2021 AFL Round 18: North Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 18 July 2021 between North Melbourne and Essendon during round 18 of the 2021 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Essendon at Metricon Stadium. Jack Ziebell captained the hosts. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by David Noble and the visitors were coached by Ben Rutten.

North Melbourne
Back: K. Turner, B. McKay, R. Tarrant
Half-back: J. Ziebell (capt.), J. Walker, A. Hall
Centre: T. Dumont, W. Phillips, L. McDonald
Half-forward: T. Thomas, J. Stephenson, J. Mahony
Forward: B. Scott, N. Larkey, C. Zurhaar
Follower: T. Goldstein, J. Simpkin, L. Davies-Uniacke
Int.: S. Atley, C. Lazzaro, C. Taylor, T. Xerri
Sub.: A. Bosenavulagi

Essendon
Back: J. Laverde, J. Stewart, M. Redman
Half-back: D. Heppell (capt.), J. Ridley, N. Hind
Centre: B. Ham, Z. Merrett, N. Cox
Half-forward: S. Durham, C. Hooker, J. Stringer
Forward: A. Perkins, P. Wright, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
Follower: S. Draper, D. Parish, W. Snelling
Int.: T. Cutler, M. Guelfi, D. Smith, A. Waterman
Sub.: M. Gleeson

North Melbourne (11.8.74) were defeated by Essendon (13.14.92).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: N. Larkey (3), C. Taylor (2), C. Lazzaro, J. Mahony, B. Scott, T. Thomas, T. Xerri, C. Zurhaar
Essendon: J. Stringer (4), P. Wright (3), M. Guelfi, B. Ham, D. Heppell, C. Hooker, A. Perkins, D. Smith

As a result of this match, North Melbourne remained 18th on the ladder and Essendon were then 8th on the ladder (up from 11th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Sunday 18 July 2021
Time: 12:35 PM
Venue: Metricon Stadium
Attendance: 5,114

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 11.8.74 - 13.14.92

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 4 . 4 6 . 4 7 . 8 11 . 8 11 . 8 (74)
Essendon 3 . 0 4 . 6 8 . 10 13 . 14 13 . 14 (92)
Margin NMLB by 10 NMLB by 10 ESSE by 8 ESSE by 18 ESSE by 18
Duration 32:12 26:58 28:42 34:16 2:02:08

Honour Roll

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

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: N. Brown (#13), J. Howorth (#17), N. Toner (#38), E: J. Strybos (#41)
Goal Umpire: S. Williams, D. Wilson, E: J. Baird
Boundary Umpire: P. Cran, C. Esler, T. Lougoon, J. Scully

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 3
Jake Stringer ESSE 25 2
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 7 ? ? ? ? 0
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 7 ? ? ? ? 0
Jake Stringer ESSE 25 7 ? ? ? ? 0
Peter Wright ESSE 20 5 ? ? ? ? ?
Jy Simpkin NMLB 12 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Nick Larkey NMLB 20 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
18 Atley, Shaun INT 76% 0 0 19 12 7 10 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0
15 Bosenavulagi, Atu SUB↑ 13% 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
9 Davies-Uniacke, Luke RO 86% 0 0 21 15 6 4 0 3 6 3 1 1 3 8
14 Dumont, Trent WL 81% 0 0 10 5 5 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0
22 Goldstein, Todd RU 90% 0 1 15 7 8 1 37 3 2 2 1 1 1 1
43 Hall, Aaron HBFR 85% 0 0 31 28 3 14 0 1 0 5 0 0 12 3
20 Larkey, Nick FF 87% 3 2 11 7 4 2 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0
35 Lazzaro, Charlie INT 69% 1 0 12 5 7 5 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 2
1 Mahony, Jack HFFR↓ 69% 1 0 9 4 5 2 0 6 1 1 2 0 0 2
11 McDonald, Luke WR 81% 0 1 26 15 11 8 0 1 1 3 0 2 1 5
23 McKay, Ben FB 95% 0 0 12 6 6 7 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
29 Phillips, Will C 72% 0 0 15 5 10 3 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 1
8 Scott, Bailey FPL 82% 1 1 13 7 6 2 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 2
12 Simpkin, Jy RR 83% 0 0 23 10 13 3 0 7 7 0 3 0 0 3
2 Stephenson, Jaidyn CHF 78% 0 2 18 13 5 4 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 7
25 Tarrant, Robbie BPR 85% 0 0 13 12 1 7 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 1
5 Taylor, Curtis INT 80% 2 0 15 11 4 7 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1
26 Thomas, Tarryn HFFL 73% 1 0 23 16 7 9 0 7 3 3 3 0 3 5
28 Turner, Kayne BPL 80% 0 0 4 2 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
19 Walker, Josh CHB 92% 0 0 10 3 7 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 1
38 Xerri, Tristan INT 74% 1 1 10 3 7 2 4 2 0 4 1 1 0 0
7 Ziebell, Jack (c) HBFL 89% 0 0 19 19 0 7 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 0
44 Zurhaar, Cameron FPR 82% 1 0 13 10 3 5 0 5 0 7 1 0 0 6
Rushed 0
Total (23 players) 11 8 343 216 127 111 41 51 29 45 24 11 39 49

