Round 1 1995, Essendon vs. Fitzroy

Game Statistics

ESSENDON.......5.7 7.12 14.13 16.16(112)
FITZROY........0.0 0.0   1.0   6.2  (38)

Goals:

ESSENDON: Bewick 4, Alessio 3, Mercuri, Salmon 2, Hird, Symons, Grenvold, Lewfatt, Olarenshaw 1.
FITZROY: Lamb, Cummings 2, Boyd, Baldwin.

Crowd:

Approx. 18,000 at the Western Oval

Comment:

Well, what a start to the season, we couldn't have asked for more really. I think most people would agree that the highlight of the game (apart from Fitzroy being scoreless at half-time) was the return of Michael Long. There is no way that you could have picked that he missed the entire season last year, his form was brilliant. Of course my favorite player, Jimmy Hird, put in a great performance and pulled down a screamer of a mark too. Bewick's four goals also helped the team along to a terrific victory.

Well, what can you say about Fitzroy? I think it's only a matter of time....(i will abstain from editorialising here :-)) Anyway, it was the perfect start to the season, giving players who had come back from all sorts of operations over the summer a chance to strike form before we hit any real opposition. It also gave us a mammoth percentage to start the year off with - one concern we had at the game was that we wouldn't have a percentage due to the fact that Fitzroy hadn't scored up until the third quarter, oh well.

Standing after Round 1:

Essendon stands on the top of the ladder (not surprising given the opposition), with the first four points of the year and a percentage of 294.7. The ladder was as follows:

--------------P-W-L-D-For-Agst--%---Pts
ESSENDON......1 1 - - 112  38  294.7 4
HAWTHORN......1 1 - - 127  70  181.4 4
WEST COAST....1 1 - - 121  75  161.3 4
CARLTON.......1 1 - - 95   66  143.9 4
FOOTSCRAY.....1 1 - - 102  85  120.0 4
GEELONG.......1 1 - - 87   73  119.2 4
RICHMOND......1 1 - - 90   85  105.9 4
NORTH MELB....1 1 - - 79   76  103.9 4
Adelaide......1 - 1 - 76   79   96.2 -
Fremantle.....1 - 1 - 85   90   94.4 -
Melbourne.....1 - 1 - 73   87   83.9 -
Sydney........1 - 1 - 85   102  83.3 -
Collingwood...1 - 1 - 66   95   69.5 -
St Kilda......1 - 1 - 75   121  62.0 -
Brisbane......1 - 1 - 70   127  55.1 -
Fitzroy.......1 - 1 - 38   112  33.9 -

Next Week:

We take on Fremantle over there for their first ever home game. The unknown quantity may be a factor here, but I feel confident that the Bombers will triumph again.

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