1994 AFL Season Round 23: Footscray v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 27 August 1994 between Footscray and Melbourne during round twenty-three of the 1994 season of the Australian Football League. Footscray hosted Melbourne at Western Oval. Garry Lyon captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alan Joyce and the visitors were coached by Neil Balme.

Footscray (16.15.111) defeated Melbourne (11.5.71).

Match Details

Season: 1994 AFL Season
Round: Round 23
Teams: Footscray v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 27 August 1994
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Western Oval
Attendance: 23,615

Match Results

Outcome: Footscray def. Melbourne
Score: 16.15.111 - 11.5.71

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Footscray 3 . 3 7 . 8 12 . 12 16 . 15 16 . 15 (111)
Melbourne 5 . 1 9 . 2 9 . 3 11 . 5 11 . 5 (71)
Margin MELB by 10 MELB by 6 FOOT by 27 FOOT by 40 FOOT by 40
Duration

Honour Roll

Footscray

Captain: unknown
Coach: Alan Joyce (caretaker)

Melbourne

Captain: Garry Lyon
Coach: Neil Balme

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

A. Coates
B. Sheehan
J. Van Beek

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Tony Liberatore FOOT 39 3
Chris Grant FOOT 3 2
Mark Hunter FOOT 10 1

Player Statistics

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
23 Atkins, Simon ? ? 1 0 22 16 6 1 0 2 1 1
19 Beveridge, Luke ? ? 2 1 25 20 5 5 0 3 7 0
18 Cameron, Leon ? ? 0 1 7 7 0 1 0 0 2 0
16 Croft, Matthew ? ? 0 0 5 3 2 4 1 1 0 1
3 Grant, Chris ? ? 4 4 16 14 2 8 1 0 1 4
1 Grgic, Ilija ? ? 0 0 12 8 4 4 14 1 3 3
7 Hawkins, Doug ? ? 0 0 11 9 2 5 0 0 1 0
10 Hunter, Mark ? ? 1 1 22 19 3 6 0 1 3 0
33 Johnson, Brad ? ? 1 1 15 10 5 3 0 2 1 1
12 Koster, Kym ? ? 0 0 11 5 6 1 0 3 1 2
35 Kretiuk, Steven ? ? 0 0 6 3 3 1 0 1 2 1
39 Liberatore, Tony ? ? 1 0 21 15 6 3 0 7 2 0
27 MacPherson, Stephen ? ? 0 1 8 5 3 2 0 1 0 1
9 Nicholson, Brad ? ? 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 1 0
44 Osborne, Richard ? ? 1 1 14 11 3 2 0 4 3 0
2 Reynolds, Keenan ? ? 1 1 5 4 1 1 0 1 0 2
8 Southern, Daniel ? ? 0 0 9 5 4 3 4 2 0 2
17 Standfield, Barry ? ? 0 2 7 7 0 2 3 3 1 1
24 Wallis, Steve ? ? 0 0 17 16 1 6 0 0 1 0
28 West, Robbie ? ? 1 1 12 8 4 3 0 0 2 0
14 West, Scott ? ? 3 0 18 14 4 1 0 0 4 3
Rushed 1
Total (21 players) 16 15 266 200 66 62 23 32 36 22

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
18 Charles, Sean ? ? 0 1 13 11 2 3 1 3 0 2
23 Dyson, Kevin ? ? 0 0 15 10 5 5 0 1 1 3
20 Febey, Matthew ? ? 0 0 23 19 4 6 0 3 4 0
21 Febey, Steven ? ? 0 0 21 11 10 5 0 2 1 4
22 Hilton, Jeff ? ? 0 0 6 4 2 1 0 3 1 1
15 Hopgood, Paul ? ? 0 0 3 3 0 1 0 1 1 2
34 Irving, Dean ? ? 1 1 5 5 0 2 8 0 1 2
7 Kowal, Darren ? ? 0 0 11 4 7 2 0 0 0 0
16 Lovell, Andy ? ? 1 0 6 5 1 1 0 1 0 0
17 Lovett, Brett ? ? 0 0 19 12 7 2 1 1 1 0
3 Lyon, Garry (c) ? ? 5 2 14 12 2 4 0 2 1 1
9 Neitz, David ? ? 0 0 7 2 5 1 0 1 0 1
29 Obst, Andrew ? ? 0 0 15 9 6 3 0 1 2 3
10 Pike, Martin ? ? 2 0 11 6 5 3 0 1 1 2
19 Prymke, Paul ? ? 0 0 6 1 5 1 0 0 0 1
5 Schwarz, David ? ? 1 0 11 8 3 6 1 2 1 0
11 Stynes, Jim ? ? 0 0 11 7 4 2 5 0 4 2
2 Tingay, Stephen ? ? 1 0 7 4 3 0 0 2 0 1
12 Viney, Todd ? ? 0 0 10 5 5 0 0 4 0 5
27 Wight, Sean ? ? 0 0 8 6 2 0 0 1 3 0
8 Yeats, Graeme ? ? 0 0 7 5 2 2 0 0 0 6
Rushed 1
Total (21 players) 11 5 229 149 80 50 16 29 22 36

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