2019 AFL Round 5: North Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 19 April 2019 between North Melbourne and Essendon during round 5 of the 2019 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Essendon at Marvel Stadium. Jack Ziebell captained the hosts. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors with Zach Merrett as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

North Melbourne
Back: J. Macmillan, R. Tarrant, J. Pittard
Half-back: J. Simpkin, S. Thompson, S. Atley
Centre: J. Polec, S. Higgins, T. Dumont
Half-forward: A. Hall, J. Ziebell (capt.), M. Wood
Forward: K. Turner, B. Brown, C. Zurhaar
Follower: T. Goldstein, B. Cunnington, J. Anderson
Int.: P. Ahern, L. Davies-Uniacke, B. Scott, S. Wright

Essendon
Back: C. Hooker, P. Ambrose, C. McKenna
Half-back: A. McGrath, M. Hurley, A. Saad
Centre: D. Heppell (capt.), Z. Merrett (vice-capt.), M. Redman
Half-forward: B. Ham, J. Daniher, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
Forward: J. Stringer, M. Brown, M. Baguley
Follower: T. Bellchambers, O. Fantasia, D. Shiel
Int.: M. Guelfi, D. Myers, D. Parish, J. Ridley

North Melbourne (7.16.58) were defeated by Essendon (17.14.116).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: B. Brown (2), P. Ahern, B. Cunnington, J. Pittard, J. Polec, C. Zurhaar
Essendon: O. Fantasia (4), M. Brown (3), J. Daniher (2), A. McDonald-Tipungwuti (2), A. McGrath (2), J. Stringer (2), P. Ambrose, B. Ham

As a result of this match, North Melbourne were then 18th on the ladder (down from 17th) and Essendon were then 7th on the ladder (up from 12th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2019 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Friday 19 April 2019
Time: 4:20 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 48,278

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 7.16.58 - 17.14.116

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 1 . 6 3 . 7 4 . 12 7 . 16 7 . 16 (58)
Essendon 3 . 4 9 . 7 13 . 11 17 . 14 17 . 14 (116)
Margin ESSE by 10 ESSE by 36 ESSE by 53 ESSE by 58 ESSE by 58
Duration 27:43 30:17 29:19 30:06 1:57:25

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (North Melbourne), John Worsfold (Essendon)
Captains: Jack Ziebell (North Melbourne), Dyson Heppell (Essendon)
Vice-Captains: unknown (North Melbourne), Zach Merrett (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: R. Findlay (#23), S. Hay (#20), S. Meredith (#21)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Dylan Shiel ESSE 9 3
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 2
Orazio Fantasia ESSE 13 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Dylan Shiel ESSE 9 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Dyson Heppell ESSE 21 5 ? ? ? ? ?
Orazio Fantasia ESSE 13 4 0 ? ? ? ?
Michael Hurley ESSE 18 4 0 ? ? ? ?
Cale Hooker ESSE 26 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
15 Ahern, Paul INT 63% 1 0 9 5 4 5 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0
3 Anderson, Jed RO 66% 0 0 19 3 16 2 0 10 4 1 0 0 0 1
18 Atley, Shaun HBFR 89% 0 0 21 9 12 4 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 0
50 Brown, Ben FF 100% 2 2 10 7 3 4 0 2 0 1 3 1 0 2
10 Cunnington, Ben RR 80% 1 1 29 8 21 3 0 1 8 3 1 3 1 1
9 Davies-Uniacke, Luke INT 71% 0 2 14 9 5 3 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 7
14 Dumont, Trent WR 87% 0 0 31 20 11 5 0 2 0 5 0 0 3 3
22 Goldstein, Todd RU 87% 0 2 13 4 9 1 25 1 5 2 2 1 0 2
43 Hall, Aaron HFFL 76% 0 1 16 9 7 3 0 4 0 3 1 1 1 4
4 Higgins, Shaun C 82% 0 1 30 15 15 5 0 2 6 4 1 1 0 4
34 Macmillan, Jamie BPL 90% 0 0 24 15 9 8 0 2 0 6 3 2 10 1
17 Pittard, Jasper BPR 83% 1 0 22 16 6 5 0 1 0 6 1 0 3 5
13 Polec, Jared WL 88% 1 1 22 15 7 4 0 1 0 3 0 1 3 4
30 Scott, Bailey INT 67% 0 1 11 5 6 3 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0
12 Simpkin, Jy HBFL 79% 0 0 11 4 7 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1
25 Tarrant, Robbie FB 94% 0 0 17 11 6 8 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 3
16 Thompson, Scott CHB 92% 0 0 16 13 3 5 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0
28 Turner, Kayne FPL 84% 0 0 12 5 7 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 1
32 Wood, Mason HFFR 86% 0 3 12 9 3 4 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 2
19 Wright, Sam INT 72% 0 0 19 8 11 2 0 1 0 6 2 3 2 2
7 Ziebell, Jack (c) CHF 81% 0 0 6 4 2 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 2
44 Zurhaar, Cameron FPR 86% 1 0 14 9 5 6 1 1 1 3 1 1 0 3
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 7 16 378 203 175 86 26 43 26 53 24 21 32 48

