2014 AFL Season Round 1: North Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 21 March 2014 between North Melbourne and Essendon during round one of the 2014 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Essendon at Etihad Stadium. Jobe Watson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Mark Thompson.

North Melbourne (9.6.60) were defeated by Essendon (15.9.99).

Match Details

Season: 2014 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Friday 21 March 2014
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 42,332

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 9.6.60 - 15.9.99

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	3	.	0	5	.	3	8	.	5	9	.	6	9	.	6	(60)
Essendon	4	.	1	8	.	5	11	.	8	15	.	9	15	.	9	(99)
Margin	ESSE by 7			ESSE by 20			ESSE by 21			ESSE by 39			ESSE by 39
Duration	29:05			29:04			29:19			27:39			1:55:07

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: unknown
Coach: Brad Scott

Essendon

Captain: Jobe Watson
Coach: Mark Thompson

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Dalgleish (#7)
A. Mitchell (#31)
J. Mollison (#32)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	3
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	2
Paul Chapman	ESSE	3	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Brendon Goddard	ESSE	9	8	?	?	?	0	0
Cale Hooker	ESSE	26	8	?	?	?	0	0
Jobe Watson	ESSE	4	8	?	?	?	0	0
Paul Chapman	ESSE	3	2	0	0	0	1	0
Lindsay Thomas	NMLB	12	2	0	0	0	1	0
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	1	0	0	0	0	1
Heath Hocking	ESSE	39	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	SUB↑	31%	0	0	17	9	8	10	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	1
18	Atley, Shaun	HBFL	86%	0	0	18	9	9	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	4
3	Bastinac, Ryan	INT	78%	0	0	14	8	6	0	0	7	2	4	1	1	1	2
35	Black, Aaron	CHF	95%	1	0	7	3	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
10	Cunnington, Ben	HFFL	63%	0	0	16	11	5	2	0	7	7	0	1	0	4	3
15	Dal Santo, Nick	WR	77%	1	0	21	10	11	3	1	2	4	2	1	1	3	1
43	Gibson, Sam	INT	74%	0	0	14	6	8	3	0	4	0	2	0	0	1	0
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	90%	0	0	5	1	4	0	34	5	1	1	0	1	0	0
17	Grima, Nathan	FB	95%	0	0	10	6	4	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	5	0
6	Hansen, Lachlan	FPR	91%	0	0	11	3	8	3	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	1
29	Harvey, Brent	RO	85%	1	1	21	13	8	7	0	4	0	2	0	1	0	4
34	Macmillan, Jamie	HBFR	87%	0	0	23	11	12	4	0	2	1	3	0	1	5	1
21	McDonald, Luke	WL	82%	0	0	14	10	4	2	0	2	2	2	1	0	6	1
2	McKenzie, Brad	INT	69%	1	0	11	6	5	4	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	3
42	McMahon, Scott	BPR↓	79%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
41	Mullett, Aaron	BPL	91%	0	0	22	14	8	6	0	5	1	0	1	0	5	3
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	95%	0	0	3	3	0	2	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPL	92%	4	0	13	7	6	6	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3
16	Thompson, Scott	CHB	97%	0	0	17	9	8	7	0	1	0	1	1	1	3	1
8	Wells, Daniel	RR	77%	0	0	11	6	5	1	0	2	1	1	1	1	1	4
19	Wright, Sam	HFFR	96%	1	2	7	3	4	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	1
7	Ziebell, Jack	C	70%	0	0	12	9	3	2	0	3	6	2	0	2	1	2
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				9	6	291	159	132	73	44	63	30	30	9	11	42	40

L. Adams replaced S. McMahon.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
47	Ambrose, Patrick	INT	85%	0	0	10	4	6	3	0	6	1	2	0	0	0	1
12	Baguley, Mark	BPR	85%	0	1	18	11	7	9	2	2	1	0	0	0	3	0
22	Carlisle, Jake	CHF	91%	0	2	19	10	9	7	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3
3	Chapman, Paul	HFFL	69%	4	1	22	16	6	7	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	8
6	Daniher, Joe	FF	77%	2	0	11	9	2	6	1	3	0	3	1	1	0	2
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	84%	0	0	15	13	2	9	0	1	1	2	0	2	5	1
35	Gleeson, Martin	INT↓	56%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
9	Goddard, Brendon	RR	87%	3	2	26	15	11	3	0	6	5	1	2	1	2	7
34	Hardingham, Kyle	FPR	88%	2	0	17	12	5	9	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	1
21	Heppell, Dyson	BPL	92%	0	0	37	24	13	16	0	1	2	2	0	0	2	1
1	Hibberd, Michael	HBFL	84%	0	0	23	19	4	9	0	1	1	2	0	0	3	3
39	Hocking, Heath	WR	80%	0	0	15	5	10	2	0	3	4	0	0	0	0	1
26	Hooker, Cale	HBFR	92%	0	0	26	17	9	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1
40	Howlett, Ben	HFFR	88%	1	1	19	11	8	5	0	9	4	1	0	0	0	3
18	Hurley, Michael	CHB	94%	0	0	19	14	5	10	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	1
20	Merrett, Jackson	INT	90%	0	0	24	16	8	9	0	5	1	1	0	0	1	6
27	Merrett, Zach	SUB↑	27%	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0
23	Myers, David	WL	82%	0	0	27	15	12	5	1	6	7	2	0	2	0	4
30	Ryder, Paddy	RU	87%	1	1	11	7	4	3	34	0	4	3	1	1	1	2
5	Stanton, Brent	RO	89%	0	0	20	13	7	8	0	2	4	2	2	0	2	1
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	C	85%	2	0	38	21	17	9	0	3	7	1	5	0	0	6
11	Zaharakis, David	FPL	88%	0	0	28	20	8	5	0	2	3	3	1	0	3	8
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				15	9	450	286	164	159	38	57	52	31	12	9	29	60

