2021 AFL Season Round 8: Greater Western Sydney v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 8 May 2021 between Greater Western Sydney and Essendon during round eight of the 2021 season of the Australian Football League. Greater Western Sydney hosted Essendon at GIANTS Stadium. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Leon Cameron and the visitors were coached by Ben Rutten.

Greater Western Sydney (16.11.107) defeated Essendon (16.9.105).

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Greater Western Sydney v Essendon
Date: Saturday 8 May 2021
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: GIANTS Stadium
Attendance: 8,526

Match Results

Outcome: Greater Western Sydney def. Essendon
Score: 16.11.107 - 16.9.105

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Greater Western Sydney	6	.	2	7	.	4	14	.	8	16	.	11	16	.	11	(107)
Essendon	2	.	2	5	.	7	10	.	7	16	.	9	16	.	9	(105)
Margin	GWSY by 24			GWSY by 9			GWSY by 25			GWSY by 2			GWSY by 2
Duration	31:15			27:18			34:48			32:42			2:06:03

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Leon Cameron

Essendon

Captain: Dyson Heppell
Coach: Ben Rutten

Match Umpires

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tim Taranto	GWSY	14	3
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	2
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	9	1	1	0	0	0
Josh Kelly	GWSY	22	8	1	0	1	0	0
Sam Taylor	GWSY	15	5	0	0	1	1	0
Tim Taranto	GWSY	14	4	0	1	0	0	0
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	2	0	0	0	1	0
Tom Green	GWSY	12	1	0	0	0	0	1
Will Snelling	ESSE	40	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Ash, Lachie	HBFR	86%	0	0	23	9	14	5	0	2	2	3	0	1	5	1
5	Bruhn, Tanner	HFFR	68%	2	0	6	4	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	1
44	Buckley, Jack	BPL	87%	0	0	9	7	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1
13	Cumming, Isaac	CHB	77%	0	0	20	15	5	3	0	2	1	2	1	1	9	2
31	Finlayson, Jeremy	FF	83%	3	1	13	9	4	2	4	1	1	3	1	2	0	2
12	Green, Tom	INT	76%	0	0	28	14	14	7	0	3	4	3	2	1	2	5
4	Greene, Toby	CHF	93%	2	2	21	17	4	6	0	5	1	3	0	1	0	6
37	Hill, Bobby	HFFL	73%	1	1	11	8	3	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3
27	Himmelberg, Harry	FPR	90%	1	2	12	9	3	5	0	2	1	1	2	1	1	2
2	Hopper, Jacob	C	75%	1	0	23	11	12	4	0	0	8	7	1	1	1	2
39	Idun, Connor	INT	82%	0	0	15	11	4	4	0	2	1	2	1	0	3	0
25	Keeffe, Lachie	BPR	97%	0	0	6	6	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
22	Kelly, Josh	WL	84%	2	0	30	14	16	4	0	3	7	3	1	2	2	3
38	Lloyd, Daniel	INT	72%	1	1	17	11	6	4	0	1	0	2	1	1	3	4
41	Mumford, Shane	RU	80%	0	0	10	3	7	0	24	1	2	3	1	2	0	2
33	O'Halloran, Xavier	INT	87%	0	0	15	11	4	3	0	2	0	5	1	1	1	4
36	Perryman, Harry	WR	80%	0	0	24	14	10	6	0	1	0	4	0	0	5	2
28	Sproule, Zach	FPL	76%	2	1	10	5	5	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1
18	Stone, Conor	SUB	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Taranto, Tim	RR	82%	1	0	29	17	12	5	0	8	5	3	0	1	1	4
15	Taylor, Sam	FB	92%	0	0	16	11	5	8	0	1	0	4	0	0	5	0
8	Ward, Callan	RO	84%	0	0	23	11	12	4	0	2	3	1	1	0	3	3
6	Whitfield, Lachie	HBFL	77%	0	0	19	9	10	9	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				16	11	380	226	154	88	28	43	37	56	17	17	44	49

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Cox, Nik	WR	85%	1	1	11	6	5	2	0	5	0	4	0	4	1	0
10	Francis, Aaron	BPR	89%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	0
35	Guelfi, Matt	SUB↑	28%	1	0	8	5	3	2	0	6	2	1	2	0	0	4
33	Ham, Brayden	HFFR	81%	0	1	17	8	9	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	4
21	Heppell, Dyson (c)	HBFL	88%	0	0	27	14	13	8	0	0	1	3	0	1	5	2
19	Hind, Nick	HBFR	84%	0	0	29	22	7	5	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	5
26	Hooker, Cale	CHF	90%	1	1	7	4	3	2	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	1
23	Jones, Harry	INT	80%	2	0	8	6	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
4	Langford, Kyle	WL	86%	3	0	20	10	10	9	0	2	1	4	0	1	1	3
15	Laverde, Jayden	BPL	76%	0	0	16	10	6	10	0	1	0	4	0	1	2	0
43	McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony	FPR	82%	2	0	11	6	5	2	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	1
1	McGrath, Andrew	RR	80%	0	0	25	11	14	3	0	1	12	3	1	0	1	2
7	Merrett, Zach	C	79%	0	2	37	22	15	6	0	3	4	5	3	1	1	13
3	Parish, Darcy	INT	80%	0	1	35	17	18	5	0	4	7	5	1	1	3	6
16	Perkins, Archie	HFFL	71%	1	1	13	5	8	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	3
34	Phillips, Andrew	RU	74%	0	0	13	8	5	6	26	4	2	2	1	2	0	3
27	Redman, Mason	INT	78%	1	0	23	16	7	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	8	2
14	Ridley, Jordan	CHB	96%	0	0	21	17	4	5	0	2	0	2	0	1	4	2
5	Smith, Devon	INT	78%	0	0	14	6	8	3	0	3	2	3	1	1	0	3
40	Snelling, Will	RO	82%	2	0	19	9	10	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	3
17	Stewart, James	FB	88%	0	0	12	9	3	5	0	0	0	3	1	2	5	0
25	Stringer, Jake	FPL↓	46%	0	2	5	4	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
20	Wright, Peter	FF	77%	2	0	8	4	4	2	10	0	1	2	1	0	0	0
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				16	9	393	227	166	103	36	44	32	56	17	17	33	61

