2017 AFL Season Round 7: Fremantle v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 7 May 2017 between Fremantle and Essendon during round seven of the 2017 season of the Australian Football League. Fremantle hosted Essendon at Domain Stadium. Nat Fyfe captained the hosts. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ross Lyon and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

Fremantle (17.14.116) defeated Essendon (11.13.79).

Match Details

Season: 2017 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Fremantle v Essendon
Date: Sunday 7 May 2017
Time: 2:40 PM
Venue: Domain Stadium
Attendance: 33,393

Match Results

Outcome: Fremantle def. Essendon
Score: 17.14.116 - 11.13.79

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Fremantle 2 . 2 5 . 6 11 . 10 17 . 14 17 . 14 (116)
Essendon 4 . 3 7 . 7 11 . 12 11 . 13 11 . 13 (79)
Margin ESSE by 13 ESSE by 13 ESSE by 2 FREM by 37 FREM by 37
Duration 30:15 29:57 33:21 31:06 2:04:39

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Fremantle

Captain: Nat Fyfe
Coach: Ross Lyon

Essendon

Captain: Dyson Heppell
Coach: John Worsfold

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

T. Pannell (#28)
J. Schmitt (#17)
N. Williamson (#22)
E: M. Adams (#42)

Goal Umpires

S. Boud
B. Rogers
E: S. Hunter

Boundary Umpires

A. Bastick
B. Dalgleish
J. Garrett
R. Kukura

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Lachie Neale FREM 27 3
Bradley Hill FREM 9 2
Connor Blakely FREM 19 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Bradley Hill FREM 9 10 2 0 0 0 0
Lachie Neale FREM 27 8 0 2 0 0 0
Matt Taberner FREM 20 6 0 0 2 0 0
Connor Blakely FREM 19 2 0 0 0 1 0
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 2 0 0 0 1 0
Joe Daniher ESSE 6 1 0 0 0 0 1
Cale Hooker ESSE 26 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Fremantle

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
24 Balic, Harley FPR 69% 1 1 10 4 6 2 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 1
19 Blakely, Connor INT 72% 0 0 29 13 16 9 0 3 4 1 0 0 1 3
17 Crozier, Hayden HFFL 77% 1 1 11 5 6 5 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 1
7 Fyfe, Nat (c) RR 84% 2 0 26 12 14 3 0 2 8 3 5 1 0 4
28 Grey, Brady FPL 81% 2 0 9 5 4 3 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 0
21 Hamling, Joel FB 99% 0 0 15 9 6 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
9 Hill, Bradley WR 88% 1 1 37 30 7 16 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 6
15 Hughes, Ethan INT 80% 0 0 16 12 4 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 5
5 Ibbotson, Garrick BPL 84% 0 0 14 13 1 7 0 1 0 2 2 1 3 1
37 Johnson, Michael CHB 93% 0 0 17 12 5 5 0 3 0 1 2 1 6 1
22 Kersten, Shane CHF 88% 2 3 16 13 3 9 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 7
26 Langdon, Ed HBFR 83% 0 0 19 8 11 2 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 3
23 McCarthy, Cam FF 93% 2 1 12 9 3 7 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 3
16 Mundy, David RO 70% 1 1 20 11 9 5 1 0 4 3 0 1 0 5
27 Neale, Lachie C 86% 1 1 39 16 23 4 0 5 9 0 2 0 1 4
31 Sandilands, Aaron RU 76% 0 0 9 0 9 1 51 1 3 1 1 0 0 0
34 Spurr, Lee BPR 84% 0 0 19 13 6 11 0 2 1 2 0 2 2 1
33 Sutcliffe, Cam WL 77% 0 0 17 11 6 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
20 Taberner, Matt INT 88% 4 1 18 13 5 9 7 1 1 5 1 2 1 1
18 Tucker, Darcy INT 65% 0 1 17 9 8 6 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1
10 Walters, Michael HFFR 79% 0 0 26 9 17 4 0 5 6 4 1 2 0 6
14 Weller, Lachie HBFL 84% 0 0 19 12 7 5 0 2 2 3 0 1 3 2
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 17 14 415 239 176 134 59 39 42 42 21 12 28 56