Z. Merrett replaced M. Gleeson during the third quarter.

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
	21	D. Heppell	31	D. Fletcher	12	M. Baguley	22	T. Goldstein	3	R. Bastinac
	6	L. Hansen	20	D. Petrie	12	L. Thomas	8	D. Wells	43	S. Gibson
FORWARD							29	B. Harvey	2	B. McKenzie
HALF-BACK									13	L. Adams
	1	M. Hibberd	18	M. Hurley	26	C. Hooker
	19	S. Wright	35	A. Black	10	B. Cunnington
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	23	D. Myers	4	J. Watson (c)	39	H. Hocking
	15	N. Dal Santo	7	J. Ziebell	21	L. McDonald	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							30	P. Ryder	47	P. Ambrose
HALF-FORWARD							9	B. Goddard	35	M. Gleeson
	3	P. Chapman	22	J. Carlisle	40	B. Howlett	5	B. Stanton	20	J. Merrett
	34	J. Macmillan	16	S. Thompson	18	S. Atley			27	Z. Merrett
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	11	D. Zaharakis	6	J. Daniher	34	K. Hardingham
	42	S. McMahon	17	N. Grima	41	A. Mullett
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Mark Thompson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Paul Chapman goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	04:08
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	07:38
	ESSE	Paul Chapman goal	0.0.0	-	3.0.18	10:39
	ESSE	Ben Howlett goal	0.0.0	-	4.0.24	12:14
	NMLB	Sam Wright goal	1.0.6	-	4.0.24	18:25
	ESSE	Rushed behind	1.0.6	-	4.1.25	21:40
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	2.0.12	-	4.1.25	23:29
	NMLB	Nick Dal Santo goal	3.0.18	-	4.1.25	26:07
Q2	ESSE	Paddy Ryder behind	3.0.18	-	4.2.26	01:33
	ESSE	Kyle Hardingham goal	3.0.18	-	5.2.32	02:31
	NMLB	Rushed behind	3.1.19	-	5.2.32	03:39
	NMLB	Aaron Black goal	4.1.25	-	5.2.32	06:54
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	5.1.31	-	5.2.32	10:10
	NMLB	Sam Wright behind	5.2.32	-	5.2.32	11:31
	NMLB	Sam Wright behind	5.3.33	-	5.2.32	12:21
	ESSE	Ben Howlett behind	5.3.33	-	5.3.33	15:39
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard goal	5.3.33	-	6.3.39	19:07
	ESSE	Kyle Hardingham goal	5.3.33	-	7.3.45	21:04
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	5.3.33	-	8.3.51	24:48
	ESSE	Jake Carlisle behind	5.3.33	-	8.4.52	25:46
	ESSE	Mark Baguley behind	5.3.33	-	8.5.53	26:55
Q3	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	6.3.39	-	8.5.53	01:56
	ESSE	Paul Chapman goal	6.3.39	-	9.5.59	05:13
	ESSE	Paul Chapman behind	6.3.39	-	9.6.60	10:15
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	6.3.39	-	10.6.66	12:32
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	7.3.45	-	10.6.66	15:11
	ESSE	Jake Carlisle behind	7.3.45	-	10.7.67	17:38
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard goal	7.3.45	-	11.7.73	19:18
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard behind	7.3.45	-	11.8.74	21:45
	NMLB	Rushed behind	7.4.46	-	11.8.74	22:29
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	8.4.52	-	11.8.74	24:52
	NMLB	Brent Harvey behind	8.5.53	-	11.8.74	28:43
Q4	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	8.5.53	-	12.8.80	03:56
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	8.5.53	-	13.8.86	08:37
	ESSE	Paul Chapman goal	8.5.53	-	14.8.92	14:12
	NMLB	Rushed behind	8.6.54	-	14.8.92	15:44
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard goal	8.6.54	-	15.8.98	17:29
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard behind	8.6.54	-	15.9.99	18:25
	NMLB	Brad McKenzie goal	9.6.60	-	15.9.99	20:04

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