2001 AFL Season Round 18: Geelong v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 4 August 2001 between Geelong and Melbourne during round eighteen of the 2001 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong "hosted" Melbourne at the MCG. Ben Graham captained the hosts. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mark Thompson and the visitors were coached by Neale Daniher.

Geelong (15.10.100) were defeated by Melbourne (16.7.103).

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Geelong v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 4 August 2001
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 31,074

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. by Melbourne
Score: 15.10.100 - 16.7.103

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	5	.	3	9	.	6	10	.	7	15	.	10	15	.	10	(100)
Melbourne	4	.	1	7	.	3	12	.	6	16	.	7	16	.	7	(103)
Margin	GEEL by 8			GEEL by 15			MELB by 11			MELB by 3			MELB by 3
Duration	32:55			29:48			29:32			33:29			2:05:44

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: Ben Graham
Coach: Mark Thompson

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Kelsey (#15)
K. Nicholls
S. Wenn

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Russell Robertson	MELB	24	3
James McDonald	MELB	23	2
Ben Graham	GEEL	7	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Bizzell, Clint	?	?	0	1	12	6	6	1	0	1	2	5	0	1	0	3
8	Burns, Ronnie	?	?	2	0	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
14	Clarke, David	?	?	0	0	18	10	8	3	1	3	2	1	4	0	0	4
11	Corey, Joel	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
44	Enright, Corey	?	?	0	0	16	10	6	5	0	2	4	2	0	0	0	2
7	Graham, Ben (c)	?	?	5	3	18	11	7	10	5	0	1	2	1	0	0	7
37	Harley, Tom	?	?	0	0	14	6	8	5	0	4	1	2	1	0	4	0
32	Hocking, Garry	?	?	0	1	12	4	8	3	0	5	1	3	3	2	0	2
13	Kilpatrick, Glenn	?	?	0	1	23	16	7	2	0	1	3	3	1	1	1	4
1	King, Steven	?	?	0	0	9	7	2	1	16	2	4	1	1	1	1	1
18	Kingsley, Kent	?	?	4	1	12	9	3	6	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	3
45	Ling, Cameron	?	?	1	1	5	5	0	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	2
17	McGrath, Tim	?	?	0	0	17	6	11	2	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	1
31	Mensch, David	?	?	0	0	3	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1
39	Milburn, Darren	?	?	0	0	17	10	7	5	0	0	2	0	1	0	5	1
34	Rahilly, James	?	?	0	0	14	6	8	1	0	1	3	1	1	1	2	3
15	Riccardi, Peter	?	?	1	0	18	12	6	1	0	5	3	3	0	0	0	3
27	Sanderson, Brenton	?	?	1	0	22	17	5	7	1	3	1	3	1	1	9	2
30	Scarlett, Matthew	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	7	0
12	Sholl, Brad	?	?	0	0	14	7	7	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	3	0
6	Spriggs, David	?	?	0	0	14	8	6	4	0	2	4	3	3	2	0	5
19	White, Mitchell	?	?	1	1	9	4	5	1	0	1	0	3	0	3	0	2
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				15	10	288	169	119	68	28	37	36	43	22	14	33	46

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
20	Broadbridge, Troy	?	?	0	0	10	2	8	2	1	1	1	2	0	1	1	0
32	Bruce, Cameron	?	?	1	1	12	7	5	3	1	4	2	3	1	0	1	5
33	Farmer, Jeff	?	?	2	0	16	9	7	1	0	5	3	6	1	2	0	2
21	Febey, Steven	?	?	2	0	25	13	12	4	2	4	4	0	0	0	1	5
18	Green, Brad	?	?	3	1	10	6	4	2	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1
4	Grgic, Brent	?	?	0	0	15	7	8	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	?	?	1	0	23	16	7	8	0	7	4	4	2	2	0	6
35	McDonald, Anthony	?	?	0	1	23	12	11	4	1	7	5	4	0	3	4	7
23	McDonald, James	?	?	1	1	24	18	6	5	0	2	5	1	1	1	4	3
9	Neitz, David (c)	?	?	0	0	16	11	5	4	3	0	0	4	2	1	5	1
8	Nicholson, Alistair	?	?	0	0	6	2	4	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
24	Robertson, Russell	?	?	5	3	17	14	3	5	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	3
5	Schwarz, David	?	?	0	0	20	10	10	2	16	4	8	2	1	0	2	5
11	Simmonds, Troy	?	?	0	0	11	4	7	4	14	0	2	2	1	1	0	2
6	Thompson, Scott	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
42	Walsh, Peter	?	?	1	0	14	6	8	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	1
10	Ward, Daniel	?	?	0	0	8	1	7	1	0	6	0	3	1	3	3	0
31	Wheatley, Paul	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	2
34	White, Jeff	?	?	0	0	12	8	4	4	10	3	2	0	0	0	0	2
26	Williams, Luke	?	?	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
22	Woewodin, Shane	?	?	0	0	18	6	12	2	1	2	2	5	1	5	1	0
13	Yze, Adem	?	?	0	0	23	19	4	2	0	2	6	1	1	1	3	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				16	7	309	174	135	64	51	53	50	43	14	22	29	50

