2001 AFL Season Preliminary Final 1: Essendon v Hawthorn

This is the match report for the match played on 22 September 2001 between Essendon and Hawthorn in the first preliminary final of the 2001 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon "hosted" Hawthorn at the MCG. James Hird captained the hosts. Shane Crawford captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Peter Schwab.

Essendon (11.10.76) defeated Hawthorn (9.13.67).

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: First Preliminary Final
Teams: Essendon v Hawthorn
Date: Saturday 22 September 2001
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 86,468

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Hawthorn
Score: 11.10.76 - 9.13.67

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	4	.	2	8	.	7	8	.	8	11	.	10	11	.	10	(76)
Hawthorn	2	.	6	2	.	7	5	.	11	9	.	13	9	.	13	(67)
Margin	ESSE by 8			ESSE by 36			ESSE by 15			ESSE by 9			ESSE by 9
Duration	34:14			26:41			24:42			28:55			1:54:32

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Essendon) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Hawthorn) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Hawthorn

Captain: Shane Crawford
Coach: Peter Schwab

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. Ellis
D. Goldspink (#32)
M. Vozzo (#2)

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	2	0	14	7	7	5	7	1	4	3	2	2	1	2
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	1	1	10	7	3	3	0	0	1	2	1	2	1	1
22	Barnes, John	?	?	0	0	11	9	2	6	6	0	3	0	1	0	2	2
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	1	1	11	5	6	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	1	1	15	9	6	6	0	2	1	4	1	2	0	4
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	11	10	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
11	Hardwick, Damien	?	?	0	0	19	12	7	2	0	3	2	2	2	0	7	1
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	1	0	16	10	6	4	0	2	5	1	2	1	3	3
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	0	0	11	9	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
42	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	19	12	7	9	0	1	1	1	0	1	3	0
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	1	21	16	5	8	0	4	2	3	0	3	1	4
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
13	Long, Michael	?	?	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	2	4	15	12	3	7	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	6
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	0	5	4	1	1	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	1
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Misiti, Joe	?	?	1	0	27	13	14	4	0	5	6	3	1	0	0	6
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	0	0	14	5	9	3	1	1	1	2	0	2	1	2
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	1	0	9	5	4	3	0	2	2	3	1	3	0	2
7	Solomon, Dean	?	?	0	1	21	13	8	6	0	4	2	5	2	1	2	6
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	1	1	12	9	3	2	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	1
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				11	10	274	174	100	81	14	41	31	36	15	21	28	44

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Barker, John	INT	?	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
33	Barlow, Kris	HFFR	?	1	0	6	6	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2
17	Chick, Daniel	FPR	?	0	1	10	6	4	1	0	6	4	1	0	1	2	0
35	Cox, Adrian	INT	?	1	0	11	8	3	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1
9	Crawford, Shane (c)	C	?	0	1	18	11	7	2	0	4	1	1	2	0	2	2
24	Croad, Trent	CHB	?	0	1	11	3	8	1	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	2
19	Dixon, Ben	FPL	?	1	0	10	8	2	4	0	0	0	5	1	2	0	2
34	Graham, Mark	HBFL	?	0	0	9	5	4	2	0	2	1	2	3	1	3	0
29	Greene, Steven	WL	?	1	0	12	7	5	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
5	Harford, Daniel	HFFL	?	0	0	21	10	11	5	0	2	7	0	1	0	2	1
3	Hay, Jonathan	FB	?	0	0	13	6	7	5	0	2	1	3	0	2	3	0
2	Holland, Nick	CHF	?	3	1	11	8	3	6	0	2	0	2	2	1	0	1
37	Lekkas, Angelo	HBFR	?	0	3	17	12	5	6	0	5	2	2	1	0	3	6
28	Lonie, Nathan	INT	?	0	0	13	12	1	6	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	6
7	McCabe, Luke	BPR	?	0	0	19	11	8	5	0	4	2	4	1	2	1	3
20	Rawlings, Jade	INT	?	0	0	19	13	6	9	0	0	1	1	0	1	6	1
52	Rehn, Shaun	RU	?	0	0	9	6	3	4	15	1	3	3	1	2	2	2
11	Smith, Joel	BPL	?	0	0	9	5	4	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	3	0
4	Tallis, Rayden	WR	?	0	0	10	7	3	2	0	3	1	1	1	0	0	1
23	Thompson, Nathan	FF	?	1	1	14	10	4	5	9	3	2	1	0	0	0	4
21	Vandenberg, Richie	RR	?	0	1	13	9	4	4	0	3	1	4	1	1	0	4
30	Woods, Tony	RO	?	1	1	19	15	4	4	0	2	7	2	1	1	0	6
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				9	13	275	179	96	85	24	44	38	34	21	15	29	47

