2001 AFL Round 1: Geelong v West Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 1 April 2001 between Geelong and West Coast during round 1 of the 2001 AFL season. Geelong hosted West Coast at Shell Stadium. Ben Graham captained the hosts. Ben Cousins captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mark Thompson and the visitors were coached by Ken Judge.

Geelong
B. Graham (capt.), C. Bizzell, R. Burns, D. Clarke, J. Corey, T. Harley, G. Hocking, A. Houlihan, G. Kilpatrick, S. King, D. Mensch, D. Milburn, C. Mooney, J. Murphy, P. Riccardi, B. Sanderson, M. Scarlett, B. Sholl, J. Snell, D. Spriggs, M. White, D. Wojcinski

West Coast
B. Cousins (capt.), D. Banfield, M. Braun, T. Carroll, M. Collica, S. Cummings, C. Fletcher, M. Gardiner, D. Glass, G. Jakovich, R. Jones, D. Kerr, P. Matera, A. McIntosh, M. Merenda, C. Morrison, M. Prior, D. Sierakowski, R. Taylor, A. Williams, T. Wilson, D. Wirrpanda

Geelong (17.13.115) defeated West Coast (7.7.49).

Goalkickers
Geelong: C. Bizzell (3), R. Burns (2), D. Clarke (2), G. Hocking (2), S. King (2), J. Snell (2), A. Houlihan, J. Murphy, P. Riccardi, M. White
West Coast: S. Cummings (3), C. Fletcher, R. Jones, D. Kerr, M. Merenda

As a result of this match, Geelong were then 2nd on the ladder and West Coast were then 15th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Geelong v West Coast
Date: Sunday 1 April 2001
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Shell Stadium
Attendance: 20,149

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. West Coast
Score: 17.13.115 - 7.7.49

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	3	.	4	7	.	7	12	.	9	17	.	13	17	.	13	(115)
West Coast	3	.	0	3	.	2	4	.	2	7	.	7	7	.	7	(49)
Margin	GEEL by 4			GEEL by 29			GEEL by 55			GEEL by 66			GEEL by 66
Duration	29:46			29:39			30:39			30:42			2:00:46

Honour Roll

Coaches: Mark Thompson (Geelong), Ken Judge (West Coast)
Captains: Ben Graham (Geelong), Ben Cousins (West Coast)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. Hanley, J. Harvey (#25), S. McBurney

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Ben Graham	GEEL	7	3
Jason Snell	GEEL	4	2
Adam Houlihan	GEEL	3	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Bizzell, Clint	?	?	3	0	8	6	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	2
8	Burns, Ronnie	?	?	2	2	17	13	4	7	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	6
14	Clarke, David	?	?	2	0	19	12	7	4	0	0	2	5	0	2	4	3
11	Corey, Joel	?	?	0	1	12	8	4	6	0	1	2	3	0	0	1	4
7	Graham, Ben (c)	?	?	0	0	20	17	3	11	0	1	2	1	0	0	9	0
37	Harley, Tom	?	?	0	0	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	0
32	Hocking, Garry	?	?	2	1	13	7	6	3	0	2	4	5	1	2	0	1
3	Houlihan, Adam	?	?	1	1	16	10	6	7	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	4
13	Kilpatrick, Glenn	?	?	0	0	21	14	7	7	0	1	2	1	2	0	0	5
1	King, Steven	?	?	2	0	16	9	7	4	17	0	2	5	3	4	1	2
31	Mensch, David	?	?	0	1	10	7	3	4	1	0	0	5	0	2	0	3
39	Milburn, Darren	?	?	0	0	16	6	10	7	1	3	2	0	0	0	3	1
21	Mooney, Cam	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	1	3	1	1	5	0	5	0	2
20	Murphy, Justin	?	?	1	0	25	15	10	7	0	1	2	4	2	1	0	8
15	Riccardi, Peter	?	?	1	1	25	17	8	4	0	6	4	2	1	0	2	9
27	Sanderson, Brenton	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
30	Scarlett, Matthew	?	?	0	0	16	11	5	6	0	4	1	2	0	0	6	3
12	Sholl, Brad	?	?	0	0	25	19	6	5	0	1	3	1	0	1	2	0
4	Snell, Jason	?	?	2	1	22	13	9	9	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	2
6	Spriggs, David	?	?	0	1	17	11	6	3	0	1	6	2	1	1	1	5
19	White, Mitchell	?	?	1	1	16	9	7	7	1	3	0	3	0	2	0	1
40	Wojcinski, David	?	?	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				17	13	341	220	121	110	26	33	38	53	16	21	30	63

West Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
6	Banfield, Drew	?	?	0	0	14	8	6	2	0	2	1	4	1	1	2	2
10	Braun, Michael	?	?	0	0	21	12	9	7	0	1	1	5	1	2	1	6
46	Carroll, Trent	?	?	0	0	11	9	2	2	2	3	2	4	3	2	1	1
22	Collica, Michael	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	5	0	4	1	4	1	2	3	1
9	Cousins, Ben (c)	?	?	0	1	20	11	9	4	0	6	2	3	2	0	4	2
14	Cummings, Scott	?	?	3	0	4	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
7	Fletcher, Chad	?	?	1	0	19	10	9	7	0	5	2	2	1	0	1	4
1	Gardiner, Michael	?	?	0	0	15	13	2	5	23	1	5	6	6	2	3	2
23	Glass, Darren	?	?	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	Jakovich, Glen	?	?	0	0	13	7	6	2	6	0	2	1	1	0	4	1
18	Jones, Rowan	?	?	1	1	9	5	4	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	1	1
34	Kerr, Daniel	?	?	1	0	22	11	11	2	0	2	3	2	1	0	2	2
30	Matera, Peter	?	?	0	1	18	12	6	3	0	3	0	3	2	1	3	1
11	McIntosh, Ashley	?	?	0	0	9	7	2	4	2	1	0	1	0	0	4	0
21	Merenda, Mark	?	?	1	1	12	9	3	4	0	4	1	4	1	0	0	4
5	Morrison, Chad	?	?	0	0	31	18	13	12	1	0	4	4	0	0	4	3
16	Prior, Michael	?	?	0	0	15	11	4	3	0	0	3	2	0	1	4	2
25	Sierakowski, David	?	?	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Taylor, Richard	?	?	0	0	21	14	7	2	0	1	5	5	0	2	0	3
37	Williams, Andrew	?	?	0	0	14	13	1	6	0	1	1	4	0	1	3	2
40	Wilson, Troy	?	?	0	0	9	7	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	3
44	Wirrpanda, David	?	?	0	1	9	5	4	4	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				7	7	297	190	107	83	35	39	35	60	21	16	41	40

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	WCST	Rowan Jones goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	05:02
	GEEL	Clint Bizzell goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	08:26
	WCST	Scott Cummings goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	10:05
	GEEL	David Mensch behind	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	11:22
	GEEL	Mitchell White goal	2.1.13	-	2.0.12	12:14
	GEEL	Ronnie Burns behind	2.2.14	-	2.0.12	14:05
	GEEL	Garry Hocking behind	2.3.15	-	2.0.12	14:53
	GEEL	Clint Bizzell goal	3.3.21	-	2.0.12	18:19
	GEEL	Jason Snell behind	3.4.22	-	2.0.12	24:25
	WCST	Scott Cummings goal	3.4.22	-	3.0.18	27:30
Q2	GEEL	Ronnie Burns goal	4.4.28	-	3.0.18	02:58
	GEEL	Adam Houlihan behind	4.5.29	-	3.0.18	07:14
	GEEL	Jason Snell goal	5.5.35	-	3.0.18	08:24
	WCST	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	3.1.19	13:41
	WCST	Rowan Jones behind	5.5.35	-	3.2.20	14:58
	GEEL	Rushed behind	5.6.36	-	3.2.20	19:10
	GEEL	Peter Riccardi behind	5.7.37	-	3.2.20	19:56
	GEEL	David Clarke goal	6.7.43	-	3.2.20	24:28
	GEEL	Garry Hocking goal	7.7.49	-	3.2.20	29:36
Q3	WCST	Scott Cummings goal	7.7.49	-	4.2.26	00:54
	GEEL	Garry Hocking goal	8.7.55	-	4.2.26	05:02
	GEEL	Rushed behind	8.8.56	-	4.2.26	08:15
	GEEL	Justin Murphy goal	9.8.62	-	4.2.26	13:09
	GEEL	Ronnie Burns goal	10.8.68	-	4.2.26	14:31
	GEEL	Steven King goal	11.8.74	-	4.2.26	19:25
	GEEL	Steven King goal	12.8.80	-	4.2.26	22:08
	GEEL	Ronnie Burns behind	12.9.81	-	4.2.26	24:31
Q4	WCST	Mark Merenda behind	12.9.81	-	4.3.27	02:25
	GEEL	Rushed behind	12.10.82	-	4.3.27	03:03
	GEEL	Adam Houlihan goal	13.10.88	-	4.3.27	03:51
	GEEL	David Clarke goal	14.10.94	-	4.3.27	04:49
	GEEL	Peter Riccardi goal	15.10.100	-	4.3.27	06:39
	GEEL	Clint Bizzell goal	16.10.106	-	4.3.27	08:25
	WCST	Daniel Kerr goal	16.10.106	-	5.3.33	10:19
	GEEL	Joel Corey behind	16.11.107	-	5.3.33	12:02
	WCST	Ben Cousins behind	16.11.107	-	5.4.34	14:23
	WCST	David Wirrpanda behind	16.11.107	-	5.5.35	16:33
	WCST	Chad Fletcher goal	16.11.107	-	6.5.41	17:23
	GEEL	Jason Snell goal	17.11.113	-	6.5.41	19:19
	WCST	Mark Merenda goal	17.11.113	-	7.5.47	21:48
	GEEL	Mitchell White behind	17.12.114	-	7.5.47	24:08
	GEEL	David Spriggs behind	17.13.115	-	7.5.47	26:10
	WCST	Peter Matera behind	17.13.115	-	7.6.48	28:57
	WCST	Rushed behind	17.13.115	-	7.7.49	30:16

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