2003 AFL Round 19: Essendon v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 10 August 2003 between Essendon and Western Bulldogs during round 19 of the 2003 AFL season. Essendon hosted Western Bulldogs at Telstra Dome. James Hird captained the hosts. Scott West captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Peter Rohde.

Essendon
Back: A. Welsh, D. Fletcher, M. McVeigh
Half-back: M. Johnson, M. Bolton, S. Wellman
Centre: D. Peverill, J. Misiti, A. McPhee
Half-forward: D. Solomon, S. Lucas, M. Bullen
Forward: D. Cupido, M. Lloyd, D. Jacobs
Follower: D. Hille, J. Hird (capt.), J. Johnson
Int.: S. Alessio, B. Haynes, C. McGrath, M. Mercuri

Western Bulldogs
Back: B. Murphy, S. Kretiuk, M. Robbins
Half-back: R. Hargrave, B. Harrison, R. Smith
Centre: S. Power, S. West (capt.), J. McMahon
Half-forward: N. Eagleton, W. Skipper, M. Hahn
Forward: N. Brown, S. Birss, P. Dimattina
Follower: L. Darcy, B. Johnson, D. Giansiracusa
Int.: M. Boyd, L. Gilbee, K. McGuinness, P. Wiggins

Essendon (22.15.147) defeated Western Bulldogs (12.8.80).

Goalkickers
Essendon: M. Lloyd (11), M. Bolton (3), M. Bullen (2), S. Alessio, D. Cupido, D. Hille, J. Johnson, A. McPhee, M. Mercuri
Western Bulldogs: N. Brown (3), B. Johnson (2), L. Darcy, D. Giansiracusa, L. Gilbee, M. Hahn, B. Harrison, B. Murphy, P. Wiggins

As a result of this match, Essendon remained 8th on the ladder and Western Bulldogs remained 16th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 19
Teams: Essendon v Western Bulldogs
Date: Sunday 10 August 2003
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Telstra Dome
Attendance: 36,138

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Western Bulldogs
Score: 22.15.147 - 12.8.80

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	9	.	3	14	.	6	17	.	11	22	.	15	22	.	15	(147)
Western Bulldogs	2	.	0	5	.	2	8	.	4	12	.	8	12	.	8	(80)
Margin	ESSE by 45			ESSE by 58			ESSE by 61			ESSE by 67			ESSE by 67
Duration	32:49			27:49			28:39			29:50			1:59:07

Honour Roll

Coaches: Kevin Sheedy (Essendon), Peter Rohde (Western Bulldogs)
Captains: James Hird (Essendon), Scott West (Western Bulldogs)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Ellis, S. Ryan (#25), D. Woodcock (#26)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Matthew Lloyd	ESSE	18	3
James Hird	ESSE	5	2
Nathan Brown	WBUL	17	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Alessio, Steven	INT	37%	1	1	12	8	4	10	6	0	2	0	0	0	2	2
23	Bolton, Mark	CHB	89%	3	0	7	6	1	5	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	1
37	Bullen, Marc	HFFR	100%	2	0	14	12	2	7	0	2	1	3	0	1	0	4
13	Cupido, Damian	FPL	83%	1	1	15	12	3	4	0	1	0	5	1	1	2	4
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	100%	0	0	12	9	3	1	0	2	1	3	1	2	6	0
39	Haynes, Ben	INT	65%	0	1	15	10	5	4	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	5
19	Hille, David	RU	83%	1	1	12	7	5	4	24	1	1	4	3	2	1	2
5	Hird, James (c)	RR	84%	0	2	21	14	7	6	0	5	2	4	2	2	4	3
21	Jacobs, Danny	FPR	45%	0	1	5	3	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
14	Johnson, Jason	RO	88%	1	0	25	14	11	7	0	2	5	4	0	1	0	8
1	Johnson, Mark	HBFL	92%	0	1	25	12	13	8	1	2	7	1	0	1	1	8
18	Lloyd, Matthew	FF	100%	11	1	14	12	2	10	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1
25	Lucas, Scott	CHF	100%	0	0	27	23	4	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	7	3
28	McGrath, Cory	INT	55%	0	1	15	9	6	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	5
33	McPhee, Adam	WR	100%	1	2	21	13	8	7	0	7	2	2	0	0	3	4
10	McVeigh, Mark	BPR	100%	0	0	11	9	2	3	0	3	0	3	0	3	2	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	INT	60%	1	0	15	8	7	5	0	1	1	4	0	1	0	4
24	Misiti, Joe	C	45%	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	1
11	Peverill, Damien	WL	100%	0	0	21	8	13	7	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	2
7	Solomon, Dean	HFFL	75%	0	0	13	9	4	6	1	4	2	4	0	3	1	2
6	Wellman, Sean	HBFR	100%	0	1	9	6	3	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	2	0
12	Welsh, Andrew	BPL	100%	0	0	22	11	11	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	4
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				22	15	339	219	120	116	35	41	33	47	9	21	35	65

