2004 AFL 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 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Essendon at 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
Back: C. Bizzell, A. Nicholson, N. Brown
Half-back: M. Whelan, J. Rivers, P. Wheatley
Centre: B. Green, P. Read, B. McLean
Half-forward: R. Robertson, B. Miller, A. Yze (capt.)
Forward: D. Ward, T. Broadbridge, B. Holland
Follower: J. White, C. Bruce, J. McDonald
Int.: A. Davey, M. Jamar, T. Johnstone, G. Rigoni

Essendon
Back: A. Ramanauskas, D. Fletcher, S. Wellman
Half-back: A. Welsh, S. Lucas, M. McVeigh
Centre: M. Johnson, J. Johnson, D. Solomon
Half-forward: J. Murphy, M. Bolton, J. Hird (capt.)
Forward: J. Watson, M. Lloyd, D. Cupido
Follower: D. Hille, M. Bullen, D. Peverill
Int.: M. Allan, B. Haynes, N. Lovett-Murray, B. Stanton

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

Goalkickers
Melbourne: R. Robertson (3), A. Yze (3), B. Green (2), T. Johnstone (2), P. Read (2), C. Bruce, G. Rigoni, J. White
Essendon: M. Lloyd (4), D. Hille (3), J. Hird (2), M. Bolton, J. Johnson, M. Johnson, S. Lucas, M. McVeigh, J. Watson

As a result of this match, Essendon faced Geelong in the first semi final and Melbourne were eliminated (finishing 7th overall).

Match Details

Season: 2004 AFL Season
Round: Elimination Final 1
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

Honour Roll

Coaches: Neale Daniher (Melbourne), Kevin Sheedy (Essendon)
Captains: Adem Yze (Melbourne), James Hird (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: 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