2001 AFL Round 20: Collingwood v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 18 August 2001 between Collingwood and Essendon during round 20 of the 2001 AFL season. Collingwood hosted Essendon at MCG. Nathan Buckley captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mick Malthouse and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Collingwood
N. Buckley (capt.), S. Burns, J. Clement, L. Davis, N. Davis, A. Dimattina, J. Fraser, G. Freeborn, B. Holland, B. Kinnear, T. Lane, P. Licuria, T. Lockyer, R. Lonie, J. Molloy, S. O'Bree, S. Prestigiacomo, C. Rintoul, A. Rocca, C. Steinfort, C. Tarrant, S. Wakelin

Essendon
J. Hird (capt.), S. Alessio, P. Barnard, J. Barnes, M. Bolton, B. Caracella, D. Fletcher, R. Forster-Knight, D. Hardwick, C. Heffernan, D. Jacobs, J. Johnson, M. Johnson, S. Lucas, C. McGrath, M. McVeigh, M. Mercuri, J. Misiti, A. Ramanauskas, D. Rioli, D. Solomon, S. Wellman

Collingwood (13.9.87) were defeated by Essendon (15.17.107).

Goalkickers
Collingwood: A. Rocca (6), C. Tarrant (3), N. Davis (2), G. Freeborn, J. Molloy
Essendon: J. Hird (3), M. Johnson (3), S. Lucas (3), S. Alessio, M. Bolton, B. Caracella, M. McVeigh, M. Mercuri, D. Rioli

As a result of this match, Collingwood were then 9th on the ladder (down from 8th) and Essendon remained 1st on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: Collingwood v Essendon
Date: Saturday 18 August 2001
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 71,518

Match Results

Outcome: Collingwood def. by Essendon
Score: 13.9.87 - 15.17.107

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Collingwood	3	.	3	7	.	4	10	.	8	13	.	9	13	.	9	(87)
Essendon	4	.	7	5	.	12	9	.	14	15	.	17	15	.	17	(107)
Margin	ESSE by 10			COLL by 4			level			ESSE by 20			ESSE by 20
Duration	31:59			30:25			35:34			30:19			2:08:17

Honour Roll

Coaches: Mick Malthouse (Collingwood), Kevin Sheedy (Essendon)
Captains: Nathan Buckley (Collingwood), James Hird (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: B. Allen (#10), M. Ellis, H. Kennedy (#7)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Mark Johnson	ESSE	1	3
Anthony Rocca	COLL	23	2
Mark Mercuri	ESSE	2	1

Player Statistics

Collingwood

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
5	Buckley, Nathan (c)	?	?	0	1	30	18	12	6	0	4	7	1	2	1	2	8
17	Burns, Scott	?	?	0	0	27	9	18	5	0	3	5	3	1	1	3	5
8	Clement, James	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	5	0	1	0	2	0	0	4	0
1	Davis, Leon	?	?	0	1	5	5	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0	1	2
19	Davis, Nick	?	?	2	1	15	9	6	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2
31	Dimattina, Andrew	?	?	0	0	17	11	6	6	0	2	0	2	0	1	4	2
25	Fraser, Josh	?	?	0	0	12	8	4	2	7	1	4	3	1	0	1	2
9	Freeborn, Glenn	?	?	1	0	21	10	11	6	0	1	2	3	1	2	3	2
6	Holland, Brodie	?	?	0	0	9	6	3	1	0	3	1	2	0	0	2	2
28	Kinnear, Ben	?	?	0	0	17	9	8	4	0	3	4	2	0	2	1	1
33	Lane, Tyson	?	?	0	0	19	13	6	5	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	2
18	Licuria, Paul	?	?	0	0	36	21	15	12	0	1	1	3	0	0	8	4
24	Lockyer, Tarkyn	?	?	0	1	11	5	6	1	0	2	1	2	1	1	1	1
37	Lonie, Ryan	?	?	0	1	6	4	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
7	Molloy, Jarrod	?	?	1	0	11	5	6	2	0	5	1	2	1	1	0	2
11	O'Bree, Shane	?	?	0	0	17	9	8	2	0	3	4	3	1	1	0	3
35	Prestigiacomo, Simon	?	?	0	1	14	8	6	4	0	1	2	0	1	0	3	1
38	Rintoul, Chad	?	?	0	1	10	7	3	2	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	5
23	Rocca, Anthony	?	?	6	1	16	10	6	6	7	2	4	3	1	1	0	2
15	Steinfort, Carl	?	?	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
20	Tarrant, Chris	?	?	3	1	9	6	3	3	0	1	0	4	1	3	0	1
14	Wakelin, Shane	?	?	0	0	14	8	6	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				13	9	339	193	146	81	14	39	38	42	17	15	38	48