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
40	Birss, Shane	FF	44%	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Boyd, Matthew	INT	37%	0	0	6	2	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
17	Brown, Nathan	FPL	100%	3	1	29	19	10	11	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	7
14	Darcy, Luke	RU	100%	1	0	14	11	3	6	15	3	8	6	5	4	0	3
28	Dimattina, Paul	FPR	66%	0	0	14	6	8	1	0	1	3	2	2	0	0	3
10	Eagleton, Nathan	HFFL	100%	0	0	19	9	10	5	0	4	3	1	0	0	3	6
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	RO	99%	1	3	23	14	9	9	0	1	1	1	2	0	5	1
9	Gilbee, Lindsay	INT	47%	1	0	7	5	2	2	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	1
8	Hahn, Mitch	HFFR	86%	1	0	10	3	7	2	1	2	3	1	1	0	0	2
25	Hargrave, Ryan	HBFL	100%	0	1	10	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
22	Harrison, Ben	CHB	95%	1	1	12	8	4	4	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	1
6	Johnson, Brad	RR	100%	2	1	10	7	3	3	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	4
35	Kretiuk, Steven	FB	100%	0	0	6	2	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
29	McGuinness, Kieran	INT	45%	0	0	5	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
23	McMahon, Jordan	WR	84%	0	0	8	6	2	1	1	2	3	2	0	0	0	5
2	Murphy, Bob	BPL	100%	1	0	21	17	4	10	0	1	2	3	0	1	5	5
15	Power, Sam	WL	85%	0	0	16	7	9	5	0	2	2	1	0	1	2	3
30	Robbins, Matthew	BPR	100%	0	0	13	10	3	3	0	5	1	4	2	1	7	1
34	Skipper, Wayde	CHF	71%	0	0	5	3	2	2	6	2	0	2	0	0	1	0
5	Smith, Rohan	HBFR	89%	0	0	27	20	7	5	0	3	1	4	3	0	9	2
7	West, Scott (c)	C	100%	0	0	26	14	12	5	0	2	4	1	2	0	2	1
21	Wiggins, Patrick	INT	52%	1	0	3	1	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				12	8	286	172	114	82	24	38	33	38	21	9	40	48

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

Essendon							Coach: Kevin Sheedy
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	2	B. Murphy	35	S. Kretiuk	30	M. Robbins	19	D. Hille	27	S. Alessio
	21	D. Jacobs	18	M. Lloyd	13	D. Cupido	5	J. Hird (c)	39	B. Haynes
FORWARD							14	J. Johnson	28	C. McGrath
HALF-BACK									2	M. Mercuri
	25	R. Hargrave	22	B. Harrison	5	R. Smith
	37	M. Bullen	25	S. Lucas	7	D. Solomon
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	15	S. Power	7	S. West (c)	23	J. McMahon
	33	A. McPhee	24	J. Misiti	11	D. Peverill	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							14	L. Darcy	42	M. Boyd
HALF-FORWARD							6	B. Johnson	9	L. Gilbee
	10	N. Eagleton	34	W. Skipper	8	M. Hahn	13	D. Giansiracusa	29	K. McGuinness
	6	S. Wellman	23	M. Bolton	1	M. Johnson			21	P. Wiggins
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	17	N. Brown	40	S. Birss	28	P. Dimattina
	10	M. McVeigh	31	D. Fletcher	12	A. Welsh
BACK
Western Bulldogs							Coach: Peter Rohde

