2020 AFL Round 16: Geelong v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 6 September 2020 between Geelong and Essendon during round 16 of the 2020 AFL season. Geelong hosted Essendon at Gabba. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

Geelong
Back: J. Kolodjashnij, L. Henderson, H. Taylor
Half-back: J. Henry, M. Blicavs, T. Stewart
Centre: M. O'Connor, P. Dangerfield, S. Menegola
Half-forward: L. Dahlhaus, G. Rohan, T. Atkins
Forward: J. Bews, T. Hawkins, G. Miers
Follower: J. Jenkins, C. Guthrie, B. Parfitt
Int.: B. Close, M. Duncan, L. Fogarty, Z. Guthrie

Essendon
Back: M. Gleeson, M. Hurley, B. Zerk-Thatcher
Half-back: M. Guelfi, J. Ridley, A. Saad
Centre: K. Langford, D. Smith, Z. Merrett
Half-forward: W. Snelling, C. Hooker, I. Mosquito
Forward: J. Stringer, J. Stewart, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
Follower: S. Draper, D. Shiel, D. Parish
Int.: D. Clarke, D. Heppell (capt.), M. Redman, J. Townsend

Geelong (17.6.108) defeated Essendon (5.12.42).

Goalkickers
Geelong: T. Hawkins (4), G. Miers (3), J. Bews (2), M. Blicavs (2), P. Dangerfield (2), S. Menegola (2), L. Dahlhaus, G. Rohan
Essendon: M. Redman, D. Shiel, J. Stewart, J. Stringer, J. Townsend

As a result of this match, Geelong were then 3rd on the ladder (up from 4th) and Essendon were then 12th on the ladder (down from 11th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2020 AFL Season
Round: Round 16
Teams: Geelong v Essendon
Date: Sunday 6 September 2020
Time: 3:35 PM
Venue: Gabba
Attendance: 5,011

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Essendon
Score: 17.6.108 - 5.12.42

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Geelong 6 . 2 12 . 3 14 . 4 17 . 6 17 . 6 (108)
Essendon 1 . 2 2 . 4 3 . 8 5 . 12 5 . 12 (42)
Margin GEEL by 30 GEEL by 59 GEEL by 62 GEEL by 66 GEEL by 66
Duration 26:01 27:49 22:58 24:32 1:41:20

Honour Roll

Coaches: Chris Scott (Geelong), John Worsfold (Essendon)
Captains: unknown (Geelong), Dyson Heppell (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Deboy (#11), R. O'Gorman (#10), M. Stevic (#9)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Sam Menegola GEEL 27 3
Tom Hawkins GEEL 26 2
Cameron Guthrie GEEL 29 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Sam Menegola GEEL 27 10 2 0 0 0 0
Tom Hawkins GEEL 26 8 0 2 0 0 0
Patrick Dangerfield GEEL 35 5 0 0 1 1 0
Mitch Duncan GEEL 22 3 0 0 1 0 0
Gryan Miers GEEL 32 2 0 0 0 1 0
Jed Bews GEEL 24 1 0 0 0 0 1
Tom Stewart GEEL 44 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Geelong

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
30 Atkins, Tom HFFR 83% 0 0 14 2 12 1 0 3 3 2 1 0 0 1
24 Bews, Jed FPL 88% 2 1 12 10 2 8 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2
46 Blicavs, Mark CHB 71% 2 0 7 4 3 1 15 5 4 2 2 1 0 2
45 Close, Brad INT 77% 0 0 10 2 8 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1
40 Dahlhaus, Luke HFFL 90% 1 0 16 5 11 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 Dangerfield, Patrick C 90% 2 1 17 11 6 6 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 2
22 Duncan, Mitch INT 68% 0 0 19 13 6 7 0 4 0 3 0 1 2 5
13 Fogarty, Lachie INT 67% 0 0 14 8 6 2 0 2 3 1 1 0 0 4
29 Guthrie, Cameron RR 74% 0 0 24 9 15 4 0 3 3 5 2 1 1 4
39 Guthrie, Zach INT 83% 0 0 14 10 4 4 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
26 Hawkins, Tom FF 96% 4 1 17 12 5 7 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 1
25 Henderson, Lachie FB 93% 0 0 15 13 2 10 0 1 0 2 1 2 5 0
38 Henry, Jack HBFL 76% 0 0 12 10 2 6 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 1
11 Jenkins, Josh RU 87% 0 0 14 8 6 3 7 4 2 0 1 0 1 4
8 Kolodjashnij, Jake BPL 96% 0 0 8 7 1 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 Menegola, Sam WR 83% 2 0 30 17 13 6 0 2 8 2 0 0 1 5
32 Miers, Gryan FPR 85% 3 0 15 12 3 6 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 5
42 O'Connor, Mark WL 80% 0 0 7 4 3 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1
3 Parfitt, Brandan RO 86% 0 0 17 6 11 3 0 7 2 2 0 0 0 2
23 Rohan, Gary CHF 54% 1 1 6 5 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
44 Stewart, Tom HBFR 80% 0 1 24 18 6 10 0 2 0 2 0 1 8 2
7 Taylor, Harry BPR 95% 0 0 11 8 3 3 0 4 0 4 1 2 1 0
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 17 6 323 194 129 101 23 51 31 36 16 11 25 45

