1987 VFL Season Round 15: Footscray v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 4 July 1987 between Footscray and Sydney during round fifteen of the 1987 season of the Victorian Football League. Footscray hosted Sydney at VFL Park. Dennis Carroll captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mick Malthouse and the visitors were coached by Tom Hafey.

Footscray (10.13.73) were defeated by Sydney (16.10.106).

Match Details

Season: 1987 VFL Season
Round: Round 15
Teams: Footscray v Sydney
Date: Saturday 4 July 1987
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: VFL Park
Attendance: 27,075

Match Results

Outcome: Footscray def. by Sydney
Score: 10.13.73 - 16.10.106

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Footscray 4 . 4 7 . 10 8 . 12 10 . 13 10 . 13 (73)
Sydney 3 . 0 6 . 5 12 . 9 16 . 10 16 . 10 (106)
Margin FOOT by 10 FOOT by 11 SYDN by 21 SYDN by 33 SYDN by 33
Duration

Honour Roll

Footscray

Captain: unknown
Coach: Mick Malthouse

Sydney

Captain: Dennis Carroll
Coach: Tom Hafey

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

P. Cameron
P. Carey

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Tony Morwood SYDN 21 3
Neil Cordy SYDN 29 2
Rod Carter SYDN 13 1

Player Statistics

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
52 Athorn, Mark ? ? 1 0 11 8 3 0 1 0 1 1
35 Baxter, Darren ? ? 0 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 1
18 Beasley, Simon ? ? 3 0 4 3 1 3 0 1 0 0
49 Cordy, Brian ? ? 0 0 8 7 1 2 0 0 0 1
2 Cousins, Richard ? ? 1 1 21 11 10 6 3 1 3 1
17 Cronan, Phil ? ? 2 0 15 13 2 4 0 1 1 3
22 Cullen, Mark ? ? 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 3 1 1
12 Eppelstun, Greg ? ? 0 0 15 11 4 3 0 0 1 5
45 Ford, Michael ? ? 0 0 11 8 3 3 0 0 3 4
32 Foster, Peter ? ? 0 0 24 18 6 13 0 1 5 1
7 Hawkins, Doug ? ? 1 0 22 12 10 5 1 0 4 3
55 Lesiputty, Frank ? ? 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 1 1 2
39 Liberatore, Tony ? ? 0 1 7 4 3 0 0 1 2 2
11 McGuinness, Tony ? ? 0 3 24 14 10 4 0 3 0 1
40 Moloney, Troy ? ? 0 0 8 8 0 1 0 2 1 1
38 Petraglia, Angelo ? ? 1 3 13 11 2 0 0 3 2 1
1 Purser, Andrew ? ? 0 1 15 11 4 4 19 0 7 2
15 Rance, Murray ? ? 0 0 10 9 1 4 0 0 2 1
33 Royal, Brian ? ? 1 1 18 16 2 4 0 0 1 3
24 Wallis, Steve ? ? 0 0 22 14 8 2 0 1 5 0
Rushed 3
Total (20 players) 10 13 259 185 74 59 24 18 40 34

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
30 Bayes, Mark ? ? 1 1 16 11 5 5 1 2 1 3
11 Browning, Mark ? ? 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1
14 Byrne, Michael ? ? 0 0 3 1 2 1 5 2 1 4
39 Capper, Warwick ? ? 2 2 9 8 1 6 0 1 3 1
7 Carroll, Dennis (c) ? ? 0 0 17 14 3 4 0 2 1 1
13 Carter, Rod ? ? 0 0 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0
23 Coleman, Glenn ? ? 0 0 18 15 3 8 6 7 1 4
28 Cordy, Graeme ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
29 Cordy, Neil ? ? 0 0 18 10 8 9 0 1 1 5
34 Hawke, Paul ? ? 2 0 25 14 11 4 0 3 4 3
3 Healy, Gerard ? ? 0 0 12 7 5 1 0 3 2 0
9 Henwood, Wayne ? ? 0 0 7 4 3 2 10 4 2 1
22 Holden, Craig ? ? 1 0 20 13 7 5 0 2 1 4
21 Morwood, Tony ? ? 6 1 23 15 8 6 0 2 5 1
35 Murphy, David ? ? 1 1 29 19 10 4 0 2 5 3
4 Neagle, Merv ? ? 0 1 16 9 7 4 0 2 0 3
20 Quirk, Peter ? ? 0 0 6 1 5 0 0 1 2 0
33 Thripp, Terry ? ? 0 0 11 5 6 2 0 2 1 4
15 Toohey, Bernard ? ? 1 0 18 18 0 6 0 0 1 1
2 Williams, Greg ? ? 2 1 30 12 18 2 0 1 3 1
Rushed 3
Total (20 players) 16 10 285 183 102 71 22 39 34 40

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