2016 AFL Round 23: Essendon v Carlton

This is the match report for the match played on 27 August 2016 between Essendon and Carlton during round 23 of the 2016 AFL season. Essendon hosted Carlton at MCG. Brendon Goddard captained the hosts. Kade Simpson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Worsfold and the visitors were coached by Brendon Bolton.

Essendon
Back: M. Dea, M. Hartley, M. Gleeson
Half-back: B. Goddard (capt.), M. Brown, P. Ambrose
Centre: D. Zaharakis, Z. Merrett, N. Kommer
Half-forward: J. Kelly, J. Laverde, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
Forward: S. McKernan, J. Daniher, J. Merrett
Follower: M. Leuenberger, C. Bird, C. Dempsey
Int.: K. Langford, J. Long, C. McKenna, D. Parish

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

Essendon (15.13.103) defeated Carlton (10.19.79).

Goalkickers
Essendon: J. Daniher (5), A. McDonald-Tipungwuti (4), K. Langford (3), C. Dempsey, J. Laverde, S. McKernan
Carlton: M. Wright (3), D. Armfield (2), D. Buckley, L. Casboult, S. Docherty, S. Kerridge, M. Kreuzer

As a result of this match, Essendon remained 18th on the ladder and Carlton remained 14th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2016 AFL Season
Round: Round 23
Teams: Essendon v Carlton
Date: Saturday 27 August 2016
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 46,566

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Carlton
Score: 15.13.103 - 10.19.79

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	3	.	4	8	.	9	14	.	11	15	.	13	15	.	13	(103)
Carlton	2	.	6	5	.	8	6	.	12	10	.	19	10	.	19	(79)
Margin	ESSE by 4			ESSE by 19			ESSE by 47			ESSE by 24			ESSE by 24
Duration	27:29			29:58			28:19			28:00			1:53:46

Honour Roll

Coaches: John Worsfold (Essendon), Brendon Bolton (Carlton)
Captains: Brendon Goddard (Essendon), Kade Simpson (Carlton)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: N. Foot (#2), B. Hosking (#16), A. Mitchell (#31), E: S. Stewart (#44)
Goal Umpire: C. Roffey, S. Williams, E: D. Wilson
Boundary Umpire: A. Coote, R. Haala, M. Le Fevre, J. Morris

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Joe Daniher	ESSE	6	3
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	2
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti	ESSE	43	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Joe Daniher	ESSE	6	9	1	1	0	0	0
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	9	1	1	0	0	0
Matt Dea	ESSE	49	3	0	0	1	0	0
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti	ESSE	43	3	0	0	1	0	0
Patrick Cripps	CARL	9	2	0	0	0	?	?
Brendon Goddard	ESSE	9	2	0	0	0	?	?
Kyle Langford	ESSE	30	2	0	0	0	?	?

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Ambrose, Patrick	HBFR	89%	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2
24	Bird, Craig	RR	69%	0	1	22	10	12	5	0	5	5	1	1	0	3	2
28	Brown, Mitch	CHB	83%	0	0	21	12	9	6	1	1	1	4	0	1	7	0
6	Daniher, Joe	FF	85%	5	2	17	12	5	6	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3
49	Dea, Matt	BPL	88%	0	0	27	17	10	10	0	2	0	2	1	0	7	0
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	RO	77%	1	1	13	10	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3
8	Gleeson, Martin	BPR	76%	0	0	16	7	9	4	0	3	0	2	0	0	3	0
9	Goddard, Brendon (c)	HBFL	87%	0	0	24	9	15	5	0	6	3	2	2	1	2	1
36	Hartley, Michael	FB	92%	0	1	8	6	2	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	2
47	Kelly, James	HFFL	86%	0	0	22	14	8	8	0	5	1	0	1	0	5	2
38	Kommer, Nick	WR	76%	0	1	9	4	5	3	0	2	2	1	2	0	0	3
30	Langford, Kyle	INT	84%	3	2	14	10	4	9	0	5	0	1	2	0	1	0
33	Laverde, Jayden	CHF	82%	1	2	10	9	1	7	0	1	0	3	1	1	1	2
22	Leuenberger, Matthew	RU	83%	0	1	15	4	11	3	18	1	3	1	1	1	1	2
34	Long, Jake	INT	77%	0	0	10	5	5	4	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	4
43	McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony	HFFR	75%	4	0	10	6	4	3	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0
45	McKenna, Conor	INT	80%	0	0	18	12	6	3	0	2	0	2	1	1	2	0
44	McKernan, Shaun	FPL	82%	1	0	16	13	3	5	3	1	2	4	1	1	1	5
20	Merrett, Jackson	FPR	86%	0	0	17	8	9	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	4
7	Merrett, Zach	C	85%	0	0	34	20	14	4	0	3	6	0	3	0	3	5
3	Parish, Darcy	INT	76%	0	0	23	9	14	5	0	8	4	4	0	2	2	2
11	Zaharakis, David	WL	81%	0	0	22	12	10	6	0	3	1	2	1	0	1	3
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				15	13	380	216	164	115	22	54	31	37	19	9	45	45

