2003 AFL Season Round 7: Richmond v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 10 May 2003 between Richmond and Essendon during round seven of the 2003 season of the Australian Football League. Richmond hosted Essendon at the MCG. Darren Gaspar captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Danny Frawley and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Richmond (11.18.84) defeated Essendon (5.12.42).

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Richmond v Essendon
Date: Saturday 10 May 2003
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 52,196

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. Essendon
Score: 11.18.84 - 5.12.42

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Richmond	4	.	2	6	.	8	10	.	13	11	.	18	11	.	18	(84)
Essendon	0	.	2	3	.	6	4	.	8	5	.	12	5	.	12	(42)
Margin	RICH by 24			RICH by 20			RICH by 41			RICH by 42			RICH by 42
Duration	27:10			27:47			30:00			26:25			1:51:22

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Richmond

Captain: Darren Gaspar
Coach: Danny Frawley

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. James (#5)
S. McInerney (#30)
C. Rowe (#12)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Kane Johnson	RICH	28	3
Mark Coughlan	RICH	24	2
Greg Stafford	RICH	10	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
22	Biddiscombe, Craig	INT	68%	2	0	13	11	2	7	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	3
11	Bowden, Joel	CHF	100%	0	0	23	10	13	5	0	4	4	3	1	0	3	2
15	Cameron, Leon	HFFL	87%	0	1	17	9	8	5	0	0	1	3	0	2	1	6
6	Chaffey, Mark	HBFR	92%	0	1	18	17	1	7	0	2	1	2	0	0	3	3
24	Coughlan, Mark	C	98%	0	1	29	16	13	4	0	6	9	7	4	2	5	4
14	Fiora, Aaron	BPR	52%	0	0	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
19	Fleming, Tim	INT	51%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	Gaspar, Darren (c)	CHB	100%	0	0	7	5	2	5	0	1	0	2	1	1	2	0
1	Hilton, Rory	BPL	81%	0	3	12	10	2	6	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	3
28	Johnson, Kane	RR	100%	0	2	30	23	7	7	0	2	6	2	2	0	5	5
39	Kellaway, Andrew	HBFL	100%	1	1	19	11	8	6	0	1	1	1	2	0	2	1
27	Krakouer, Andrew	FPL	93%	5	2	14	10	4	2	0	6	2	0	4	0	0	0
35	Newman, Chris	WR	100%	0	1	9	5	4	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	2
26	Nicholls, Bill	HFFR	43%	1	1	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
8	Pettifer, Kayne	FPR	100%	0	0	17	11	6	6	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	1
18	Rodan, David	RO	90%	0	0	11	7	4	1	0	3	3	1	2	0	3	0
4	Rogers, Matthew	INT	47%	0	1	6	5	1	3	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
25	Schulz, Jay	INT	5%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Stafford, Greg	FF	99%	1	0	17	8	9	10	17	0	1	1	0	0	2	3
32	Tivendale, Greg	WL	100%	0	0	22	19	3	7	0	0	3	2	2	0	1	10
41	Vardy, Royce	RU	96%	1	2	10	8	2	6	4	4	1	0	1	0	1	2
36	Zantuck, Ty	FB	100%	0	0	13	6	7	1	0	3	0	3	0	1	6	0
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				11	18	298	199	99	96	21	42	37	31	21	8	38	48

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	INT	66%	0	2	11	7	4	3	22	0	5	2	0	0	0	1
36	Bannister, Jordan	INT	69%	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
16	Barnard, Paul	HFFR	90%	0	0	13	8	5	4	1	1	1	3	1	2	1	1
23	Bolton, Mark	BPR	100%	0	0	17	8	9	9	3	1	1	2	0	0	1	4
38	Harvey, Shane	INT	47%	0	1	9	7	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	3
19	Hille, David	RU	49%	0	0	5	3	2	0	10	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
5	Hird, James (c)	HFFL	10%	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Jacobs, Danny	FB	100%	0	0	12	9	3	6	4	3	1	1	1	0	5	0
14	Johnson, Jason	RR	100%	0	1	27	21	6	6	0	4	5	4	2	2	2	8
1	Johnson, Mark	BPL	100%	1	0	10	6	4	6	0	1	1	4	0	3	2	1
18	Lloyd, Matthew	FF	100%	1	0	8	6	2	6	0	1	0	2	1	2	0	5
25	Lucas, Scott	CHF	100%	1	1	16	15	1	5	0	3	0	3	1	2	0	8
33	McPhee, Adam	WR	100%	0	0	17	8	9	5	1	1	1	3	1	2	2	1
10	McVeigh, Mark	HBFL	100%	0	1	16	12	4	3	0	4	1	0	0	0	5	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	FPL	81%	1	0	12	4	8	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
24	Misiti, Joe	C	54%	0	0	8	3	5	0	0	5	2	1	0	0	0	2
11	Peverill, Damien	RO	86%	0	0	10	4	6	3	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
29	Reynolds, Joel	WL	100%	0	0	9	7	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	2	2	4
7	Solomon, Dean	HBFR	100%	1	2	16	12	4	4	0	5	2	3	1	0	1	3
6	Wellman, Sean	CHB	100%	0	0	15	9	6	3	1	2	2	1	0	1	1	2
12	Welsh, Andrew	INT	72%	0	0	15	7	8	5	0	2	1	3	0	3	2	1
8	Winderlich, Jason	FPR	77%	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				5	12	261	163	98	84	42	44	26	39	8	21	25	46

