2001 AFL Round 5: Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 29 April 2001 between Melbourne and Sydney during round 5 of the 2001 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Sydney at MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

Melbourne
D. Neitz (capt.), N. Brown, C. Bruce, M. Collins, J. Farmer, S. Febey, S. Godfrey, B. Green, B. Grgic, A. Ingerson, A. Leoncelli, A. McDonald, A. Nicholson, G. Rigoni, R. Robertson, D. Schwarz, P. Walsh, D. Ward, P. Wheatley, J. White, S. Woewodin, A. Yze

Sydney
R. AhMat, J. Ball, G. Bennett, J. Bolton, D. Cresswell, J. Crouch, A. Dunkley, S. Feast, N. Fosdike, A. Goodes, B. Kirk, B. Mathews, S. Maxfield, D. McPherson, M. Nicks, R. O'Keefe, M. O'Loughlin, J. Saddington, A. Schauble, W. Schwass, J. Stevens, P. Williams

Melbourne (18.11.119) defeated Sydney (15.14.104).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: D. Neitz (6), R. Robertson (4), J. Farmer (3), P. Wheatley (2), A. Yze (2), D. Schwarz
Sydney: A. Goodes (2), M. Nicks (2), J. Stevens (2), R. AhMat, J. Ball, J. Bolton, D. Cresswell, B. Kirk, S. Maxfield, D. McPherson, M. O'Loughlin, P. Williams

As a result of this match, Melbourne were then 7th on the ladder (up from 11th) and Sydney were then 5th on the ladder (down from 3rd) by the end of the round.

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

Honour Roll

Coaches: Neale Daniher (Melbourne), Rodney Eade (Sydney)
Captains: David Neitz (Melbourne), unknown (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: 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