1988 VFL Season Round 9: Richmond v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 28 May 1988 between Richmond and Sydney during round nine of the 1988 season of the Victorian Football League. Richmond hosted Sydney at the MCG. Michael Pickering captained the hosts. Dennis Carroll captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Bartlett and the visitors were coached by Tom Hafey.

Richmond (10.13.73) were defeated by Sydney (20.16.136).

Match Details

Season: 1988 VFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: Richmond v Sydney
Date: Saturday 28 May 1988
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 11,468

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. by Sydney
Score: 10.13.73 - 20.16.136

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Richmond 4 . 4 8 . 7 8 . 10 10 . 13 10 . 13 (73)
Sydney 6 . 2 13 . 6 16 . 10 20 . 16 20 . 16 (136)
Margin SYDN by 10 SYDN by 29 SYDN by 48 SYDN by 63 SYDN by 63
Duration

Honour Roll

Richmond

Captain: Michael Pickering
Coach: Kevin Bartlett

Sydney

Captain: Dennis Carroll
Coach: Tom Hafey

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

I. Clayton
S. Luckman

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Neil Cordy SYDN 29 3
David Murphy SYDN 35 2
Greg Williams SYDN 2 1

Player Statistics

Richmond

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
31 Bower, Brendan ? ? 0 0 23 16 7 8 1 4 0 2
2 Burton, Chris ? ? 0 0 15 9 6 1 0 4 1 0
18 Clark, Simon ? ? 0 0 5 4 1 3 2 0 0 1
30 Free, Tony ? ? 0 2 10 7 3 1 0 0 2 3
24 Goodwin, Andy ? ? 0 0 16 15 1 8 8 2 4 5
47 Hamilton, Greg ? ? 0 1 8 4 4 1 0 0 0 1
34 Hogg, Jeff ? ? 5 3 12 11 1 5 0 1 1 0
42 Honybun, David ? ? 0 0 5 5 0 3 2 0 1 0
40 James, Stephen ? ? 0 1 7 3 4 2 0 3 1 2
53 Lambert, Craig ? ? 0 1 13 3 10 1 0 2 0 2
1 Lee, Mark ? ? 0 0 7 4 3 1 4 2 1 1
54 Leys, Brian ? ? 0 0 4 3 1 2 0 1 0 1
12 McKellar, Allan ? ? 0 0 8 6 2 1 0 2 2 2
7 Mitchell, Michael ? ? 1 1 20 13 7 4 0 1 1 4
22 Nichols, Trent ? ? 1 1 16 12 4 1 0 2 0 2
52 Pickering, Justin ? ? 2 2 15 10 5 3 0 0 2 0
35 Pickering, Michael (c) ? ? 1 1 25 20 5 10 0 1 1 1
23 Poole, Trevor ? ? 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 1 1 2
51 Pym, Chris ? ? 0 0 9 6 3 1 0 0 1 0
19 Wilson, Peter ? ? 0 0 19 15 4 5 0 1 2 2
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 10 13 251 174 77 65 17 27 21 31

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
34 Battiston, Adrian ? ? 1 1 14 12 2 2 0 1 0 0
30 Bayes, Mark ? ? 1 0 14 10 4 2 1 3 0 2
41 Brown, David ? ? 4 1 7 5 2 1 0 0 2 0
7 Carroll, Dennis (c) ? ? 0 0 21 18 3 3 0 0 2 1
28 Cordy, Graeme ? ? 0 0 11 9 2 3 0 1 0 1
29 Cordy, Neil ? ? 0 0 11 5 6 4 0 0 1 0
3 Healy, Gerard ? ? 2 0 27 13 14 3 0 0 4 1
9 Henwood, Wayne ? ? 2 0 12 9 3 6 5 1 0 3
18 Lloyd, Matthew ? ? 0 0 8 5 3 1 0 0 0 0
39 Lockman, Michael ? ? 0 0 20 11 9 4 0 1 2 0
10 Mitchell, Barry ? ? 1 3 34 15 19 5 0 2 0 2
21 Morwood, Tony ? ? 4 2 19 16 3 9 0 3 1 1
35 Murphy, David ? ? 3 4 30 22 8 4 0 1 4 0
1 Parsons, Michael ? ? 0 1 17 10 7 4 9 0 3 2
5 Roberts, Ian ? ? 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 2
36 Silvestro, Jim ? ? 0 1 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0
19 Smith, Tony ? ? 0 2 13 7 6 2 5 1 4 2
15 Toohey, Bernard ? ? 0 0 13 9 4 1 0 4 3 1
2 Williams, Greg ? ? 1 0 27 15 12 5 0 2 4 3
26 Wright, Stephen ? ? 1 1 8 5 3 2 0 1 1 0
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 20 16 313 199 114 62 20 21 31 21

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