2002 AFL Season Round 20: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 18 August 2002 between Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs during round twenty of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted the Western Bulldogs at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. Chris Grant captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Terry Wallace.

Melbourne (15.17.107) defeated the Western Bulldogs (14.11.95).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
Date: Sunday 18 August 2002
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 29,225

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. Western Bulldogs
Score: 15.17.107 - 14.11.95

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	3	.	5	9	.	8	12	.	13	15	.	17	15	.	17	(107)
Western Bulldogs	3	.	1	8	.	2	12	.	8	14	.	11	14	.	11	(95)
Margin	MELB by 4			MELB by 12			MELB by 5			MELB by 12			MELB by 12
Duration	27:53			34:51			28:55			28:05			1:59:44

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Chris Grant
Coach: Terry Wallace

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

A. Coates (#6)
S. McInerney (#30)
D. Morris (#20)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
David Neitz	MELB	9	3
Adem Yze	MELB	13	2
Travis Johnstone	MELB	16	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
2	Armstrong, Steven	?	?	0	0	13	5	8	4	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	4
3	Bizzell, Clint	?	?	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	1
25	Brown, Nathan	?	?	0	0	20	9	11	6	0	0	4	2	0	1	1	5
32	Bruce, Cameron	?	?	0	0	9	9	0	6	0	4	0	1	0	0	5	0
4	Ellis, Craig	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Godfrey, Simon	?	?	0	1	11	5	6	1	0	4	2	4	1	2	0	2
18	Green, Brad	?	?	1	1	26	20	6	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	11
16	Johnstone, Travis	?	?	0	1	15	8	7	4	0	1	4	5	0	2	2	0
11	Jolly, Darren	?	?	0	0	7	2	5	2	6	0	2	1	0	1	0	1
29	Lamb, Chris	?	?	0	0	10	5	5	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	0
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	?	?	0	0	16	9	7	3	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	2
9	Neitz, David (c)	?	?	7	3	17	13	4	12	2	3	1	4	1	1	0	1
7	Powell, Stephen	?	?	0	0	10	4	6	1	2	4	2	2	1	1	2	1
24	Robertson, Russell	?	?	2	3	15	14	1	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
19	Vardy, Peter	?	?	2	2	11	7	4	6	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0
42	Walsh, Peter	?	?	0	0	11	8	3	4	0	3	1	2	0	0	2	1
10	Ward, Daniel	?	?	0	0	12	5	7	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	2
31	Wheatley, Paul	?	?	0	1	17	10	7	5	0	3	0	1	1	0	1	6
45	Whelan, Matthew	?	?	0	0	16	10	6	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	2
34	White, Jeff	?	?	1	1	20	11	9	5	19	3	6	1	0	0	2	4
22	Woewodin, Shane	?	?	1	1	15	6	9	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	1
13	Yze, Adem	?	?	1	0	30	24	6	5	0	4	8	3	0	1	2	11
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				15	17	307	188	119	92	31	37	37	34	6	11	33	59

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
31	Alvey, Mark	?	?	0	1	15	12	3	8	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	7
11	Bandy, Daniel	?	?	0	1	17	6	11	6	8	1	3	1	0	0	2	2
20	Bowden, Patrick	?	?	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Brown, Nathan	?	?	5	2	7	7	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
14	Darcy, Luke	?	?	2	0	22	10	12	9	8	1	6	1	2	0	0	3
28	Dimattina, Paul	?	?	0	0	16	5	11	3	0	1	3	0	2	0	2	1
4	Garlick, Simon	?	?	0	0	22	15	7	5	0	0	4	2	1	1	4	6
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	?	?	0	0	20	11	9	5	0	2	3	1	0	0	1	4
9	Gilbee, Lindsay	?	?	0	0	16	8	8	3	0	2	1	2	0	2	1	2
3	Grant, Chris (c)	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	3	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	1
8	Hahn, Mitch	?	?	0	0	18	8	10	3	1	0	1	2	2	1	3	5
33	Hargrave, Ryan	?	?	1	0	17	8	9	4	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	1
22	Harrison, Ben	?	?	0	0	12	4	8	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	1
25	Hunter, Kingsley	?	?	0	0	4	2	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
6	Johnson, Brad	?	?	2	0	9	8	1	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
35	Kretiuk, Steven	?	?	0	0	7	2	5	1	1	0	1	3	1	1	1	0
23	McMahon, Jordan	?	?	4	1	18	14	4	4	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	4
2	Murphy, Bob	?	?	0	0	19	13	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3
27	Penny, Luke	?	?	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
15	Power, Sam	?	?	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	3
5	Smith, Rohan	?	?	0	1	25	22	3	9	0	0	1	2	0	0	9	6
7	West, Scott	?	?	0	0	20	10	10	1	0	7	5	1	2	0	2	1
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				14	11	313	182	131	85	18	29	32	25	11	6	40	51

