1996 AFL Season Round 5: Essendon v Collingwood

This is the match report for the match played on 25 April 1996 between Essendon and Collingwood during round five of the 1996 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted Collingwood at the MCG. Gary O'Donnell captained the hosts. Gavin Brown captained the visitors with Gavin Crosisca as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Tony Shaw.

Essendon (16.9.105) were defeated by Collingwood (17.15.117).

Match Details

Season: 1996 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Essendon v Collingwood
Date: Thursday 25 April 1996
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 87,549

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by Collingwood
Score: 16.9.105 - 17.15.117

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 7 . 1 10 . 5 14 . 8 16 . 9 16 . 9 (105)
Collingwood 2 . 4 6 . 10 11 . 13 17 . 15 17 . 15 (117)
Margin ESSE by 27 ESSE by 19 ESSE by 13 COLL by 12 COLL by 12
Duration

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Gary O'Donnell
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Collingwood

Captain: Gavin Brown
Vice-Captain: Gavin Crosisca
Coach: Tony Shaw

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

D. Goldspink (#32)
J. Harvey (#25)
H. Kennedy (#7)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Scott Russell COLL 29 3
Tony Francis COLL 2 2
Mark Mercuri ESSE 2 1

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
51 Berbakov, Peter ? ? 0 0 18 12 6 3 0 2 1 1
14 Calthorpe, David ? ? 2 2 18 14 4 4 0 3 1 6
9 Cockatoo-Collins, Che ? ? 1 1 14 11 3 4 0 2 1 2
36 Cummings, Scott ? ? 4 2 7 6 1 5 0 1 1 2
7 Daniher, Chris ? ? 0 0 12 6 6 2 0 3 1 0
22 Doolan, Ben ? ? 1 0 23 15 8 4 0 2 1 1
31 Fletcher, Dustin ? ? 0 0 17 10 7 4 0 1 1 3
30 Fraser, Mark ? ? 1 0 6 2 4 0 0 2 0 0
39 Hardwick, Damien ? ? 0 0 24 15 9 3 0 0 0 0
5 Hird, James ? ? 4 1 23 15 8 8 1 1 0 1
18 Lloyd, Matthew ? ? 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 1
25 Lucas, Scott ? ? 0 0 7 3 4 1 0 2 0 0
2 Mercuri, Mark ? ? 2 0 26 11 15 8 0 1 2 3
24 Misiti, Joe ? ? 0 0 25 16 9 2 0 2 2 3
3 O'Connor, Ryan ? ? 1 0 13 8 5 3 1 1 0 1
10 O'Donnell, Gary (c) ? ? 0 0 14 5 9 3 0 1 0 0
15 Prior, Michael ? ? 0 1 18 14 4 3 0 3 1 4
19 Somerville, Peter ? ? 0 0 11 6 5 5 15 0 1 5
12 Symons, Michael ? ? 0 0 11 3 8 3 0 1 0 3
6 Wellman, Sean ? ? 0 0 12 9 3 8 0 1 1 2
35 Young, Barry ? ? 0 0 18 10 8 5 0 2 1 0
Rushed 2
Total (21 players) 16 9 321 194 127 79 17 31 16 38

Collingwood

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
26 Brown, Gavin (c) ? ? 3 2 15 8 7 7 0 0 0 0
5 Buckley, Nathan ? ? 1 0 14 11 3 2 0 0 1 1
17 Burns, Scott ? ? 0 0 12 6 6 3 0 2 3 1
28 Crosisca, Gavin (vc) ? ? 0 0 15 9 6 3 1 0 2 0
39 Crow, Scott ? ? 0 1 16 10 6 6 0 2 0 1
24 Curran, Chris ? ? 1 1 26 17 9 3 0 1 4 0
9 Francis, Matthew ? ? 1 0 11 8 3 2 0 0 2 0
2 Francis, Tony ? ? 1 0 23 19 4 6 0 1 8 1
23 Kelly, Craig ? ? 0 0 13 8 5 2 0 2 3 4
27 McDonald, Alex ? ? 0 1 16 15 1 6 0 0 1 0
34 McGuane, Mick ? ? 1 3 15 11 4 5 0 1 2 0
1 Monkhorst, Damian ? ? 0 0 11 5 6 4 7 0 2 0
6 Patterson, Stephen ? ? 1 0 7 6 1 1 0 1 0 2
3 Richardson, Mark ? ? 0 0 5 1 4 1 3 1 0 0
36 Rocca, Sav ? ? 6 3 11 11 0 9 1 1 2 2
29 Russell, Scott ? ? 1 0 26 13 13 4 0 2 2 2
12 Schauble, Andrew ? ? 0 0 14 8 6 7 0 0 1 0
14 Watson, Shane ? ? 0 1 11 5 6 1 0 1 0 0
22 Wild, Jason ? ? 0 1 8 6 2 1 0 1 1 0
10 Williams, Paul ? ? 1 0 26 20 6 10 0 2 3 1
19 Wright, Graham ? ? 0 0 16 11 5 1 0 1 1 1
Rushed 2
Total (21 players) 17 15 311 208 103 84 12 19 38 16

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