2011 AFL Round 21: Western Bulldogs v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 13 August 2011 between Western Bulldogs and Essendon during round 21 of the 2011 AFL season. Western Bulldogs hosted Essendon at Etihad Stadium. Matthew Boyd captained the hosts. Jobe Watson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Rodney Eade and the visitors were coached by James Hird.

Western Bulldogs
Back: E. Wood, D. Morris, R. Hargrave
Half-back: S. Higgins, L. Markovic, B. Murphy
Centre: C. Howard, M. Boyd (capt.), D. Cross
Half-forward: C. Ward, L. Jones, L. Dahlhaus
Forward: J. Roughead, B. Hall, D. Giansiracusa
Follower: B. Hudson, R. Griffen, L. Picken
Int.: N. Djerrkura, T. Liberatore, B. Stack
Sub.: J. Schofield

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

Western Bulldogs (15.11.101) were defeated by Essendon (23.12.150).

Goalkickers
Western Bulldogs: B. Hall (6), L. Dahlhaus (2), S. Higgins (2), C. Ward (2), D. Giansiracusa, R. Griffen, C. Howard
Essendon: A. Davey (4), M. Hurley (4), D. Hille (2), B. Howlett (2), B. Stanton (2), D. Zaharakis (2), S. Crameri, H. Hocking, L. Jetta, A. Monfries, K. Reimers, P. Ryder, J. Watson

As a result of this match, Western Bulldogs remained 12th on the ladder and Essendon were then 7th on the ladder (up from 8th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2011 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Essendon
Date: Saturday 13 August 2011
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 38,986

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. by Essendon
Score: 15.11.101 - 23.12.150

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Western Bulldogs	1	.	3	6	.	3	11	.	8	15	.	11	15	.	11	(101)
Essendon	7	.	0	14	.	3	18	.	6	23	.	12	23	.	12	(150)
Margin	ESSE by 33			ESSE by 48			ESSE by 40			ESSE by 49			ESSE by 49
Duration	29:12			32:00			32:27			35:21			2:09:00

Honour Roll

Coaches: Rodney Eade (Western Bulldogs), James Hird (Essendon)
Captains: Matthew Boyd (Western Bulldogs), Jobe Watson (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. McInerney (#30), S. Meredith (#21), J. Mollison (#32), E: R. Findlay (#23)
Goal Umpire: L. Walker, D. Wilson, E: S. Williams
Boundary Umpire: A. Coote, M. Foster, C. Gordon, P. Tongue

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Brent Stanton	ESSE	5	3
Michael Hurley	ESSE	18	2
Luke Dahlhaus	WBUL	40	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Brent Stanton	ESSE	5	10	2	0	0	0	0
Barry Hall	WBUL	28	5	0	?	?	?	?
David Zaharakis	ESSE	11	5	0	?	?	?	?
Dustin Fletcher	ESSE	31	4	0	?	?	?	?
Michael Hurley	ESSE	18	4	0	?	?	?	?
Matthew Boyd	WBUL	5	2	0	0	0	?	?

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
5	Boyd, Matthew (c)	C	88%	0	0	36	18	18	1	0	5	8	1	2	0	1	6
4	Cross, Daniel	WR	89%	0	0	27	12	15	4	2	3	7	3	3	1	0	2
40	Dahlhaus, Luke	HFFR	83%	2	1	19	10	9	2	0	3	0	0	2	0	2	6
33	Djerrkura, Nathan	INT	85%	0	1	17	10	7	4	0	6	3	3	0	2	1	4
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	FPR	87%	1	1	21	8	13	3	0	3	1	4	2	1	0	3
16	Griffen, Ryan	RR	86%	1	1	28	19	9	3	0	2	2	4	0	1	5	8
28	Hall, Barry	FF	92%	6	3	15	11	4	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0
25	Hargrave, Ryan	BPR↓	40%	0	0	10	5	5	1	0	2	0	4	0	0	2	0
7	Higgins, Shaun	HBFL	88%	2	1	24	13	11	5	0	4	0	6	0	1	0	6
30	Howard, Christian	WL	86%	1	0	18	9	9	2	0	4	2	2	2	0	2	3
15	Hudson, Ben	RU	77%	0	0	17	5	12	1	20	4	6	3	1	1	1	4
19	Jones, Liam	CHF	89%	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	3
21	Liberatore, Tom	INT	80%	0	0	20	5	15	1	0	6	4	1	2	1	0	4
37	Markovic, Lukas	CHB	88%	0	0	6	4	2	3	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	2
38	Morris, Dale	FB	80%	0	0	12	5	7	4	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0
2	Murphy, Bob	HBFR	85%	0	0	16	12	4	3	0	1	0	2	1	0	6	2
42	Picken, Liam	RO	93%	0	0	17	9	8	3	0	1	0	1	2	0	2	2
23	Roughead, Jordan	FPL	87%	0	1	10	2	8	1	16	3	1	1	0	1	0	1
24	Schofield, Jayden	SUB↑	41%	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
18	Stack, Brennan	INT	83%	0	0	15	10	5	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	6	0
14	Ward, Callan	HFFL	87%	2	1	22	14	8	3	0	3	5	2	1	1	1	4
29	Wood, Easton	BPL	86%	0	0	10	5	5	4	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	4
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				15	11	373	192	181	61	38	57	41	45	21	14	32	65

