2002 AFL Season Round 1: Geelong v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 30 March 2002 between Geelong and Essendon during round one of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong hosted Essendon at the MCG. Ben Graham captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mark Thompson and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Geelong (11.10.76) were defeated by Essendon (18.18.126).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Geelong v Essendon
Date: Saturday 30 March 2002
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 42,746

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. by Essendon
Score: 11.10.76 - 18.18.126

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	2	.	0	7	.	2	8	.	6	11	.	10	11	.	10	(76)
Essendon	4	.	5	11	.	9	17	.	12	18	.	18	18	.	18	(126)
Margin	ESSE by 17			ESSE by 31			ESSE by 60			ESSE by 50			ESSE by 50
Duration	29:06			32:42			30:09			28:22			2:00:19

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 (Essendon) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: Ben Graham
Coach: Mark Thompson

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. McKenzie (#24)
C. Mitchell (#4)
D. Woodcock (#26)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
James Hird	ESSE	5	3
Jason Johnson	ESSE	14	2
Matthew Lloyd	ESSE	18	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Ablett, Gary	?	?	0	1	8	4	4	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1
3	Bartel, Jimmy	?	?	0	0	13	8	5	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	4
35	Chapman, Paul	?	?	0	0	8	4	4	2	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	2
14	Clarke, David	?	?	0	0	29	14	15	9	0	3	0	3	0	2	5	7
11	Corey, Joel	?	?	0	0	24	12	12	4	0	0	4	4	1	1	3	4
44	Enright, Corey	?	?	1	0	22	12	10	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	4
23	Foster, Daniel	?	?	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	0
7	Graham, Ben (c)	?	?	1	0	14	8	6	3	5	2	0	1	2	0	0	3
25	Grgic, Brent	?	?	1	1	13	10	3	5	0	1	1	4	1	1	2	3
2	Harley, Tom	?	?	0	0	16	10	6	5	0	1	0	2	0	0	5	0
28	Johnson, David	?	?	0	0	6	3	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
1	King, Steven	?	?	0	0	23	12	11	10	28	3	4	2	0	0	3	5
18	Kingsley, Kent	?	?	4	2	11	8	3	4	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
45	Ling, Cameron	?	?	1	0	21	12	9	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	0
24	Lord, Aaron	?	?	1	1	26	13	13	5	0	2	4	4	0	2	0	4
17	McGrath, Tim	?	?	0	0	17	12	5	5	0	2	1	1	1	0	2	0
21	Mooney, Cam	?	?	1	1	8	4	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
34	Rahilly, James	?	?	0	0	7	3	4	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0
15	Riccardi, Peter	?	?	1	1	20	14	6	2	0	3	3	3	0	0	1	9
27	Sanderson, Brenton	?	?	0	0	22	15	7	7	0	0	0	2	0	1	7	2
30	Scarlett, Matthew	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	0
12	Sholl, Brad	?	?	0	1	13	9	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	7	0
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				11	10	335	195	140	86	34	28	26	31	10	9	46	52

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	1	1	14	8	6	2	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	3
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	1	0	15	12	3	7	0	4	1	4	0	0	3	4
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	1	1	6	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	0	0	27	19	8	10	1	2	5	1	0	0	0	6
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	16	12	4	1	2	1	1	4	0	1	7	0
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	12	6	6	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	2
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	1	0	16	11	5	4	0	3	2	0	2	0	2	5
3	Henneman, Aaron	?	?	0	1	9	4	5	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
34	Hille, David	?	?	1	1	17	7	10	10	12	1	1	3	0	0	0	3
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	2	0	29	20	9	9	0	4	7	2	1	0	0	6
21	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	16	7	9	3	1	1	2	2	0	0	4	1
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	3	32	25	7	13	0	3	3	2	1	2	3	4
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	16	8	8	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	4	1
18	Lloyd, Matthew	?	?	6	1	14	12	2	9	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	2
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	1	3	16	12	4	6	0	1	1	4	1	1	0	7
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	2	8	6	2	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	1	1	26	15	11	7	0	0	2	2	1	0	2	4
24	Misiti, Joe	?	?	2	0	34	16	18	10	0	2	7	2	0	1	1	4
29	Moorcroft, Gary	?	?	0	1	16	8	8	3	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	5
11	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	0	17	8	9	5	0	1	2	1	1	0	1	4
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	1	0	23	14	9	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	4
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	20	15	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	2	6	0
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				18	18	399	247	152	122	20	33	45	38	9	10	34	70