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	1	3	11	5	6	5	16	2	2	3	0	2	0	2
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
22	Barnes, John	?	?	0	0	6	2	4	1	8	1	2	1	0	0	2	1
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	1	1	9	6	3	2	0	2	1	1	2	1	1	2
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	1	1	20	15	5	9	0	2	2	3	0	1	0	5
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	13	13	0	2	1	2	1	2	1	0	6	0
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	12	3	9	1	0	4	3	1	0	0	0	1
11	Hardwick, Damien	?	?	0	0	20	8	12	4	0	1	2	5	0	1	3	1
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	0	0	8	4	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	3	1	14	10	4	6	1	3	1	2	2	0	0	0
42	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	3	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	1
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	0	20	15	5	5	0	5	4	6	0	2	1	5
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	3	0	21	16	5	2	0	4	2	4	3	1	1	4
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	3	0	13	11	2	5	1	1	0	2	0	1	1	4
28	McGrath, Cory	?	?	0	0	23	15	8	4	0	2	4	3	1	0	1	5
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	1	0	15	10	5	4	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	5
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	1	2	24	17	7	6	0	2	3	1	1	1	0	4
24	Misiti, Joe	?	?	0	1	25	15	10	5	0	3	2	8	1	3	3	4
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	0	1	13	7	6	6	0	4	2	2	0	1	0	4
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	1	0	8	4	4	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	4
7	Solomon, Dean	?	?	0	0	12	9	3	2	1	4	1	3	1	1	2	3
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	12	9	3	2	0	1	0	2	2	1	4	0
Rushed					7
Total (22 players)				15	17	307	199	108	76	30	51	38	52	15	17	26	57

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	Scott Lucas goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:50
	ESSE	Joe Misiti behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	02:28
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	03:19
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	0.0.0	-	2.2.14	04:39
	COLL	Nathan Buckley behind	0.1.1	-	2.2.14	05:54
	COLL	Nick Davis goal	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	07:11
	ESSE	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	2.3.15	09:35
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	1.1.7	-	3.3.21	10:57
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	1.1.7	-	4.3.27	17:08
	COLL	Jarrod Molloy goal	2.1.13	-	4.3.27	19:19
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	2.1.13	-	4.4.28	21:10
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	3.1.19	-	4.4.28	24:53
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	3.1.19	-	4.5.29	27:13
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	3.1.19	-	4.6.30	28:09
	COLL	Tarkyn Lockyer behind	3.2.20	-	4.6.30	29:53
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	4.7.31	30:49
	COLL	Leon Davis behind	3.3.21	-	4.7.31	31:58
Q2	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	4.3.27	-	4.7.31	00:58
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	4.3.27	-	5.7.37	05:08
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	5.3.33	-	5.7.37	08:04
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	6.3.39	-	5.7.37	10:34
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	6.3.39	-	5.8.38	13:36
	ESSE	Blake Caracella behind	6.3.39	-	5.9.39	14:31
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.3.39	-	5.10.40	16:51
	COLL	Glenn Freeborn goal	7.3.45	-	5.10.40	24:24
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	7.3.45	-	5.11.41	28:11
	COLL	Nick Davis behind	7.4.46	-	5.11.41	28:59
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.4.46	-	5.12.42	29:18
Q3	ESSE	James Hird behind	7.4.46	-	5.13.43	01:16
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	7.4.46	-	6.13.49	03:38
	COLL	Chris Tarrant behind	7.5.47	-	6.13.49	04:58
	COLL	Ryan Lonie behind	7.6.48	-	6.13.49	06:52
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	8.6.54	-	6.13.49	08:44
	ESSE	James Hird goal	8.6.54	-	7.13.55	11:31
	COLL	Simon Prestigiacomo behind	8.7.55	-	7.13.55	13:20
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	9.7.61	-	7.13.55	14:34
	ESSE	James Hird goal	9.7.61	-	8.13.61	18:11
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	9.7.61	-	9.13.67	19:44
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.7.61	-	9.14.68	21:18
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	10.7.67	-	9.14.68	29:40
	COLL	Anthony Rocca behind	10.8.68	-	9.14.68	35:33
Q4	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	10.8.68	-	10.14.74	01:41
	COLL	Chad Rintoul behind	10.9.69	-	10.14.74	02:39
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	10.9.69	-	11.14.80	06:10
	ESSE	James Hird goal	10.9.69	-	12.14.86	07:09
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	10.9.69	-	13.14.92	09:15
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	10.9.69	-	14.14.98	10:44
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.9.69	-	14.15.99	11:58
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	10.9.69	-	15.15.105	14:28
	COLL	Chris Tarrant goal	11.9.75	-	15.15.105	16:24
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	12.9.81	-	15.15.105	19:04
	ESSE	Rushed behind	12.9.81	-	15.16.106	20:42
	COLL	Nick Davis goal	13.9.87	-	15.16.106	24:08
	ESSE	Mark Bolton behind	13.9.87	-	15.17.107	28:27

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