2003 AFL Season Round 21: Essendon v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 23 August 2003 between Essendon and Fremantle during round twenty-one of the 2003 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted Fremantle at Telstra Dome. James Hird captained the hosts. Peter Bell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Kevin Sheedy and the visitors were coached by Chris Connolly.

Essendon (20.13.133) defeated Fremantle (11.7.73).

Match Details

Season: 2003 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Essendon v Fremantle
Date: Saturday 23 August 2003
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Telstra Dome
Attendance: 42,256

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Fremantle
Score: 20.13.133 - 11.7.73

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	4	.	3	10	.	4	14	.	7	20	.	13	20	.	13	(133)
Fremantle	3	.	2	7	.	3	9	.	4	11	.	7	11	.	7	(73)
Margin	ESSE by 7			ESSE by 19			ESSE by 33			ESSE by 60			ESSE by 60
Duration	29:35			30:42			28:25			29:15			1:57:57

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 (Fremantle) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Fremantle

Captain: Peter Bell
Coach: Chris Connolly

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Allen (#10)
S. McInerney (#30)
C. Rowe (#12)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jason Johnson	ESSE	14	3
James Hird	ESSE	5	2
Matthew Lloyd	ESSE	18	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
23	Bolton, Mark	HFFR	100%	0	0	8	4	4	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	2	0
37	Bullen, Marc	C	80%	1	0	9	7	2	2	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	4
13	Cupido, Damian	FPR	94%	1	2	14	12	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4
38	Harvey, Shane	INT	32%	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
39	Haynes, Ben	INT	87%	0	1	17	13	4	4	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	5
3	Henneman, Aaron	INT	52%	0	0	6	2	4	2	4	1	2	1	0	1	0	0
19	Hille, David	RU	88%	3	1	17	11	6	5	11	0	7	0	0	0	1	3
5	Hird, James (c)	HFFL	90%	1	1	26	17	9	6	0	3	2	1	1	0	2	10
21	Jacobs, Danny	FPL	100%	2	0	14	7	7	3	1	2	1	3	0	1	1	1
14	Johnson, Jason	RR	77%	4	1	21	16	5	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	4
1	Johnson, Mark	RO	100%	0	0	22	15	7	4	1	3	9	0	1	0	2	7
18	Lloyd, Matthew	FF	96%	6	3	13	11	2	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
25	Lucas, Scott	CHB	100%	0	1	17	12	5	5	0	2	0	3	0	2	5	1
33	McPhee, Adam	FB	92%	0	0	15	6	9	6	0	2	1	1	2	0	1	1
10	McVeigh, Mark	HBFL	100%	0	0	13	8	5	4	0	3	1	2	1	0	2	2
2	Mercuri, Mark	BPR	53%	0	0	10	7	3	2	0	1	1	4	0	3	1	2
24	Misiti, Joe	CHF	56%	0	0	18	10	8	5	0	3	2	0	1	0	1	1
11	Peverill, Damien	WL	87%	0	0	17	5	12	5	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	2
20	Richards, Ted	INT	32%	0	0	4	3	1	0	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	1
43	Rioli, Dean	HBFR	82%	0	1	18	12	6	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	2
7	Solomon, Dean	WR	100%	1	1	15	11	4	5	0	3	3	5	2	3	3	3
12	Welsh, Andrew	BPL	100%	1	0	19	15	4	4	0	2	1	5	0	1	4	3
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				20	13	316	206	110	89	18	37	38	33	9	15	31	59

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
32	Bell, Peter (c)	RR	91%	1	0	33	21	12	10	0	2	3	3	0	0	3	6
9	Carr, Matthew	HBFR	100%	1	0	18	15	3	8	0	2	2	1	0	1	1	4
10	Cook, Troy	RO	40%	0	0	10	8	2	3	0	0	1	2	3	1	2	2
24	Croad, Trent	BPL	87%	0	2	7	6	1	2	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	3
33	Farmer, Jeff	FPR	86%	0	1	18	13	5	5	1	3	2	3	2	0	1	3
42	Haddrill, Robbie	FB	100%	0	0	16	8	8	9	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	0
4	Hasleby, Paul	C	86%	0	1	28	16	12	6	0	1	6	1	1	0	0	3
43	Hayden, Roger	WL	94%	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
11	Headland, Des	HFFR	71%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
20	Longmuir, Justin	FPL	74%	1	0	5	4	1	2	5	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
21	Longmuir, Troy	INT	54%	0	0	9	6	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	3
8	McManus, Shaun	WR	87%	0	1	13	9	4	6	0	1	3	3	2	2	1	3
18	McPharlin, Luke	CHB	100%	0	0	7	7	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	0
34	Medhurst, Paul	FF	94%	4	0	6	6	0	5	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	1
23	Parker, Shane	HBFL	100%	0	0	16	11	5	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	7	1
29	Pavlich, Matthew	HFFL	100%	1	0	24	17	7	10	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
12	Polak, Graham	CHF	76%	0	0	11	8	3	6	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0
31	Sandilands, Aaron	INT	46%	0	0	6	2	4	4	18	2	1	2	1	0	0	1
3	Schammer, Byron	INT	46%	0	0	8	7	1	3	0	4	0	1	1	0	3	1
2	Simmonds, Troy	RU	93%	3	0	13	7	6	8	10	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
19	Walker, James	INT	74%	0	0	11	7	4	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	1
6	Woods, Dion	BPR	100%	0	0	15	11	4	3	0	2	1	2	1	0	4	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				11	7	293	199	94	121	38	38	22	28	15	8	38	44

