2002 AFL Round 14: Western Bulldogs v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 6 July 2002 between Western Bulldogs and Essendon during round 14 of the 2002 AFL season. Western Bulldogs hosted Essendon at Colonial Stadium. Chris Grant captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Terry Wallace and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Western Bulldogs
C. Grant (capt.), M. Alvey, D. Bandy, S. Birss, N. Brown, M. Croft, D. Cross, L. Darcy, N. Eagleton, S. Garlick, D. Giansiracusa, R. Hargrave, B. Harrison, K. Hunter, B. Johnson, S. Kretiuk, K. McGuinness, J. McMahon, B. Murphy, N. Saunders, R. Smith, S. West

Essendon
J. Hird (capt.), S. Alessio, J. Bannister, P. Barnard, J. Blumfield, M. Bolton, B. Caracella, R. Forster-Knight, C. Heffernan, D. Jacobs, J. Johnson, M. Johnson, M. Lloyd, S. Lucas, M. McVeigh, D. Peverill, A. Ramanauskas, J. Reynolds, D. Rioli, P. Salmon, S. Wellman, A. Welsh

Western Bulldogs (18.10.118) drew with Essendon (17.16.118).

Goalkickers
Western Bulldogs: N. Brown (4), L. Darcy (3), K. McGuinness (3), D. Bandy (2), B. Johnson (2), M. Alvey, C. Grant, K. Hunter, R. Smith
Essendon: M. Lloyd (5), B. Caracella (2), D. Rioli (2), S. Alessio, J. Blumfield, D. Jacobs, S. Lucas, A. Ramanauskas, J. Reynolds, P. Salmon, S. Wellman

As a result of this match, Western Bulldogs were then 11th on the ladder (down from 9th) and Essendon were then 4th on the ladder (up from 5th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 14
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Essendon
Date: Saturday 6 July 2002
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Colonial Stadium
Attendance: 44,864

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs drew with Essendon
Score: 18.10.118 - 17.16.118

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Western Bulldogs 3 . 3 9 . 5 14 . 6 18 . 10 18 . 10 (118)
Essendon 5 . 4 8 . 9 13 . 13 17 . 16 17 . 16 (118)
Margin ESSE by 13 WBUL by 2 ESSE by 1 level drawn
Duration 28:21 29:24 32:31 30:33 2:00:49

Honour Roll

Coaches: Terry Wallace (Western Bulldogs), Kevin Sheedy (Essendon)
Captains: Chris Grant (Western Bulldogs), James Hird (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. McBurney, S. McInerney (#30), B. Sheehan (#9)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Luke Darcy WBUL 14 3
Nathan Brown WBUL 17 2
James Hird ESSE 5 1

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
31 Alvey, Mark ? ? 1 0 13 11 2 5 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 5
11 Bandy, Daniel ? ? 2 2 27 19 8 16 5 2 0 3 1 0 1 10
40 Birss, Shane ? ? 0 0 3 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
17 Brown, Nathan ? ? 4 1 25 14 11 8 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 4
16 Croft, Matthew ? ? 0 0 22 14 8 8 0 1 2 3 2 1 7 1
38 Cross, Daniel ? ? 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
14 Darcy, Luke ? ? 3 1 29 18 11 10 13 2 11 4 3 2 1 7
10 Eagleton, Nathan ? ? 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
4 Garlick, Simon ? ? 0 0 21 19 2 9 0 9 6 2 1 0 5 7
13 Giansiracusa, Daniel ? ? 0 0 16 13 3 8 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 3
3 Grant, Chris (c) ? ? 1 0 13 9 4 6 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 2
33 Hargrave, Ryan ? ? 0 0 8 3 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
22 Harrison, Ben ? ? 0 0 15 13 2 8 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 1
25 Hunter, Kingsley ? ? 1 0 12 8 4 7 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0
6 Johnson, Brad ? ? 2 1 20 13 7 7 0 1 4 0 0 0 3 3
35 Kretiuk, Steven ? ? 0 0 3 3 0 2 0 2 0 4 0 4 0 0
29 McGuinness, Kieran ? ? 3 2 7 5 2 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
23 McMahon, Jordan ? ? 0 0 11 7 4 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 6
2 Murphy, Bob ? ? 0 1 18 14 4 11 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 2
12 Saunders, Nathan ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Smith, Rohan ? ? 1 1 9 6 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
7 West, Scott ? ? 0 0 21 10 11 3 0 3 3 4 1 1 0 2
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 18 10 298 203 95 122 18 31 31 32 15 13 37 57

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
27 Alessio, Steven ? ? 1 1 14 10 4 4 18 3 6 3 2 1 1 2
36 Bannister, Jordan ? ? 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
16 Barnard, Paul ? ? 0 3 14 8 6 4 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 3
32 Blumfield, Justin ? ? 1 1 12 7 5 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 4
23 Bolton, Mark ? ? 0 0 10 5 5 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0
33 Caracella, Blake ? ? 2 2 23 15 8 8 0 1 0 3 1 2 3 3
15 Forster-Knight, Robert ? ? 0 0 4 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 2
26 Heffernan, Chris ? ? 0 0 9 5 4 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 1
5 Hird, James (c) ? ? 0 1 25 18 7 8 0 1 3 2 0 1 5 8
21 Jacobs, Danny ? ? 1 0 12 10 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
14 Johnson, Jason ? ? 0 1 23 17 6 6 0 3 7 5 1 2 1 10
1 Johnson, Mark ? ? 0 0 6 3 3 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 0
18 Lloyd, Matthew ? ? 5 2 17 12 5 8 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 5
25 Lucas, Scott ? ? 1 0 18 16 2 7 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 5
10 McVeigh, Mark ? ? 0 0 12 9 3 4 0 2 5 0 0 0 1 4
11 Peverill, Damien ? ? 0 1 19 12 7 7 0 4 8 0 1 0 2 4
9 Ramanauskas, Adam ? ? 1 0 17 11 6 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 2
40 Reynolds, Joel ? ? 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
43 Rioli, Dean ? ? 2 0 11 11 0 3 1 5 0 1 0 0 0 4
4 Salmon, Paul ? ? 1 0 7 4 3 4 7 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
6 Wellman, Sean ? ? 1 1 16 13 3 7 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 1
41 Welsh, Andrew ? ? 0 0 10 7 3 1 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 2
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 17 16 282 199 83 96 26 28 37 30 13 15 33 62

