1996 AFL Season Round 21: Essendon v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 24 August 1996 between Essendon and Sydney during round twenty-one of the 1996 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted Sydney at the MCG. Gary O'Donnell captained the hosts. Paul Kelly captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

Essendon (14.16.100) defeated Sydney (12.10.82).

Match Details

Season: 1996 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Essendon v Sydney
Date: Saturday 24 August 1996
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 69,237

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Sydney
Score: 14.16.100 - 12.10.82

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 3 . 6 8 . 7 12 . 12 14 . 16 14 . 16 (100)
Sydney 5 . 4 9 . 5 11 . 8 12 . 10 12 . 10 (82)
Margin SYDN by 10 SYDN by 4 ESSE by 10 ESSE by 18 ESSE by 18
Duration

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Gary O'Donnell
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Sydney

Captain: Paul Kelly
Coach: Rodney Eade

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. McBurney
C. Mitchell (#4)
B. Sheehan (#9)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Gavin Wanganeen ESSE 4 3
James Hird ESSE 5 2
Troy Luff SYDN 34 1

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
27 Alessio, Steven ? ? 0 1 16 8 8 7 8 1 1 0
16 Barnard, Paul ? ? 0 2 12 6 6 3 0 2 0 1
8 Bewick, Darren ? ? 1 0 17 12 5 2 0 1 1 1
34 Blumfield, Justin ? ? 0 0 8 4 4 3 0 1 0 2
14 Calthorpe, David ? ? 0 1 15 10 5 3 0 3 1 1
9 Cockatoo-Collins, Che ? ? 3 0 26 16 10 6 0 2 1 1
22 Doolan, Ben ? ? 0 0 9 6 3 4 0 1 1 0
31 Fletcher, Dustin ? ? 2 1 26 23 3 9 0 0 1 1
39 Hardwick, Damien ? ? 0 0 18 8 10 2 0 1 2 0
1 Harvey, Mark ? ? 0 0 19 12 7 5 0 0 1 3
5 Hird, James ? ? 1 5 28 19 9 12 2 1 1 0
18 Lloyd, Matthew ? ? 3 3 12 10 2 6 0 0 2 4
25 Lucas, Scott ? ? 2 0 14 10 4 5 0 0 1 0
2 Mercuri, Mark ? ? 2 1 23 16 7 6 0 2 2 0
10 O'Donnell, Gary (c) ? ? 0 1 20 12 8 1 1 1 3 1
47 Olarenshaw, Ricky ? ? 0 0 20 9 11 5 0 2 0 0
19 Somerville, Peter ? ? 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 0 0
21 Wallis, Dean ? ? 0 0 7 3 4 3 0 1 2 2
4 Wanganeen, Gavin ? ? 0 1 22 16 6 5 0 0 2 1
6 Wellman, Sean ? ? 0 0 16 9 7 3 1 1 0 3
35 Young, Barry ? ? 0 0 6 2 4 2 0 2 0 1
Rushed 0
Total (21 players) 14 16 336 211 125 92 15 22 22 22

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA FF FA
21 Barry, Leo ? ? 0 0 9 6 3 5 0 2 0 0
30 Bayes, Mark ? ? 1 0 5 5 0 3 0 3 1 0
31 Carey, Stefan ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 5 0 1 0 1
8 Cresswell, Daryn ? ? 0 1 27 18 9 3 0 3 1 0
18 Direen, Scott ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
6 Dunkley, Andrew ? ? 0 0 9 5 4 3 0 3 1 2
12 Dyson, Kevin ? ? 0 0 14 10 4 4 0 2 1 2
10 Filandia, Peter ? ? 1 0 6 2 4 0 0 1 1 1
29 Garlick, Simon ? ? 0 0 18 14 4 5 0 1 1 2
9 Grant, Shannon ? ? 0 0 19 13 6 7 0 1 5 2
39 Heuskes, Adam ? ? 0 0 14 10 4 5 0 3 2 0
14 Kelly, Paul (c) ? ? 0 0 18 14 4 5 0 0 1 0
24 Kickett, Derek ? ? 1 1 10 8 2 3 0 1 2 1
4 Lockett, Tony ? ? 4 4 10 9 1 6 0 0 1 3
34 Luff, Troy ? ? 0 2 25 24 1 11 0 2 0 2
17 Mooney, Jason ? ? 0 1 13 8 5 3 3 3 2 1
5 O'Brien, Craig ? ? 2 0 10 6 4 4 0 2 1 2
19 O'Loughlin, Michael ? ? 2 0 14 11 3 5 0 3 1 2
1 Roos, Paul ? ? 0 0 17 10 7 6 0 0 0 1
7 Seymour, Brad ? ? 0 0 13 5 8 4 0 1 1 0
15 Stafford, Greg ? ? 1 0 9 5 4 4 6 1 0 0
Rushed 1
Total (21 players) 12 10 267 189 78 91 9 34 22 22

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