2005 AFL Season Round 7: Melbourne v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 6 May 2005 between Melbourne and Adelaide during round seven of the 2005 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Adelaide at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. Mark Ricciuto captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Neil Craig.

Melbourne (11.12.78) defeated Adelaide (7.12.54).

Match Details

Season: 2005 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Melbourne v Adelaide
Date: Friday 6 May 2005
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 39,475

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. Adelaide
Score: 11.12.78 - 7.12.54

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 3 . 2 5 . 5 7 . 7 11 . 12 11 . 12 (78)
Adelaide 2 . 4 5 . 7 6 . 11 7 . 12 7 . 12 (54)
Margin MELB by 4 ADEL by 2 MELB by 2 MELB by 24 MELB by 24
Duration 27:15 26:59 27:27 27:21 1:49:02

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 (Adelaide) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Adelaide

Captain: Mark Ricciuto
Coach: Neil Craig

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. McBurney
J. Schmitt
D. Woodcock (#26)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Nathan Brown MELB 25 3
Adem Yze MELB 13 2
Jeff White MELB 34 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
21 Bell, Daniel BPR 100% 0 0 12 8 4 5 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1
3 Bizzell, Clint HBFL 100% 0 0 22 14 8 2 1 2 2 1 5 0 6 2
25 Brown, Nathan BPL 94% 2 0 19 15 4 7 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 3
36 Davey, Aaron FPL 92% 2 0 6 5 1 1 0 5 0 1 0 0 3 2
35 Ferguson, Ryan FB 100% 0 0 7 5 2 4 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 1
30 Godfrey, Simon INT 61% 1 0 13 9 4 4 1 2 1 2 1 0 2 2
18 Green, Brad WR 100% 1 1 21 13 8 8 0 5 1 1 1 0 2 4
1 Heffernan, Chris INT 62% 0 0 13 8 5 2 0 4 1 1 2 0 2 0
4 Holland, Ben INT 73% 1 0 10 4 6 2 1 7 1 1 0 1 0 2
11 Johnson, Paul INT 29% 0 0 4 2 2 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
16 Johnstone, Travis C 79% 0 0 14 13 1 6 0 2 0 1 0 1 4 3
23 McDonald, James RO 73% 1 0 26 17 9 9 0 3 3 6 1 3 3 6
5 McLean, Brock RR 87% 0 0 13 7 6 4 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 2
7 Miller, Brad CHF 72% 0 0 5 1 4 3 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0
22 Moloney, Brent WL 83% 0 0 19 11 8 5 0 0 4 2 1 0 2 9
9 Neitz, David (c) FF 66% 1 3 6 6 0 5 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1
27 Rivers, Jared CHB 100% 0 0 16 7 9 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0
24 Robertson, Russell HFFL 100% 1 2 9 8 1 5 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 4
12 Sylvia, Colin HBFR 50% 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
34 White, Jeff RU 82% 0 0 10 5 5 6 24 3 1 0 0 0 0 3
26 Williams, Luke FPR 100% 0 0 12 6 6 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 5 3
13 Yze, Adem HFFR 96% 1 3 20 19 1 7 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 5
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 11 12 280 185 95 95 29 52 21 25 14 9 39 54

Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
8 Bassett, Nathan BPR 100% 1 0 9 4 5 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 5 0
28 Begley, James INT 34% 0 0 5 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
35 Biglands, Rhett INT 53% 1 2 7 6 1 4 8 0 1 1 0 0 0 5
24 Burton, Brett WL 83% 0 0 23 15 8 5 0 3 1 0 0 0 3 5
9 Edwards, Tyson BPL 88% 0 0 19 13 6 7 0 1 4 0 0 0 4 3
36 Goodwin, Simon RR 93% 0 1 24 15 9 6 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 5
34 Hart, Ben HBFR 97% 0 0 12 9 3 4 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 1
37 Hentschel, Trent CHF 78% 0 0 8 4 4 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
13 Hudson, Ben RU 84% 1 0 15 5 10 3 19 1 5 0 2 0 1 2
18 Johncock, Graham FPL 75% 0 0 13 8 5 3 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 4
39 Mattner, Martin WR 57% 0 0 5 5 0 3 0 2 0 4 0 3 0 1
16 McGregor, Ken CHB 100% 0 0 12 8 4 2 3 2 0 2 1 0 3 1
23 McLeod, Andrew RO 100% 0 0 16 11 5 3 0 3 1 2 1 0 3 1
22 Perrie, Ian FPR 100% 2 3 14 10 4 7 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
33 Reilly, Brent INT 55% 0 0 17 7 10 3 0 1 3 3 0 2 0 2
32 Ricciuto, Mark (c) HFFR 78% 0 0 20 9 11 4 0 2 1 5 0 1 3 2
25 Rutten, Ben FB 100% 0 0 14 7 7 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 0
12 Shirley, Robert HFFL 82% 0 0 18 5 13 2 0 2 3 0 1 0 2 3
14 Skipworth, Hayden INT 78% 1 0 14 8 6 5 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 3
5 Thompson, Scott C 83% 0 3 25 20 5 5 0 2 7 5 1 3 1 8
15 Torney, Jason HBFL 100% 0 0 12 4 8 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 1
17 Welsh, Scott FF 81% 1 1 8 5 3 2 0 3 3 2 1 1 0 1
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 7 12 310 179 131 82 31 33 37 32 9 14 37 52

