2001 AFL Season Round 5: Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 29 April 2001 between Melbourne and Sydney during round five of the 2001 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Sydney at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

Melbourne (18.11.119) defeated Sydney (15.14.104).

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Melbourne v Sydney
Date: Sunday 29 April 2001
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 31,168

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. Sydney
Score: 18.11.119 - 15.14.104

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	4	.	3	10	.	7	13	.	9	18	.	11	18	.	11	(119)
Sydney	5	.	4	6	.	9	10	.	12	15	.	14	15	.	14	(104)
Margin	SYDN by 7			MELB by 22			MELB by 15			MELB by 15			MELB by 15
Duration	30:37			31:05			30:02			30:36			2:02:20

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Rodney Eade

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. Avon
A. Coates (#6)
C. Rowe (#12)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
David Neitz	MELB	9	3
Jeff White	MELB	34	2
David Schwarz	MELB	5	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
25	Brown, Nathan	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Bruce, Cameron	?	?	0	0	9	5	4	2	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	4
28	Collins, Matthew	?	?	0	0	10	6	4	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	4	0
33	Farmer, Jeff	?	?	3	0	10	6	4	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
21	Febey, Steven	?	?	0	0	24	14	10	2	0	0	4	0	2	0	4	3
30	Godfrey, Simon	?	?	0	0	10	6	4	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
18	Green, Brad	?	?	0	2	9	4	5	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
4	Grgic, Brent	?	?	0	0	17	8	9	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	0
27	Ingerson, Anthony	?	?	0	0	9	1	8	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	0
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	?	?	0	0	23	18	5	3	1	5	6	2	0	2	1	5
35	McDonald, Anthony	?	?	0	0	10	6	4	2	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1
9	Neitz, David (c)	?	?	6	3	12	12	0	7	1	1	0	5	0	4	0	3
8	Nicholson, Alistair	?	?	0	0	8	1	7	4	1	0	1	3	0	1	0	0
43	Rigoni, Guy	?	?	0	0	24	16	8	8	0	1	3	3	1	2	3	3
24	Robertson, Russell	?	?	4	1	11	10	1	6	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
5	Schwarz, David	?	?	1	1	20	16	4	4	4	4	5	5	3	4	2	7
42	Walsh, Peter	?	?	0	0	16	6	10	5	0	5	0	2	0	0	2	0
10	Ward, Daniel	?	?	0	0	24	16	8	7	0	3	4	2	0	1	5	8
31	Wheatley, Paul	?	?	2	1	12	8	4	6	0	2	1	1	1	0	1	3
34	White, Jeff	?	?	0	0	13	9	4	1	26	0	1	2	1	1	0	3
22	Woewodin, Shane	?	?	0	1	17	11	6	2	0	1	4	3	2	2	1	3
13	Yze, Adem	?	?	2	1	23	18	5	2	0	1	6	2	1	0	1	7
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				18	11	311	197	114	80	33	29	40	40	15	20	30	57

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	AhMat, Robbie	?	?	1	0	10	4	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
27	Ball, Jason	?	?	1	1	12	10	2	5	6	0	0	3	0	1	0	2
42	Bennett, Gerrard	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
24	Bolton, Jude	?	?	1	0	20	11	9	3	0	1	4	2	2	0	3	2
8	Cresswell, Daryn	?	?	1	0	21	16	5	5	0	3	0	2	2	0	2	2
28	Crouch, Jared	?	?	0	1	26	11	15	4	0	3	4	0	1	0	2	2
6	Dunkley, Andrew	?	?	0	0	12	5	7	2	0	1	0	1	5	0	3	0
26	Feast, Simon	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	3	0	0
12	Fosdike, Nic	?	?	0	1	7	4	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	3
37	Goodes, Adam	?	?	2	0	16	12	4	5	8	2	4	3	3	2	3	4
31	Kirk, Brett	?	?	1	0	6	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
4	Mathews, Ben	?	?	0	0	19	14	5	7	0	1	1	0	1	0	5	0
11	Maxfield, Stuart	?	?	1	0	20	16	4	3	0	2	2	5	3	3	2	7
13	McPherson, Daniel	?	?	1	0	15	5	10	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	2	1
23	Nicks, Matthew	?	?	2	2	23	18	5	8	0	1	3	2	0	0	1	9
5	O'Keefe, Ryan	?	?	0	1	8	4	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
19	O'Loughlin, Michael	?	?	1	1	17	13	4	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
22	Saddington, Jason	?	?	0	1	13	9	4	2	1	2	0	2	1	1	1	4
25	Schauble, Andrew	?	?	0	0	10	4	6	4	2	4	0	2	1	2	1	1
2	Schwass, Wayne	?	?	0	0	24	17	7	6	0	1	2	1	0	1	7	3
20	Stevens, John	?	?	2	0	20	15	5	8	0	2	1	3	1	0	1	3
10	Williams, Paul	?	?	1	2	16	11	5	5	0	0	2	2	0	1	2	3
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				15	14	322	205	117	83	18	26	32	33	20	15	36	53

