2004 AFL Season Elimination Final 1: Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 4 September 2004 between Melbourne and Essendon in the first elimination final of the 2004 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Essendon at the MCG. Adem Yze captained the hosts. James Hird captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

Melbourne (15.9.99) were defeated by Essendon (15.14.104).

Match Details

Season: 2004 AFL Season
Round: First Elimination Final
Teams: Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Saturday 4 September 2004
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 60,903

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 15.9.99 - 15.14.104

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	5	.	2	6	.	5	13	.	6	15	.	9	15	.	9	(99)
Essendon	5	.	2	11	.	6	11	.	10	15	.	14	15	.	14	(104)
Margin	level			ESSE by 31			MELB by 8			ESSE by 5			ESSE by 5
Duration	31:53			29:07			29:35			30:04			2:00:39

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 (Essendon) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: Adem Yze
Coach: Neale Daniher

Essendon

Captain: James Hird
Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. James (#5)
H. Kennedy (#7)
C. Rowe (#12)

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Bizzell, Clint	BPL	85%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
20	Broadbridge, Troy	FF	100%	0	0	12	11	1	6	1	2	1	1	0	1	5	3
25	Brown, Nathan	BPR	100%	0	0	22	12	10	9	0	2	1	0	2	0	5	2
32	Bruce, Cameron	RR	100%	1	0	21	10	11	4	0	4	2	3	1	1	1	2
36	Davey, Aaron	INT	77%	0	0	10	5	5	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	3
18	Green, Brad	WL	100%	2	0	21	13	8	8	0	0	3	2	0	0	1	3
4	Holland, Ben	FPR	60%	0	0	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
40	Jamar, Mark	INT	19%	0	0	2	1	1	1	7	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
16	Johnstone, Travis	INT	81%	2	0	22	18	4	4	0	2	3	2	1	0	6	5
23	McDonald, James	RO	61%	0	1	25	20	5	7	0	3	7	0	3	0	0	4
5	McLean, Brock	WR	49%	0	1	4	3	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2
7	Miller, Brad	CHF	100%	0	0	14	8	6	10	1	5	0	3	0	3	0	6
8	Nicholson, Alistair	FB	100%	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	0
28	Read, Phil	C	52%	2	0	10	6	4	6	0	1	1	5	0	4	0	3
43	Rigoni, Guy	INT	39%	1	1	13	9	4	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	4
27	Rivers, Jared	CHB	100%	0	0	8	8	0	5	0	3	0	0	2	0	4	0
24	Robertson, Russell	HFFL	100%	3	0	13	10	3	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
10	Ward, Daniel	FPL	100%	0	0	15	9	6	3	0	5	0	4	2	0	0	5
31	Wheatley, Paul	HBFR	100%	0	0	18	14	4	9	1	2	1	2	0	1	6	2
45	Whelan, Matthew	HBFL	91%	0	0	22	11	11	5	0	5	4	1	0	0	4	2
34	White, Jeff	RU	87%	1	0	19	13	6	8	14	2	5	3	1	0	0	3
13	Yze, Adem (c)	HFFR	100%	3	4	26	20	6	8	0	3	2	3	0	1	1	4
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				15	9	310	209	101	109	25	53	30	40	12	14	37	57

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Allan, Matthew	INT	62%	0	0	11	5	6	4	21	0	2	1	0	1	0	2
23	Bolton, Mark	CHF	72%	1	0	11	3	8	3	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	1
37	Bullen, Marc	RR	72%	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	1	1	3	1	1	1	3
13	Cupido, Damian	FPR	77%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	2	0	5	0	2	1	2
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	100%	0	0	14	13	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	9	0
39	Haynes, Ben	INT	20%	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1
19	Hille, David	RU	84%	3	0	13	5	8	5	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
5	Hird, James (c)	HFFR	100%	2	1	21	14	7	5	0	4	3	1	1	0	1	5
14	Johnson, Jason	C	100%	1	1	28	17	11	3	0	5	5	3	2	0	0	8
1	Johnson, Mark	WL	100%	1	2	21	8	13	3	0	2	5	0	2	0	2	2
18	Lloyd, Matthew	FF	100%	4	5	16	15	1	7	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	2
42	Lovett-Murray, Nathan	INT	37%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
25	Lucas, Scott	CHB	100%	1	0	19	14	5	5	0	0	2	2	1	0	4	1
10	McVeigh, Mark	HBFR	100%	1	0	20	12	8	1	0	5	2	2	0	0	3	2
28	Murphy, Justin	HFFL	100%	0	0	28	12	16	6	0	1	1	3	1	0	4	5
11	Peverill, Damien	RO	100%	0	1	19	12	7	6	0	4	1	3	0	1	1	5
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	BPL	100%	0	0	15	6	9	2	0	1	1	2	2	1	3	0
7	Solomon, Dean	WR	100%	0	0	24	14	10	6	2	4	5	6	1	3	0	10
34	Stanton, Brent	INT	17%	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	2
4	Watson, Jobe	FPL	59%	1	0	14	3	11	3	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1
6	Wellman, Sean	BPR	100%	0	0	16	11	5	5	0	3	0	0	1	0	4	1
12	Welsh, Andrew	HBFL	100%	0	0	16	7	9	3	0	5	2	0	0	0	2	0
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				15	14	334	186	148	76	35	46	37	39	14	12	36	54