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 T. Edwards 25 B. Rutten 8 N. Bassett 34 J. White 30 S. Godfrey
26 L. Williams 9 D. Neitz (c) 36 A. Davey 5 B. McLean 1 C. Heffernan
FORWARD 23 J. McDonald 4 B. Holland
HALF-BACK

11 P. Johnson
15 J. Torney 16 K. McGregor 34 B. Hart



13 A. Yze 7 B. Miller 24 R. Robertson



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



24 B. Burton 5 S. Thompson 39 M. Mattner



18 B. Green 16 T. Johnstone 22 B. Moloney FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 13 B. Hudson 28 J. Begley
HALF-FORWARD 36 S. Goodwin 35 R. Biglands
12 R. Shirley 37 T. Hentschel 32 M. Ricciuto (c) 23 A. McLeod 33 B. Reilly
12 C. Sylvia 27 J. Rivers 3 C. Bizzell

14 H. Skipworth
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



18 G. Johncock 17 S. Welsh 22 I. Perrie



21 D. Bell 35 R. Ferguson 25 N. Brown



BACK



Adelaide Coach: Neil Craig

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB David Neitz behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 04:42
ADEL Ian Perrie behind 0.1.1 - 0.1.1 07:35
ADEL Scott Welsh behind 0.1.1 - 0.2.2 10:30
MELB Russell Robertson goal 1.1.7 - 0.2.2 11:51
MELB Nathan Brown goal 2.1.13 - 0.2.2 14:04
ADEL Hayden Skipworth goal 2.1.13 - 1.2.8 16:05
ADEL Scott Thompson behind 2.1.13 - 1.3.9 17:02
ADEL Rhett Biglands behind 2.1.13 - 1.4.10 17:58
ADEL Nathan Bassett goal 2.1.13 - 2.4.16 21:27
MELB David Neitz behind 2.2.14 - 2.4.16 23:21
MELB David Neitz goal 3.2.20 - 2.4.16 25:02
Q2 MELB Nathan Brown goal 4.2.26 - 2.4.16 02:02
ADEL Scott Welsh goal 4.2.26 - 3.4.22 03:44
MELB Russell Robertson behind 4.3.27 - 3.4.22 05:00
ADEL Ian Perrie goal 4.3.27 - 4.4.28 06:10
MELB David Neitz behind 4.4.28 - 4.4.28 12:20
ADEL Rushed behind 4.4.28 - 4.5.29 13:18
ADEL Rhett Biglands behind 4.4.28 - 4.6.30 15:38
MELB Rushed behind 4.5.29 - 4.6.30 18:19
ADEL Ben Hudson goal 4.5.29 - 5.6.36 19:35
ADEL Simon Goodwin behind 4.5.29 - 5.7.37 21:42
MELB Ben Holland goal 5.5.35 - 5.7.37 24:00
Q3 MELB Brad Green goal 6.5.41 - 5.7.37 01:17
ADEL Scott Thompson behind 6.5.41 - 5.8.38 02:54
ADEL Ian Perrie behind 6.5.41 - 5.9.39 06:41
ADEL Rushed behind 6.5.41 - 5.10.40 08:15
MELB Russell Robertson behind 6.6.42 - 5.10.40 13:45
ADEL Rhett Biglands goal 6.6.42 - 6.10.46 20:35
ADEL Scott Thompson behind 6.6.42 - 6.11.47 23:10
MELB Brad Green behind 6.7.43 - 6.11.47 25:10
MELB Simon Godfrey goal 7.7.49 - 6.11.47 27:17
Q4 ADEL Ian Perrie behind 7.7.49 - 6.12.48 00:41
MELB Aaron Davey goal 8.7.55 - 6.12.48 02:18
MELB Adem Yze goal 9.7.61 - 6.12.48 05:09
MELB James McDonald goal 10.7.67 - 6.12.48 09:13
ADEL Ian Perrie goal 10.7.67 - 7.12.54 10:43
MELB Rushed behind 10.8.68 - 7.12.54 12:25
MELB Adem Yze behind 10.9.69 - 7.12.54 14:57
MELB Rushed behind 10.10.70 - 7.12.54 16:11
MELB Aaron Davey goal 11.10.76 - 7.12.54 20:16
MELB Adem Yze behind 11.11.77 - 7.12.54 23:16
MELB Adem Yze behind 11.12.78 - 7.12.54 26:59