1993 AFL Season Grand Final: Carlton v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 25 September 1993 between Carlton and Essendon in the grand final of the 1993 season of the Australian Football League. Carlton "hosted" Essendon at the MCG. Stephen Kernahan captained the hosts. Mark Thompson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by David Parkin and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Carlton (13.11.89) were defeated by Essendon (20.13.133).

Match Details

Season: 1993 AFL Season
Round: Grand Final
Teams: Carlton v Essendon
Date: Saturday 25 September 1993
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 96,862

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. by Essendon
Score: 13.11.89 - 20.13.133

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Carlton	1	.	2	5	.	2	10	.	5	13	.	11	13	.	11	(89)
Essendon	5	.	8	10	.	9	16	.	11	20	.	13	20	.	13	(133)
Margin	ESSE by 30			ESSE by 37			ESSE by 42			ESSE by 44			ESSE by 44
Duration

Honour Roll

Carlton

Captain: Stephen Kernahan
Coach: David Parkin

Essendon

Captain: Mark Thompson
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Norm Smith Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	3	2	1
Michael Long	ESSE	13	?	?	?	?

Player Statistics

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	FF	FA
31	Alvin, Tom	HFFL	?	1	0	16	12	4	3	0	0	2	2
25	Athorn, Mark	INT	?	0	0	11	8	3	1	0	3	0	3
21	Bradley, Craig	RR	?	1	0	25	16	9	1	0	1	1	2
20	Brown, Fraser	WR	?	0	0	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	1
39	Christou, Ang	HBFL	?	0	0	11	5	6	1	0	5	3	0
12	Gleeson, Adrian	RO	?	0	1	19	7	12	5	0	1	3	0
13	Hanna, Mil	HBFR	?	0	0	9	3	6	3	1	0	0	2
17	Heaver, Brent	FPR	?	1	0	14	9	5	0	0	1	1	0
33	Hogg, Matthew	INT	?	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	0	0	1
4	Kernahan, Stephen (c)	FF	?	7	4	17	16	1	10	0	0	0	2
44	Madden, Justin	RU	?	0	0	16	9	7	5	13	2	2	0
5	McKay, Andrew	BPR	?	0	0	19	11	8	4	0	2	2	1
22	Powell, Tim	HFFR	?	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	0	0	3
7	Ratten, Brett	BPL	?	0	0	12	8	4	3	0	1	2	0
14	Sexton, Michael	CHB	?	0	0	17	15	2	6	0	0	0	1
9	Sholl, Brett	WL	?	0	0	13	7	6	3	0	1	1	1
1	Silvagni, Stephen	FB	?	0	1	9	7	2	3	0	0	0	2
11	Spalding, Earl	CHF	?	0	0	18	10	8	6	0	0	3	1
38	Welsh, Rohan	FPL	?	2	1	7	5	2	3	0	1	2	0
2	Williams, Greg	C	?	1	1	28	13	15	1	0	2	3	0
Rushed					3
Total (20 players)				13	11	285	175	110	61	14	20	25	22

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	FF	FA
8	Bewick, Darren	RO	?	1	0	14	7	7	0	0	1	2	0
48	Calthorpe, David	INT	?	1	0	18	5	13	3	0	3	1	0
7	Daniher, Chris	INT	?	1	0	10	5	5	3	0	1	0	0
38	Denham, Sean	C	?	1	0	12	5	7	1	0	6	0	1
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	?	0	0	13	11	2	5	1	1	0	0
29	Grenvold, David	HBFL	?	0	0	16	9	7	3	0	1	1	2
1	Harvey, Mark	CHB	?	1	1	22	18	4	5	0	1	2	0
11	Hills, Paul	WR	?	0	0	16	7	9	3	0	0	1	2
5	Hird, James	CHF	?	2	0	16	11	5	7	0	2	0	3
13	Long, Michael	FPR	?	2	0	33	20	13	8	0	1	3	1
2	Mercuri, Mark	HFFL	?	3	1	23	13	10	5	0	2	2	2
24	Misiti, Joe	HFFR	?	1	1	20	15	5	4	0	2	1	1
10	O'Donnell, Gary	RR	?	0	2	33	24	9	9	1	0	3	0
47	Olarenshaw, Ricky	WL	?	0	1	22	16	6	5	0	2	1	2
3	Salmon, Paul	FF	?	5	2	19	13	6	10	6	1	2	5
19	Somerville, Peter	RU	?	0	0	6	2	4	2	5	3	0	0
26	Thompson, Mark (c)	HBFR	?	0	0	25	16	9	6	0	2	2	0
21	Wallis, Dean	BPR	?	1	2	10	6	4	4	0	1	1	4
4	Wanganeen, Gavin	BPL	?	1	1	20	13	7	7	0	0	0	1
32	Watson, Tim	FPL	?	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	4	0	1
Rushed					2
Total (20 players)				20	13	351	217	134	90	13	34	22	25

