2012 AFL Season Round 1: North Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 31 March 2012 between North Melbourne and Essendon during round one of the 2012 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Essendon at Etihad Stadium. Andrew Swallow captained the hosts. Jobe Watson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by James Hird.

North Melbourne (15.12.102) were defeated by Essendon (14.20.104).

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Saturday 31 March 2012
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 45,818

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 15.12.102 - 14.20.104

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 4 . 3 8 . 5 10 . 10 15 . 12 15 . 12 (102)
Essendon 3 . 2 9 . 8 13 . 14 14 . 20 14 . 20 (104)
Margin NMLB by 7 ESSE by 9 ESSE by 22 ESSE by 2 ESSE by 2
Duration 28:22 34:53 30:39 31:08 2:05:02

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (North Melbourne) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Essendon) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: Andrew Swallow
Coach: Brad Scott

Essendon

Captain: Jobe Watson
Coach: James Hird

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Armstrong (#26)
J. Bannister (#33)
M. Stevic (#9)
E: B. Hosking (#16)

Goal Umpires

D. Dixon
C. Lai
E: C. Roffey

Boundary Umpires

J. Bennison
T. Morrison
D. Tee
M. Tomkins

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Brent Stanton ESSE 5 3
Daniel Wells NMLB 8 2
Jobe Watson ESSE 4 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Brent Stanton ESSE 5 10 2 0 0 0 0
Paddy Ryder ESSE 30 7 0 1 1 0 0
Daniel Wells NMLB 8 6 0 1 0 1 0
Jobe Watson ESSE 4 3 0 0 1 0 0
Andrew Swallow NMLB 9 2 0 0 0 1 0
Michael Hibberd ESSE 43 1 0 0 0 0 1
David Hille ESSE 19 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
13 Adams, Leigh WL 79% 2 1 20 10 10 1 0 2 1 2 2 2 1 1
4 Anthony, Liam INT 77% 0 0 23 14 9 6 0 3 2 3 1 0 3 5
18 Atley, Shaun BPR 95% 0 0 16 8 8 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 4
3 Bastinac, Ryan INT 78% 0 0 18 6 12 1 0 3 1 5 3 0 1 1
33 Campbell, Matt SUB↑ 41% 0 0 8 4 4 2 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 3
10 Cunnington, Ben RR 62% 0 0 12 4 8 1 0 6 1 1 1 1 0 0
27 Edwards, Aaron INT 93% 2 0 11 8 3 5 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 1
11 Firrito, Michael CHB 97% 0 0 18 9 9 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 7 0
22 Goldstein, Todd RU 80% 0 0 10 5 5 1 18 4 2 3 0 2 1 4
23 Harper, Kieran HFFL 70% 1 1 15 9 6 3 0 2 0 1 4 1 0 4
29 Harvey, Brent RO 91% 3 0 22 11 11 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3
34 Macmillan, Jamie HBFR 79% 1 0 10 7 3 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 6
1 McIntosh, Hamish FPL 85% 1 1 11 7 4 5 10 0 3 3 1 2 0 3
42 McMahon, Scott BPL 97% 0 0 15 7 8 5 0 2 0 3 0 1 7 0
41 Mullett, Aaron HBFL 90% 0 0 12 4 8 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 1
20 Petrie, Drew FF 97% 2 1 13 7 6 6 1 3 2 3 5 1 1 3
9 Swallow, Andrew (c) C 75% 0 0 26 10 16 2 0 5 8 2 1 1 4 4
25 Tarrant, Robbie CHF↓ 45% 0 0 5 3 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
12 Thomas, Lindsay FPR 87% 2 2 19 18 1 7 0 6 0 6 1 1 1 6
16 Thompson, Scott FB 100% 0 0 15 8 7 9 0 5 0 4 3 2 4 0
8 Wells, Daniel HFFR 89% 1 2 26 21 5 5 1 0 3 3 0 1 3 5
19 Wright, Sam WR 94% 0 0 17 8 9 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0
Rushed 4
Total (22 players) 15 12 342 188 154 80 30 53 26 47 26 17 43 54