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
	24	T. Croad	42	R. Haddrill	6	D. Woods	19	D. Hille	38	S. Harvey
	13	D. Cupido	18	M. Lloyd	21	D. Jacobs	14	J. Johnson	39	B. Haynes
FORWARD							1	M. Johnson	3	A. Henneman
HALF-BACK									20	T. Richards
	23	S. Parker	18	L. McPharlin	9	M. Carr
	23	M. Bolton	24	J. Misiti	5	J. Hird (c)
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	43	R. Hayden	4	P. Hasleby	8	S. McManus
	7	D. Solomon	37	M. Bullen	11	D. Peverill	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	T. Simmonds	21	T. Longmuir
HALF-FORWARD							32	P. Bell (c)	31	A. Sandilands
	29	M. Pavlich	12	G. Polak	11	D. Headland	10	T. Cook	3	B. Schammer
	43	D. Rioli	25	S. Lucas	10	M. McVeigh			19	J. Walker
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	20	J. Longmuir	34	P. Medhurst	33	J. Farmer
	2	M. Mercuri	33	A. McPhee	12	A. Welsh
BACK
Fremantle							Coach: Chris Connolly

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:54
	FREM	Peter Bell goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	03:05
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	07:58
	FREM	Trent Croad behind	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	12:17
	FREM	Shaun McManus behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	16:47
	ESSE	Marc Bullen goal	2.1.13	-	1.2.8	19:25
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	21:24
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	3.2.20	-	1.2.8	23:59
	FREM	Troy Simmonds goal	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	25:48
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	4.2.26	-	2.2.14	26:55
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	4.3.27	-	2.2.14	27:58
	FREM	Troy Simmonds goal	4.3.27	-	3.2.20	29:29
Q2	ESSE	Dean Solomon behind	4.4.28	-	3.2.20	00:13
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	5.4.34	-	3.2.20	02:23
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.4.40	-	3.2.20	04:06
	FREM	Paul Medhurst goal	6.4.40	-	4.2.26	05:33
	FREM	Justin Longmuir goal	6.4.40	-	5.2.32	06:40
	ESSE	Andrew Welsh goal	7.4.46	-	5.2.32	10:14
	FREM	Paul Hasleby behind	7.4.46	-	5.3.33	12:03
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	8.4.52	-	5.3.33	12:55
	FREM	Paul Medhurst goal	8.4.52	-	6.3.39	14:45
	ESSE	Dean Solomon goal	9.4.58	-	6.3.39	16:31
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	9.4.58	-	7.3.45	20:01
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	10.4.64	-	7.3.45	27:30
Q3	FREM	Troy Simmonds goal	10.4.64	-	8.3.51	02:08
	FREM	Paul Medhurst goal	10.4.64	-	9.3.57	09:52
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	10.5.65	-	9.3.57	11:48
	ESSE	Ben Haynes behind	10.6.66	-	9.3.57	12:56
	FREM	Jeff Farmer behind	10.6.66	-	9.4.58	17:50
	ESSE	Danny Jacobs goal	11.6.72	-	9.4.58	19:15
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	12.6.78	-	9.4.58	21:04
	ESSE	Damian Cupido goal	13.6.84	-	9.4.58	23:13
	ESSE	Scott Lucas behind	13.7.85	-	9.4.58	24:57
	ESSE	David Hille goal	14.7.91	-	9.4.58	26:47
Q4	ESSE	James Hird behind	14.8.92	-	9.4.58	01:24
	FREM	Rushed behind	14.8.92	-	9.5.59	03:02
	ESSE	James Hird goal	15.8.98	-	9.5.59	04:25
	ESSE	Damian Cupido behind	15.9.99	-	9.5.59	05:16
	ESSE	Dean Rioli behind	15.10.100	-	9.5.59	06:13
	ESSE	Danny Jacobs goal	16.10.106	-	9.5.59	12:16
	ESSE	Damian Cupido behind	16.11.107	-	9.5.59	13:46
	FREM	Trent Croad behind	16.11.107	-	9.6.60	14:49
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	17.11.113	-	9.6.60	16:32
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	18.11.119	-	9.6.60	17:39
	FREM	Rushed behind	18.11.119	-	9.7.61	19:11
	ESSE	David Hille goal	19.11.125	-	9.7.61	21:01
	ESSE	Rushed behind	19.12.126	-	9.7.61	22:54
	FREM	Paul Medhurst goal	19.12.126	-	10.7.67	23:41
	FREM	Matthew Carr goal	19.12.126	-	11.7.73	26:17
	ESSE	David Hille behind	19.13.127	-	11.7.73	27:39
	ESSE	David Hille goal	20.13.133	-	11.7.73	29:08

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