2017 AFL Round 3: Carlton v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 9 April 2017 between Carlton and Essendon during round 3 of the 2017 AFL season. Carlton hosted Essendon at MCG. Marc Murphy captained the hosts. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brendon Bolton and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

Carlton
Back: S. Docherty, C. Marchbank, S. White
Half-back: K. Simpson, S. Rowe, L. Plowman
Centre: S. Kerridge, P. Cripps, E. Curnow
Half-forward: T. Williamson, J. Weitering, J. Silvagni
Forward: M. Wright, L. Casboult, S. Petrevski-Seton
Follower: M. Kreuzer, B. Gibbs, M. Murphy (capt.)
Int.: H. Macreadie, R. Palmer, J. Pickett, D. Thomas

Essendon
Back: M. Baguley, M. Hurley, B. Stanton
Half-back: B. Goddard, P. Ambrose, J. Kelly
Centre: M. Gleeson, D. Heppell (capt.), Z. Merrett
Half-forward: M. Brown, C. Hooker, D. Zaharakis
Forward: K. Langford, J. Daniher, O. Fantasia
Follower: M. Leuenberger, J. Watson, D. Parish
Int.: T. Colyer, H. Hocking, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti, A. McGrath

Carlton (7.15.57) defeated Essendon (6.6.42).

Goalkickers
Carlton: M. Murphy (2), P. Cripps, E. Curnow, S. Kerridge, M. Kreuzer, S. Petrevski-Seton
Essendon: J. Daniher, B. Goddard, C. Hooker, K. Langford, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti, D. Parish

As a result of this match, Carlton were then 14th on the ladder (up from 16th) and Essendon were then 7th on the ladder (down from 6th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2017 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Carlton v Essendon
Date: Sunday 9 April 2017
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 48,022

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Essendon
Score: 7.15.57 - 6.6.42

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Carlton 1 . 5 3 . 10 5 . 14 7 . 15 7 . 15 (57)
Essendon 3 . 1 4 . 3 6 . 4 6 . 6 6 . 6 (42)
Margin ESSE by 8 CARL by 1 CARL by 4 CARL by 15 CARL by 15
Duration 30:00 31:48 29:30 30:05 2:01:23

Honour Roll

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

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: L. Fisher (#3), S. Jeffery (#29), T. Pannell (#28)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Bryce Gibbs CARL 4 3
Marc Murphy CARL 3 2
Sam Rowe CARL 17 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Marc Murphy CARL 3 10 2 0 0 0 0
Bryce Gibbs CARL 4 8 0 2 0 0 0
Brendon Goddard ESSE 9 3 0 0 1 0 0
Matthew Kreuzer CARL 8 3 0 0 1 0 0
Sam Docherty CARL 15 2 0 0 0 1 0
Lachie Plowman CARL 20 2 0 0 0 1 0
Dyson Heppell ESSE 21 1 0 0 0 0 1
Kade Simpson CARL 6 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Carlton

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
41 Casboult, Levi FF 88% 0 0 5 3 2 2 11 3 1 0 1 0 0 4
9 Cripps, Patrick C 82% 1 0 24 14 10 5 0 4 4 3 2 2 1 3
35 Curnow, Ed WR 89% 1 2 24 12 12 2 0 7 7 4 1 1 0 2
15 Docherty, Sam BPL 95% 0 0 20 20 0 9 0 2 0 2 1 0 4 1
4 Gibbs, Bryce RR 79% 0 2 35 21 14 3 0 9 7 7 1 1 1 6
11 Kerridge, Sam WL 81% 1 0 8 5 3 1 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 2
8 Kreuzer, Matthew RU 84% 1 0 14 14 0 1 30 11 8 0 2 0 1 4
26 Macreadie, Harrison INT 81% 0 0 5 2 3 1 0 6 0 1 0 1 1 1
22 Marchbank, Caleb FB 78% 0 0 10 9 1 5 0 7 1 3 1 2 3 0
3 Murphy, Marc (c) RO 88% 2 0 32 23 9 2 0 10 6 2 0 0 1 5
24 Palmer, Rhys INT 69% 0 0 12 6 6 4 0 2 0 6 1 3 0 3
5 Petrevski-Seton, Sam FPR 71% 1 0 17 12 5 3 0 8 0 1 0 0 1 1
33 Pickett, Jarrod INT 65% 0 2 11 7 4 2 0 3 1 5 0 2 0 2
20 Plowman, Lachie HBFR 87% 0 0 18 12 6 6 0 4 0 0 2 0 3 2
17 Rowe, Sam CHB 100% 0 0 15 12 3 4 0 3 0 1 1 0 2 1
1 Silvagni, Jack HFFR 81% 0 2 11 10 1 4 0 8 1 2 2 0 1 2
6 Simpson, Kade HBFL 90% 0 0 21 17 4 3 0 6 4 4 1 1 5 4
39 Thomas, Dale INT 79% 0 0 16 13 3 6 0 3 0 5 0 1 0 3
23 Weitering, Jacob CHF 70% 0 1 10 8 2 4 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 5
43 White, Simon BPR 84% 0 0 17 15 2 8 0 1 1 3 1 0 3 4
31 Williamson, Tom HFFL 76% 0 1 15 9 6 2 0 5 1 0 1 0 2 3
46 Wright, Matthew FPL 84% 0 0 11 5 6 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 2 1
Rushed 5
Total (22 players) 7 15 351 249 102 78 41 110 45 55 21 14 31 59

