2001 AFL Round 19: Essendon v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 12 August 2001 between Essendon and Sydney during round 19 of the 2001 AFL season. Essendon hosted Sydney at Colonial Stadium. Paul Kelly captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

Essendon
S. Alessio, J. Bannister, P. Barnard, M. Bolton, B. Caracella, D. Fletcher, R. Forster-Knight, D. Hardwick, C. Heffernan, A. Henneman, D. Hille, D. Jacobs, J. Johnson, J. Lalich, S. Lucas, C. McGrath, M. McVeigh, M. Mercuri, J. Misiti, G. Moorcroft, A. Ramanauskas, S. Wellman

Sydney
P. Kelly (capt.), J. Ball, J. Bolton, D. Cresswell, J. Crouch, A. Dunkley, S. Feast, B. Fixter, A. Goodes, B. Kirk, B. Mathews, S. Maxfield, D. McPherson, M. Nicks, R. O'Keefe, M. O'Loughlin, B. Piltz, J. Saddington, W. Schwass, B. Seymour, G. Stafford, P. Williams

Essendon (11.13.79) defeated Sydney (11.11.77).

Goalkickers
Essendon: S. Alessio (4), P. Barnard, B. Caracella, S. Lucas, M. Mercuri, J. Misiti, G. Moorcroft, A. Ramanauskas
Sydney: M. Nicks (3), J. Ball, J. Bolton, A. Goodes, S. Maxfield, D. McPherson, M. O'Loughlin, G. Stafford, P. Williams

As a result of this match, Essendon remained 1st on the ladder and Sydney remained 7th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 19
Teams: Essendon v Sydney
Date: Sunday 12 August 2001
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Colonial Stadium
Attendance: 45,057

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Sydney
Score: 11.13.79 - 11.11.77

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 1 . 3 2 . 8 5 . 11 11 . 13 11 . 13 (79)
Sydney 2 . 5 7 . 6 9 . 8 11 . 11 11 . 11 (77)
Margin SYDN by 8 SYDN by 28 SYDN by 21 ESSE by 2 ESSE by 2
Duration 28:49 28:37 28:52 31:39 1:57:57

Honour Roll

Coaches: Kevin Sheedy (Essendon), Rodney Eade (Sydney)
Captains: unknown (Essendon), Paul Kelly (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: G. Dore (#19), H. Kennedy (#7), S. Wenn

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Paul Kelly SYDN 14 3
Matthew Nicks SYDN 23 2
Blake Caracella ESSE 33 1

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
27 Alessio, Steven ? ? 4 1 10 6 4 4 21 3 2 3 0 0 1 0
36 Bannister, Jordan ? ? 0 0 9 1 8 2 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 1
16 Barnard, Paul ? ? 1 1 16 11 5 8 1 1 1 6 1 2 0 1
23 Bolton, Mark ? ? 0 0 15 10 5 5 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 2
33 Caracella, Blake ? ? 1 0 29 14 15 8 0 2 6 5 2 0 0 4
31 Fletcher, Dustin ? ? 0 0 20 16 4 5 0 0 0 2 1 0 7 3
15 Forster-Knight, Robert ? ? 0 0 10 5 5 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2
11 Hardwick, Damien ? ? 0 0 28 16 12 8 0 3 3 3 4 1 7 3
26 Heffernan, Chris ? ? 0 1 9 3 6 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1
3 Henneman, Aaron ? ? 0 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0
34 Hille, David ? ? 0 0 3 2 1 2 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
42 Jacobs, Danny ? ? 0 0 15 7 8 4 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 1
14 Johnson, Jason ? ? 0 1 31 18 13 4 0 3 4 5 2 1 1 6
17 Lalich, Judd ? ? 0 0 2 2 0 1 5 0 0 2 0 1 1 0
25 Lucas, Scott ? ? 1 2 18 15 3 7 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 7
28 McGrath, Cory ? ? 0 0 8 5 3 3 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 2
10 McVeigh, Mark ? ? 0 1 13 10 3 5 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 4
2 Mercuri, Mark ? ? 1 0 21 11 10 6 2 1 3 3 0 2 0 2
24 Misiti, Joe ? ? 1 0 21 12 9 1 0 1 5 2 0 0 1 4
29 Moorcroft, Gary ? ? 1 0 7 7 0 1 0 2 3 1 0 1 0 1
9 Ramanauskas, Adam ? ? 1 2 20 13 7 4 2 4 2 3 1 1 1 3
6 Wellman, Sean ? ? 0 0 25 18 7 7 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 6
Rushed 4
Total (22 players) 11 13 333 205 128 88 37 34 41 45 15 10 30 53

