2016 AFL Round 6: Carlton v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 1 May 2016 between Carlton and Essendon during round 6 of the 2016 AFL season. Carlton hosted Essendon at MCG. Marc Murphy captained the hosts. Brendon Goddard captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brendon Bolton and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

Carlton
Back: J. Weitering, L. Plowman, K. Simpson
Half-back: Z. Tuohy, S. Rowe, S. White
Centre: D. Thomas, E. Curnow, S. Docherty
Half-forward: B. Gibbs, L. Jones, M. Wright
Forward: J. Lamb, L. Casboult, L. Sumner
Follower: M. Kreuzer, S. Kerridge, M. Murphy (capt.)
Int.: D. Armfield, C. Byrne, N. Graham, A. Phillips

Essendon
Back: A. McDonald-Tipungwuti, J. Gwilt, M. Dea
Half-back: C. Dempsey, M. Hartley, J. Kelly
Centre: O. Fantasia, D. Zaharakis, B. Goddard (capt.)
Half-forward: M. Stokes, M. Brown, R. Crowley
Forward: S. Grimley, J. Daniher, A. Cooney
Follower: M. Leuenberger, Z. Merrett, J. Simpkin
Int.: M. Gleeson, K. Langford, D. Parish, J. Polkinghorne

Carlton (10.12.72) defeated Essendon (8.9.57).

Goalkickers
Carlton: M. Wright (2), D. Armfield, B. Gibbs, L. Jones, J. Lamb, M. Murphy, A. Phillips, L. Sumner, D. Thomas
Essendon: M. Brown (2), D. Parish (2), J. Daniher, O. Fantasia, S. Grimley, J. Polkinghorne

As a result of this match, Carlton were then 14th on the ladder (up from 15th) and Essendon remained 17th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2016 AFL Season
Round: Round 6
Teams: Carlton v Essendon
Date: Sunday 1 May 2016
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 43,827

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Essendon
Score: 10.12.72 - 8.9.57

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Carlton 3 . 1 3 . 7 5 . 9 10 . 12 10 . 12 (72)
Essendon 1 . 1 1 . 4 4 . 8 8 . 9 8 . 9 (57)
Margin CARL by 12 CARL by 15 CARL by 7 CARL by 15 CARL by 15
Duration 29:24 24:36 29:36 30:03 1:53:39

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brendon Bolton (Carlton), John Worsfold (Essendon)
Captains: Marc Murphy (Carlton), Brendon Goddard (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: R. Chamberlain (#18), L. Fisher (#3), M. Nicholls (#15), E: E. Tee (#45)
Goal Umpire: D. Wilson, A. Wojcik, E: C. Lai
Boundary Umpire: A. Coote, J. Moore, L. Rayner, J. Scully

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Bryce Gibbs CARL 4 3
Dale Thomas CARL 39 2
Adam Cooney ESSE 17 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Bryce Gibbs CARL 4 9 1 1 0 0 0
Dale Thomas CARL 39 9 1 1 0 0 0
Adam Cooney ESSE 17 5 0 0 1 1 0
Kade Simpson CARL 6 3 0 0 1 0 0
Ed Curnow CARL 35 2 0 0 0 ? ?
Courtenay Dempsey ESSE 15 2 0 0 0 ? ?