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Armfield, Dennis	WL	86%	2	0	10	4	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
7	Buckley, Dylan	FPL	80%	1	1	21	12	9	4	0	2	0	5	0	2	0	5
41	Casboult, Levi	FF	90%	1	2	8	6	2	7	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	2
9	Cripps, Patrick	C	84%	0	0	32	7	25	4	1	8	10	2	0	2	1	1
28	Cuningham, David	INT	68%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	2	1	2	1	0	1	6
15	Docherty, Sam	HBFR	91%	1	0	26	16	10	8	0	1	0	2	0	0	9	3
4	Gibbs, Bryce	RR	76%	0	1	30	13	17	3	3	3	5	2	0	1	1	5
32	Graham, Nick	HFFR	72%	0	3	20	12	8	5	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	5
14	Jones, Liam	CHF	87%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
11	Kerridge, Sam	INT	84%	1	3	17	11	6	2	0	4	1	3	1	2	1	3
8	Kreuzer, Matthew	RU	74%	1	1	10	8	2	4	15	3	2	0	2	0	0	3
34	Phillips, Andrew	INT	59%	0	0	7	4	3	2	12	3	2	4	0	2	0	0
20	Plowman, Lachie	INT	81%	0	0	12	4	8	3	0	1	0	2	1	1	1	0
17	Rowe, Sam	FB	100%	0	0	14	3	11	5	0	1	0	5	0	3	2	0
2	Silvagni, Jack	FPR	84%	0	2	8	7	1	3	0	7	1	2	1	0	0	2
6	Simpson, Kade (c)	BPL	95%	0	0	35	22	13	7	0	3	0	5	1	1	3	2
19	Sumner, Liam	HFFL	76%	0	1	9	5	4	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2
39	Thomas, Dale	WR	79%	0	0	15	11	4	4	0	3	1	3	0	1	2	4
42	Tuohy, Zach	HBFL	84%	0	1	24	16	8	5	0	3	0	1	2	1	3	5
23	Weitering, Jacob	BPR	78%	0	0	17	9	8	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4
43	White, Simon	CHB	84%	0	0	15	7	8	5	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0
46	Wright, Matthew	RO	87%	3	2	20	15	5	7	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	5
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				10	19	368	202	166	88	31	54	26	46	9	19	28	61

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: John Worsfold
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	6	K. Simpson (c)	17	S. Rowe	23	J. Weitering	22	M. Leuenberger	30	K. Langford
	20	J. Merrett	6	J. Daniher	44	S. McKernan	24	C. Bird	34	J. Long
FORWARD							15	C. Dempsey	45	C. McKenna
HALF-BACK									3	D. Parish
	42	Z. Tuohy	43	S. White	15	S. Docherty
	43	A. McDonald-Tipungwuti	33	J. Laverde	47	J. Kelly
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	27	D. Armfield	9	P. Cripps	39	D. Thomas
	38	N. Kommer	7	Z. Merrett	11	D. Zaharakis	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							8	M. Kreuzer	28	D. Cuningham
HALF-FORWARD							4	B. Gibbs	11	S. Kerridge
	19	L. Sumner	14	L. Jones	32	N. Graham	46	M. Wright	34	A. Phillips
	29	P. Ambrose	28	M. Brown	9	B. Goddard (c)			20	L. Plowman
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	7	D. Buckley	41	L. Casboult	2	J. Silvagni
	8	M. Gleeson	36	M. Hartley	49	M. Dea
BACK
Carlton							Coach: Brendon Bolton

