2004 AFL Round 8: Geelong v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 16 May 2004 between Geelong and Melbourne during round 8 of the 2004 AFL season. Geelong hosted Melbourne at Skilled Stadium. Steven King captained the hosts. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mark Thompson and the visitors were coached by Neale Daniher.

Geelong
Back: K. Kingsley, M. Scarlett, B. Sanderson
Half-back: J. Hunt, T. Harley, D. Milburn
Centre: J. Kelly, C. Ling, K. Tenace
Half-forward: C. Gardiner, B. Graham, P. Chapman
Forward: B. Moloney, H. Playfair, A. Mackie
Follower: C. Mooney, J. Corey, G. Ablett
Int.: D. Johnson, S. King (capt.), P. Riccardi, D. Wojcinski

Melbourne
Back: P. Wheatley, A. Nicholson, M. Whelan
Half-back: C. Bruce, J. Rivers, N. Carroll
Centre: B. Green, S. Thompson, C. Heffernan
Half-forward: R. Robertson, C. Bizzell, A. Yze
Forward: A. Davey, D. Neitz (capt.), B. Holland
Follower: J. White, T. Johnstone, S. Godfrey
Int.: S. Armstrong, B. Miller, P. Read, D. Ward

Geelong (15.11.101) defeated Melbourne (12.15.87).

Goalkickers
Geelong: K. Kingsley (4), P. Chapman (3), A. Mackie (3), C. Mooney (3), G. Ablett, J. Kelly
Melbourne: A. Davey (5), S. Godfrey, T. Johnstone, B. Miller, R. Robertson, D. Ward, J. White, A. Yze

As a result of this match, Geelong remained 8th on the ladder and Melbourne remained 2nd on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2004 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Geelong v Melbourne
Date: Sunday 16 May 2004
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Skilled Stadium
Attendance: 21,157

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Melbourne
Score: 15.11.101 - 12.15.87

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	7	.	1	9	.	5	11	.	9	15	.	11	15	.	11	(101)
Melbourne	2	.	4	3	.	7	9	.	12	12	.	15	12	.	15	(87)
Margin	GEEL by 27			GEEL by 34			GEEL by 9			GEEL by 14			GEEL by 14
Duration	31:05			27:07			29:44			29:33			1:57:29

Honour Roll

Coaches: Mark Thompson (Geelong), Neale Daniher (Melbourne)
Captains: Steven King (Geelong), David Neitz (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Nicholls (#15), B. Rosebury (#8), M. Vozzo (#2)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Matthew Scarlett	GEEL	30	3
Darren Milburn	GEEL	39	2
Scott Thompson	MELB	6	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Ablett, Gary	RO	100%	1	0	19	12	7	3	0	1	5	2	1	1	1	2
35	Chapman, Paul	HFFR	93%	3	0	17	11	6	6	0	4	3	1	1	1	2	3
11	Corey, Joel	RR	6%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	Gardiner, Charlie	HFFL	97%	0	0	10	10	0	6	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	4
7	Graham, Ben	CHF	91%	0	0	13	7	6	5	0	1	2	3	0	1	1	2
2	Harley, Tom	CHB	100%	0	0	17	14	3	8	0	1	0	3	1	2	4	2
41	Hunt, Josh	HBFL	96%	0	0	17	12	5	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	6	1
28	Johnson, David	INT	54%	0	0	9	6	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1
9	Kelly, James	WL	96%	1	1	25	15	10	3	1	4	2	4	1	0	4	5
1	King, Steven (c)	INT	47%	0	0	10	5	5	2	14	2	2	2	1	2	1	2
18	Kingsley, Kent	BPL	100%	4	5	15	14	1	9	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	3
45	Ling, Cameron	C	100%	0	0	21	15	6	13	0	2	0	3	1	0	2	3
4	Mackie, Andrew	FPR	95%	3	0	10	8	2	7	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	4
39	Milburn, Darren	HBFR	100%	0	0	18	9	9	7	4	0	3	1	0	1	2	2
32	Moloney, Brent	FPL	74%	0	0	15	7	8	3	0	0	0	4	0	3	1	4
21	Mooney, Cam	RU	83%	3	0	21	13	8	7	6	0	5	5	0	2	1	1
22	Playfair, Henry	FF	78%	0	0	10	5	5	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	3	0
15	Riccardi, Peter	INT	62%	0	3	14	12	2	3	0	3	3	3	2	1	0	3
27	Sanderson, Brenton	BPR	100%	0	0	18	15	3	12	0	1	0	5	3	1	9	0
30	Scarlett, Matthew	FB	100%	0	0	17	11	6	9	0	1	1	2	0	1	6	0
10	Tenace, Kane	WR	58%	0	0	16	12	4	1	0	0	3	5	0	1	2	2
40	Wojcinski, David	INT	71%	0	0	12	6	6	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				15	11	325	220	105	118	27	26	32	50	13	20	49	45