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
29 Ambrose, Patrick FB 85% 1 0 6 3 3 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 0
12 Baguley, Mark FPR 93% 0 0 10 4 6 1 0 2 0 6 0 6 0 1
2 Bellchambers, Tom RU 84% 0 1 13 5 8 7 23 0 2 2 0 2 1 1
28 Brown, Mitch FF 97% 3 3 20 13 7 7 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 1
6 Daniher, Joe CHF 86% 2 1 10 7 3 5 6 3 0 5 0 3 0 2
13 Fantasia, Orazio RR 74% 4 1 18 12 6 3 0 4 1 3 3 0 0 4
35 Guelfi, Matt INT 70% 0 0 21 8 13 4 0 2 2 3 0 1 2 0
33 Ham, Brayden HFFL 81% 1 0 10 6 4 3 0 5 0 4 0 1 0 4
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) WL 79% 0 0 32 17 15 10 0 3 5 3 1 1 1 6
26 Hooker, Cale BPL 92% 0 0 22 15 7 11 0 0 0 1 3 0 5 1
18 Hurley, Michael CHB 89% 0 0 25 16 9 12 0 1 0 4 0 0 5 1
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony HFFR 71% 2 0 11 7 4 2 0 4 1 3 2 1 0 2
1 McGrath, Andrew HBFL 82% 2 0 20 11 9 5 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 3
45 McKenna, Conor BPR 89% 0 1 26 17 9 2 0 1 1 3 0 1 6 4
7 Merrett, Zach (vc) C 82% 0 0 39 18 21 4 0 9 7 4 2 1 2 6
23 Myers, David INT 68% 0 0 17 6 11 2 0 4 5 3 0 1 0 2
3 Parish, Darcy INT 79% 0 1 16 11 5 5 0 4 2 4 1 0 1 2
27 Redman, Mason WR 79% 0 0 15 9 6 4 0 4 1 2 1 0 0 3
14 Ridley, Jordan INT 84% 0 0 13 12 1 6 0 2 0 2 1 0 6 0
42 Saad, Adam HBFR 85% 0 0 18 9 9 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 5 1
9 Shiel, Dylan RO 73% 0 1 36 23 13 7 0 3 5 5 1 1 2 10
25 Stringer, Jake FPL 77% 2 2 9 8 1 5 0 5 0 1 1 1 0 1
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 17 14 407 237 170 111 29 58 35 62 21 24 41 55

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

North Melbourne Coach: Brad Scott
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
26 C. Hooker 29 P. Ambrose 45 C. McKenna 22 T. Goldstein 15 P. Ahern
44 C. Zurhaar 50 B. Brown 28 K. Turner 10 B. Cunnington 9 L. Davies-Uniacke
FORWARD 3 J. Anderson 30 B. Scott
HALF-BACK

19 S. Wright
1 A. McGrath 18 M. Hurley 42 A. Saad



32 M. Wood 7 J. Ziebell (c) 43 A. Hall



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



21 D. Heppell (c) 7 Z. Merrett (vc) 27 M. Redman



14 T. Dumont 4 S. Higgins 13 J. Polec FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 2 T. Bellchambers 35 M. Guelfi
HALF-FORWARD 13 O. Fantasia 23 D. Myers
33 B. Ham 6 J. Daniher 43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti 9 D. Shiel 3 D. Parish
18 S. Atley 16 S. Thompson 12 J. Simpkin

