2015 AFL Season Round 15: Essendon v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 11 July 2015 between Essendon and Melbourne during round fifteen of the 2015 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon "hosted" Melbourne at the MCG. In the absence of Jobe Watson, Dyson Heppell captained the hosts. Nathan Jones captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by James Hird and the visitors were coached by Paul Roos.

Essendon (10.9.69) defeated Melbourne (7.18.60).

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Round 15
Teams: Essendon v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 11 July 2015
Time: 1:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 38,861

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Melbourne
Score: 10.9.69 - 7.18.60

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	1	.	3	3	.	4	9	.	7	10	.	9	10	.	9	(69)
Melbourne	1	.	3	3	.	9	4	.	13	7	.	18	7	.	18	(60)
Margin	level			MELB by 5			ESSE by 24			ESSE by 9			ESSE by 9
Duration	30:31			31:21			30:41			27:53			2:00:26

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Dyson Heppell (acting)
Coach: James Hird

Melbourne

Captain: Nathan Jones
Coach: Paul Roos

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

C. Deboy (#11)
A. Mitchell (#31)
J. Schmitt (#17)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Brent Stanton	ESSE	5	3
Joe Daniher	ESSE	6	2
Bernie Vince	MELB	23	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Joe Daniher	ESSE	6	9	1	1	0	0	0
Michael Hurley	ESSE	18	9	1	1	0	0	0
Bernie Vince	MELB	23	5	0	0	1	1	0
Brendon Goddard	ESSE	9	3	0	0	?	?	?
Brent Stanton	ESSE	5	3	0	0	?	?	?
Max Gawn	MELB	11	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	FPL	78%	0	0	9	3	6	1	2	8	0	2	0	0	0	1
14	Ashby, Jason	SUB↑	65%	0	0	7	1	6	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Baguley, Mark	BPL	93%	0	0	18	13	5	5	0	5	0	4	2	0	6	1
24	Browne, Alex	HBFL↓	30%	0	0	6	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Daniher, Joe	CHF	84%	5	0	13	8	5	6	4	3	1	4	1	2	0	1
19	Edwards, Shaun	INT	82%	2	0	9	6	3	2	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	4
35	Gleeson, Martin	HBFR	89%	0	0	16	7	9	3	0	2	2	2	2	1	1	5
9	Goddard, Brendon	RO	81%	0	0	29	11	18	1	1	4	8	2	0	0	4	1
42	Gwilt, James	BPR	93%	0	1	23	15	8	5	0	1	1	2	0	0	8	4
21	Heppell, Dyson (ac)	C	90%	1	0	19	10	9	1	5	7	3	1	4	0	2	1
1	Hibberd, Michael	HFFR	83%	0	0	16	11	5	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	4	5
26	Hooker, Cale	FF	90%	0	3	18	13	5	6	1	1	1	4	1	4	1	4
40	Howlett, Ben	INT	83%	1	0	10	6	4	2	0	7	1	2	0	0	0	2
18	Hurley, Michael	FB	90%	0	1	24	21	3	9	0	2	0	4	0	2	12	1
33	Laverde, Jayden	FPR	77%	0	0	6	2	4	2	0	4	0	1	0	1	1	0
44	McKernan, Shaun	RU	81%	0	0	18	11	7	3	20	0	2	4	0	3	2	2
20	Merrett, Jackson	RR	79%	0	0	19	12	7	4	0	6	2	5	1	1	0	3
7	Merrett, Zach	HFFL	75%	0	0	21	10	11	1	0	8	5	2	0	1	1	2
10	O'Brien, Nick	WR	90%	0	1	19	7	12	3	0	5	4	2	0	0	0	1
5	Stanton, Brent	WL	85%	1	0	30	21	9	4	0	4	4	4	2	1	2	3
25	Steinberg, Ariel	CHB	95%	0	0	12	6	6	3	0	1	0	4	0	3	1	2
11	Zaharakis, David	INT	86%	0	0	13	8	5	0	0	5	3	0	0	0	0	2
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				10	9	355	204	151	72	33	84	39	49	13	19	45	45

J. Ashby replaced A. Browne during the second quarter.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Brayshaw, Angus	FPL	79%	0	0	11	8	3	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	4
18	Cross, Daniel	WL	89%	0	0	19	9	10	3	0	1	1	3	0	2	1	1
6	Dawes, Chris	CHF	85%	0	3	11	7	4	4	8	0	2	3	0	1	0	3
14	Dunn, Lynden	FB	95%	0	0	7	4	3	0	1	5	0	0	1	0	4	0
20	Garland, Colin	BPL	90%	0	0	13	10	3	6	0	4	0	3	0	2	4	4
36	Garlett, Jeff	HFFR	96%	1	2	9	6	3	1	0	9	1	1	0	0	1	1
11	Gawn, Max	RU	86%	0	1	19	12	7	6	58	4	5	2	3	0	4	3
43	Harmes, James	INT↓	52%	0	1	9	3	6	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0
1	Hogan, Jesse	FF	94%	1	0	13	6	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
38	Howe, Jeremy	HBFL	83%	1	1	14	9	5	5	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	1
39	Jetta, Neville	BPR	86%	1	0	13	7	6	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
2	Jones, Nathan (c)	RR	88%	0	1	25	13	12	4	0	7	9	1	0	0	2	7
24	Kennedy Harris, Jay	SUB↑	22%	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
8	Lumumba, Heritier	WR	94%	0	0	12	6	6	3	0	4	1	1	4	0	2	2
25	McDonald, Tom	CHB	95%	1	2	28	24	4	6	1	1	0	3	2	0	10	4
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	HFFL	81%	0	0	8	1	7	0	0	6	0	1	1	0	0	0
15	Stretch, Billy	HBFR	81%	0	0	8	2	6	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Tyson, Dom	INT	72%	1	0	18	10	8	2	0	5	6	4	1	2	0	4
37	vandenBerg, Aaron	INT	74%	1	1	18	12	6	3	0	5	5	2	2	1	0	3
23	Vince, Bernie	C	89%	0	2	35	25	10	1	1	3	9	7	0	1	2	9
7	Viney, Jack	RO	87%	0	1	11	6	5	2	0	7	4	4	1	3	0	2
4	Watts, Jack	FPR	80%	0	0	16	7	9	3	2	3	3	2	0	0	2	4
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				7	18	319	188	131	60	71	81	46	39	19	13	33	58

