2021 AFL Round 12: Essendon v Richmond

This is the match report for the match played on 5 June 2021 between Essendon and Richmond during round 12 of the 2021 AFL season. Essendon hosted Richmond at Optus Stadium. Dyson Heppell captained the hosts. Trent Cotchin captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ben Rutten and the visitors were coached by Damien Hardwick.

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

Richmond
Back: N. Vlastuin, N. Balta, D. Grimes
Half-back: N. Broad, J. Short, B. Houli
Centre: K. McIntosh, T. Cotchin (capt.), M. Pickett
Half-forward: J. Aarts, S. Edwards, J. Graham
Forward: C. Coleman-Jones, D. Martin, J. Riewoldt
Follower: M. Chol, S. Bolton, D. Prestia
Int.: L. Baker, J. Caddy, J. Castagna, R. Collier-Dawkins
Sub.: D. Rioli

Essendon (12.12.84) were defeated by Richmond (19.9.123).

Goalkickers
Essendon: B. Ham (3), C. Hooker (3), A. Waterman (2), N. Cox, K. Langford, A. Phillips, J. Stringer
Richmond: S. Bolton (3), J. Castagna (3), D. Martin (3), C. Coleman-Jones (2), J. Graham (2), J. Riewoldt (2), N. Balta, J. Caddy, K. McIntosh, D. Rioli

As a result of this match, Essendon remained 9th on the ladder and Richmond remained 8th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 12
Teams: Essendon v Richmond
Date: Saturday 5 June 2021
Time: 5:40 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 55,656

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by Richmond
Score: 12.12.84 - 19.9.123

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 1 . 2 5 . 4 8 . 10 12 . 12 12 . 12 (84)
Richmond 4 . 3 8 . 7 12 . 8 19 . 9 19 . 9 (123)
Margin RICH by 19 RICH by 21 RICH by 22 RICH by 39 RICH by 39
Duration 27:19 30:00 30:40 34:14 2:02:13

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ben Rutten (Essendon), Damien Hardwick (Richmond)
Captains: Dyson Heppell (Essendon), Trent Cotchin (Richmond)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: J. Dalgleish (#7), D. Johanson (#30), D. Margetts (#6), E: L. Jago (#40)
Goal Umpire: S. Hunter, B. Rogers, E: J. Yazdani
Boundary Umpire: C. Bull, N. Doig, M. Konetschka, M. Thomson

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 3
Dustin Martin RICH 4 2
Shai Bolton RICH 29 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Dustin Martin RICH 4 9 1 1 0 0 0
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 8 1 0 1 0 0
Shai Bolton RICH 29 7 0 1 1 0 0
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 3 0 0 0 1 1
Jack Graham RICH 34 2 0 0 0 1 0
Mabior Chol RICH 41 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
29 Ambrose, Patrick SUB↑ 56% 0 1 5 1 4 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
13 Cox, Nik WR 91% 1 1 23 14 9 8 2 2 4 4 3 0 2 2
10 Francis, Aaron INT 77% 0 0 3 2 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 0
35 Guelfi, Matt INT 78% 0 0 6 0 6 1 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 1
33 Ham, Brayden RO 85% 3 0 13 6 7 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) HBFL 81% 0 0 22 14 8 5 0 1 0 2 0 2 5 1
19 Hind, Nick HBFR 87% 0 0 21 15 6 3 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 10
26 Hooker, Cale FF 88% 3 0 17 6 11 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1
23 Jones, Harry HFFR 84% 0 1 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Langford, Kyle INT 86% 1 0 28 18 10 10 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 8
15 Laverde, Jayden BPL 91% 0 0 15 11 4 6 0 2 0 5 1 1 5 0
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony FPR 83% 0 0 11 2 9 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0
1 McGrath, Andrew WL↓ 7% 0 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
7 Merrett, Zach C 85% 0 0 32 13 19 5 0 7 5 4 1 3 0 7
3 Parish, Darcy RR 87% 0 2 44 25 19 8 0 5 11 4 1 0 3 9
16 Perkins, Archie HFFL 75% 0 2 13 6 7 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 3
34 Phillips, Andrew RU 77% 1 1 10 6 4 6 25 2 3 0 1 0 1 1
27 Redman, Mason FB 77% 0 0 19 11 8 5 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 1
14 Ridley, Jordan BPR 98% 0 0 17 12 5 7 0 2 0 3 1 1 4 2
17 Stewart, James CHB 86% 0 0 12 9 3 5 0 1 0 5 1 4 3 0
25 Stringer, Jake CHF 85% 1 0 13 9 4 2 0 3 2 4 0 1 0 2
45 Waterman, Alec INT 79% 2 1 7 4 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Zaharakis, David FPL 58% 0 0 10 7 3 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 5
Rushed 3
Total (23 players) 12 12 348 196 152 91 27 43 32 48 12 17 32 53

