2008 AFL Season Round 21: Western Bulldogs v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 22 August 2008 between the Western Bulldogs and Essendon during round twenty-one of the 2008 season of the Australian Football League. The Western Bulldogs hosted Essendon at Telstra Dome. Brad Johnson captained the hosts. Matthew Lloyd captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Rodney Eade and the visitors were coached by Matthew Knights.

The Western Bulldogs (23.13.151) defeated Essendon (15.15.105).

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Essendon
Date: Friday 22 August 2008
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: Telstra Dome
Attendance: 37,294

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. Essendon
Score: 23.13.151 - 15.15.105

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Western Bulldogs	3	.	3	10	.	6	19	.	8	23	.	13	23	.	13	(151)
Essendon	3	.	4	5	.	8	9	.	11	15	.	15	15	.	15	(105)
Margin	ESSE by 1			WBUL by 28			WBUL by 57			WBUL by 46			WBUL by 46
Duration	28:25			32:17			33:26			30:47			2:04:55

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Brad Johnson
Coach: Rodney Eade

Essendon

Captain: Matthew Lloyd
Coach: Matthew Knights

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

C. Donlon (#1)
C. Hendrie (#24)
S. McLaren (#11)
E: C. Kamolins (#19)

Umpire Replacements

C. Kamolins replaced C. Hendrie.

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Adam Cooney	WBUL	17	3
Mitch Hahn	WBUL	8	2
Daniel Cross	WBUL	4	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Mitch Hahn	WBUL	8	10	2	0	0	0	0
Adam Cooney	WBUL	17	6	0	1	0	1	0
Jason Akermanis	WBUL	21	4	0	1	0	0	0
Daniel Giansiracusa	WBUL	13	3	0	0	1	0	0
Brian Lake	WBUL	36	3	0	0	1	0	0
Brad Johnson	WBUL	6	2	0	0	0	1	0
Henry Slattery	ESSE	20	1	0	0	0	0	1
Brent Stanton	ESSE	5	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Akermanis, Jason	HFFL	73%	4	1	17	10	7	2	0	2	4	0	1	0	0	5
5	Boyd, Matthew	RO	86%	1	0	24	18	6	6	0	1	2	5	0	2	4	0
33	Callan, Tim	BPR	85%	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	3	1	1	0	1	3	1
17	Cooney, Adam	RR	85%	1	1	28	17	11	8	0	1	4	3	1	1	5	2
4	Cross, Daniel	WR	85%	0	0	29	12	17	5	1	3	4	4	0	2	1	2
10	Eagleton, Nathan	INT	74%	1	1	20	9	11	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4
3	Everitt, Andrejs	HBFR	87%	0	0	8	6	2	2	0	3	0	3	1	1	1	2
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	INT	71%	0	0	27	18	9	9	0	3	4	1	1	0	4	3
16	Griffen, Ryan	HBFL	84%	0	0	19	12	7	7	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	8
8	Hahn, Mitch	C	88%	6	1	16	11	5	8	0	2	2	2	2	2	0	4
40	Harbrow, Jarrod	FPL	90%	1	1	9	5	4	3	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	1
25	Hargrave, Ryan	CHB	84%	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	4	0
19	Higgins, Shaun	INT	74%	0	2	14	7	7	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2
20	Hill, Josh	WL	82%	0	0	18	12	6	11	1	3	0	2	1	1	3	0
15	Hudson, Ben	RU	67%	0	1	10	3	7	2	14	2	4	3	1	2	0	1
6	Johnson, Brad (c)	HFFR	85%	4	0	19	13	6	4	1	1	1	3	4	0	0	4
36	Lake, Brian	FB	100%	0	0	22	11	11	6	0	2	0	3	0	3	7	0
27	Minson, Will	FF	76%	2	0	10	6	4	3	21	1	1	2	0	2	1	1
38	Morris, Dale	BPL	99%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0
2	Murphy, Bob	CHF	79%	1	2	18	16	2	10	0	2	0	2	2	1	0	7
14	Ward, Callan	INT	61%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	3
28	Welsh, Scott	FPR	85%	2	0	16	10	6	9	0	0	1	2	1	1	1	3
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				23	13	368	221	147	118	38	37	31	43	17	21	39	53

