2008 AFL Season Round 2: Geelong v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 30 March 2008 between Geelong and Essendon during round two of the 2008 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong "hosted" Essendon at Telstra Dome. Tom Harley captained the hosts. Matthew Lloyd captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mark Thompson and the visitors were coached by Matthew Knights.

Geelong (22.18.150) defeated Essendon (6.15.51).

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Geelong v Essendon
Date: Sunday 30 March 2008
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Telstra Dome
Attendance: 50,636

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Essendon
Score: 22.18.150 - 6.15.51

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	4	.	4	11	.	9	17	.	13	22	.	18	22	.	18	(150)
Essendon	1	.	2	3	.	6	4	.	10	6	.	15	6	.	15	(51)
Margin	GEEL by 20			GEEL by 51			GEEL by 81			GEEL by 99			GEEL by 99
Duration	28:29			30:42			29:08			29:32			1:57:51

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Geelong) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Essendon) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: Tom Harley
Coach: Mark Thompson

Essendon

Captain: Matthew Lloyd
Coach: Matthew Knights

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Chamberlain (#18)
C. Donlon (#1)
H. Kennedy (#7)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Gary Ablett	GEEL	29	3
Joel Corey	GEEL	11	2
Cameron Ling	GEEL	45	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Gary Ablett	GEEL	29	9	1	1	0	0	0
Jimmy Bartel	GEEL	3	9	1	1	0	0	0
Mathew Stokes	GEEL	27	5	0	0	1	1	0
Cameron Ling	GEEL	45	3	0	0	1	0	0
Mark Blake	GEEL	24	2	0	0	0	1	0
James Kelly	GEEL	9	1	0	0	0	0	1
Paddy Ryder	ESSE	30	1	0	0	0	0	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	88%	2	1	34	14	20	7	0	1	5	0	1	0	1	7
3	Bartel, Jimmy	WR	91%	2	0	38	18	20	9	0	1	4	1	2	1	1	5
24	Blake, Mark	RU	70%	2	1	15	5	10	6	23	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
17	Byrnes, Shannon	INT	78%	0	1	21	7	14	5	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	5
35	Chapman, Paul	HFFR	77%	0	1	23	13	10	4	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	4
11	Corey, Joel	RR	87%	2	0	30	17	13	7	1	1	3	5	1	2	4	7
44	Enright, Corey	HBFR	90%	1	0	21	11	10	5	0	1	0	1	1	1	5	3
15	Gamble, Ryan	FPL	81%	3	2	13	7	6	8	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	2
2	Harley, Tom (c)	BPL	81%	0	0	16	10	6	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	0
26	Hawkins, Tom	FF	81%	0	2	11	8	3	6	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2
8	Hunt, Josh	BPR	86%	0	1	24	15	9	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	2
20	Johnson, Steve	HFFL	81%	1	2	14	10	4	3	0	0	1	3	1	1	0	1
9	Kelly, James	FPR	87%	1	0	28	13	15	7	0	4	4	0	1	0	2	4
45	Ling, Cameron	WL	89%	1	0	31	14	17	9	0	1	5	2	1	0	6	3
39	Milburn, Darren	HBFL	88%	0	0	23	10	13	5	0	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
21	Mooney, Cam	CHF	84%	2	2	15	9	6	8	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3
30	Scarlett, Matthew	FB	80%	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	1	0	3	0	1	3	2
14	Selwood, Joel	C	80%	1	0	26	11	15	7	0	3	4	1	1	0	1	4
27	Stokes, Mathew	INT	74%	2	3	31	22	9	13	0	1	0	3	0	1	3	7
7	Taylor, Harry	CHB	86%	0	0	16	5	11	3	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	0
12	West, Trent	INT	63%	1	0	7	3	4	2	6	0	0	1	1	0	1	0
40	Wojcinski, David	INT	76%	1	0	13	7	6	3	0	1	0	3	2	2	0	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				22	18	462	236	226	129	30	31	29	33	22	11	39	65

