2015 AFL Round 7: Essendon v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 15 May 2015 between Essendon and North Melbourne during round 7 of the 2015 AFL season. Essendon hosted North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium. Jobe Watson captained the hosts. Andrew Swallow captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by James Hird and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Essendon
Back: M. Hurley, D. Fletcher, M. Baguley
Half-back: M. Gleeson, C. Hooker, M. Hibberd
Centre: D. Heppell, J. Watson (capt.), C. Dempsey
Half-forward: K. Langford, S. McKernan, T. Colyer
Forward: J. Merrett, P. Ambrose, J. Daniher
Follower: T. Bellchambers, B. Stanton, B. Goddard
Int.: J. Ashby, J. Melksham, Z. Merrett
Sub.: B. Howlett

North Melbourne
Back: L. Hansen, S. Thompson, M. Firrito
Half-back: J. Macmillan, R. Tarrant, S. Wright
Centre: S. Higgins, J. Ziebell, B. Jacobs
Half-forward: B. Harvey, J. Waite, S. Gibson
Forward: L. Thomas, D. Petrie, B. Brown
Follower: T. Goldstein, B. Cunnington, A. Swallow (capt.)
Int.: R. Bastinac, L. McDonald, R. Nahas
Sub.: S. Atley

Essendon (12.10.82) were defeated by North Melbourne (13.15.93).

Goalkickers
Essendon: P. Ambrose (2), T. Colyer (2), J. Watson (2), T. Bellchambers, J. Daniher, B. Goddard, D. Heppell, J. Melksham, J. Merrett
North Melbourne: D. Petrie (2), L. Thomas (2), J. Waite (2), J. Ziebell (2), B. Cunnington, S. Gibson, B. Harvey, S. Higgins, R. Nahas

As a result of this match, Essendon remained 11th on the ladder and North Melbourne remained 9th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Essendon v North Melbourne
Date: Friday 15 May 2015
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 43,972

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by North Melbourne
Score: 12.10.82 - 13.15.93

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	5	.	0	6	.	3	8	.	10	12	.	10	12	.	10	(82)
North Melbourne	2	.	6	7	.	9	9	.	13	13	.	15	13	.	15	(93)
Margin	ESSE by 12			NMLB by 12			NMLB by 9			NMLB by 11			NMLB by 11
Duration	28:25			29:50			30:49			31:18			2:00:22

Honour Roll

Coaches: James Hird (Essendon), Brad Scott (North Melbourne)
Captains: Jobe Watson (Essendon), Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: R. Chamberlain (#18), R. Findlay (#23), D. Harris (#24), E: B. Wallace (#33)
Goal Umpire: M. Hammond, J. Venkataya, E: M. Ensbey
Boundary Umpire: I. Burrows, D. Kowalski, M. Marantelli, S. Thiele

