2003 AFL Season Round 20: Essendon v Richmond

This is the match report for the match played on 17 August 2003 between Essendon and Richmond during round twenty of the 2003 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon "hosted" Richmond at the MCG. James Hird captained the hosts. Matthew Richardson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Danny Frawley.

Essendon (13.14.92) defeated Richmond (7.11.53).

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: Essendon v Richmond
Date: Sunday 17 August 2003
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 40,846

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Richmond
Score: 13.14.92 - 7.11.53

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	4	.	2	9	.	8	12	.	12	13	.	14	13	.	14	(92)
Richmond	2	.	5	5	.	5	5	.	8	7	.	11	7	.	11	(53)
Margin	ESSE by 9			ESSE by 27			ESSE by 46			ESSE by 39			ESSE by 39
Duration	29:53			31:34			27:02			26:24			1:54:53

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Richmond

Captain: Matthew Richardson
Coach: Danny Frawley

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. Fussell
D. Goldspink (#32)
S. Jeffery (#29)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Mark Coughlan	RICH	24	3
Matthew Lloyd	ESSE	18	2
Scott Lucas	ESSE	25	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	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	30%	0	0	5	2	3	1	5	0	2	2	0	1	1	1
23	Bolton, Mark	CHF	69%	1	1	8	5	3	4	1	6	2	1	0	1	1	2
37	Bullen, Marc	RR	76%	0	0	17	9	8	4	0	6	1	1	0	0	1	4
13	Cupido, Damian	HFFL	100%	3	1	14	11	3	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	100%	0	0	16	12	4	7	0	1	0	1	1	1	9	0
39	Haynes, Ben	INT	61%	0	1	13	9	4	3	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	5
3	Henneman, Aaron	BPR	47%	0	0	7	3	4	3	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1
19	Hille, David	RU	76%	0	0	10	7	3	3	14	2	1	1	0	0	0	3
5	Hird, James (c)	HFFR	100%	0	1	23	13	10	5	0	1	3	4	0	1	1	4
21	Jacobs, Danny	FPL	100%	0	0	16	6	10	9	0	4	0	2	1	0	5	0
1	Johnson, Mark	WL	97%	0	0	16	10	6	4	3	5	8	3	1	0	1	2
18	Lloyd, Matthew	FF	100%	6	3	16	11	5	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
25	Lucas, Scott	CHB	100%	1	1	22	19	3	8	0	2	0	5	0	0	5	4
28	McGrath, Cory	INT	35%	0	0	8	6	2	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	2
33	McPhee, Adam	WR	100%	0	0	15	10	5	5	0	4	0	1	2	0	4	2
10	McVeigh, Mark	BPL	100%	1	0	7	5	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	3
2	Mercuri, Mark	INT	68%	0	3	17	8	9	8	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	2
24	Misiti, Joe	C	78%	0	0	23	8	15	4	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	3
11	Peverill, Damien	RO	100%	0	1	21	9	12	4	0	5	5	2	1	0	1	4
43	Rioli, Dean	FPR	77%	0	0	16	14	2	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	7
7	Solomon, Dean	HBFR	85%	1	0	11	7	4	5	0	2	0	4	0	3	0	4
12	Welsh, Andrew	HBFL	100%	0	0	18	11	7	4	0	3	0	2	0	1	4	3
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				13	14	319	195	124	101	23	51	29	39	10	12	39	60

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Blumfield, Justin	HFFR	83%	0	0	15	7	8	5	0	4	1	3	0	0	0	3
11	Bowden, Joel	FF	89%	0	0	25	16	9	6	0	1	1	4	0	1	3	5
15	Cameron, Leon	FPR	50%	0	1	11	8	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
6	Chaffey, Mark	BPL	100%	0	0	16	12	4	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	5	2
24	Coughlan, Mark	RR	97%	1	1	34	17	17	6	0	4	6	1	0	0	2	2
14	Fiora, Aaron	WL	100%	1	0	18	11	7	6	0	3	1	2	1	1	6	2
16	Holland, Ben	CHF	97%	0	0	10	2	8	6	1	2	1	3	0	2	2	1
44	Houlihan, Adam	INT	43%	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	2	2	1	2	0	1	3
28	Johnson, Kane	C	91%	0	0	22	15	7	3	0	6	4	4	1	3	2	3
39	Kellaway, Andrew	FB	100%	1	0	21	15	6	11	1	2	0	0	1	0	4	1
3	Kellaway, Duncan	HBFL	85%	0	0	7	3	4	1	0	3	0	3	2	0	1	1
27	Krakouer, Andrew	FPL	100%	1	0	6	4	2	0	0	2	4	0	1	0	0	0
30	McGrath, Marty	INT	52%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Newman, Chris	BPR	100%	0	0	12	4	8	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	1
26	Nicholls, Bill	INT	39%	0	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
5	Ottens, Brad	RU	94%	1	3	23	12	11	12	18	5	3	1	1	0	1	3
8	Pettifer, Kayne	HFFL	71%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	2
12	Richardson, Matthew (c)	WR	100%	0	3	28	19	9	13	2	0	0	4	0	2	2	7
18	Rodan, David	RO	95%	1	0	15	12	3	3	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	6
10	Stafford, Greg	INT	63%	1	0	5	3	2	3	9	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
32	Tivendale, Greg	HBFR	99%	0	0	20	12	8	5	0	3	6	4	2	0	1	4
36	Zantuck, Ty	CHB	53%	0	0	7	5	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	0
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				7	11	322	192	130	95	31	44	33	39	12	10	40	51