M. Campbell replaced R. Tarrant.

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
12 Crameri, Stewart HFFL 86% 0 5 20 11 9 6 0 0 1 5 0 3 0 6
15 Dempsey, Courtenay WR 94% 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 4 1 1 2 1 0 1
31 Fletcher, Dustin FB 89% 0 0 14 12 2 3 0 1 0 2 1 1 6 3
34 Hardingham, Kyle FPR 83% 0 0 6 3 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 2
21 Heppell, Dyson RO 83% 1 0 20 13 7 5 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3
43 Hibberd, Michael BPR 91% 0 0 15 10 5 10 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 1
19 Hille, David CHF 86% 1 1 19 13 6 10 10 0 1 3 1 1 1 2
39 Hocking, Heath RR↓ 8% 0 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 Hooker, Cale CHB 90% 0 0 13 8 5 4 0 0 0 3 0 3 2 1
40 Howlett, Ben INT 75% 0 0 19 9 10 1 0 8 2 3 1 1 0 5
18 Hurley, Michael FF 96% 2 1 11 6 5 6 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 2
7 Jetta, Leroy FPL 82% 1 3 14 10 4 2 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 4
42 Lovett-Murray, Nathan SUB↑ 68% 2 0 12 8 4 3 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 3
10 McVeigh, Mark BPL 92% 1 0 5 4 1 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1
17 Melksham, Jake HBFL 77% 2 1 16 12 4 6 1 3 4 6 1 2 0 1
6 Monfries, Angus INT 83% 0 1 14 6 8 4 0 5 0 1 1 1 1 3
23 Myers, David INT 80% 0 0 18 13 5 5 0 0 3 1 0 0 5 4
16 Pears, Tayte HBFR 93% 0 0 12 4 8 3 0 2 0 2 1 2 4 1
30 Ryder, Paddy RU 90% 1 1 20 13 7 9 33 3 2 3 2 2 3 2
5 Stanton, Brent WL 84% 2 0 36 27 9 7 0 5 8 2 4 0 5 9
4 Watson, Jobe (c) C 82% 1 1 28 15 13 10 0 1 5 3 1 1 4 3
11 Zaharakis, David HFFR 87% 0 2 25 18 7 3 0 6 8 3 0 1 1 10
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 14 20 353 225 128 105 44 46 40 56 17 26 35 67

N. Lovett-Murray replaced H. Hocking.

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

North Melbourne Coach: Brad Scott
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
10 M. McVeigh 31 D. Fletcher 43 M. Hibberd 22 T. Goldstein 4 L. Anthony
12 L. Thomas 20 D. Petrie 1 H. McIntosh 10 B. Cunnington 3 R. Bastinac
FORWARD 29 B. Harvey 27 A. Edwards
HALF-BACK

33 M. Campbell
17 J. Melksham 26 C. Hooker 16 T. Pears



8 D. Wells 25 R. Tarrant 23 K. Harper



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



5 B. Stanton 4 J. Watson (c) 15 C. Dempsey



19 S. Wright 9 A. Swallow (c) 13 L. Adams FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 30 P. Ryder 40 B. Howlett
HALF-FORWARD 39 H. Hocking 6 A. Monfries
12 S. Crameri 19 D. Hille 11 D. Zaharakis 21 D. Heppell 23 D. Myers
34 J. Macmillan 11 M. Firrito 41 A. Mullett

