2002 AFL Season Round 9: Sydney v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 25 May 2002 between Sydney and Essendon during round nine of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Essendon at Telstra Stadium. The hosts were coached by Rodney Eade and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Sydney (11.17.83) were defeated by Essendon (12.13.85).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: Sydney v Essendon
Date: Saturday 25 May 2002
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Telstra Stadium
Attendance: 54,129

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Essendon
Score: 11.17.83 - 12.13.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	3	.	7	4	.	11	8	.	12	11	.	17	11	.	17	(83)
Essendon	6	.	1	7	.	6	9	.	9	12	.	13	12	.	13	(85)
Margin	ESSE by 12			ESSE by 13			ESSE by 3			ESSE by 2			ESSE by 2
Duration	31:38			29:05			30:18			29:21			2:00:22

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Sydney) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Essendon) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Rodney Eade

Essendon

Captain: unknown
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Allen (#10)
M. Head (#16)
M. James (#5)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Steven Alessio	ESSE	27	3
Barry Hall	SYDN	1	2
Mark Mercuri	ESSE	2	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
42	Bennett, Gerrard	?	?	0	0	5	4	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
24	Bolton, Jude	?	?	0	0	10	4	6	2	0	1	3	1	0	1	0	5
26	Brockman, Leigh	?	?	0	0	6	5	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	3
8	Cresswell, Daryn	?	?	0	1	22	15	7	3	0	1	3	3	1	0	4	4
28	Crouch, Jared	?	?	0	0	18	13	5	0	0	4	6	0	0	0	2	4
9	Fixter, Ben	?	?	0	0	10	3	7	1	0	2	3	1	0	1	1	1
12	Fosdike, Nic	?	?	0	0	9	8	1	3	0	1	0	4	0	0	1	2
37	Goodes, Adam	?	?	0	1	9	8	1	2	1	6	1	3	1	2	1	3
1	Hall, Barry	?	?	3	3	17	13	4	9	2	0	0	6	0	3	0	2
31	Kirk, Brett	?	?	0	0	9	2	7	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
4	Mathews, Ben	?	?	0	1	21	14	7	1	0	6	2	3	2	0	3	5
11	Maxfield, Stuart	?	?	1	0	12	11	1	3	0	3	1	2	1	0	3	3
13	McPherson, Daniel	?	?	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
38	Mott, Ricky	?	?	0	1	20	10	10	7	13	1	2	3	2	3	1	1
23	Nicks, Matthew	?	?	4	1	16	12	4	5	2	3	4	2	0	0	2	6
19	O'Loughlin, Michael	?	?	1	2	18	13	5	6	0	4	3	1	1	0	0	4
22	Saddington, Jason	?	?	0	1	11	6	5	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0
25	Schauble, Andrew	?	?	0	0	14	6	8	3	0	2	1	3	1	1	2	2
2	Schwass, Wayne	?	?	0	0	16	11	5	2	0	5	2	2	2	0	3	1
7	Seymour, Brad	?	?	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	2	0	2	1	1	3	1
33	Warfe, Rowan	?	?	0	0	14	8	6	4	0	3	1	1	2	1	2	3
10	Williams, Paul	?	?	2	1	22	16	6	4	0	2	2	4	3	1	4	3
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				11	17	299	194	105	73	22	50	36	44	17	14	33	57

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	3	0	23	18	5	8	10	1	7	2	2	1	2	6
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	1	1	16	14	2	8	0	2	2	1	0	1	0	9
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	1	0	10	7	3	3	0	3	1	2	1	1	0	2
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	0	0	16	7	9	3	0	3	2	5	0	2	0	4
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	19	16	3	2	0	0	1	1	3	0	11	1
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	5	2	3	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1
38	Harvey, Shane	?	?	0	2	3	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	2	0	17	14	3	4	0	2	2	1	1	0	3	2
34	Hille, David	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
21	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	21	16	5	9	0	2	2	5	1	1	4	3
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	0	11	5	6	1	0	2	1	1	1	0	2	3
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	1	1	16	13	3	9	0	4	1	4	1	1	3	5
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	2	0	10	8	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	2	18	13	5	8	0	0	3	2	0	1	3	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	1	1	15	9	6	9	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	3
11	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	0	15	10	5	6	0	3	0	2	1	1	3	1
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	0	0	12	10	2	1	0	1	1	5	2	2	2	4
40	Reynolds, Joel	?	?	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	1	0	12	8	4	1	0	1	1	4	0	1	0	0
4	Salmon, Paul	?	?	0	2	9	6	3	4	19	1	4	1	1	0	0	3
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	10	8	2	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	1
41	Welsh, Andrew	?	?	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				12	13	262	190	72	94	31	30	30	42	14	17	36	52

