2009 AFL Season Elimination Final 1: Adelaide v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 4 September 2009 between Adelaide and Essendon in the first elimination final of the 2009 season of the Australian Football League. Adelaide hosted Essendon at AAMI Stadium. Simon Goodwin captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Neil Craig and the visitors were coached by Matthew Knights.

Adelaide (26.10.166) defeated Essendon (10.10.70).

Match Details

Season: 2009 AFL Season
Round: First Elimination Final
Teams: Adelaide v Essendon
Date: Friday 4 September 2009
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: AAMI Stadium
Attendance: 50,393

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. Essendon
Score: 26.10.166 - 10.10.70

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Adelaide	4	.	3	12	.	4	18	.	9	26	.	10	26	.	10	(166)
Essendon	3	.	3	5	.	7	8	.	8	10	.	10	10	.	10	(70)
Margin	ADEL by 6			ADEL by 39			ADEL by 61			ADEL by 96			ADEL by 96
Duration	31:19			32:59			33:07			32:28			2:09:53

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Adelaide

Captain: Simon Goodwin
Coach: Neil Craig

Essendon

Captain: unknown
Coach: Matthew Knights

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. McBurney (#3)
S. Ryan (#25)
M. Stevic (#9)

Player Statistics

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Burton, Brett	INT	69%	3	1	10	8	2	5	0	2	1	3	0	3	0	1
32	Dangerfield, Patrick	HFFL	75%	2	0	11	4	7	2	0	2	3	1	1	1	0	1
11	Doughty, Michael	HBFR	78%	0	0	18	11	7	4	0	6	2	2	0	1	1	5
26	Douglas, Richard	INT	75%	2	1	18	8	10	4	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	4
9	Edwards, Tyson	INT	82%	1	1	17	10	7	2	0	3	4	2	1	0	0	5
36	Goodwin, Simon (c)	C	98%	0	0	22	9	13	5	0	4	2	1	2	1	1	2
37	Hentschel, Trent	CHF	87%	1	0	14	9	5	3	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	3
18	Johncock, Graham	BPL	97%	0	0	17	10	7	4	0	1	2	2	1	0	3	1
21	Knights, Chris	FPR	85%	3	0	17	10	7	5	0	2	0	5	1	4	0	5
14	MacKay, David	WR	78%	1	0	19	10	9	3	0	3	2	2	2	1	1	5
20	Maric, Ivan	RU	57%	1	0	10	5	5	4	28	3	5	2	4	1	1	0
23	McLeod, Andrew	HFFR	92%	0	0	30	21	9	9	0	2	2	2	1	1	3	7
22	Otten, Andy	BPR	98%	0	0	19	7	12	6	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	3
40	Porplyzia, Jason	FPL	91%	5	1	12	9	3	6	0	6	0	4	2	0	0	1
3	Reilly, Brent	RR	88%	0	1	18	14	4	8	0	3	2	0	1	0	0	3
25	Rutten, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	15	5	10	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0
29	Sellar, James	INT	47%	1	0	9	4	5	6	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
27	Stevens, Scott	CHB	86%	0	0	15	8	7	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
15	Symes, Brad	HBFL	80%	0	1	23	12	11	5	1	2	3	1	0	0	1	3
5	Thompson, Scott	RO	68%	1	1	20	9	11	4	1	2	4	4	3	2	1	1
4	Tippett, Kurt	FF	92%	4	1	11	8	3	3	17	0	1	3	2	1	0	0
17	Vince, Bernie	WL	79%	1	1	28	20	8	5	0	2	11	2	3	0	3	7
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				26	10	373	211	162	101	64	51	45	39	27	17	18	59