42 N. Lovett-Murray
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



7 L. Jetta 18 M. Hurley 34 K. Hardingham



18 S. Atley 16 S. Thompson 42 S. McMahon



BACK



Essendon Coach: James Hird

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 NMLB Lindsay Thomas behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 01:50
ESSE Leroy Jetta goal 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 04:09
ESSE Heath Hocking behind 0.1.1 - 1.1.7 05:19
NMLB Drew Petrie behind 0.2.2 - 1.1.7 06:18
NMLB Daniel Wells behind 0.3.3 - 1.1.7 06:52
NMLB Leigh Adams goal 1.3.9 - 1.1.7 08:16
ESSE Paddy Ryder goal 1.3.9 - 2.1.13 10:45
NMLB Kieran Harper goal 2.3.15 - 2.1.13 12:48
ESSE Dyson Heppell goal 2.3.15 - 3.1.19 13:54
NMLB Drew Petrie goal 3.3.21 - 3.1.19 19:59
NMLB Leigh Adams goal 4.3.27 - 3.1.19 24:06
ESSE Stewart Crameri behind 4.3.27 - 3.2.20 25:49
Q2 ESSE Stewart Crameri behind 4.3.27 - 3.3.21 03:59
ESSE Jake Melksham goal 4.3.27 - 4.3.27 05:41
NMLB Brent Harvey goal 5.3.33 - 4.3.27 07:04
NMLB Drew Petrie goal 6.3.39 - 4.3.27 08:12
ESSE Jobe Watson behind 6.3.39 - 4.4.28 10:13
ESSE David Zaharakis behind 6.3.39 - 4.5.29 11:10
NMLB Brent Harvey goal 7.3.45 - 4.5.29 12:14
NMLB Kieran Harper behind 7.4.46 - 4.5.29 13:44
ESSE David Hille behind 7.4.46 - 4.6.30 14:54
ESSE Nathan Lovett-Murray goal 7.4.46 - 5.6.36 15:59
ESSE Michael Hurley goal 7.4.46 - 6.6.42 17:39
NMLB Lindsay Thomas goal 8.4.52 - 6.6.42 20:38
NMLB Lindsay Thomas behind 8.5.53 - 6.6.42 25:30
ESSE Stewart Crameri behind 8.5.53 - 6.7.43 27:14
ESSE Brent Stanton goal 8.5.53 - 7.7.49 27:59
ESSE Nathan Lovett-Murray goal 8.5.53 - 8.7.55 29:42
ESSE Mark McVeigh goal 8.5.53 - 9.7.61 32:08
ESSE Paddy Ryder behind 8.5.53 - 9.8.62 34:46
Q3 NMLB Hamish McIntosh goal 9.5.59 - 9.8.62 00:52
NMLB Leigh Adams behind 9.6.60 - 9.8.62 04:47
NMLB Lindsay Thomas goal 10.6.66 - 9.8.62 07:17
ESSE David Zaharakis behind 10.6.66 - 9.9.63 10:25
ESSE Michael Hurley goal 10.6.66 - 10.9.69 11:38
ESSE Leroy Jetta behind 10.6.66 - 10.10.70 13:18
ESSE Jobe Watson goal 10.6.66 - 11.10.76 14:17
ESSE David Hille goal 10.6.66 - 12.10.82 15:23
ESSE Jake Melksham behind 10.6.66 - 12.11.83 17:10
NMLB Rushed behind 10.7.67 - 12.11.83 18:12
ESSE Stewart Crameri behind 10.7.67 - 12.12.84 19:43
NMLB Rushed behind 10.8.68 - 12.12.84 21:20
NMLB Rushed behind 10.9.69 - 12.12.84 23:10
NMLB Daniel Wells behind 10.10.70 - 12.12.84 24:18
ESSE Brent Stanton goal 10.10.70 - 13.12.90 25:37
ESSE Leroy Jetta behind 10.10.70 - 13.13.91 26:33
ESSE Rushed behind 10.10.70 - 13.14.92 29:54
Q4 ESSE Rushed behind 10.10.70 - 13.15.93 01:58
NMLB Jamie Macmillan goal 11.10.76 - 13.15.93 03:48
ESSE Angus Monfries behind 11.10.76 - 13.16.94 06:46
ESSE Stewart Crameri behind 11.10.76 - 13.17.95 08:31
ESSE Jake Melksham goal 11.10.76 - 14.17.101 09:57
NMLB Brent Harvey goal 12.10.82 - 14.17.101 11:49
ESSE Michael Hurley behind 12.10.82 - 14.18.102 13:35
NMLB Aaron Edwards goal 13.10.88 - 14.18.102 15:47
ESSE Rushed behind 13.10.88 - 14.19.103 16:58
NMLB Daniel Wells goal 14.10.94 - 14.19.103 17:38
ESSE Leroy Jetta behind 14.10.94 - 14.20.104 19:57
NMLB Aaron Edwards goal 15.10.100 - 14.20.104 22:38
NMLB Rushed behind 15.11.101 - 14.20.104 28:05
NMLB Hamish McIntosh behind 15.12.102 - 14.20.104 30:57