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
	6	M. Chaffey	39	A. Kellaway	35	C. Newman	19	D. Hille	27	S. Alessio
	43	D. Rioli	18	M. Lloyd	21	D. Jacobs	37	M. Bullen	39	B. Haynes
FORWARD							11	D. Peverill	28	C. McGrath
HALF-BACK									2	M. Mercuri
	3	D. Kellaway	36	T. Zantuck	32	G. Tivendale
	5	J. Hird (c)	23	M. Bolton	13	D. Cupido
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	14	A. Fiora	28	K. Johnson	12	M. Richardson (c)
	33	A. McPhee	24	J. Misiti	1	M. Johnson	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							5	B. Ottens	44	A. Houlihan
HALF-FORWARD							24	M. Coughlan	30	M. McGrath
	8	K. Pettifer	16	B. Holland	13	J. Blumfield	18	D. Rodan	26	B. Nicholls
	7	D. Solomon	25	S. Lucas	12	A. Welsh			10	G. Stafford
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	27	A. Krakouer	11	J. Bowden	15	L. Cameron
	3	A. Henneman	31	D. Fletcher	10	M. McVeigh
BACK
Richmond							Coach: Danny Frawley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	RICH	Matthew Richardson behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	03:05
	RICH	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	04:10
	RICH	David Rodan goal	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	05:31
	RICH	Matthew Richardson behind	0.0.0	-	1.3.9	08:34
	ESSE	Damian Cupido goal	1.0.6	-	1.3.9	09:26
	RICH	Leon Cameron behind	1.0.6	-	1.4.10	13:02
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	2.0.12	-	1.4.10	14:30
	RICH	Andrew Krakouer goal	2.0.12	-	2.4.16	16:17
	ESSE	Dean Solomon goal	3.0.18	-	2.4.16	22:36
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	3.1.19	-	2.4.16	24:36
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	3.2.20	-	2.4.16	25:24
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	4.2.26	-	2.4.16	27:39
	RICH	Mark Coughlan behind	4.2.26	-	2.5.17	29:47
Q2	ESSE	James Hird behind	4.3.27	-	2.5.17	00:40
	ESSE	Damian Cupido goal	5.3.33	-	2.5.17	02:25
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.4.34	-	2.5.17	03:45
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.4.40	-	2.5.17	06:44
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	6.5.41	-	2.5.17	11:45
	RICH	Aaron Fiora goal	6.5.41	-	3.5.23	12:58
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	6.6.42	-	3.5.23	14:56
	RICH	Andrew Kellaway goal	6.6.42	-	4.5.29	17:07
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	7.6.48	-	4.5.29	19:16
	ESSE	Ben Haynes behind	7.7.49	-	4.5.29	22:19
	RICH	Brad Ottens goal	7.7.49	-	5.5.35	24:34
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	8.7.55	-	5.5.35	27:43
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	9.7.61	-	5.5.35	29:31
	ESSE	Damian Cupido behind	9.8.62	-	5.5.35	31:26
Q3	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	10.8.68	-	5.5.35	03:41
	ESSE	Mark Mercuri behind	10.9.69	-	5.5.35	07:55
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	10.10.70	-	5.5.35	08:44
	ESSE	Damien Peverill behind	10.11.71	-	5.5.35	12:18
	ESSE	Mark Bolton behind	10.12.72	-	5.5.35	13:43
	RICH	Matthew Richardson behind	10.12.72	-	5.6.36	15:11
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	11.12.78	-	5.6.36	15:52
	ESSE	Damian Cupido goal	12.12.84	-	5.6.36	16:57
	RICH	Rushed behind	12.12.84	-	5.7.37	19:59
	RICH	Brad Ottens behind	12.12.84	-	5.8.38	24:22
Q4	RICH	Mark Coughlan goal	12.12.84	-	6.8.44	05:36
	RICH	Greg Stafford goal	12.12.84	-	7.8.50	08:08
	RICH	Brad Ottens behind	12.12.84	-	7.9.51	14:10
	RICH	Brad Ottens behind	12.12.84	-	7.10.52	15:30
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	12.13.85	-	7.10.52	18:06
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	13.13.91	-	7.10.52	20:33
	ESSE	Rushed behind	13.14.92	-	7.10.52	22:36
	RICH	Bill Nicholls behind	13.14.92	-	7.11.53	23:21

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