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Davey, Alwyn	WL	82%	1	0	15	11	4	1	0	4	3	4	1	4	1	3
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	HBFR	41%	0	0	7	3	4	3	0	2	1	2	0	2	1	1
2	Dyson, Ricky	FPL	88%	0	0	29	18	11	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	7
31	Fletcher, Dustin	BPR	91%	0	1	15	8	7	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	1
19	Hille, David	RU	84%	1	2	23	13	10	11	11	0	3	3	0	2	2	3
43	Houli, Bachar	WR	80%	1	0	18	7	11	2	0	0	1	3	1	0	4	2
7	Jetta, Leroy	INT	84%	0	0	9	5	4	1	0	4	4	0	1	0	1	1
14	Johnson, Jason	INT	70%	0	0	24	8	16	4	0	3	2	3	0	0	1	3
27	Laycock, Jason	FPR	79%	1	1	15	9	6	3	8	1	3	3	0	0	0	5
18	Lloyd, Matthew (c)	FF	94%	0	3	14	11	3	8	0	1	0	4	1	2	0	4
36	Lonergan, Sam	HFFL	85%	0	0	14	4	10	1	0	2	3	1	0	1	0	2
42	Lovett-Murray, Nathan	HFFR	83%	0	1	11	10	1	3	0	4	1	4	3	3	0	3
33	McPhee, Adam	CHF	83%	1	2	16	9	7	9	0	2	0	4	1	0	0	2
10	McVeigh, Mark	RO	89%	0	1	18	11	7	3	0	4	0	2	0	1	2	3
22	Michael, Mal	FB	85%	0	0	8	2	6	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0
17	Nash, Jay	INT	86%	0	0	24	11	13	6	0	3	3	1	0	0	4	3
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	HBFL	83%	0	0	14	9	5	5	0	3	0	3	0	2	3	0
30	Ryder, Paddy	CHB	95%	0	0	12	5	7	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0
20	Slattery, Henry	BPL	90%	0	0	12	2	10	1	0	5	2	2	1	1	0	1
5	Stanton, Brent	C	80%	1	1	27	17	10	10	0	1	2	7	1	0	7	2
4	Watson, Jobe	RR	80%	0	3	12	6	6	3	0	2	1	5	0	2	0	1
8	Winderlich, Jason	INT	69%	0	0	20	8	12	3	0	3	1	2	0	1	5	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				6	15	357	187	170	92	19	48	31	56	11	22	40	49

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
	20	H. Slattery	22	M. Michael	31	D. Fletcher	24	M. Blake	17	S. Byrnes
	9	J. Kelly	26	T. Hawkins	15	R. Gamble	11	J. Corey	27	M. Stokes
FORWARD							29	G. Ablett	12	T. West
HALF-BACK									40	D. Wojcinski
	9	A. Ramanauskas	30	P. Ryder	15	C. Dempsey
	35	P. Chapman	21	C. Mooney	20	S. Johnson
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	29	A. Davey	5	B. Stanton	43	B. Houli
	3	J. Bartel	14	J. Selwood	45	C. Ling	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							19	D. Hille	7	L. Jetta
HALF-FORWARD							4	J. Watson	14	J. Johnson
	36	S. Lonergan	33	A. McPhee	42	N. Lovett-Murray	10	M. McVeigh	17	J. Nash
	44	C. Enright	7	H. Taylor	39	D. Milburn			8	J. Winderlich
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	2	R. Dyson	18	M. Lloyd (c)	27	J. Laycock
	8	J. Hunt	30	M. Scarlett	2	T. Harley (c)
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Matthew Knights

