2012 AFL Round 2: Essendon v Port Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 7 April 2012 between Essendon and Port Adelaide during round 2 of the 2012 AFL season. Essendon hosted Port Adelaide at Etihad Stadium. Jobe Watson captained the hosts. Dom Cassisi captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by James Hird and the visitors were coached by Matthew Primus.

Essendon
Back: C. Dempsey, T. Pears, M. Hibberd
Half-back: K. Hardingham, D. Fletcher, J. Carlisle
Centre: D. Heppell, J. Watson (capt.), J. Melksham
Half-forward: S. Crameri, D. Hille, L. Jetta
Forward: A. Monfries, M. Hurley, D. Zaharakis
Follower: P. Ryder, B. Howlett, B. Stanton
Int.: N. Lovett-Murray, M. McVeigh, D. Myers
Sub.: S. Lonergan

Port Adelaide
Back: J. Trengove, A. Carlile, J. Surjan
Half-back: D. Pearce, T. Chaplin, B. Jacobs
Centre: K. Cornes, D. Cassisi (capt.), J. McCarthy
Half-forward: T. Boak, J. Schulz, H. Hartlett
Forward: C. Wingard, D. Stewart, J. Westhoff
Follower: J. Redden, B. Ebert, D. Rodan
Int.: M. Broadbent, P. Stewart, M. Thomas
Sub.: C. O'Shea

Essendon (16.15.111) defeated Port Adelaide (13.8.86).

Goalkickers
Essendon: L. Jetta (4), S. Crameri (3), B. Stanton (2), J. Carlisle, C. Dempsey, D. Hille, B. Howlett, M. Hurley, A. Monfries, D. Zaharakis
Port Adelaide: J. Schulz (4), J. Westhoff (3), B. Ebert, J. McCarthy, J. Redden, P. Stewart, M. Thomas, C. Wingard

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 5th on the ladder (up from 9th) and Port Adelaide were then 12th on the ladder (down from 7th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Essendon v Port Adelaide
Date: Saturday 7 April 2012
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 34,118

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Port Adelaide
Score: 16.15.111 - 13.8.86

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	5	.	2	10	.	6	11	.	13	16	.	15	16	.	15	(111)
Port Adelaide	5	.	2	7	.	3	12	.	5	13	.	8	13	.	8	(86)
Margin	level			ESSE by 21			ESSE by 2			ESSE by 25			ESSE by 25
Duration	33:11			30:17			29:35			29:00			2:02:03

Honour Roll

Coaches: James Hird (Essendon), Matthew Primus (Port Adelaide)
Captains: Jobe Watson (Essendon), Dom Cassisi (Port Adelaide)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: J. Armstrong (#26), C. Donlon (#1), B. Ritchie (#5), E: R. Findlay (#23)
Goal Umpire: C. Appleton, S. Williams, E: L. Walker
Boundary Umpire: C. Bull, C. Esler, J. Moore, C. Roberts

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	3
Dom Cassisi	PADL	1	2
Dustin Fletcher	ESSE	31	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Paddy Ryder	ESSE	30	10	2	0	0	0	0
Brent Stanton	ESSE	5	7	0	1	1	0	0
Dustin Fletcher	ESSE	31	4	0	1	0	0	0
Courtenay Dempsey	ESSE	15	3	0	0	1	0	0
Kane Cornes	PADL	18	2	0	0	0	1	0
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	2	0	0	0	1	0
Ben Howlett	ESSE	40	1	0	0	0	0	1
Jay Schulz	PADL	28	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
22	Carlisle, Jake	HBFR	92%	1	0	11	7	4	5	0	4	1	2	2	0	1	1
12	Crameri, Stewart	HFFL	89%	3	1	15	8	7	4	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	4
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	BPL	98%	1	0	23	16	7	6	0	2	2	2	0	0	2	3
31	Fletcher, Dustin	CHB	100%	0	0	14	12	2	5	0	3	0	1	1	0	8	0
34	Hardingham, Kyle	HBFL	93%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	0	0	4	0	2	2	0
21	Heppell, Dyson	WL	85%	0	0	17	10	7	7	1	5	0	1	1	0	1	0
43	Hibberd, Michael	BPR	97%	0	0	20	13	7	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	4	3
19	Hille, David	CHF↓	11%	1	0	2	1	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Howlett, Ben	RR	81%	1	1	15	11	4	2	0	13	6	3	2	3	1	5
18	Hurley, Michael	FF	93%	1	3	17	11	6	9	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	3
7	Jetta, Leroy	HFFR	83%	4	1	15	13	2	6	0	1	0	1	2	1	1	4
14	Lonergan, Sam	SUB↑	65%	0	0	8	4	4	2	0	4	3	2	0	1	0	1
42	Lovett-Murray, Nathan	INT	54%	0	3	18	12	6	5	1	1	4	6	0	2	0	3
10	McVeigh, Mark	INT	89%	0	0	13	8	5	7	0	1	0	5	0	2	0	3
17	Melksham, Jake	WR	77%	0	1	18	13	5	5	0	3	3	5	1	2	0	7
6	Monfries, Angus	FPL	83%	1	2	21	13	8	7	0	5	2	1	4	0	1	7
23	Myers, David	INT	68%	0	0	7	6	1	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	2
16	Pears, Tayte	FB	93%	0	0	6	0	6	0	0	1	0	4	0	4	0	0
30	Ryder, Paddy	RU	95%	0	0	13	6	7	5	46	6	1	3	1	2	0	2
5	Stanton, Brent	RO	83%	2	1	25	21	4	5	0	5	3	2	3	2	2	3
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	C	84%	0	0	25	16	9	6	0	13	7	2	6	1	2	4
11	Zaharakis, David	FPR	85%	1	0	18	14	4	5	0	5	1	2	0	0	2	8
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				16	15	335	223	112	102	53	80	33	51	24	23	28	63

