2001 AFL Season Round 4: Sydney v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 20 April 2001 between Sydney and Essendon during round four of the 2001 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Essendon at the SCG. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Rodney Eade and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Sydney (6.19.55) were defeated by Essendon (15.12.102).

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: Sydney v Essendon
Date: Friday 20 April 2001
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 40,131

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Essendon
Score: 6.19.55 - 15.12.102

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	1	.	5	2	.	6	4	.	13	6	.	19	6	.	19	(55)
Essendon	3	.	3	8	.	6	14	.	8	15	.	12	15	.	12	(102)
Margin	ESSE by 10			ESSE by 36			ESSE by 55			ESSE by 47			ESSE by 47
Duration	29:14			32:01			32:19			29:26			2:03:00

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Rodney Eade

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

D. Howlett (#1)
S. McBurney
M. Vozzo (#2)
E: S. Jeffery (#29)

Umpire Replacements

S. Jeffery replaced D. Howlett.

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Mark Mercuri	ESSE	2	3
Blake Caracella	ESSE	33	2
Paul Barnard	ESSE	16	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	AhMat, Robbie	?	?	2	0	7	5	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
21	Barry, Leo	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
24	Bolton, Jude	?	?	0	0	21	15	6	3	0	4	2	2	4	0	3	6
8	Cresswell, Daryn	?	?	0	1	30	23	7	6	0	1	6	1	0	1	2	4
28	Crouch, Jared	?	?	0	1	20	13	7	0	0	2	8	0	2	0	0	5
15	Doyle, Stephen	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	0	15	1	1	4	1	2	0	0
6	Dunkley, Andrew	?	?	0	0	15	9	6	4	0	1	2	7	2	3	2	3
12	Fosdike, Nic	?	?	0	1	11	7	4	4	0	0	1	4	1	2	0	2
37	Goodes, Adam	?	?	1	5	16	13	3	5	7	2	3	1	2	1	1	3
31	Kirk, Brett	?	?	0	0	20	9	11	5	0	0	4	5	1	1	2	1
34	Luff, Troy	?	?	1	0	16	13	3	5	0	1	2	3	2	0	2	5
4	Mathews, Ben	?	?	0	0	19	13	6	6	0	2	1	2	3	0	7	3
11	Maxfield, Stuart	?	?	0	1	12	8	4	1	0	0	3	5	0	4	1	3
13	McPherson, Daniel	?	?	0	0	19	11	8	8	0	0	2	1	1	0	3	7
23	Nicks, Matthew	?	?	0	1	15	10	5	5	0	3	1	6	1	1	3	1
19	O'Loughlin, Michael	?	?	1	3	22	15	7	7	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	6
22	Saddington, Jason	?	?	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1
25	Schauble, Andrew	?	?	1	0	15	11	4	4	0	2	0	2	2	0	3	0
2	Schwass, Wayne	?	?	0	0	16	9	7	0	0	2	2	3	2	3	2	0
1	Stafford, Greg	?	?	0	0	5	2	3	0	7	1	1	2	0	1	0	1
33	Warfe, Rowan	?	?	0	0	4	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
10	Williams, Paul	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	1	0	0	1	3	1	2	4	3
Rushed					6
Total (22 players)				6	19	317	210	107	72	29	26	46	52	26	21	39	57

