2003 AFL Season Round 5: Sydney v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 25 April 2003 between Sydney and Melbourne during round five of the 2003 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Melbourne at the SCG. Stuart Maxfield captained the hosts. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Paul Roos and the visitors were coached by Neale Daniher.

Sydney (17.7.109) defeated Melbourne (13.7.85).

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Sydney v Melbourne
Date: Friday 25 April 2003
Time: 6:45 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 24,286

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Melbourne
Score: 17.7.109 - 13.7.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	2	.	3	6	.	4	7	.	4	17	.	7	17	.	7	(109)
Melbourne	3	.	2	5	.	4	10	.	6	13	.	7	13	.	7	(85)
Margin	MELB by 5			SYDN by 6			MELB by 20			SYDN by 24			SYDN by 24
Duration	26:12			27:50			33:27			33:09			2:00:38

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: Stuart Maxfield
Coach: Paul Roos

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. Head (#16)
S. McLaren (#11)
S. Wenn

Boundary Umpires

A. Pearson

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Adam Goodes	SYDN	37	3
Jude Bolton	SYDN	24	2
Travis Johnstone	MELB	16	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Ball, Jason	RU	91%	2	0	22	10	12	10	12	0	2	2	1	2	1	1
21	Barry, Leo	HBFL	100%	0	0	17	9	8	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	4
6	Bolton, Craig	BPR	69%	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	1
24	Bolton, Jude	C	93%	1	1	24	12	12	5	1	5	4	1	2	1	0	5
8	Cresswell, Daryn	FPR	73%	0	0	26	15	11	3	0	1	5	2	1	0	2	4
28	Crouch, Jared	RR	100%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	6	4	1	1	0	0	3
2	Davis, Nick	INT	87%	3	1	8	7	1	5	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1
12	Fosdike, Nic	INT	72%	0	0	15	9	6	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	4
37	Goodes, Adam	CHF	100%	1	0	18	11	7	5	6	0	1	4	0	1	1	6
1	Hall, Barry	FF	100%	1	2	10	7	3	5	3	3	0	4	1	4	0	3
17	Kennelly, Tadhg	HBFR	100%	0	0	19	6	13	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	4	0
31	Kirk, Brett	WR	91%	0	0	20	8	12	4	0	12	2	3	0	1	3	3
4	Mathews, Ben	BPL	88%	0	0	21	12	9	2	0	2	3	1	1	0	4	1
11	Maxfield, Stuart (c)	RO	93%	1	0	22	15	7	2	0	3	3	0	0	0	5	7
43	Meiklejohn, James	INT	20%	0	0	2	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
23	Nicks, Matthew	HFFR	81%	1	0	9	7	2	2	0	2	1	4	3	3	1	3
19	O'Loughlin, Michael	FPL	89%	3	1	11	6	5	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	1
22	Saddington, Jason	CHB	100%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	3	0	0	2	0	2	1
25	Schauble, Andrew	FB	14%	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
36	Schneider, Adam	WL	78%	3	1	13	9	4	3	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	4
33	Warfe, Rowan	INT	61%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
10	Williams, Paul	HFFL	100%	1	0	19	9	10	2	0	6	6	2	1	1	1	4
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				17	7	310	174	136	69	24	51	37	32	15	16	34	57

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Bizzell, Clint	FB	100%	0	0	14	7	7	7	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	2
25	Brown, Nathan	BPL	78%	0	0	17	9	8	8	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	4
32	Bruce, Cameron	BPR	100%	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
35	Ferguson, Ryan	INT	1%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Godfrey, Simon	RO	60%	0	0	9	5	4	2	1	5	2	2	2	1	1	3
18	Green, Brad	FPL	65%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
1	Heffernan, Chris	C	93%	0	0	13	8	5	2	2	4	1	2	0	1	1	3
16	Johnstone, Travis	WR	88%	0	0	21	11	10	2	1	0	6	5	1	2	3	3
11	Jolly, Darren	INT	59%	2	0	11	6	5	2	10	2	3	3	3	1	0	2
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	WL	75%	0	0	22	13	9	8	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	6
23	McDonald, James	FPR	100%	0	1	17	12	5	3	0	4	6	1	1	1	3	3
37	Miller, Brad	CHB	100%	0	0	11	6	5	3	0	1	0	3	1	1	2	0
7	Moorcroft, Gary	INT	89%	1	0	11	9	2	4	0	4	0	3	0	1	0	3
9	Neitz, David (c)	FF	100%	6	1	15	9	6	7	1	2	1	3	1	3	0	3
24	Robertson, Russell	CHF	100%	0	1	12	8	4	6	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	2
6	Thompson, Scott	INT	43%	1	0	7	3	4	1	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	3
19	Vardy, Peter	HFFR	63%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
10	Ward, Daniel	HBFR	100%	0	0	14	10	4	3	0	1	2	0	1	0	2	2
45	Whelan, Matthew	RR	90%	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	4	5	2	0	1	1	2
34	White, Jeff	RU	96%	3	0	17	9	8	9	28	1	2	1	1	0	2	1
26	Williams, Luke	HBFL	99%	0	0	17	12	5	3	0	1	1	0	4	0	5	2
13	Yze, Adem	HFFL	100%	0	1	22	19	3	4	0	2	2	3	0	0	10	2
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				13	7	278	170	108	83	44	41	35	36	16	15	37	49

