2002 AFL Season Round 10: Kangaroos v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 31 May 2002 between the Kangaroos and Essendon during round ten of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. The Kangaroos hosted Essendon at the MCG. Anthony Stevens captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Denis Pagan and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

The Kangaroos (12.20.92) defeated Essendon (12.12.84).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 10
Teams: Kangaroos v Essendon
Date: Friday 31 May 2002
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 34,352

Match Results

Outcome: Kangaroos def. Essendon
Score: 12.20.92 - 12.12.84

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Kangaroos	4	.	5	6	.	11	11	.	16	12	.	20	12	.	20	(92)
Essendon	4	.	3	6	.	6	8	.	10	12	.	12	12	.	12	(84)
Margin	KANG by 2			KANG by 5			KANG by 24			KANG by 8			KANG by 8
Duration	30:52			28:03			31:47			31:41			2:02:23

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Kangaroos

Captain: Anthony Stevens
Coach: Denis Pagan

Essendon

Captain: unknown
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. Jeffery (#29)
S. McBurney
S. McLaren (#11)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Adam Simpson	KANG	7	3
Dustin Fletcher	ESSE	31	2
Adam Ramanauskas	ESSE	9	1

Player Statistics

Kangaroos

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
11	Archer, Glenn	?	?	0	0	12	11	1	7	1	2	0	1	0	0	5	1
38	Baird, John	?	?	1	0	5	3	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2
12	Blakey, John	?	?	0	0	6	5	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1
22	Burton, Matthew	?	?	0	1	8	4	4	3	22	0	2	0	0	0	1	2
23	Clayton, Shane	?	?	0	2	9	7	2	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	3
2	Colbert, Leigh	?	?	0	0	11	9	2	3	0	4	1	0	3	0	1	1
6	Grant, Shannon	?	?	1	0	16	9	7	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	7
39	Harding, Leigh	?	?	0	1	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Harris, Daniel	?	?	0	1	8	6	2	2	0	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
29	Harvey, Brent	?	?	2	0	17	13	4	3	0	2	3	1	1	1	5	3
34	King, David	?	?	1	1	21	18	3	3	0	4	5	2	3	2	3	8
35	Makepeace, Troy	?	?	0	0	18	13	5	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	2
4	Martyn, Mick	?	?	1	1	12	10	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	2
5	McCartney, Jason	?	?	1	2	12	9	3	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	7
32	Morrell, Digby	?	?	2	1	12	8	4	2	0	2	0	1	2	0	0	3
28	Pickett, Byron	?	?	1	2	8	8	0	3	0	5	1	8	0	3	0	4
17	Porter, Mark	?	?	0	1	3	3	0	0	14	4	0	1	0	0	0	1
30	Robbins, Ben	?	?	0	0	22	11	11	2	0	3	7	2	1	0	0	4
26	Rocca, Sav	?	?	1	2	8	6	2	5	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	3
7	Simpson, Adam	?	?	0	0	31	23	8	9	1	5	6	3	1	0	1	5
10	Stevens, Anthony (c)	?	?	1	1	29	24	5	7	0	1	5	4	1	0	5	3
40	Teague, David	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	1	0	3	1	1	1	1	2	1
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				12	20	278	206	72	72	40	45	34	34	15	9	35	65