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

Player Line-Up

Carlton							Coach: David Parkin
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	4	G. Wanganeen	31	D. Fletcher	21	D. Wallis	44	J. Madden	25	M. Athorn
	17	B. Heaver	4	S. Kernahan (c)	38	R. Welsh	21	C. Bradley	33	M. Hogg
FORWARD							12	A. Gleeson
HALF-BACK
	29	D. Grenvold	1	M. Harvey	26	M. Thompson (c)
	22	T. Powell	11	E. Spalding	31	T. Alvin
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	47	R. Olarenshaw	38	S. Denham	11	P. Hills
	20	F. Brown	2	G. Williams	9	B. Sholl	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							19	P. Somerville	48	D. Calthorpe
HALF-FORWARD							10	G. O'Donnell	7	C. Daniher
	2	M. Mercuri	5	J. Hird	24	J. Misiti	8	D. Bewick
	13	M. Hanna	14	M. Sexton	39	A. Christou
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	32	T. Watson	3	P. Salmon	13	M. Long
	5	A. McKay	1	S. Silvagni	7	B. Ratten
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Paul Salmon goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	??:??
	ESSE	Joe Misiti behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	??:??
	ESSE	Gary O'Donnell behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	??:??
	ESSE	Ricky Olarenshaw behind	0.0.0	-	1.3.9	??:??
	CARL	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	1.3.9	??:??
	ESSE	Michael Long goal	0.1.1	-	2.3.15	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan goal	1.1.7	-	2.3.15	??:??
	ESSE	Paul Salmon goal	1.1.7	-	3.3.21	??:??
	ESSE	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	3.4.22	??:??
	ESSE	Gary O'Donnell behind	1.1.7	-	3.5.23	??:??
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	1.1.7	-	3.6.24	??:??
	ESSE	Sean Denham goal	1.1.7	-	4.6.30	??:??
	ESSE	Paul Salmon behind	1.1.7	-	4.7.31	??:??
	ESSE	James Hird goal	1.1.7	-	5.7.37	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan behind	1.2.8	-	5.7.37	??:??
	ESSE	Dean Wallis behind	1.2.8	-	5.8.38	??:??
Q2	ESSE	Michael Long goal	1.2.8	-	6.8.44	??:??
	ESSE	Dean Wallis goal	1.2.8	-	7.8.50	??:??
	ESSE	Paul Salmon behind	1.2.8	-	7.9.51	??:??
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	1.2.8	-	8.9.57	??:??
	CARL	Rohan Welsh goal	2.2.14	-	8.9.57	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan goal	3.2.20	-	8.9.57	??:??
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	3.2.20	-	9.9.63	??:??
	ESSE	Darren Bewick goal	3.2.20	-	10.9.69	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan goal	4.2.26	-	10.9.69	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan goal	5.2.32	-	10.9.69	??:??
Q3	CARL	Rohan Welsh behind	5.3.33	-	10.9.69	??:??
	ESSE	Paul Salmon goal	5.3.33	-	11.9.75	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan behind	5.4.34	-	11.9.75	??:??
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	5.4.34	-	12.9.81	??:??
	CARL	Rohan Welsh goal	6.4.40	-	12.9.81	??:??
	ESSE	Chris Daniher goal	6.4.40	-	13.9.87	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan goal	7.4.46	-	13.9.87	??:??
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.4.46	-	13.10.88	??:??
	ESSE	Gavin Wanganeen behind	7.4.46	-	13.11.89	??:??
	ESSE	Mark Harvey goal	7.4.46	-	14.11.95	??:??
	CARL	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	14.11.95	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan goal	8.5.53	-	14.11.95	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan goal	9.5.59	-	14.11.95	??:??
	CARL	Tom Alvin goal	10.5.65	-	14.11.95	??:??
	ESSE	David Calthorpe goal	10.5.65	-	15.11.101	??:??
	ESSE	Joe Misiti goal	10.5.65	-	16.11.107	??:??
Q4	ESSE	Paul Salmon goal	10.5.65	-	17.11.113	??:??
	ESSE	Dean Wallis behind	10.5.65	-	17.12.114	??:??
	ESSE	James Hird goal	10.5.65	-	18.12.120	??:??
	ESSE	Paul Salmon goal	10.5.65	-	19.12.126	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Silvagni behind	10.6.66	-	19.12.126	??:??
	CARL	Greg Williams behind	10.7.67	-	19.12.126	??:??
	CARL	Craig Bradley goal	11.7.73	-	19.12.126	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan behind	11.8.74	-	19.12.126	??:??
	CARL	Stephen Kernahan behind	11.9.75	-	19.12.126	??:??
	ESSE	Mark Harvey behind	11.9.75	-	19.13.127	??:??
	CARL	Greg Williams goal	12.9.81	-	19.13.127	??:??
	CARL	Brent Heaver goal	13.9.87	-	19.13.127	??:??
	CARL	Rushed behind	13.10.88	-	19.13.127	??:??
	CARL	Adrian Gleeson behind	13.11.89	-	19.13.127	??:??
	ESSE	Gavin Wanganeen goal	13.11.89	-	20.13.133	??:??

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1993 AFL Season Grand Final: Carlton v Essendon

Match Details

Match Results

Quarter Breakdown

Honour Roll

Carlton

Essendon

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

Goal Umpires

Boundary Umpires

Norm Smith Votes

Player Statistics

Carlton

Essendon

Legend

Player Line-Up

Score Timeline

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