J. Schofield replaced R. Hargrave.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
22	Carlisle, Jake	FB	92%	0	0	12	9	3	7	0	2	0	4	0	3	1	0
45	Crameri, Stewart	FPL	85%	1	1	15	9	6	6	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	3
29	Davey, Alwyn	INT	82%	4	0	12	10	2	4	0	4	0	2	2	2	0	3
2	Dyson, Ricky	HBFL	90%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	1
31	Fletcher, Dustin	BPR	95%	0	0	22	17	5	9	0	3	1	2	0	0	7	0
34	Hardingham, Kyle	CHB	97%	0	0	11	8	3	5	0	6	0	2	1	1	6	1
21	Heppell, Dyson	INT	86%	0	0	17	7	10	4	2	4	2	1	0	1	2	3
19	Hille, David	RU	85%	2	1	15	10	5	8	7	2	1	3	0	1	1	3
39	Hocking, Heath	RO	78%	1	0	18	13	5	6	0	8	4	1	1	0	3	5
40	Howlett, Ben	WL	75%	2	0	17	12	5	2	0	8	5	2	3	1	1	2
18	Hurley, Michael	CHF	76%	4	0	17	13	4	9	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	4
7	Jetta, Leroy	FPR	86%	1	0	11	7	4	4	0	6	1	1	0	0	0	4
10	McVeigh, Mark	BPL	96%	0	0	21	17	4	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	5	4
17	Melksham, Jake	INT	80%	0	0	22	16	6	1	1	3	4	3	0	2	5	5
6	Monfries, Angus	WR	90%	1	1	10	6	4	5	0	3	1	4	0	2	0	3
16	Pears, Tayte	HBFR↓	59%	0	0	12	5	7	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	0
37	Reimers, Kyle	HFFL	87%	1	1	13	8	5	7	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	3
30	Ryder, Paddy	FF	87%	1	0	15	11	4	8	35	4	3	0	3	0	4	3
5	Stanton, Brent	RR	80%	2	1	39	20	19	11	0	3	5	3	0	1	3	4
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	C	79%	1	0	23	15	8	3	0	6	12	2	0	1	2	5
12	Welsh, Andrew	SUB↑	32%	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	5	1	0	1	0	1	0
11	Zaharakis, David	HFFR	85%	2	1	27	14	13	6	0	3	4	7	0	2	2	3
Rushed					6
Total (22 players)				23	12	360	233	127	118	45	82	44	45	14	21	46	59

A. Welsh replaced T. Pears 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

Western Bulldogs							Coach: Rodney Eade
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	10	M. McVeigh	22	J. Carlisle	31	D. Fletcher	15	B. Hudson	33	N. Djerrkura
	13	D. Giansiracusa	28	B. Hall	23	J. Roughead	16	R. Griffen	21	T. Liberatore
FORWARD							42	L. Picken	18	B. Stack
HALF-BACK									24	J. Schofield
	2	R. Dyson	34	K. Hardingham	16	T. Pears
	40	L. Dahlhaus	19	L. Jones	14	C. Ward
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	40	B. Howlett	4	J. Watson (c)	6	A. Monfries
	4	D. Cross	5	M. Boyd (c)	30	C. Howard	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							19	D. Hille	29	A. Davey
HALF-FORWARD							5	B. Stanton	21	D. Heppell
	37	K. Reimers	18	M. Hurley	11	D. Zaharakis	39	H. Hocking	17	J. Melksham
	2	B. Murphy	37	L. Markovic	7	S. Higgins			12	A. Welsh
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	45	S. Crameri	30	P. Ryder	7	L. Jetta
	25	R. Hargrave	38	D. Morris	29	E. Wood
BACK
Essendon							Coach: James Hird

