2012 AFL Round 3: Gold Coast v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 14 April 2012 between Gold Coast and Essendon during round 3 of the 2012 AFL season. Gold Coast hosted Essendon at Metricon Stadium. Gary Ablett captained the hosts. Jobe Watson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Guy McKenna and the visitors were coached by James Hird.

Gold Coast
Back: J. Brennan, M. Warnock, S. Tape
Half-back: M. Shaw, N. Bock, J. Harbrow
Centre: J. Caddy, D. Prestia, M. Rischitelli
Half-forward: L. Russell, T. Lynch, H. Bennell
Forward: J. Fraser, S. Day, A. Hall
Follower: Z. Smith, D. Swallow, G. Ablett (capt.)
Int.: K. Hunt, B. Matera, M. Weller
Sub.: T. McKenzie

Essendon
Back: C. Dempsey, D. Fletcher, J. Carlisle
Half-back: K. Hardingham, T. Pears, D. Heppell
Centre: M. Hibberd, J. Watson (capt.), B. Stanton
Half-forward: S. Crameri, M. Hurley, K. Reimers
Forward: D. Zaharakis, P. Ryder, L. Jetta
Follower: T. Bellchambers, H. Hocking, J. Melksham
Int.: A. Davey, B. Howlett, A. Monfries
Sub.: R. Dyson

Gold Coast (13.10.88) were defeated by Essendon (15.15.105).

Goalkickers
Gold Coast: G. Ablett (2), N. Bock (2), A. Hall (2), J. Brennan, J. Caddy, J. Harbrow, B. Matera, M. Rischitelli, L. Russell, M. Shaw
Essendon: S. Crameri (4), M. Hurley (2), L. Jetta (2), P. Ryder (2), J. Watson (2), T. Bellchambers, A. Davey, K. Reimers

As a result of this match, Gold Coast were then 16th on the ladder (up from 17th) and Essendon were then 4th on the ladder (up from 5th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Gold Coast v Essendon
Date: Saturday 14 April 2012
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: Metricon Stadium
Attendance: 17,069

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. by Essendon
Score: 13.10.88 - 15.15.105

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Gold Coast	2	.	3	7	.	5	12	.	7	13	.	10	13	.	10	(88)
Essendon	5	.	6	7	.	10	10	.	12	15	.	15	15	.	15	(105)
Margin	ESSE by 21			ESSE by 5			GCST by 7			ESSE by 17			ESSE by 17
Duration	31:47			29:24			31:59			29:59			2:03:09

Honour Roll

Coaches: Guy McKenna (Gold Coast), James Hird (Essendon)
Captains: Gary Ablett (Gold Coast), Jobe Watson (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: B. Ritchie (#5), B. Ryan (#27), S. Stewart (#10), E: B. Kronk (#40)
Goal Umpire: S. Apted, T. Mavroudis, E: T. Symes
Boundary Umpire: A. Deckys, N. Liparota, S. Thiele, N. Wade