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	0	1	5	2	3	1	5	0	1	1	1	1	1	0
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	1	0	15	11	4	9	0	0	1	3	0	2	1	2
22	Barnes, John	?	?	0	1	17	12	5	3	18	0	5	0	3	0	3	3
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	1	0	8	4	4	3	0	2	1	2	0	1	2	0
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	3	0	25	14	11	4	0	0	3	2	2	0	0	6
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	18	13	5	4	1	0	2	2	0	0	9	2
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	11	4	7	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1
11	Hardwick, Damien	?	?	1	0	16	9	7	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	1
3	Henneman, Aaron	?	?	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	3
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	3	2	18	14	4	6	1	1	3	5	1	3	0	2
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	0	13	11	2	3	0	1	1	6	1	3	1	4
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	23	19	4	6	0	2	3	2	3	1	1	7
13	Long, Michael	?	?	0	0	14	8	6	2	0	1	1	2	0	2	0	5
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	1	1	20	14	6	7	0	4	3	2	2	0	2	5
4	McAlister, Daniel	?	?	0	1	5	2	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	1	0	12	9	3	3	0	1	0	2	2	1	3	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	2	2	21	12	9	3	0	2	2	7	0	4	1	3
45	Peverill, Damien	?	?	1	0	20	14	6	3	0	4	4	2	4	1	1	3
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	0	0	21	18	3	5	0	0	1	3	0	1	8	6
7	Solomon, Dean	?	?	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	0	0	3	1	3	2	2
21	Wallis, Dean	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	1	0	8	7	1	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				15	12	315	212	103	78	25	25	33	53	21	26	39	58

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	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	04:54
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	10:41
	ESSE	James Hird goal	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	11:23
	ESSE	Damien Hardwick goal	0.1.1	-	2.1.13	15:23
	SYDN	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	2.1.13	16:33
	SYDN	Jared Crouch behind	0.3.3	-	2.1.13	17:13
	ESSE	James Hird behind	0.3.3	-	2.2.14	18:18
	ESSE	Damien Peverill goal	0.3.3	-	3.2.20	20:17
	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.3.3	-	3.3.21	22:17
	SYDN	Troy Luff goal	1.3.9	-	3.3.21	23:43
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	1.4.10	-	3.3.21	25:54
	SYDN	Nic Fosdike behind	1.5.11	-	3.3.21	28:23
Q2	SYDN	Andrew Schauble goal	2.5.17	-	3.3.21	01:28
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	3.4.22	03:56
	ESSE	Sean Wellman goal	2.5.17	-	4.4.28	05:26
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	4.5.29	09:50
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	2.5.17	-	5.5.35	14:14
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	2.5.17	-	6.5.41	16:08
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	2.5.17	-	7.5.47	18:55
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	2.5.17	-	8.5.53	26:11
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	2.6.18	-	8.5.53	29:47
	ESSE	James Hird behind	2.6.18	-	8.6.54	30:42
Q3	ESSE	James Hird goal	2.6.18	-	9.6.60	02:02
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	2.6.18	-	10.6.66	03:41
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	2.6.18	-	11.6.72	05:12
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	2.7.19	-	11.6.72	06:25
	SYDN	Rushed behind	2.8.20	-	11.6.72	06:48
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	2.9.21	-	11.6.72	07:51
	ESSE	John Barnes behind	2.9.21	-	11.7.73	08:16
	SYDN	Rushed behind	2.10.22	-	11.7.73	10:06
	ESSE	James Hird goal	2.10.22	-	12.7.79	11:06
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	2.11.23	-	12.7.79	13:18
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	2.11.23	-	13.7.85	18:03
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	2.11.23	-	14.7.91	20:40
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	3.11.29	-	14.7.91	21:57
	SYDN	Rushed behind	3.12.30	-	14.7.91	25:14
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	3.12.30	-	14.8.92	25:51
	SYDN	Robbie AhMat goal	4.12.36	-	14.8.92	28:23
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	4.13.37	-	14.8.92	29:23
Q4	SYDN	Stuart Maxfield behind	4.14.38	-	14.8.92	02:22
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	4.15.39	-	14.8.92	03:22
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	4.15.39	-	14.9.93	04:34
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	4.15.39	-	14.10.94	07:01
	SYDN	Rushed behind	4.16.40	-	14.10.94	09:37
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	5.16.46	-	14.10.94	10:45
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	5.16.46	-	14.11.95	12:42
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks behind	5.17.47	-	14.11.95	16:09
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.18.48	-	14.11.95	17:13
	ESSE	Daniel McAlister behind	5.18.48	-	14.12.96	19:35
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	5.18.48	-	15.12.102	22:41
	SYDN	Robbie AhMat goal	6.18.54	-	15.12.102	27:35
	SYDN	Daryn Cresswell behind	6.19.55	-	15.12.102	28:58

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