P. Ambrose replaced A. McGrath during the first quarter.

Richmond

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
16 Aarts, Jake HFFL 89% 0 2 18 10 8 5 0 5 2 3 4 2 0 2
7 Baker, Liam INT 86% 0 0 19 13 6 7 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 3
21 Balta, Noah FB 91% 1 0 16 13 3 4 0 2 0 2 0 0 7 1
29 Bolton, Shai RR 82% 3 0 21 11 10 5 0 1 3 1 2 1 0 7
35 Broad, Nathan HBFL 90% 0 0 9 7 2 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1
22 Caddy, Josh INT 66% 1 0 15 8 7 5 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 2
11 Castagna, Jason INT 81% 3 0 18 10 8 12 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
41 Chol, Mabior RU 81% 0 1 19 13 6 6 19 2 1 2 0 0 0 6
40 Coleman-Jones, Callum FPL 82% 2 1 11 3 8 2 10 3 1 0 3 0 2 0
26 Collier-Dawkins, Riley INT 58% 0 0 9 3 6 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 2
9 Cotchin, Trent (c) C 76% 0 0 17 12 5 5 0 3 4 3 0 0 2 0
10 Edwards, Shane CHF 76% 0 0 19 9 10 5 0 0 4 3 0 1 0 6
34 Graham, Jack HFFR 77% 2 0 22 12 10 5 0 5 0 2 1 0 0 2
2 Grimes, Dylan BPR 85% 0 0 14 10 4 9 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 0
14 Houli, Bachar HBFR 80% 0 0 18 10 8 4 0 5 2 2 0 0 6 2
4 Martin, Dustin FF 94% 3 0 27 16 11 4 0 3 5 5 0 1 0 4
33 McIntosh, Kamdyn WL 85% 1 0 13 9 4 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 2 1
50 Pickett, Marlion WR 80% 0 0 17 4 13 1 2 4 1 4 0 2 2 1
3 Prestia, Dion RO↓ 69% 0 1 26 12 14 6 0 3 6 3 2 0 2 3
8 Riewoldt, Jack FPR 96% 2 3 12 10 2 5 0 0 1 3 2 1 0 1
17 Rioli, Daniel SUB↑ 8% 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
15 Short, Jayden CHB 85% 0 0 23 20 3 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 3
1 Vlastuin, Nick BPL 82% 0 0 14 12 2 9 0 3 0 2 1 1 4 3
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 19 9 380 230 150 112 31 46 34 47 17 12 40 52

D. Rioli replaced D. Prestia during the fourth 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

Essendon Coach: Ben Rutten
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
1 N. Vlastuin 21 N. Balta 2 D. Grimes 34 A. Phillips 10 A. Francis
43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti 26 C. Hooker 11 D. Zaharakis 3 D. Parish 35 M. Guelfi
FORWARD 33 B. Ham 4 K. Langford
HALF-BACK

45 A. Waterman
35 N. Broad 15 J. Short 14 B. Houli

29 P. Ambrose
23 H. Jones 25 J. Stringer 16 A. Perkins



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



33 K. McIntosh 9 T. Cotchin (c) 50 M. Pickett



13 N. Cox 7 Z. Merrett 1 A. McGrath FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 41 M. Chol 7 L. Baker
HALF-FORWARD 29 S. Bolton 22 J. Caddy
16 J. Aarts 10 S. Edwards 34 J. Graham 3 D. Prestia 11 J. Castagna
19 N. Hind 17 J. Stewart 21 D. Heppell (c)