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Steve Johnson goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:41
	ESSE	Bachar Houli goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	04:26
	GEEL	Ryan Gamble behind	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	06:07
	GEEL	Gary Ablett goal	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	10:22
	GEEL	Cam Mooney behind	2.2.14	-	1.0.6	15:25
	GEEL	Shannon Byrnes behind	2.3.15	-	1.0.6	17:05
	GEEL	Mark Blake goal	3.3.21	-	1.0.6	19:37
	ESSE	David Hille behind	3.3.21	-	1.1.7	21:31
	ESSE	Adam McPhee behind	3.3.21	-	1.2.8	22:42
	GEEL	Trent West goal	4.3.27	-	1.2.8	25:21
	GEEL	Josh Hunt behind	4.4.28	-	1.2.8	28:17
Q2	GEEL	Ryan Gamble goal	5.4.34	-	1.2.8	00:17
	GEEL	Joel Corey goal	6.4.40	-	1.2.8	01:51
	GEEL	Corey Enright goal	7.4.46	-	1.2.8	03:08
	GEEL	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	1.2.8	05:06
	GEEL	Jimmy Bartel goal	8.5.53	-	1.2.8	06:18
	GEEL	Steve Johnson behind	8.6.54	-	1.2.8	07:39
	GEEL	Paul Chapman behind	8.7.55	-	1.2.8	08:38
	GEEL	David Wojcinski goal	9.7.61	-	1.2.8	09:49
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	9.7.61	-	2.2.14	11:39
	ESSE	Brent Stanton behind	9.7.61	-	2.3.15	13:52
	ESSE	Jobe Watson behind	9.7.61	-	2.4.16	15:42
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	9.7.61	-	3.4.22	17:41
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes behind	9.8.62	-	3.4.22	19:49
	ESSE	Jobe Watson behind	9.8.62	-	3.5.23	21:07
	GEEL	Cameron Ling goal	10.8.68	-	3.5.23	23:41
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	10.8.68	-	3.6.24	26:33
	GEEL	Joel Corey goal	11.8.74	-	3.6.24	28:00
	GEEL	Rushed behind	11.9.75	-	3.6.24	29:56
Q3	GEEL	Gary Ablett behind	11.10.76	-	3.6.24	02:43
	ESSE	Jobe Watson behind	11.10.76	-	3.7.25	03:58
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	11.11.77	-	3.7.25	04:54
	GEEL	Gary Ablett goal	12.11.83	-	3.7.25	06:39
	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	13.11.89	-	3.7.25	11:06
	GEEL	Jimmy Bartel goal	14.11.95	-	3.7.25	14:03
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	14.11.95	-	3.8.26	15:22
	GEEL	Ryan Gamble behind	14.12.96	-	3.8.26	17:38
	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	15.12.102	-	3.8.26	18:19
	ESSE	Dustin Fletcher behind	15.12.102	-	3.9.27	20:28
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes goal	16.12.108	-	3.9.27	21:22
	ESSE	Adam McPhee goal	16.12.108	-	4.9.33	23:13
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd behind	16.12.108	-	4.10.34	25:52
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	16.13.109	-	4.10.34	27:25
	GEEL	Joel Selwood goal	17.13.115	-	4.10.34	29:01
Q4	GEEL	Ryan Gamble goal	18.13.121	-	4.10.34	02:56
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	18.13.121	-	4.11.35	04:07
	ESSE	David Hille goal	18.13.121	-	5.11.41	06:12
	GEEL	James Kelly goal	19.13.127	-	5.11.41	07:48
	ESSE	Nathan Lovett-Murray behind	19.13.127	-	5.12.42	10:14
	GEEL	Cam Mooney behind	19.14.128	-	5.12.42	11:58
	GEEL	Steve Johnson behind	19.15.129	-	5.12.42	13:26
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes behind	19.16.130	-	5.12.42	15:22
	ESSE	Adam McPhee behind	19.16.130	-	5.13.43	16:41
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes goal	20.16.136	-	5.13.43	18:43
	ESSE	Jason Laycock behind	20.16.136	-	5.14.44	19:58
	GEEL	Ryan Gamble goal	21.16.142	-	5.14.44	22:03
	GEEL	Mark Blake behind	21.17.143	-	5.14.44	23:18
	ESSE	Jason Laycock goal	21.17.143	-	6.14.50	23:43
	ESSE	David Hille behind	21.17.143	-	6.15.51	25:25
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes behind	21.18.144	-	6.15.51	26:16
	GEEL	Mark Blake goal	22.18.150	-	6.15.51	28:21

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