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
44	Bellchambers, Tom	RU	70%	0	0	11	4	7	3	8	3	0	3	0	2	0	1
2	Dyson, Ricky	RO	70%	1	0	11	7	4	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	4
39	Hocking, Heath	FPR	79%	0	0	12	7	5	2	0	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
26	Hooker, Cale	INT	75%	0	0	8	1	7	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
14	Johnson, Jason	WR	78%	0	0	26	16	10	6	0	4	6	5	2	1	3	5
18	Lloyd, Matthew (c)	FF	100%	4	0	18	15	3	11	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	3
36	Lonergan, Sam	FPL	98%	1	1	16	10	6	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
13	Lovett, Andrew	WL	91%	0	1	19	9	10	2	0	3	1	3	0	1	3	5
42	Lovett-Murray, Nathan	FB	95%	1	0	13	1	12	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
34	Magin, Rhys	INT	88%	0	1	12	8	4	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	2
33	McPhee, Adam	CHF	97%	1	0	12	12	0	5	0	2	0	2	2	2	1	3
10	McVeigh, Mark	HBFL	81%	1	1	21	12	9	1	0	3	4	6	1	1	0	3
22	Michael, Mal	BPR	79%	2	1	11	5	6	6	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	1
6	Monfries, Angus	HFFR	95%	1	0	21	8	13	9	0	3	2	0	2	0	1	3
17	Nash, Jay	HBFR	86%	1	0	15	11	4	6	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	2
11	Peverill, Damien	INT	66%	0	0	16	9	7	5	0	6	1	1	2	1	3	0
9	Ramanauskas, Adam	HFFL	79%	0	0	11	9	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	4	3
30	Ryder, Paddy	CHB	85%	0	1	8	5	3	4	5	3	0	3	2	2	1	2
20	Slattery, Henry	BPL	95%	0	1	15	9	6	5	0	2	2	6	1	3	2	3
5	Stanton, Brent	RR	90%	2	2	28	17	11	4	0	4	8	4	0	0	0	7
4	Watson, Jobe	C	55%	0	0	14	8	6	2	0	2	4	3	1	1	0	3
12	Welsh, Andrew	INT	48%	0	0	12	5	7	1	0	5	4	2	1	0	0	4
Rushed					6
Total (22 players)				15	15	330	188	142	84	13	58	34	45	21	17	26	56

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

Western Bulldogs							Coach: Rodney Eade
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	20	H. Slattery	42	N. Lovett-Murray	22	M. Michael	15	B. Hudson	10	N. Eagleton
	28	S. Welsh	27	W. Minson	40	J. Harbrow	17	A. Cooney	13	D. Giansiracusa
FORWARD							5	M. Boyd	19	S. Higgins
HALF-BACK									14	C. Ward
	10	M. McVeigh	30	P. Ryder	17	J. Nash
	6	B. Johnson (c)	2	B. Murphy	21	J. Akermanis
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	A. Lovett	4	J. Watson	14	J. Johnson
	4	D. Cross	8	M. Hahn	20	J. Hill	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							44	T. Bellchambers	26	C. Hooker
HALF-FORWARD							5	B. Stanton	34	R. Magin
	9	A. Ramanauskas	33	A. McPhee	6	A. Monfries	2	R. Dyson	11	D. Peverill
	3	A. Everitt	25	R. Hargrave	16	R. Griffen			12	A. Welsh
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	36	S. Lonergan	18	M. Lloyd (c)	39	H. Hocking
	33	T. Callan	36	B. Lake	38	D. Morris
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Matthew Knights

