2001 AFL Round 5: Essendon v Collingwood

This is the match report for the match played on 25 April 2001 between Essendon and Collingwood during round 5 of the 2001 AFL season. Essendon "hosted" Collingwood at MCG. James Hird captained the hosts. Nathan Buckley captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Mick Malthouse.

Essendon
J. Hird (capt.), S. Alessio, P. Barnard, J. Barnes, J. Blumfield, B. Caracella, D. Fletcher, R. Forster-Knight, D. Hardwick, A. Henneman, D. Jacobs, J. Johnson, M. Johnson, M. Lloyd, M. Long, S. Lucas, M. McVeigh, M. Mercuri, D. Peverill, A. Ramanauskas, D. Solomon, S. Wellman

Collingwood
N. Buckley (capt.), R. Betheras, J. Clement, L. Davis, N. Davis, A. Dimattina, J. Fraser, G. Freeborn, B. Holland, B. Johnson, P. Licuria, T. Lockyer, R. Lonie, J. Molloy, S. O'Bree, S. Prestigiacomo, M. Richardson, C. Rintoul, A. Rocca, C. Steinfort, C. Tarrant, S. Wakelin

Essendon (15.13.103) defeated Collingwood (14.11.95).

Goalkickers
Essendon: P. Barnard (4), J. Blumfield (2), M. McVeigh (2), M. Mercuri (2), B. Caracella, J. Hird, D. Jacobs, M. Lloyd, D. Solomon
Collingwood: C. Tarrant (5), T. Lockyer (3), R. Betheras (2), R. Lonie (2), N. Buckley, B. Holland

As a result of this match, Essendon remained 2nd on the ladder and Collingwood were then 8th on the ladder (down from 6th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Essendon v Collingwood
Date: Wednesday 25 April 2001
Time: 2:15 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 83,905

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Collingwood
Score: 15.13.103 - 14.11.95

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	5	.	4	9	.	6	13	.	8	15	.	13	15	.	13	(103)
Collingwood	3	.	5	10	.	5	13	.	7	14	.	11	14	.	11	(95)
Margin	ESSE by 11			COLL by 5			ESSE by 1			ESSE by 8			ESSE by 8
Duration	30:13			32:33			28:49			28:12			1:59:47

Honour Roll

Coaches: Kevin Sheedy (Essendon), Mick Malthouse (Collingwood)
Captains: James Hird (Essendon), Nathan Buckley (Collingwood)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: B. Allen (#10), D. Goldspink (#32), M. McKenzie (#24)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Shane O'Bree	COLL	11	3
Chris Tarrant	COLL	20	2
Paul Barnard	ESSE	16	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	0	0	12	7	5	2	23	2	4	3	0	2	0	5
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	4	1	15	10	5	5	0	2	1	3	0	1	1	2
22	Barnes, John	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	1	11	0	1	2	1	0	0	1
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	2	0	11	8	3	2	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	5
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	1	0	16	11	5	7	0	2	2	2	1	1	2	0
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	14	11	3	2	0	1	1	4	1	1	6	0
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
11	Hardwick, Damien	?	?	0	0	10	5	5	1	0	1	2	1	1	1	4	0
3	Henneman, Aaron	?	?	0	0	7	6	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	1	1	24	9	15	4	0	4	5	0	1	0	2	3
42	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	1	0	7	6	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	2	15	13	2	3	0	2	3	5	1	2	0	6
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0
18	Lloyd, Matthew	?	?	1	1	14	11	3	3	0	2	0	4	0	2	0	4
13	Long, Michael	?	?	0	1	7	4	3	3	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	0	2	9	6	3	4	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	5
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	2	0	13	9	4	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	2	1	20	10	10	7	0	4	2	2	1	1	1	4
45	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	0	8	6	2	1	0	5	2	1	2	0	1	1
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	0	0	18	12	6	1	0	2	1	3	1	1	2	3
7	Solomon, Dean	?	?	1	1	16	10	6	6	0	4	1	2	0	1	1	0
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	20	14	6	5	0	2	0	5	0	1	3	0
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				15	13	269	175	94	66	36	41	27	46	11	18	25	45

