2002 AFL Season Semi Final 1: Port Adelaide v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 13 September 2002 between Port Adelaide and Essendon in the first semi final of the 2002 season of the Australian Football League. Port Adelaide hosted Essendon at AAMI Stadium. Matthew Primus captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mark Williams and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Port Adelaide (11.17.83) defeated Essendon (8.11.59).

Match Details

Season: 2002 AFL Season
Round: First Semi Final
Teams: Port Adelaide v Essendon
Date: Friday 13 September 2002
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: AAMI Stadium
Attendance: 27,661

Match Results

Outcome: Port Adelaide def. Essendon
Score: 11.17.83 - 8.11.59

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Port Adelaide	3	.	5	3	.	8	9	.	12	11	.	17	11	.	17	(83)
Essendon	3	.	4	5	.	8	6	.	8	8	.	11	8	.	11	(59)
Margin	PADL by 1			ESSE by 12			PADL by 22			PADL by 24			PADL by 24
Duration	31:10			25:21			30:13			27:01			1:53:45

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Port Adelaide

Captain: Matthew Primus
Coach: Mark Williams

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Allen (#10)
G. Dore (#19)
S. McBurney

Player Statistics

Port Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
19	Bishop, Matthew	CHB	?	0	0	17	13	4	7	0	0	0	3	1	2	4	1
7	Burgoyne, Peter	FPR	?	2	1	6	5	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
8	Burgoyne, Shaun	FPL	?	0	1	10	6	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	1
9	Carr, Josh	C	?	0	0	18	14	4	1	0	7	2	2	1	1	2	3
12	Cockatoo-Collins, Che	INT	?	1	2	12	11	1	7	0	3	0	1	3	0	0	5
35	Cornes, Chad	FF	?	1	2	23	17	6	13	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	5
18	Cornes, Kane	INT	?	0	1	24	18	6	8	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	4
17	Dew, Stuart	HFFL	?	3	2	17	14	3	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	2
10	Francou, Josh	RO	?	0	0	17	9	8	3	0	2	5	3	0	2	0	5
31	French, Barnaby	INT	?	0	0	9	3	6	4	4	1	1	1	1	0	2	1
11	Hardwick, Damien	HBFR	?	0	1	9	5	4	3	0	2	0	2	2	1	1	0
38	James, Roger	WL	?	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
29	Kingsley, Adam	BPR	?	0	0	9	6	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
5	Lade, Brendon	INT	?	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
3	Montgomery, Brett	HBFL	?	0	0	15	8	7	5	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	3
14	Paxman, Stephen	FB	?	0	1	9	7	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0
27	Poulton, Jared	BPL	?	0	1	8	7	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
1	Primus, Matthew (c)	RU	?	0	1	16	7	9	4	17	2	3	1	2	1	1	2
6	Schofield, Jarrad	WR	?	0	0	21	15	6	7	0	3	1	3	0	0	0	7
36	Stevens, Nick	RR	?	2	0	27	19	8	3	0	2	4	1	0	0	3	7
16	Tredrea, Warren	CHF	?	2	2	21	13	8	10	0	2	0	1	2	0	0	3
4	Wanganeen, Gavin	HFFR	?	0	1	21	19	2	6	0	2	2	1	2	0	3	1
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				11	17	311	218	93	103	22	36	24	28	17	11	27	55

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	?	?	1	0	4	1	3	0	11	2	0	2	2	2	0	0
16	Barnard, Paul	?	?	2	1	11	7	4	2	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	2
32	Blumfield, Justin	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	2	1	3	0	2	0	1	2	1
23	Bolton, Mark	?	?	0	0	6	4	2	3	0	0	0	4	1	2	0	3
33	Caracella, Blake	?	?	1	2	21	13	8	6	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	3
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
26	Heffernan, Chris	?	?	0	0	10	9	1	2	0	8	2	1	2	1	0	2
5	Hird, James (c)	?	?	0	0	13	8	5	0	0	3	3	2	0	1	0	3
21	Jacobs, Danny	?	?	0	0	10	9	1	4	0	3	0	2	1	1	2	3
14	Johnson, Jason	?	?	1	0	23	15	8	3	0	4	9	1	1	0	3	1
1	Johnson, Mark	?	?	1	1	23	11	12	7	2	8	2	2	0	0	5	1
25	Lucas, Scott	?	?	0	0	16	12	4	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	3
28	McGrath, Cory	?	?	0	0	6	4	2	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	3
10	McVeigh, Mark	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	3	2	1	0	0	1	0
24	Misiti, Joe	?	?	0	0	23	12	11	7	0	4	5	1	0	0	2	2
29	Moorcroft, Gary	?	?	0	1	3	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
11	Peverill, Damien	?	?	0	0	26	8	18	3	0	1	1	2	0	1	4	1
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	?	?	1	2	20	18	2	9	0	2	0	2	2	1	3	3
43	Rioli, Dean	?	?	1	3	15	10	5	5	1	1	4	1	0	1	1	2
4	Salmon, Paul	?	?	0	0	6	4	2	2	13	1	1	3	0	2	0	2
6	Wellman, Sean	?	?	0	0	18	11	7	6	0	1	1	3	0	2	3	2
41	Welsh, Andrew	?	?	0	0	12	9	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	4
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				8	11	292	182	110	79	28	50	31	39	11	17	35	42

