2002 AFL Round 3: Brisbane Lions v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 13 April 2002 between Brisbane Lions and Essendon during round 3 of the 2002 AFL season. Brisbane Lions hosted Essendon at Gabba. Michael Voss captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Leigh Matthews and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Brisbane Lions
M. Voss (capt.), J. Akermanis, M. Ashcroft, S. Black, D. Bradshaw, J. Brown, J. Charman, R. Copeland, S. Hart, C. Johnson, N. Lappin, J. Leppitsch, A. Lynch, A. McGrath, D. McLaren, C. McRae, M. Michael, T. Notting, M. Pike, B. Scott, C. Scott, D. White

Essendon
J. Hird (capt.), S. Alessio, 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, D. Peverill, A. Ramanauskas, J. Reynolds, S. Wellman

Brisbane Lions (17.15.117) defeated Essendon (9.13.67).

Goalkickers
Brisbane Lions: D. Bradshaw (6), J. Akermanis (4), M. Voss (2), S. Black, C. McRae, T. Notting, B. Scott, D. White
Essendon: M. Lloyd (3), S. Alessio, J. Blumfield, C. Heffernan, J. Hird, J. Johnson, J. Misiti

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

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Brisbane Lions v Essendon
Date: Saturday 13 April 2002
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Gabba
Attendance: 35,898

Match Results

Outcome: Brisbane Lions def. Essendon
Score: 17.15.117 - 9.13.67

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Brisbane Lions	3	.	4	8	.	7	11	.	12	17	.	15	17	.	15	(117)
Essendon	3	.	2	4	.	6	6	.	10	9	.	13	9	.	13	(67)
Margin	BRIL by 2			BRIL by 25			BRIL by 32			BRIL by 50			BRIL by 50
Duration	27:29			29:08			28:42			32:09			1:57:28

Honour Roll

Coaches: Leigh Matthews (Brisbane Lions), Kevin Sheedy (Essendon)
Captains: Michael Voss (Brisbane Lions), James Hird (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: B. Allen (#10), R. Kelsey (#15), K. Nicholls

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Nigel Lappin	BRIL	44	3
Simon Black	BRIL	20	2
James Hird	ESSE	5	1

Player Statistics

Brisbane Lions

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
12	Akermanis, Jason	?	?	4	4	23	16	7	3	0	3	1	1	1	0	4	3
10	Ashcroft, Marcus	?	?	0	0	18	14	4	4	0	2	1	3	0	1	1	5
20	Black, Simon	?	?	1	1	28	16	12	8	0	6	3	4	2	0	0	4
36	Bradshaw, Daniel	?	?	6	2	13	11	2	8	0	4	0	1	1	1	0	3
16	Brown, Jonathan	?	?	0	1	7	4	3	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2
19	Charman, Jamie	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	3	16	1	1	2	1	0	1	2
30	Copeland, Robert	?	?	0	0	13	11	2	2	0	4	3	4	2	0	1	7
32	Hart, Shaun	?	?	0	0	10	8	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	1
2	Johnson, Chris	?	?	0	0	15	12	3	4	0	1	1	4	4	2	5	2
44	Lappin, Nigel	?	?	0	0	31	20	11	6	0	5	6	2	0	1	4	7
23	Leppitsch, Justin	?	?	0	0	15	10	5	6	0	0	1	4	0	2	4	1
11	Lynch, Alastair	?	?	0	1	8	5	3	3	1	1	1	4	1	1	0	2
9	McGrath, Ashley	?	?	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
25	McLaren, Dylan	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	1	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
4	McRae, Craig	?	?	1	4	22	12	10	0	0	2	3	1	0	0	0	4
15	Michael, Mal	?	?	0	0	11	8	3	6	0	0	0	2	2	1	7	0
8	Notting, Tim	?	?	1	0	16	10	6	4	0	4	5	1	1	0	1	7
13	Pike, Martin	?	?	0	0	17	9	8	3	0	2	0	4	0	1	3	1
5	Scott, Brad	?	?	1	0	20	14	6	2	0	4	2	6	0	1	1	6
22	Scott, Chris	?	?	0	0	21	12	9	7	0	0	1	0	2	0	4	0
3	Voss, Michael (c)	?	?	2	0	8	5	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
33	White, Darryl	?	?	1	0	8	5	3	3	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				17	15	319	211	108	80	29	40	32	49	19	13	39	62