Player Statistics

Carlton

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
27 Armfield, Dennis INT 78% 1 2 14 8 6 2 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 3
38 Byrne, Ciaran INT 73% 0 0 18 11 7 5 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 1
41 Casboult, Levi FF 90% 0 0 10 6 4 6 0 2 0 3 1 1 0 3
35 Curnow, Ed C 93% 0 1 26 18 8 7 0 2 5 2 2 0 1 7
15 Docherty, Sam WR 84% 0 0 22 15 7 7 0 2 0 3 2 1 1 2
4 Gibbs, Bryce HFFL 83% 1 0 32 19 13 6 5 4 10 3 0 1 4 4
32 Graham, Nick INT 85% 0 0 22 13 9 7 0 8 2 4 1 1 2 2
14 Jones, Liam CHF 79% 1 1 9 4 5 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1
11 Kerridge, Sam RR 88% 0 1 19 11 8 10 1 4 2 3 0 2 3 3
8 Kreuzer, Matthew RU 72% 0 1 13 7 6 4 15 5 2 1 1 0 1 2
13 Lamb, Jed FPL 89% 1 1 13 9 4 5 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 4
3 Murphy, Marc (c) RO 86% 1 0 26 13 13 7 1 2 5 5 0 0 3 4
34 Phillips, Andrew INT 61% 1 0 11 7 4 6 17 2 2 1 0 0 0 4
20 Plowman, Lachie FB 81% 0 0 12 3 9 3 0 3 1 2 0 1 0 1
17 Rowe, Sam CHB 100% 0 0 9 1 8 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
6 Simpson, Kade BPR 95% 0 0 25 18 7 9 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 1
19 Sumner, Liam FPR 87% 1 1 9 8 1 4 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 3
39 Thomas, Dale WL 86% 1 0 31 20 11 6 0 7 1 2 3 1 2 4
42 Tuohy, Zach HBFL 87% 0 0 16 8 8 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 3
23 Weitering, Jacob BPL 27% 0 0 8 5 3 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1
43 White, Simon HBFR 90% 0 0 15 9 6 6 0 5 0 3 0 1 1 4
46 Wright, Matthew HFFR 87% 2 1 19 14 5 4 0 5 1 2 0 0 2 5
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 10 12 379 227 152 115 39 67 36 42 12 11 36 63

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
28 Brown, Mitch CHF 86% 2 1 18 13 5 9 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 2
17 Cooney, Adam FPR 79% 0 0 28 15 13 3 0 4 5 1 1 0 2 3
51 Crowley, Ryan HFFR 80% 0 0 21 9 12 1 1 6 3 1 0 0 2 3
6 Daniher, Joe FF 83% 1 3 13 11 2 6 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4
49 Dea, Matt BPR 93% 0 0 12 7 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1
15 Dempsey, Courtenay HBFL 87% 0 0 25 15 10 7 0 4 4 2 1 0 5 2
13 Fantasia, Orazio WL 80% 1 1 9 5 4 2 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2
8 Gleeson, Martin INT 71% 0 0 12 5 7 1 0 3 1 1 2 0 4 1
9 Goddard, Brendon (c) WR 87% 0 0 23 13 10 5 1 3 2 1 1 0 2 4
54 Grimley, Sam FPL 81% 1 0 4 3 1 1 1 2 0 4 0 0 0 1
42 Gwilt, James FB 92% 0 0 20 12 8 5 0 3 1 4 1 2 7 0
36 Hartley, Michael CHB 91% 0 0 9 8 1 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 1
47 Kelly, James HBFR 86% 0 0 18 10 8 6 0 6 0 2 0 2 4 0
30 Langford, Kyle INT 68% 0 0 20 9 11 5 2 4 1 3 1 1 1 5
22 Leuenberger, Matthew RU 86% 0 0 11 6 5 4 34 0 2 6 0 1 3 1
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony BPL 80% 0 0 12 3 9 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 1
7 Merrett, Zach RR 85% 0 0 25 12 13 4 0 6 2 3 0 0 1 6
3 Parish, Darcy INT 66% 2 0 11 4 7 1 0 3 2 2 0 2 1 0
50 Polkinghorne, James INT 73% 1 0 11 5 6 2 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 2
52 Simpkin, Jonathan RO 80% 0 0 25 7 18 4 0 2 4 3 0 1 1 5
48 Stokes, Mathew HFFL 85% 0 1 15 7 8 5 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 1
11 Zaharakis, David C 82% 0 0 24 15 9 3 0 7 2 3 1 1 3 2
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 8 9 366 194 172 83 39 67 36 44 11 12 46 47