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
27 Ball, Jason ? ? 1 1 25 8 17 3 17 1 10 1 1 0 1 2
24 Bolton, Jude ? ? 1 1 21 17 4 8 0 2 3 3 1 1 1 5
8 Cresswell, Daryn ? ? 0 1 21 14 7 6 0 2 2 5 0 1 1 3
28 Crouch, Jared ? ? 0 0 11 5 6 0 0 3 3 1 0 0 1 0
6 Dunkley, Andrew ? ? 0 0 13 6 7 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0
26 Feast, Simon ? ? 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
40 Fixter, Ben ? ? 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
37 Goodes, Adam ? ? 1 1 12 10 2 6 1 2 1 3 0 1 2 3
14 Kelly, Paul (c) ? ? 0 2 21 16 5 11 0 7 3 6 1 3 3 5
31 Kirk, Brett ? ? 0 0 11 6 5 3 0 5 3 1 0 1 1 2
4 Mathews, Ben ? ? 0 0 11 7 4 4 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0
11 Maxfield, Stuart ? ? 1 0 15 11 4 3 0 2 1 5 0 2 2 6
13 McPherson, Daniel ? ? 1 0 19 15 4 4 0 2 0 3 1 0 2 6
23 Nicks, Matthew ? ? 3 1 7 6 1 2 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 2
5 O'Keefe, Ryan ? ? 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
19 O'Loughlin, Michael ? ? 1 0 15 11 4 6 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 3
43 Piltz, Brent ? ? 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
22 Saddington, Jason ? ? 0 0 14 10 4 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 2
2 Schwass, Wayne ? ? 0 0 23 15 8 4 0 4 2 4 0 0 6 1
7 Seymour, Brad ? ? 0 0 17 10 7 8 0 5 4 2 2 1 6 1
1 Stafford, Greg ? ? 1 0 3 2 1 1 3 0 1 1 2 1 1 0
10 Williams, Paul ? ? 1 2 22 18 4 7 0 1 1 1 1 0 3 5
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 11 11 290 189 101 85 25 42 38 48 10 14 39 47

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 SYDN Adam Goodes behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 03:22
SYDN Jason Ball behind 0.0.0 - 0.2.2 05:41
ESSE Chris Heffernan behind 0.1.1 - 0.2.2 10:37
ESSE Rushed behind 0.2.2 - 0.2.2 12:25
SYDN Jude Bolton goal 0.2.2 - 1.2.8 18:16
SYDN Daniel McPherson goal 0.2.2 - 2.2.14 19:18
ESSE Joe Misiti goal 1.2.8 - 2.2.14 20:25
ESSE Rushed behind 1.3.9 - 2.2.14 22:19
SYDN Jude Bolton behind 1.3.9 - 2.3.15 24:47
SYDN Matthew Nicks behind 1.3.9 - 2.4.16 27:00
SYDN Paul Kelly behind 1.3.9 - 2.5.17 28:48
Q2 SYDN Paul Kelly behind 1.3.9 - 2.6.18 00:33
SYDN Matthew Nicks goal 1.3.9 - 3.6.24 01:10
ESSE Jason Johnson behind 1.4.10 - 3.6.24 05:05
ESSE Steven Alessio goal 2.4.16 - 3.6.24 08:20
SYDN Greg Stafford goal 2.4.16 - 4.6.30 10:03
ESSE Steven Alessio behind 2.5.17 - 4.6.30 13:11
SYDN Stuart Maxfield goal 2.5.17 - 5.6.36 13:50
ESSE Scott Lucas behind 2.6.18 - 5.6.36 15:15
SYDN Matthew Nicks goal 2.6.18 - 6.6.42 17:45
SYDN Jason Ball goal 2.6.18 - 7.6.48 19:39
ESSE Paul Barnard behind 2.7.19 - 7.6.48 21:37
ESSE Scott Lucas behind 2.8.20 - 7.6.48 24:42
Q3 ESSE Adam Ramanauskas behind 2.9.21 - 7.6.48 02:10
ESSE Mark McVeigh behind 2.10.22 - 7.6.48 04:40
SYDN Paul Williams behind 2.10.22 - 7.7.49 09:45
SYDN Daryn Cresswell behind 2.10.22 - 7.8.50 11:32
ESSE Rushed behind 2.11.23 - 7.8.50 11:57
ESSE Steven Alessio goal 3.11.29 - 7.8.50 14:47
SYDN Adam Goodes goal 3.11.29 - 8.8.56 16:28
ESSE Scott Lucas goal 4.11.35 - 8.8.56 21:15
SYDN Matthew Nicks goal 4.11.35 - 9.8.62 22:06
ESSE Adam Ramanauskas goal 5.11.41 - 9.8.62 27:41
Q4 SYDN Paul Williams goal 5.11.41 - 10.8.68 01:33
SYDN Rushed behind 5.11.41 - 10.9.69 04:05
ESSE Blake Caracella goal 6.11.47 - 10.9.69 07:56
ESSE Mark Mercuri goal 7.11.53 - 10.9.69 09:16
SYDN Michael O'Loughlin goal 7.11.53 - 11.9.75 14:30
ESSE Gary Moorcroft goal 8.11.59 - 11.9.75 16:43
ESSE Adam Ramanauskas behind 8.12.60 - 11.9.75 17:37
ESSE Paul Barnard goal 9.12.66 - 11.9.75 19:36
SYDN Rushed behind 9.12.66 - 11.10.76 21:09
ESSE Steven Alessio goal 10.12.72 - 11.10.76 24:17
ESSE Rushed behind 10.13.73 - 11.10.76 27:23
SYDN Paul Williams behind 10.13.73 - 11.11.77 28:48
ESSE Steven Alessio goal 11.13.79 - 11.11.77 31:01