S. Lonergan replaced D. Hille.

Port Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Boak, Travis	HFFL	84%	0	0	19	16	3	2	0	1	1	7	0	4	0	8
5	Broadbent, Matthew	INT	80%	0	1	20	14	6	5	0	3	6	3	3	1	5	1
27	Carlile, Alipate	FB	93%	0	0	6	2	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
1	Cassisi, Dom (c)	C	78%	0	0	21	12	9	4	0	5	6	3	5	3	2	4
30	Chaplin, Troy	CHB	99%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	3	0	1	1	1	4	0
18	Cornes, Kane	WL	88%	0	0	27	18	9	9	0	2	3	5	0	2	3	5
7	Ebert, Brad	RR	87%	1	0	19	10	9	6	0	2	3	0	2	0	5	1
8	Hartlett, Hamish	HFFR	88%	0	1	17	9	8	4	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	2
16	Jacobs, Ben	HBFR	89%	0	0	14	8	6	4	0	2	1	5	0	0	4	1
35	McCarthy, John	WR	88%	1	1	20	10	10	3	0	3	3	3	0	1	1	3
13	O'Shea, Cam	SUB↑	39%	0	0	6	2	4	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1
6	Pearce, Danyle	HBFL	90%	0	0	21	12	9	1	0	3	0	3	0	0	7	2
34	Redden, Jarrad	RU	71%	1	0	11	3	8	2	18	1	4	5	1	4	0	0
15	Rodan, David	RO	81%	0	0	19	9	10	5	0	1	7	4	1	1	4	3
28	Schulz, Jay	CHF	96%	4	1	14	11	3	7	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	2
43	Stewart, Daniel	FF	86%	0	0	8	5	3	2	6	0	3	3	1	0	0	1
14	Stewart, Paul	INT	73%	1	1	17	8	9	5	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	2
9	Surjan, Jacob	BPR	92%	0	0	17	5	12	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
21	Thomas, Matt	INT	81%	1	0	9	2	7	1	0	7	1	4	0	3	1	0
12	Trengove, Jackson	BPL	85%	0	0	15	9	6	4	1	5	1	1	1	0	3	2
39	Westhoff, Justin	FPR	93%	3	0	15	11	4	8	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	5
20	Wingard, Chad	FPL↓	39%	1	1	7	5	2	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				13	8	332	187	145	82	25	48	41	56	23	24	42	45