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	1	1	6	4	2	2	3	3	1	2	2	0	0	0
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	0	1	9	5	4	4	0	2	0	3	0	2	0	2
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	1	1	16	10	6	6	0	2	0	3	0	2	0	2
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	0	0	4	2	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	0
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	0	1	17	13	4	5	0	2	2	4	0	2	1	2
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	9	8	1	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	6	1
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	9	6	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	1	0	14	6	8	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	3	2
3	Henneman, Aaron	?	?	0	0	9	4	5	0	2	1	3	1	0	0	1	0
34	Hille, David	?	?	0	0	7	3	4	1	11	1	1	0	1	0	1	1
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	1	0	33	23	10	9	0	2	2	2	0	0	4	9
21	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	1	17	12	5	9	0	1	0	2	0	1	3	3
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	1	1	31	16	15	5	0	2	7	2	2	0	2	7
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	22	11	11	3	0	9	3	2	1	2	6	5
18	Lloyd, Matthew	?	?	3	2	8	7	1	6	0	0	0	4	1	3	0	1
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	0	15	10	5	3	0	1	1	3	1	0	1	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	0	1	11	8	3	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	2
24	Misiti, Joe	?	?	1	0	26	12	14	2	0	2	3	4	2	3	1	6
11	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	1	15	5	10	3	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	2
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	0	0	24	12	12	4	0	2	3	2	2	1	2	6
40	Reynolds, Joel	?	?	0	0	8	2	6	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				9	13	311	180	131	75	17	39	30	42	13	19	38	55

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	BRIL	Jason Akermanis goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	05:26
	ESSE	Joe Misiti goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	06:43
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	08:16
	BRIL	Jason Akermanis behind	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	09:09
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw behind	2.2.14	-	1.0.6	12:44
	BRIL	Michael Voss goal	3.2.20	-	1.0.6	13:54
	BRIL	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	1.0.6	18:42
	ESSE	Blake Caracella behind	3.3.21	-	1.1.7	20:24
	ESSE	James Hird goal	3.3.21	-	2.1.13	21:49
	BRIL	Craig McRae behind	3.4.22	-	2.1.13	23:28
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	3.4.22	-	3.1.19	24:57
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	3.4.22	-	3.2.20	26:37
Q2	BRIL	Michael Voss goal	4.4.28	-	3.2.20	00:27
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	4.4.28	-	4.2.26	03:18
	BRIL	Jonathan Brown behind	4.5.29	-	4.2.26	05:56
	BRIL	Jason Akermanis goal	5.5.35	-	4.2.26	06:50
	BRIL	Brad Scott goal	6.5.41	-	4.2.26	07:54
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	6.5.41	-	4.3.27	10:39
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.5.41	-	4.4.28	11:37
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	6.5.41	-	4.5.29	12:18
	BRIL	Jason Akermanis behind	6.6.42	-	4.5.29	14:22
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	7.6.48	-	4.5.29	16:08
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.6.48	-	4.6.30	18:12
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw behind	7.7.49	-	4.6.30	26:23
	BRIL	Craig McRae goal	8.7.55	-	4.6.30	29:07
Q3	BRIL	Jason Akermanis behind	8.8.56	-	4.6.30	00:33
	ESSE	Rushed behind	8.8.56	-	4.7.31	07:00
	BRIL	Craig McRae behind	8.9.57	-	4.7.31	07:49
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	9.9.63	-	4.7.31	09:43
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	10.9.69	-	4.7.31	11:07
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	10.9.69	-	4.8.32	15:55
	BRIL	Jason Akermanis goal	11.9.75	-	4.8.32	17:36
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	11.9.75	-	5.8.38	19:16
	BRIL	Craig McRae behind	11.10.76	-	5.8.38	21:04
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield behind	11.10.76	-	5.9.39	23:16
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	11.10.76	-	5.10.40	24:00
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan goal	11.10.76	-	6.10.46	25:10
	BRIL	Alastair Lynch behind	11.11.77	-	6.10.46	27:06
	BRIL	Simon Black behind	11.12.78	-	6.10.46	28:01
Q4	BRIL	Jason Akermanis behind	11.13.79	-	6.10.46	00:58
	BRIL	Tim Notting goal	12.13.85	-	6.10.46	05:54
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	13.13.91	-	6.10.46	09:59
	BRIL	Simon Black goal	14.13.97	-	6.10.46	11:07
	BRIL	Jason Akermanis goal	15.13.103	-	6.10.46	12:17
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	15.13.103	-	7.10.52	14:53
	ESSE	Danny Jacobs behind	15.13.103	-	7.11.53	16:07
	BRIL	Darryl White goal	16.13.109	-	7.11.53	19:34
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	16.13.109	-	7.12.54	20:51
	BRIL	Rushed behind	16.14.110	-	7.12.54	22:58
	ESSE	Damien Peverill behind	16.14.110	-	7.13.55	25:19
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	16.14.110	-	8.13.61	27:07
	BRIL	Craig McRae behind	16.15.111	-	8.13.61	28:20
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	16.15.111	-	9.13.67	29:03
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	17.15.117	-	9.13.67	30:19

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