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

Richmond							Coach: Danny Frawley
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	1	M. Johnson	21	D. Jacobs	23	M. Bolton	41	R. Vardy	22	C. Biddiscombe
	8	K. Pettifer	10	G. Stafford	27	A. Krakouer	28	K. Johnson	19	T. Fleming
FORWARD							18	D. Rodan	4	M. Rogers
HALF-BACK									25	J. Schulz
	10	M. McVeigh	6	S. Wellman	7	D. Solomon
	26	B. Nicholls	11	J. Bowden	15	L. Cameron
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	29	J. Reynolds	24	J. Misiti	33	A. McPhee
	35	C. Newman	24	M. Coughlan	32	G. Tivendale	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							19	D. Hille	27	S. Alessio
HALF-FORWARD							14	J. Johnson	36	J. Bannister
	5	J. Hird (c)	25	S. Lucas	16	P. Barnard	11	D. Peverill	38	S. Harvey
	6	M. Chaffey	2	D. Gaspar (c)	39	A. Kellaway			12	A. Welsh
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	2	M. Mercuri	18	M. Lloyd	8	J. Winderlich
	14	A. Fiora	36	T. Zantuck	1	R. Hilton
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:21
	RICH	Royce Vardy goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	02:50
	RICH	Leon Cameron behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	13:43
	RICH	Andrew Kellaway behind	1.2.8	-	0.1.1	15:00
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	1.2.8	-	0.2.2	15:46
	RICH	Andrew Kellaway goal	2.2.14	-	0.2.2	16:57
	RICH	Greg Stafford goal	3.2.20	-	0.2.2	22:13
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer goal	4.2.26	-	0.2.2	23:25
Q2	RICH	Royce Vardy behind	4.3.27	-	0.2.2	00:55
	RICH	Bill Nicholls behind	4.4.28	-	0.2.2	02:51
	RICH	Rory Hilton behind	4.5.29	-	0.2.2	04:31
	RICH	Bill Nicholls goal	5.5.35	-	0.2.2	07:21
	RICH	Kane Johnson behind	5.6.36	-	0.2.2	08:32
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	5.6.36	-	0.3.3	09:26
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	5.6.36	-	0.4.4	12:54
	RICH	Royce Vardy behind	5.7.37	-	0.4.4	14:30
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	5.7.37	-	1.4.10	15:33
	RICH	Matthew Rogers behind	5.8.38	-	1.4.10	16:48
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	5.8.38	-	1.5.11	17:52
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	5.8.38	-	2.5.17	19:48
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	5.8.38	-	3.5.23	21:43
	RICH	Craig Biddiscombe goal	6.8.44	-	3.5.23	23:09
	ESSE	Shane Harvey behind	6.8.44	-	3.6.24	26:28
Q3	RICH	Mark Coughlan behind	6.9.45	-	3.6.24	01:39
	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	6.9.45	-	3.7.25	02:29
	RICH	Chris Newman behind	6.10.46	-	3.7.25	06:37
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer goal	7.10.52	-	3.7.25	08:41
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer behind	7.11.53	-	3.7.25	10:48
	RICH	Craig Biddiscombe goal	8.11.59	-	3.7.25	11:55
	RICH	Rushed behind	8.12.60	-	3.7.25	14:22
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer goal	9.12.66	-	3.7.25	16:24
	ESSE	Dean Solomon goal	9.12.66	-	4.7.31	22:51
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer goal	10.12.72	-	4.7.31	24:15
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	10.12.72	-	4.8.32	27:11
	RICH	Kane Johnson behind	10.13.73	-	4.8.32	29:31
Q4	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.13.73	-	4.9.33	00:51
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer goal	11.13.79	-	4.9.33	03:04
	RICH	Rory Hilton behind	11.14.80	-	4.9.33	04:12
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.14.80	-	4.10.34	05:08
	RICH	Rushed behind	11.15.81	-	4.10.34	07:58
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.15.81	-	4.11.35	10:49
	RICH	Mark Chaffey behind	11.16.82	-	4.11.35	13:04
	RICH	Rory Hilton behind	11.17.83	-	4.11.35	14:03
	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	11.17.83	-	4.12.36	17:42
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer behind	11.18.84	-	4.12.36	21:44
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	11.18.84	-	5.12.42	25:00

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