J. Kennedy Harris replaced J. Harmes.

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
	20	C. Garland	14	L. Dunn	39	N. Jetta	44	S. McKernan	19	S. Edwards
	33	J. Laverde	26	C. Hooker	29	P. Ambrose	20	J. Merrett	40	B. Howlett
FORWARD							9	B. Goddard	11	D. Zaharakis
HALF-BACK									14	J. Ashby
	38	J. Howe	25	T. McDonald	15	B. Stretch
	1	M. Hibberd	6	J. Daniher	7	Z. Merrett
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	18	D. Cross	23	B. Vince	8	H. Lumumba
	10	N. O'Brien	21	D. Heppell (ac)	5	B. Stanton	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn	43	J. Harmes
HALF-FORWARD							2	N. Jones (c)	12	D. Tyson
	30	A. Neal-Bullen	6	C. Dawes	36	J. Garlett	7	J. Viney	37	A. vandenBerg
	35	M. Gleeson	25	A. Steinberg	24	A. Browne			24	J. Kennedy Harris
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	10	A. Brayshaw	1	J. Hogan	4	J. Watts
	42	J. Gwilt	18	M. Hurley	12	M. Baguley
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Paul Roos

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	James Gwilt behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	03:09
	MELB	Jeremy Howe behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	04:59
	MELB	Aaron vandenBerg behind	0.1.1	-	0.2.2	11:00
	MELB	Dom Tyson goal	0.1.1	-	1.2.8	12:10
	ESSE	Ben Howlett goal	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	15:02
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	1.3.9	20:30
	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	1.2.8	-	1.3.9	23:28
	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	1.3.9	-	1.3.9	25:56
Q2	MELB	Jeff Garlett behind	1.3.9	-	1.4.10	00:49
	MELB	Bernie Vince behind	1.3.9	-	1.5.11	01:23
	MELB	Jeremy Howe goal	1.3.9	-	2.5.17	02:50
	MELB	Max Gawn behind	1.3.9	-	2.6.18	06:25
	ESSE	Brent Stanton goal	2.3.15	-	2.6.18	08:51
	MELB	Nathan Jones behind	2.3.15	-	2.7.19	16:41
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	3.3.21	-	2.7.19	21:51
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	2.7.19	23:43
	MELB	Aaron vandenBerg goal	3.4.22	-	3.7.25	25:14
	MELB	James Harmes behind	3.4.22	-	3.8.26	29:35
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	3.9.27	30:19
Q3	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	4.4.28	-	3.9.27	02:05
	MELB	Jesse Hogan goal	4.4.28	-	4.9.33	04:13
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	5.4.34	-	4.9.33	06:16
	MELB	Bernie Vince behind	5.4.34	-	4.10.34	07:16
	ESSE	Shaun Edwards goal	6.4.40	-	4.10.34	09:02
	ESSE	Nick O'Brien behind	6.5.41	-	4.10.34	10:53
	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	6.6.42	-	4.10.34	12:05
	MELB	Chris Dawes behind	6.6.42	-	4.11.35	13:36
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	7.6.48	-	4.11.35	17:12
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell goal	8.6.54	-	4.11.35	19:34
	ESSE	Shaun Edwards goal	9.6.60	-	4.11.35	24:37
	MELB	Chris Dawes behind	9.6.60	-	4.12.36	26:44
	MELB	Chris Dawes behind	9.6.60	-	4.13.37	28:41
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.7.61	-	4.13.37	30:30
Q4	MELB	Neville Jetta goal	9.7.61	-	5.13.43	05:34
	MELB	Jack Viney behind	9.7.61	-	5.14.44	06:32
	MELB	Tom McDonald behind	9.7.61	-	5.15.45	07:28
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.7.61	-	5.16.46	09:41
	MELB	Tom McDonald behind	9.7.61	-	5.17.47	12:38
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	5.17.47	14:06
	MELB	Jeff Garlett behind	9.8.62	-	5.18.48	14:44
	MELB	Jeff Garlett goal	9.8.62	-	6.18.54	15:32
	MELB	Tom McDonald goal	9.8.62	-	7.18.60	17:20
	ESSE	Michael Hurley behind	9.9.63	-	7.18.60	21:14
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	10.9.69	-	7.18.60	23:20

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