2002 AFL Season Round 13: Essendon v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 28 June 2002 between Essendon and Melbourne during round thirteen of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted Melbourne at Colonial Stadium. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Neale Daniher.

Essendon (18.12.120) defeated Melbourne (16.12.108).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 13
Teams: Essendon v Melbourne
Date: Friday 28 June 2002
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: Colonial Stadium
Attendance: 41,817

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Melbourne
Score: 18.12.120 - 16.12.108

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	7	.	2	12	.	7	17	.	11	18	.	12	18	.	12	(120)
Melbourne	3	.	4	5	.	5	10	.	9	16	.	12	16	.	12	(108)
Margin	ESSE by 22			ESSE by 44			ESSE by 44			ESSE by 12			ESSE by 12
Duration	31:05			29:36			29:35			29:55			2:00:11

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: unknown
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Allen (#10)
M. Ellis
D. Woodcock (#26)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Adam Ramanauskas	ESSE	9	3
Mark McVeigh	ESSE	10	2
Danny Jacobs	ESSE	21	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	2	12	9	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	1	0	26	18	8	9	0	1	1	3	2	2	0	5
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	1	0	11	5	6	6	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	2
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	0	1	15	10	5	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	3	2
31	Fletcher, Dustin	?	?	0	0	17	14	3	3	1	3	1	3	1	0	7	0
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	5	1	0	0	0	2	0
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	2	0	26	18	8	6	0	3	5	1	1	0	5	3
34	Hille, David	?	?	1	1	8	6	2	6	4	0	0	2	0	1	0	1
21	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	27	23	4	13	1	2	3	2	2	0	5	0
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	0	0	10	5	5	2	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	3
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	0	0	18	13	5	7	0	4	0	1	1	0	6	0
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	1	1	14	13	1	6	1	4	1	0	0	0	1	3
12	McAlister, Daniel	?	?	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	3	3	18	13	5	3	0	3	2	2	0	0	1	3
2	Mercuri, Mark	?	?	2	0	9	5	4	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2
29	Moorcroft, Gary	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1
11	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	0	19	7	12	5	1	6	2	0	1	0	5	1
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	3	0	13	9	4	3	0	7	5	1	1	1	1	6
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	1	0	8	6	2	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
4	Salmon, Paul	?	?	1	0	14	8	6	7	13	0	3	4	0	3	2	1
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	2	17	14	3	10	0	1	1	4	0	1	2	9
41	Welsh, Andrew	?	?	0	0	15	11	4	5	0	1	1	0	1	0	5	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				18	12	307	215	92	113	21	49	29	29	13	11	46	48

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Bizzell, Clint	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	5	0
20	Broadbridge, Troy	?	?	0	0	7	6	1	3	2	1	1	3	0	0	1	1
25	Brown, Nathan	?	?	1	1	19	16	3	4	0	0	2	3	0	1	3	6
32	Bruce, Cameron	?	?	1	0	15	7	8	4	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	2
4	Ellis, Craig	?	?	0	0	17	11	6	7	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	3
18	Green, Brad	?	?	1	1	9	8	1	4	0	3	1	3	0	1	0	1
16	Johnstone, Travis	?	?	0	0	20	17	3	6	0	2	3	5	0	1	1	5
11	Jolly, Darren	?	?	0	0	1	0	1	1	7	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
29	Lamb, Chris	?	?	0	0	6	4	2	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	?	?	0	2	20	13	7	4	0	3	4	2	1	1	1	4
23	McDonald, James	?	?	0	0	18	14	4	0	1	3	3	2	1	0	1	7
9	Neitz, David (c)	?	?	5	2	10	9	1	8	1	1	0	3	0	3	0	2
7	Powell, Stephen	?	?	0	0	5	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3
24	Robertson, Russell	?	?	4	1	17	13	4	8	0	0	0	6	1	1	0	6
5	Schwarz, David	?	?	1	0	5	3	2	1	3	0	1	2	0	1	0	2
19	Vardy, Peter	?	?	1	1	11	6	5	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
42	Walsh, Peter	?	?	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	4	2	3	0	2	2	2
10	Ward, Daniel	?	?	0	0	22	12	10	3	0	1	3	3	0	0	3	5
45	Whelan, Matthew	?	?	0	0	13	5	8	3	0	5	0	2	2	0	1	1
34	White, Jeff	?	?	0	0	19	15	4	4	26	1	6	3	3	0	0	6
22	Woewodin, Shane	?	?	2	1	26	15	11	3	0	6	3	1	1	0	5	0
13	Yze, Adem	?	?	0	1	21	17	4	5	0	2	5	3	0	0	1	6
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				16	12	302	207	95	80	41	37	42	49	11	13	27	65

