2008 AFL Round 5: St Kilda v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 18 April 2008 between St Kilda and Essendon during round 5 of the 2008 AFL season. St Kilda hosted Essendon at Telstra Dome. Nick Riewoldt captained the hosts. Matthew Lloyd captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ross Lyon and the visitors were coached by Matthew Knights.

St Kilda
Back: M. Maguire, M. Hudghton, J. Gram
Half-back: S. Gilbert, S. Fisher, B. Goddard
Centre: S. Dempster, L. Ball, L. Fisher
Half-forward: N. Dal Santo, N. Riewoldt (capt.), C. Gardiner
Forward: C. Jones, J. Koschitzke, S. Milne
Follower: S. King, L. Hayes, L. Montagna
Int.: D. Armitage, J. Blake, X. Clarke, R. Harvey

Essendon
Back: J. Nash, M. Michael, D. Fletcher
Half-back: H. Slattery, P. Ryder, N. Lovett-Murray
Centre: B. Stanton, A. Welsh, R. Dyson
Half-forward: T. Pears, A. McPhee, A. Lovett
Forward: K. Reimers, M. Lloyd (capt.), A. Davey
Follower: D. Hille, B. Houli, J. Winderlich
Int.: J. Laycock, A. Monfries, A. Ramanauskas, J. Watson

St Kilda (18.15.123) defeated Essendon (14.3.87).

Goalkickers
St Kilda: N. Riewoldt (3), D. Armitage (2), L. Ball (2), C. Gardiner (2), J. Koschitzke (2), S. Milne (2), X. Clarke, S. Dempster, L. Hayes, S. King, L. Montagna
Essendon: B. Houli (2), A. Lovett (2), A. McPhee (2), B. Stanton (2), J. Laycock, J. Nash, T. Pears, A. Ramanauskas, P. Ryder, A. Welsh

As a result of this match, St Kilda were then 7th on the ladder (up from 10th) and Essendon were then 12th on the ladder (down from 11th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: St Kilda v Essendon
Date: Friday 18 April 2008
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: Telstra Dome
Attendance: 46,792

Match Results

Outcome: St Kilda def. Essendon
Score: 18.15.123 - 14.3.87

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
St Kilda 5 . 3 12 . 9 14 . 12 18 . 15 18 . 15 (123)
Essendon 3 . 0 6 . 1 12 . 1 14 . 3 14 . 3 (87)
Margin STKL by 15 STKL by 44 STKL by 23 STKL by 36 STKL by 36
Duration 31:29 33:26 30:57 29:49 2:05:41

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ross Lyon (St Kilda), Matthew Knights (Essendon)
Captains: Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda), Matthew Lloyd (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. Jeffery (#29), M. Nicholls (#15), M. Vozzo (#2)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Lenny Hayes STKL 7 3
Max Hudghton STKL 8 2
Bachar Houli ESSE 43 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Lenny Hayes STKL 7 9 1 1 0 0 0
Max Hudghton STKL 8 8 1 0 1 0 0
Robert Harvey STKL 35 4 0 ? ? 0 ?
Nick Riewoldt STKL 12 4 0 ? ? 0 ?
Sam Fisher STKL 25 2 0 0 0 1 0
Bachar Houli ESSE 43 2 0 0 0 1 0
Nick Dal Santo STKL 26 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