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Adam McPhee goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:41
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	03:52
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	3.0.18	-	0.0.0	07:00
	WBUL	Ben Harrison goal	3.0.18	-	1.0.6	08:57
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	4.0.24	-	1.0.6	10:47
	WBUL	Bob Murphy goal	4.0.24	-	2.0.12	12:31
	ESSE	Marc Bullen goal	5.0.30	-	2.0.12	15:14
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.1.31	-	2.0.12	17:31
	ESSE	David Hille behind	5.2.32	-	2.0.12	18:01
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.2.38	-	2.0.12	19:34
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	7.2.44	-	2.0.12	24:58
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	8.2.50	-	2.0.12	26:41
	ESSE	Ben Haynes behind	8.3.51	-	2.0.12	27:53
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	9.3.57	-	2.0.12	29:20
Q2	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	9.3.57	-	2.1.13	00:27
	WBUL	Lindsay Gilbee goal	9.3.57	-	3.1.19	02:17
	ESSE	Damian Cupido behind	9.4.58	-	3.1.19	04:00
	ESSE	Marc Bullen goal	10.4.64	-	3.1.19	07:05
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	10.4.64	-	4.1.25	08:58
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	10.4.64	-	5.1.31	09:52
	ESSE	Steven Alessio behind	10.5.65	-	5.1.31	12:05
	ESSE	James Hird behind	10.6.66	-	5.1.31	16:57
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	11.6.72	-	5.1.31	18:48
	ESSE	Damian Cupido goal	12.6.78	-	5.1.31	20:50
	WBUL	Ben Harrison behind	12.6.78	-	5.2.32	22:12
	ESSE	Steven Alessio goal	13.6.84	-	5.2.32	23:54
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	14.6.90	-	5.2.32	25:15
Q3	ESSE	James Hird behind	14.7.91	-	5.2.32	02:50
	WBUL	Ryan Hargrave behind	14.7.91	-	5.3.33	05:10
	ESSE	Rushed behind	14.8.92	-	5.3.33	05:56
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	15.8.98	-	5.3.33	07:56
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	15.8.98	-	6.3.39	09:28
	WBUL	Brad Johnson behind	15.8.98	-	6.4.40	13:18
	ESSE	Sean Wellman behind	15.9.99	-	6.4.40	16:17
	ESSE	Cory McGrath behind	15.10.100	-	6.4.40	17:45
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	16.10.106	-	6.4.40	19:40
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	17.10.112	-	6.4.40	22:11
	WBUL	Luke Darcy goal	17.10.112	-	7.4.46	24:18
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	17.10.112	-	8.4.52	25:46
	ESSE	Danny Jacobs behind	17.11.113	-	8.4.52	28:26
Q4	ESSE	Adam McPhee behind	17.12.114	-	8.4.52	00:16
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	17.12.114	-	8.5.53	01:12
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	17.13.115	-	8.5.53	02:50
	ESSE	Mark Johnson behind	17.14.116	-	8.5.53	03:15
	ESSE	Adam McPhee behind	17.15.117	-	8.5.53	04:46
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	18.15.123	-	8.5.53	06:38
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	18.15.123	-	9.5.59	10:03
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	18.15.123	-	9.6.60	13:25
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	19.15.129	-	9.6.60	15:11
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	19.15.129	-	10.6.66	16:40
	ESSE	David Hille goal	20.15.135	-	10.6.66	20:57
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	20.15.135	-	10.7.67	22:36
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri goal	21.15.141	-	10.7.67	23:50
	WBUL	Patrick Wiggins goal	21.15.141	-	11.7.73	25:37
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	21.15.141	-	12.7.79	26:45
	WBUL	Rushed behind	21.15.141	-	12.8.80	28:11
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	22.15.147	-	12.8.80	29:43

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