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	Adem Yze behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:22
	MELB	Andrew Leoncelli behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	01:22
	MELB	David Neitz goal	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	02:39
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	03:54
	MELB	David Neitz goal	1.0.6	-	2.2.14	06:11
	ESSE	Justin Blumfield goal	2.0.12	-	2.2.14	07:10
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	2.0.12	-	2.3.15	09:41
	ESSE	David Hille goal	3.0.18	-	2.3.15	11:26
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	4.0.24	-	2.3.15	12:49
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan goal	5.0.30	-	2.3.15	15:29
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	5.1.31	-	2.3.15	17:23
	MELB	David Schwarz goal	5.1.31	-	3.3.21	20:03
	MELB	Nathan Brown behind	5.1.31	-	3.4.22	21:20
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	6.1.37	-	3.4.22	22:37
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	7.1.43	-	3.4.22	25:56
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.2.44	-	3.4.22	30:16
Q2	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	7.3.45	-	3.4.22	01:25
	ESSE	Chris Heffernan goal	8.3.51	-	3.4.22	04:13
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	8.4.52	-	3.4.22	06:02
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	8.4.52	-	4.4.28	07:10
	MELB	Rushed behind	8.4.52	-	4.5.29	10:16
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	9.4.58	-	4.5.29	13:33
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	10.4.64	-	4.5.29	17:05
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	10.5.65	-	4.5.29	19:11
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	10.6.66	-	4.5.29	19:36
	ESSE	Paul Salmon goal	11.6.72	-	4.5.29	23:33
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	12.6.78	-	4.5.29	25:27
	ESSE	Blake Caracella behind	12.7.79	-	4.5.29	27:14
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	12.7.79	-	5.5.35	28:57
Q3	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	13.7.85	-	5.5.35	01:40
	MELB	Brad Green behind	13.7.85	-	5.6.36	04:00
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	14.7.91	-	5.6.36	05:19
	MELB	David Neitz goal	14.7.91	-	6.6.42	07:03
	MELB	Andrew Leoncelli behind	14.7.91	-	6.7.43	09:17
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	14.7.91	-	7.7.49	10:46
	MELB	David Neitz behind	14.7.91	-	7.8.50	11:46
	ESSE	Sean Wellman behind	14.8.92	-	7.8.50	13:02
	MELB	Shane Woewodin goal	14.8.92	-	8.8.56	14:18
	ESSE	Sean Wellman behind	14.9.93	-	8.8.56	15:20
	MELB	Rushed behind	14.9.93	-	8.9.57	16:57
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	15.9.99	-	8.9.57	17:31
	MELB	Brad Green goal	15.9.99	-	9.9.63	18:30
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	16.9.105	-	9.9.63	22:08
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	17.9.111	-	9.9.63	23:18
	ESSE	David Hille behind	17.10.112	-	9.9.63	24:37
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	17.10.112	-	10.9.69	25:51
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	17.11.113	-	10.9.69	29:34
Q4	ESSE	Rushed behind	17.12.114	-	10.9.69	02:03
	MELB	Shane Woewodin behind	17.12.114	-	10.10.70	03:47
	MELB	David Neitz goal	17.12.114	-	11.10.76	04:56
	MELB	Peter Vardy behind	17.12.114	-	11.11.77	08:44
	MELB	David Neitz goal	17.12.114	-	12.11.83	11:26
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	17.12.114	-	13.11.89	15:27
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	18.12.120	-	13.11.89	18:23
	MELB	Shane Woewodin goal	18.12.120	-	14.11.95	19:32
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	18.12.120	-	15.11.101	22:33
	MELB	Nathan Brown goal	18.12.120	-	16.11.107	24:54
	MELB	David Neitz behind	18.12.120	-	16.12.108	26:30

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