St Kilda

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
20 Armitage, David INT 60% 2 1 20 13 7 4 0 3 5 0 1 0 0 3
14 Ball, Luke C 69% 2 1 16 10 6 4 0 6 1 1 2 1 1 0
27 Blake, Jason INT 65% 0 0 12 8 4 5 4 2 1 3 1 2 1 0
3 Clarke, Xavier INT 79% 1 1 18 11 7 7 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 2
26 Dal Santo, Nick HFFL 80% 0 0 26 15 11 6 0 4 3 0 3 0 3 4
24 Dempster, Sean WL 89% 1 0 12 6 6 1 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 6
6 Fisher, Leigh WR 94% 0 0 8 5 3 3 0 5 1 1 0 1 0 1
25 Fisher, Sam CHB 100% 0 0 23 15 8 8 1 4 1 1 1 1 3 1
28 Gardiner, Charlie HFFR 86% 2 0 13 11 2 8 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 5
19 Gilbert, Sam HBFL 98% 0 1 12 8 4 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 1
18 Goddard, Brendon HBFR 100% 0 0 19 15 4 5 0 5 2 3 1 2 3 5
1 Gram, Jason BPR 86% 0 2 18 10 8 4 0 2 1 5 0 2 1 5
35 Harvey, Robert INT 69% 0 0 29 18 11 6 0 3 3 2 0 0 1 3
7 Hayes, Lenny RR 84% 1 0 25 8 17 2 0 12 7 2 3 1 0 2
8 Hudghton, Max FB 92% 0 0 11 7 4 4 0 1 0 1 2 0 4 0
38 Jones, Clint FPL 62% 0 1 8 2 6 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1
2 King, Steven RU 39% 1 0 8 6 2 2 18 2 2 2 1 2 1 1
23 Koschitzke, Justin FF 87% 2 2 15 8 7 7 9 6 1 3 0 3 1 3
31 Maguire, Matt BPL 90% 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
44 Milne, Stephen FPR 83% 2 1 21 14 7 7 0 2 2 5 0 1 0 5
11 Montagna, Leigh RO 92% 1 0 20 14 6 5 0 3 5 5 0 2 1 4
12 Riewoldt, Nick (c) CHF 97% 3 2 20 13 7 11 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 18 15 357 219 138 104 32 69 38 41 20 20 23 56

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
29 Davey, Alwyn FPR 78% 0 0 12 4 8 0 0 5 1 3 0 2 0 2
2 Dyson, Ricky WR 87% 0 0 11 7 4 1 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 2
31 Fletcher, Dustin BPR 93% 0 0 17 14 3 7 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 2
19 Hille, David RU 79% 0 0 18 8 10 4 26 1 1 5 2 2 1 4
43 Houli, Bachar RR 94% 2 0 23 13 10 4 0 3 1 1 1 0 3 3
27 Laycock, Jason INT 64% 1 0 6 3 3 1 16 1 4 0 3 0 0 0
18 Lloyd, Matthew (c) FF 84% 0 1 7 2 5 1 0 4 2 2 1 2 0 1
13 Lovett, Andrew HFFR 74% 2 0 17 10 7 4 0 0 2 4 0 2 1 3
42 Lovett-Murray, Nathan HBFR 69% 0 0 11 6 5 5 0 7 1 5 2 0 0 0
33 McPhee, Adam CHF 89% 2 0 12 5 7 4 2 8 0 2 1 1 0 1
22 Michael, Mal FB 86% 0 0 6 2 4 3 3 2 0 0 1 0 2 0
6 Monfries, Angus INT 71% 0 0 14 7 7 2 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 2
17 Nash, Jay BPL 85% 1 0 16 11 5 2 0 2 1 3 0 2 4 4
16 Pears, Tayte HFFL 69% 1 0 15 9 6 8 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 0
9 Ramanauskas, Adam INT 69% 1 0 18 7 11 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 2
37 Reimers, Kyle FPL 88% 0 0 18 12 6 4 0 3 1 1 0 0 3 2
30 Ryder, Paddy CHB 92% 1 0 5 4 1 3 1 4 0 3 0 2 2 1
20 Slattery, Henry HBFL 88% 0 0 19 8 11 3 0 6 5 3 2 3 2 3
5 Stanton, Brent WL 93% 2 1 19 15 4 10 0 3 3 1 0 1 2 6
4 Watson, Jobe INT 74% 0 1 28 5 23 0 1 3 7 2 1 1 0 0
12 Welsh, Andrew C 89% 1 0 19 13 6 7 0 1 1 4 3 1 4 1
8 Winderlich, Jason RO 85% 0 0 17 12 5 7 0 5 6 1 1 0 3 0
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 14 3 328 177 151 82 49 68 42 45 20 20 34 39

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

St Kilda Coach: Ross Lyon
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
17 J. Nash 22 M. Michael 31 D. Fletcher 2 S. King 20 D. Armitage
44 S. Milne 23 J. Koschitzke 38 C. Jones 7 L. Hayes 27 J. Blake
FORWARD 11 L. Montagna 3 X. Clarke
HALF-BACK

35 R. Harvey
20 H. Slattery 30 P. Ryder 42 N. Lovett-Murray



28 C. Gardiner 12 N. Riewoldt (c) 26 N. Dal Santo



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



5 B. Stanton 12 A. Welsh 2 R. Dyson



6 L. Fisher 14 L. Ball 24 S. Dempster FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 19 D. Hille 27 J. Laycock
HALF-FORWARD 43 B. Houli 6 A. Monfries
16 T. Pears 33 A. McPhee 13 A. Lovett 8 J. Winderlich 9 A. Ramanauskas
18 B. Goddard 25 S. Fisher 19 S. Gilbert