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
12 Baguley, Mark HBFL 91% 0 0 11 5 6 3 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 0
32 Colyer, Travis WL 71% 0 1 15 7 8 1 0 2 1 2 0 0 3 3
6 Daniher, Joe FF 95% 3 0 20 8 12 7 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 5
49 Dea, Matt BPL 86% 0 0 8 5 3 1 0 1 0 3 0 2 2 0
13 Fantasia, Orazio HFFL 82% 0 2 13 6 7 5 0 3 0 2 2 1 1 2
10 Francis, Aaron HBFR 85% 0 3 13 6 7 4 0 3 0 3 0 1 1 1
8 Gleeson, Martin BPR 74% 1 0 9 6 3 2 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 0
9 Goddard, Brendon C 78% 0 0 25 10 15 6 0 5 3 4 1 2 2 5
15 Green, Josh INT 78% 1 2 10 9 1 3 0 4 2 1 0 1 0 1
36 Hartley, Michael CHB 89% 0 0 9 3 6 5 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) RO 84% 1 0 23 11 12 6 0 5 4 3 0 2 1 5
26 Hooker, Cale CHF 87% 2 2 19 13 6 10 0 1 1 5 1 2 0 3
18 Hurley, Michael FB 90% 1 0 24 17 7 9 0 1 0 2 0 1 6 3
47 Kelly, James WR 85% 0 0 13 5 8 2 0 4 0 2 0 0 3 1
22 Leuenberger, Matthew RU 87% 0 0 11 3 8 0 16 7 4 3 1 1 1 0
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony FPL 75% 1 1 9 7 2 4 0 4 0 2 0 1 0 3
45 McKenna, Conor INT 79% 0 0 8 6 2 5 0 4 1 2 0 1 3 1
7 Merrett, Zach RR 76% 1 0 28 20 8 6 0 7 5 5 2 2 4 3
23 Myers, David FPR 79% 0 0 13 9 4 4 0 0 0 4 0 2 3 1
3 Parish, Darcy INT 69% 0 0 18 7 11 3 0 3 1 1 1 0 2 0
5 Stanton, Brent INT 77% 0 1 17 9 8 3 0 2 3 3 0 0 0 3
11 Zaharakis, David HFFR 82% 0 0 14 9 5 3 0 4 2 1 0 0 2 1
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 11 13 330 181 149 92 18 66 27 54 12 21 34 41

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

Fremantle Coach: Ross Lyon
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
49 M. Dea 18 M. Hurley 8 M. Gleeson 31 A. Sandilands 19 C. Blakely
24 H. Balic 23 C. McCarthy 28 B. Grey 7 N. Fyfe (c) 15 E. Hughes
FORWARD 16 D. Mundy 20 M. Taberner
HALF-BACK

18 D. Tucker
12 M. Baguley 36 M. Hartley 10 A. Francis



10 M. Walters 22 S. Kersten 17 H. Crozier



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



32 T. Colyer 9 B. Goddard 47 J. Kelly



9 B. Hill 27 L. Neale 33 C. Sutcliffe FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 22 M. Leuenberger 15 J. Green
HALF-FORWARD 7 Z. Merrett 45 C. McKenna
13 O. Fantasia 26 C. Hooker 11 D. Zaharakis 21 D. Heppell (c) 3 D. Parish
26 E. Langdon 37 M. Johnson 14 L. Weller

