2003 AFL Season Round 9: Melbourne v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 24 May 2003 between Melbourne and Fremantle during round nine of the 2003 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Fremantle at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. Peter Bell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Chris Connolly.

Melbourne (10.11.71) were defeated by Fremantle (16.5.101).

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: Melbourne v Fremantle
Date: Saturday 24 May 2003
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 17,009

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Fremantle
Score: 10.11.71 - 16.5.101

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	1	.	4	6	.	5	9	.	6	10	.	11	10	.	11	(71)
Fremantle	4	.	2	7	.	2	13	.	2	16	.	5	16	.	5	(101)
Margin	FREM by 16			FREM by 3			FREM by 20			FREM by 30			FREM by 30
Duration	25:25			28:15			28:43			27:01			1:49:24

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 (Fremantle) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Fremantle

Captain: Peter Bell
Coach: Chris Connolly

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. Jeffery (#29)
H. Kennedy (#7)
K. Nicholls

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Justin Longmuir	FREM	20	3
Nathan Brown	MELB	25	2
Matthew Whelan	MELB	45	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
2	Armstrong, Steven	INT	71%	0	1	19	11	8	3	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	5
3	Bizzell, Clint	BPR	100%	0	0	20	12	8	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	5	2
25	Brown, Nathan	WR	93%	2	0	32	13	19	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	4
35	Ferguson, Ryan	FB	82%	0	0	8	3	5	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0
30	Godfrey, Simon	RO	100%	0	1	12	6	6	3	0	6	2	1	1	1	1	3
18	Green, Brad	HFFR	91%	1	1	21	11	10	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1	Heffernan, Chris	WL	92%	1	0	19	9	10	2	0	0	3	1	2	1	2	3
40	Jamar, Mark	RU	71%	0	1	7	4	3	1	11	1	4	0	2	0	0	1
11	Jolly, Darren	FPR	39%	0	0	4	1	3	1	4	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	C	42%	0	0	8	6	2	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2
23	McDonald, James	HFFL	99%	0	0	16	9	7	3	0	3	4	0	2	0	3	2
37	Miller, Brad	CHB	78%	0	0	11	4	7	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1
9	Neitz, David (c)	FF	100%	4	2	13	10	3	5	0	4	0	2	2	0	0	2
43	Rigoni, Guy	INT	60%	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	2	0
24	Robertson, Russell	CHF	100%	2	2	19	12	7	4	0	4	2	5	0	2	0	2
6	Thompson, Scott	INT	40%	0	0	6	3	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
19	Vardy, Peter	FPL	85%	0	1	8	4	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
10	Ward, Daniel	HBFR	100%	0	0	26	16	10	7	0	2	2	2	1	1	3	6
31	Wheatley, Paul	INT	69%	0	0	14	9	5	3	0	2	0	5	0	2	0	5
45	Whelan, Matthew	BPL	93%	0	0	24	9	15	3	0	1	5	1	3	0	1	4
26	Williams, Luke	HBFL	100%	0	0	20	12	8	9	0	3	0	3	0	1	3	2
13	Yze, Adem	RR	95%	0	2	24	16	8	2	0	1	4	1	2	0	1	7
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				10	11	337	183	154	70	16	34	36	29	17	10	27	59

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
32	Bell, Peter (c)	C	98%	0	0	26	16	10	9	0	4	4	2	0	1	4	2
9	Carr, Matthew	RR	100%	1	0	27	19	8	10	0	2	1	2	0	1	2	2
10	Cook, Troy	FPR	83%	0	1	14	10	4	3	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	6
24	Croad, Trent	CHF	72%	1	0	7	6	1	2	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	4
33	Farmer, Jeff	HFFR	46%	2	1	9	6	3	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1
14	Grover, Antoni	FB	85%	0	0	20	14	6	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	4	6
42	Haddrill, Robbie	BPR	100%	0	0	16	8	8	4	0	3	0	4	0	1	7	0
4	Hasleby, Paul	HFFL	83%	0	0	13	5	8	3	0	0	1	5	0	4	1	2
43	Hayden, Roger	BPL	95%	0	0	17	11	6	7	0	8	1	2	2	1	8	0
11	Headland, Des	RO	94%	0	1	15	12	3	2	0	3	2	3	3	0	0	4
28	Koops, Steven	INT	58%	2	0	7	2	5	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Longmuir, Justin	FF	97%	6	1	11	10	1	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8	McManus, Shaun	HBFR	84%	0	0	24	17	7	6	0	7	0	4	1	3	3	5
34	Medhurst, Paul	FPL	53%	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
29	Pavlich, Matthew	WR	85%	0	0	17	9	8	5	1	3	3	0	0	0	4	1
12	Polak, Graham	CHB	98%	0	0	17	12	5	10	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	1
31	Sandilands, Aaron	INT	53%	1	0	3	2	1	2	10	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
3	Schammer, Byron	INT	59%	1	0	12	8	4	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	Simmonds, Troy	RU	98%	1	0	11	6	5	5	24	0	2	2	0	1	1	3
19	Walker, James	HBFL	100%	0	1	14	7	7	6	0	5	1	2	0	1	2	1
26	Waterhouse, Clive	INT	60%	1	0	9	4	5	3	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	3
6	Woods, Dion	WL	100%	0	0	12	8	4	3	0	5	3	2	1	1	1	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				16	5	303	194	109	101	36	51	22	38	10	17	42	47