C. O'Shea replaced C. Wingard.

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

Essendon							Coach: James Hird
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	12	J. Trengove	27	A. Carlile	9	J. Surjan	30	P. Ryder	42	N. Lovett-Murray
	11	D. Zaharakis	18	M. Hurley	6	A. Monfries	40	B. Howlett	10	M. McVeigh
FORWARD							5	B. Stanton	23	D. Myers
HALF-BACK									14	S. Lonergan
	6	D. Pearce	30	T. Chaplin	16	B. Jacobs
	7	L. Jetta	19	D. Hille	12	S. Crameri
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	18	K. Cornes	1	D. Cassisi (c)	35	J. McCarthy
	17	J. Melksham	4	J. Watson (c)	21	D. Heppell	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							34	J. Redden	5	M. Broadbent
HALF-FORWARD							7	B. Ebert	14	P. Stewart
	10	T. Boak	28	J. Schulz	8	H. Hartlett	15	D. Rodan	21	M. Thomas
	22	J. Carlisle	31	D. Fletcher	34	K. Hardingham			13	C. O'Shea
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	20	C. Wingard	43	D. Stewart	39	J. Westhoff
	43	M. Hibberd	16	T. Pears	15	C. Dempsey
BACK
Port Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Primus

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	David Hille goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	03:46
	PADL	Jay Schulz goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	07:15
	PADL	John McCarthy goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	09:30
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta behind	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	10:31
	PADL	Hamish Hartlett behind	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	11:22
	PADL	Chad Wingard goal	1.1.7	-	3.1.19	12:22
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	2.1.13	-	3.1.19	17:49
	ESSE	Brent Stanton behind	2.2.14	-	3.1.19	19:39
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	3.2.20	-	3.1.19	20:37
	PADL	Jarrad Redden goal	3.2.20	-	4.1.25	22:46
	PADL	Justin Westhoff goal	3.2.20	-	5.1.31	23:53
	PADL	Chad Wingard behind	3.2.20	-	5.2.32	27:04
	ESSE	Ben Howlett goal	4.2.26	-	5.2.32	28:21
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	5.2.32	-	5.2.32	31:20
Q2	PADL	John McCarthy behind	5.2.32	-	5.3.33	02:03
	PADL	Paul Stewart goal	5.2.32	-	6.3.39	04:54
	ESSE	Ben Howlett behind	5.3.33	-	6.3.39	13:40
	ESSE	Nathan Lovett-Murray behind	5.4.34	-	6.3.39	15:55
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri behind	5.5.35	-	6.3.39	17:21
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	6.5.41	-	6.3.39	18:47
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey goal	7.5.47	-	6.3.39	19:58
	PADL	Jay Schulz goal	7.5.47	-	7.3.45	22:17
	ESSE	David Zaharakis goal	8.5.53	-	7.3.45	23:19
	ESSE	Michael Hurley behind	8.6.54	-	7.3.45	25:06
	ESSE	Angus Monfries goal	9.6.60	-	7.3.45	26:24
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	10.6.66	-	7.3.45	28:49
Q3	PADL	Rushed behind	10.6.66	-	7.4.46	00:57
	ESSE	Angus Monfries behind	10.7.67	-	7.4.46	04:14
	ESSE	Angus Monfries behind	10.8.68	-	7.4.46	05:19
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.9.69	-	7.4.46	05:52
	ESSE	Michael Hurley behind	10.10.70	-	7.4.46	07:52
	PADL	Justin Westhoff goal	10.10.70	-	8.4.52	09:15
	PADL	Jay Schulz goal	10.10.70	-	9.4.58	11:10
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	11.10.76	-	9.4.58	16:15
	PADL	Matthew Broadbent behind	11.10.76	-	9.5.59	17:20
	PADL	Justin Westhoff goal	11.10.76	-	10.5.65	18:11
	PADL	Jay Schulz goal	11.10.76	-	11.5.71	20:00
	ESSE	Nathan Lovett-Murray behind	11.11.77	-	11.5.71	23:50
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.12.78	-	11.5.71	25:17
	ESSE	Nathan Lovett-Murray behind	11.13.79	-	11.5.71	26:20
	PADL	Brad Ebert goal	11.13.79	-	12.5.77	27:31
Q4	ESSE	Jake Carlisle goal	12.13.85	-	12.5.77	01:30
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	13.13.91	-	12.5.77	06:53
	PADL	Paul Stewart behind	13.13.91	-	12.6.78	08:34
	PADL	Matt Thomas goal	13.13.91	-	13.6.84	10:33
	ESSE	Michael Hurley behind	13.14.92	-	13.6.84	13:10
	ESSE	Jake Melksham behind	13.15.93	-	13.6.84	14:01
	PADL	Rushed behind	13.15.93	-	13.7.85	14:30
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	14.15.99	-	13.7.85	19:33
	PADL	Jay Schulz behind	14.15.99	-	13.8.86	21:20
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	15.15.105	-	13.8.86	22:54
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	16.15.111	-	13.8.86	26:21

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