2002 AFL Season Elimination Final 2: Melbourne v Kangaroos

This is the match report for the match played on 8 September 2002 between Melbourne and the Kangaroos in the second elimination final of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted the Kangaroos at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Denis Pagan.

Melbourne (18.14.122) defeated the Kangaroos (11.18.84).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Second Elimination Final
Teams: Melbourne v Kangaroos
Date: Sunday 8 September 2002
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 53,967

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. Kangaroos
Score: 18.14.122 - 11.18.84

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	2	.	2	9	.	5	11	.	10	18	.	14	18	.	14	(122)
Kangaroos	3	.	4	5	.	8	7	.	11	11	.	18	11	.	18	(84)
Margin	KANG by 8			MELB by 21			MELB by 23			MELB by 38			MELB by 38
Duration	27:15			31:23			28:48			34:32			2:01:58

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 (Kangaroos) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Kangaroos

Captain: unknown
Coach: Denis Pagan

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. Ellis
S. McBurney
S. McLaren (#11)

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
2	Armstrong, Steven	WL	?	1	1	19	8	11	6	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	4
3	Bizzell, Clint	CHB	?	0	0	18	12	6	2	0	3	2	3	2	0	5	3
25	Brown, Nathan	HBFL	?	0	0	25	14	11	8	0	1	1	2	0	0	5	2
32	Bruce, Cameron	BPR	?	1	0	19	14	5	6	0	3	2	3	2	1	3	1
30	Godfrey, Simon	RO	?	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	4
18	Green, Brad	FPR	?	2	0	16	11	5	6	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	4
16	Johnstone, Travis	WR	?	1	1	18	14	4	3	0	2	3	2	2	1	1	5
11	Jolly, Darren	CHF	?	0	0	9	4	5	3	8	1	2	0	1	0	2	1
29	Lamb, Chris	FB	?	0	0	8	5	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	INT	?	0	0	11	4	7	1	0	0	4	5	1	2	0	0
23	McDonald, James	INT	?	0	0	14	5	9	2	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	2
9	Neitz, David (c)	FF	?	2	3	9	5	4	4	3	1	0	2	1	1	0	0
7	Powell, Stephen	HFFR	?	0	1	10	5	5	4	1	4	2	1	0	0	1	5
24	Robertson, Russell	FPL	?	3	1	11	6	5	4	2	1	2	1	1	1	0	1
19	Vardy, Peter	HFFL	?	5	1	11	10	1	3	0	4	2	2	1	1	0	2
42	Walsh, Peter	HBFR	?	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	4	1	1	0	0	1	2
10	Ward, Daniel	INT	?	0	1	15	7	8	4	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	3
31	Wheatley, Paul	BPL	?	0	0	13	4	9	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	2
34	White, Jeff	RU	?	0	0	15	10	5	3	25	1	3	1	2	0	3	1
26	Williams, Luke	INT	?	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	5	0	1	0	1	0	2
22	Woewodin, Shane	C	?	1	1	20	11	9	1	1	3	5	1	0	1	2	4
13	Yze, Adem	RR	?	2	2	31	27	4	7	0	3	4	2	0	1	3	10
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				18	14	315	188	127	78	40	51	40	34	13	13	32	59

Kangaroos

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
11	Archer, Glenn	FPR	?	0	0	14	9	5	3	0	2	2	0	1	0	2	0
12	Blakey, John	BPR	?	0	0	13	7	6	5	0	4	3	3	0	1	6	0
22	Burton, Matthew	RU	?	0	1	17	8	9	6	24	1	2	1	0	1	3	2
45	Cochrane, Stuart	INT	?	1	0	8	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2	Colbert, Leigh	CHB	?	0	0	14	11	3	5	0	3	1	2	1	1	5	0
6	Grant, Shannon	WL	?	0	2	18	10	8	2	0	1	3	1	0	1	1	5
39	Harding, Leigh	FPL	?	2	3	9	8	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	2
29	Harvey, Brent	C	?	1	0	18	13	5	1	0	0	5	2	0	1	3	3
21	Jones, Corey	HFFL	?	0	1	7	4	3	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	1
34	King, David	WR	?	0	2	16	9	7	2	0	1	3	1	1	0	1	5
35	Makepeace, Troy	BPL	?	1	1	24	19	5	7	0	1	1	2	3	0	6	7
4	Martyn, Mick	FB	?	0	0	6	4	2	1	0	0	0	4	0	1	3	0
32	Morrell, Digby	CHF	?	1	2	5	3	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1
20	Petrie, Drew	INT	?	1	0	8	5	3	2	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	3
28	Pickett, Byron	HFFR	?	2	2	10	8	2	4	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	4
17	Porter, Mark	INT	?	0	0	8	6	2	2	7	1	3	1	1	0	1	3
3	Rawlings, Brady	INT	?	0	0	10	7	3	2	0	1	1	3	1	0	0	3
30	Robbins, Ben	RR	?	1	0	14	6	8	1	0	4	2	1	1	1	0	2
26	Rocca, Sav	FF	?	1	1	11	8	3	7	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	5
7	Simpson, Adam	RO	?	0	0	26	16	10	6	1	4	6	5	0	1	4	4
9	Sinclair, Jess	HBFL	?	0	0	21	14	7	1	0	3	5	2	1	0	2	1
40	Teague, David	HBFR	?	0	0	6	4	2	0	0	1	2	3	1	0	1	0
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				11	18	283	183	100	59	34	38	42	39	13	13	38	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

