2003 AFL Season Round 4: Western Bulldogs v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 19 April 2003 between the Western Bulldogs and Essendon during round four of the 2003 season of the Australian Football League. The Western Bulldogs hosted Essendon at Telstra Dome. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Peter Rohde and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

The Western Bulldogs (16.14.110) were defeated by Essendon (20.9.129).

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Essendon
Date: Saturday 19 April 2003
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Telstra Dome
Attendance: 35,238

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. by Essendon
Score: 16.14.110 - 20.9.129

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Western Bulldogs	5	.	4	8	.	8	12	.	12	16	.	14	16	.	14	(110)
Essendon	3	.	2	9	.	4	15	.	6	20	.	9	20	.	9	(129)
Margin	WBUL by 14			ESSE by 2			ESSE by 12			ESSE by 19			ESSE by 19
Duration	29:27			29:31			29:31			31:31			2:00:00

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Western Bulldogs

Captain: unknown
Coach: Peter Rohde

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. Jeffery (#29)
S. McInerney (#30)
K. Nicholls

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
David Hille	ESSE	19	3
Matthew Lloyd	ESSE	18	2
Nathan Brown	WBUL	17	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	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	INT	15%	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Bandy, Daniel	CHF	100%	0	1	17	7	10	7	7	0	0	3	0	1	0	3
12	Bassett, Scott	FB	100%	0	0	9	2	7	3	0	3	3	3	1	2	2	1
20	Bowden, Patrick	INT	48%	1	0	11	7	4	5	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	4
17	Brown, Nathan	FF	100%	5	6	20	16	4	7	0	4	0	4	2	0	0	4
16	Croft, Matthew	FPL	100%	0	0	7	3	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
38	Cross, Daniel	INT	29%	0	0	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2
14	Darcy, Luke	RU	100%	0	0	24	12	12	7	20	5	5	4	1	1	1	5
28	Dimattina, Paul	HBFR	97%	0	1	22	12	10	5	0	3	3	2	2	1	5	5
4	Garlick, Simon	WR	100%	2	2	19	14	5	5	0	1	2	0	1	0	2	3
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	RR	100%	0	0	24	15	9	6	0	1	2	1	1	0	1	2
8	Hahn, Mitch	BPR	90%	1	2	17	14	3	4	1	4	2	5	1	0	1	3
25	Hargrave, Ryan	INT	75%	0	0	9	5	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	2
6	Johnson, Brad	RO	100%	3	0	22	15	7	5	0	2	1	6	0	1	0	3
29	McGuinness, Kieran	FPR	78%	1	0	14	7	7	5	0	1	2	3	1	0	3	1
23	McMahon, Jordan	HFFL	77%	1	0	9	4	5	2	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
2	Murphy, Bob	HBFL	100%	0	0	21	16	5	9	0	2	1	1	1	0	3	5
15	Power, Sam	HFFR	80%	0	0	14	9	5	5	0	1	0	2	1	0	3	1
30	Robbins, Matthew	BPL	25%	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
34	Skipper, Wayde	CHB	92%	0	1	15	6	9	3	0	1	0	5	1	1	0	6
5	Smith, Rohan	WL	100%	2	0	24	17	7	4	0	1	1	5	1	2	6	3
7	West, Scott	C	95%	0	0	28	8	20	4	0	3	9	1	1	0	0	5
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				16	14	334	194	140	91	30	38	32	53	15	10	30	60

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	FPR	45%	1	0	4	4	0	2	5	0	1	2	0	1	0	2
36	Bannister, Jordan	HBFR	100%	0	0	17	6	11	4	0	1	4	2	0	0	3	1
23	Bolton, Mark	CHF	100%	0	0	17	8	9	2	1	1	2	1	1	0	3	1
13	Cupido, Damian	FPL	92%	2	0	11	10	1	5	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	3
38	Harvey, Shane	INT	65%	3	0	17	12	5	9	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	4
19	Hille, David	RU	93%	4	0	22	15	7	8	8	0	6	2	1	0	0	5
5	Hird, James (c)	C	100%	1	0	27	18	9	4	0	2	3	9	0	3	5	3
21	Jacobs, Danny	BPR	100%	0	0	13	7	6	8	0	1	0	2	0	1	6	0
14	Johnson, Jason	RR	95%	1	1	31	21	10	7	0	4	8	4	2	1	1	6
1	Johnson, Mark	BPL	100%	0	0	14	4	10	3	0	4	1	0	0	0	4	1
18	Lloyd, Matthew	FF	100%	5	3	17	15	2	8	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	6
25	Lucas, Scott	CHB	97%	1	3	18	17	1	9	1	4	0	4	0	1	3	3
33	McPhee, Adam	WL	38%	0	0	5	2	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
10	McVeigh, Mark	WR	72%	0	0	8	6	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	HFFR	78%	0	1	17	11	6	3	0	1	3	3	0	2	2	3
11	Peverill, Damien	RO	100%	0	0	17	6	11	6	0	9	3	1	1	1	2	0
29	Reynolds, Joel	INT	52%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
20	Richards, Ted	INT	47%	1	0	6	3	3	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3
43	Rioli, Dean	HFFL	88%	0	0	16	10	6	3	3	3	2	3	0	2	2	3
7	Solomon, Dean	HBFL	100%	1	1	17	10	7	5	2	4	1	3	3	2	1	2
17	Walsh, Darren	INT	40%	0	0	11	5	6	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	1
12	Welsh, Andrew	FB	100%	0	0	19	9	10	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	4	0
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				20	9	329	201	128	100	20	41	36	50	10	15	39	50

