2015 AFL Season Round 1: Sydney v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 4 April 2015 between Sydney and Essendon during round one of the 2015 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Essendon at ANZ Stadium. Kieren Jack captained the hosts. Jobe Watson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by James Hird.

Sydney (10.12.72) defeated Essendon (9.6.60).

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Sydney v Essendon
Date: Saturday 4 April 2015
Time: 4:35 PM
Venue: ANZ Stadium
Attendance: 23,274

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Essendon
Score: 10.12.72 - 9.6.60

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	0	.	1	1	.	7	3	.	8	10	.	12	10	.	12	(72)
Essendon	4	.	3	5	.	5	9	.	6	9	.	6	9	.	6	(60)
Margin	ESSE by 26			ESSE by 22			ESSE by 34			SYDN by 12			SYDN by 12
Duration	31:05			31:21			32:25			38:43			2:13:34

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: Kieren Jack
Coach: John Longmire

Essendon

Captain: Jobe Watson
Coach: James Hird

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Armstrong (#26)
R. Chamberlain (#18)
J. Dalgleish (#7)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Ben Howlett	ESSE	40	3
Kieren Jack	SYDN	15	2
Kurt Tippett	SYDN	8	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Luke Parker	SYDN	26	8	?	?	?	0	0
Kieren Jack	SYDN	15	7	?	?	?	?	0
Josh Kennedy	SYDN	12	6	0	?	?	?	0
Dan Hannebery	SYDN	4	5	?	0	?	?	0
Michael Hurley	ESSE	18	2	0	0	0	1	0
Lance Franklin	SYDN	23	1	0	0	0	0	1
Jake Melksham	ESSE	17	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Bird, Craig	WR	89%	2	0	20	11	9	3	0	3	3	4	2	2	0	3
7	Cunningham, Harry	WL	85%	0	0	17	5	12	3	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0
23	Franklin, Lance	FF	93%	3	1	12	9	3	1	0	4	2	7	3	5	1	4
37	Goodes, Adam	HFFR↓	85%	0	1	9	4	5	2	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	2
39	Grundy, Heath	FB	93%	0	0	17	6	11	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	3
4	Hannebery, Dan	INT	74%	0	0	26	12	14	1	0	8	8	1	3	1	0	6
5	Heeney, Isaac	FPL	78%	1	2	17	13	4	3	0	7	3	2	0	0	0	7
15	Jack, Kieren (c)	RR	81%	1	2	29	17	12	5	0	3	6	3	0	2	2	6
32	Jetta, Lewis	HFFL	85%	0	0	15	12	3	2	0	3	2	3	0	1	2	3
12	Kennedy, Josh	C	90%	0	0	30	10	20	1	0	6	9	3	3	2	1	2
11	Laidler, Jeremy	INT	80%	1	0	22	11	11	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	4
44	Lloyd, Jake	SUB↑	7%	0	0	13	10	3	4	0	0	1	4	0	1	1	3
26	Parker, Luke	RO	63%	0	0	35	17	18	1	1	6	10	7	2	2	1	3
38	Pyke, Mike	INT	37%	0	0	5	5	0	0	37	5	3	3	2	3	0	2
24	Rampe, Dane	HBFL	85%	0	0	18	8	10	5	0	6	2	3	1	2	3	1
20	Reid, Sam	CHF	88%	0	0	9	3	6	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
25	Richards, Ted	CHB	94%	0	0	8	7	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	0
16	Rohan, Gary	HBFR	81%	0	1	15	9	6	4	0	0	0	3	0	2	4	2
2	Shaw, Rhyce	BPL	84%	0	0	17	13	4	2	0	2	0	5	0	1	3	2
40	Smith, Nick	BPR	95%	0	0	14	10	4	1	0	2	1	1	2	0	3	3
8	Tippett, Kurt	RU	85%	2	2	10	6	4	3	22	3	1	2	2	0	1	0
22	Towers, Dean	FPR	86%	0	0	16	6	10	1	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	3
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				10	12	374	204	170	50	66	71	55	57	24	25	32	60