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jack Ziebell	NMLB	7	3
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	2
Drew Petrie	NMLB	20	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Jack Ziebell	NMLB	7	10	2	0	0	0	0
Lachlan Hansen	NMLB	6	5	0	?	?	?	?
Drew Petrie	NMLB	20	5	0	?	?	?	?
Ben Cunnington	NMLB	10	4	0	?	?	?	?
Michael Hurley	ESSE	18	3	0	0	?	?	?
Brendon Goddard	ESSE	9	2	0	0	0	1	0
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	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
29	Ambrose, Patrick	FF	85%	2	0	15	6	9	4	1	6	0	3	1	1	0	3
14	Ashby, Jason	INT	80%	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	4	1	4	1	2	0	2
12	Baguley, Mark	BPR	94%	0	0	12	6	6	3	0	4	0	3	1	3	3	2
2	Bellchambers, Tom	RU	88%	1	0	8	3	5	2	16	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
32	Colyer, Travis	HFFR	86%	2	0	15	9	6	4	0	4	1	4	0	0	0	5
6	Daniher, Joe	FPR	90%	1	2	7	5	2	2	0	2	0	5	3	5	0	1
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	WR	79%	0	1	17	11	6	1	0	3	1	4	2	1	3	1
31	Fletcher, Dustin	FB	91%	0	1	16	11	5	7	0	1	0	2	0	0	5	1
35	Gleeson, Martin	HBFL	83%	0	1	12	7	5	5	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	6
9	Goddard, Brendon	RO	91%	1	1	27	19	8	2	1	4	9	2	1	1	2	8
21	Heppell, Dyson	WL	81%	1	3	29	21	8	6	1	5	7	1	1	1	3	2
1	Hibberd, Michael	HBFR	90%	0	0	17	10	7	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	2
26	Hooker, Cale	CHB	94%	0	0	12	6	6	6	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	1
40	Howlett, Ben	SUB↑	44%	0	0	7	5	2	1	1	6	5	0	1	0	0	3
18	Hurley, Michael	BPL	96%	0	0	23	16	7	10	0	1	0	1	0	0	9	0
30	Langford, Kyle	HFFL↓	38%	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	McKernan, Shaun	CHF	85%	0	0	12	6	6	5	10	1	2	2	1	2	0	2
17	Melksham, Jake	INT	82%	1	0	15	11	4	8	0	2	0	4	0	1	0	3
20	Merrett, Jackson	FPL	84%	1	0	12	6	6	2	0	5	0	2	0	2	0	3
7	Merrett, Zach	INT	74%	0	1	16	5	11	3	0	6	2	3	0	1	1	1
5	Stanton, Brent	RR	83%	0	0	17	9	8	2	0	7	2	5	2	2	0	4
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	C	82%	2	0	19	12	7	5	5	5	1	0	0	0	1	4
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				12	10	316	188	128	83	35	71	32	49	16	22	35	54

B. Howlett replaced K. Langford.

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
18	Atley, Shaun	SUB↑	34%	0	0	9	3	6	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0
3	Bastinac, Ryan	INT	81%	0	0	19	9	10	5	0	6	3	2	0	0	2	2
50	Brown, Ben	FPR↓	54%	0	0	7	4	3	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
10	Cunnington, Ben	RR	76%	1	1	26	12	14	8	3	3	8	2	1	1	2	3
11	Firrito, Michael	BPR	84%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	2	1	2	0	0	5	0
43	Gibson, Sam	HFFR	93%	1	1	25	19	6	9	0	1	2	2	0	1	2	4
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	91%	0	0	8	7	1	3	38	2	2	3	1	3	1	2
6	Hansen, Lachlan	BPL	86%	0	1	24	16	8	14	0	1	0	3	1	1	5	2
29	Harvey, Brent	HFFL	94%	1	0	20	8	12	3	0	3	2	3	1	1	1	2
4	Higgins, Shaun	WL	92%	1	2	18	9	9	5	0	4	2	1	0	1	1	3
5	Jacobs, Ben	WR	91%	0	0	20	9	11	9	0	0	1	5	1	3	0	3
34	Macmillan, Jamie	HBFL	75%	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1
21	McDonald, Luke	INT	79%	0	0	14	6	8	2	0	4	0	2	1	0	1	3
28	Nahas, Robin	INT	73%	1	1	16	11	5	4	0	2	1	2	1	1	1	3
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	96%	2	0	19	14	5	12	0	4	0	3	1	1	4	3
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	RO	75%	0	0	19	9	10	1	0	11	3	2	3	0	2	3
25	Tarrant, Robbie	CHB	90%	0	0	16	13	3	7	0	3	0	1	1	0	1	2
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPL	89%	2	3	14	13	1	3	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	5
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	94%	0	0	10	5	5	2	0	6	0	2	2	2	2	0
30	Waite, Jarrad	CHF	93%	2	2	15	13	2	7	0	3	0	1	1	0	2	2
19	Wright, Sam	HBFR	91%	0	0	19	11	8	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	3
7	Ziebell, Jack	C	71%	2	2	29	26	3	5	2	1	11	3	2	1	0	5
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				13	15	372	232	140	116	44	57	44	42	22	16	38	51

