2021 AFL Round 10: Essendon v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 23 May 2021 between Essendon and North Melbourne during round 10 of the 2021 AFL season. Essendon hosted North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium. Dyson Heppell captained the hosts. Jack Ziebell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ben Rutten and the visitors were coached by David Noble.

Essendon
Back: J. Laverde, A. Francis, M. Redman
Half-back: D. Heppell (capt.), J. Ridley, N. Hind
Centre: A. McGrath, Z. Merrett, N. Cox
Half-forward: A. Perkins, H. Jones, W. Snelling
Forward: A. Waterman, C. Hooker, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
Follower: A. Phillips, D. Parish, D. Zaharakis
Int.: M. Guelfi, K. Langford, J. Stewart, P. Wright
Sub.: B. Ham

North Melbourne
Back: S. Atley, B. McKay, J. Walker
Half-back: K. Turner, J. Ziebell (capt.), A. Hall
Centre: T. Dumont, B. Cunnington, L. Young
Half-forward: C. Taylor, T. Powell, J. Mahony
Forward: T. Garner, C. Zurhaar, N. Larkey
Follower: T. Goldstein, T. Thomas, J. Simpkin
Int.: T. Campbell, L. Davies-Uniacke, C. Lazzaro, C. Menadue
Sub.: B. Scott

Essendon (22.9.141) defeated North Melbourne (10.9.69).

Goalkickers
Essendon: H. Jones (3), A. McDonald-Tipungwuti (3), P. Wright (3), N. Cox (2), C. Hooker (2), K. Langford (2), A. Waterman (2), N. Hind, A. Perkins, A. Phillips, W. Snelling, D. Zaharakis
North Melbourne: T. Garner (3), T. Campbell (2), T. Thomas (2), B. Cunnington, J. Walker, C. Zurhaar

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 11th on the ladder (up from 12th) and North Melbourne remained 18th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 10
Teams: Essendon v North Melbourne
Date: Sunday 23 May 2021
Time: 4:40 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 33,121

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. North Melbourne
Score: 22.9.141 - 10.9.69

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 6 . 4 11 . 5 15 . 6 22 . 9 22 . 9 (141)
North Melbourne 2 . 1 3 . 3 8 . 8 10 . 9 10 . 9 (69)
Margin ESSE by 27 ESSE by 50 ESSE by 40 ESSE by 72 ESSE by 72
Duration 30:02 28:12 30:13 32:13 2:00:40

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ben Rutten (Essendon), David Noble (North Melbourne)
Captains: Dyson Heppell (Essendon), Jack Ziebell (North Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Dore (#28), L. Fisher (#3), C. Fleer (#26), E: N. McGinness (#42)
Goal Umpire: C. Roffey, D. Wilson, E: D. Benwell
Boundary Umpire: J. Andrews, I. Burrows, A. Coote, P. Cran

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 3
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 2
Andrew McGrath ESSE 1 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 9 1 1 0 0 0
Andrew McGrath ESSE 1 8 1 0 1 0 0
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 7 0 1 1 0 0
Peter Wright ESSE 20 3 0 0 0 1 1
Dyson Heppell ESSE 21 2 0 0 0 1 0
Will Snelling ESSE 40 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
13 Cox, Nik WR 81% 2 0 14 11 3 9 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 2
10 Francis, Aaron FB 84% 0 0 13 4 9 6 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 0
35 Guelfi, Matt INT 74% 0 0 10 5 5 2 0 3 0 2 1 1 0 2
33 Ham, Brayden SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) HBFL 85% 0 0 26 16 10 11 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1
19 Hind, Nick HBFR 82% 1 0 21 17 4 5 0 4 0 2 1 0 3 3
26 Hooker, Cale FF 78% 2 3 12 8 4 8 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 2
23 Jones, Harry CHF 80% 3 0 6 5 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
4 Langford, Kyle INT 79% 2 1 22 16 6 6 0 4 3 4 1 2 1 5
15 Laverde, Jayden BPL 88% 0 0 15 12 3 7 0 1 0 1 0 0 7 0
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony FPR 83% 3 2 10 8 2 3 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 1
1 McGrath, Andrew WL 77% 0 0 31 9 22 4 0 1 5 1 1 1 1 3
7 Merrett, Zach C 86% 0 0 31 19 12 6 0 3 2 5 2 0 4 4
3 Parish, Darcy RR 85% 0 0 36 19 17 12 0 4 11 1 1 0 3 7
16 Perkins, Archie HFFL 77% 1 0 11 5 6 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
34 Phillips, Andrew RU 83% 1 0 10 4 6 2 22 4 2 2 2 1 0 2
27 Redman, Mason BPR 80% 0 0 23 12 11 8 0 1 0 1 1 0 5 0
14 Ridley, Jordan CHB 95% 0 0 21 15 6 6 0 1 0 1 1 1 9 0
40 Snelling, Will HFFR 82% 1 0 25 8 17 5 0 2 2 2 2 1 0 3
17 Stewart, James INT 86% 0 0 14 10 4 7 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 2
45 Waterman, Alec FPL 77% 2 0 11 7 4 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
20 Wright, Peter INT 76% 3 2 16 13 3 10 6 1 0 2 0 0 2 4
11 Zaharakis, David RO 82% 1 1 22 12 10 6 0 3 1 3 0 1 0 3
Rushed 0
Total (23 players) 22 9 400 235 165 134 28 44 28 36 15 13 41 50

