2011 AFL Round 15: Essendon v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 2 July 2011 between Essendon and Geelong during round 15 of the 2011 AFL season. Essendon hosted Geelong at Etihad Stadium. Cameron Ling captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by James Hird and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Essendon
Back: K. Hardingham, D. Fletcher, M. Hibberd
Half-back: B. Stanton, T. Pears, H. Hocking
Centre: B. Prismall, B. Howlett, J. Melksham
Half-forward: M. Hurley, D. Hille, L. Jetta
Forward: A. Welsh, S. Crameri, A. Davey
Follower: P. Ryder, M. McVeigh, D. Zaharakis
Int.: D. Heppell, A. Monfries, K. Reimers
Sub.: T. Colyer

Geelong
Back: J. Hunt, M. Scarlett, T. Lonergan
Half-back: D. Wojcinski, H. Taylor, C. Enright
Centre: M. Duncan, J. Kelly, A. Mackie
Half-forward: P. Chapman, N. Vardy, A. Christensen
Forward: M. Brown, J. Podsiadly, S. Johnson
Follower: B. Ottens, C. Ling (capt.), J. Bartel
Int.: D. Menzel, S. Motlop, M. Stokes
Sub.: T. Gillies

Essendon (18.7.115) defeated Geelong (16.15.111).

Goalkickers
Essendon: A. Monfries (3), T. Colyer (2), S. Crameri (2), A. Welsh (2), A. Davey, D. Heppell, D. Hille, B. Howlett, L. Jetta, J. Melksham, K. Reimers, P. Ryder, D. Zaharakis
Geelong: S. Johnson (3), P. Chapman (2), A. Christensen (2), M. Duncan (2), J. Kelly, C. Ling, S. Motlop, B. Ottens, M. Stokes, N. Vardy, D. Wojcinski

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 8th on the ladder (up from 10th) and Geelong remained 1st on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2011 AFL Season
Round: Round 15
Teams: Essendon v Geelong
Date: Saturday 2 July 2011
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 43,806

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Geelong
Score: 18.7.115 - 16.15.111

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	4	.	3	8	.	4	13	.	5	18	.	7	18	.	7	(115)
Geelong	3	.	3	5	.	7	9	.	12	16	.	15	16	.	15	(111)
Margin	ESSE by 6			ESSE by 15			ESSE by 17			ESSE by 4			ESSE by 4
Duration	31:09			30:42			32:31			34:28			2:08:50

Honour Roll

Coaches: James Hird (Essendon), Chris Scott (Geelong)
Captains: unknown (Essendon), Cameron Ling (Geelong)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Jennings (#24), H. Kennedy (#7), D. Margetts (#6), E: T. Pannell (#28)
Goal Umpire: M. Hammond, C. Roffey, E: J. Venkataya
Boundary Umpire: T. Bryant, C. Bull, T. Morrison, S. Thiele

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jake Melksham	ESSE	17	3
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	2
Paul Chapman	GEEL	35	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Jake Melksham	ESSE	17	10	2	0	0	0	0
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	8	0	2	0	0	0
Paul Chapman	GEEL	35	5	0	0	1	1	0
Michael Hurley	ESSE	18	5	0	0	1	1	0
Stewart Crameri	ESSE	45	1	0	0	0	0	1
Ben Howlett	ESSE	40	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
32	Colyer, Travis	SUB↑	43%	2	1	14	6	8	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
45	Crameri, Stewart	FF	89%	2	0	21	7	14	4	0	3	0	4	1	1	0	3
29	Davey, Alwyn	FPR	86%	1	0	10	3	7	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	99%	0	0	17	14	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	0
34	Hardingham, Kyle	BPL	82%	0	0	21	13	8	5	0	0	2	7	0	0	7	1
21	Heppell, Dyson	INT	87%	1	0	30	13	17	6	2	0	3	1	1	0	0	1
43	Hibberd, Michael	BPR	91%	0	0	21	9	12	6	0	1	1	4	1	2	3	1
19	Hille, David	CHF	90%	1	0	9	4	5	5	19	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
39	Hocking, Heath	HBFR	86%	0	0	25	6	19	4	0	13	5	1	2	1	2	2
40	Howlett, Ben	C	75%	1	0	27	13	14	2	0	9	6	3	4	0	0	2
18	Hurley, Michael	HFFL	95%	0	0	19	10	9	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	5	2
7	Jetta, Leroy	HFFR	80%	1	0	18	9	9	6	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	2
10	McVeigh, Mark	RR	90%	0	0	11	9	2	0	0	4	0	7	1	6	2	3
17	Melksham, Jake	WR	77%	1	0	29	18	11	6	0	7	8	8	0	4	1	3
6	Monfries, Angus	INT	79%	3	1	22	13	9	7	0	6	1	5	1	4	0	2
16	Pears, Tayte	CHB	91%	0	0	17	10	7	7	0	4	2	0	1	0	2	1
9	Prismall, Brent	WL	81%	0	0	22	14	8	4	0	5	2	3	4	1	4	5
37	Reimers, Kyle	INT	75%	1	1	10	7	3	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	2	4
30	Ryder, Paddy	RU	93%	1	1	15	8	7	6	24	4	2	0	0	0	1	2
5	Stanton, Brent	HBFL	80%	0	1	27	15	12	5	1	7	5	4	1	1	1	2
12	Welsh, Andrew	FPL↓	41%	2	0	8	4	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
11	Zaharakis, David	RO	89%	1	2	18	11	7	5	0	4	0	3	1	2	1	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				18	7	411	216	195	100	46	76	38	59	19	25	38	44

