2002 AFL Round 8: Fremantle v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 18 May 2002 between Fremantle and Melbourne during round 8 of the 2002 AFL season. Fremantle hosted Melbourne at Subiaco Oval. Peter Bell captained the hosts. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Chris Connolly and the visitors were coached by Neale Daniher.

Fremantle
P. Bell (capt.), L. Brown, A. Browne, M. Carr, T. Cook, T. Croad, B. Cunningham, J. Farmer, A. Grover, D. Haines, P. Hasleby, S. Koops, J. Longmuir, S. McManus, J. Norrish, S. Parker, M. Pavlich, G. Polak, A. Siegert, T. Simmonds, S. Thornton, J. Walker

Melbourne
D. Neitz (capt.), T. Broadbridge, N. Brown, C. Bruce, C. Ellis, R. Funcke, B. Green, T. Johnstone, A. Leoncelli, J. McDonald, B. Miller, A. Nicholson, S. Powell, R. Robertson, D. Schwarz, S. Thompson, P. Vardy, M. Whelan, J. White, L. Williams, S. Woewodin, A. Yze

Fremantle (14.10.94) defeated Melbourne (13.11.89).

Goalkickers
Fremantle: T. Croad (7), J. Farmer (3), L. Brown, A. Browne, P. Hasleby, T. Simmonds
Melbourne: P. Vardy (3), C. Bruce (2), B. Green (2), M. Whelan (2), T. Johnstone, A. Leoncelli, D. Neitz, R. Robertson

As a result of this match, Fremantle were then 9th on the ladder (up from 11th) and Melbourne were then 6th on the ladder (down from 4th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Fremantle v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 18 May 2002
Time: 5:40 PM
Venue: Subiaco Oval
Attendance: 25,027

Match Results

Outcome: Fremantle def. Melbourne
Score: 14.10.94 - 13.11.89

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Fremantle 2 . 4 5 . 8 11 . 10 14 . 10 14 . 10 (94)
Melbourne 4 . 6 6 . 9 10 . 10 13 . 11 13 . 11 (89)
Margin MELB by 14 MELB by 7 FREM by 6 FREM by 5 FREM by 5
Duration 29:40 28:06 32:05 27:34 1:57:25

Honour Roll

Coaches: Chris Connolly (Fremantle), Neale Daniher (Melbourne)
Captains: Peter Bell (Fremantle), David Neitz (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Fussell, M. Head (#16), S. McBurney

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Travis Johnstone MELB 16 3
Trent Croad FREM 24 2
Paul Hasleby FREM 4 1

Player Statistics

Fremantle

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
32 Bell, Peter (c) ? ? 0 0 15 3 12 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 0
30 Brown, Leigh ? ? 1 0 10 8 2 3 1 3 1 4 1 2 0 6
36 Browne, Andrew ? ? 1 1 9 6 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4
9 Carr, Matthew ? ? 0 0 24 17 7 5 0 2 4 3 0 0 1 9
10 Cook, Troy ? ? 0 0 21 6 15 3 0 8 5 4 0 2 1 3
24 Croad, Trent ? ? 7 2 11 10 1 6 0 0 0 4 0 3 0 0
38 Cunningham, Ben ? ? 0 1 9 6 3 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
7 Farmer, Jeff ? ? 3 0 15 10 5 1 0 2 1 2 3 0 2 4
14 Grover, Antoni ? ? 0 0 10 8 2 3 0 3 0 2 0 2 3 0
39 Haines, Daniel ? ? 0 2 13 11 2 5 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
4 Hasleby, Paul ? ? 1 0 34 18 16 7 0 2 5 2 0 0 1 5
28 Koops, Steven ? ? 0 0 9 5 4 2 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 1
20 Longmuir, Justin ? ? 0 1 8 3 5 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
8 McManus, Shaun ? ? 0 0 12 8 4 3 0 2 1 1 1 0 3 2
25 Norrish, Jason ? ? 0 0 11 6 5 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 3
23 Parker, Shane ? ? 0 0 10 6 4 7 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 1
29 Pavlich, Matthew ? ? 0 0 13 8 5 3 2 4 2 1 0 0 3 2
27 Polak, Graham ? ? 0 0 14 11 3 6 3 3 1 1 1 0 4 0
35 Siegert, Andrew ? ? 0 0 15 8 7 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 1
2 Simmonds, Troy ? ? 1 1 15 8 7 3 12 1 2 1 1 0 1 3
22 Thornton, Scott ? ? 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
19 Walker, James ? ? 0 0 10 5 5 3 0 2 2 2 0 2 3 1
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 14 10 290 171 119 73 18 44 32 32 13 12 30 51

