2001 AFL Season Round 1: Kangaroos v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 30 March 2001 between the Kangaroos and Essendon during round one of the 2001 season of the Australian Football League. The Kangaroos hosted Essendon at the MCG. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Denis Pagan and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

The Kangaroos (9.7.61) were defeated by Essendon (23.8.146).

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Kangaroos v Essendon
Date: Friday 30 March 2001
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 56,028

Match Results

Outcome: Kangaroos def. by Essendon
Score: 9.7.61 - 23.8.146

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Kangaroos	3	.	1	4	.	3	6	.	6	9	.	7	9	.	7	(61)
Essendon	7	.	2	9	.	5	15	.	6	23	.	8	23	.	8	(146)
Margin	ESSE by 25			ESSE by 32			ESSE by 54			ESSE by 85			ESSE by 85
Duration	34:54			27:03			30:42			33:24			2:06:03

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Kangaroos

Captain: unknown
Coach: Denis Pagan

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

A. Coates (#6)
D. Howlett (#1)
C. Mitchell (#4)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Joe Misiti	ESSE	24	3
Jason Johnson	ESSE	14	2
Sean Wellman	ESSE	6	1

Player Statistics

Kangaroos

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
15	Abraham, Winston	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
11	Archer, Glenn	?	?	1	0	15	10	5	6	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	2
12	Blakey, John	?	?	0	0	18	15	3	8	0	2	0	1	0	0	7	0
22	Burton, Matthew	?	?	0	0	13	5	8	7	19	0	1	2	0	0	0	1
23	Clayton, Shane	?	?	0	1	10	7	3	7	0	3	1	2	0	2	1	1
45	Cochrane, Stuart	?	?	1	0	10	9	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2
2	Colbert, Leigh	?	?	0	0	13	9	4	2	1	1	1	2	0	1	8	1
6	Grant, Shannon	?	?	1	0	33	23	10	5	0	1	4	5	1	2	3	1
14	Harris, Daniel	?	?	1	0	15	11	4	3	0	6	4	4	3	2	0	0
35	Makepeace, Troy	?	?	1	0	12	8	4	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
5	McCartney, Jason	?	?	0	0	10	8	2	1	0	0	1	2	2	1	4	0
31	McKernan, Corey	?	?	2	1	12	12	0	6	4	0	1	4	0	2	1	4
44	Motlop, Shannon	?	?	1	2	9	5	4	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	2
20	Petrie, Drew	?	?	0	0	5	5	0	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
28	Pickett, Byron	?	?	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	3	2	6	1	4	2	1
3	Rawlings, Brady	?	?	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	1	1	4	1	0	0	3
26	Rocca, Sav	?	?	1	2	11	10	1	8	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	4
7	Simpson, Adam	?	?	0	0	20	16	4	2	2	1	7	1	2	0	3	2
9	Sinclair, Jess	?	?	0	1	13	6	7	1	0	6	1	4	0	1	0	1
13	Smith, Dylan	?	?	0	0	9	5	4	0	0	3	1	1	2	0	0	5
10	Stevens, Anthony	?	?	0	0	29	23	6	5	0	2	3	4	5	2	2	5
36	Watt, Shannon	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				9	7	279	200	79	75	31	35	34	48	20	17	34	38

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	2	0	10	4	6	4	11	2	1	1	0	0	0	1
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	4	1	9	8	1	5	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1
22	Barnes, John	?	?	0	0	20	11	9	10	5	2	0	4	1	0	0	5
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	2	1	21	13	8	11	4	2	2	2	0	1	1	1
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	1	0	6	2	4	1	0	3	1	3	0	2	1	0
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	1	0	20	15	5	8	1	2	0	3	0	1	1	4
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	18	15	3	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	1
3	Henneman, Aaron	?	?	0	0	10	4	6	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	0
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	1	0	11	8	3	5	0	1	2	3	1	1	1	4
42	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	7	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	1
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	2	1	30	19	11	2	0	3	10	3	4	3	2	7
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	1	0	20	14	6	4	0	4	0	2	2	2	1	4
18	Lloyd, Matthew	?	?	4	2	12	11	1	3	0	2	0	4	1	2	0	3
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	2	2	16	11	5	6	0	1	2	3	1	0	2	6
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	1	0	15	11	4	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	0	0	19	7	12	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
24	Misiti, Joe	?	?	0	0	31	19	12	5	0	0	9	5	2	3	1	3
29	Moorcroft, Gary	?	?	0	0	4	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	1	0	16	15	1	5	0	0	2	1	1	0	3	1
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	0	0	17	11	6	10	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	4
7	Solomon, Dean	?	?	1	1	18	10	8	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	6
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	17	14	3	8	0	1	3	3	0	3	4	1
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				23	8	351	231	120	114	22	29	39	42	17	20	24	61

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	Justin Blumfield behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	02:23
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	02:56
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	04:20
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	0.0.0	-	2.2.14	06:13
	KANG	Sav Rocca goal	1.0.6	-	2.2.14	08:07
	ESSE	Dean Solomon goal	1.0.6	-	3.2.20	11:14
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	1.0.6	-	4.2.26	12:55
	ESSE	James Hird goal	1.0.6	-	5.2.32	20:19
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	1.0.6	-	6.2.38	22:28
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	1.0.6	-	7.2.44	24:22
	KANG	Shane Clayton behind	1.1.7	-	7.2.44	26:20
	KANG	Troy Makepeace goal	2.1.13	-	7.2.44	29:55
	KANG	Daniel Harris goal	3.1.19	-	7.2.44	34:52
Q2	KANG	Sav Rocca behind	3.2.20	-	7.2.44	01:09
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	3.2.20	-	7.3.45	02:26
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	3.2.20	-	7.4.46	03:52
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	3.2.20	-	7.5.47	07:12
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	3.2.20	-	8.5.53	09:08
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	3.2.20	-	9.5.59	18:25
	KANG	Glenn Archer goal	4.2.26	-	9.5.59	23:12
	KANG	Shannon Motlop behind	4.3.27	-	9.5.59	24:12
Q3	KANG	Shannon Motlop behind	4.4.28	-	9.5.59	01:16
	KANG	Stuart Cochrane goal	5.4.34	-	9.5.59	03:39
	KANG	Corey McKernan behind	5.5.35	-	9.5.59	07:28
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	5.5.35	-	10.5.65	08:27
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	5.5.35	-	11.5.71	12:14
	KANG	Corey McKernan goal	6.5.41	-	11.5.71	14:01
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.5.41	-	12.5.77	17:32
	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	6.5.41	-	12.6.78	19:39
	KANG	Jess Sinclair behind	6.6.42	-	12.6.78	22:43
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	6.6.42	-	13.6.84	23:34
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	6.6.42	-	14.6.90	27:35
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	6.6.42	-	15.6.96	29:02
Q4	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.6.42	-	16.6.102	00:53
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	6.6.42	-	17.6.108	02:10
	KANG	Sav Rocca behind	6.7.43	-	17.6.108	03:36
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	6.7.43	-	17.7.109	04:34
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.7.43	-	18.7.115	06:17
	KANG	Shannon Grant goal	7.7.49	-	18.7.115	09:17
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	7.7.49	-	19.7.121	12:19
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	7.7.49	-	20.7.127	15:07
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	7.7.49	-	20.8.128	16:49
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	7.7.49	-	21.8.134	18:53
	KANG	Shannon Motlop goal	8.7.55	-	21.8.134	22:12
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	8.7.55	-	22.8.140	25:35
	KANG	Corey McKernan goal	9.7.61	-	22.8.140	27:56
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	9.7.61	-	23.8.146	29:51

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