2021 AFL Round 2: Port Adelaide v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 27 March 2021 between Port Adelaide and Essendon during round 2 of the 2021 AFL season. Port Adelaide hosted Essendon at Adelaide Oval. Tom Jonas captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Ken Hinkley and the visitors were coached by Ben Rutten.

Port Adelaide
Back: T. Jonas (capt.), A. Aliir, H. Hartlett
Half-back: R. Burton, D. Byrne-Jones, D. Houston
Centre: X. Duursma, O. Wines, K. Amon
Half-forward: S. Motlop, O. Fantasia, K. Farrell
Forward: P. Ladhams, R. Gray, C. Dixon
Follower: S. Lycett, Z. Butters, T. Boak
Int.: M. Bergman, T. Clurey, W. Drew, M. Georgiades
Sub.: T. Rockliff

Essendon
Back: J. Laverde, A. Francis, M. Redman
Half-back: N. Hind, J. Ridley, M. Gleeson
Centre: A. McGrath, Z. Merrett, D. Parish
Half-forward: D. Shiel, H. Jones, W. Snelling
Forward: B. Ham, P. Wright, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
Follower: S. Draper, D. Smith, N. Cox
Int.: N. Cahill, J. Caldwell, C. Hooker, K. Langford
Sub.: T. Cutler

Port Adelaide (18.11.119) defeated Essendon (9.11.65).

Goalkickers
Port Adelaide: C. Dixon (4), M. Georgiades (4), O. Fantasia (2), P. Ladhams (2), S. Motlop (2), K. Amon, Z. Butters, D. Houston, S. Lycett
Essendon: C. Hooker (3), A. McDonald-Tipungwuti (3), N. Cox, K. Langford, W. Snelling

As a result of this match, Port Adelaide remained 1st on the ladder and Essendon were then 17th on the ladder (down from 10th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Port Adelaide v Essendon
Date: Saturday 27 March 2021
Time: 4:05 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 29,978

Match Results

Outcome: Port Adelaide def. Essendon
Score: 18.11.119 - 9.11.65

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Port Adelaide 6 . 1 11 . 6 15 . 10 18 . 11 18 . 11 (119)
Essendon 1 . 4 4 . 7 6 . 8 9 . 11 9 . 11 (65)
Margin PADL by 27 PADL by 41 PADL by 56 PADL by 54 PADL by 54
Duration 31:33 30:56 28:53 30:10 2:01:32

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ken Hinkley (Port Adelaide), Ben Rutten (Essendon)
Captains: Tom Jonas (Port Adelaide), unknown (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: A. Gianfagna (#27), B. Hosking (#16), B. Rosebury (#8), E: T. Bryce (#46)
Goal Umpire: S. Axon, P. Challen, E: D. Hoskin
Boundary Umpire: S. Burton, M. Konetschka, J. Moore, M. Thomson

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Ollie Wines PADL 16 3
Dan Houston PADL 5 2
Zak Butters PADL 18 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Zak Butters PADL 18 10 2 0 0 0 0
Dan Houston PADL 5 8 0 2 0 0 0
Scott Lycett PADL 29 5 0 0 1 1 0
Ollie Wines PADL 16 5 0 0 1 1 0
Travis Boak PADL 10 1 0 0 0 0 1
Darcy Byrne-Jones PADL 33 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Port Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
21 Aliir, Aliir FB 95% 0 0 14 11 3 8 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 1
15 Amon, Karl WR 79% 1 1 20 16 4 7 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 6
14 Bergman, Miles INT 71% 0 0 15 12 3 7 0 1 0 5 1 2 5 0
10 Boak, Travis RO 75% 0 1 30 14 16 1 0 4 9 3 2 0 1 6
3 Burton, Ryan HBFL 79% 0 0 17 11 6 6 0 1 0 3 1 2 1 0
18 Butters, Zak RR 79% 1 0 36 12 24 3 0 6 6 4 2 2 1 3
33 Byrne-Jones, Darcy CHB 85% 0 0 21 13 8 2 0 2 4 4 2 2 2 5
17 Clurey, Tom INT 89% 0 0 10 8 2 4 0 2 0 3 2 1 2 1
22 Dixon, Charlie FPR 94% 4 2 13 8 5 5 0 2 0 6 0 1 0 0
28 Drew, Willem INT 71% 0 1 25 10 15 1 0 1 5 3 1 1 0 4
7 Duursma, Xavier WL 83% 0 0 24 12 12 8 0 4 0 6 1 0 1 4
13 Fantasia, Orazio CHF 88% 2 3 17 14 3 6 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 5
24 Farrell, Kane HFFR 83% 0 0 9 3 6 3 0 3 0 3 0 2 0 2
19 Georgiades, Mitch INT 75% 4 0 13 9 4 8 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
9 Gray, Robbie FF 84% 0 0 16 3 13 6 0 0 2 3 1 1 0 2
8 Hartlett, Hamish BPR 80% 0 1 22 13 9 4 0 3 0 4 2 2 3 3
5 Houston, Dan HBFR 78% 1 0 25 21 4 4 0 4 1 1 0 1 6 6
1 Jonas, Tom (c) BPL 97% 0 0 15 7 8 5 0 1 0 3 1 0 3 2
38 Ladhams, Peter FPL 90% 2 0 11 8 3 3 10 2 1 2 2 1 0 1
29 Lycett, Scott RU 75% 1 0 21 9 12 6 26 0 3 2 1 1 0 4
6 Motlop, Steven HFFL 80% 2 0 21 11 10 6 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 1
11 Rockliff, Tom SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Wines, Ollie C 71% 0 0 38 17 21 0 0 5 5 6 0 0 0 6
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 18 11 433 242 191 103 36 50 39 70 23 20 29 62