Collingwood

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Betheras, Rupert	?	?	2	0	16	9	7	3	0	2	4	3	2	0	0	2
5	Buckley, Nathan (c)	?	?	1	1	23	16	7	7	0	2	6	6	1	3	1	7
8	Clement, James	?	?	0	1	13	9	4	8	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	6
1	Davis, Leon	?	?	0	1	6	6	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
19	Davis, Nick	?	?	0	0	23	16	7	9	0	2	2	2	3	0	2	3
31	Dimattina, Andrew	?	?	0	0	5	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
25	Fraser, Josh	?	?	0	1	19	10	9	5	10	0	6	5	1	1	0	1
9	Freeborn, Glenn	?	?	0	0	12	11	1	7	0	2	1	3	0	2	1	0
6	Holland, Brodie	?	?	1	1	15	12	3	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	4
26	Johnson, Ben	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
18	Licuria, Paul	?	?	0	0	22	14	8	9	0	2	1	5	0	2	6	0
24	Lockyer, Tarkyn	?	?	3	0	18	12	6	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	3
37	Lonie, Ryan	?	?	2	0	13	11	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	1
7	Molloy, Jarrod	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	3	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	1
11	O'Bree, Shane	?	?	0	0	27	19	8	4	0	4	7	2	0	0	0	6
35	Prestigiacomo, Simon	?	?	0	0	5	2	3	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
3	Richardson, Mark	?	?	0	0	17	8	9	4	1	0	1	3	1	0	2	4
38	Rintoul, Chad	?	?	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Rocca, Anthony	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
15	Steinfort, Carl	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	2	0	2	0	3	1	2	0	1
20	Tarrant, Chris	?	?	5	1	13	12	1	9	0	2	1	2	2	1	0	5
14	Wakelin, Shane	?	?	0	0	16	13	3	8	0	1	2	0	1	0	5	0
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				14	11	292	202	90	104	14	27	36	43	18	11	26	48

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	Mark Mercuri goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	02:23
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	03:35
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	04:51
	COLL	Rushed behind	2.0.12	-	1.1.7	08:27
	COLL	Chad Rintoul behind	2.0.12	-	1.2.8	10:15
	COLL	Ryan Lonie goal	2.0.12	-	2.2.14	10:47
	COLL	Rushed behind	2.0.12	-	2.3.15	11:43
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	12:36
	COLL	James Clement behind	2.1.13	-	2.4.16	13:20
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	2.2.14	-	2.4.16	14:49
	ESSE	James Hird goal	3.2.20	-	2.4.16	15:13
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	4.2.26	-	2.4.16	16:06
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	4.3.27	-	2.4.16	18:38
	COLL	Nathan Buckley behind	4.3.27	-	2.5.17	20:37
	ESSE	Rushed behind	4.4.28	-	2.5.17	26:18
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	5.4.34	-	2.5.17	27:21
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	5.4.34	-	3.5.23	29:30
Q2	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.4.40	-	3.5.23	01:15
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	6.4.40	-	4.5.29	02:23
	COLL	Nathan Buckley goal	6.4.40	-	5.5.35	04:24
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	6.5.41	-	5.5.35	05:51
	COLL	Tarkyn Lockyer goal	6.5.41	-	6.5.41	07:59
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	7.5.47	-	6.5.41	12:44
	COLL	Rupert Betheras goal	7.5.47	-	7.5.47	13:50
	COLL	Brodie Holland goal	7.5.47	-	8.5.53	16:47
	COLL	Ryan Lonie goal	7.5.47	-	9.5.59	19:16
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	7.5.47	-	10.5.65	22:23
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	8.5.53	-	10.5.65	24:13
	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	8.6.54	-	10.5.65	28:46
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	9.6.60	-	10.5.65	32:31
Q3	COLL	Rushed behind	9.6.60	-	10.6.66	00:57
	ESSE	Danny Jacobs goal	10.6.66	-	10.6.66	01:55
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	10.6.66	-	11.6.72	04:35
	COLL	Tarkyn Lockyer goal	10.6.66	-	12.6.78	11:33
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.7.67	-	12.6.78	13:08
	COLL	Tarkyn Lockyer goal	10.7.67	-	13.6.84	14:11
	COLL	Chris Tarrant behind	10.7.67	-	13.7.85	15:35
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	11.7.73	-	13.7.85	19:27
	ESSE	Dean Solomon goal	12.7.79	-	13.7.85	23:32
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	13.7.85	-	13.7.85	25:14
	ESSE	James Hird behind	13.8.86	-	13.7.85	27:26
Q4	ESSE	Michael Long behind	13.9.87	-	13.7.85	02:11
	COLL	Leon Davis behind	13.9.87	-	13.8.86	03:41
	COLL	Brodie Holland behind	13.9.87	-	13.9.87	05:46
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	13.10.88	-	13.9.87	06:47
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	14.10.94	-	13.9.87	08:11
	ESSE	Rushed behind	14.11.95	-	13.9.87	10:03
	COLL	Rupert Betheras goal	14.11.95	-	14.9.93	18:36
	COLL	Rushed behind	14.11.95	-	14.10.94	19:44
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	15.11.101	-	14.10.94	21:27
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	15.12.102	-	14.10.94	23:25
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	15.13.103	-	14.10.94	25:59
	COLL	Josh Fraser behind	15.13.103	-	14.11.95	27:54

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