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
2	Armstrong, Steven	INT	46%	0	2	7	4	3	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
3	Bizzell, Clint	CHF	100%	0	0	8	5	3	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
32	Bruce, Cameron	HBFL	92%	0	1	14	6	8	2	0	5	1	1	0	1	0	3
41	Carroll, Nathan	HBFR	64%	0	0	3	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0
36	Davey, Aaron	FPL	100%	5	1	13	10	3	2	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	5
30	Godfrey, Simon	RO	78%	1	0	13	9	4	4	2	5	4	0	1	0	0	5
18	Green, Brad	WL	100%	0	0	20	14	6	2	0	3	1	1	1	0	1	6
1	Heffernan, Chris	WR	65%	0	1	17	13	4	3	2	4	4	1	2	1	0	8
4	Holland, Ben	FPR	44%	0	0	3	1	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	0
16	Johnstone, Travis	RR	73%	1	1	16	13	3	6	0	4	3	2	1	2	0	3
7	Miller, Brad	INT	70%	1	0	13	9	4	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7
9	Neitz, David (c)	FF	94%	0	3	6	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
8	Nicholson, Alistair	FB	85%	0	0	9	3	6	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
28	Read, Phil	INT	56%	0	0	12	10	2	4	0	2	4	3	0	1	2	4
27	Rivers, Jared	CHB	100%	0	0	10	7	3	6	0	3	0	1	1	1	3	0
24	Robertson, Russell	HFFL	85%	1	3	8	6	2	2	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	3
6	Thompson, Scott	C	85%	0	1	20	11	9	7	3	4	3	5	2	4	1	4
10	Ward, Daniel	INT	62%	1	0	7	5	2	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2
31	Wheatley, Paul	BPL	100%	0	0	17	12	5	9	1	1	1	1	0	0	5	1
45	Whelan, Matthew	BPR	100%	0	0	18	8	10	3	0	2	2	0	3	0	3	2
34	White, Jeff	RU	100%	1	0	21	13	8	6	29	2	6	0	3	0	2	7
13	Yze, Adem	HFFR	100%	1	1	25	23	2	5	0	3	1	4	1	0	6	3
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				12	15	280	187	93	80	39	52	33	27	20	13	26	64

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

Geelong							Coach: Mark Thompson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	31	P. Wheatley	8	A. Nicholson	45	M. Whelan	21	C. Mooney	28	D. Johnson
	4	A. Mackie	22	H. Playfair	32	B. Moloney	11	J. Corey	1	S. King (c)
FORWARD							29	G. Ablett	15	P. Riccardi
HALF-BACK									40	D. Wojcinski
	32	C. Bruce	27	J. Rivers	41	N. Carroll
	35	P. Chapman	7	B. Graham	16	C. Gardiner
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	18	B. Green	6	S. Thompson	1	C. Heffernan
	10	K. Tenace	45	C. Ling	9	J. Kelly	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							34	J. White	2	S. Armstrong
HALF-FORWARD							16	T. Johnstone	7	B. Miller
	24	R. Robertson	3	C. Bizzell	13	A. Yze	30	S. Godfrey	28	P. Read
	39	D. Milburn	2	T. Harley	41	J. Hunt			10	D. Ward
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	36	A. Davey	9	D. Neitz (c)	4	B. Holland
	27	B. Sanderson	30	M. Scarlett	18	K. Kingsley
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Neale Daniher