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
28 Cahill, Ned INT 71% 0 0 7 2 5 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 1
6 Caldwell, Jye INT↓ 42% 0 0 10 9 1 2 0 3 3 1 2 0 1 3
13 Cox, Nik RO 79% 1 0 13 7 6 3 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 4
12 Cutler, Tom SUB↑ 27% 0 0 10 8 2 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0
2 Draper, Sam RU 65% 0 0 3 2 1 0 17 3 0 2 0 2 0 1
10 Francis, Aaron FB 93% 0 0 9 6 3 5 0 1 0 2 1 1 4 0
8 Gleeson, Martin HBFR 86% 0 0 19 9 10 5 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 1
33 Ham, Brayden FPL 79% 0 1 15 13 2 4 0 3 1 3 2 0 2 5
19 Hind, Nick HBFL 85% 0 0 21 13 8 5 0 3 0 1 1 0 7 0
26 Hooker, Cale INT 85% 3 1 8 5 3 2 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0
23 Jones, Harry CHF 79% 0 0 4 2 2 1 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 2
4 Langford, Kyle INT 73% 1 0 17 8 9 5 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 1
15 Laverde, Jayden BPL 91% 0 0 11 8 3 6 0 3 1 1 0 1 1 3
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony FPR 79% 3 1 15 10 5 2 0 3 2 5 2 3 1 3
1 McGrath, Andrew WL 89% 0 0 24 10 14 3 0 5 2 4 1 2 2 3
7 Merrett, Zach C 89% 0 0 28 13 15 6 0 4 3 3 2 1 3 2
3 Parish, Darcy WR 84% 0 0 16 6 10 1 0 4 4 7 0 2 0 2
27 Redman, Mason BPR 85% 0 0 24 14 10 8 0 3 0 5 0 2 6 0
14 Ridley, Jordan CHB 100% 0 0 32 23 9 7 0 0 0 1 1 0 12 0
9 Shiel, Dylan HFFL 64% 0 2 18 10 8 0 0 2 8 2 1 1 0 2
5 Smith, Devon RR 84% 0 1 13 9 4 5 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 4
40 Snelling, Will HFFR 84% 1 0 11 7 4 4 0 5 0 4 1 2 1 2
20 Wright, Peter FF 86% 0 1 13 4 9 3 7 1 2 3 2 3 1 0
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 9 11 341 198 143 82 26 55 28 62 20 23 44 39

T. Cutler replaced J. Caldwell during the third quarter.

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

Port Adelaide Coach: Ken Hinkley
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
15 J. Laverde 10 A. Francis 27 M. Redman 29 S. Lycett 14 M. Bergman
22 C. Dixon 9 R. Gray 38 P. Ladhams 18 Z. Butters 17 T. Clurey
FORWARD 10 T. Boak 28 W. Drew
HALF-BACK

