Round 8 2002

Richmond v West Coast
Round 8, 2002

Wilson goes one-handed. Photo: aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sat, 18 May 2002 (2:10 PM EST)

Venue

MCG

Attendance

22,647

Result

Lost by 21

Score

RIC 13.16.94 - 10.13.73 WCE

Brownlow

3 W.Campbell (RIC)
2 D.Wirrpanda (WCE)
1 J.Bowden (RIC)

Ladder

8th

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West Coast continued to struggle away from home, falling to Richmond in a tough contest at a gloomy MCG. A young Dean Cox impressed in the ruck in the continued absence of Michael Gardiner, and David Wirrpanda ventured forward for two goals.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
Richmond		2.3.15		7.6.48		10.9.69		13.16.94
West Coast		3.4.22		7.5.47		8.11.59		10.13.73

Goals: Wilson 3, Wirrpanda 2, Cousins, Cox, Fletcher, Ph.Matera, Williams

Best: Cox, Wirrpanda, Jakovich, Fletcher, Braun

Injuries: Nil

Milestones: Tuckey final appearance

Named sides

	West Coast				Richmond
B:	13.Wooden	11.McIntosh	22.Collica	B:	36.Zantuck	39.A.Kellaway	6.Chaffey
HB:	30.Pe.Matera	27.Jakovich	18.Jones	HB:	15.Cameron	2.Gaspar	14.Fiora
C:	15.Chambers	9.Cousins	3.Judd	C:	4.Rogers	9.Campbell	29.Torney
HF:	44.Wirrpanda	26.Gaspar	38.Haynes	HF:	33.Knights	5.Ottens	32.Tivendale
F:	33.Ph.Matera	40.Wilson	37.Williams	F:	18.Rodan	20.Hall	23.Houlihan
R:	20.Cox	4.Kerr	10.Braun	R:	10.Stafford	11.Bowden	21.C.King
I:	7.Fletcher	6.Banfield	48.Tuckey	I:	27.Krakouer	41.Vardy	43.Ednie
	32.Embley				19.Sziller
E:	35.Green	28.Sampi	41.Humm	E:	31.Hyde	35.Newman	8.Pettifer

In: Tuckey, Banfield

Out: Carroll, Green

Late change: (WCE) Humm for Pe.Matera (knee); (RIC) Pettifer for Hall (groin)

From the papers

The Sunday Age

"Where the little moments started to go right for Richmond, however, they let the Eagles down. Having allowed the Tigers back into a match they could have taken complete control of by the first break - "it would have been handy if we had held them out for one of those late goals," conceded West Coast coach John Worsfold, ``but Richmond deserved to be where they were" - the Eagles took their turn to waste the few chances they got.

David Wirrpunda missed a long set-shot after cutting off a clearing Greg Tivendale kick, Andrew Embley just missed a relatively hard long shot, and later a relatively easy long shot, and Phil Matera only just missed out on making Campbell pay severely for ambitiously popping a handball towards the West Coast goal line.

When Matera swung home a snap 13 minutes into the last quarter, the Eagles were only three points down, but the final half-hour was played with a strange lack of atmosphere and intensity (that may have been caused by the one-team crowd) and they never really looked like snatching the match away from Richmond. If they had, Ashley McIntosh might have handed the ball back to Joel Bowden after giving away a late free kick, instead of holding on to it and then dropping it short. The umpire penalised McIntosh 50 metres and Bowden kicked a point.

From the kick-in, Bowden found Campbell on his own in front of goal, Campbell found Stafford on his own in front of goal and a match that didn't want to be won was won: by Richmond, by a comfortable 21 points"

Players in the WAFL

Round 9 (18 May)

South Fremantle (Sampi) vs Swan Districts (Taylor, Hunter, Munro)

Claremont (Carroll) vs East Fremantle (Green, McCarrey)

West Perth (Merenda, Lynch) vs Subiaco (Sierakowski)

Peel vs East Perth

Bye: Perth

Injury list

In the lead-up to the round the following players were listed as injured:

Player		Injury		Expected duration
Read		Knee		Season
Morrison		Knee		Season
Harding		Ankle		4 weeks
Prior		Hamstring		Test
Gardiner		Hamstring		Test
McDougall		Hamstring		Test

Referencess

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/2002/141820020518.html