2001 AFL Qualifying Final 1: Essendon v Richmond

This is the match report for the match played on 7 September 2001 between Essendon and Richmond in the first qualifying final of the 2001 AFL season. Essendon "hosted" Richmond at MCG. James Hird captained the hosts. Wayne Campbell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Danny Frawley.

Essendon
J. Hird (capt.), S. Alessio, P. Barnard, J. Barnes, J. Blumfield, B. Caracella, D. Fletcher, D. Hardwick, C. Heffernan, D. Jacobs, J. Johnson, M. Johnson, M. Lloyd, M. Long, S. Lucas, M. McVeigh, M. Mercuri, J. Misiti, A. Ramanauskas, D. Rioli, D. Solomon, S. Wellman

Richmond
W. Campbell (capt.), J. Bowden, P. Broderick, L. Cameron, M. Chaffey, A. Fiora, B. Gale, D. Gaspar, R. Hall, R. Hilton, B. Holland, A. Kellaway, D. Kellaway, C. King, M. Knights, B. Ottens, M. Richardson, M. Rogers, S. Sziller, G. Tivendale, J. Torney, T. Zantuck

Essendon (17.11.113) defeated Richmond (5.13.43).

Goalkickers
Essendon: M. Lloyd (4), S. Lucas (3), P. Barnard (2), B. Caracella (2), J. Barnes, J. Hird, J. Misiti, A. Ramanauskas, D. Rioli, D. Solomon
Richmond: M. Richardson (2), R. Hilton, M. Rogers, G. Tivendale

As a result of this match, Essendon faced Hawthorn in the first preliminary final and Richmond faced Carlton in the first semi final.

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Qualifying Final 1
Teams: Essendon v Richmond
Date: Friday 7 September 2001
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 78,253

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Richmond
Score: 17.11.113 - 5.13.43

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	4	.	5	8	.	5	12	.	8	17	.	11	17	.	11	(113)
Richmond	1	.	4	2	.	7	4	.	10	5	.	13	5	.	13	(43)
Margin	ESSE by 19			ESSE by 34			ESSE by 46			ESSE by 70			ESSE by 70
Duration	30:56			26:19			34:40			27:14			1:59:09

Honour Roll

Coaches: Kevin Sheedy (Essendon), Danny Frawley (Richmond)
Captains: James Hird (Essendon), Wayne Campbell (Richmond)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: D. Goldspink (#32), M. James (#5), S. McLaren (#11)

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	0	2	20	7	13	7	11	5	5	2	1	1	1	0
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	2	1	16	12	4	10	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
22	Barnes, John	?	?	1	0	6	6	0	2	1	2	1	0	1	0	1	1
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	3	0	6	1	1	0	0	0	5
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	2	1	27	19	8	10	0	1	3	0	2	0	4	3
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	11	8	3	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	4	0
11	Hardwick, Damien	?	?	0	0	14	9	5	6	1	2	1	0	1	0	1	0
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	0	0	12	9	3	3	0	2	1	0	1	0	4	4
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	1	0	19	9	10	5	0	5	4	2	0	1	0	4
42	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	5	2	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	4
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	11	9	2	5	0	6	0	1	0	1	0	2
18	Lloyd, Matthew	?	?	4	2	18	15	3	6	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	3
13	Long, Michael	?	?	0	1	8	7	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	3	0	12	12	0	9	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	1	11	8	3	1	0	4	0	2	2	2	0	4
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	0	0	23	15	8	5	0	4	1	1	2	1	2	2
24	Misiti, Joe	?	?	1	0	29	13	16	3	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	3
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	1	0	15	8	7	6	2	2	2	5	0	2	3	3
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	1	2	19	13	6	6	0	2	0	4	1	2	0	2
7	Solomon, Dean	?	?	1	0	18	13	5	5	0	1	2	4	0	1	7	1
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	16	11	5	7	0	0	1	3	0	0	3	3
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				17	11	328	216	112	107	15	52	25	30	13	12	33	48

