ? 1 4 11 10 1 1 4 4 2
18 Salmon, Ian ? ? 0 0 12 5 7 3 0 2 2
9 Sandilands, Laurie (c) ? ? 0 0 12 6 6 2 0 4 1
3 Stoneham, Alan ? ? 0 1 15 10 5 2 0 3 2
31 Templeton, Kelvin ? ? 4 0 6 5 1 2 0 0 0
35 Wheeler, Terry ? ? 0 0 14 14 0 0 0 2 2
22 Whitten, Ted ? ? 0 1 4 2 2 2 0 0 0
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 16 16 298 225 73 71 33 46 35

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
11 Amos, Robert ? ? 1 1 18 16 2 6 0 2 1
4 Andrews, Ron ? ? 1 0 19 17 2 10 0 0 4
3 Beaumont, Steve ? ? 1 2 17 13 4 1 0 8 6
19 Close, Robin ? ? 4 6 17 16 1 2 0 5 4
31 Crow, Max ? ? 2 2 20 16 4 11 3 2 3
30 Ellen, Russell ? ? 0 0 6 6 0 1 1 1 2
21 Fletcher, Ken (vc) ? ? 0 0 19 17 2 6 0 1 3
38 Foulds, Garry ? ? 0 0 4 4 0 1 0 0 0
18 Grinter, Barry ? ? 0 0 7 7 0 3 0 3 0
23 Hickmott, Peter ? ? 0 0 24 20 4 3 0 3 4
27 Madden, Simon ? ? 4 1 6 6 0 5 4 0 2
34 Moloney, Laurie ? ? 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 1 0
25 Moss, Graham (c) ? ? 1 0 21 12 9 8 10 3 3
10 Noonan, Alan ? ? 0 2 14 11 3 5 0 1 3
5 Parkes, Gary ? ? 0 0 16 15 1 6 0 0 2
8 Perry, Greg ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Roberts, Ken ? ? 0 0 12 11 1 4 0 3 2
24 Robins, Stephen ? ? 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 1 2
12 Walsh, Brian ? ? 2 2 14 13 1 6 0 1 1
33 Wilson, Andy ? ? 0 1 23 20 3 5 0 1 1
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 16 17 273 236 37 83 18 36 43

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