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	1	0	10	7	3	3	8	5	4	3	1	2	1	1
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	1	1	11	7	4	3	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	4
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	0	0	21	13	8	10	2	7	0	5	1	2	1	3
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	0	0	8	3	5	3	1	3	1	4	0	1	2	0
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	0	0	22	15	7	6	0	1	2	2	0	2	3	4
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	2	0	20	15	5	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	9	1
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	21	10	11	6	0	0	3	1	0	0	4	0
38	Harvey, Shane	?	?	1	1	7	7	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	0	2	10	8	2	1	0	3	0	5	0	2	2	2
21	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	1	1	20	16	4	8	0	1	1	1	1	0	3	1
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	0	15	10	5	0	0	2	6	2	0	1	3	5
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	16	7	9	5	0	1	1	1	1	0	3	0
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	2	1	14	11	3	6	0	0	1	3	0	2	0	3
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	0	5	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	1	2	21	8	13	3	0	1	3	3	0	2	1	3
29	Moorcroft, Gary	?	?	1	0	7	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
11	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	0	14	10	4	1	0	4	3	1	1	0	3	2
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	1	0	32	26	6	8	0	3	5	4	2	0	5	8
40	Reynolds, Joel	?	?	1	3	11	5	6	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
4	Salmon, Paul	?	?	0	0	6	2	4	2	10	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	16	13	3	8	0	3	1	4	1	1	2	5
41	Welsh, Andrew	?	?	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				12	12	310	205	105	82	21	41	38	42	9	15	44	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	Chris Heffernan behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:28
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:24
	KANG	John Baird goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	06:16
	KANG	Anthony Stevens goal	2.0.12	-	1.1.7	07:42
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan behind	2.0.12	-	1.2.8	09:00
	KANG	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	1.2.8	10:01
	ESSE	Joel Reynolds behind	2.1.13	-	1.3.9	12:08
	KANG	Jason McCartney behind	2.2.14	-	1.3.9	13:14
	KANG	Digby Morrell goal	3.2.20	-	1.3.9	14:50
	KANG	Shane Clayton behind	3.3.21	-	1.3.9	19:25
	KANG	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	1.3.9	21:02
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	3.4.22	-	2.3.15	21:38
	ESSE	Dustin Fletcher goal	3.4.22	-	3.3.21	23:50
	KANG	Brent Harvey goal	4.4.28	-	3.3.21	26:39
	KANG	Digby Morrell behind	4.5.29	-	3.3.21	27:40
	ESSE	Joel Reynolds goal	4.5.29	-	4.3.27	28:42
Q2	KANG	Mark Porter behind	4.6.30	-	4.3.27	02:10
	KANG	Sav Rocca behind	4.7.31	-	4.3.27	03:11
	KANG	Jason McCartney behind	4.8.32	-	4.3.27	03:33
	KANG	Byron Pickett goal	5.8.38	-	4.3.27	04:28
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	5.8.38	-	4.4.28	06:40
	KANG	Sav Rocca behind	5.9.39	-	4.4.28	07:50
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	5.9.39	-	4.5.29	13:36
	KANG	Mick Martyn behind	5.10.40	-	4.5.29	15:08
	KANG	Mick Martyn goal	6.10.46	-	4.5.29	19:14
	ESSE	Joel Reynolds behind	6.10.46	-	4.6.30	21:11
	ESSE	Shane Harvey goal	6.10.46	-	5.6.36	23:07
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	6.10.46	-	6.6.42	25:55
	KANG	Rushed behind	6.11.47	-	6.6.42	27:22
Q3	KANG	Daniel Harris behind	6.12.48	-	6.6.42	06:15
	KANG	Anthony Stevens behind	6.13.49	-	6.6.42	06:44
	KANG	Sav Rocca goal	7.13.55	-	6.6.42	09:31
	KANG	Brent Harvey goal	8.13.61	-	6.6.42	12:01
	KANG	Shannon Grant goal	9.13.67	-	6.6.42	13:11
	ESSE	Danny Jacobs behind	9.13.67	-	6.7.43	17:39
	KANG	David King behind	9.14.68	-	6.7.43	18:25
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	9.14.68	-	7.7.49	19:22
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	9.14.68	-	8.7.55	22:59
	KANG	David King goal	10.14.74	-	8.7.55	24:05
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	10.14.74	-	8.8.56	25:42
	KANG	Leigh Harding behind	10.15.75	-	8.8.56	26:33
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.15.75	-	8.9.57	27:40
	ESSE	Joel Reynolds behind	10.15.75	-	8.10.58	28:27
	KANG	Matthew Burton behind	10.16.76	-	8.10.58	29:37
	KANG	Digby Morrell goal	11.16.82	-	8.10.58	31:46
Q4	ESSE	Gary Moorcroft goal	11.16.82	-	9.10.64	03:01
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	11.16.82	-	10.10.70	06:58
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	11.16.82	-	10.11.71	08:35
	ESSE	Danny Jacobs goal	11.16.82	-	11.11.77	09:31
	KANG	Byron Pickett behind	11.17.83	-	11.11.77	14:06
	KANG	Byron Pickett behind	11.18.84	-	11.11.77	15:10
	KANG	Rushed behind	11.19.85	-	11.11.77	19:48
	ESSE	Shane Harvey behind	11.19.85	-	11.12.78	21:02
	ESSE	Dustin Fletcher goal	11.19.85	-	12.12.84	22:08
	KANG	Shane Clayton behind	11.20.86	-	12.12.84	24:48
	KANG	Jason McCartney goal	12.20.92	-	12.12.84	29:48

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