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
11	Bowden, Joel	?	?	0	1	30	19	11	2	3	2	6	4	0	0	6	3
17	Broderick, Paul	?	?	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1
15	Cameron, Leon	?	?	0	2	16	12	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	4
9	Campbell, Wayne (c)	?	?	0	0	20	11	9	0	0	2	3	2	0	0	2	3
6	Chaffey, Mark	?	?	0	0	17	10	7	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	6
14	Fiora, Aaron	?	?	0	1	7	3	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
25	Gale, Brendon	?	?	0	0	10	2	8	6	10	0	2	1	0	1	0	1
2	Gaspar, Darren	?	?	0	0	16	7	9	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	1
20	Hall, Ray	?	?	0	0	2	1	1	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
1	Hilton, Rory	?	?	1	1	14	10	4	2	0	1	4	1	1	1	0	5
16	Holland, Ben	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	7	0	3	2	0	2	0	3	1
39	Kellaway, Andrew	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	9	1	5	0	3	0	0	2	0
3	Kellaway, Duncan	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	2	0	4	3	0	1	0	0	2
21	King, Clinton	?	?	0	0	14	5	9	4	0	2	0	5	1	3	0	2
33	Knights, Matthew	?	?	0	0	14	9	5	0	0	3	2	1	2	1	1	2
5	Ottens, Brad	?	?	0	0	14	9	5	5	11	2	2	2	2	0	1	2
12	Richardson, Matthew	?	?	2	1	11	8	3	8	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
4	Rogers, Matthew	?	?	1	1	25	21	4	10	0	1	2	3	1	1	3	4
19	Sziller, Steven	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	1	2	2	0	2	2	2
32	Tivendale, Greg	?	?	1	1	9	4	5	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2
29	Torney, Jason	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	3	0	2	1	2	1	1	3	1
36	Zantuck, Ty	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				5	13	286	168	118	80	28	33	35	35	12	13	27	45

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

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Dean Rioli behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	00:52
	RICH	Matthew Richardson goal	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	04:01
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	04:56
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	1.2.8	-	1.0.6	07:02
	RICH	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	10:03
	RICH	Rory Hilton behind	1.2.8	-	1.2.8	10:44
	ESSE	James Hird goal	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	12:14
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	2.3.15	-	1.2.8	18:20
	RICH	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	1.3.9	19:22
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	2.4.16	-	1.3.9	20:44
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	3.4.22	-	1.3.9	23:09
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	3.5.23	-	1.3.9	26:32
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	4.5.29	-	1.3.9	27:39
	RICH	Greg Tivendale behind	4.5.29	-	1.4.10	29:10
Q2	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	5.5.35	-	1.4.10	01:56
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	6.5.41	-	1.4.10	09:16
	RICH	Leon Cameron behind	6.5.41	-	1.5.11	10:51
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	7.5.47	-	1.5.11	13:03
	RICH	Matthew Richardson behind	7.5.47	-	1.6.12	15:56
	RICH	Leon Cameron behind	7.5.47	-	1.7.13	18:34
	ESSE	Joe Misiti goal	8.5.53	-	1.7.13	21:15
	RICH	Greg Tivendale goal	8.5.53	-	2.7.19	24:53
Q3	ESSE	Blake Caracella behind	8.6.54	-	2.7.19	02:14
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	9.6.60	-	2.7.19	03:46
	RICH	Joel Bowden behind	9.6.60	-	2.8.20	05:34
	RICH	Matthew Rogers behind	9.6.60	-	2.9.21	10:02
	RICH	Matthew Rogers goal	9.6.60	-	3.9.27	12:25
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	10.6.66	-	3.9.27	15:10
	RICH	Matthew Richardson goal	10.6.66	-	4.9.33	16:55
	RICH	Rushed behind	10.6.66	-	4.10.34	17:44
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.7.67	-	4.10.34	19:05
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	11.7.73	-	4.10.34	20:35
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	12.7.79	-	4.10.34	23:45
	ESSE	Michael Long behind	12.8.80	-	4.10.34	32:21
Q4	RICH	Rushed behind	12.8.80	-	4.11.35	02:10
	RICH	Rory Hilton goal	12.8.80	-	5.11.41	03:35
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	13.8.86	-	5.11.41	07:54
	ESSE	Dean Rioli behind	13.9.87	-	5.11.41	09:40
	RICH	Rushed behind	13.9.87	-	5.12.42	11:54
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	13.10.88	-	5.12.42	18:22
	ESSE	Dean Solomon goal	14.10.94	-	5.12.42	19:10
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	14.11.95	-	5.12.42	20:07
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	15.11.101	-	5.12.42	22:56
	RICH	Aaron Fiora behind	15.11.101	-	5.13.43	24:21
	ESSE	John Barnes goal	16.11.107	-	5.13.43	25:29
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	17.11.113	-	5.13.43	27:13

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