2002 AFL Season Round 21: Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 24 August 2002 between Melbourne and Sydney during round twenty-one of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Sydney at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. Paul Kelly captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Paul Roos.

Melbourne (11.11.77) were defeated by Sydney (23.7.145).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Melbourne v Sydney
Date: Saturday 24 August 2002
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 27,146

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Sydney
Score: 11.11.77 - 23.7.145

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	1	.	2	4	.	6	7	.	8	11	.	11	11	.	11	(77)
Sydney	6	.	3	12	.	3	17	.	5	23	.	7	23	.	7	(145)
Margin	SYDN by 31			SYDN by 45			SYDN by 57			SYDN by 68			SYDN by 68
Duration	29:42			30:36			33:09			31:06			2:04:33

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 (Sydney) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Sydney

Captain: Paul Kelly
Coach: Paul Roos (caretaker)

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Baldwin (#1)
S. McInerney (#30)
C. Mitchell (#4)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Barry Hall	SYDN	1	3
Daryn Cresswell	SYDN	8	2
Tadhg Kennelly	SYDN	17	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Bizzell, Clint	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	6	0	1	1	3	1	0	3	3
25	Brown, Nathan	?	?	0	2	29	13	16	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	5
32	Bruce, Cameron	?	?	1	0	20	10	10	6	3	1	2	1	0	1	1	1
15	Funcke, Ross	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Godfrey, Simon	?	?	0	0	6	3	3	2	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
18	Green, Brad	?	?	0	0	9	3	6	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	1
16	Johnstone, Travis	?	?	0	0	14	11	3	2	0	2	2	3	1	1	0	2
11	Jolly, Darren	?	?	1	0	5	1	4	0	5	1	1	0	2	0	0	0
29	Lamb, Chris	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	?	?	0	0	19	9	10	5	0	7	4	2	0	1	2	2
9	Neitz, David (c)	?	?	3	1	9	5	4	5	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0
7	Powell, Stephen	?	?	1	0	26	13	13	5	0	3	3	3	2	0	4	4
24	Robertson, Russell	?	?	2	1	12	10	2	6	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	4
19	Vardy, Peter	?	?	0	0	8	4	4	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	4
42	Walsh, Peter	?	?	0	0	16	10	6	2	0	3	2	3	1	1	6	1
10	Ward, Daniel	?	?	0	0	19	12	7	4	0	6	1	0	3	0	3	4
31	Wheatley, Paul	?	?	2	0	18	10	8	7	0	2	0	4	0	0	2	4
45	Whelan, Matthew	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	3	0	2	2	0	2	0	2	0
34	White, Jeff	?	?	0	1	14	11	3	7	42	4	5	1	3	0	1	5
26	Williams, Luke	?	?	0	0	13	6	7	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
22	Woewodin, Shane	?	?	1	0	15	7	8	3	0	3	2	1	3	1	2	1
13	Yze, Adem	?	?	0	1	26	24	2	4	0	2	7	3	0	0	1	7
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				11	11	315	182	133	77	50	50	36	36	21	8	33	51

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Barry, Leo	?	?	0	0	9	6	3	0	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	0
24	Bolton, Jude	?	?	0	0	15	4	11	2	0	5	3	1	0	0	0	3
8	Cresswell, Daryn	?	?	3	0	26	15	11	7	1	2	5	2	1	1	1	6
28	Crouch, Jared	?	?	0	0	14	7	7	1	0	4	5	0	0	0	2	4
6	Dunkley, Andrew	?	?	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
9	Fixter, Ben	?	?	0	0	9	6	3	2	0	7	0	1	1	0	1	2
12	Fosdike, Nic	?	?	0	1	21	13	8	4	0	0	2	2	1	1	1	3
37	Goodes, Adam	?	?	3	0	11	10	1	1	17	4	3	5	1	4	1	7
1	Hall, Barry	?	?	7	3	19	17	2	11	3	0	1	3	0	2	0	4
14	Kelly, Paul (c)	?	?	1	0	16	10	6	4	0	5	1	2	0	1	1	3
17	Kennelly, Tadhg	?	?	1	0	20	13	7	5	0	1	1	4	0	2	2	7
31	Kirk, Brett	?	?	1	0	19	8	11	4	1	2	3	2	1	1	1	1
4	Mathews, Ben	?	?	0	0	11	5	6	2	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	0
13	McPherson, Daniel	?	?	0	0	9	6	3	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2
23	Nicks, Matthew	?	?	0	0	7	6	1	2	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	3
5	O'Keefe, Ryan	?	?	2	0	6	3	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1
19	O'Loughlin, Michael	?	?	4	0	13	6	7	6	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	2
22	Saddington, Jason	?	?	0	0	10	7	3	5	3	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
25	Schauble, Andrew	?	?	1	1	8	6	2	5	2	0	0	2	0	2	2	0
7	Seymour, Brad	?	?	0	0	11	2	9	1	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	2
35	Sundqvist, Jarrad	?	?	0	0	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
10	Williams, Paul	?	?	0	0	30	17	13	2	0	6	3	4	0	1	8	4
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				23	7	294	172	122	72	29	47	34	36	8	21	32	57

