2003 AFL Season Round 15: Adelaide v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 11 July 2003 between Adelaide and Essendon during round fifteen of the 2003 season of the Australian Football League. Adelaide hosted Essendon at AAMI Stadium. Mark Ricciuto captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Gary Ayres and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Adelaide (13.12.90) defeated Essendon (7.7.49).

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 15
Teams: Adelaide v Essendon
Date: Friday 11 July 2003
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: AAMI Stadium
Attendance: 41,758

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. Essendon
Score: 13.12.90 - 7.7.49

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Adelaide	4	.	3	7	.	7	10	.	9	13	.	12	13	.	12	(90)
Essendon	1	.	3	2	.	4	6	.	5	7	.	7	7	.	7	(49)
Margin	ADEL by 18			ADEL by 33			ADEL by 28			ADEL by 41			ADEL by 41
Duration	29:42			28:26			32:22			27:59			1:58:29

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Adelaide

Captain: Mark Ricciuto
Coach: Gary Ayres

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. James (#5)
S. McInerney (#30)
S. McLaren (#11)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Scott Welsh	ADEL	17	3
Mark Ricciuto	ADEL	32	2
James Hird	ESSE	5	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
8	Bassett, Nathan	FB	100%	0	0	12	6	6	3	1	3	0	2	1	1	2	0
28	Begley, James	FPR	75%	0	0	15	9	6	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	4
26	Bickley, Mark	RO	81%	0	0	25	19	6	2	0	9	10	1	1	0	0	5
35	Biglands, Rhett	FF	77%	2	0	10	7	3	3	21	3	1	1	2	0	0	1
10	Bode, Matthew	INT	53%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	4	1	1	0	1	0	0
5	Burns, Ronnie	RU	93%	1	1	13	6	7	2	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	2
24	Burton, Brett	WR	100%	0	0	30	22	8	4	0	2	7	1	7	1	4	5
2	Carey, Wayne	CHF	62%	0	0	8	6	2	3	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	5
4	Clarke, Matthew	INT	38%	1	0	8	3	5	0	20	2	6	0	2	0	1	0
9	Edwards, Tyson	HBFR	100%	0	0	13	10	3	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	2
34	Hart, Ben	BPR	100%	0	1	17	12	5	6	0	6	2	2	1	2	0	4
18	Johncock, Graham	HFFL	85%	1	2	8	7	1	2	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	3
40	Ladhams, Chris	HFFR	88%	0	0	18	10	8	3	0	3	5	0	2	0	0	3
3	Massie, Kris	HBFL	92%	0	0	11	7	4	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	2
16	McGregor, Ken	CHB	100%	0	1	12	7	5	5	0	4	0	2	0	1	1	2
23	McLeod, Andrew	RR	95%	0	0	21	15	6	0	0	2	4	6	0	4	2	5
32	Ricciuto, Mark (c)	C	93%	1	1	27	18	9	2	0	4	6	4	3	2	4	3
12	Shirley, Robert	INT	24%	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	3	0	2	1	2	1	0
7	Smart, Nigel	BPL	100%	0	0	10	4	6	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	3	1
20	Stenglein, Tyson	WL	100%	1	0	16	12	4	3	1	3	4	1	2	1	1	4
15	Torney, Jason	INT	46%	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
17	Welsh, Scott	FPL	100%	6	2	18	16	2	5	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	2
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				13	12	305	203	102	54	43	68	47	29	31	19	26	53

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
16	Barnard, Paul	CHF	66%	0	0	8	5	3	4	1	2	2	2	0	2	0	2
23	Bolton, Mark	INT	38%	0	1	3	2	1	1	4	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
37	Bullen, Marc	INT	59%	0	0	13	7	6	0	0	2	3	1	0	1	0	4
13	Cupido, Damian	FPL	78%	0	0	5	3	2	0	0	1	1	3	0	2	1	1
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	100%	0	0	16	15	1	4	0	1	0	4	0	2	6	0
15	Forster-Knight, Robert	C	100%	0	0	9	8	1	1	0	2	2	2	0	1	2	0
19	Hille, David	RU	85%	0	0	8	3	5	1	23	4	2	3	0	2	2	1
5	Hird, James (c)	RO	100%	1	0	20	17	3	2	0	4	8	3	1	1	5	2
21	Jacobs, Danny	CHB	66%	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
1	Johnson, Mark	RR	100%	0	0	10	6	4	0	0	10	2	4	3	4	1	1
18	Lloyd, Matthew	FF	100%	1	1	10	7	3	4	0	2	0	3	1	2	0	2
25	Lucas, Scott	HFFL	94%	0	0	21	15	6	6	0	6	3	6	2	2	3	1
28	McGrath, Cory	FPR	92%	1	0	15	11	4	2	1	2	2	1	0	1	3	1
33	McPhee, Adam	HBFL	67%	0	0	13	7	6	1	3	4	2	3	3	1	1	3
10	McVeigh, Mark	BPL	100%	0	0	7	6	1	2	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	0
11	Peverill, Damien	HFFR	100%	0	0	17	13	4	1	0	7	6	3	3	1	1	4
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	WR	91%	0	1	14	12	2	2	1	3	2	2	2	1	2	4
29	Reynolds, Joel	INT	37%	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
20	Richards, Ted	INT	81%	3	0	7	5	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
7	Solomon, Dean	WL	93%	0	1	14	10	4	2	0	8	4	4	2	3	0	4
6	Wellman, Sean	BPR	80%	1	0	9	6	3	1	0	7	1	2	1	2	1	2
12	Welsh, Andrew	HBFR	72%	0	0	15	8	7	3	0	3	1	3	0	0	3	1
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				7	7	240	169	71	42	33	75	42	54	19	31	32	36