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

Essendon

Coach: Kevin Sheedy

BACK

FOLLOWER

INTERCHANGE

J. Smith

J. Hay

L. McCabe

FORWARD

HALF-BACK

M. Graham

T. Croad

A. Lekkas

HALF-FORWARD

CENTRE

S. Greene

S. Crawford (c)

R. Tallis

FOLLOWER

INTERCHANGE

CENTRE

HALF-FORWARD

HALF-BACK

FORWARD

B. Dixon

N. Thompson

D. Chick

BACK

Hawthorn

Coach: Peter Schwab

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	HWTH	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:56
	HWTH	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	04:34
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	0.1.1	-	0.2.2	07:56
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	1.1.7	-	0.2.2	09:28
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	1.2.8	-	0.2.2	11:29
	HWTH	Tony Woods behind	1.2.8	-	0.3.3	12:06
	HWTH	Shane Crawford behind	1.2.8	-	0.4.4	13:49
	HWTH	Angelo Lekkas behind	1.2.8	-	0.5.5	15:00
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	2.2.14	-	0.5.5	16:41
	HWTH	Adrian Cox goal	2.2.14	-	1.5.11	18:56
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan goal	3.2.20	-	1.5.11	20:34
	HWTH	Richie Vandenberg behind	3.2.20	-	1.6.12	22:37
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	4.2.26	-	1.6.12	23:46
	HWTH	Nick Holland goal	4.2.26	-	2.6.18	32:00
Q2	HWTH	Nathan Thompson behind	4.2.26	-	2.7.19	04:40
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	4.3.27	-	2.7.19	05:30
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	5.3.33	-	2.7.19	06:54
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	5.4.34	-	2.7.19	08:44
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	6.4.40	-	2.7.19	10:33
	ESSE	Sean Wellman goal	7.4.46	-	2.7.19	14:15
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	7.5.47	-	2.7.19	17:24
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	8.5.53	-	2.7.19	19:30
	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	8.6.54	-	2.7.19	21:04
	ESSE	Blake Caracella behind	8.7.55	-	2.7.19	23:56
Q3	HWTH	Tony Woods goal	8.7.55	-	3.7.25	01:04
	HWTH	Nick Holland behind	8.7.55	-	3.8.26	07:58
	HWTH	Daniel Chick behind	8.7.55	-	3.9.27	09:12
	HWTH	Kris Barlow goal	8.7.55	-	4.9.33	10:10
	HWTH	Rushed behind	8.7.55	-	4.10.34	12:48
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield behind	8.8.56	-	4.10.34	13:55
	HWTH	Angelo Lekkas behind	8.8.56	-	4.11.35	21:18
	HWTH	Steven Greene goal	8.8.56	-	5.11.41	23:25
Q4	HWTH	Angelo Lekkas behind	8.8.56	-	5.12.42	01:31
	HWTH	Nathan Thompson goal	8.8.56	-	6.12.48	03:46
	HWTH	Nick Holland goal	8.8.56	-	7.12.54	05:59
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	8.9.57	-	7.12.54	07:12
	ESSE	Sean Wellman behind	8.10.58	-	7.12.54	11:39
	ESSE	Joe Misiti goal	9.10.64	-	7.12.54	13:23
	HWTH	Ben Dixon goal	9.10.64	-	8.12.60	17:49
	HWTH	Trent Croad behind	9.10.64	-	8.13.61	20:09
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	10.10.70	-	8.13.61	22:16
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	11.10.76	-	8.13.61	24:58
	HWTH	Nick Holland goal	11.10.76	-	9.13.67	28:54

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