2011 AFL Season Round 1: Essendon v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 27 March 2011 between Essendon and the Western Bulldogs during round one of the 2011 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium. Jobe Watson captained the hosts. Matthew Boyd captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by James Hird and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

Essendon (16.17.113) defeated the Western Bulldogs (8.10.58).

Match Details

Season: 2011 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Essendon v Western Bulldogs
Date: Sunday 27 March 2011
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 42,617

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Western Bulldogs
Score: 16.17.113 - 8.10.58

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	3	.	4	9	.	12	13	.	15	16	.	17	16	.	17	(113)
Western Bulldogs	4	.	1	5	.	2	7	.	5	8	.	10	8	.	10	(58)
Margin	WBUL by 3			ESSE by 34			ESSE by 46			ESSE by 55			ESSE by 55
Duration	31:46			32:30			28:42			27:06			2:00:04

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Jobe Watson
Coach: James Hird

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Matthew Boyd
Coach: Rodney Eade

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

L. Farmer (#4)
R. Findlay (#23)
H. Kennedy (#7)
E: M. Leppard (#11)

Umpire Replacements

M. Leppard replaced L. Farmer.

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
David Hille	ESSE	19	3
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	2
Paddy Ryder	ESSE	30	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
David Hille	ESSE	19	9	1	1	0	0	0
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	9	1	1	0	0	0
Heath Hocking	ESSE	39	6	0	0	2	0	0
Dustin Fletcher	ESSE	31	2	0	0	0	1	0
Brent Stanton	ESSE	5	2	0	0	0	1	0
Courtenay Dempsey	ESSE	15	1	0	0	0	0	1
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
45	Crameri, Stewart	FPL	81%	1	1	17	8	9	6	0	1	1	4	2	2	0	4
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	HBFR	94%	0	0	18	11	7	5	0	1	0	2	0	1	4	2
31	Fletcher, Dustin	BPR	95%	0	0	18	15	3	7	0	4	0	2	1	1	3	1
34	Hardingham, Kyle	BPL	93%	0	0	18	10	8	4	0	4	0	1	2	0	3	0
21	Heppell, Dyson	HBFL	92%	0	0	20	10	10	7	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	3
19	Hille, David	RU	88%	0	0	27	19	8	7	15	2	4	1	2	0	2	11
39	Hocking, Heath	RR	76%	0	1	27	16	11	3	0	7	11	5	2	2	2	5
26	Hooker, Cale	FB	98%	0	0	15	9	6	7	0	1	0	2	2	0	2	1
40	Howlett, Ben	INT↓	52%	0	1	15	10	5	3	0	5	3	1	2	0	0	1
18	Hurley, Michael	CHF	89%	2	0	11	5	6	2	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	2
7	Jetta, Leroy	FPR	82%	0	2	23	15	8	8	0	4	2	1	2	0	3	6
14	Lonergan, Sam	INT	75%	0	1	16	4	12	1	0	2	2	4	0	1	0	0
42	Lovett-Murray, Nathan	SUB↑	23%	0	0	6	5	1	3	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
10	McVeigh, Mark	RO	76%	1	1	19	10	9	5	0	5	0	1	0	1	1	3
17	Melksham, Jake	WR	76%	0	0	20	12	8	6	0	2	2	1	0	1	2	6
6	Monfries, Angus	HFFL	88%	2	2	14	9	5	4	0	3	3	3	3	2	0	1
23	Myers, David	CHB	94%	1	1	12	8	4	4	0	2	1	4	0	2	1	3
30	Ryder, Paddy	FF	93%	2	0	16	10	6	7	13	3	1	1	3	0	1	6
5	Stanton, Brent	WL	82%	2	0	30	21	9	12	0	3	1	5	3	2	1	6
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	C	82%	2	2	35	22	13	8	0	1	2	1	1	0	2	5
8	Winderlich, Jason	HFFR	85%	1	0	17	4	13	2	0	3	3	1	1	1	0	2
11	Zaharakis, David	INT	86%	2	2	19	11	8	5	0	6	3	1	1	0	2	2
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				16	17	413	244	169	116	30	66	40	43	28	17	30	71

N. Lovett-Murray replaced B. Howlett.

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
5	Boyd, Matthew (c)	C	87%	0	0	24	11	13	1	0	6	7	4	2	1	2	3
17	Cooney, Adam	RO	85%	0	0	20	13	7	4	0	4	1	3	1	2	1	6
4	Cross, Daniel	RR	92%	0	0	22	9	13	5	1	5	1	3	0	2	1	1
33	Djerrkura, Nathan	INT↓	57%	1	0	9	4	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	HFFR	83%	2	1	13	11	2	3	0	3	1	3	0	1	0	2
1	Grant, Jarrad	FPL	88%	1	2	15	7	8	7	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	1
16	Griffen, Ryan	WL	77%	0	1	21	13	8	5	0	2	0	6	2	2	3	4
28	Hall, Barry	FF	94%	2	0	5	4	1	3	1	0	0	4	0	4	0	1
7	Higgins, Shaun	HFFL	88%	0	2	22	11	11	8	0	1	1	3	0	3	5	4
20	Hill, Josh	FPR	89%	1	0	16	9	7	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	6	4
15	Hudson, Ben	RU	80%	0	0	20	11	9	3	21	4	7	4	1	2	1	2
19	Jones, Liam	CHF	81%	0	1	7	5	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	3
21	Liberatore, Tom	INT	77%	0	1	19	12	7	4	0	2	7	3	1	0	2	2
37	Markovic, Lukas	FB	87%	0	0	9	7	2	1	0	3	2	2	1	2	4	0
38	Morris, Dale	BPR	99%	0	0	6	6	0	1	0	4	0	3	0	1	2	0
2	Murphy, Bob	HBFL	85%	0	0	20	17	3	5	0	2	2	1	2	0	5	1
42	Picken, Liam	HBFR	90%	0	0	12	8	4	2	0	5	0	2	0	2	2	1
10	Sherman, Justin	SUB↑	33%	0	1	4	1	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	Stack, Brennan	INT	79%	0	0	8	6	2	3	0	5	0	2	0	1	3	1
14	Ward, Callan	WR	87%	0	0	21	11	10	4	0	7	3	7	4	2	3	2
12	Williams, Tom	CHB	87%	0	0	12	9	3	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	0	0
29	Wood, Easton	BPL	76%	1	0	12	9	3	1	0	2	1	2	1	0	6	2
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				8	10	317	194	123	70	26	60	35	63	17	28	48	40