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	Mark McVeigh behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:05
	SYDN	Daryn Cresswell behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	03:43
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks behind	0.2.2	-	0.1.1	05:28
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	05:59
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	0.2.2	-	2.1.13	07:24
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	0.2.2	-	3.1.19	08:27
	SYDN	Paul Williams behind	0.3.3	-	3.1.19	12:24
	SYDN	Stuart Maxfield goal	1.3.9	-	3.1.19	12:55
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	1.4.10	-	3.1.19	14:21
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan goal	1.4.10	-	4.1.25	15:18
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	1.4.10	-	5.1.31	16:05
	SYDN	Ben Mathews behind	1.5.11	-	5.1.31	21:20
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	1.5.11	-	6.1.37	22:31
	SYDN	Jason Saddington behind	1.6.12	-	6.1.37	24:26
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	2.6.18	-	6.1.37	25:36
	SYDN	Paul Williams goal	3.6.24	-	6.1.37	28:40
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	3.7.25	-	6.1.37	30:01
Q2	SYDN	Rushed behind	3.8.26	-	6.1.37	00:53
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	3.8.26	-	6.2.38	02:58
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	3.9.27	-	6.2.38	07:55
	ESSE	Paul Salmon behind	3.9.27	-	6.3.39	11:09
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	4.9.33	-	6.3.39	14:46
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	4.9.33	-	6.4.40	17:00
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	4.10.34	-	6.4.40	18:26
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	4.10.34	-	7.4.46	19:44
	ESSE	Rushed behind	4.10.34	-	7.5.47	21:14
	ESSE	Rushed behind	4.10.34	-	7.6.48	24:46
	SYDN	Rushed behind	4.11.35	-	7.6.48	25:46
Q3	SYDN	Matthew Nicks goal	5.11.41	-	7.6.48	01:36
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan goal	5.11.41	-	8.6.54	03:24
	ESSE	Mark Johnson behind	5.11.41	-	8.7.55	05:11
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.11.41	-	8.8.56	09:50
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	5.11.41	-	9.8.62	11:02
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.12.42	-	9.8.62	14:08
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	6.12.48	-	9.8.62	16:44
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.12.48	-	9.9.63	20:30
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks goal	7.12.54	-	9.9.63	22:12
	SYDN	Paul Williams goal	8.12.60	-	9.9.63	28:06
Q4	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	8.12.60	-	10.9.69	02:10
	ESSE	Paul Salmon behind	8.12.60	-	10.10.70	05:03
	ESSE	Shane Harvey behind	8.12.60	-	10.11.71	06:11
	ESSE	Shane Harvey behind	8.12.60	-	10.12.72	07:23
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	8.13.61	-	10.12.72	08:53
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	9.13.67	-	10.12.72	09:52
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks goal	10.13.73	-	10.12.72	11:41
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	10.13.73	-	11.12.78	13:22
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	10.13.73	-	12.12.84	15:05
	SYDN	Rushed behind	10.14.74	-	12.12.84	16:37
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	10.14.74	-	12.13.85	21:26
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	10.15.75	-	12.13.85	22:06
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks goal	11.15.81	-	12.13.85	24:25
	SYDN	Ricky Mott behind	11.16.82	-	12.13.85	27:26
	SYDN	Rushed behind	11.17.83	-	12.13.85	29:03

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