A. Bosenavulagi replaced J. Mahony during the fourth quarter.

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
13 Cox, Nik WR 87% 0 0 15 6 9 3 0 0 3 4 0 2 0 5
12 Cutler, Tom INT 86% 0 0 19 9 10 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 4 1
2 Draper, Sam RU 81% 0 1 8 4 4 2 19 1 4 1 1 0 2 3
42 Durham, Sam HFFL 72% 0 1 11 7 4 5 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 1
8 Gleeson, Martin SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 Guelfi, Matt INT 78% 1 0 17 9 8 8 0 3 0 3 0 1 3 1
33 Ham, Brayden WL 84% 1 1 15 8 7 4 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 4
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) HBFL 87% 1 0 27 17 10 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 6
19 Hind, Nick HBFR 86% 0 0 21 15 6 6 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 2
26 Hooker, Cale CHF 85% 1 2 12 8 4 6 1 5 0 3 0 2 0 0
15 Laverde, Jayden BPL 82% 0 0 9 3 6 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony FPR 76% 0 1 5 4 1 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1
7 Merrett, Zach C 87% 0 0 39 14 25 3 0 3 9 5 0 3 5 7
3 Parish, Darcy RR 85% 0 0 34 17 17 6 0 6 8 4 1 0 4 7
16 Perkins, Archie FPL 68% 1 1 9 5 4 2 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 1
27 Redman, Mason BPR 74% 0 0 20 9 11 4 0 3 1 5 0 3 3 1
14 Ridley, Jordan CHB 97% 0 0 21 16 5 7 0 0 0 2 0 1 6 1
5 Smith, Devon INT 78% 1 1 6 4 2 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 0
40 Snelling, Will RO 80% 0 1 22 8 14 5 0 2 2 3 1 1 1 3
17 Stewart, James FB 87% 0 0 13 9 4 8 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 1
25 Stringer, Jake HFFR 81% 4 1 17 10 7 4 0 3 5 4 0 3 0 5
45 Waterman, Alec INT 70% 0 0 9 3 6 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2
20 Wright, Peter FF 88% 3 1 20 11 9 7 10 1 1 2 3 1 0 1
Rushed 3
Total (23 players) 13 14 369 196 173 92 30 42 40 51 11 24 37 53

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

North Melbourne Coach: David Noble
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
15 J. Laverde 17 J. Stewart 27 M. Redman 22 T. Goldstein 18 S. Atley
44 C. Zurhaar 20 N. Larkey 8 B. Scott 12 J. Simpkin 35 C. Lazzaro
FORWARD 9 L. Davies-Uniacke 5 C. Taylor
HALF-BACK

38 T. Xerri
21 D. Heppell (c) 14 J. Ridley 19 N. Hind

15 A. Bosenavulagi
1 J. Mahony 2 J. Stephenson 26 T. Thomas



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



33 B. Ham 7 Z. Merrett 13 N. Cox



11 L. McDonald 29 W. Phillips 14 T. Dumont FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 2 S. Draper 12 T. Cutler
HALF-FORWARD 3 D. Parish 35 M. Guelfi
42 S. Durham 26 C. Hooker 25 J. Stringer 40 W. Snelling 5 D. Smith
43 A. Hall 19 J. Walker 7 J. Ziebell (c)