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

Player Line-Up

Port Adelaide

Coach: Mark Williams

BACK

FOLLOWER

INTERCHANGE

M. Primus (c)

FORWARD

HALF-BACK

HALF-FORWARD

CENTRE

J. Schofield

J. Carr

R. James

FOLLOWER

INTERCHANGE

CENTRE

HALF-FORWARD

D. Hardwick

M. Bishop

B. Montgomery

HALF-BACK

FORWARD

A. Kingsley

S. Paxman

J. Poulton

BACK

Essendon

Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	03:59
	ESSE	Gary Moorcroft behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	05:02
	ESSE	Dean Rioli behind	0.0.0	-	0.3.3	06:23
	PADL	Peter Burgoyne goal	1.0.6	-	0.3.3	08:01
	PADL	Peter Burgoyne goal	2.0.12	-	0.3.3	10:32
	PADL	Stuart Dew goal	3.0.18	-	0.3.3	11:31
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	3.0.18	-	1.3.9	13:42
	PADL	Warren Tredrea behind	3.1.19	-	1.3.9	17:02
	ESSE	Dean Rioli behind	3.1.19	-	1.4.10	18:37
	PADL	Brendon Lade behind	3.2.20	-	1.4.10	20:31
	PADL	Stuart Dew behind	3.3.21	-	1.4.10	21:43
	PADL	Matthew Primus behind	3.4.22	-	1.4.10	22:28
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	3.4.22	-	2.4.16	25:59
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	3.4.22	-	3.4.22	27:27
	PADL	Che Cockatoo-Collins behind	3.5.23	-	3.4.22	30:23
Q2	PADL	Shaun Burgoyne behind	3.6.24	-	3.4.22	02:55
	PADL	Peter Burgoyne behind	3.7.25	-	3.4.22	04:59
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.7.25	-	3.5.23	06:28
	ESSE	Blake Caracella goal	3.7.25	-	4.5.29	12:44
	ESSE	Dean Rioli behind	3.7.25	-	4.6.30	14:22
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas behind	3.7.25	-	4.7.31	15:33
	ESSE	Mark Johnson behind	3.7.25	-	4.8.32	21:35
	PADL	Chad Cornes behind	3.8.26	-	4.8.32	23:09
	ESSE	Dean Rioli goal	3.8.26	-	5.8.38	24:41
Q3	PADL	Stuart Dew goal	4.8.32	-	5.8.38	02:17
	PADL	Stephen Paxman behind	4.9.33	-	5.8.38	06:58
	PADL	Che Cockatoo-Collins behind	4.10.34	-	5.8.38	07:39
	ESSE	Paul Barnard goal	4.10.34	-	6.8.44	10:04
	PADL	Kane Cornes behind	4.11.35	-	6.8.44	12:29
	PADL	Stuart Dew goal	5.11.41	-	6.8.44	13:35
	PADL	Warren Tredrea goal	6.11.47	-	6.8.44	21:33
	PADL	Nick Stevens goal	7.11.53	-	6.8.44	22:34
	PADL	Nick Stevens goal	8.11.59	-	6.8.44	24:43
	PADL	Chad Cornes goal	9.11.65	-	6.8.44	26:32
	PADL	Chad Cornes behind	9.12.66	-	6.8.44	28:09
Q4	PADL	Stuart Dew behind	9.13.67	-	6.8.44	00:47
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas goal	9.13.67	-	7.8.50	02:06
	PADL	Warren Tredrea behind	9.14.68	-	7.8.50	04:09
	PADL	Gavin Wanganeen behind	9.15.69	-	7.8.50	08:25
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	9.15.69	-	8.8.56	09:42
	PADL	Jared Poulton behind	9.16.70	-	8.8.56	12:25
	ESSE	Blake Caracella behind	9.16.70	-	8.9.57	13:43
	ESSE	Blake Caracella behind	9.16.70	-	8.10.58	14:07
	PADL	Che Cockatoo-Collins goal	10.16.76	-	8.10.58	16:45
	PADL	Warren Tredrea goal	11.16.82	-	8.10.58	19:28
	ESSE	Paul Barnard behind	11.16.82	-	8.11.59	21:41
	PADL	Damien Hardwick behind	11.17.83	-	8.11.59	26:55

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