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
37 Clarke, Dylan INT 71% 0 0 12 2 10 0 0 5 1 2 2 1 2 0
38 Draper, Sam RU 80% 0 1 9 8 1 3 26 2 1 2 1 2 1 1
8 Gleeson, Martin BPL 75% 0 0 6 4 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
35 Guelfi, Matt HBFL 79% 0 0 13 6 7 2 0 3 1 2 1 0 1 2
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) INT 86% 0 1 8 3 5 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 0
26 Hooker, Cale CHF 99% 0 1 9 7 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
18 Hurley, Michael FB 88% 0 0 7 5 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1
4 Langford, Kyle WL 82% 0 2 16 13 3 5 0 4 0 1 2 0 1 3
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony FPR 86% 0 2 10 4 6 3 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0
7 Merrett, Zach WR 88% 0 0 24 7 17 1 0 3 6 2 1 1 0 2
22 Mosquito, Irving HFFR 52% 0 1 6 3 3 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1
3 Parish, Darcy RO 82% 0 0 16 6 10 1 0 4 4 1 0 0 2 3
27 Redman, Mason INT 77% 1 0 11 8 3 6 0 1 1 5 1 3 2 1
14 Ridley, Jordan CHB 96% 0 0 14 9 5 2 0 3 1 3 0 2 4 0
42 Saad, Adam HBFR 82% 0 0 11 8 3 2 0 5 0 2 0 0 2 2
9 Shiel, Dylan RR 86% 1 1 20 13 7 2 0 0 3 4 0 1 2 6
5 Smith, Devon C 90% 0 0 20 13 7 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2
40 Snelling, Will HFFL 83% 0 0 12 4 8 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2
17 Stewart, James FF 76% 1 0 11 5 6 3 3 2 1 3 1 1 1 3
25 Stringer, Jake FPL 82% 1 1 8 6 2 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
20 Townsend, Jacob INT 79% 1 0 7 5 2 0 0 5 0 2 1 1 0 1
30 Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon BPR 79% 0 1 3 2 1 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 5 12 253 141 112 54 29 49 22 39 11 16 28 30

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

Geelong Coach: Chris Scott
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
8 M. Gleeson 18 M. Hurley 30 B. Zerk-Thatcher 11 J. Jenkins 45 B. Close
32 G. Miers 26 T. Hawkins 24 J. Bews 29 C. Guthrie 22 M. Duncan
FORWARD 3 B. Parfitt 13 L. Fogarty
HALF-BACK

39 Z. Guthrie
35 M. Guelfi 14 J. Ridley 42 A. Saad



30 T. Atkins 23 G. Rohan 40 L. Dahlhaus



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



4 K. Langford 5 D. Smith 7 Z. Merrett



27 S. Menegola 35 P. Dangerfield 42 M. O'Connor FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 38 S. Draper 37 D. Clarke
HALF-FORWARD 9 D. Shiel 21 D. Heppell (c)
40 W. Snelling 26 C. Hooker 22 I. Mosquito 3 D. Parish 27 M. Redman
44 T. Stewart 46 M. Blicavs 38 J. Henry

20 J. Townsend
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



25 J. Stringer 17 J. Stewart 43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti



7 H. Taylor 25 L. Henderson 8 J. Kolodjashnij



BACK



Essendon Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Irving Mosquito behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 00:36
GEEL Mark Blicavs goal 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 01:44
GEEL Jed Bews behind 1.1.7 - 0.1.1 03:35
GEEL Gary Rohan goal 2.1.13 - 0.1.1 04:43
ESSE Cale Hooker behind 2.1.13 - 0.2.2 07:08
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 3.1.19 - 0.2.2 08:37
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 4.1.25 - 0.2.2 10:56
GEEL Luke Dahlhaus goal 5.1.31 - 0.2.2 12:52
GEEL Patrick Dangerfield goal 6.1.37 - 0.2.2 18:13
ESSE James Stewart goal 6.1.37 - 1.2.8 21:49
GEEL Gary Rohan behind 6.2.38 - 1.2.8 23:40
Q2 GEEL Sam Menegola goal 7.2.44 - 1.2.8 04:33
GEEL Gryan Miers goal 8.2.50 - 1.2.8 06:30
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 9.2.56 - 1.2.8 08:21
GEEL Jed Bews goal 10.2.62 - 1.2.8 10:57
ESSE Rushed behind 10.2.62 - 1.3.9 15:01
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 10.2.62 - 1.4.10 16:44
GEEL Gryan Miers goal 11.2.68 - 1.4.10 19:44
GEEL Rushed behind 11.3.69 - 1.4.10 22:50
GEEL Jed Bews goal 12.3.75 - 1.4.10 25:50
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 12.3.75 - 2.4.16 27:46
Q3 GEEL Tom Hawkins behind 12.4.76 - 2.4.16 05:22
ESSE Sam Draper behind 12.4.76 - 2.5.17 07:29
GEEL Gryan Miers goal 13.4.82 - 2.5.17 09:51
ESSE Jake Stringer behind 13.4.82 - 2.6.18 14:01
ESSE Dylan Shiel goal 13.4.82 - 3.6.24 15:02
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 13.4.82 - 3.7.25 16:29
ESSE Brandon Zerk-Thatcher behind 13.4.82 - 3.8.26 19:31
GEEL Sam Menegola goal 14.4.88 - 3.8.26 21:45
Q4 ESSE Kyle Langford behind 14.4.88 - 3.9.27 02:33
GEEL Patrick Dangerfield behind 14.5.89 - 3.9.27 03:41
GEEL Tom Stewart behind 14.6.90 - 3.9.27 06:04
ESSE Dylan Shiel behind 14.6.90 - 3.10.28 06:50
ESSE Dyson Heppell behind 14.6.90 - 3.11.29 09:35
GEEL Mark Blicavs goal 15.6.96 - 3.11.29 11:06
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 16.6.102 - 3.11.29 12:31
ESSE Mason Redman goal 16.6.102 - 4.11.35 16:42
ESSE Jacob Townsend goal 16.6.102 - 5.11.41 19:30
GEEL Patrick Dangerfield goal 17.6.108 - 5.11.41 21:53
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 17.6.108 - 5.12.42 24:03