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
18 Atley, Shaun BPL 91% 0 0 22 12 10 9 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0
42 Campbell, Tom INT 83% 2 0 13 5 8 5 13 1 2 3 1 3 0 1
10 Cunnington, Ben C 83% 1 0 34 19 15 4 0 4 9 5 3 3 0 7
9 Davies-Uniacke, Luke INT 80% 0 1 21 9 12 6 0 2 3 4 0 0 0 5
14 Dumont, Trent WL 77% 0 0 14 9 5 2 0 3 0 3 1 0 0 4
6 Garner, Taylor FPL 83% 3 0 19 11 8 7 0 1 0 4 1 1 0 2
22 Goldstein, Todd RU 91% 0 0 14 8 6 3 19 2 4 2 2 0 1 2
43 Hall, Aaron HBFR 83% 0 1 29 24 5 7 0 4 1 3 2 0 9 4
20 Larkey, Nick FPR 83% 0 0 6 2 4 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 2
35 Lazzaro, Charlie INT 75% 0 1 14 6 8 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Mahony, Jack HFFR 77% 0 1 9 5 4 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1
23 McKay, Ben FB 91% 0 0 11 6 5 6 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0
31 Menadue, Connor INT 79% 0 0 14 7 7 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Powell, Tom CHF 78% 0 0 14 7 7 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
8 Scott, Bailey SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Simpkin, Jy RO 81% 0 0 20 7 13 1 0 4 5 6 0 1 0 2
5 Taylor, Curtis HFFL 75% 0 0 13 9 4 6 0 2 0 5 0 1 1 1
26 Thomas, Tarryn RR 67% 2 0 21 13 8 5 0 3 5 2 1 2 0 9
28 Turner, Kayne HBFL 83% 0 0 8 4 4 2 0 1 0 4 0 2 0 1
19 Walker, Josh BPR 93% 1 0 15 7 8 9 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0
17 Young, Lachie WR 85% 0 0 13 9 4 5 0 2 0 5 0 1 2 5
7 Ziebell, Jack (c) CHB 80% 0 0 24 19 5 12 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 1
44 Zurhaar, Cameron FF 81% 1 2 13 10 3 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
Rushed 3
Total (23 players) 10 9 361 208 153 111 33 40 31 54 13 15 27 51

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

Essendon Coach: Ben Rutten
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
18 S. Atley 23 B. McKay 19 J. Walker 34 A. Phillips 35 M. Guelfi
43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti 26 C. Hooker 45 A. Waterman 3 D. Parish 4 K. Langford
FORWARD 11 D. Zaharakis 17 J. Stewart
HALF-BACK

20 P. Wright
28 K. Turner 7 J. Ziebell (c) 43 A. Hall

33 B. Ham
40 W. Snelling 23 H. Jones 16 A. Perkins



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



14 T. Dumont 10 B. Cunnington 17 L. Young



13 N. Cox 7 Z. Merrett 1 A. McGrath FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 22 T. Goldstein 42 T. Campbell
HALF-FORWARD 26 T. Thomas 9 L. Davies-Uniacke
5 C. Taylor 24 T. Powell 1 J. Mahony 12 J. Simpkin 35 C. Lazzaro
19 N. Hind 14 J. Ridley 21 D. Heppell (c)