M. Guelfi replaced J. Stringer.

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

Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Leon Cameron
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	15	J. Laverde	17	J. Stewart	10	A. Francis	41	S. Mumford	12	T. Green
	27	H. Himmelberg	31	J. Finlayson	28	Z. Sproule	14	T. Taranto	39	C. Idun
FORWARD							8	C. Ward	38	D. Lloyd
HALF-BACK									33	X. O'Halloran
	21	D. Heppell (c)	14	J. Ridley	19	N. Hind			18	C. Stone
	5	T. Bruhn	4	T. Greene	37	B. Hill
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	4	K. Langford	7	Z. Merrett	13	N. Cox
	36	H. Perryman	2	J. Hopper	22	J. Kelly	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							34	A. Phillips	23	H. Jones
HALF-FORWARD							1	A. McGrath	3	D. Parish
	16	A. Perkins	26	C. Hooker	33	B. Ham	40	W. Snelling	27	M. Redman
	7	L. Ash	13	I. Cumming	6	L. Whitfield			5	D. Smith
HALF-BACK									35	M. Guelfi
FORWARD
	25	J. Stringer	20	P. Wright	43	A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
	25	L. Keeffe	15	S. Taylor	44	J. Buckley
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Ben Rutten

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:43
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:04
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	04:31
	GWSY	Daniel Lloyd behind	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	09:24
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	2.1.13	-	1.1.7	10:04
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg goal	3.1.19	-	1.1.7	12:25
	GWSY	Zach Sproule behind	3.2.20	-	1.1.7	16:05
	GWSY	Zach Sproule goal	4.2.26	-	1.1.7	18:12
	GWSY	Tanner Bruhn goal	5.2.32	-	1.1.7	21:11
	GWSY	Daniel Lloyd goal	6.2.38	-	1.1.7	25:18
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	6.2.38	-	1.2.8	29:26
	ESSE	Will Snelling goal	6.2.38	-	2.2.14	31:12
Q2	ESSE	Cale Hooker behind	6.2.38	-	2.3.15	01:16
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	6.2.38	-	3.3.21	02:40
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	6.2.38	-	3.4.22	04:28
	ESSE	Brayden Ham behind	6.2.38	-	3.5.23	05:10
	ESSE	Nik Cox behind	6.2.38	-	3.6.24	07:02
	ESSE	Cale Hooker goal	6.2.38	-	4.6.30	08:54
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson behind	6.3.39	-	4.6.30	11:20
	GWSY	Bobby Hill behind	6.4.40	-	4.6.30	12:06
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	6.4.40	-	5.6.36	18:07
	GWSY	Zach Sproule goal	7.4.46	-	5.6.36	22:42
	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	7.4.46	-	5.7.37	24:44
Q3	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	7.4.46	-	6.7.43	01:02
	GWSY	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	6.7.43	02:49
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson goal	8.5.53	-	6.7.43	04:56
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson goal	9.5.59	-	6.7.43	06:52
	GWSY	Tanner Bruhn goal	10.5.65	-	6.7.43	08:13
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	10.6.66	-	6.7.43	10:28
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg behind	10.7.67	-	6.7.43	11:41
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	11.7.73	-	6.7.43	12:09
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	11.7.73	-	7.7.49	14:53
	ESSE	Nik Cox goal	11.7.73	-	8.7.55	19:13
	GWSY	Josh Kelly goal	12.7.79	-	8.7.55	21:38
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	12.7.79	-	9.7.61	24:48
	ESSE	Mason Redman goal	12.7.79	-	10.7.67	27:17
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg behind	12.8.80	-	10.7.67	29:37
	GWSY	Tim Taranto goal	13.8.86	-	10.7.67	30:47
	GWSY	Bobby Hill goal	14.8.92	-	10.7.67	32:32
Q4	ESSE	Harry Jones goal	14.8.92	-	11.7.73	01:04
	GWSY	Rushed behind	14.9.93	-	11.7.73	02:44
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi goal	14.9.93	-	12.7.79	03:07
	GWSY	Rushed behind	14.10.94	-	12.7.79	05:59
	GWSY	Josh Kelly goal	15.10.100	-	12.7.79	09:57
	ESSE	Harry Jones goal	15.10.100	-	13.7.85	12:05
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	15.10.100	-	13.8.86	13:29
	ESSE	Will Snelling goal	15.10.100	-	14.8.92	14:26
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	15.11.101	-	14.8.92	16:05
	ESSE	Darcy Parish behind	15.11.101	-	14.9.93	22:56
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	15.11.101	-	15.9.99	27:15
	GWSY	Jacob Hopper goal	16.11.107	-	15.9.99	30:19
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	16.11.107	-	16.9.105	31:36

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2021 AFL Season Round 8: Greater Western Sydney v Essendon

Match Details

Match Results

Quarter Breakdown

Score Worm

Honour Roll

Greater Western Sydney

Essendon

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

Goal Umpires

Boundary Umpires

Brownlow Votes

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Statistics

Greater Western Sydney

Essendon

Legend

Player Line-Up

Score Timeline

Links