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	GEEL	Ronnie Burns goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	03:06
	MELB	Brad Green goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	07:20
	GEEL	Mitchell White goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	08:59
	GEEL	Ben Graham behind	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	13:51
	GEEL	Ronnie Burns goal	3.1.19	-	1.0.6	16:02
	GEEL	Glenn Kilpatrick behind	3.2.20	-	1.0.6	16:55
	GEEL	Ben Graham goal	4.2.26	-	1.0.6	19:07
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	4.2.26	-	1.1.7	21:13
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	4.2.26	-	2.1.13	24:31
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	4.2.26	-	3.1.19	25:58
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	5.2.32	-	3.1.19	28:10
	MELB	Steven Febey goal	5.2.32	-	4.1.25	29:38
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	5.3.33	-	4.1.25	32:54
Q2	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	5.3.33	-	4.2.26	00:54
	GEEL	Ben Graham goal	6.3.39	-	4.2.26	02:23
	GEEL	Ben Graham goal	7.3.45	-	4.2.26	07:08
	MELB	Jeff Farmer goal	7.3.45	-	5.2.32	08:43
	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	7.3.45	-	5.3.33	10:58
	GEEL	Brenton Sanderson goal	8.3.51	-	5.3.33	13:32
	GEEL	Ben Graham behind	8.4.52	-	5.3.33	14:37
	GEEL	Garry Hocking behind	8.5.53	-	5.3.33	16:16
	MELB	Jeff Farmer goal	8.5.53	-	6.3.39	19:42
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	8.5.53	-	7.3.45	24:08
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	9.5.59	-	7.3.45	27:34
	GEEL	Rushed behind	9.6.60	-	7.3.45	29:10
Q3	MELB	Brad Green goal	9.6.60	-	8.3.51	03:33
	GEEL	Ben Graham goal	10.6.66	-	8.3.51	04:42
	GEEL	Ben Graham behind	10.7.67	-	8.3.51	07:08
	MELB	Peter Walsh goal	10.7.67	-	9.3.57	10:26
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	10.7.67	-	10.3.63	11:46
	MELB	Steven Febey goal	10.7.67	-	11.3.69	16:03
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	10.7.67	-	11.4.70	17:43
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	10.7.67	-	12.4.76	20:22
	MELB	Anthony McDonald behind	10.7.67	-	12.5.77	22:11
	MELB	James McDonald behind	10.7.67	-	12.6.78	23:56
Q4	MELB	Brad Green goal	10.7.67	-	13.6.84	00:52
	MELB	Brad Green behind	10.7.67	-	13.7.85	03:12
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	11.7.73	-	13.7.85	04:09
	MELB	Andrew Leoncelli goal	11.7.73	-	14.7.91	07:07
	MELB	James McDonald goal	11.7.73	-	15.7.97	08:42
	GEEL	Mitchell White behind	11.8.74	-	15.7.97	12:15
	GEEL	Cameron Ling goal	12.8.80	-	15.7.97	13:35
	GEEL	Cameron Ling behind	12.9.81	-	15.7.97	15:17
	GEEL	Peter Riccardi goal	13.9.87	-	15.7.97	17:09
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	13.9.87	-	16.7.103	21:29
	GEEL	Ben Graham goal	14.9.93	-	16.7.103	23:33
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	15.9.99	-	16.7.103	24:39
	GEEL	Clint Bizzell behind	15.10.100	-	16.7.103	27:47

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