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	MELB	David Neitz goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:48
	MELB	David Neitz goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	02:24
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks behind	2.0.12	-	0.1.1	03:27
	MELB	David Neitz goal	3.0.18	-	0.1.1	07:31
	SYDN	Jason Ball goal	3.0.18	-	1.1.7	08:58
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	3.0.18	-	2.1.13	11:04
	MELB	David Neitz goal	4.0.24	-	2.1.13	12:43
	MELB	Shane Woewodin behind	4.1.25	-	2.1.13	13:38
	SYDN	Robbie AhMat goal	4.1.25	-	3.1.19	15:43
	SYDN	Daniel McPherson goal	4.1.25	-	4.1.25	16:42
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	4.2.26	-	4.1.25	18:32
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe behind	4.2.26	-	4.2.26	22:14
	SYDN	Rushed behind	4.2.26	-	4.3.27	22:53
	MELB	David Neitz behind	4.3.27	-	4.3.27	24:33
	SYDN	John Stevens goal	4.3.27	-	5.3.33	26:47
	SYDN	Rushed behind	4.3.27	-	5.4.34	29:26
Q2	MELB	Jeff Farmer goal	5.3.33	-	5.4.34	00:27
	MELB	Brad Green behind	5.4.34	-	5.4.34	02:13
	MELB	David Neitz behind	5.5.35	-	5.4.34	03:31
	MELB	Jeff Farmer goal	6.5.41	-	5.4.34	07:04
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	7.5.47	-	5.4.34	09:24
	SYDN	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	5.5.35	10:46
	MELB	Jeff Farmer goal	8.5.53	-	5.5.35	11:53
	SYDN	Rushed behind	8.5.53	-	5.6.36	13:25
	MELB	David Schwarz goal	9.5.59	-	5.6.36	15:37
	SYDN	Paul Williams behind	9.5.59	-	5.7.37	17:11
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	10.5.65	-	5.7.37	18:06
	MELB	David Schwarz behind	10.6.66	-	5.7.37	20:07
	MELB	Paul Wheatley behind	10.7.67	-	5.7.37	24:35
	SYDN	Jason Saddington behind	10.7.67	-	5.8.38	27:00
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	10.7.67	-	6.8.44	28:10
	SYDN	Paul Williams behind	10.7.67	-	6.9.45	31:04
Q3	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	10.7.67	-	6.10.46	00:54
	MELB	Brad Green behind	10.8.68	-	6.10.46	02:14
	SYDN	Stuart Maxfield goal	10.8.68	-	7.10.52	04:58
	SYDN	Paul Williams goal	10.8.68	-	8.10.58	05:55
	MELB	David Neitz goal	11.8.74	-	8.10.58	08:29
	SYDN	John Stevens goal	11.8.74	-	9.10.64	09:52
	MELB	Paul Wheatley goal	12.8.80	-	9.10.64	11:42
	SYDN	Jared Crouch behind	12.8.80	-	9.11.65	12:43
	MELB	Paul Wheatley goal	13.8.86	-	9.11.65	20:39
	MELB	Rushed behind	13.9.87	-	9.11.65	25:14
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	13.9.87	-	10.11.71	27:40
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks behind	13.9.87	-	10.12.72	30:01
Q4	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	14.9.93	-	10.12.72	00:46
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks goal	14.9.93	-	11.12.78	01:40
	SYDN	Nic Fosdike behind	14.9.93	-	11.13.79	04:42
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	14.10.94	-	11.13.79	05:59
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	14.10.94	-	12.13.85	08:29
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks goal	14.10.94	-	13.13.91	11:01
	SYDN	Daryn Cresswell goal	14.10.94	-	14.13.97	13:22
	SYDN	Brett Kirk goal	14.10.94	-	15.13.103	15:52
	SYDN	Jason Ball behind	14.10.94	-	15.14.104	17:44
	MELB	David Neitz behind	14.11.95	-	15.14.104	19:19
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	15.11.101	-	15.14.104	21:12
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	16.11.107	-	15.14.104	23:12
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	17.11.113	-	15.14.104	25:41
	MELB	David Neitz goal	18.11.119	-	15.14.104	26:53

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