T. Colyer replaced A. Welsh.

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Bartel, Jimmy	RO	88%	0	0	19	12	7	4	0	4	4	1	4	0	0	5
1	Brown, Mitch	FPL	80%	0	2	8	8	0	5	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	3
35	Chapman, Paul	HFFL	94%	2	0	28	16	12	6	0	6	5	2	2	0	0	6
28	Christensen, Allen	HFFR	79%	2	1	9	6	3	1	0	4	3	1	3	1	1	2
22	Duncan, Mitch	WL	86%	2	1	12	8	4	5	1	5	2	2	0	1	0	3
44	Enright, Corey	HBFR	95%	0	0	25	18	7	6	0	3	0	1	0	1	2	5
25	Gillies, Tom	SUB↑	30%	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Hunt, Josh	BPL	86%	0	1	17	8	9	2	0	8	1	2	3	0	2	1
20	Johnson, Steve	FPR	88%	3	2	18	10	8	4	0	8	2	3	3	1	1	1
9	Kelly, James	C	82%	1	0	18	10	8	0	0	13	2	5	2	3	0	4
45	Ling, Cameron (c)	RR	84%	1	0	21	15	6	0	0	1	5	6	2	2	2	7
13	Lonergan, Tom	BPR↓	56%	0	0	4	2	2	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
4	Mackie, Andrew	WR	93%	0	0	14	7	7	4	0	9	0	1	1	1	2	3
10	Menzel, Daniel	INT	81%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	3	0	2	0	0	2	2
32	Motlop, Steven	INT	73%	1	1	11	9	2	0	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	3
6	Ottens, Brad	RU	79%	1	0	13	5	8	6	31	4	4	2	0	2	1	2
31	Podsiadly, James	FF	96%	0	3	7	4	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
30	Scarlett, Matthew	FB	92%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	4	0	2	1	1	0	3
27	Stokes, Mathew	INT	88%	1	0	18	11	7	5	0	5	4	1	1	1	1	7
7	Taylor, Harry	CHB	88%	0	1	14	9	5	7	0	4	0	3	1	1	4	1
36	Vardy, Nathan	CHF	74%	1	1	4	2	2	1	10	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
40	Wojcinski, David	HBFL	88%	1	0	13	4	9	1	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				16	15	298	178	120	65	43	92	34	40	25	19	20	59