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
20 Broadbridge, Troy ? ? 0 0 7 4 3 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0
25 Brown, Nathan ? ? 0 0 15 6 9 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
32 Bruce, Cameron ? ? 2 1 8 6 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
4 Ellis, Craig ? ? 0 0 22 15 7 8 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 2
15 Funcke, Ross ? ? 0 0 15 9 6 7 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
18 Green, Brad ? ? 2 1 12 7 5 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 2
16 Johnstone, Travis ? ? 1 2 23 20 3 6 0 1 4 0 1 0 3 9
36 Leoncelli, Andrew ? ? 1 0 20 14 6 5 0 6 3 2 2 1 2 3
23 McDonald, James ? ? 0 0 11 6 5 5 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 1
37 Miller, Brad ? ? 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
9 Neitz, David (c) ? ? 1 0 6 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 0 1
8 Nicholson, Alistair ? ? 0 0 8 5 3 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3
7 Powell, Stephen ? ? 0 0 27 16 11 5 0 0 7 1 0 0 2 4
24 Robertson, Russell ? ? 1 1 11 7 4 8 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
5 Schwarz, David ? ? 0 0 10 6 4 2 8 0 2 1 1 1 0 4
6 Thompson, Scott ? ? 0 0 5 2 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
19 Vardy, Peter ? ? 3 1 11 6 5 2 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 2
45 Whelan, Matthew ? ? 2 0 17 10 7 7 0 2 0 1 3 0 6 1
34 White, Jeff ? ? 0 0 14 12 2 6 23 1 0 2 0 1 0 1
26 Williams, Luke ? ? 0 1 7 5 2 2 0 2 1 2 0 2 0 1
22 Woewodin, Shane ? ? 0 1 19 11 8 2 1 3 5 1 0 1 3 2
13 Yze, Adem ? ? 0 1 24 18 6 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 5 5
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 13 11 294 188 106 84 35 26 34 23 12 13 32 47

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 MELB Brad Green behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 01:22
MELB Shane Woewodin behind 0.0.0 - 0.2.2 01:57
FREM Ben Cunningham behind 0.1.1 - 0.2.2 03:31
FREM Trent Croad goal 1.1.7 - 0.2.2 05:29
MELB Peter Vardy behind 1.1.7 - 0.3.3 06:58
MELB Brad Green goal 1.1.7 - 1.3.9 08:11
MELB Cameron Bruce behind 1.1.7 - 1.4.10 09:25
FREM Trent Croad goal 2.1.13 - 1.4.10 10:27
MELB Rushed behind 2.1.13 - 1.5.11 13:41
FREM Justin Longmuir behind 2.2.14 - 1.5.11 16:20
FREM Rushed behind 2.3.15 - 1.5.11 17:10
MELB Matthew Whelan goal 2.3.15 - 2.5.17 18:02
MELB Russell Robertson behind 2.3.15 - 2.6.18 24:02
FREM Daniel Haines behind 2.4.16 - 2.6.18 24:56
MELB Travis Johnstone goal 2.4.16 - 3.6.24 26:12
MELB David Neitz goal 2.4.16 - 4.6.30 28:48
Q2 MELB Adem Yze behind 2.4.16 - 4.7.31 00:17
FREM Trent Croad goal 3.4.22 - 4.7.31 01:31
FREM Jeff Farmer goal 4.4.28 - 4.7.31 02:30
MELB Travis Johnstone behind 4.4.28 - 4.8.32 06:09
FREM Troy Simmonds behind 4.5.29 - 4.8.32 12:05
MELB Cameron Bruce goal 4.5.29 - 5.8.38 13:47
FREM Troy Simmonds goal 5.5.35 - 5.8.38 14:51
MELB Luke Williams behind 5.5.35 - 5.9.39 21:32
FREM Trent Croad behind 5.6.36 - 5.9.39 22:53
MELB Andrew Leoncelli goal 5.6.36 - 6.9.45 24:29
FREM Andrew Browne behind 5.7.37 - 6.9.45 27:08
FREM Trent Croad behind 5.8.38 - 6.9.45 28:05
Q3 FREM Paul Hasleby goal 6.8.44 - 6.9.45 02:10
FREM Andrew Browne goal 7.8.50 - 6.9.45 03:26
FREM Trent Croad goal 8.8.56 - 6.9.45 05:45
MELB Peter Vardy goal 8.8.56 - 7.9.51 07:54
MELB Rushed behind 8.8.56 - 7.10.52 10:39
FREM Trent Croad goal 9.8.62 - 7.10.52 14:41
MELB Russell Robertson goal 9.8.62 - 8.10.58 18:41
FREM Rushed behind 9.9.63 - 8.10.58 21:14
FREM Daniel Haines behind 9.10.64 - 8.10.58 22:31
MELB Brad Green goal 9.10.64 - 9.10.64 24:12
FREM Trent Croad goal 10.10.70 - 9.10.64 25:24
FREM Trent Croad goal 11.10.76 - 9.10.64 29:06
MELB Matthew Whelan goal 11.10.76 - 10.10.70 30:46
Q4 MELB Travis Johnstone behind 11.10.76 - 10.11.71 04:12
MELB Cameron Bruce goal 11.10.76 - 11.11.77 12:16
MELB Peter Vardy goal 11.10.76 - 12.11.83 14:06
FREM Leigh Brown goal 12.10.82 - 12.11.83 18:16
MELB Peter Vardy goal 12.10.82 - 13.11.89 21:22
FREM Jeff Farmer goal 13.10.88 - 13.11.89 23:41
FREM Jeff Farmer goal 14.10.94 - 13.11.89 27:33