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

Western Bulldogs							Coach: Peter Rohde
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	1	M. Johnson	12	A. Welsh	21	D. Jacobs	14	L. Darcy	31	M. Alvey
	29	K. McGuinness	17	N. Brown	16	M. Croft	13	D. Giansiracusa	20	P. Bowden
FORWARD							6	B. Johnson	38	D. Cross
HALF-BACK									25	R. Hargrave
	7	D. Solomon	25	S. Lucas	36	J. Bannister
	15	S. Power	11	D. Bandy	23	J. McMahon
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	33	A. McPhee	5	J. Hird (c)	10	M. McVeigh
	4	S. Garlick	7	S. West	5	R. Smith	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							19	D. Hille	38	S. Harvey
HALF-FORWARD							14	J. Johnson	29	J. Reynolds
	43	D. Rioli	23	M. Bolton	2	M. Mercuri	11	D. Peverill	20	T. Richards
	28	P. Dimattina	34	W. Skipper	2	B. Murphy			17	D. Walsh
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	13	D. Cupido	18	M. Lloyd	27	S. Alessio
	8	M. Hahn	12	S. Bassett	30	M. Robbins
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	05:59
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	07:46
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	0.2.2	-	0.1.1	08:38
	WBUL	Rohan Smith goal	1.2.8	-	0.1.1	10:17
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	11:39
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn behind	2.3.15	-	0.1.1	15:06
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	2.3.15	-	0.2.2	15:43
	WBUL	Paul Dimattina behind	2.4.16	-	0.2.2	18:47
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	2.4.16	-	1.2.8	19:56
	WBUL	Simon Garlick goal	3.4.22	-	1.2.8	21:18
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	4.4.28	-	1.2.8	22:23
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	5.4.34	-	1.2.8	23:24
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	5.4.34	-	2.2.14	24:40
	ESSE	David Hille goal	5.4.34	-	3.2.20	28:00
Q2	ESSE	David Hille goal	5.4.34	-	4.2.26	01:05
	WBUL	Wayde Skipper behind	5.5.35	-	4.2.26	04:31
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	5.5.35	-	5.2.32	05:21
	WBUL	Simon Garlick goal	6.5.41	-	5.2.32	07:28
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	6.5.41	-	6.2.38	09:02
	WBUL	Simon Garlick behind	6.6.42	-	6.2.38	12:56
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	6.6.42	-	6.3.39	14:26
	WBUL	Rohan Smith goal	7.6.48	-	6.3.39	18:20
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	8.6.54	-	6.3.39	19:34
	ESSE	Shane Harvey goal	8.6.54	-	7.3.45	20:24
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	8.6.54	-	8.3.51	21:23
	WBUL	Simon Garlick behind	8.7.55	-	8.3.51	22:20
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	8.8.56	-	8.3.51	23:17
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	8.8.56	-	8.4.52	26:42
	ESSE	Damian Cupido goal	8.8.56	-	9.4.58	29:24
Q3	ESSE	David Hille goal	8.8.56	-	10.4.64	00:49
	WBUL	Daniel Bandy behind	8.9.57	-	10.4.64	02:32
	WBUL	Rushed behind	8.10.58	-	10.4.64	05:00
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	8.10.58	-	10.5.65	05:30
	ESSE	James Hird goal	8.10.58	-	11.5.71	06:29
	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	8.10.58	-	11.6.72	07:42
	ESSE	Shane Harvey goal	8.10.58	-	12.6.78	09:21
	ESSE	Ted Richards goal	8.10.58	-	13.6.84	11:03
	ESSE	Dean Solomon goal	8.10.58	-	14.6.90	13:03
	ESSE	Shane Harvey goal	8.10.58	-	15.6.96	14:32
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	8.11.59	-	15.6.96	17:45
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	9.11.65	-	15.6.96	19:51
	WBUL	Kieran McGuinness goal	10.11.71	-	15.6.96	22:27
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	11.11.77	-	15.6.96	23:50
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	11.12.78	-	15.6.96	24:46
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	12.12.84	-	15.6.96	25:54
Q4	ESSE	Damian Cupido goal	12.12.84	-	16.6.102	01:11
	WBUL	Patrick Bowden goal	13.12.90	-	16.6.102	02:47
	ESSE	David Hille goal	13.12.90	-	17.6.108	05:20
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	13.12.90	-	17.7.109	07:24
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	13.13.91	-	17.7.109	08:36
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	14.13.97	-	17.7.109	09:01
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	14.13.97	-	18.7.115	13:38
	WBUL	Jordan McMahon goal	15.13.103	-	18.7.115	15:45
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	15.13.103	-	18.8.116	17:33
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	15.13.103	-	19.8.122	21:30
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	15.13.103	-	19.9.123	25:13
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn behind	15.14.104	-	19.9.123	26:20
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	16.14.110	-	19.9.123	27:37
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	16.14.110	-	20.9.129	29:22

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