45 A. Waterman
HALF-BACK

8 M. Gleeson
FORWARD



16 A. Perkins 20 P. Wright 43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti



25 R. Tarrant 23 B. McKay 28 K. Turner



BACK



Essendon Coach: Ben Rutten

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 NMLB Bailey Scott behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 00:21
NMLB Bailey Scott goal 1.1.7 - 0.0.0 01:21
NMLB Nick Larkey goal 2.1.13 - 0.0.0 03:15
ESSE Peter Wright goal 2.1.13 - 1.0.6 05:53
ESSE Matt Guelfi goal 2.1.13 - 2.0.12 07:06
NMLB Todd Goldstein behind 2.2.14 - 2.0.12 11:07
ESSE Archie Perkins goal 2.2.14 - 3.0.18 13:02
NMLB Luke McDonald behind 2.3.15 - 3.0.18 17:00
NMLB Tarryn Thomas goal 3.3.21 - 3.0.18 18:09
NMLB Jaidyn Stephenson behind 3.4.22 - 3.0.18 20:08
NMLB Charlie Lazzaro goal 4.4.28 - 3.0.18 29:09
Q2 ESSE Cale Hooker behind 4.4.28 - 3.1.19 00:38
NMLB Nick Larkey goal 5.4.34 - 3.1.19 07:23
ESSE Sam Draper behind 5.4.34 - 3.2.20 09:17
ESSE Brayden Ham behind 5.4.34 - 3.3.21 11:04
ESSE Sam Durham behind 5.4.34 - 3.4.22 14:37
ESSE Dyson Heppell goal 5.4.34 - 4.4.28 17:29
ESSE Rushed behind 5.4.34 - 4.5.29 19:13
NMLB Jack Mahony goal 6.4.40 - 4.5.29 23:10
ESSE Will Snelling behind 6.4.40 - 4.6.30 25:57
Q3 ESSE Cale Hooker behind 6.4.40 - 4.7.31 03:01
NMLB Nick Larkey behind 6.5.41 - 4.7.31 04:50
ESSE Peter Wright goal 6.5.41 - 5.7.37 06:31
NMLB Nick Larkey behind 6.6.42 - 5.7.37 09:51
ESSE Devon Smith behind 6.6.42 - 5.8.38 11:36
NMLB Jaidyn Stephenson behind 6.7.43 - 5.8.38 12:22
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 6.7.43 - 5.9.39 13:45
ESSE Rushed behind 6.7.43 - 5.10.40 14:25
ESSE Devon Smith goal 6.7.43 - 6.10.46 16:15
NMLB Tristan Xerri behind 6.8.44 - 6.10.46 17:54
NMLB Tristan Xerri goal 7.8.50 - 6.10.46 19:01
ESSE Peter Wright goal 7.8.50 - 7.10.52 22:43
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 7.8.50 - 8.10.58 27:05
Q4 ESSE Jake Stringer goal 7.8.50 - 9.10.64 01:39
ESSE Brayden Ham goal 7.8.50 - 10.10.70 03:57
NMLB Curtis Taylor goal 8.8.56 - 10.10.70 09:24
NMLB Nick Larkey goal 9.8.62 - 10.10.70 11:19
ESSE Archie Perkins behind 9.8.62 - 10.11.71 17:27
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 9.8.62 - 11.11.77 17:55
NMLB Curtis Taylor goal 10.8.68 - 11.11.77 19:43
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar goal 11.8.74 - 11.11.77 21:25
ESSE Peter Wright behind 11.8.74 - 11.12.78 23:12
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 11.8.74 - 12.12.84 24:18
ESSE Cale Hooker goal 11.8.74 - 13.12.90 26:24
ESSE Rushed behind 11.8.74 - 13.13.91 27:46
ESSE Jake Stringer behind 11.8.74 - 13.14.92 30:16