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:26
	WBUL	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	03:05
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	0.1.1	-	2.0.12	04:48
	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	07:17
	WBUL	Jordan Roughead behind	1.2.8	-	2.0.12	08:57
	WBUL	Barry Hall behind	1.3.9	-	2.0.12	11:29
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	1.3.9	-	3.0.18	13:07
	ESSE	Kyle Reimers goal	1.3.9	-	4.0.24	15:33
	ESSE	Heath Hocking goal	1.3.9	-	5.0.30	19:10
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	1.3.9	-	6.0.36	22:11
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	1.3.9	-	7.0.42	26:31
Q2	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	2.3.15	-	7.0.42	00:47
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	7.1.43	02:30
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	2.3.15	-	8.1.49	05:01
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	2.3.15	-	9.1.55	05:34
	WBUL	Ryan Griffen goal	3.3.21	-	9.1.55	08:25
	WBUL	Christian Howard goal	4.3.27	-	9.1.55	12:39
	ESSE	David Zaharakis goal	4.3.27	-	10.1.61	16:00
	ESSE	David Hille behind	4.3.27	-	10.2.62	17:10
	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	5.3.33	-	10.2.62	18:47
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	5.3.33	-	11.2.68	22:15
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	5.3.33	-	12.2.74	25:37
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	5.3.33	-	13.2.80	27:21
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.3.33	-	13.3.81	29:07
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	6.3.39	-	13.3.81	30:25
	ESSE	David Zaharakis goal	6.3.39	-	14.3.87	31:53
Q3	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.3.39	-	14.4.88	00:39
	ESSE	David Hille goal	6.3.39	-	15.4.94	02:28
	WBUL	Luke Dahlhaus goal	7.3.45	-	15.4.94	03:58
	WBUL	Callan Ward goal	8.3.51	-	15.4.94	05:13
	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	9.3.57	-	15.4.94	08:36
	WBUL	Luke Dahlhaus goal	10.3.63	-	15.4.94	10:40
	WBUL	Callan Ward goal	11.3.69	-	15.4.94	15:03
	WBUL	Barry Hall behind	11.4.70	-	15.4.94	16:44
	WBUL	Barry Hall behind	11.5.71	-	15.4.94	18:14
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.5.71	-	15.5.95	22:20
	ESSE	David Hille goal	11.5.71	-	16.5.101	23:07
	WBUL	Nathan Djerrkura behind	11.6.72	-	16.5.101	25:24
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.6.72	-	16.6.102	25:59
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins behind	11.7.73	-	16.6.102	26:36
	WBUL	Callan Ward behind	11.8.74	-	16.6.102	27:29
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	11.8.74	-	17.6.108	28:08
	ESSE	Ben Howlett goal	11.8.74	-	18.6.114	30:38
Q4	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	12.8.80	-	18.6.114	00:24
	ESSE	Angus Monfries behind	12.8.80	-	18.7.115	02:23
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	12.8.80	-	19.7.121	07:38
	WBUL	Barry Hall goal	13.8.86	-	19.7.121	10:00
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	14.8.92	-	19.7.121	12:54
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri behind	14.8.92	-	19.8.122	13:55
	ESSE	Kyle Reimers behind	14.8.92	-	19.9.123	17:55
	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	14.8.92	-	19.10.124	18:18
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	14.8.92	-	20.10.130	19:56
	ESSE	Ben Howlett goal	14.8.92	-	21.10.136	21:29
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	15.8.98	-	21.10.136	24:18
	WBUL	Luke Dahlhaus behind	15.9.99	-	21.10.136	25:40
	WBUL	Ryan Griffen behind	15.10.100	-	21.10.136	26:20
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	15.10.100	-	22.10.142	27:51
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	15.11.101	-	22.10.142	29:43
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	15.11.101	-	23.10.148	31:51
	ESSE	Brent Stanton behind	15.11.101	-	23.11.149	33:08
	ESSE	Rushed behind	15.11.101	-	23.12.150	34:38

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