2002 AFL Round 1: West Coast v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 31 March 2002 between West Coast and Fremantle during round 1 of the 2002 AFL season. West Coast hosted Fremantle at Subiaco Oval. Ben Cousins captained the hosts. Peter Bell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Worsfold and the visitors were coached by Chris Connolly.

West Coast
B. Cousins (capt.), D. Banfield, M. Braun, C. Chambers, M. Collica, D. Cox, A. Embley, C. Fletcher, M. Gardiner, D. Glass, G. Jakovich, R. Jones, D. Kerr, Peter Matera, Phillip Matera, A. McIntosh, M. Merenda, R. Taylor, B. Tuckey, A. Williams, T. Wilson, D. Wirrpanda

Fremantle
P. Bell (capt.), L. Brown, M. Carr, T. Cook, T. Croad, B. Cunningham, B. Fewster, A. Grover, P. Hasleby, A. Jones, D. Kickett, J. Longmuir, T. Longmuir, S. McManus, P. Medhurst, J. Norrish, S. Parker, M. Pavlich, G. Polak, A. Siegert, J. Walker, D. Woods

West Coast (21.11.137) defeated Fremantle (18.10.118).

Goalkickers
West Coast: T. Wilson (6), Phillip Matera (4), A. Embley (3), C. Chambers (2), D. Wirrpanda (2), B. Cousins, R. Jones, Peter Matera, B. Tuckey
Fremantle: T. Croad (3), S. McManus (3), P. Medhurst (3), M. Carr (2), B. Cunningham (2), P. Bell, T. Cook, D. Kickett, M. Pavlich, J. Walker

As a result of this match, West Coast were then 7th on the ladder and Fremantle were then 10th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: West Coast v Fremantle
Date: Sunday 31 March 2002
Time: 1:40 PM
Venue: Subiaco Oval
Attendance: 39,467

Match Results

Outcome: West Coast def. Fremantle
Score: 21.11.137 - 18.10.118

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
West Coast	6	.	1	9	.	5	16	.	6	21	.	11	21	.	11	(137)
Fremantle	4	.	4	8	.	7	11	.	9	18	.	10	18	.	10	(118)
Margin	WCST by 9			WCST by 4			WCST by 27			WCST by 19			WCST by 19
Duration	31:29			30:51			31:49			34:41			2:08:50

Honour Roll

Coaches: John Worsfold (West Coast), Chris Connolly (Fremantle)
Captains: Ben Cousins (West Coast), Peter Bell (Fremantle)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: D. Corcoran (#21), S. McBurney, B. Sheehan (#9)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Chad Fletcher	WCST	7	3
Peter Bell	FREM	32	2
Ben Cousins	WCST	9	1

Player Statistics

West Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
6	Banfield, Drew	?	?	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	0
10	Braun, Michael	?	?	0	0	12	4	8	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
15	Chambers, Callum	?	?	2	1	17	12	5	4	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	3
22	Collica, Michael	?	?	0	0	13	6	7	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1
9	Cousins, Ben (c)	?	?	1	0	29	17	12	3	0	2	8	4	3	0	1	5
20	Cox, Dean	?	?	0	0	9	4	5	4	17	0	2	2	1	2	3	0
32	Embley, Andrew	?	?	3	1	20	7	13	4	0	2	1	3	1	0	0	3
7	Fletcher, Chad	?	?	0	1	34	18	16	7	0	0	4	4	0	3	2	9
1	Gardiner, Michael	?	?	0	1	20	15	5	8	22	0	3	2	0	0	1	5
23	Glass, Darren	?	?	0	0	14	7	7	6	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1
27	Jakovich, Glen	?	?	0	0	16	12	4	4	1	0	1	4	0	3	3	0
18	Jones, Rowan	?	?	1	0	16	7	9	2	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	0
4	Kerr, Daniel	?	?	0	1	14	9	5	3	0	1	4	2	0	2	1	3
30	Matera, Peter	?	?	1	0	16	10	6	4	0	4	2	0	0	0	1	3
33	Matera, Phillip	?	?	4	0	10	7	3	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2
11	McIntosh, Ashley	?	?	0	0	11	9	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	5	0
21	Merenda, Mark	?	?	0	3	14	8	6	3	0	3	3	2	2	1	0	4
8	Taylor, Richard	?	?	0	0	17	15	2	3	0	0	1	5	2	2	6	1
48	Tuckey, Brent	?	?	1	0	9	4	5	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
37	Williams, Andrew	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	2
40	Wilson, Troy	?	?	6	1	10	9	1	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
44	Wirrpanda, David	?	?	2	1	13	10	3	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	3
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				21	11	331	199	132	86	42	23	34	41	14	15	30	49

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
32	Bell, Peter (c)	?	?	1	0	39	22	17	4	0	3	5	3	0	1	3	2
30	Brown, Leigh	?	?	0	0	9	5	4	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1
9	Carr, Matthew	?	?	2	0	22	15	7	7	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	4
10	Cook, Troy	?	?	1	0	28	14	14	2	0	5	7	4	2	0	4	4
24	Croad, Trent	?	?	3	4	14	13	1	4	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	6
38	Cunningham, Ben	?	?	2	1	22	17	5	7	0	1	4	4	1	0	2	7
18	Fewster, Brendon	?	?	0	2	16	10	6	4	3	1	4	1	2	1	1	3
14	Grover, Antoni	?	?	0	0	10	4	6	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0
4	Hasleby, Paul	?	?	0	1	27	12	15	2	0	2	6	2	3	0	1	4
5	Jones, Anthony	?	?	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
11	Kickett, Dale	?	?	1	0	11	8	3	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	4
20	Longmuir, Justin	?	?	0	0	14	6	8	5	16	1	5	2	1	2	1	1
21	Longmuir, Troy	?	?	0	0	19	13	6	4	0	4	1	5	2	3	4	3
8	McManus, Shaun	?	?	3	0	19	12	7	3	0	3	1	1	2	0	0	3
34	Medhurst, Paul	?	?	3	0	9	7	2	4	0	2	0	4	1	0	0	1
25	Norrish, Jason	?	?	0	1	20	11	9	3	0	3	1	2	0	1	0	1
23	Parker, Shane	?	?	0	0	9	2	7	3	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
29	Pavlich, Matthew	?	?	1	0	11	8	3	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	2	2
27	Polak, Graham	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
35	Siegert, Andrew	?	?	0	0	15	3	12	3	0	3	2	3	0	2	1	2
19	Walker, James	?	?	1	0	19	9	10	5	0	2	1	2	0	0	1	1
6	Woods, Dion	?	?	0	0	8	7	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				18	10	347	202	145	71	22	39	41	46	15	14	24	49

