2022 AFL Round 4: Essendon v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 10 April 2022 between Essendon and Adelaide during round 4 of the 2022 AFL season. Essendon hosted Adelaide at Marvel Stadium. Dyson Heppell captained the hosts with, in the absence of Zach Merrett, deputy vice-captain Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. Rory Sloane captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Blake Caracella and the visitors were coached by Matthew Nicks.

Essendon
Back: B. Zerk-Thatcher, J. Laverde, J. Kelly
Half-back: M. Redman, D. Heppell (capt.), J. Ridley
Centre: S. Durham, A. McGrath (vice-capt.), B. Ham
Half-forward: A. Perkins, A. Waterman, N. Martin
Forward: M. Guelfi, P. Wright, W. Snelling
Follower: A. Phillips, D. Parish, D. Shiel
Int.: J. Caldwell, S. Draper, N. Hind, T. Wanganeen
Sub.: D. Smith

Adelaide
Back: B. Frampton, J. Butts, L. Brown
Half-back: B. Smith, T. Doedee, C. Jones
Centre: J. Dawson, R. Laird, L. Sholl
Half-forward: N. McHenry, E. Himmelberg, R. Sloane (capt.)
Forward: J. Rachele, T. Walker, L. Gollant
Follower: R. O'Brien, B. Keays, H. Schoenberg
Int.: M. Crouch, M. Hinge, L. Murphy, J. Rowe
Sub.: B. Cook

Essendon (15.13.103) defeated Adelaide (15.9.99).

Goalkickers
Essendon: P. Wright (3), A. Perkins (2), A. Waterman (2), J. Caldwell, S. Draper, S. Durham, M. Guelfi, N. Martin, A. Phillips, M. Redman, D. Smith
Adelaide: T. Walker (4), J. Rachele (3), E. Himmelberg (2), J. Rowe (2), L. Gollant, B. Keays, N. McHenry, L. Sholl

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 16th on the ladder (up from 18th) and Adelaide were then 12th on the ladder (up from 14th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2022 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: Essendon v Adelaide
Date: Sunday 10 April 2022
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 24,906

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Adelaide
Score: 15.13.103 - 15.9.99

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 5 . 3 9 . 6 12 . 11 15 . 13 15 . 13 (103)
Adelaide 4 . 2 8 . 4 12 . 6 15 . 9 15 . 9 (99)
Margin ESSE by 7 ESSE by 8 ESSE by 5 ESSE by 4 ESSE by 4
Duration 32:30 31:37 31:42 32:52 2:08:41

Honour Roll

Coaches: Blake Caracella (Essendon), Matthew Nicks (Adelaide)
Captains: Dyson Heppell (Essendon), Rory Sloane (Adelaide)
Vice-Captains: Andrew McGrath (Essendon), unknown (Adelaide)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Donlon (#1), A. Gianfagna (#27), E. Tee (#34)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 3
Ben Keays ADEL 2 2
Taylor Walker ADEL 13 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Darcy Parish ESSE 3 10 2 0 0 0 0
Sam Draper ESSE 2 4 0 ? ? ? ?
Rory Laird ADEL 29 4 0 ? ? ? ?
Taylor Walker ADEL 13 4 0 ? ? ? ?
Josh Rachele ADEL 8 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Mason Redman ESSE 27 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Peter Wright ESSE 20 2 0 0 0 ? ?