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	CARL	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:12
	CARL	Dennis Armfield goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	03:34
	CARL	Matthew Wright goal	0.0.0	-	2.1.13	05:15
	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	2.1.13	08:46
	CARL	Dylan Buckley behind	0.1.1	-	2.2.14	09:16
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	10:01
	ESSE	Nick Kommer behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	12:16
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	2.2.14	-	2.2.14	13:41
	ESSE	Matthew Leuenberger behind	2.3.15	-	2.2.14	16:40
	ESSE	Jayden Laverde behind	2.4.16	-	2.2.14	17:56
	CARL	Nick Graham behind	2.4.16	-	2.3.15	19:56
	ESSE	Jayden Laverde goal	3.4.22	-	2.3.15	21:23
	CARL	Liam Sumner behind	3.4.22	-	2.4.16	24:14
	CARL	Jack Silvagni behind	3.4.22	-	2.5.17	25:58
	CARL	Matthew Wright behind	3.4.22	-	2.6.18	27:05
Q2	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	4.4.28	-	2.6.18	01:19
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey behind	4.5.29	-	2.6.18	02:52
	ESSE	Jayden Laverde behind	4.6.30	-	2.6.18	03:26
	ESSE	Michael Hartley behind	4.7.31	-	2.6.18	05:39
	ESSE	Joe Daniher behind	4.8.32	-	2.6.18	08:15
	ESSE	Joe Daniher behind	4.9.33	-	2.6.18	08:42
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	5.9.39	-	2.6.18	10:01
	CARL	Nick Graham behind	5.9.39	-	2.7.19	11:12
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	6.9.45	-	2.7.19	12:58
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	7.9.51	-	2.7.19	14:46
	CARL	Matthew Wright goal	7.9.51	-	3.7.25	16:53
	CARL	Matthew Kreuzer goal	7.9.51	-	4.7.31	18:53
	CARL	Sam Kerridge goal	7.9.51	-	5.7.37	21:37
	CARL	Sam Kerridge behind	7.9.51	-	5.8.38	25:27
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	8.9.57	-	5.8.38	26:35
Q3	CARL	Bryce Gibbs behind	8.9.57	-	5.9.39	01:53
	CARL	Nick Graham behind	8.9.57	-	5.10.40	04:43
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	9.9.63	-	5.10.40	06:19
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	9.10.64	-	5.10.40	08:36
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	10.10.70	-	5.10.40	10:12
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	11.10.76	-	5.10.40	11:59
	ESSE	Craig Bird behind	11.11.77	-	5.10.40	14:15
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	12.11.83	-	5.10.40	17:12
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	13.11.89	-	5.10.40	20:27
	CARL	Levi Casboult behind	13.11.89	-	5.11.41	22:02
	CARL	Levi Casboult goal	13.11.89	-	6.11.47	22:57
	ESSE	Courtenay Dempsey goal	14.11.95	-	6.11.47	24:39
	CARL	Jack Silvagni behind	14.11.95	-	6.12.48	28:15
Q4	CARL	Matthew Wright goal	14.11.95	-	7.12.54	01:37
	CARL	Matthew Kreuzer behind	14.11.95	-	7.13.55	03:47
	CARL	Sam Kerridge behind	14.11.95	-	7.14.56	08:03
	CARL	Matthew Wright behind	14.11.95	-	7.15.57	09:19
	CARL	Sam Docherty goal	14.11.95	-	8.15.63	10:44
	CARL	Dennis Armfield goal	14.11.95	-	9.15.69	13:44
	ESSE	Shaun McKernan goal	15.11.101	-	9.15.69	15:16
	CARL	Rushed behind	15.11.101	-	9.16.70	16:57
	CARL	Sam Kerridge behind	15.11.101	-	9.17.71	17:40
	CARL	Zach Tuohy behind	15.11.101	-	9.18.72	18:57
	ESSE	Rushed behind	15.12.102	-	9.18.72	20:27
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	15.13.103	-	9.18.72	21:59
	CARL	Levi Casboult behind	15.13.103	-	9.19.73	25:32
	CARL	Dylan Buckley goal	15.13.103	-	10.19.79	26:33

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