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:22
	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:56
	WBUL	Bob Murphy goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	05:51
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	2.0.12	-	1.1.7	07:25
	ESSE	Brent Stanton behind	2.0.12	-	1.2.8	13:36
	WBUL	Adam Cooney behind	2.1.13	-	1.2.8	15:03
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	3.1.19	-	1.2.8	16:39
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis behind	3.2.20	-	1.2.8	18:54
	ESSE	Nathan Lovett-Murray goal	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	20:05
	ESSE	Adam McPhee goal	3.2.20	-	3.2.20	21:26
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	3.3.21	23:23
	WBUL	Jarrod Harbrow behind	3.3.21	-	3.3.21	24:54
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	3.4.22	27:06
Q2	ESSE	Rhys Magin behind	3.3.21	-	3.5.23	00:32
	WBUL	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	3.5.23	02:07
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	3.4.22	-	4.5.29	05:02
	WBUL	Adam Cooney goal	4.4.28	-	4.5.29	08:05
	ESSE	Sam Lonergan goal	4.4.28	-	5.5.35	09:09
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	4.4.28	-	5.6.36	10:22
	WBUL	Nathan Eagleton goal	5.4.34	-	5.6.36	11:59
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	6.4.40	-	5.6.36	14:25
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	5.7.37	15:52
	ESSE	Brent Stanton behind	6.4.40	-	5.8.38	17:51
	WBUL	Jarrod Harbrow goal	7.4.46	-	5.8.38	19:15
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn behind	7.5.47	-	5.8.38	22:02
	WBUL	Nathan Eagleton behind	7.6.48	-	5.8.38	22:33
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	8.6.54	-	5.8.38	23:41
	WBUL	Scott Welsh goal	9.6.60	-	5.8.38	27:52
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	10.6.66	-	5.8.38	29:59
Q3	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	10.6.66	-	6.8.44	01:02
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.6.66	-	6.9.45	02:23
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	11.6.72	-	6.9.45	03:24
	WBUL	Bob Murphy behind	11.7.73	-	6.9.45	05:42
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins behind	11.8.74	-	6.9.45	06:45
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	11.8.74	-	7.9.51	08:20
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	12.8.80	-	7.9.51	09:39
	WBUL	Will Minson goal	13.8.86	-	7.9.51	11:40
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	14.8.92	-	7.9.51	13:42
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	15.8.98	-	7.9.51	17:48
	WBUL	Will Minson goal	16.8.104	-	7.9.51	20:32
	ESSE	Sam Lonergan behind	16.8.104	-	7.10.52	22:16
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	17.8.110	-	7.10.52	24:21
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	17.8.110	-	8.10.58	26:25
	ESSE	Mal Michael goal	17.8.110	-	9.10.64	27:58
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	18.8.116	-	9.10.64	29:11
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	19.8.122	-	9.10.64	30:28
	ESSE	Rushed behind	19.8.122	-	9.11.65	32:26
Q4	WBUL	Rushed behind	19.9.123	-	9.11.65	00:38
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder behind	19.9.123	-	9.12.66	01:18
	WBUL	Rushed behind	19.10.124	-	9.12.66	02:15
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	19.10.124	-	10.12.72	03:09
	WBUL	Matthew Boyd goal	20.10.130	-	10.12.72	05:06
	ESSE	Mal Michael behind	20.10.130	-	10.13.73	06:34
	WBUL	Bob Murphy behind	20.11.131	-	10.13.73	07:25
	ESSE	Mal Michael goal	20.11.131	-	11.13.79	09:01
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins behind	20.12.132	-	11.13.79	12:41
	ESSE	Henry Slattery behind	20.12.132	-	11.14.80	14:38
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	21.12.138	-	11.14.80	15:28
	WBUL	Scott Welsh goal	22.12.144	-	11.14.80	17:37
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	23.12.150	-	11.14.80	19:32
	ESSE	Jay Nash goal	23.12.150	-	12.14.86	23:38
	WBUL	Ben Hudson behind	23.13.151	-	12.14.86	25:32
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	23.13.151	-	13.14.92	26:23
	ESSE	Ricky Dyson goal	23.13.151	-	14.14.98	27:52
	ESSE	Andrew Lovett behind	23.13.151	-	14.15.99	29:18
	ESSE	Matthew Lloyd goal	23.13.151	-	15.15.105	30:42

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