2002 AFL Round 2: Essendon v Richmond

This is the match report for the match played on 5 April 2002 between Essendon and Richmond during round 2 of the 2002 AFL season. Essendon "hosted" Richmond at MCG. James Hird captained the hosts. Wayne Campbell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Danny Frawley.

Essendon
J. Hird (capt.), P. Barnard, J. Blumfield, M. Bolton, B. Caracella, D. Fletcher, R. Forster-Knight, C. Heffernan, A. Henneman, D. Hille, D. Jacobs, J. Johnson, M. Johnson, M. Lloyd, M. McVeigh, M. Mercuri, J. Misiti, G. Moorcroft, D. Peverill, A. Ramanauskas, T. Richards, S. Wellman

Richmond
W. Campbell (capt.), J. Bowden, L. Cameron, A. Fiora, D. Gaspar, R. Hall, R. Hilton, B. Holland, A. Houlihan, A. Kellaway, C. King, M. Knights, A. Krakouer, B. Ottens, M. Richardson, D. Rodan, M. Rogers, G. Stafford, S. Sziller, G. Tivendale, J. Torney, T. Zantuck

Essendon (16.16.112) defeated Richmond (8.12.60).

Goalkickers
Essendon: B. Caracella (3), M. Lloyd (3), P. Barnard (2), J. Blumfield (2), J. Hird (2), M. Mercuri, J. Misiti, G. Moorcroft, A. Ramanauskas
Richmond: D. Rodan (2), A. Houlihan, A. Kellaway, M. Knights, B. Ottens, M. Richardson, M. Rogers

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 2nd on the ladder (down from 1st) and Richmond were then 9th on the ladder (down from 3rd) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Essendon v Richmond
Date: Friday 5 April 2002
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 67,453

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Richmond
Score: 16.16.112 - 8.12.60

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 7 . 2 13 . 7 14 . 12 16 . 16 16 . 16 (112)
Richmond 0 . 3 2 . 6 5 . 9 8 . 12 8 . 12 (60)
Margin ESSE by 41 ESSE by 67 ESSE by 57 ESSE by 52 ESSE by 52
Duration 32:31 32:25 29:00 29:15 2:03:11

Honour Roll

Coaches: Kevin Sheedy (Essendon), Danny Frawley (Richmond)
Captains: James Hird (Essendon), Wayne Campbell (Richmond)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Ellis, M. James (#5), M. Vozzo (#2)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Damien Peverill ESSE 11 3
James Hird ESSE 5 2
Justin Blumfield ESSE 32 1

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
16 Barnard, Paul ? ? 2 0 12 7 5 6 1 1 1 3 0 1 1 2
32 Blumfield, Justin ? ? 2 1 28 16 12 11 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 5
23 Bolton, Mark ? ? 0 0 5 2 3 2 2 2 0 2 0 1 0 1
33 Caracella, Blake ? ? 3 2 19 15 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 6
31 Fletcher, Dustin ? ? 0 1 9 6 3 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1
15 Forster-Knight, Robert ? ? 0 0 11 7 4 5 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 0
26 Heffernan, Chris ? ? 0 0 13 6 7 3 0 2 1 4 1 4 1 0
3 Henneman, Aaron ? ? 0 0 9 6 3 4 5 3 0 2 1 1 1 3
34 Hille, David ? ? 0 1 10 4 6 3 17 6 2 3 0 3 0 2
5 Hird, James (c) ? ? 2 0 21 14 7 5 1 4 6 3 0 3 1 3
21 Jacobs, Danny ? ? 0 0 17 15 2 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0
14 Johnson, Jason ? ? 0 1 23 16 7 1 0 4 8 0 0 0 0 7
1 Johnson, Mark ? ? 0 0 13 8 5 3 1 3 0 1 1 0 3 2
18 Lloyd, Matthew ? ? 3 3 17 13 4 8 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3
10 McVeigh, Mark ? ? 0 0 11 8 3 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3
2 Mercuri, Mark ? ? 1 0 11 8 3 3 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 2
24 Misiti, Joe ? ? 1 1 23 13 10 5 0 4 4 0 0 0 2 4
29 Moorcroft, Gary ? ? 1 0 14 13 1 6 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 4
11 Peverill, Damien ? ? 0 1 24 13 11 6 0 5 7 1 2 1 1 5
9 Ramanauskas, Adam ? ? 1 0 19 11 8 7 2 3 2 1 0 1 3 3
20 Richards, Ted ? ? 0 1 8 3 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
6 Wellman, Sean ? ? 0 0 19 13 6 6 0 2 2 1 2 0 8 1
Rushed 4
Total (22 players) 16 16 336 217 119 103 30 45 41 29 11 17 35 58

