2015 AFL Round 21: Gold Coast v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 22 August 2015 between Gold Coast and Essendon during round 21 of the 2015 AFL season. Gold Coast hosted Essendon at Metricon Stadium. In the absence of Jobe Watson, Dyson Heppell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Rodney Eade and the visitors were coached by Matthew Egan.

Gold Coast
Back: A. Saad, R. Thompson, H. Schade
Half-back: N. Malceski, S. May, K. Kolodjashnij
Centre: L. Russell, M. Rischitelli, M. Shaw
Half-forward: H. Bennell, T. Lynch, B. Matera
Forward: J. Martin, S. Day, A. Hall
Follower: Z. Smith, D. Stanley, J. Lonergan
Int.: J. Garlett, S. Lemmens, T. Miller
Sub.: J. Hall

Essendon
Back: M. Baguley, M. Hurley, M. Gleeson
Half-back: M. Hibberd, J. Carlisle, J. Melksham
Centre: B. Stanton, H. Hocking, D. Heppell (capt.)
Half-forward: J. Merrett, S. Edwards, J. Laverde
Forward: C. Dempsey, C. Hooker, J. Daniher
Follower: S. McKernan, D. Zaharakis, B. Goddard
Int.: P. Ambrose, B. Howlett, N. O'Brien
Sub.: O. Fantasia

Gold Coast (14.13.97) defeated Essendon (14.11.95).

Goalkickers
Gold Coast: T. Lynch (3), J. Martin (3), H. Bennell (2), M. Shaw (2), S. Day, A. Hall, N. Malceski, L. Russell
Essendon: D. Heppell (3), C. Hooker (3), S. McKernan (3), C. Dempsey (2), O. Fantasia (2), J. Laverde

As a result of this match, Gold Coast remained 16th on the ladder and Essendon remained 15th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Gold Coast v Essendon
Date: Saturday 22 August 2015
Time: 4:35 PM
Venue: Metricon Stadium
Attendance: 16,253

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. Essendon
Score: 14.13.97 - 14.11.95

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Gold Coast	5	.	3	9	.	5	12	.	7	14	.	13	14	.	13	(97)
Essendon	4	.	1	7	.	7	11	.	7	14	.	11	14	.	11	(95)
Margin	GCST by 8			GCST by 10			GCST by 6			GCST by 2			GCST by 2
Duration	30:15			29:42			36:13			29:52			2:06:02

Honour Roll

Coaches: Rodney Eade (Gold Coast), Matthew Egan (Essendon)
Captains: unknown (Gold Coast), Dyson Heppell (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: R. Chamberlain (#18), J. Edwards (#22), R. O'Gorman (#10), E: D. Harris (#24)
Goal Umpire: S. Apted, D. Hoskin, E: T. Symes
Boundary Umpire: N. Liparota, M. McKenzie, N. Wade, C. Ward

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tom Lynch	GCST	19	3
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	2
Aaron Hall	GCST	33	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Aaron Hall	GCST	33	10	2	0	0	0	0
Shaun McKernan	ESSE	44	8	0	2	0	0	0
Jack Martin	GCST	4	6	0	0	2	0	0
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	2	0	0	0	1	0
Brandon Matera	GCST	32	2	0	0	0	1	0
Courtenay Dempsey	ESSE	15	1	0	0	0	0	1
Tom Lynch	GCST	19	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
11	Bennell, Harley	HFFL	96%	2	2	19	12	7	5	2	3	3	3	2	2	1	3
12	Day, Sam	FF↓	63%	1	0	6	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	2
41	Garlett, Jarrod	INT	84%	0	0	13	6	7	2	0	3	1	4	1	1	0	3
33	Hall, Aaron	FPR	85%	1	1	31	25	6	5	0	4	8	5	2	2	3	13
46	Hall, Josh	SUB↑	24%	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	0
28	Kolodjashnij, Kade	HBFR	93%	0	0	22	16	6	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	6	2
40	Lemmens, Sean	INT	82%	0	0	15	10	5	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	4	2
37	Lonergan, Jesse	RO	71%	0	0	21	9	12	2	0	3	4	5	0	0	0	3
19	Lynch, Tom	CHF	97%	3	3	13	12	1	8	1	2	0	5	0	2	0	2
7	Malceski, Nick	HBFL	72%	1	0	14	9	5	5	0	2	1	2	1	1	4	0
4	Martin, Jack	FPL	84%	3	3	16	12	4	9	0	2	0	4	0	2	0	0
32	Matera, Brandon	HFFR	88%	0	2	23	18	5	6	0	2	1	2	1	1	1	3
17	May, Steven	CHB	92%	0	0	14	12	2	4	0	2	1	3	2	1	8	2
44	Miller, Touk	INT	88%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	10	3	1	2	1	0	4
35	Rischitelli, Michael	C	79%	0	0	23	12	11	5	0	6	5	2	0	0	0	5
8	Russell, Luke	WL	81%	1	0	14	6	8	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	1
42	Saad, Adam	BPL	88%	0	0	10	2	8	1	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	2
20	Schade, Henry	BPR	93%	0	0	15	9	6	3	0	1	0	2	1	1	3	5
26	Shaw, Matt	WR	84%	2	0	20	7	13	7	0	5	3	1	0	0	0	2
2	Smith, Zac	RU	89%	0	0	15	6	9	3	31	5	5	2	1	0	0	1
25	Stanley, Danny	RR	78%	0	2	17	11	6	2	0	3	1	5	0	1	2	4
16	Thompson, Rory	FB	86%	0	0	7	6	1	4	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				14	13	338	209	129	86	38	70	37	54	17	18	34	61

