2018 AFL Season Round 22: Richmond v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 17 August 2018 between Richmond and Essendon during round twenty-two of the 2018 season of the Australian Football League. Richmond hosted Essendon at the MCG. In the absence of Trent Cotchin, vice-captain Alex Rance captained the hosts. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

Richmond (12.9.81) defeated Essendon (11.7.73).

Match Details

Season: 2018 AFL Season
Round: Round 22
Teams: Richmond v Essendon
Date: Friday 17 August 2018
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 76,424

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. Essendon
Score: 12.9.81 - 11.7.73

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Richmond	4	.	0	5	.	6	10	.	8	12	.	9	12	.	9	(81)
Essendon	2	.	3	4	.	4	7	.	5	11	.	7	11	.	7	(73)
Margin	RICH by 9			RICH by 8			RICH by 21			RICH by 8			RICH by 8
Duration	27:22			27:47			29:40			28:06			1:52:55

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Richmond

Captain: Alex Rance (acting)
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Essendon

Captain: Dyson Heppell
Coach: John Worsfold

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Chamberlain (#18)
D. Harris (#24)
S. McInerney (#30)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Dustin Martin	RICH	4	3
Devon Smith	ESSE	5	2
Josh Caddy	RICH	22	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Dustin Martin	RICH	4	8	?	?	?	0	0
Josh Caddy	RICH	22	7	?	?	?	?	0
Devon Smith	ESSE	5	6	?	?	?	?	?
Dylan Grimes	RICH	2	5	?	?	?	?	?
Aaron Francis	ESSE	10	2	0	0	0	?	?
Shaun Grigg	RICH	6	2	0	0	0	?	?

Player Statistics

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
48	Baker, Liam	INT	71%	1	0	8	5	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
35	Broad, Nathan	INT	78%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	3	1	3	0	0
22	Caddy, Josh	FPR	88%	4	0	17	9	8	5	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	1
11	Castagna, Jason	HFFR	67%	1	0	9	4	5	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	1
30	Conca, Reece	INT	72%	0	1	21	11	10	2	0	5	5	0	0	0	1	2
10	Edwards, Shane	C	87%	0	1	20	7	13	7	0	4	2	4	0	0	2	3
5	Ellis, Brandon	WL	79%	0	0	22	11	11	5	0	4	0	4	1	1	3	4
42	Garthwaite, Ryan	BPL	84%	0	0	11	4	7	4	0	4	0	3	0	1	3	1
34	Graham, Jack	RR	80%	0	1	15	10	5	0	0	6	1	5	1	5	0	4
6	Grigg, Shaun	RO	82%	0	0	23	11	12	4	1	3	6	8	1	4	3	3
2	Grimes, Dylan	BPR	90%	0	0	13	9	4	6	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	2
28	Higgins, Jack	FPL	75%	0	0	14	4	10	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
14	Houli, Bachar	HBFR	78%	0	1	20	12	8	7	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	6
27	Lloyd, Sam	INT	71%	0	0	16	9	7	5	0	2	2	2	1	1	0	5
4	Martin, Dustin	FF	88%	4	0	26	14	12	10	0	1	3	5	0	2	0	6
33	McIntosh, Kamdyn	WR	79%	0	0	20	13	7	4	0	3	4	0	0	0	2	4
25	Nankervis, Toby	RU	81%	0	0	16	8	8	2	21	4	4	4	1	3	1	1
18	Rance, Alex (ac)	FB	96%	0	0	17	9	8	4	0	2	0	3	3	2	2	1
8	Riewoldt, Jack	CHF	100%	2	2	14	12	2	5	3	3	0	5	0	3	0	2
17	Rioli, Daniel	HFFL	82%	0	2	17	7	10	6	0	7	1	3	1	1	0	2
15	Short, Jayden	HBFL	83%	0	0	25	19	6	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	4	4
1	Vlastuin, Nick	CHB	90%	0	0	13	9	4	5	0	3	0	3	1	1	3	2
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				12	9	361	199	162	89	25	62	30	63	15	27	29	58

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
12	Baguley, Mark	BPR	86%	1	0	7	4	3	4	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	0
2	Bellchambers, Tom	RU	89%	1	0	13	6	7	7	39	1	3	5	1	3	2	2
28	Brown, Mitch	CHF	97%	2	0	10	9	1	4	0	4	0	1	2	0	0	3
32	Colyer, Travis	FPR	69%	1	0	11	6	5	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
49	Dea, Matt	BPL	90%	0	0	16	13	3	6	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	0
10	Francis, Aaron	INT	88%	0	0	13	12	1	8	0	1	0	1	2	0	4	2
9	Goddard, Brendon	HBFL	79%	0	0	21	10	11	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1
35	Guelfi, Matt	INT	62%	0	0	13	4	9	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4
21	Heppell, Dyson (c)	RR	83%	0	0	25	14	11	6	0	6	4	3	3	1	3	4
26	Hooker, Cale	CHB	98%	3	1	14	8	6	3	0	3	0	4	3	2	0	2
18	Hurley, Michael	FB	100%	0	0	16	11	5	6	0	1	0	2	1	0	4	1
4	Langford, Kyle	INT	75%	0	0	15	5	10	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1
43	McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony	FPL	72%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	5	2	1	2	1	0	2
1	McGrath, Andrew	HFFL	79%	0	0	21	11	10	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	5	1
45	McKenna, Conor	HBFR	85%	0	0	23	10	13	4	0	1	1	4	1	0	7	1
7	Merrett, Zach	C	77%	0	1	25	11	14	6	0	4	5	3	3	2	2	4
23	Myers, David	RO	71%	0	0	15	10	5	1	0	4	4	3	2	0	0	1
3	Parish, Darcy	INT	68%	1	1	18	11	7	5	0	5	3	2	0	0	3	2
42	Saad, Adam	WR	78%	0	0	17	11	6	1	0	3	0	4	1	2	7	1
5	Smith, Devon	HFFR	83%	1	0	28	15	13	6	0	5	9	4	3	1	2	4
25	Stringer, Jake	FF	84%	1	2	13	11	2	3	3	3	3	3	0	0	0	2
11	Zaharakis, David	WL	87%	0	1	30	14	16	6	0	4	4	1	1	1	1	4
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				11	7	371	210	161	97	42	56	40	54	27	15	44	45