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
38	Atkinson, Jarrod	BPR	86%	0	0	13	4	9	5	0	6	0	4	0	1	3	0
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	INT	63%	0	0	15	8	7	2	0	3	0	4	2	0	3	1
2	Dyson, Ricky	C	85%	0	0	19	9	10	2	0	3	1	1	1	1	4	3
31	Fletcher, Dustin	CHB	86%	0	0	15	5	10	4	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	1
39	Hocking, Heath	INT	84%	0	0	18	6	12	4	0	4	1	3	1	2	2	1
26	Hooker, Cale	RU	79%	0	1	16	1	15	3	12	3	3	1	1	1	1	0
22	Hurley, Michael	CHF	89%	0	1	13	5	8	5	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	2
13	Lovett, Andrew	WL	89%	1	1	16	10	6	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
42	Lovett-Murray, Nathan	BPL	68%	0	1	24	6	18	4	5	3	2	6	3	3	0	4
33	McPhee, Adam	HBFR	90%	4	0	13	8	5	6	1	3	0	5	1	3	2	0
10	McVeigh, Mark	WR	89%	0	0	18	12	6	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	3
6	Monfries, Angus	HFFR	91%	1	1	12	7	5	4	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	3
1	Neagle, Jay	FF	88%	0	0	6	4	2	5	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	2
16	Pears, Tayte	FB	86%	0	1	14	5	9	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	2
9	Prismall, Brent	INT	72%	0	0	15	6	9	2	0	4	2	2	1	1	0	2
41	Quinn, Michael	INT	69%	1	1	8	5	3	3	0	2	2	5	0	2	0	0
21	Skipworth, Hayden	FPL	75%	2	0	9	5	4	4	0	4	0	1	1	1	0	0
20	Slattery, Henry	HBFL	90%	0	0	13	5	8	1	0	4	1	6	2	3	3	0
5	Stanton, Brent	RR	85%	1	0	24	12	12	4	0	2	1	1	0	1	4	3
4	Watson, Jobe	RO	78%	0	0	14	6	8	1	0	4	7	1	1	0	1	1
12	Welsh, Andrew	FPR	82%	0	1	23	7	16	4	0	11	3	6	0	3	1	3
8	Winderlich, Jason	HFFL	79%	0	0	13	5	8	4	0	7	0	2	0	0	1	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				10	10	331	141	190	72	18	73	24	56	17	27	32	32

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

Adelaide							Coach: Neil Craig
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	42	N. Lovett-Murray	16	T. Pears	38	J. Atkinson	20	I. Maric	24	B. Burton
	21	C. Knights	4	K. Tippett	40	J. Porplyzia	3	B. Reilly	26	R. Douglas
FORWARD							5	S. Thompson	9	T. Edwards
HALF-BACK									29	J. Sellar
	20	H. Slattery	31	D. Fletcher	33	A. McPhee
	23	A. McLeod	37	T. Hentschel	32	P. Dangerfield
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	A. Lovett	2	R. Dyson	10	M. McVeigh
	14	D. MacKay	36	S. Goodwin (c)	17	B. Vince	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							26	C. Hooker	15	C. Dempsey
HALF-FORWARD							5	B. Stanton	39	H. Hocking
	8	J. Winderlich	22	M. Hurley	6	A. Monfries	4	J. Watson	9	B. Prismall
	11	M. Doughty	27	S. Stevens	15	B. Symes			41	M. Quinn
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	21	H. Skipworth	1	J. Neagle	12	A. Welsh
	22	A. Otten	25	B. Rutten	18	G. Johncock
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Matthew Knights