J. Lloyd replaced A. Goodes during the fourth quarter.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Ambrose, Patrick	CHF	72%	0	0	11	3	8	3	2	11	2	2	0	2	0	2
12	Baguley, Mark	HBFL	92%	0	0	11	9	2	4	0	5	0	3	1	2	1	4
2	Bellchambers, Tom	RU	89%	0	1	8	3	5	2	37	0	2	1	2	1	0	0
22	Carlisle, Jake	FB	90%	0	0	4	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2
3	Chapman, Paul	RO	86%	0	0	18	12	6	4	0	3	3	2	1	0	1	4
32	Colyer, Travis	INT	67%	1	1	19	13	6	0	0	2	4	3	1	0	0	3
13	Cooney, Adam	HBFR	83%	3	1	13	9	4	1	0	2	4	2	2	2	0	1
6	Daniher, Joe	FF	73%	1	0	9	4	5	2	0	4	2	5	0	3	0	3
31	Fletcher, Dustin	BPR	91%	0	0	19	15	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
35	Gleeson, Martin	INT	63%	0	0	14	9	5	2	0	2	1	0	2	0	4	2
9	Goddard, Brendon	WR	86%	1	1	21	10	11	2	0	1	3	2	3	0	3	0
21	Heppell, Dyson	INT	72%	1	0	26	19	7	5	4	3	6	2	3	0	1	7
1	Hibberd, Michael	BPL	85%	0	0	18	13	5	3	0	1	1	2	0	0	3	0
26	Hooker, Cale	CHB	98%	0	1	19	13	6	7	1	0	0	0	1	0	7	2
40	Howlett, Ben	SUB↑	69%	0	0	19	10	9	1	0	12	7	2	3	1	1	3
18	Hurley, Michael	FPR	94%	0	0	19	16	3	5	0	1	0	4	2	2	7	1
17	Melksham, Jake	WL	92%	1	1	20	16	4	4	0	9	5	11	2	6	2	4
7	Merrett, Zach	HFFL	79%	0	0	17	11	6	2	0	5	1	1	2	0	1	2
23	Myers, David	FPL↓	3%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Stanton, Brent	C	92%	0	0	12	10	2	3	0	5	0	5	0	2	5	2
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	RR	84%	1	0	22	9	13	3	4	6	7	3	0	1	1	2
11	Zaharakis, David	HFFR	86%	0	0	19	8	11	3	0	4	5	4	0	1	3	0
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				9	6	339	217	122	60	48	77	53	56	25	24	45	44

B. Howlett replaced D. Myers.

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

Sydney							Coach: John Longmire
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	1	M. Hibberd	22	J. Carlisle	31	D. Fletcher	8	K. Tippett	4	D. Hannebery
	22	D. Towers	23	L. Franklin	5	I. Heeney	15	K. Jack (c)	11	J. Laidler
FORWARD							26	L. Parker	38	M. Pyke
HALF-BACK									44	J. Lloyd
	12	M. Baguley	26	C. Hooker	13	A. Cooney
	37	A. Goodes	20	S. Reid	32	L. Jetta
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	17	J. Melksham	5	B. Stanton	9	B. Goddard
	14	C. Bird	12	J. Kennedy	7	H. Cunningham	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	T. Bellchambers	32	T. Colyer
HALF-FORWARD							4	J. Watson (c)	35	M. Gleeson
	7	Z. Merrett	29	P. Ambrose	11	D. Zaharakis	3	P. Chapman	21	D. Heppell
	16	G. Rohan	25	T. Richards	24	D. Rampe			40	B. Howlett
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	23	D. Myers	6	J. Daniher	18	M. Hurley
	40	N. Smith	39	H. Grundy	2	R. Shaw
BACK
Essendon							Coach: James Hird

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:06
	ESSE	Adam Cooney behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	05:21
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	07:29
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard behind	0.1.1	-	1.2.8	12:57
	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	0.1.1	-	2.2.14	21:00
	ESSE	Jake Melksham behind	0.1.1	-	2.3.15	22:55
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	0.1.1	-	3.3.21	28:15
	ESSE	Adam Cooney goal	0.1.1	-	4.3.27	30:56
Q2	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	0.2.2	-	4.3.27	04:32
	ESSE	Adam Cooney goal	0.2.2	-	5.3.33	05:33
	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers behind	0.2.2	-	5.4.34	09:20
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	0.3.3	-	5.4.34	13:36
	SYDN	Craig Bird goal	1.3.9	-	5.4.34	17:53
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.4.10	-	5.4.34	24:13
	SYDN	Kieren Jack behind	1.5.11	-	5.4.34	25:17
	SYDN	Kurt Tippett behind	1.6.12	-	5.4.34	26:22
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	1.7.13	-	5.4.34	27:56
	ESSE	Travis Colyer behind	1.7.13	-	5.5.35	31:16
Q3	ESSE	Dyson Heppell goal	1.7.13	-	6.5.41	00:53
	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	1.7.13	-	6.6.42	02:51
	ESSE	Jake Melksham goal	1.7.13	-	7.6.48	07:43
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	2.7.19	-	7.6.48	13:51
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard goal	2.7.19	-	8.6.54	16:51
	ESSE	Adam Cooney goal	2.7.19	-	9.6.60	19:56
	SYDN	Rushed behind	2.8.20	-	9.6.60	25:43
	SYDN	Jeremy Laidler goal	3.8.26	-	9.6.60	26:49
Q4	SYDN	Gary Rohan behind	3.9.27	-	9.6.60	02:40
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	4.9.33	-	9.6.60	06:30
	SYDN	Rushed behind	4.10.34	-	9.6.60	08:27
	SYDN	Kurt Tippett goal	5.10.40	-	9.6.60	08:57
	SYDN	Kurt Tippett goal	6.10.46	-	9.6.60	18:37
	SYDN	Kurt Tippett behind	6.11.47	-	9.6.60	20:35
	SYDN	Kieren Jack behind	6.12.48	-	9.6.60	24:16
	SYDN	Craig Bird goal	7.12.54	-	9.6.60	24:45
	SYDN	Kieren Jack goal	8.12.60	-	9.6.60	26:53
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	9.12.66	-	9.6.60	31:11
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	10.12.72	-	9.6.60	35:15

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