14 J. Ridley
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



25 J. Stringer 28 M. Brown 12 M. Baguley



17 J. Pittard 25 R. Tarrant 34 J. Macmillan



BACK



Essendon Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Orazio Fantasia goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 00:52
NMLB Todd Goldstein behind 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 02:43
ESSE Jake Stringer behind 0.1.1 - 1.1.7 04:00
ESSE Joe Daniher behind 0.1.1 - 1.2.8 05:26
NMLB Luke Davies-Uniacke behind 0.2.2 - 1.2.8 07:22
ESSE Orazio Fantasia behind 0.2.2 - 1.3.9 09:05
NMLB Mason Wood behind 0.3.3 - 1.3.9 10:08
ESSE Andrew McGrath goal 0.3.3 - 2.3.15 11:50
NMLB Mason Wood behind 0.4.4 - 2.3.15 13:10
ESSE Mitch Brown behind 0.4.4 - 2.4.16 17:51
NMLB Jasper Pittard goal 1.4.10 - 2.4.16 18:44
NMLB Ben Cunnington behind 1.5.11 - 2.4.16 20:18
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 1.5.11 - 3.4.22 22:01
NMLB Todd Goldstein behind 1.6.12 - 3.4.22 25:08
Q2 ESSE Dylan Shiel behind 1.6.12 - 3.5.23 00:33
NMLB Rushed behind 1.7.13 - 3.5.23 02:17
ESSE Orazio Fantasia goal 1.7.13 - 4.5.29 03:56
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar goal 2.7.19 - 4.5.29 06:00
ESSE Darcy Parish behind 2.7.19 - 4.6.30 16:39
ESSE Andrew McGrath goal 2.7.19 - 5.6.36 17:56
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 2.7.19 - 6.6.42 19:51
ESSE Mitch Brown goal 2.7.19 - 7.6.48 21:13
ESSE Orazio Fantasia goal 2.7.19 - 8.6.54 22:25
NMLB Jared Polec goal 3.7.25 - 8.6.54 25:20
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 3.7.25 - 9.6.60 27:17
ESSE Rushed behind 3.7.25 - 9.7.61 28:42
Q3 ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 3.7.25 - 10.7.67 00:46
ESSE Mitch Brown behind 3.7.25 - 10.8.68 02:50
ESSE Conor McKenna behind 3.7.25 - 10.9.69 03:58
NMLB Aaron Hall behind 3.8.26 - 10.9.69 04:29
ESSE Orazio Fantasia goal 3.8.26 - 11.9.75 05:24
NMLB Bailey Scott behind 3.9.27 - 11.9.75 08:15
NMLB Shaun Higgins behind 3.10.28 - 11.9.75 11:38
ESSE Patrick Ambrose goal 3.10.28 - 12.9.81 13:15
NMLB Rushed behind 3.11.29 - 12.9.81 15:26
ESSE Mitch Brown goal 3.11.29 - 13.9.87 16:12
ESSE Tom Bellchambers behind 3.11.29 - 13.10.88 18:03
ESSE Mitch Brown behind 3.11.29 - 13.11.89 20:13
NMLB Ben Brown goal 4.11.35 - 13.11.89 21:56
NMLB Ben Brown behind 4.12.36 - 13.11.89 25:08
Q4 NMLB Ben Brown behind 4.13.37 - 13.11.89 01:26
NMLB Jared Polec behind 4.14.38 - 13.11.89 04:04
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 4.14.38 - 14.11.95 05:34
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 4.14.38 - 15.11.101 07:11
NMLB Ben Brown goal 5.14.44 - 15.11.101 09:34
NMLB Luke Davies-Uniacke behind 5.15.45 - 15.11.101 11:00
NMLB Mason Wood behind 5.16.46 - 15.11.101 11:39
ESSE Mitch Brown goal 5.16.46 - 16.11.107 12:48
ESSE Jake Stringer behind 5.16.46 - 16.12.108 14:30
NMLB Ben Cunnington goal 6.16.52 - 16.12.108 17:58
ESSE Rushed behind 6.16.52 - 16.13.109 19:55
ESSE Rushed behind 6.16.52 - 16.14.110 20:22
NMLB Paul Ahern goal 7.16.58 - 16.14.110 21:10
ESSE Brayden Ham goal 7.16.58 - 17.14.116 25:59