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ADEL	Bernie Vince goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	05:18
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	07:43
	ESSE	Michael Hurley behind	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	09:07
	ESSE	Rushed behind	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	10:45
	ADEL	Brent Reilly behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	11:25
	ADEL	Jason Porplyzia behind	1.2.8	-	1.2.8	11:47
	ADEL	Kurt Tippett goal	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	14:11
	ESSE	Michael Quinn behind	2.2.14	-	1.3.9	16:56
	ADEL	Brett Burton behind	2.3.15	-	1.3.9	17:50
	ESSE	Michael Quinn goal	2.3.15	-	2.3.15	20:33
	ADEL	Brett Burton goal	3.3.21	-	2.3.15	26:28
	ESSE	Hayden Skipworth goal	3.3.21	-	3.3.21	28:00
	ADEL	Richard Douglas goal	4.3.27	-	3.3.21	29:36
Q2	ADEL	Tyson Edwards goal	5.3.33	-	3.3.21	02:35
	ADEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	6.3.39	-	3.3.21	05:01
	ADEL	Jason Porplyzia goal	7.3.45	-	3.3.21	06:55
	ESSE	Adam McPhee goal	7.3.45	-	4.3.27	14:27
	ESSE	Nathan Lovett-Murray behind	7.3.45	-	4.4.28	15:43
	ADEL	Kurt Tippett goal	8.3.51	-	4.4.28	16:28
	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	8.3.51	-	4.5.29	17:55
	ESSE	Tayte Pears behind	8.3.51	-	4.6.30	19:02
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	8.3.51	-	5.6.36	20:42
	ADEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	9.3.57	-	5.6.36	22:16
	ADEL	Richard Douglas goal	10.3.63	-	5.6.36	25:30
	ESSE	Angus Monfries behind	10.3.63	-	5.7.37	26:52
	ADEL	Kurt Tippett goal	11.3.69	-	5.7.37	28:34
	ADEL	Rushed behind	11.4.70	-	5.7.37	30:04
	ADEL	Chris Knights goal	12.4.76	-	5.7.37	32:03
Q3	ADEL	Jason Porplyzia goal	13.4.82	-	5.7.37	00:23
	ESSE	Adam McPhee goal	13.4.82	-	6.7.43	02:17
	ADEL	Tyson Edwards behind	13.5.83	-	6.7.43	05:28
	ADEL	Chris Knights goal	14.5.89	-	6.7.43	06:33
	ESSE	Adam McPhee goal	14.5.89	-	7.7.49	07:59
	ADEL	Ivan Maric goal	15.5.95	-	7.7.49	16:25
	ADEL	Kurt Tippett goal	16.5.101	-	7.7.49	18:16
	ADEL	Scott Thompson behind	16.6.102	-	7.7.49	21:55
	ADEL	Trent Hentschel goal	17.6.108	-	7.7.49	22:45
	ESSE	Andrew Welsh behind	17.6.108	-	7.8.50	24:45
	ADEL	Scott Thompson goal	18.6.114	-	7.8.50	26:21
	ADEL	Richard Douglas behind	18.7.115	-	7.8.50	28:26
	ESSE	Adam McPhee goal	18.7.115	-	8.8.56	29:03
	ADEL	Brad Symes behind	18.8.116	-	8.8.56	31:44
	ADEL	Kurt Tippett behind	18.9.117	-	8.8.56	32:53
Q4	ADEL	Jason Porplyzia goal	19.9.123	-	8.8.56	03:04
	ADEL	David MacKay goal	20.9.129	-	8.8.56	04:37
	ADEL	Jason Porplyzia goal	21.9.135	-	8.8.56	12:02
	ADEL	Brett Burton goal	22.9.141	-	8.8.56	14:19
	ESSE	Rushed behind	22.9.141	-	8.9.57	16:07
	ESSE	Andrew Lovett behind	22.9.141	-	8.10.58	16:44
	ADEL	Jason Porplyzia goal	23.9.147	-	8.10.58	17:51
	ADEL	Chris Knights goal	24.9.153	-	8.10.58	19:25
	ADEL	Bernie Vince behind	24.10.154	-	8.10.58	24:21
	ESSE	Andrew Lovett goal	24.10.154	-	9.10.64	25:48
	ESSE	Hayden Skipworth goal	24.10.154	-	10.10.70	27:39
	ADEL	Brett Burton goal	25.10.160	-	10.10.70	28:50
	ADEL	James Sellar goal	26.10.166	-	10.10.70	31:22

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