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
29 Ambrose, Patrick CHB 90% 0 0 13 5 8 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 2
12 Baguley, Mark BPL 91% 0 0 8 5 3 3 0 7 0 5 1 4 4 0
28 Brown, Mitch HFFL 82% 0 0 12 12 0 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 3
32 Colyer, Travis INT 76% 0 0 16 12 4 0 0 6 3 5 0 0 2 0
6 Daniher, Joe FF 92% 1 1 12 5 7 3 6 0 0 4 0 2 1 1
13 Fantasia, Orazio FPR 84% 0 2 9 7 2 0 0 3 1 3 1 2 0 3
8 Gleeson, Martin WL 88% 0 0 14 10 4 2 0 6 0 3 1 0 3 2
9 Goddard, Brendon HBFL 76% 1 0 30 18 12 4 0 8 6 5 1 1 5 3
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) C 81% 0 1 30 19 11 5 0 8 5 7 0 4 3 6
39 Hocking, Heath INT 66% 0 0 10 7 3 1 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 1
26 Hooker, Cale CHF 90% 1 0 10 4 6 2 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1
18 Hurley, Michael FB 89% 0 0 19 13 6 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 10 0
47 Kelly, James HBFR 80% 0 0 20 18 2 3 0 4 1 4 0 1 5 2
30 Langford, Kyle FPL 73% 1 0 6 2 4 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
22 Leuenberger, Matthew RU 82% 0 0 13 7 6 2 46 6 3 7 2 1 1 1
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony INT 75% 1 1 8 3 5 0 0 3 2 2 1 1 1 1
1 McGrath, Andrew INT 81% 0 0 12 6 6 1 0 7 0 4 0 2 2 1
7 Merrett, Zach WR 76% 0 0 29 21 8 1 0 4 6 4 2 1 4 1
3 Parish, Darcy RO 81% 1 0 22 9 13 3 0 4 2 3 0 0 0 3
5 Stanton, Brent BPR 81% 0 0 15 10 5 5 0 5 0 1 0 0 1 3
4 Watson, Jobe RR 81% 0 0 28 16 12 3 0 10 4 6 1 1 1 2
11 Zaharakis, David HFFR 87% 0 0 13 7 6 3 0 5 2 3 0 0 1 1
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 6 6 349 216 133 52 52 99 38 71 14 21 49 37

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
12 M. Baguley 18 M. Hurley 5 B. Stanton 8 M. Kreuzer 26 H. Macreadie
5 S. Petrevski-Seton 41 L. Casboult 46 M. Wright 4 B. Gibbs 24 R. Palmer
FORWARD 3 M. Murphy (c) 33 J. Pickett
HALF-BACK

39 D. Thomas
9 B. Goddard 29 P. Ambrose 47 J. Kelly



1 J. Silvagni 23 J. Weitering 31 T. Williamson



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



8 M. Gleeson 21 D. Heppell (c) 7 Z. Merrett



35 E. Curnow 9 P. Cripps 11 S. Kerridge FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 22 M. Leuenberger 32 T. Colyer
HALF-FORWARD 4 J. Watson 39 H. Hocking
28 M. Brown 26 C. Hooker 11 D. Zaharakis 3 D. Parish 43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
20 L. Plowman 17 S. Rowe 6 K. Simpson

1 A. McGrath
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



30 K. Langford 6 J. Daniher 13 O. Fantasia



43 S. White 22 C. Marchbank 15 S. Docherty



BACK



Essendon Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Orazio Fantasia behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 02:24
CARL Patrick Cripps goal 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 04:09
CARL Jarrod Pickett behind 1.1.7 - 0.1.1 09:26
CARL Ed Curnow behind 1.2.8 - 0.1.1 10:00
ESSE Darcy Parish goal 1.2.8 - 1.1.7 11:35
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 1.2.8 - 2.1.13 14:06
CARL Jack Silvagni behind 1.3.9 - 2.1.13 18:06
CARL Rushed behind 1.4.10 - 2.1.13 19:33
CARL Jacob Weitering behind 1.5.11 - 2.1.13 22:30
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 1.5.11 - 3.1.19 24:01
Q2 ESSE Rushed behind 1.5.11 - 3.2.20 02:58
ESSE Joe Daniher behind 1.5.11 - 3.3.21 04:31
CARL Matthew Kreuzer goal 2.5.17 - 3.3.21 06:51
CARL Rushed behind 2.6.18 - 3.3.21 07:50
CARL Tom Williamson behind 2.7.19 - 3.3.21 10:58
CARL Rushed behind 2.8.20 - 3.3.21 14:29
CARL Marc Murphy goal 3.8.26 - 3.3.21 15:24
ESSE Brendon Goddard goal 3.8.26 - 4.3.27 16:52
CARL Bryce Gibbs behind 3.9.27 - 4.3.27 18:04
CARL Jarrod Pickett behind 3.10.28 - 4.3.27 31:26
Q3 CARL Bryce Gibbs behind 3.11.29 - 4.3.27 01:58
ESSE Dyson Heppell behind 3.11.29 - 4.4.28 05:29
CARL Sam Petrevski-Seton goal 4.11.35 - 4.4.28 07:10
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 4.11.35 - 5.4.34 08:37
CARL Marc Murphy goal 5.11.41 - 5.4.34 15:47
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 5.11.41 - 6.4.40 17:35
CARL Jack Silvagni behind 5.12.42 - 6.4.40 19:14
CARL Rushed behind 5.13.43 - 6.4.40 23:10
CARL Rushed behind 5.14.44 - 6.4.40 26:30
Q4 CARL Ed Curnow goal 6.14.50 - 6.4.40 07:17
ESSE Orazio Fantasia behind 6.14.50 - 6.5.41 17:59
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 6.14.50 - 6.6.42 19:16
CARL Ed Curnow behind 6.15.51 - 6.6.42 23:25
CARL Sam Kerridge goal 7.15.57 - 6.6.42 29:04