J. Hall replaced S. Day.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Ambrose, Patrick	INT	80%	0	0	10	5	5	2	1	4	1	0	1	0	0	0
12	Baguley, Mark	BPL	92%	0	0	15	8	7	4	0	5	0	3	0	1	5	0
22	Carlisle, Jake	CHB	89%	0	1	15	12	3	7	1	1	0	2	1	0	6	1
6	Daniher, Joe	FPR↓	55%	0	0	4	2	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	FPL	89%	2	3	19	12	7	7	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	4
19	Edwards, Shaun	CHF	87%	0	1	12	6	6	4	0	3	0	5	1	2	0	2
46	Fantasia, Orazio	SUB↑	33%	2	0	11	7	4	1	0	2	1	2	1	0	0	2
35	Gleeson, Martin	BPR	80%	0	0	13	7	6	4	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	3
9	Goddard, Brendon	RO	89%	0	0	25	12	13	8	3	2	3	6	1	2	2	2
21	Heppell, Dyson (ac)	WR	81%	3	1	25	15	10	2	0	5	5	3	1	1	2	0
1	Hibberd, Michael	HBFL	90%	0	0	20	14	6	5	0	1	1	1	2	1	4	3
39	Hocking, Heath	C	84%	0	0	17	8	9	0	0	1	4	1	1	0	1	5
26	Hooker, Cale	FF	95%	3	1	20	10	10	6	0	1	0	7	2	4	0	1
40	Howlett, Ben	INT	83%	0	1	24	12	12	5	0	3	4	0	1	0	0	4
18	Hurley, Michael	FB	97%	0	1	26	17	9	6	0	0	0	1	2	0	8	0
33	Laverde, Jayden	HFFR	78%	1	0	12	5	7	2	0	3	2	0	0	0	1	2
44	McKernan, Shaun	RU	86%	3	0	24	13	11	9	26	1	5	2	0	2	1	5
17	Melksham, Jake	HBFR	95%	0	0	18	10	8	3	0	1	3	0	0	0	4	1
20	Merrett, Jackson	HFFL	71%	0	1	11	6	5	2	0	2	3	0	1	0	2	0
10	O'Brien, Nick	INT	75%	0	0	31	12	19	4	0	2	1	3	0	0	1	3
5	Stanton, Brent	WL	90%	0	0	27	17	10	3	0	3	1	6	2	0	2	4
11	Zaharakis, David	RR	81%	0	0	25	14	11	6	0	6	1	5	0	2	3	7
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				14	11	404	224	180	92	32	50	37	52	18	17	43	50

O. Fantasia replaced J. Daniher 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

Gold Coast							Coach: Rodney Eade
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	12	M. Baguley	18	M. Hurley	35	M. Gleeson	2	Z. Smith	41	J. Garlett
	33	A. Hall	12	S. Day	4	J. Martin	25	D. Stanley	40	S. Lemmens
FORWARD							37	J. Lonergan	44	T. Miller
HALF-BACK									46	J. Hall
	1	M. Hibberd	22	J. Carlisle	17	J. Melksham
	32	B. Matera	19	T. Lynch	11	H. Bennell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	5	B. Stanton	39	H. Hocking	21	D. Heppell (ac)
	26	M. Shaw	35	M. Rischitelli	8	L. Russell	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							44	S. McKernan	29	P. Ambrose
HALF-FORWARD							11	D. Zaharakis	40	B. Howlett
	20	J. Merrett	19	S. Edwards	33	J. Laverde	9	B. Goddard	10	N. O'Brien
	28	K. Kolodjashnij	17	S. May	7	N. Malceski			46	O. Fantasia
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	15	C. Dempsey	26	C. Hooker	6	J. Daniher
	20	H. Schade	16	R. Thompson	42	A. Saad
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Matthew Egan