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 WBUL Kieran McGuinness behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 03:04
ESSE Blake Caracella goal 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 04:06
ESSE Adam Ramanauskas goal 0.1.1 - 2.0.12 06:35
ESSE Paul Barnard behind 0.1.1 - 2.1.13 08:26
ESSE Paul Barnard behind 0.1.1 - 2.2.14 10:38
WBUL Kieran McGuinness goal 1.1.7 - 2.2.14 12:05
ESSE Jason Johnson behind 1.1.7 - 2.3.15 13:05
WBUL Rushed behind 1.2.8 - 2.3.15 13:58
WBUL Rohan Smith goal 2.2.14 - 2.3.15 14:42
ESSE Dean Rioli goal 2.2.14 - 3.3.21 15:33
WBUL Nathan Brown behind 2.3.15 - 3.3.21 16:23
ESSE Paul Salmon goal 2.3.15 - 4.3.27 17:53
ESSE Scott Lucas goal 2.3.15 - 5.3.33 24:25
WBUL Brad Johnson goal 3.3.21 - 5.3.33 26:45
ESSE Damien Peverill behind 3.3.21 - 5.4.34 28:07
Q2 ESSE Paul Barnard behind 3.3.21 - 5.5.35 01:27
WBUL Nathan Brown goal 4.3.27 - 5.5.35 02:33
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 4.3.27 - 6.5.41 04:50
WBUL Kieran McGuinness goal 5.3.33 - 6.5.41 07:39
WBUL Luke Darcy behind 5.4.34 - 6.5.41 09:11
ESSE Steven Alessio behind 5.4.34 - 6.6.42 11:06
WBUL Nathan Brown goal 6.4.40 - 6.6.42 12:36
ESSE Matthew Lloyd behind 6.4.40 - 6.7.43 17:19
WBUL Kieran McGuinness goal 7.4.46 - 6.7.43 18:17
ESSE Blake Caracella goal 7.4.46 - 7.7.49 19:14
ESSE Rushed behind 7.4.46 - 7.8.50 20:16
WBUL Daniel Bandy behind 7.5.47 - 7.8.50 22:05
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 7.5.47 - 8.8.56 23:44
WBUL Chris Grant goal 8.5.53 - 8.8.56 25:23
WBUL Brad Johnson goal 9.5.59 - 8.8.56 27:23
ESSE Blake Caracella behind 9.5.59 - 8.9.57 29:10
Q3 ESSE Sean Wellman behind 9.5.59 - 8.10.58 00:46
ESSE Rushed behind 9.5.59 - 8.11.59 02:33
ESSE Joel Reynolds goal 9.5.59 - 9.11.65 06:04
WBUL Nathan Brown goal 10.5.65 - 9.11.65 07:43
WBUL Nathan Brown goal 11.5.71 - 9.11.65 10:05
ESSE Justin Blumfield behind 11.5.71 - 9.12.66 11:25
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 11.5.71 - 10.12.72 12:53
WBUL Kingsley Hunter goal 12.5.77 - 10.12.72 15:40
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 12.5.77 - 11.12.78 18:11
WBUL Rohan Smith behind 12.6.78 - 11.12.78 20:49
ESSE Justin Blumfield goal 12.6.78 - 12.12.84 21:47
ESSE James Hird behind 12.6.78 - 12.13.85 23:18
WBUL Luke Darcy goal 13.6.84 - 12.13.85 24:20
ESSE Dean Rioli goal 13.6.84 - 13.13.91 25:26
WBUL Mark Alvey goal 14.6.90 - 13.13.91 27:45
Q4 WBUL Daniel Bandy behind 14.7.91 - 13.13.91 00:56
WBUL Brad Johnson behind 14.8.92 - 13.13.91 02:24
ESSE Steven Alessio goal 14.8.92 - 14.13.97 03:20
ESSE Sean Wellman goal 14.8.92 - 15.13.103 05:24
ESSE Danny Jacobs goal 14.8.92 - 16.13.109 07:25
WBUL Daniel Bandy goal 15.8.98 - 16.13.109 08:58
ESSE Matthew Lloyd goal 15.8.98 - 17.13.115 12:17
ESSE Blake Caracella behind 15.8.98 - 17.14.116 14:15
WBUL Kieran McGuinness behind 15.9.99 - 17.14.116 15:30
ESSE Rushed behind 15.9.99 - 17.15.117 16:53
WBUL Luke Darcy goal 16.9.105 - 17.15.117 18:31
WBUL Daniel Bandy goal 17.9.111 - 17.15.117 20:04
WBUL Bob Murphy behind 17.10.112 - 17.15.117 23:50
WBUL Luke Darcy goal 18.10.118 - 17.15.117 25:51
ESSE Matthew Lloyd behind 18.10.118 - 17.16.118 30:32