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

Adelaide							Coach: Gary Ayres
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	10	M. McVeigh	31	D. Fletcher	6	S. Wellman	5	R. Burns	10	M. Bode
	28	J. Begley	35	R. Biglands	17	S. Welsh	23	A. McLeod	4	M. Clarke
FORWARD							26	M. Bickley	12	R. Shirley
HALF-BACK									15	J. Torney
	33	A. McPhee	21	D. Jacobs	12	A. Welsh
	40	C. Ladhams	2	W. Carey	18	G. Johncock
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	7	D. Solomon	15	R. Forster-Knight	9	A. Ramanauskas
	24	B. Burton	32	M. Ricciuto (c)	20	T. Stenglein	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							19	D. Hille	23	M. Bolton
HALF-FORWARD							1	M. Johnson	37	M. Bullen
	25	S. Lucas	16	P. Barnard	11	D. Peverill	5	J. Hird (c)	29	J. Reynolds
	9	T. Edwards	16	K. McGregor	3	K. Massie			20	T. Richards
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	13	D. Cupido	18	M. Lloyd	28	C. McGrath
	34	B. Hart	8	N. Bassett	7	N. Smart
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:11
	ADEL	Rhett Biglands goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	04:19
	ADEL	Graham Johncock behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	07:28
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	08:57
	ADEL	Scott Welsh goal	2.1.13	-	1.1.7	09:52
	ADEL	Graham Johncock behind	2.2.14	-	1.1.7	11:08
	ADEL	Ronnie Burns goal	3.2.20	-	1.1.7	15:29
	ADEL	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	1.1.7	16:45
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	3.3.21	-	1.2.8	20:54
	ADEL	Matthew Clarke goal	4.3.27	-	1.2.8	25:43
	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	4.3.27	-	1.3.9	28:56
Q2	ESSE	Ted Richards goal	4.3.27	-	2.3.15	03:44
	ADEL	Rushed behind	4.4.28	-	2.3.15	04:38
	ADEL	Scott Welsh behind	4.5.29	-	2.3.15	05:09
	ESSE	Rushed behind	4.5.29	-	2.4.16	08:17
	ADEL	Scott Welsh goal	5.5.35	-	2.4.16	10:26
	ADEL	Scott Welsh behind	5.6.36	-	2.4.16	14:54
	ADEL	Ronnie Burns behind	5.7.37	-	2.4.16	18:58
	ADEL	Scott Welsh goal	6.7.43	-	2.4.16	22:12
	ADEL	Scott Welsh goal	7.7.49	-	2.4.16	23:17
Q3	ADEL	Ben Hart behind	7.8.50	-	2.4.16	00:50
	ADEL	Scott Welsh goal	8.8.56	-	2.4.16	03:35
	ADEL	Graham Johncock goal	9.8.62	-	2.4.16	05:07
	ESSE	Ted Richards goal	9.8.62	-	3.4.22	10:54
	ESSE	Adam Ramanauskas behind	9.8.62	-	3.5.23	17:35
	ADEL	Tyson Stenglein goal	10.8.68	-	3.5.23	21:45
	ESSE	Cory McGrath goal	10.8.68	-	4.5.29	23:18
	ESSE	Ted Richards goal	10.8.68	-	5.5.35	24:20
	ADEL	Rushed behind	10.9.69	-	5.5.35	26:19
	ESSE	Sean Wellman goal	10.9.69	-	6.5.41	29:56
Q4	ADEL	Mark Ricciuto goal	11.9.75	-	6.5.41	02:46
	ESSE	Mark Bolton behind	11.9.75	-	6.6.42	04:30
	ADEL	Ken McGregor behind	11.10.76	-	6.6.42	06:29
	ADEL	Rhett Biglands goal	12.10.82	-	6.6.42	07:13
	ESSE	James Hird goal	12.10.82	-	7.6.48	09:24
	ADEL	Rushed behind	12.11.83	-	7.6.48	15:55
	ADEL	Scott Welsh goal	13.11.89	-	7.6.48	16:34
	ESSE	Rushed behind	13.11.89	-	7.7.49	23:48
	ADEL	Mark Ricciuto behind	13.12.90	-	7.7.49	26:48

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