26 R. Collier-Dawkins
HALF-BACK

17 D. Rioli
FORWARD



40 C. Coleman-Jones 4 D. Martin 8 J. Riewoldt



14 J. Ridley 27 M. Redman 15 J. Laverde



BACK



Richmond Coach: Damien Hardwick

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 RICH Mabior Chol behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 00:15
RICH Dion Prestia behind 0.0.0 - 0.2.2 02:51
RICH Callum Coleman-Jones goal 0.0.0 - 1.2.8 04:18
RICH Dustin Martin goal 0.0.0 - 2.2.14 09:30
ESSE Harry Jones behind 0.1.1 - 2.2.14 11:48
ESSE Brayden Ham goal 1.1.7 - 2.2.14 14:33
RICH Jack Riewoldt behind 1.1.7 - 2.3.15 17:21
RICH Jason Castagna goal 1.1.7 - 3.3.21 18:59
ESSE Darcy Parish behind 1.2.8 - 3.3.21 23:31
RICH Jack Riewoldt goal 1.2.8 - 4.3.27 26:18
Q2 RICH Jack Riewoldt behind 1.2.8 - 4.4.28 00:58
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 2.2.14 - 4.4.28 02:05
RICH Callum Coleman-Jones goal 2.2.14 - 5.4.34 04:01
ESSE Nik Cox behind 2.3.15 - 5.4.34 08:41
RICH Jack Riewoldt behind 2.3.15 - 5.5.35 09:21
RICH Jack Riewoldt goal 2.3.15 - 6.5.41 11:17
RICH Jake Aarts behind 2.3.15 - 6.6.42 13:26
ESSE Andrew Phillips goal 3.3.21 - 6.6.42 14:52
RICH Josh Caddy goal 3.3.21 - 7.6.48 16:24
ESSE Alec Waterman goal 4.3.27 - 7.6.48 18:58
RICH Jack Graham goal 4.3.27 - 8.6.54 22:03
RICH Callum Coleman-Jones behind 4.3.27 - 8.7.55 24:27
ESSE Brayden Ham goal 5.3.33 - 8.7.55 25:57
ESSE Patrick Ambrose behind 5.4.34 - 8.7.55 27:35
Q3 RICH Rushed behind 5.4.34 - 8.8.56 00:43
ESSE Brayden Ham goal 6.4.40 - 8.8.56 04:36
ESSE Andrew Phillips behind 6.5.41 - 8.8.56 09:02
RICH Shai Bolton goal 6.5.41 - 9.8.62 12:21
ESSE Archie Perkins behind 6.6.42 - 9.8.62 13:34
RICH Jason Castagna goal 6.6.42 - 10.8.68 16:41
ESSE Rushed behind 6.7.43 - 10.8.68 18:00
ESSE Darcy Parish behind 6.8.44 - 10.8.68 19:24
RICH Jack Graham goal 6.8.44 - 11.8.74 20:41
ESSE Rushed behind 6.9.45 - 11.8.74 23:03
ESSE Nik Cox goal 7.9.51 - 11.8.74 24:12
ESSE Rushed behind 7.10.52 - 11.8.74 25:30
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 8.10.58 - 11.8.74 26:32
RICH Dustin Martin goal 8.10.58 - 12.8.80 28:39
Q4 ESSE Cale Hooker goal 9.10.64 - 12.8.80 03:41
ESSE Alec Waterman behind 9.11.65 - 12.8.80 06:19
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 10.11.71 - 12.8.80 07:20
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 11.11.77 - 12.8.80 09:26
ESSE Alec Waterman goal 12.11.83 - 12.8.80 10:39
RICH Jake Aarts behind 12.11.83 - 12.9.81 12:03
RICH Jason Castagna goal 12.11.83 - 13.9.87 15:34
RICH Shai Bolton goal 12.11.83 - 14.9.93 17:50
RICH Dustin Martin goal 12.11.83 - 15.9.99 20:56
RICH Shai Bolton goal 12.11.83 - 16.9.105 22:38
ESSE Archie Perkins behind 12.12.84 - 16.9.105 24:14
RICH Noah Balta goal 12.12.84 - 17.9.111 26:19
RICH Kamdyn McIntosh goal 12.12.84 - 18.9.117 29:54
RICH Daniel Rioli goal 12.12.84 - 19.9.123 31:46