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

Sydney							Coach: Paul Roos
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	25	N. Brown	3	C. Bizzell	32	C. Bruce	27	J. Ball	2	N. Davis
	8	D. Cresswell	1	B. Hall	19	M. O'Loughlin	28	J. Crouch	12	N. Fosdike
FORWARD							11	S. Maxfield (c)	43	J. Meiklejohn
HALF-BACK									33	R. Warfe
	26	L. Williams	37	B. Miller	10	D. Ward
	23	M. Nicks	37	A. Goodes	10	P. Williams
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	36	A. Leoncelli	1	C. Heffernan	16	T. Johnstone
	31	B. Kirk	24	J. Bolton	36	A. Schneider	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							34	J. White	35	R. Ferguson
HALF-FORWARD							45	M. Whelan	11	D. Jolly
	13	A. Yze	24	R. Robertson	19	P. Vardy	30	S. Godfrey	7	G. Moorcroft
	17	T. Kennelly	22	J. Saddington	21	L. Barry			6	S. Thompson
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	18	B. Green	9	D. Neitz (c)	23	J. McDonald
	6	C. Bolton	25	A. Schauble	4	B. Mathews
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Neale Daniher

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:27
	MELB	David Neitz goal	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	03:06
	MELB	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	06:22
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	10:04
	SYDN	Adam Schneider behind	0.3.3	-	1.1.7	11:00
	MELB	David Neitz goal	0.3.3	-	2.1.13	14:37
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	0.3.3	-	2.2.14	17:08
	SYDN	Nick Davis goal	1.3.9	-	2.2.14	18:33
	MELB	David Neitz goal	1.3.9	-	3.2.20	22:03
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	2.3.15	-	3.2.20	23:41
Q2	MELB	Gary Moorcroft goal	2.3.15	-	4.2.26	00:38
	SYDN	Matthew Nicks goal	3.3.21	-	4.2.26	02:34
	MELB	James McDonald behind	3.3.21	-	4.3.27	04:18
	MELB	David Neitz goal	3.3.21	-	5.3.33	05:50
	SYDN	Nick Davis goal	4.3.27	-	5.3.33	10:27
	SYDN	Nick Davis behind	4.4.28	-	5.3.33	12:42
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	4.4.28	-	5.4.34	18:24
	SYDN	Adam Schneider goal	5.4.34	-	5.4.34	19:40
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	6.4.40	-	5.4.34	21:10
Q3	MELB	Jeff White goal	6.4.40	-	6.4.40	05:12
	MELB	David Neitz goal	6.4.40	-	7.4.46	08:31
	MELB	David Neitz goal	6.4.40	-	8.4.52	17:40
	MELB	Jeff White goal	6.4.40	-	9.4.58	20:08
	MELB	Darren Jolly goal	6.4.40	-	10.4.64	22:24
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	7.4.46	-	10.4.64	23:25
	MELB	Rushed behind	7.4.46	-	10.5.65	31:30
	MELB	David Neitz behind	7.4.46	-	10.6.66	33:20
Q4	SYDN	Jude Bolton behind	7.5.47	-	10.6.66	01:36
	SYDN	Nick Davis goal	8.5.53	-	10.6.66	02:49
	MELB	Jeff White goal	8.5.53	-	11.6.72	04:22
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	9.5.59	-	11.6.72	05:22
	SYDN	Jason Ball goal	10.5.65	-	11.6.72	08:31
	MELB	Darren Jolly goal	10.5.65	-	12.6.78	10:15
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	10.6.66	-	12.6.78	11:20
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	10.7.67	-	12.6.78	12:37
	SYDN	Adam Schneider goal	11.7.73	-	12.6.78	13:22
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	12.7.79	-	12.6.78	15:04
	SYDN	Jason Ball goal	13.7.85	-	12.6.78	17:01
	SYDN	Paul Williams goal	14.7.91	-	12.6.78	21:57
	MELB	Scott Thompson goal	14.7.91	-	13.6.84	23:16
	MELB	Rushed behind	14.7.91	-	13.7.85	24:12
	SYDN	Stuart Maxfield goal	15.7.97	-	13.7.85	28:24
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	16.7.103	-	13.7.85	30:18
	SYDN	Adam Schneider goal	17.7.109	-	13.7.85	31:59

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