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	WCST	Andrew Embley goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:48
	FREM	Brendon Fewster behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	04:13
	FREM	Dale Kickett goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	06:42
	WCST	Troy Wilson goal	2.0.12	-	1.1.7	09:13
	FREM	Brendon Fewster behind	2.0.12	-	1.2.8	10:12
	WCST	Troy Wilson behind	2.1.13	-	1.2.8	11:48
	FREM	Shaun McManus goal	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	12:44
	FREM	Ben Cunningham behind	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	14:01
	WCST	Troy Wilson goal	3.1.19	-	2.3.15	18:46
	WCST	Phillip Matera goal	4.1.25	-	2.3.15	19:56
	FREM	Paul Hasleby behind	4.1.25	-	2.4.16	21:36
	WCST	Troy Wilson goal	5.1.31	-	2.4.16	23:14
	WCST	Ben Cousins goal	6.1.37	-	2.4.16	24:52
	FREM	Paul Medhurst goal	6.1.37	-	3.4.22	27:33
	FREM	Shaun McManus goal	6.1.37	-	4.4.28	30:23
Q2	WCST	Peter Matera goal	7.1.43	-	4.4.28	03:06
	WCST	Michael Gardiner behind	7.2.44	-	4.4.28	04:52
	FREM	Trent Croad goal	7.2.44	-	5.4.34	07:26
	WCST	Phillip Matera goal	8.2.50	-	5.4.34	09:14
	WCST	Daniel Kerr behind	8.3.51	-	5.4.34	10:30
	WCST	Andrew Embley goal	9.3.57	-	5.4.34	12:21
	FREM	Troy Cook goal	9.3.57	-	6.4.40	13:58
	FREM	Rushed behind	9.3.57	-	6.5.41	15:28
	WCST	Callum Chambers behind	9.4.58	-	6.5.41	16:18
	WCST	Mark Merenda behind	9.5.59	-	6.5.41	19:02
	FREM	Trent Croad behind	9.5.59	-	6.6.42	20:41
	FREM	Trent Croad goal	9.5.59	-	7.6.48	25:12
	FREM	Shaun McManus goal	9.5.59	-	8.6.54	27:50
	FREM	Trent Croad behind	9.5.59	-	8.7.55	29:18
Q3	WCST	David Wirrpanda goal	10.5.65	-	8.7.55	01:17
	FREM	Trent Croad behind	10.5.65	-	8.8.56	02:20
	FREM	James Walker goal	10.5.65	-	9.8.62	03:19
	WCST	David Wirrpanda goal	11.5.71	-	9.8.62	05:47
	WCST	Andrew Embley goal	12.5.77	-	9.8.62	07:02
	WCST	Rowan Jones goal	13.5.83	-	9.8.62	10:24
	FREM	Matthew Carr goal	13.5.83	-	10.8.68	12:49
	WCST	Troy Wilson goal	14.5.89	-	10.8.68	15:42
	WCST	Andrew Embley behind	14.6.90	-	10.8.68	18:52
	FREM	Trent Croad behind	14.6.90	-	10.9.69	21:53
	WCST	Brent Tuckey goal	15.6.96	-	10.9.69	23:46
	FREM	Paul Medhurst goal	15.6.96	-	11.9.75	29:20
	WCST	Troy Wilson goal	16.6.102	-	11.9.75	31:48
Q4	WCST	Phillip Matera goal	17.6.108	-	11.9.75	00:57
	FREM	Paul Medhurst goal	17.6.108	-	12.9.81	02:25
	FREM	Matthew Carr goal	17.6.108	-	13.9.87	03:59
	WCST	Callum Chambers goal	18.6.114	-	13.9.87	05:14
	WCST	Phillip Matera goal	19.6.120	-	13.9.87	09:25
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	19.6.120	-	14.9.93	10:42
	WCST	Mark Merenda behind	19.7.121	-	14.9.93	11:51
	FREM	Jason Norrish behind	19.7.121	-	14.10.94	14:20
	WCST	Chad Fletcher behind	19.8.122	-	14.10.94	17:33
	FREM	Peter Bell goal	19.8.122	-	15.10.100	18:28
	WCST	Mark Merenda behind	19.9.123	-	15.10.100	19:37
	WCST	Callum Chambers goal	20.9.129	-	15.10.100	21:25
	FREM	Trent Croad goal	20.9.129	-	16.10.106	22:33
	FREM	Ben Cunningham goal	20.9.129	-	17.10.112	27:05
	WCST	David Wirrpanda behind	20.10.130	-	17.10.112	28:45
	WCST	Rushed behind	20.11.131	-	17.10.112	30:02
	FREM	Ben Cunningham goal	20.11.131	-	18.10.118	30:47
	WCST	Troy Wilson goal	21.11.137	-	18.10.118	32:33

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