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

Carlton Coach: Brendon Bolton
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti 42 J. Gwilt 49 M. Dea 8 M. Kreuzer 27 D. Armfield
19 L. Sumner 41 L. Casboult 13 J. Lamb 11 S. Kerridge 38 C. Byrne
FORWARD 3 M. Murphy (c) 32 N. Graham
HALF-BACK

34 A. Phillips
15 C. Dempsey 36 M. Hartley 47 J. Kelly



46 M. Wright 14 L. Jones 4 B. Gibbs



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



13 O. Fantasia 11 D. Zaharakis 9 B. Goddard (c)



15 S. Docherty 35 E. Curnow 39 D. Thomas FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 22 M. Leuenberger 8 M. Gleeson
HALF-FORWARD 7 Z. Merrett 30 K. Langford
48 M. Stokes 28 M. Brown 51 R. Crowley 52 J. Simpkin 3 D. Parish
43 S. White 17 S. Rowe 42 Z. Tuohy

50 J. Polkinghorne
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



54 S. Grimley 6 J. Daniher 17 A. Cooney



6 K. Simpson 20 L. Plowman 23 J. Weitering



BACK



Essendon Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 CARL Dale Thomas goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 03:52
ESSE Joe Daniher behind 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 05:52
CARL Ed Curnow behind 1.1.7 - 0.1.1 08:50
ESSE Orazio Fantasia goal 1.1.7 - 1.1.7 14:32
CARL Matthew Wright goal 2.1.13 - 1.1.7 17:52
CARL Liam Jones goal 3.1.19 - 1.1.7 25:40
Q2 ESSE Rushed behind 3.1.19 - 1.2.8 06:11
CARL Dennis Armfield behind 3.2.20 - 1.2.8 10:19
ESSE Joe Daniher behind 3.2.20 - 1.3.9 13:04
CARL Rushed behind 3.3.21 - 1.3.9 14:05
CARL Dennis Armfield behind 3.4.22 - 1.3.9 16:15
CARL Sam Kerridge behind 3.5.23 - 1.3.9 17:28
ESSE Joe Daniher behind 3.5.23 - 1.4.10 19:27
CARL Jed Lamb behind 3.6.24 - 1.4.10 21:12
CARL Rushed behind 3.7.25 - 1.4.10 22:11
Q3 ESSE Rushed behind 3.7.25 - 1.5.11 01:49
CARL Matthew Wright behind 3.8.26 - 1.5.11 13:13
ESSE Mitch Brown goal 3.8.26 - 2.5.17 14:06
ESSE Mitch Brown behind 3.8.26 - 2.6.18 16:05
ESSE James Polkinghorne goal 3.8.26 - 3.6.24 17:07
CARL Rushed behind 3.9.27 - 3.6.24 19:08
ESSE Darcy Parish goal 3.9.27 - 4.6.30 21:36
CARL Jed Lamb goal 4.9.33 - 4.6.30 23:37
CARL Bryce Gibbs goal 5.9.39 - 4.6.30 26:04
ESSE Rushed behind 5.9.39 - 4.7.31 28:33
ESSE Orazio Fantasia behind 5.9.39 - 4.8.32 29:28
Q4 CARL Liam Sumner behind 5.10.40 - 4.8.32 01:07
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 5.10.40 - 5.8.38 02:51
ESSE Mathew Stokes behind 5.10.40 - 5.9.39 04:21
CARL Matthew Kreuzer behind 5.11.41 - 5.9.39 06:35
CARL Marc Murphy goal 6.11.47 - 5.9.39 10:02
CARL Dennis Armfield goal 7.11.53 - 5.9.39 11:10
CARL Liam Sumner goal 8.11.59 - 5.9.39 12:22
CARL Matthew Wright goal 9.11.65 - 5.9.39 14:25
ESSE Sam Grimley goal 9.11.65 - 6.9.45 16:33
ESSE Mitch Brown goal 9.11.65 - 7.9.51 18:26
ESSE Darcy Parish goal 9.11.65 - 8.9.57 19:49
CARL Liam Jones behind 9.12.66 - 8.9.57 23:07
CARL Andrew Phillips goal 10.12.72 - 8.9.57 25:34