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
	9	A. Ramanauskas	31	D. Fletcher	6	S. Wellman	34	J. White	36	A. Davey
	4	B. Holland	20	T. Broadbridge	10	D. Ward	32	C. Bruce	40	M. Jamar
FORWARD							23	J. McDonald	16	T. Johnstone
HALF-BACK									43	G. Rigoni
	12	A. Welsh	25	S. Lucas	10	M. McVeigh
	13	A. Yze (c)	7	B. Miller	24	R. Robertson
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	1	M. Johnson	14	J. Johnson	7	D. Solomon
	5	B. McLean	28	P. Read	18	B. Green	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							19	D. Hille	27	M. Allan
HALF-FORWARD							37	M. Bullen	39	B. Haynes
	28	J. Murphy	23	M. Bolton	5	J. Hird (c)	11	D. Peverill	42	N. Lovett-Murray
	31	P. Wheatley	27	J. Rivers	45	M. Whelan			34	B. Stanton
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	4	J. Watson	18	M. Lloyd	13	D. Cupido
	25	N. Brown	8	A. Nicholson	3	C. Bizzell
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	02:58
	MELB	Brock McLean behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	04:09
	ESSE	Mark Bolton goal	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	05:00
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	07:24
	ESSE	James Hird goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	10:54
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	1.1.7	-	3.1.19	12:19
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	1.1.7	-	4.1.25	15:11
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	1.1.7	-	5.1.31	17:59
	MELB	Travis Johnstone goal	2.1.13	-	5.1.31	19:09
	MELB	Travis Johnstone goal	3.1.19	-	5.1.31	23:28
	ESSE	James Hird behind	3.1.19	-	5.2.32	25:59
	MELB	Brad Green goal	4.1.25	-	5.2.32	27:43
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	5.1.31	-	5.2.32	29:19
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	5.2.32	-	5.2.32	30:30
Q2	ESSE	Damien Peverill behind	5.2.32	-	5.3.33	03:20
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	5.3.33	-	5.3.33	05:19
	MELB	James McDonald behind	5.4.34	-	5.3.33	05:50
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	6.4.40	-	5.3.33	08:36
	ESSE	Mark Johnson behind	6.4.40	-	5.4.34	09:47
	ESSE	Mark Johnson goal	6.4.40	-	6.4.40	11:07
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.4.40	-	7.4.46	12:05
	MELB	Rushed behind	6.5.41	-	7.4.46	13:15
	ESSE	Jason Johnson behind	6.5.41	-	7.5.47	14:09
	ESSE	Jason Johnson goal	6.5.41	-	8.5.53	16:02
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	6.5.41	-	8.6.54	18:51
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	6.5.41	-	9.6.60	20:31
	ESSE	James Hird goal	6.5.41	-	10.6.66	24:04
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	6.5.41	-	11.6.72	26:49
Q3	MELB	Guy Rigoni goal	7.5.47	-	11.6.72	01:35
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	7.5.47	-	11.7.73	04:11
	MELB	Jeff White goal	8.5.53	-	11.7.73	05:36
	MELB	Brad Green goal	9.5.59	-	11.7.73	08:55
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.5.59	-	11.8.74	10:07
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	9.6.60	-	11.8.74	11:04
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	10.6.66	-	11.8.74	12:27
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	10.6.66	-	11.9.75	15:29
	MELB	Phil Read goal	11.6.72	-	11.9.75	20:41
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	12.6.78	-	11.9.75	22:01
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	13.6.84	-	11.9.75	23:23
	ESSE	Rushed behind	13.6.84	-	11.10.76	25:56
Q4	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	13.6.84	-	11.11.77	00:57
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	13.6.84	-	11.12.78	04:07
	ESSE	David Hille goal	13.6.84	-	12.12.84	07:13
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	14.6.90	-	12.12.84	12:12
	ESSE	Scott Lucas goal	14.6.90	-	13.12.90	13:52
	MELB	Guy Rigoni behind	14.7.91	-	13.12.90	16:07
	ESSE	David Hille goal	14.7.91	-	14.12.96	17:53
	MELB	Phil Read goal	15.7.97	-	14.12.96	19:41
	ESSE	Rushed behind	15.7.97	-	14.13.97	20:56
	ESSE	David Hille goal	15.7.97	-	15.13.103	22:00
	ESSE	Mark Johnson behind	15.7.97	-	15.14.104	24:19
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	15.8.98	-	15.14.104	26:09
	MELB	Rushed behind	15.9.99	-	15.14.104	29:24

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