Player Line-Up

Melbourne							Coach: Neale Daniher
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	35	T. Makepeace	4	M. Martyn	12	J. Blakey	34	J. White	36	A. Leoncelli
	18	B. Green	9	D. Neitz (c)	24	R. Robertson	13	A. Yze	23	J. McDonald
FORWARD							30	S. Godfrey	10	D. Ward
HALF-BACK									26	L. Williams
	9	J. Sinclair	2	L. Colbert	40	D. Teague
	7	S. Powell	11	D. Jolly	19	P. Vardy
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	6	S. Grant	29	B. Harvey	34	D. King
	16	T. Johnstone	22	S. Woewodin	2	S. Armstrong	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							22	M. Burton	45	S. Cochrane
HALF-FORWARD							30	B. Robbins	20	D. Petrie
	21	C. Jones	32	D. Morrell	28	B. Pickett	7	A. Simpson	17	M. Porter
	42	P. Walsh	3	C. Bizzell	25	N. Brown			3	B. Rawlings
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	39	L. Harding	26	S. Rocca	11	G. Archer
	32	C. Bruce	29	C. Lamb	31	P. Wheatley
BACK
Kangaroos							Coach: Denis Pagan

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Shane Woewodin goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:18
	KANG	Digby Morrell behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	02:36
	KANG	Drew Petrie goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	03:57
	KANG	Digby Morrell behind	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	05:11
	KANG	Shannon Grant behind	1.0.6	-	1.3.9	06:05
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	1.1.7	-	1.3.9	09:17
	KANG	Sav Rocca goal	1.1.7	-	2.3.15	10:29
	MELB	Steven Armstrong goal	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	16:29
	MELB	Daniel Ward behind	2.2.14	-	2.3.15	17:47
	KANG	Shannon Grant behind	2.2.14	-	2.4.16	18:37
	KANG	Brent Harvey goal	2.2.14	-	3.4.22	21:08
Q2	KANG	Sav Rocca behind	2.2.14	-	3.5.23	01:20
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	3.2.20	-	3.5.23	02:18
	KANG	Troy Makepeace behind	3.2.20	-	3.6.24	04:17
	KANG	Digby Morrell goal	3.2.20	-	4.6.30	06:33
	KANG	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	4.7.31	09:46
	MELB	David Neitz goal	4.2.26	-	4.7.31	10:41
	KANG	Troy Makepeace goal	4.2.26	-	5.7.37	13:51
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	5.2.32	-	5.7.37	17:32
	MELB	Brad Green goal	6.2.38	-	5.7.37	19:10
	MELB	David Neitz goal	7.2.44	-	5.7.37	21:14
	MELB	David Neitz behind	7.3.45	-	5.7.37	23:14
	KANG	Rushed behind	7.3.45	-	5.8.38	23:53
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	8.3.51	-	5.8.38	25:06
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	9.3.57	-	5.8.38	26:09
	MELB	Travis Johnstone behind	9.4.58	-	5.8.38	28:49
	MELB	Peter Vardy behind	9.5.59	-	5.8.38	31:05
Q3	MELB	Adem Yze behind	9.6.60	-	5.8.38	02:33
	KANG	Byron Pickett goal	9.6.60	-	6.8.44	09:35
	KANG	Byron Pickett behind	9.6.60	-	6.9.45	12:39
	KANG	Byron Pickett behind	9.6.60	-	6.10.46	13:43
	KANG	David King behind	9.6.60	-	6.11.47	17:51
	MELB	David Neitz behind	9.7.61	-	6.11.47	19:05
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	10.7.67	-	6.11.47	20:32
	MELB	Rushed behind	10.8.68	-	6.11.47	22:34
	MELB	David Neitz behind	10.9.69	-	6.11.47	24:13
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	11.9.75	-	6.11.47	25:51
	MELB	Shane Woewodin behind	11.10.76	-	6.11.47	27:04
	KANG	Ben Robbins goal	11.10.76	-	7.11.53	28:39
Q4	KANG	Corey Jones behind	11.10.76	-	7.12.54	01:21
	KANG	Leigh Harding behind	11.10.76	-	7.13.55	03:41
	MELB	Stephen Powell behind	11.11.77	-	7.13.55	04:39
	MELB	Brad Green goal	12.11.83	-	7.13.55	07:50
	KANG	Leigh Harding behind	12.11.83	-	7.14.56	09:00
	KANG	Rushed behind	12.11.83	-	7.15.57	09:40
	KANG	Leigh Harding goal	12.11.83	-	8.15.63	12:37
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	13.11.89	-	8.15.63	15:30
	MELB	Travis Johnstone goal	14.11.95	-	8.15.63	16:32
	KANG	Leigh Harding goal	14.11.95	-	9.15.69	17:42
	MELB	Steven Armstrong behind	14.12.96	-	9.15.69	18:42
	MELB	Rushed behind	14.13.97	-	9.15.69	19:25
	KANG	Stuart Cochrane goal	14.13.97	-	10.15.75	20:06
	KANG	David King behind	14.13.97	-	10.16.76	21:06
	KANG	Byron Pickett goal	14.13.97	-	11.16.82	21:50
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	15.13.103	-	11.16.82	24:52
	KANG	Matthew Burton behind	15.13.103	-	11.17.83	26:27
	KANG	Leigh Harding behind	15.13.103	-	11.18.84	27:30
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	16.13.109	-	11.18.84	28:16
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	17.13.115	-	11.18.84	31:31
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	18.13.121	-	11.18.84	33:02
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	18.14.122	-	11.18.84	34:11

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