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	Corey Enright goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:25
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	02:13
	ESSE	Aaron Henneman behind	1.0.6	-	0.2.2	08:30
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	10:25
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	1.0.6	-	1.3.9	13:26
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	1.0.6	-	1.4.10	14:12
	GEEL	Peter Riccardi goal	2.0.12	-	1.4.10	17:33
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	2.0.12	-	1.5.11	18:57
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	2.0.12	-	2.5.17	20:32
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	2.0.12	-	3.5.23	23:25
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	2.0.12	-	4.5.29	24:49
Q2	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.0.12	-	4.6.30	01:18
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	2.0.12	-	5.6.36	01:48
	GEEL	Cam Mooney behind	2.1.13	-	5.6.36	03:45
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	2.1.13	-	5.7.37	04:34
	GEEL	Brent Grgic goal	3.1.19	-	5.7.37	06:23
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	3.1.19	-	6.7.43	07:28
	ESSE	James Hird goal	3.1.19	-	7.7.49	11:51
	GEEL	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	7.7.49	14:36
	ESSE	David Hille goal	3.2.20	-	8.7.55	16:18
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	3.2.20	-	8.8.56	18:14
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	4.2.26	-	8.8.56	19:23
	GEEL	Aaron Lord goal	5.2.32	-	8.8.56	22:01
	ESSE	Gary Moorcroft behind	5.2.32	-	8.9.57	23:07
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	5.2.32	-	9.9.63	25:22
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	6.2.38	-	9.9.63	26:45
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.2.38	-	10.9.69	28:38
	ESSE	Joe Misiti goal	6.2.38	-	11.9.75	30:41
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	7.2.44	-	11.9.75	32:01
Q3	GEEL	Peter Riccardi behind	7.3.45	-	11.9.75	00:48
	GEEL	Rushed behind	7.4.46	-	11.9.75	02:11
	GEEL	Aaron Lord behind	7.5.47	-	11.9.75	02:54
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	7.6.48	-	11.9.75	05:32
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan goal	7.6.48	-	12.9.81	07:05
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	7.6.48	-	13.9.87	09:06
	GEEL	Ben Graham goal	8.6.54	-	13.9.87	10:35
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	8.6.54	-	13.10.88	12:31
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	8.6.54	-	14.10.94	14:58
	ESSE	Rushed behind	8.6.54	-	14.11.95	17:06
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	8.6.54	-	14.12.96	18:00
	ESSE	Joe Misiti goal	8.6.54	-	15.12.102	19:33
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	8.6.54	-	16.12.108	21:17
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	8.6.54	-	17.12.114	23:52
Q4	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	9.6.60	-	17.12.114	00:20
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	9.6.60	-	17.13.115	02:08
	GEEL	Brad Sholl behind	9.7.61	-	17.13.115	03:06
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	9.7.61	-	17.14.116	03:48
	GEEL	Cameron Ling goal	10.7.67	-	17.14.116	06:53
	ESSE	James Hird goal	10.7.67	-	18.14.122	08:14
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	11.7.73	-	18.14.122	10:08
	ESSE	Mark Bolton behind	11.7.73	-	18.15.123	13:53
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	11.7.73	-	18.16.124	15:42
	GEEL	Brent Grgic behind	11.8.74	-	18.16.124	18:29
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	11.9.75	-	18.16.124	22:07
	GEEL	Gary Ablett behind	11.10.76	-	18.16.124	24:42
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.10.76	-	18.17.125	25:54
	ESSE	David Hille behind	11.10.76	-	18.18.126	27:52

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