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

Melbourne							Coach: Neale Daniher
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	43	R. Hayden	14	A. Grover	42	R. Haddrill	40	M. Jamar	2	S. Armstrong
	11	D. Jolly	9	D. Neitz (c)	19	P. Vardy	13	A. Yze	43	G. Rigoni
FORWARD							30	S. Godfrey	6	S. Thompson
HALF-BACK									31	P. Wheatley
	19	J. Walker	12	G. Polak	8	S. McManus
	18	B. Green	24	R. Robertson	23	J. McDonald
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	6	D. Woods	32	P. Bell (c)	29	M. Pavlich
	25	N. Brown	36	A. Leoncelli	1	C. Heffernan	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	T. Simmonds	28	S. Koops
HALF-FORWARD							9	M. Carr	31	A. Sandilands
	4	P. Hasleby	24	T. Croad	33	J. Farmer	11	D. Headland	3	B. Schammer
	10	D. Ward	37	B. Miller	26	L. Williams			26	C. Waterhouse
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	34	P. Medhurst	20	J. Longmuir	10	T. Cook
	3	C. Bizzell	35	R. Ferguson	45	M. Whelan
BACK
Fremantle							Coach: Chris Connolly

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	FREM	Justin Longmuir behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	02:32
	MELB	David Neitz behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	04:51
	FREM	Jeff Farmer goal	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	08:44
	MELB	Simon Godfrey behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	10:44
	MELB	David Neitz goal	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	12:54
	FREM	Jeff Farmer behind	1.2.8	-	1.2.8	16:35
	FREM	Matthew Carr goal	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	17:43
	FREM	Steven Koops goal	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	19:52
	MELB	Brad Green behind	1.3.9	-	3.2.20	21:12
	FREM	Clive Waterhouse goal	1.3.9	-	4.2.26	22:18
	MELB	Peter Vardy behind	1.4.10	-	4.2.26	23:56
Q2	FREM	Troy Simmonds goal	1.4.10	-	5.2.32	03:16
	FREM	Trent Croad goal	1.4.10	-	6.2.38	04:29
	MELB	Steven Armstrong behind	1.5.11	-	6.2.38	06:35
	FREM	Jeff Farmer goal	1.5.11	-	7.2.44	07:42
	MELB	David Neitz goal	2.5.17	-	7.2.44	12:11
	MELB	David Neitz goal	3.5.23	-	7.2.44	17:25
	MELB	David Neitz goal	4.5.29	-	7.2.44	20:53
	MELB	Nathan Brown goal	5.5.35	-	7.2.44	22:42
	MELB	Brad Green goal	6.5.41	-	7.2.44	27:10
Q3	MELB	Chris Heffernan goal	7.5.47	-	7.2.44	00:55
	FREM	Justin Longmuir goal	7.5.47	-	8.2.50	03:10
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	8.5.53	-	8.2.50	07:07
	FREM	Byron Schammer goal	8.5.53	-	9.2.56	09:12
	FREM	Justin Longmuir goal	8.5.53	-	10.2.62	12:02
	MELB	Nathan Brown goal	9.5.59	-	10.2.62	14:06
	FREM	Justin Longmuir goal	9.5.59	-	11.2.68	15:32
	FREM	Aaron Sandilands goal	9.5.59	-	12.2.74	21:25
	FREM	Steven Koops goal	9.5.59	-	13.2.80	22:25
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	9.6.60	-	13.2.80	27:34
Q4	MELB	Mark Jamar behind	9.7.61	-	13.2.80	01:30
	FREM	James Walker behind	9.7.61	-	13.3.81	05:45
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	9.8.62	-	13.3.81	08:16
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	10.8.68	-	13.3.81	11:00
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	10.9.69	-	13.3.81	12:19
	FREM	Justin Longmuir goal	10.9.69	-	14.3.87	13:06
	FREM	Justin Longmuir goal	10.9.69	-	15.3.93	15:13
	MELB	David Neitz behind	10.10.70	-	15.3.93	16:55
	FREM	Justin Longmuir goal	10.10.70	-	16.3.99	19:48
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	10.11.71	-	16.3.99	22:01
	FREM	Troy Cook behind	10.11.71	-	16.4.100	23:14
	FREM	Des Headland behind	10.11.71	-	16.5.101	26:04

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