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:55
	MELB	Travis Johnstone goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	04:12
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	0.0.0	-	2.1.13	07:02
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	0.1.1	-	2.1.13	09:20
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	10:37
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	2.1.13	-	2.1.13	13:09
	MELB	David Neitz behind	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	15:48
	GEEL	Andrew Mackie goal	3.1.19	-	2.2.14	18:51
	GEEL	James Kelly goal	4.1.25	-	2.2.14	20:28
	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	5.1.31	-	2.2.14	22:07
	MELB	Chris Heffernan behind	5.1.31	-	2.3.15	24:41
	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	6.1.37	-	2.3.15	28:21
	MELB	Aaron Davey behind	6.1.37	-	2.4.16	29:23
	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	7.1.43	-	2.4.16	30:01
Q2	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	7.1.43	-	2.5.17	02:33
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	7.2.44	-	2.5.17	05:38
	MELB	David Neitz behind	7.2.44	-	2.6.18	09:26
	GEEL	Rushed behind	7.3.45	-	2.6.18	10:08
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	7.4.46	-	2.6.18	12:45
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	8.4.52	-	2.6.18	16:15
	MELB	Jeff White goal	8.4.52	-	3.6.24	20:28
	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	9.4.58	-	3.6.24	22:18
	MELB	Travis Johnstone behind	9.4.58	-	3.7.25	24:47
	GEEL	Peter Riccardi behind	9.5.59	-	3.7.25	25:51
Q3	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	9.5.59	-	3.8.26	00:52
	GEEL	Peter Riccardi behind	9.6.60	-	3.8.26	02:05
	GEEL	Andrew Mackie goal	10.6.66	-	3.8.26	04:16
	MELB	Rushed behind	10.6.66	-	3.9.27	07:29
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	10.6.66	-	4.9.33	08:21
	MELB	David Neitz behind	10.6.66	-	4.10.34	09:30
	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	10.6.66	-	5.10.40	10:35
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	10.7.67	-	5.10.40	11:35
	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	10.7.67	-	6.10.46	13:56
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley goal	11.7.73	-	6.10.46	16:57
	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	11.7.73	-	7.10.52	19:30
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	11.7.73	-	7.11.53	21:00
	MELB	Brad Miller goal	11.7.73	-	8.11.59	21:52
	GEEL	James Kelly behind	11.8.74	-	8.11.59	24:01
	MELB	Scott Thompson behind	11.8.74	-	8.12.60	26:51
	GEEL	Kent Kingsley behind	11.9.75	-	8.12.60	28:16
	MELB	Daniel Ward goal	11.9.75	-	9.12.66	29:39
Q4	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	11.9.75	-	10.12.72	00:12
	MELB	Steven Armstrong behind	11.9.75	-	10.13.73	03:45
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	11.9.75	-	10.14.74	05:19
	GEEL	Peter Riccardi behind	11.10.76	-	10.14.74	06:38
	MELB	Steven Armstrong behind	11.10.76	-	10.15.75	09:43
	GEEL	Gary Ablett goal	12.10.82	-	10.15.75	11:21
	GEEL	Andrew Mackie goal	13.10.88	-	10.15.75	12:44
	GEEL	Rushed behind	13.11.89	-	10.15.75	16:49
	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	14.11.95	-	10.15.75	17:59
	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	15.11.101	-	10.15.75	19:27
	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	15.11.101	-	11.15.81	23:33
	MELB	Simon Godfrey goal	15.11.101	-	12.15.87	26:08

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