Richmond

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
11 Bowden, Joel ? ? 0 1 30 17 13 7 1 6 3 1 1 0 7 3
15 Cameron, Leon ? ? 0 1 15 14 1 4 0 2 1 7 0 2 3 5
9 Campbell, Wayne (c) ? ? 0 0 17 11 6 2 0 5 2 1 2 0 2 1
14 Fiora, Aaron ? ? 0 0 14 10 4 9 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 2
2 Gaspar, Darren ? ? 0 0 5 3 2 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 1
20 Hall, Ray ? ? 0 0 7 3 4 3 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 2
1 Hilton, Rory ? ? 0 0 8 7 1 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3
16 Holland, Ben ? ? 0 0 13 7 6 5 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 0
23 Houlihan, Adam ? ? 1 1 17 15 2 4 0 1 0 1 2 1 4 3
39 Kellaway, Andrew ? ? 1 0 19 11 8 9 0 2 0 1 2 0 4 1
21 King, Clinton ? ? 0 1 25 13 12 6 0 2 3 0 1 0 1 3
33 Knights, Matthew ? ? 1 0 18 9 9 6 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 4
27 Krakouer, Andrew ? ? 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Ottens, Brad ? ? 1 1 15 8 7 3 13 1 6 2 3 1 0 3
12 Richardson, Matthew ? ? 1 3 12 11 1 11 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3
18 Rodan, David ? ? 2 0 7 5 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
4 Rogers, Matthew ? ? 1 0 12 10 2 5 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 3
10 Stafford, Greg ? ? 0 0 9 7 2 5 8 0 1 1 0 1 1 2
19 Sziller, Steven ? ? 0 0 16 7 9 3 0 5 4 0 1 0 0 4
32 Tivendale, Greg ? ? 0 0 15 12 3 2 0 3 2 1 1 0 2 3
29 Torney, Jason ? ? 0 0 18 15 3 3 0 3 2 2 2 0 5 3
36 Zantuck, Ty ? ? 0 0 9 6 3 5 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 0
Rushed 4
Total (22 players) 8 12 302 202 100 100 25 37 32 33 17 11 39 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 ESSE Blake Caracella goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 00:24
ESSE Paul Barnard goal 2.0.12 - 0.0.0 07:27
ESSE Blake Caracella behind 2.1.13 - 0.0.0 08:27
ESSE Rushed behind 2.2.14 - 0.0.0 09:35
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 3.2.20 - 0.0.0 11:24
RICH Rushed behind 3.2.20 - 0.1.1 17:14
RICH Joel Bowden behind 3.2.20 - 0.2.2 17:40
RICH Rushed behind 3.2.20 - 0.3.3 20:55
ESSE James Hird goal 4.2.26 - 0.3.3 21:22
ESSE Justin Blumfield goal 5.2.32 - 0.3.3 25:06
ESSE Joe Misiti goal 6.2.38 - 0.3.3 28:00
ESSE Paul Barnard goal 7.2.44 - 0.3.3 30:34
Q2 ESSE Blake Caracella behind 7.3.45 - 0.3.3 01:29
ESSE James Hird goal 8.3.51 - 0.3.3 03:11
RICH Matthew Richardson behind 8.3.51 - 0.4.4 04:28
ESSE Adam Ramanauskas goal 9.3.57 - 0.4.4 05:20
ESSE Matthew Lloyd behind 9.4.58 - 0.4.4 09:46
ESSE Justin Blumfield goal 10.4.64 - 0.4.4 10:55
ESSE Rushed behind 10.5.65 - 0.4.4 11:58
RICH Adam Houlihan goal 10.5.65 - 1.4.10 14:39
RICH Matthew Richardson goal 10.5.65 - 2.4.16 16:15
ESSE Mark Mercuri goal 11.5.71 - 2.4.16 18:02
ESSE Justin Blumfield behind 11.6.72 - 2.4.16 22:27
RICH Rushed behind 11.6.72 - 2.5.17 23:32
ESSE Dustin Fletcher behind 11.7.73 - 2.5.17 24:35
ESSE Blake Caracella goal 12.7.79 - 2.5.17 28:05
RICH Clinton King behind 12.7.79 - 2.6.18 29:28
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 13.7.85 - 2.6.18 32:24
Q3 RICH Brad Ottens goal 13.7.85 - 3.6.24 03:19
ESSE Blake Caracella goal 14.7.91 - 3.6.24 10:26
ESSE Matthew Lloyd behind 14.8.92 - 3.6.24 12:20
RICH David Rodan goal 14.8.92 - 4.6.30 13:00
RICH Matthew Richardson behind 14.8.92 - 4.7.31 14:07
ESSE David Hille behind 14.9.93 - 4.7.31 15:38
RICH Leon Cameron behind 14.9.93 - 4.8.32 16:00
ESSE Jason Johnson behind 14.10.94 - 4.8.32 21:28
RICH Matthew Richardson behind 14.10.94 - 4.9.33 22:53
ESSE Damien Peverill behind 14.11.95 - 4.9.33 24:36
RICH Andrew Kellaway goal 14.11.95 - 5.9.39 26:23
ESSE Joe Misiti behind 14.12.96 - 5.9.39 28:14
Q4 RICH Rushed behind 14.12.96 - 5.10.40 01:05
ESSE Matthew Lloyd behind 14.13.97 - 5.10.40 04:21
ESSE Rushed behind 14.14.98 - 5.10.40 05:30
ESSE Rushed behind 14.15.99 - 5.10.40 10:29
RICH Adam Houlihan behind 14.15.99 - 5.11.41 11:09
RICH Matthew Knights goal 14.15.99 - 6.11.47 12:33
RICH David Rodan goal 14.15.99 - 7.11.53 14:01
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 15.15.105 - 7.11.53 14:58
RICH Matthew Rogers goal 15.15.105 - 8.11.59 18:40
ESSE Ted Richards behind 15.16.106 - 8.11.59 22:48
ESSE Gary Moorcroft goal 16.16.112 - 8.11.59 25:29
RICH Brad Ottens behind 16.16.112 - 8.12.60 27:18