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Gary Ablett	GCST	9	3
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	2
Stewart Crameri	ESSE	12	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Gary Ablett	GCST	9	10	2	0	0	0	0
Stewart Crameri	ESSE	12	7	0	1	1	0	0
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	5	0	1	0	0	1
Nathan Bock	GCST	44	3	0	0	1	0	0
Michael Hibberd	ESSE	43	2	0	0	0	1	0
Seb Tape	GCST	48	2	0	0	0	1	0
Karmichael Hunt	GCST	7	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ablett, Gary (c)	RO	89%	2	1	46	26	20	2	0	7	13	3	3	1	3	9
11	Bennell, Harley	HFFR	93%	0	0	13	3	10	1	0	4	2	2	0	0	1	1
44	Bock, Nathan	CHB	96%	2	0	18	16	2	5	0	2	1	5	0	3	4	4
3	Brennan, Jared	BPL	97%	1	0	18	12	6	2	0	2	1	7	2	4	7	0
28	Caddy, Josh	WL	86%	1	0	16	11	5	3	0	2	1	4	1	1	1	3
12	Day, Sam	FF↓	48%	0	0	3	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Fraser, Josh	FPL	85%	0	2	18	12	6	2	16	1	6	6	1	0	2	0
33	Hall, Aaron	FPR	84%	2	1	12	11	1	3	0	3	2	4	0	1	0	5
5	Harbrow, Jarrod	HBFR	69%	1	1	16	11	5	3	0	5	0	1	0	0	2	0
7	Hunt, Karmichael	INT	63%	0	0	16	2	14	2	0	1	4	2	1	2	0	1
19	Lynch, Tom	CHF	70%	0	0	12	6	6	4	0	1	1	4	0	2	2	0
32	Matera, Brandon	INT	78%	1	1	16	12	4	4	0	5	0	1	2	0	0	5
18	McKenzie, Trent	SUB↑	36%	0	1	9	6	3	3	0	2	1	2	1	1	0	2
41	Prestia, Dion	C	73%	0	0	18	7	11	1	0	7	1	2	2	1	0	5
35	Rischitelli, Michael	WR	77%	1	0	14	8	6	1	0	11	2	1	1	1	2	3
8	Russell, Luke	HFFL	77%	1	0	10	6	4	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	1	1
26	Shaw, Matt	HBFL	79%	1	0	18	11	7	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3
2	Smith, Zac	RU	81%	0	0	18	7	11	2	18	1	3	2	0	0	1	2
24	Swallow, David	RR	75%	0	0	25	15	10	0	0	6	3	3	0	1	2	3
48	Tape, Seb	BPR	100%	0	0	21	6	15	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	1
14	Warnock, Matthew	FB	100%	0	0	11	5	6	3	0	3	0	6	1	5	1	0
4	Weller, Maverick	INT	92%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	4	0	3	0	2	1	0
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				13	10	357	197	160	52	34	72	41	63	18	25	33	48

T. McKenzie replaced S. Day.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
44	Bellchambers, Tom	RU	94%	1	1	12	6	6	3	33	3	1	2	0	1	1	1
22	Carlisle, Jake	BPR	89%	0	0	7	5	2	0	0	2	1	1	2	1	0	0
12	Crameri, Stewart	HFFL	93%	4	2	17	10	7	5	0	5	0	1	4	1	0	2
29	Davey, Alwyn	INT	69%	1	3	12	7	5	1	0	4	0	3	2	3	0	2
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	BPL↓	20%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	Dyson, Ricky	SUB↑	63%	0	1	14	11	3	5	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	2
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	100%	0	0	21	18	3	7	0	0	0	1	1	1	6	0
34	Hardingham, Kyle	HBFL	99%	0	0	14	13	1	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	5	2
21	Heppell, Dyson	HBFR	87%	0	0	21	12	9	2	0	3	3	0	1	0	2	2
43	Hibberd, Michael	WL	96%	0	0	25	15	10	6	0	2	1	4	3	0	4	4
39	Hocking, Heath	RR	80%	0	2	20	9	11	1	0	6	4	5	1	3	1	2
40	Howlett, Ben	INT	76%	0	0	26	13	13	1	0	5	7	2	0	1	3	3
18	Hurley, Michael	CHF	98%	2	1	14	10	4	3	0	0	0	2	4	1	1	3
7	Jetta, Leroy	FPR	80%	2	1	24	12	12	5	0	2	0	4	2	2	0	4
17	Melksham, Jake	RO	78%	0	1	12	8	4	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	3	0
6	Monfries, Angus	INT	80%	0	0	28	16	12	5	0	1	1	4	2	0	0	8
16	Pears, Tayte	CHB	92%	0	0	24	13	11	6	0	4	0	1	1	0	1	3
37	Reimers, Kyle	HFFR	67%	1	0	7	6	1	3	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	3
30	Ryder, Paddy	FF	98%	2	0	17	8	9	7	11	2	1	2	0	1	0	1
5	Stanton, Brent	WR	84%	0	0	20	12	8	4	0	8	4	2	0	1	3	5
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	C	73%	2	0	25	13	12	1	0	5	8	2	2	2	2	5
11	Zaharakis, David	FPL	79%	0	1	12	4	8	2	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	3
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				15	15	375	222	153	77	44	68	36	39	25	18	33	56