31 C. Menadue
HALF-BACK

8 B. Scott
FORWARD



6 T. Garner 44 C. Zurhaar 20 N. Larkey



27 M. Redman 10 A. Francis 15 J. Laverde



BACK



North Melbourne Coach: David Noble

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Cale Hooker goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 00:49
ESSE Cale Hooker behind 1.1.7 - 0.0.0 02:41
ESSE Nik Cox goal 2.1.13 - 0.0.0 04:21
NMLB Ben Cunnington goal 2.1.13 - 1.0.6 08:47
ESSE Cale Hooker behind 2.2.14 - 1.0.6 10:26
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 3.2.20 - 1.0.6 12:15
ESSE Harry Jones goal 4.2.26 - 1.0.6 15:44
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar behind 4.2.26 - 1.1.7 18:30
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 4.3.27 - 1.1.7 21:16
ESSE Alec Waterman goal 5.3.33 - 1.1.7 22:18
ESSE David Zaharakis goal 6.3.39 - 1.1.7 25:24
NMLB Tom Campbell goal 6.3.39 - 2.1.13 27:29
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 6.4.40 - 2.1.13 29:50
Q2 ESSE Will Snelling goal 7.4.46 - 2.1.13 03:45
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 8.4.52 - 2.1.13 06:04
ESSE Peter Wright goal 9.4.58 - 2.1.13 12:46
NMLB Charlie Lazzaro behind 9.4.58 - 2.2.14 14:55
NMLB Tarryn Thomas goal 9.4.58 - 3.2.20 16:06
NMLB Jack Mahony behind 9.4.58 - 3.3.21 17:18
ESSE Harry Jones goal 10.4.64 - 3.3.21 18:55
ESSE Peter Wright behind 10.5.65 - 3.3.21 23:07
ESSE Archie Perkins goal 11.5.71 - 3.3.21 24:19
Q3 ESSE Andrew Phillips goal 12.5.77 - 3.3.21 01:25
NMLB Rushed behind 12.5.77 - 3.4.22 03:10
ESSE Nik Cox goal 13.5.83 - 3.4.22 04:16
NMLB Aaron Hall behind 13.5.83 - 3.5.23 07:36
NMLB Rushed behind 13.5.83 - 3.6.24 08:49
NMLB Josh Walker goal 13.5.83 - 4.6.30 14:55
ESSE David Zaharakis behind 13.6.84 - 4.6.30 17:04
NMLB Luke Davies-Uniacke behind 13.6.84 - 4.7.31 18:12
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar goal 13.6.84 - 5.7.37 20:00
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 14.6.90 - 5.7.37 22:06
NMLB Taylor Garner goal 14.6.90 - 6.7.43 25:00
NMLB Tom Campbell goal 14.6.90 - 7.7.49 26:40
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 15.6.96 - 7.7.49 28:11
NMLB Rushed behind 15.6.96 - 7.8.50 29:20
NMLB Taylor Garner goal 15.6.96 - 8.8.56 30:10
Q4 NMLB Cameron Zurhaar behind 15.6.96 - 8.9.57 02:02
ESSE Nick Hind goal 16.6.102 - 8.9.57 03:01
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 16.7.103 - 8.9.57 05:35
ESSE Cale Hooker behind 16.8.104 - 8.9.57 07:33
NMLB Tarryn Thomas goal 16.8.104 - 9.9.63 08:41
ESSE Peter Wright goal 17.8.110 - 9.9.63 12:56
ESSE Alec Waterman goal 18.8.116 - 9.9.63 14:12
ESSE Peter Wright goal 19.8.122 - 9.9.63 16:41
ESSE Peter Wright behind 19.9.123 - 9.9.63 18:44
NMLB Taylor Garner goal 19.9.123 - 10.9.69 19:54
ESSE Harry Jones goal 20.9.129 - 10.9.69 22:33
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 21.9.135 - 10.9.69 25:38
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal 22.9.141 - 10.9.69 28:39