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	Nathan Brown goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:37
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	03:09
	MELB	David Neitz behind	0.1.1	-	2.0.12	05:45
	MELB	Shane Woewodin behind	0.2.2	-	2.0.12	11:29
	MELB	David Neitz behind	0.3.3	-	2.0.12	14:13
	WBUL	Jordan McMahon goal	0.3.3	-	3.0.18	15:00
	MELB	Brad Green goal	1.3.9	-	3.0.18	18:12
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	2.3.15	-	3.0.18	19:38
	MELB	David Neitz goal	3.3.21	-	3.0.18	22:36
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	3.4.22	-	3.0.18	23:31
	MELB	Jeff White behind	3.5.23	-	3.0.18	24:23
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	3.5.23	-	3.1.19	27:27
Q2	MELB	David Neitz goal	4.5.29	-	3.1.19	01:44
	MELB	Peter Vardy behind	4.6.30	-	3.1.19	04:56
	WBUL	Luke Darcy goal	4.6.30	-	4.1.25	07:43
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	4.6.30	-	5.1.31	09:15
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	5.6.36	-	5.1.31	10:02
	MELB	Travis Johnstone behind	5.7.37	-	5.1.31	15:52
	WBUL	Jordan McMahon goal	5.7.37	-	6.1.37	16:52
	WBUL	Jordan McMahon goal	5.7.37	-	7.1.43	17:51
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	6.7.43	-	7.1.43	20:24
	MELB	David Neitz goal	7.7.49	-	7.1.43	22:48
	MELB	David Neitz goal	8.7.55	-	7.1.43	24:40
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	8.7.55	-	8.1.49	26:29
	WBUL	Daniel Bandy behind	8.7.55	-	8.2.50	30:41
	MELB	Shane Woewodin goal	9.7.61	-	8.2.50	31:39
	MELB	David Neitz behind	9.8.62	-	8.2.50	34:50
Q3	WBUL	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	8.3.51	01:08
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	9.8.62	-	9.3.57	01:22
	WBUL	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	9.4.58	03:12
	WBUL	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	9.5.59	03:51
	WBUL	Jordan McMahon behind	9.8.62	-	9.6.60	04:31
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	9.8.62	-	10.6.66	08:07
	WBUL	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	10.7.67	09:55
	MELB	David Neitz goal	10.8.68	-	10.7.67	11:01
	MELB	Paul Wheatley behind	10.9.69	-	10.7.67	12:35
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	10.10.70	-	10.7.67	14:28
	MELB	Rushed behind	10.11.71	-	10.7.67	15:30
	MELB	David Neitz goal	11.11.77	-	10.7.67	17:05
	MELB	Peter Vardy goal	12.11.83	-	10.7.67	19:08
	MELB	Peter Vardy behind	12.12.84	-	10.7.67	21:57
	WBUL	Rushed behind	12.12.84	-	10.8.68	23:25
	WBUL	Jordan McMahon goal	12.12.84	-	11.8.74	24:53
	WBUL	Luke Darcy goal	12.12.84	-	12.8.80	26:46
	MELB	Simon Godfrey behind	12.13.85	-	12.8.80	28:14
Q4	MELB	Rushed behind	12.14.86	-	12.8.80	01:20
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	13.14.92	-	12.8.80	02:33
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	13.15.93	-	12.8.80	04:29
	MELB	Jeff White goal	14.15.99	-	12.8.80	08:36
	WBUL	Ryan Hargrave goal	14.15.99	-	13.8.86	10:32
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	14.15.99	-	13.9.87	12:52
	MELB	David Neitz goal	15.15.105	-	13.9.87	15:33
	WBUL	Mark Alvey behind	15.15.105	-	13.10.88	17:01
	WBUL	Rohan Smith behind	15.15.105	-	13.11.89	17:29
	MELB	Brad Green behind	15.16.106	-	13.11.89	19:51
	MELB	Rushed behind	15.17.107	-	13.11.89	21:23
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	15.17.107	-	14.11.95	25:32

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