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Essendon vs Melbourne
| Round: 9 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Sat, 25-05-1985 2:10 pm Crowd: 19,985 | |||||
| Essendon | 7.3.45 | 12.8.80 | 20.12.132 | 23.15.153 | C: Kevin Sheedy |
| Melbourne | 2.5.17 | 3.10.28 | 5.14.44 | 9.17.71 | C: Ron Barassi |
| ESS by 28 | ESS by 52 | ESS by 88 | ESS by 82 | ||
| Brownlow Medal | 3 Tim Watson (ESS) | 2 Simon Madden (ESS) | 1 Mark Thompson (ESS) |
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 4 | Baker, Leon | 9 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 28y 281d | 32 | 38 | |
| 17 | Carey, Stephen | 13 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 25y 223d | 96 | 5 | |
| 6 | Daniher, Neale | 13 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24y 99d | 67 | 22 | |
| 5 | Daniher, Terry | 12 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27y 283d | 173 | 321 | |
| 7 | Dunell, Frank | 5 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27y 69d | 67 | 53 | |
| 14 | Elshaug, Tony | 11 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24y 310d | 90 | 116 | |
| 10 | Foulds, Garry | 11 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29y 12d | 209 | 100 | |
| 38 | Harvey, Mark | 13 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19y 348d | 25 | 48 | |
| 33 | Hawker, Glenn | 9 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 24y 69d | 126 | 120 | |
| 9 | Heard, Shane | 5 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26y 301d | 121 | 34 | |
| 27 | Madden, Simon | 13 | 12 | 8 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 27y 146d | 230 | 385 | |
| 25 | Merrett, Roger | 13 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 25y 36d | 95 | 75 | |
| 26 | Thompson, Mark | 9 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21y 187d | 31 | 6 | |
| 18 | Vander Haar, Paul | 12 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 27y 79d | 145 | 209 | |
| 30 | Walsh, Kevin | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23y 105d | 60 | 9 | |
| 35 | Waterson, Chris | 9 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24y 60d | 21 | 11 | |
| 32 | Watson, Tim | 21 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23y 316d | 176 | 201 | |
| 28 | Weston, Paul | 7 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 28y 46d | 45 | 9 | |
| 13 | Williams, Darren | 14 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24y 224d | 38 | 39 | |
| 2 | Wood, Bryan | 12 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 31y 52d | 234 | 94 | |
| Rushed | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 215 | 89 | 116 | 331 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 24 | 26 | 25y 272d | 2081 | 1895 | ||
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 16 | Battiston, Adrian | 15 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21y 251d | 50 | 49 | |
| 22 | Connolly, Chris | 12 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 22y 61d | 49 | 27 | |
| 28 | Cordner, David | 8 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23y 0d | 32 | 51 | |
| 35 | Cox, Darryl | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 24y 119d | 23 | 11 | |
| 36 | Fidge, Ted | 19 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 21y 352d | 20 | 21 | |
| 4 | Giles, Peter | 14 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 26y 349d | 108 | 22 | |
| 14 | Grinter, Rod | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19y 364d | 7 | 11 | |
| 3 | Healy, Gerard | 9 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 24y 85d | 119 | 177 | |
| 10 | Hughes, Danny | 11 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 21y 172d | 20 | 2 | |
| 11 | Icke, Stephen | 8 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 29y 79d | 189 | 48 | |
| 47 | Jarrott, Alan | 7 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 28y 281d | 139 | 40 | |
| 9 | Johnson, Alan | 11 | 1 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 28y 186d | 58 | 52 | |
| 30 | Moore, Peter | 9 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 28y 134d | 218 | 210 | |
| 5 | White, Robin | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24y 259d | 8 | 0 | |
| 27 | Wight, Sean | 7 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21y 71d | 2 | 3 | |
| 7 | Wilson, Brian | 10 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 23y 237d | 105 | 129 | |
| 15 | Withers, Mark | 4 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21y 83d | 13 | 16 | |
| 19 | Wright, Rodney | 9 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24y 147d | 47 | 21 | |
| 8 | Yeats, Graeme | 10 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20y 246d | 18 | 1 | |
| 32 | Zantuck, Shane | 17 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 30y 5d | 128 | 45 | |
| Rushed | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 194 | 46 | 81 | 275 | 9 | 17 | 13 | 26 | 24 | 24y 119d | 1353 | 936 | ||
Match highlights
Roger Merrett received 8 frees for Essendon vs. Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R9)Roger Merrett gave away 7 frees for Essendon vs. Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R9)