19 M. Georgiades
19 N. Hind 14 J. Ridley 8 M. Gleeson

11 T. Rockliff
24 K. Farrell 13 O. Fantasia 6 S. Motlop



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



1 A. McGrath 7 Z. Merrett 3 D. Parish



15 K. Amon 16 O. Wines 7 X. Duursma FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 2 S. Draper 28 N. Cahill
HALF-FORWARD 5 D. Smith 6 J. Caldwell
9 D. Shiel 23 H. Jones 40 W. Snelling 13 N. Cox 26 C. Hooker
5 D. Houston 33 D. Byrne-Jones 3 R. Burton

4 K. Langford
HALF-BACK

12 T. Cutler
FORWARD



33 B. Ham 20 P. Wright 43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti



8 H. Hartlett 21 A. Aliir 1 T. Jonas (c)



BACK



Essendon Coach: Ben Rutten

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 PADL Charlie Dixon goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 01:06
PADL Zak Butters goal 2.0.12 - 0.0.0 04:20
PADL Orazio Fantasia behind 2.1.13 - 0.0.0 11:08
PADL Mitch Georgiades goal 3.1.19 - 0.0.0 13:01
PADL Mitch Georgiades goal 4.1.25 - 0.0.0 15:09
PADL Peter Ladhams goal 5.1.31 - 0.0.0 16:29
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 5.1.31 - 1.0.6 18:29
ESSE Peter Wright behind 5.1.31 - 1.1.7 20:22
ESSE Dylan Shiel behind 5.1.31 - 1.2.8 21:58
PADL Charlie Dixon goal 6.1.37 - 1.2.8 26:03
ESSE Dylan Shiel behind 6.1.37 - 1.3.9 29:57
ESSE Rushed behind 6.1.37 - 1.4.10 31:06
Q2 PADL Rushed behind 6.2.38 - 1.4.10 01:17
PADL Travis Boak behind 6.3.39 - 1.4.10 04:17
PADL Karl Amon goal 7.3.45 - 1.4.10 05:58
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 7.3.45 - 2.4.16 07:17
PADL Charlie Dixon goal 8.3.51 - 2.4.16 08:56
PADL Willem Drew behind 8.4.52 - 2.4.16 11:09
ESSE Rushed behind 8.4.52 - 2.5.17 13:13
PADL Peter Ladhams goal 9.4.58 - 2.5.17 14:21
PADL Orazio Fantasia behind 9.5.59 - 2.5.17 15:30
PADL Rushed behind 9.6.60 - 2.5.17 16:11
PADL Steven Motlop goal 10.6.66 - 2.5.17 17:32
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 10.6.66 - 3.5.23 19:49
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 10.6.66 - 4.5.29 23:56
ESSE Rushed behind 10.6.66 - 4.6.30 26:00
PADL Steven Motlop goal 11.6.72 - 4.6.30 27:12
ESSE Brayden Ham behind 11.6.72 - 4.7.31 30:22
Q3 PADL Hamish Hartlett behind 11.7.73 - 4.7.31 02:50
ESSE Cale Hooker behind 11.7.73 - 4.8.32 05:48
PADL Mitch Georgiades goal 12.7.79 - 4.8.32 07:10
PADL Orazio Fantasia goal 13.7.85 - 4.8.32 09:42
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 13.7.85 - 5.8.38 12:23
PADL Karl Amon behind 13.8.86 - 5.8.38 14:10
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 13.8.86 - 6.8.44 14:52
PADL Charlie Dixon goal 14.8.92 - 6.8.44 17:21
PADL Mitch Georgiades goal 15.8.98 - 6.8.44 20:16
PADL Charlie Dixon behind 15.9.99 - 6.8.44 22:47
PADL Orazio Fantasia behind 15.10.100 - 6.8.44 25:01
Q4 ESSE Will Snelling goal 15.10.100 - 7.8.50 00:56
ESSE Nik Cox goal 15.10.100 - 8.8.56 02:50
ESSE Devon Smith behind 15.10.100 - 8.9.57 04:17
PADL Dan Houston goal 16.10.106 - 8.9.57 07:18
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 16.10.106 - 9.9.63 10:44
PADL Scott Lycett goal 17.10.112 - 9.9.63 12:35
PADL Orazio Fantasia goal 18.10.118 - 9.9.63 19:10
ESSE Rushed behind 18.10.118 - 9.10.64 22:48
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 18.10.118 - 9.11.65 25:03
PADL Charlie Dixon behind 18.11.119 - 9.11.65 29:11