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

Richmond							Coach: Damien Hardwick
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	49	M. Dea	18	M. Hurley	12	M. Baguley	25	T. Nankervis	48	L. Baker
	22	J. Caddy	4	D. Martin	28	J. Higgins	34	J. Graham	35	N. Broad
FORWARD							6	S. Grigg	30	R. Conca
HALF-BACK									27	S. Lloyd
	9	B. Goddard	26	C. Hooker	45	C. McKenna
	11	J. Castagna	8	J. Riewoldt	17	D. Rioli
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	11	D. Zaharakis	7	Z. Merrett	42	A. Saad
	33	K. McIntosh	10	S. Edwards	5	B. Ellis	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	T. Bellchambers	10	A. Francis
HALF-FORWARD							21	D. Heppell (c)	35	M. Guelfi
	1	A. McGrath	28	M. Brown	5	D. Smith	23	D. Myers	4	K. Langford
	14	B. Houli	1	N. Vlastuin	15	J. Short			3	D. Parish
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	43	A. McDonald-Tipungwuti	25	J. Stringer	32	T. Colyer
	2	D. Grimes	18	A. Rance (ac)	42	R. Garthwaite
BACK
Essendon							Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:02
	ESSE	Mark Baguley goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:44
	RICH	Jack Riewoldt goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	07:58
	ESSE	Mitch Brown goal	1.0.6	-	2.1.13	09:51
	RICH	Josh Caddy goal	2.0.12	-	2.1.13	11:22
	RICH	Jason Castagna goal	3.0.18	-	2.1.13	16:30
	RICH	Dustin Martin goal	4.0.24	-	2.1.13	18:42
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	4.0.24	-	2.2.14	21:13
	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	4.0.24	-	2.3.15	26:02
Q2	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	4.0.24	-	3.3.21	00:40
	RICH	Shane Edwards behind	4.1.25	-	3.3.21	02:20
	RICH	Rushed behind	4.2.26	-	3.3.21	08:48
	ESSE	Devon Smith goal	4.2.26	-	4.3.27	10:31
	RICH	Jack Riewoldt behind	4.3.27	-	4.3.27	13:36
	RICH	Jack Graham behind	4.4.28	-	4.3.27	16:17
	RICH	Reece Conca behind	4.5.29	-	4.3.27	17:08
	ESSE	Darcy Parish behind	4.5.29	-	4.4.28	22:56
	RICH	Bachar Houli behind	4.6.30	-	4.4.28	24:40
	RICH	Josh Caddy goal	5.6.36	-	4.4.28	26:33
Q3	RICH	Dustin Martin goal	6.6.42	-	4.4.28	01:15
	RICH	Daniel Rioli behind	6.7.43	-	4.4.28	05:59
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.7.43	-	4.5.29	08:51
	RICH	Josh Caddy goal	7.7.49	-	4.5.29	11:14
	RICH	Josh Caddy goal	8.7.55	-	4.5.29	13:02
	ESSE	Darcy Parish goal	8.7.55	-	5.5.35	14:10
	RICH	Jack Riewoldt behind	8.8.56	-	5.5.35	18:44
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	8.8.56	-	6.5.41	20:11
	RICH	Dustin Martin goal	9.8.62	-	6.5.41	22:42
	RICH	Liam Baker goal	10.8.68	-	6.5.41	26:59
	ESSE	Mitch Brown goal	10.8.68	-	7.5.47	28:43
Q4	RICH	Jack Riewoldt goal	11.8.74	-	7.5.47	02:19
	RICH	Dustin Martin goal	12.8.80	-	7.5.47	04:01
	ESSE	Cale Hooker goal	12.8.80	-	8.5.53	05:55
	ESSE	Cale Hooker goal	12.8.80	-	9.5.59	10:31
	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	12.8.80	-	9.6.60	15:13
	RICH	Daniel Rioli behind	12.9.81	-	9.6.60	16:55
	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers goal	12.9.81	-	10.6.66	21:02
	ESSE	Cale Hooker goal	12.9.81	-	11.6.72	23:24
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	12.9.81	-	11.7.73	25:50

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