R. Dyson replaced C. Dempsey.

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

Gold Coast							Coach: Guy McKenna
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	15	C. Dempsey	31	D. Fletcher	22	J. Carlisle	2	Z. Smith	7	K. Hunt
	33	A. Hall	12	S. Day	17	J. Fraser	24	D. Swallow	32	B. Matera
FORWARD							9	G. Ablett (c)	4	M. Weller
HALF-BACK									18	T. McKenzie
	34	K. Hardingham	16	T. Pears	21	D. Heppell
	11	H. Bennell	19	T. Lynch	8	L. Russell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	43	M. Hibberd	4	J. Watson (c)	5	B. Stanton
	35	M. Rischitelli	41	D. Prestia	28	J. Caddy	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							44	T. Bellchambers	29	A. Davey
HALF-FORWARD							39	H. Hocking	40	B. Howlett
	12	S. Crameri	18	M. Hurley	37	K. Reimers	17	J. Melksham	6	A. Monfries
	5	J. Harbrow	44	N. Bock	26	M. Shaw			2	R. Dyson
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	11	D. Zaharakis	30	P. Ryder	7	L. Jetta
	48	S. Tape	14	M. Warnock	3	J. Brennan
BACK
Essendon							Coach: James Hird

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Jared Brennan goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:58
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:41
	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	04:17
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	1.0.6	-	3.0.18	07:22
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta behind	1.0.6	-	3.1.19	09:51
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey behind	1.0.6	-	3.2.20	11:10
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	1.0.6	-	4.2.26	12:29
	ESSE	Heath Hocking behind	1.0.6	-	4.3.27	16:00
	GCST	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	4.3.27	17:26
	ESSE	Kyle Reimers goal	1.1.7	-	5.3.33	18:46
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri behind	1.1.7	-	5.4.34	21:38
	ESSE	Jake Melksham behind	1.1.7	-	5.5.35	23:53
	GCST	Josh Fraser behind	1.2.8	-	5.5.35	24:59
	GCST	Gary Ablett behind	1.3.9	-	5.5.35	26:46
	GCST	Josh Caddy goal	2.3.15	-	5.5.35	28:38
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	5.6.36	31:24
Q2	ESSE	Alwyn Davey behind	2.3.15	-	5.7.37	01:58
	GCST	Gary Ablett goal	3.3.21	-	5.7.37	05:39
	GCST	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	5.7.37	06:59
	ESSE	Heath Hocking behind	3.4.22	-	5.8.38	08:29
	GCST	Aaron Hall goal	4.4.28	-	5.8.38	09:16
	GCST	Brandon Matera goal	5.4.34	-	5.8.38	12:15
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	5.4.34	-	6.8.44	13:36
	GCST	Gary Ablett goal	6.4.40	-	6.8.44	15:10
	GCST	Aaron Hall behind	6.5.41	-	6.8.44	16:33
	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers behind	6.5.41	-	6.9.45	17:46
	ESSE	Ricky Dyson behind	6.5.41	-	6.10.46	18:34
	GCST	Jarrod Harbrow goal	7.5.47	-	6.10.46	23:46
	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	7.5.47	-	7.10.52	27:39
Q3	ESSE	Alwyn Davey behind	7.5.47	-	7.11.53	01:48
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	7.5.47	-	8.11.59	04:28
	GCST	Nathan Bock goal	8.5.53	-	8.11.59	06:09
	GCST	Nathan Bock goal	9.5.59	-	8.11.59	10:41
	GCST	Luke Russell goal	10.5.65	-	8.11.59	12:22
	GCST	Josh Fraser behind	10.6.66	-	8.11.59	15:11
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	10.6.66	-	9.11.65	18:12
	GCST	Jarrod Harbrow behind	10.7.67	-	9.11.65	22:12
	GCST	Michael Rischitelli goal	11.7.73	-	9.11.65	23:12
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.7.73	-	9.12.66	25:06
	GCST	Aaron Hall goal	12.7.79	-	9.12.66	26:00
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	12.7.79	-	10.12.72	28:52
Q4	ESSE	Michael Hurley goal	12.7.79	-	11.12.78	01:03
	ESSE	Michael Hurley behind	12.7.79	-	11.13.79	03:41
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri goal	12.7.79	-	12.13.85	05:23
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	12.7.79	-	13.13.91	10:33
	GCST	Matt Shaw goal	13.7.85	-	13.13.91	12:04
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	13.7.85	-	14.13.97	13:07
	ESSE	Stewart Crameri behind	13.7.85	-	14.14.98	14:57
	GCST	Trent McKenzie behind	13.8.86	-	14.14.98	22:01
	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	13.8.86	-	14.15.99	23:44
	GCST	Rushed behind	13.9.87	-	14.15.99	24:21
	ESSE	Leroy Jetta goal	13.9.87	-	15.15.105	26:56
	GCST	Brandon Matera behind	13.10.88	-	15.15.105	29:02

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