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Sam Day goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:02
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:27
	ESSE	Cale Hooker goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	05:06
	GCST	Tom Lynch goal	2.0.12	-	2.0.12	09:25
	GCST	Harley Bennell goal	3.0.18	-	2.0.12	10:45
	GCST	Tom Lynch behind	3.1.19	-	2.0.12	15:49
	ESSE	Shaun Edwards behind	3.1.19	-	2.1.13	17:52
	ESSE	Jayden Laverde goal	3.1.19	-	3.1.19	20:24
	GCST	Harley Bennell behind	3.2.20	-	3.1.19	21:28
	ESSE	Cale Hooker goal	3.2.20	-	4.1.25	23:38
	GCST	Aaron Hall behind	3.3.21	-	4.1.25	25:10
	GCST	Harley Bennell goal	4.3.27	-	4.1.25	25:57
	GCST	Tom Lynch goal	5.3.33	-	4.1.25	27:42
Q2	GCST	Jack Martin goal	6.3.39	-	4.1.25	02:56
	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	6.3.39	-	4.2.26	04:48
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey goal	6.3.39	-	5.2.32	05:43
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell behind	6.3.39	-	5.3.33	07:32
	ESSE	Shaun McKernan goal	6.3.39	-	6.3.39	08:35
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell goal	6.3.39	-	7.3.45	09:47
	GCST	Aaron Hall goal	7.3.45	-	7.3.45	10:52
	GCST	Harley Bennell behind	7.4.46	-	7.3.45	13:23
	GCST	Jack Martin goal	8.4.52	-	7.3.45	14:28
	ESSE	Rushed behind	8.4.52	-	7.4.46	17:13
	GCST	Danny Stanley behind	8.5.53	-	7.4.46	19:46
	GCST	Jack Martin goal	9.5.59	-	7.4.46	21:54
	ESSE	Ben Howlett behind	9.5.59	-	7.5.47	23:31
	ESSE	Michael Hurley behind	9.5.59	-	7.6.48	25:10
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey behind	9.5.59	-	7.7.49	26:24
Q3	GCST	Brandon Matera behind	9.6.60	-	7.7.49	02:15
	ESSE	Shaun McKernan goal	9.6.60	-	8.7.55	05:43
	GCST	Matt Shaw goal	10.6.66	-	8.7.55	07:59
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey goal	10.6.66	-	9.7.61	10:30
	GCST	Tom Lynch behind	10.7.67	-	9.7.61	17:56
	GCST	Luke Russell goal	11.7.73	-	9.7.61	19:57
	GCST	Matt Shaw goal	12.7.79	-	9.7.61	22:53
	ESSE	Shaun McKernan goal	12.7.79	-	10.7.67	25:13
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell goal	12.7.79	-	11.7.73	35:16
Q4	ESSE	Orazio Fantasia goal	12.7.79	-	12.7.79	00:25
	GCST	Jack Martin behind	12.8.80	-	12.7.79	02:28
	GCST	Danny Stanley behind	12.9.81	-	12.7.79	06:40
	GCST	Tom Lynch goal	13.9.87	-	12.7.79	07:48
	GCST	Jack Martin behind	13.10.88	-	12.7.79	09:28
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey behind	13.10.88	-	12.8.80	12:06
	GCST	Jack Martin behind	13.11.89	-	12.8.80	15:50
	ESSE	Jackson Merrett behind	13.11.89	-	12.9.81	19:24
	GCST	Nick Malceski goal	14.11.95	-	12.9.81	20:05
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey behind	14.11.95	-	12.10.82	21:34
	GCST	Tom Lynch behind	14.12.96	-	12.10.82	22:48
	GCST	Brandon Matera behind	14.13.97	-	12.10.82	23:45
	ESSE	Cale Hooker goal	14.13.97	-	13.10.88	24:49
	ESSE	Orazio Fantasia goal	14.13.97	-	14.10.94	26:02
	ESSE	Jake Carlisle behind	14.13.97	-	14.11.95	29:48

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