2001 AFL Season Round 8: Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 20 May 2001 between Melbourne and Essendon during round eight of the 2001 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Essendon at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Melbourne (11.13.79) were defeated by Essendon (12.13.85).

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Sunday 20 May 2001
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 47,452

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 11.13.79 - 12.13.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	3	.	3	3	.	7	7	.	11	11	.	13	11	.	13	(79)
Essendon	2	.	1	5	.	4	9	.	9	12	.	13	12	.	13	(85)
Margin	MELB by 8			ESSE by 9			ESSE by 10			ESSE by 6			ESSE by 6
Duration	28:50			26:15			33:07			30:12			1:58:24

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 (Essendon) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

A. Coates (#6)
C. Mitchell (#4)
M. Vozzo (#2)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jason Johnson	ESSE	14	3
Sean Wellman	ESSE	6	2
Adem Yze	MELB	13	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
20	Broadbridge, Troy	?	?	1	0	4	4	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
25	Brown, Nathan	?	?	1	0	15	12	3	5	0	0	3	2	0	1	2	5
32	Bruce, Cameron	?	?	0	3	14	11	3	4	0	2	0	1	1	1	3	3
21	Febey, Steven	?	?	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
30	Godfrey, Simon	?	?	0	0	14	8	6	5	1	3	4	2	0	1	1	4
18	Green, Brad	?	?	3	2	7	5	2	4	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0
4	Grgic, Brent	?	?	0	0	18	12	6	5	0	2	0	4	1	0	0	3
27	Ingerson, Anthony	?	?	0	0	9	3	6	5	1	0	0	2	0	1	5	0
16	Johnstone, Travis	?	?	0	0	4	3	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
35	McDonald, Anthony	?	?	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	2
23	McDonald, James	?	?	0	0	19	14	5	6	0	5	2	1	2	0	0	4
9	Neitz, David (c)	?	?	3	0	10	8	2	4	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	3
8	Nicholson, Alistair	?	?	0	0	8	3	5	3	9	3	1	2	0	0	1	1
43	Rigoni, Guy	?	?	0	0	17	11	6	7	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	6
24	Robertson, Russell	?	?	1	2	18	15	3	6	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	4
5	Schwarz, David	?	?	0	0	20	13	7	6	1	1	4	7	1	3	1	6
10	Ward, Daniel	?	?	0	0	20	11	9	1	0	4	4	4	0	2	0	3
31	Wheatley, Paul	?	?	0	0	9	8	1	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	2
45	Whelan, Matthew	?	?	0	0	23	17	6	9	0	3	2	0	4	0	3	3
34	White, Jeff	?	?	0	0	9	5	4	2	13	0	0	4	1	1	0	1
22	Woewodin, Shane	?	?	0	0	22	14	8	4	0	2	4	1	0	1	4	1
13	Yze, Adem	?	?	2	1	23	23	0	5	0	1	6	3	0	1	1	3
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				11	13	297	207	90	94	25	37	33	44	13	18	27	56

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	0	0	14	5	9	1	0	2	4	3	1	1	0	2
22	Barnes, John	?	?	0	0	9	6	3	4	15	0	1	1	2	0	1	1
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	0	1	13	8	5	4	1	2	4	2	3	1	1	6
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	1	0	9	3	6	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	0	0	6	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	19	13	6	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	5	1
11	Hardwick, Damien	?	?	0	0	18	9	9	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	5	1
3	Henneman, Aaron	?	?	0	0	6	5	1	2	0	2	1	1	1	0	1	0
34	Hille, David	?	?	0	0	3	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	4	0	16	13	3	6	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	5
42	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	15	11	4	5	1	7	3	1	0	0	6	1
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	1	1	26	16	10	5	0	5	8	2	2	1	3	5
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	13	11	2	5	0	2	1	2	0	0	6	0
18	Lloyd, Matthew	?	?	3	3	14	12	2	7	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	1	2	16	13	3	7	0	2	0	3	0	2	2	3
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	0	4	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
29	Moorcroft, Gary	?	?	0	0	15	10	5	2	0	1	1	1	2	1	0	1
45	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	1	14	6	8	5	0	4	2	3	1	2	3	2
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	0	0	21	14	7	9	3	4	1	7	0	1	3	5
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	2	0	16	14	2	6	0	2	3	5	1	2	0	3
7	Solomon, Dean	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	1
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	1	20	11	9	5	0	1	0	2	2	0	2	3
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				12	13	294	192	102	90	23	44	30	43	18	13	39	46

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	Matthew Lloyd behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:39
	MELB	Brad Green goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	06:05
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	09:48
	MELB	Brad Green goal	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	12:07
	MELB	Brad Green behind	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	16:55
	MELB	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	0.1.1	20:43
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	2.3.15	-	1.1.7	23:19
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	2.3.15	-	2.1.13	24:59
	MELB	David Neitz goal	3.3.21	-	2.1.13	27:55
Q2	MELB	Adem Yze behind	3.4.22	-	2.1.13	01:24
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	2.2.14	01:53
	ESSE	James Hird goal	3.4.22	-	3.2.20	05:07
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.5.23	-	3.2.20	07:55
	ESSE	James Hird goal	3.5.23	-	4.2.26	09:31
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	3.5.23	-	4.3.27	11:31
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	3.5.23	-	4.4.28	12:50
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	3.5.23	-	5.4.34	13:43
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.6.24	-	5.4.34	19:28
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	3.7.25	-	5.4.34	25:34
Q3	MELB	Adem Yze goal	4.7.31	-	5.4.34	03:35
	ESSE	James Hird goal	4.7.31	-	6.4.40	04:30
	MELB	David Neitz goal	5.7.37	-	6.4.40	05:52
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	5.7.37	-	6.5.41	07:41
	ESSE	James Hird goal	5.7.37	-	7.5.47	08:38
	MELB	Brad Green goal	6.7.43	-	7.5.47	10:38
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield behind	6.7.43	-	7.6.48	12:20
	MELB	Brad Green behind	6.8.44	-	7.6.48	13:51
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.8.44	-	8.6.54	15:23
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.8.44	-	8.7.55	17:26
	MELB	Rushed behind	6.9.45	-	8.7.55	19:14
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	6.9.45	-	8.8.56	20:36
	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	6.10.46	-	8.8.56	22:34
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.10.46	-	8.9.57	24:12
	MELB	Troy Broadbridge goal	7.10.52	-	8.9.57	25:41
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	7.10.52	-	9.9.63	29:02
	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	7.11.53	-	9.9.63	31:34
Q4	MELB	David Neitz goal	8.11.59	-	9.9.63	03:16
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	8.11.59	-	10.9.69	08:10
	ESSE	Rushed behind	8.11.59	-	10.10.70	10:05
	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	8.12.60	-	10.10.70	11:12
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	8.12.60	-	11.10.76	12:23
	ESSE	Sean Wellman behind	8.12.60	-	11.11.77	16:17
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	8.12.60	-	11.12.78	18:54
	ESSE	Damien Peverill behind	8.12.60	-	11.13.79	19:31
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	8.13.61	-	11.13.79	21:10
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	8.13.61	-	12.13.85	22:04
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	9.13.67	-	12.13.85	23:55
	MELB	Nathan Brown goal	10.13.73	-	12.13.85	25:45
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	11.13.79	-	12.13.85	28:29

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