T. Gillies replaced T. Lonergan 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
	8	J. Hunt	30	M. Scarlett	13	T. Lonergan	30	P. Ryder	21	D. Heppell
	29	A. Davey	45	S. Crameri	12	A. Welsh	10	M. McVeigh	6	A. Monfries
FORWARD							11	D. Zaharakis	37	K. Reimers
HALF-BACK									32	T. Colyer
	40	D. Wojcinski	7	H. Taylor	44	C. Enright
	7	L. Jetta	19	D. Hille	18	M. Hurley
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	22	M. Duncan	9	J. Kelly	4	A. Mackie
	17	J. Melksham	40	B. Howlett	9	B. Prismall	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							6	B. Ottens	10	D. Menzel
HALF-FORWARD							45	C. Ling (c)	32	S. Motlop
	35	P. Chapman	36	N. Vardy	28	A. Christensen	3	J. Bartel	27	M. Stokes
	39	H. Hocking	16	T. Pears	5	B. Stanton			25	T. Gillies
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	1	M. Brown	31	J. Podsiadly	20	S. Johnson
	43	M. Hibberd	31	D. Fletcher	34	K. Hardingham
BACK
Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Allen Christensen goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:59
	GEEL	Allen Christensen behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	03:22
	GEEL	Steve Johnson behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	04:11
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder behind	0.1.1	-	1.2.8	06:24
	GEEL	Steve Johnson behind	0.1.1	-	1.3.9	08:33
	GEEL	Allen Christensen goal	0.1.1	-	2.3.15	09:00
	GEEL	Nathan Vardy goal	0.1.1	-	3.3.21	10:18
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell goal	1.1.7	-	3.3.21	11:57
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	2.1.13	-	3.3.21	14:25
	ESSE	Brent Stanton behind	2.2.14	-	3.3.21	15:57
	ESSE	Andrew Welsh goal	3.2.20	-	3.3.21	18:32
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	4.2.26	-	3.3.21	21:43
	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	4.3.27	-	3.3.21	25:47
Q2	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	5.3.33	-	3.3.21	02:02
	ESSE	Andrew Welsh goal	6.3.39	-	3.3.21	04:53
	GEEL	Steven Motlop behind	6.3.39	-	3.4.22	09:47
	GEEL	James Kelly goal	6.3.39	-	4.4.28	10:29
	ESSE	Kyle Reimers behind	6.4.40	-	4.4.28	12:32
	GEEL	James Podsiadly behind	6.4.40	-	4.5.29	15:38
	ESSE	David Zaharakis goal	7.4.46	-	4.5.29	20:37
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	8.4.52	-	4.5.29	22:30
	GEEL	Cameron Ling goal	8.4.52	-	5.5.35	26:37
	GEEL	James Podsiadly behind	8.4.52	-	5.6.36	28:18
	GEEL	Rushed behind	8.4.52	-	5.7.37	29:46
Q3	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	9.4.58	-	5.7.37	00:50
	GEEL	Harry Taylor behind	9.4.58	-	5.8.38	03:09
	ESSE	Travis Colyer behind	9.5.59	-	5.8.38	06:21
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	10.5.65	-	5.8.38	08:26
	ESSE	Ben Howlett goal	11.5.71	-	5.8.38	10:41
	GEEL	Mitch Brown behind	11.5.71	-	5.9.39	14:42
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan goal	11.5.71	-	6.9.45	15:11
	GEEL	Mitch Brown behind	11.5.71	-	6.10.46	17:11
	GEEL	Rushed behind	11.5.71	-	6.11.47	18:21
	GEEL	David Wojcinski goal	11.5.71	-	7.11.53	18:48
	GEEL	Steven Motlop goal	11.5.71	-	8.11.59	21:24
	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	11.5.71	-	9.11.65	23:21
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	12.5.77	-	9.11.65	25:21
	ESSE	Kyle Reimers goal	13.5.83	-	9.11.65	27:16
	GEEL	Nathan Vardy behind	13.5.83	-	9.12.66	31:30
Q4	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	14.5.89	-	9.12.66	02:30
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan behind	14.5.89	-	9.13.67	04:22
	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	14.5.89	-	10.13.73	08:14
	GEEL	Brad Ottens goal	14.5.89	-	11.13.79	09:55
	ESSE	David Hille goal	15.5.95	-	11.13.79	15:28
	GEEL	James Podsiadly behind	15.5.95	-	11.14.80	17:09
	GEEL	Josh Hunt behind	15.5.95	-	11.15.81	17:41
	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	16.5.101	-	11.15.81	18:59
	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	16.6.102	-	11.15.81	20:07
	ESSE	Angus Monfries behind	16.7.103	-	11.15.81	20:36
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes goal	16.7.103	-	12.15.87	21:13
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	17.7.109	-	12.15.87	23:14
	GEEL	Steve Johnson goal	17.7.109	-	13.15.93	24:28
	GEEL	Steve Johnson goal	17.7.109	-	14.15.99	25:39
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan goal	17.7.109	-	15.15.105	28:57
	ESSE	Jake Melksham goal	18.7.115	-	15.15.105	30:54
	GEEL	Steve Johnson goal	18.7.115	-	16.15.111	33:31

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