4 J. Watson
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



37 K. Reimers 18 M. Lloyd (c) 29 A. Davey



1 J. Gram 8 M. Hudghton 31 M. Maguire



BACK



Essendon Coach: Matthew Knights

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 STKL Steven King goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 04:51
STKL Luke Ball goal 2.0.12 - 0.0.0 06:27
ESSE Bachar Houli goal 2.0.12 - 1.0.6 09:15
STKL Lenny Hayes goal 3.0.18 - 1.0.6 11:28
STKL Nick Riewoldt behind 3.1.19 - 1.0.6 13:03
ESSE Andrew Lovett goal 3.1.19 - 2.0.12 14:47
ESSE Adam Ramanauskas goal 3.1.19 - 3.0.18 22:56
STKL David Armitage goal 4.1.25 - 3.0.18 24:08
STKL Xavier Clarke behind 4.2.26 - 3.0.18 26:05
STKL David Armitage behind 4.3.27 - 3.0.18 27:01
STKL Sean Dempster goal 5.3.33 - 3.0.18 28:34
Q2 STKL Justin Koschitzke goal 6.3.39 - 3.0.18 01:22
ESSE Brent Stanton goal 6.3.39 - 4.0.24 03:24
STKL Luke Ball behind 6.4.40 - 4.0.24 04:28
STKL Charlie Gardiner goal 7.4.46 - 4.0.24 06:58
STKL Nick Riewoldt goal 8.4.52 - 4.0.24 10:09
STKL Charlie Gardiner goal 9.4.58 - 4.0.24 13:20
STKL Nick Riewoldt behind 9.5.59 - 4.0.24 16:47
ESSE Bachar Houli goal 9.5.59 - 5.0.30 17:39
STKL Justin Koschitzke behind 9.6.60 - 5.0.30 19:15
STKL Xavier Clarke goal 10.6.66 - 5.0.30 21:10
ESSE Jobe Watson behind 10.6.66 - 5.1.31 23:09
STKL Sam Gilbert behind 10.7.67 - 5.1.31 25:27
STKL Jason Gram behind 10.8.68 - 5.1.31 26:04
STKL Rushed behind 10.9.69 - 5.1.31 27:29
STKL Luke Ball goal 11.9.75 - 5.1.31 28:00
ESSE Andrew Welsh goal 11.9.75 - 6.1.37 30:06
STKL Leigh Montagna goal 12.9.81 - 6.1.37 32:15
Q3 STKL Jason Gram behind 12.10.82 - 6.1.37 00:49
STKL Justin Koschitzke goal 13.10.88 - 6.1.37 02:10
ESSE Adam McPhee goal 13.10.88 - 7.1.43 05:15
ESSE Andrew Lovett goal 13.10.88 - 8.1.49 07:31
ESSE Jason Laycock goal 13.10.88 - 9.1.55 09:47
ESSE Tayte Pears goal 13.10.88 - 10.1.61 11:29
STKL Rushed behind 13.11.89 - 10.1.61 18:54
ESSE Jay Nash goal 13.11.89 - 11.1.67 20:00
ESSE Paddy Ryder goal 13.11.89 - 12.1.73 23:31
STKL Rushed behind 13.12.90 - 12.1.73 28:36
STKL Nick Riewoldt goal 14.12.96 - 12.1.73 29:57
Q4 STKL Stephen Milne goal 15.12.102 - 12.1.73 01:09
ESSE Brent Stanton goal 15.12.102 - 13.1.79 07:02
STKL Stephen Milne goal 16.12.108 - 13.1.79 09:24
ESSE Matthew Lloyd behind 16.12.108 - 13.2.80 11:32
STKL Clint Jones behind 16.13.109 - 13.2.80 12:49
ESSE Adam McPhee goal 16.13.109 - 14.2.86 15:56
ESSE Brent Stanton behind 16.13.109 - 14.3.87 23:21
STKL David Armitage goal 17.13.115 - 14.3.87 24:12
STKL Nick Riewoldt goal 18.13.121 - 14.3.87 26:58
STKL Stephen Milne behind 18.14.122 - 14.3.87 28:18
STKL Justin Koschitzke behind 18.15.123 - 14.3.87 29:32