J. Sherman replaced N. Djerrkura during the third quarter.

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

Essendon							Coach: James Hird
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	29	E. Wood	37	L. Markovic	38	D. Morris	19	D. Hille	40	B. Howlett
	7	L. Jetta	30	P. Ryder	45	S. Crameri	39	H. Hocking	14	S. Lonergan
FORWARD							10	M. McVeigh	11	D. Zaharakis
HALF-BACK									42	N. Lovett-Murray
	2	B. Murphy	12	T. Williams	42	L. Picken
	8	J. Winderlich	18	M. Hurley	6	A. Monfries
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	16	R. Griffen	5	M. Boyd (c)	14	C. Ward
	17	J. Melksham	4	J. Watson (c)	5	B. Stanton	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							15	B. Hudson	33	N. Djerrkura
HALF-FORWARD							4	D. Cross	21	T. Liberatore
	7	S. Higgins	19	L. Jones	13	D. Giansiracusa	17	A. Cooney	18	B. Stack
	15	C. Dempsey	23	D. Myers	21	D. Heppell			10	J. Sherman
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	1	J. Grant	28	B. Hall	20	J. Hill
	31	D. Fletcher	26	C. Hooker	34	K. Hardingham
BACK
Western Bulldogs							Coach: Rodney Eade

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WBUL	Jarrad Grant behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:59
	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:34
	WBUL	Nathan Djerrkura goal	0.0.0	-	2.1.13	05:44
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	1.0.6	-	2.1.13	07:50
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	2.0.12	-	2.1.13	13:32
	ESSE	Sam Lonergan behind	2.1.13	-	2.1.13	17:31
	WBUL	Easton Wood goal	2.1.13	-	3.1.19	18:24
	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	2.1.13	-	4.1.25	19:48
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta behind	2.2.14	-	4.1.25	21:01
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	4.1.25	24:03
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	3.3.21	-	4.1.25	25:24
	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	3.4.22	-	4.1.25	31:13
Q2	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	3.5.23	-	4.1.25	01:01
	WBUL	Ryan Griffen behind	3.5.23	-	4.2.26	03:28
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	4.5.29	-	4.2.26	03:56
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	4.5.29	-	5.2.32	05:38
	ESSE	David Zaharakis goal	5.5.35	-	5.2.32	06:43
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	6.5.41	-	5.2.32	08:42
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	7.5.47	-	5.2.32	12:40
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta behind	7.6.48	-	5.2.32	15:10
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	8.6.54	-	5.2.32	18:07
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	9.6.60	-	5.2.32	21:31
	ESSE	Heath Hocking behind	9.7.61	-	5.2.32	24:28
	ESSE	David Myers behind	9.8.62	-	5.2.32	26:52
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.9.63	-	5.2.32	27:53
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri behind	9.10.64	-	5.2.32	28:51
	ESSE	Ben Howlett behind	9.11.65	-	5.2.32	30:32
	ESSE	Jobe Watson behind	9.12.66	-	5.2.32	31:28
Q3	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.13.67	-	5.2.32	01:00
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	10.13.73	-	5.2.32	03:26
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	11.13.79	-	5.2.32	07:08
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins behind	11.13.79	-	5.3.33	08:30
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	11.13.79	-	6.3.39	11:59
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	12.13.85	-	6.3.39	14:03
	WBUL	Jarrad Grant goal	12.13.85	-	7.3.45	16:18
	ESSE	Jason Winderlich goal	13.13.91	-	7.3.45	18:27
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	13.13.91	-	7.4.46	19:31
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh behind	13.14.92	-	7.4.46	21:24
	WBUL	Liam Jones behind	13.14.92	-	7.5.47	25:10
	ESSE	Angus Monfries behind	13.15.93	-	7.5.47	27:34
Q4	ESSE	David Zaharakis goal	14.15.99	-	7.5.47	01:44
	ESSE	Mark McVeigh goal	15.15.105	-	7.5.47	04:35
	WBUL	Josh Hill goal	15.15.105	-	8.5.53	09:21
	WBUL	Tom Liberatore behind	15.15.105	-	8.6.54	12:20
	ESSE	Angus Monfries behind	15.16.106	-	8.6.54	14:09
	WBUL	Justin Sherman behind	15.16.106	-	8.7.55	14:42
	WBUL	Rushed behind	15.16.106	-	8.8.56	15:28
	ESSE	David Myers goal	16.16.112	-	8.8.56	18:12
	WBUL	Jarrad Grant behind	16.16.112	-	8.9.57	23:28
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins behind	16.16.112	-	8.10.58	24:32
	ESSE	Jobe Watson behind	16.17.113	-	8.10.58	26:26

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