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	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:15
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	05:01
	SYDN	Tadhg Kennelly goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	08:03
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	11:18
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	12:47
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	14:18
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	1.1.7	-	3.2.20	15:54
	SYDN	Nic Fosdike behind	1.1.7	-	3.3.21	19:17
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	1.1.7	-	4.3.27	21:36
	SYDN	Daryn Cresswell goal	1.1.7	-	5.3.33	24:51
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	1.1.7	-	6.3.39	26:19
	MELB	Nathan Brown behind	1.2.8	-	6.3.39	28:25
Q2	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe goal	1.2.8	-	7.3.45	03:17
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	1.2.8	-	8.3.51	05:56
	MELB	Stephen Powell goal	2.2.14	-	8.3.51	08:25
	MELB	Jeff White behind	2.3.15	-	8.3.51	10:19
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	2.4.16	-	8.3.51	11:09
	MELB	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	8.3.51	12:39
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	2.5.17	-	9.3.57	14:52
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	2.5.17	-	10.3.63	16:30
	MELB	Shane Woewodin goal	3.5.23	-	10.3.63	19:12
	MELB	David Neitz goal	4.5.29	-	10.3.63	23:03
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	4.5.29	-	11.3.69	24:49
	SYDN	Brett Kirk goal	4.5.29	-	12.3.75	26:29
	MELB	Nathan Brown behind	4.6.30	-	12.3.75	27:28
Q3	SYDN	Andrew Schauble goal	4.6.30	-	13.3.81	00:23
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe goal	4.6.30	-	14.3.87	01:45
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	4.6.30	-	15.3.93	03:21
	SYDN	Andrew Schauble behind	4.6.30	-	15.4.94	09:23
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	4.6.30	-	16.4.100	10:55
	MELB	Darren Jolly goal	5.6.36	-	16.4.100	12:56
	MELB	Paul Wheatley goal	6.6.42	-	16.4.100	14:18
	SYDN	Daryn Cresswell goal	6.6.42	-	17.4.106	17:07
	MELB	Paul Wheatley goal	7.6.48	-	17.4.106	19:59
	MELB	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	17.4.106	24:52
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	7.8.50	-	17.4.106	26:43
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	7.8.50	-	17.5.107	30:16
Q4	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	8.8.56	-	17.5.107	00:57
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	8.8.56	-	18.5.113	04:29
	MELB	David Neitz behind	8.9.57	-	18.5.113	06:05
	MELB	David Neitz goal	9.9.63	-	18.5.113	08:36
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	9.9.63	-	19.5.119	09:47
	SYDN	Daryn Cresswell goal	9.9.63	-	20.5.125	12:41
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.10.64	-	20.5.125	14:07
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	9.10.64	-	21.5.131	16:30
	SYDN	Paul Kelly goal	9.10.64	-	22.5.137	18:25
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.11.65	-	22.5.137	20:02
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	9.11.65	-	22.6.138	21:10
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	10.11.71	-	22.6.138	22:15
	MELB	David Neitz goal	11.11.77	-	22.6.138	23:50
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	11.11.77	-	22.7.139	27:28
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	11.11.77	-	23.7.145	28:30

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