5 B. Stanton
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti 6 J. Daniher 23 D. Myers



34 L. Spurr 21 J. Hamling 5 G. Ibbotson



BACK



Essendon Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Aaron Francis behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 02:52
ESSE Dyson Heppell goal 0.0.0 - 1.1.7 03:32
FREM Matt Taberner goal 1.0.6 - 1.1.7 06:48
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 1.0.6 - 2.1.13 08:13
ESSE Orazio Fantasia behind 1.0.6 - 2.2.14 11:19
ESSE Orazio Fantasia behind 1.0.6 - 2.3.15 14:23
FREM Lachie Neale goal 2.0.12 - 2.3.15 16:39
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 2.0.12 - 3.3.21 19:19
ESSE Zach Merrett goal 2.0.12 - 4.3.27 21:11
FREM Hayden Crozier behind 2.1.13 - 4.3.27 23:49
FREM Shane Kersten behind 2.2.14 - 4.3.27 27:22
Q2 ESSE Cale Hooker behind 2.2.14 - 4.4.28 01:19
FREM Shane Kersten goal 3.2.20 - 4.4.28 06:15
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 3.2.20 - 5.4.34 08:13
ESSE Rushed behind 3.2.20 - 5.5.35 10:35
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 3.2.20 - 5.6.36 11:53
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 3.2.20 - 6.6.42 14:52
FREM Shane Kersten behind 3.3.21 - 6.6.42 16:30
ESSE Martin Gleeson goal 3.3.21 - 7.6.48 17:12
FREM Darcy Tucker behind 3.4.22 - 7.6.48 18:30
FREM Hayden Crozier goal 4.4.28 - 7.6.48 21:03
ESSE Josh Green behind 4.4.28 - 7.7.49 22:15
FREM Shane Kersten behind 4.5.29 - 7.7.49 25:25
FREM Matt Taberner behind 4.6.30 - 7.7.49 27:41
FREM Matt Taberner goal 5.6.36 - 7.7.49 28:48
Q3 FREM Nat Fyfe goal 6.6.42 - 7.7.49 01:11
ESSE Michael Hurley goal 6.6.42 - 8.7.55 04:32
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 6.6.42 - 9.7.61 05:35
FREM Shane Kersten goal 7.6.48 - 9.7.61 06:53
ESSE Cale Hooker behind 7.6.48 - 9.8.62 08:48
FREM Bradley Hill goal 8.6.54 - 9.8.62 09:34
ESSE Travis Colyer behind 8.6.54 - 9.9.63 11:22
ESSE Brent Stanton behind 8.6.54 - 9.10.64 12:27
FREM Brady Grey goal 9.6.60 - 9.10.64 14:11
FREM Rushed behind 9.7.61 - 9.10.64 15:41
FREM Harley Balic behind 9.8.62 - 9.10.64 17:46
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 9.8.62 - 10.10.70 19:43
FREM David Mundy behind 9.9.63 - 10.10.70 21:18
FREM Matt Taberner goal 10.9.69 - 10.10.70 22:41
ESSE Aaron Francis behind 10.9.69 - 10.11.71 24:05
ESSE Josh Green goal 10.9.69 - 11.11.77 24:55
FREM Cam McCarthy behind 10.10.70 - 11.11.77 26:47
ESSE Aaron Francis behind 10.10.70 - 11.12.78 29:17
FREM David Mundy goal 11.10.76 - 11.12.78 29:56
Q4 FREM Rushed behind 11.11.77 - 11.12.78 02:22
FREM Cam McCarthy goal 12.11.83 - 11.12.78 06:16
FREM Matt Taberner goal 13.11.89 - 11.12.78 08:23
ESSE Josh Green behind 13.11.89 - 11.13.79 11:03
FREM Bradley Hill behind 13.12.90 - 11.13.79 12:55
FREM Lachie Neale behind 13.13.91 - 11.13.79 16:24
FREM Cam McCarthy goal 14.13.97 - 11.13.79 19:26
FREM Rushed behind 14.14.98 - 11.13.79 23:10
FREM Nat Fyfe goal 15.14.104 - 11.13.79 23:38
FREM Harley Balic goal 16.14.110 - 11.13.79 25:48
FREM Brady Grey goal 17.14.116 - 11.13.79 29:19