1976 VFL Season Round 14: Essendon v South Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 3 July 1976 between Essendon and South Melbourne during round fourteen of the 1976 season of the Victorian Football League. Essendon hosted South Melbourne at Windy Hill. Graham Moss captained the hosts with Ken Fletcher as vice-captain. Peter Bedford captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Bill Stephen and the visitors were coached by Ian Stewart.

Essendon (13.15.93) defeated South Melbourne (12.6.78).

Match Details

Season: 1976 VFL Season
Round: Round 14
Teams: Essendon v South Melbourne
Date: Saturday 3 July 1976
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Windy Hill
Attendance: 14,462

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. South Melbourne
Score: 13.15.93 - 12.6.78

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 5 . 4 7 . 8 10 . 12 13 . 15 13 . 15 (93)
South Melbourne 4 . 2 7 . 4 9 . 5 12 . 6 12 . 6 (78)
Margin ESSE by 8 ESSE by 4 ESSE by 13 ESSE by 15 ESSE by 15
Duration

Honour Roll

Essendon

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

South Melbourne

Captain: Peter Bedford
Coach: Ian Stewart

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. Dye
D. Levens

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
4 Andrews, Ron ? ? 0 0 17 14 3 6 0 7 5
7 Blethyn, Geoff ? ? 5 3 15 13 2 5 0 2 4
45 Burdett, Geoff ? ? 1 0 8 4 4 2 0 0 1
42 Cahill, Terry ? ? 0 1 22 19 3 2 0 2 2
19 Close, Robin ? ? 1 3 13 8 5 2 0 3 4
31 Crow, Max ? ? 2 1 16 12 4 7 0 1 1
1 Fields, Neville ? ? 0 2 8 8 0 2 0 1 2
21 Fletcher, Ken (vc) ? ? 0 1 14 11 3 4 0 2 4
18 Grinter, Barry ? ? 0 0 5 2 3 0 0 0 1
41 Hartigan, Dean ? ? 0 0 17 12 5 1 0 7 1
23 Hickmott, Peter ? ? 0 0 10 4 6 3 0 1 1
27 Madden, Simon ? ? 1 1 9 8 1 5 5 2 6
43 McDonald, Paul ? ? 0 0 4 4 0 2 0 1 0
25 Moss, Graham (c) ? ? 1 0 29 11 18 9 19 2 4
2 Newton, Rob ? ? 0 0 10 10 0 2 0 0 2
5 Parkes, Gary ? ? 0 1 20 17 3 4 0 5 7
6 Roberts, Ken ? ? 0 0 22 21 1 4 0 4 4
36 Scanlon, Denis ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 2 1 1 2
17 Tyler, Trevor ? ? 0 0 23 19 4 3 0 2 6
12 Walsh, Brian ? ? 2 2 20 19 1 2 0 3 1
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 13 15 289 222 67 67 25 46 58

South Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
11 Bedford, Peter (c) ? ? 2 1 14 12 2 3 0 3 4
7 Brice, Gary ? ? 1 0 19 14 5 2 0 5 3
32 Brown, Peter ? ? 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
43 Browning, Mark ? ? 0 0 19 14 5 3 0 7 2
18 Dean, Robert ? ? 0 1 5 4 1 3 0 2 3
13 Dempster, Graham ? ? 0 0 6 5 1 2 0 2 3
28 Goodingham, Barry ? ? 1 0 12 8 4 3 18 4 4
12 Goss, Norm ? ? 0 1 12 8 4 0 0 3 2
34 Gull, Stewart ? ? 1 0 7 5 2 3 0 2 2
26 Hoffman, Steve ? ? 2 1 11 10 1 1 0 3 0
37 Hounsell, Colin ? ? 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1
33 Lambert, Greg ? ? 0 0 8 6 2 1 0 3 2
29 McLeish, David ? ? 0 0 13 10 3 3 0 2 3
6 Pagan, Denis ? ? 0 0 16 13 3 2 0 5 4
16 Quade, Ricky ? ? 2 1 11 8 3 2 0 3 2
5 Rantall, John ? ? 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 2 2
23 Robertson, Max ? ? 0 0 25 16 9 5 0 2 2
25 Round, Barry ? ? 2 1 16 14 2 9 5 5 3
20 Teasdale, Graham ? ? 0 0 14 13 1 3 0 4 2
10 Woodman, Brian ? ? 1 0 13 10 3 3 0 2 2
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 12 6 230 178 52 48 23 59 46

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