S. Atley replaced B. Brown 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

Essendon							Coach: James Hird
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	6	L. Hansen	16	S. Thompson	11	M. Firrito	2	T. Bellchambers	14	J. Ashby
	6	J. Daniher	29	P. Ambrose	20	J. Merrett	5	B. Stanton	17	J. Melksham
FORWARD							9	B. Goddard	7	Z. Merrett
HALF-BACK									40	B. Howlett
	34	J. Macmillan	25	R. Tarrant	19	S. Wright
	32	T. Colyer	44	S. McKernan	30	K. Langford
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	4	S. Higgins	7	J. Ziebell	5	B. Jacobs
	15	C. Dempsey	4	J. Watson (c)	21	D. Heppell	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							22	T. Goldstein	3	R. Bastinac
HALF-FORWARD							10	B. Cunnington	21	L. McDonald
	29	B. Harvey	30	J. Waite	43	S. Gibson	9	A. Swallow (c)	28	R. Nahas
	1	M. Hibberd	26	C. Hooker	35	M. Gleeson			18	S. Atley
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	12	L. Thomas	20	D. Petrie	50	B. Brown
	12	M. Baguley	31	D. Fletcher	18	M. Hurley
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:51
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	06:11
	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	1.0.6	-	0.2.2	06:52
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	2.0.12	-	0.2.2	10:39
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell goal	3.0.18	-	0.2.2	12:08
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	3.0.18	-	1.2.8	13:53
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	3.0.18	-	1.3.9	15:53
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington behind	3.0.18	-	1.4.10	16:52
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	3.0.18	-	1.5.11	20:08
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	3.0.18	-	1.6.12	21:50
	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	4.0.24	-	1.6.12	23:20
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	4.0.24	-	2.6.18	24:57
	ESSE	Jobe Watson goal	5.0.30	-	2.6.18	27:03
Q2	ESSE	Dustin Fletcher behind	5.1.31	-	2.6.18	02:09
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	5.1.31	-	3.6.24	03:20
	ESSE	Joe Daniher behind	5.2.32	-	3.6.24	04:23
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell behind	5.2.32	-	3.7.25	08:16
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell behind	5.2.32	-	3.8.26	12:03
	NMLB	Rushed behind	5.2.32	-	3.9.27	12:44
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	5.2.32	-	4.9.33	14:05
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	5.2.32	-	5.9.39	18:11
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell behind	5.3.33	-	5.9.39	20:37
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	5.3.33	-	6.9.45	21:38
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	5.3.33	-	7.9.51	23:59
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard goal	6.3.39	-	7.9.51	28:52
Q3	ESSE	Patrick Ambrose goal	7.3.45	-	7.9.51	00:29
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell behind	7.4.46	-	7.9.51	03:30
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	8.4.52	-	7.9.51	05:50
	ESSE	Martin Gleeson behind	8.5.53	-	7.9.51	07:28
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard behind	8.6.54	-	7.9.51	09:10
	NMLB	Robin Nahas behind	8.6.54	-	7.10.52	11:53
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	8.7.55	-	7.10.52	15:52
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell behind	8.8.56	-	7.10.52	18:15
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	8.8.56	-	7.11.53	20:13
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	8.8.56	-	8.11.59	21:29
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	8.8.56	-	9.11.65	23:09
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey behind	8.9.57	-	9.11.65	24:55
	ESSE	Joe Daniher behind	8.10.58	-	9.11.65	27:33
	NMLB	Lachlan Hansen behind	8.10.58	-	9.12.66	28:46
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	8.10.58	-	9.13.67	30:43
Q4	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers goal	9.10.64	-	9.13.67	01:04
	NMLB	Robin Nahas goal	9.10.64	-	10.13.73	04:35
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	9.10.64	-	10.14.74	08:19
	NMLB	Sam Gibson behind	9.10.64	-	10.15.75	09:21
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	9.10.64	-	11.15.81	11:32
	ESSE	Jake Melksham goal	10.10.70	-	11.15.81	12:42
	ESSE	Patrick Ambrose goal	11.10.76	-	11.15.81	17:15
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	11.10.76	-	12.15.87	24:43
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	11.10.76	-	13.15.93	25:46
	ESSE	Jackson Merrett goal	12.10.82	-	13.15.93	28:03

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