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
6 Caldwell, Jye INT 73% 1 0 23 10 13 2 0 1 3 2 0 1 3 4
2 Draper, Sam INT 71% 1 0 11 5 6 3 18 1 4 5 3 3 0 3
22 Durham, Sam WL 78% 1 1 18 9 9 7 0 1 1 3 1 2 0 0
35 Guelfi, Matt FPL 85% 1 1 21 10 11 2 0 2 2 8 2 3 1 6
33 Ham, Brayden WR 84% 0 0 7 5 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) CHB 77% 0 0 25 15 10 7 0 2 0 3 2 1 5 3
19 Hind, Nick INT 80% 0 0 24 20 4 8 0 2 1 3 0 0 4 4
29 Kelly, Jake BPR 100% 0 0 10 9 1 8 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 0
15 Laverde, Jayden FB 88% 0 0 16 9 7 9 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 1
37 Martin, Nic HFFR 90% 1 1 22 12 10 2 0 1 3 1 0 0 2 5
1 McGrath, Andrew (avc) C 86% 0 0 25 13 12 4 0 7 4 3 3 1 1 4
3 Parish, Darcy RR 78% 0 0 38 14 24 3 0 3 8 5 1 0 1 5
16 Perkins, Archie HFFL 86% 2 1 10 7 3 2 0 3 3 4 1 2 0 2
34 Phillips, Andrew RU 76% 1 0 8 5 3 2 26 3 0 3 2 3 0 2
27 Redman, Mason HBFL 79% 1 0 19 16 3 5 0 4 1 3 2 0 4 7
14 Ridley, Jordan HBFR 86% 0 0 18 14 4 6 0 1 1 3 0 1 6 2
9 Shiel, Dylan RO 73% 0 1 21 12 9 4 0 3 6 3 3 2 0 6
5 Smith, Devon SUB↑ 45% 1 1 12 7 5 2 0 4 1 3 1 1 0 2
11 Snelling, Will FPR↓ 34% 0 0 5 3 2 2 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 1
40 Wanganeen, Tex INT 66% 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0
45 Waterman, Alec CHF 79% 2 1 10 7 3 5 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2
20 Wright, Peter FF 97% 3 2 10 10 0 9 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
30 Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon BPL 91% 0 0 10 7 3 5 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 2
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 15 13 365 221 144 100 44 47 39 65 24 26 37 65

D. Smith replaced W. Snelling.

Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
16 Brown, Luke BPR 90% 0 0 16 5 11 2 0 2 1 3 1 1 1 1
41 Butts, Jordon FB 88% 0 0 10 6 4 3 0 0 0 1 3 1 3 0
15 Cook, Brayden SUB↑ 21% 0 0 7 6 1 1 0 0 1 3 2 1 0 2
5 Crouch, Matt INT 64% 0 0 26 9 17 3 0 1 5 5 1 3 3 2
12 Dawson, Jordan WL 84% 0 0 27 15 12 7 0 1 0 9 0 3 5 5
39 Doedee, Tom CHB 90% 0 0 18 13 5 5 0 1 0 3 2 0 5 0
22 Frampton, Billy BPL 90% 0 0 16 9 7 3 0 0 0 2 2 0 7 2
44 Gollant, Lachlan FPR 84% 1 2 6 4 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
34 Himmelberg, Elliott CHF 90% 2 0 10 6 4 4 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 2
20 Hinge, Mitch INT↓ 54% 0 0 10 8 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 2
1 Jones, Chayce HBFR 80% 0 0 15 9 6 3 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 1
2 Keays, Ben RR 86% 1 0 27 19 8 3 0 12 5 7 1 1 3 5
29 Laird, Rory C 77% 0 0 38 14 24 8 0 3 8 5 3 2 4 4
25 McHenry, Ned HFFL 90% 1 0 14 5 9 2 0 3 0 3 1 1 1 1
4 Murphy, Lachlan INT 82% 0 1 12 7 5 4 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 3
43 O'Brien, Reilly RU 90% 0 0 8 4 4 2 25 3 2 4 2 3 0 3
8 Rachele, Josh FPL 82% 3 1 19 13 6 9 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 2
31 Rowe, James INT 69% 2 0 10 6 4 3 0 1 1 3 2 1 1 3
26 Schoenberg, Harry RO 60% 0 1 14 7 7 1 0 3 2 4 1 1 2 3
38 Sholl, Lachlan WR 83% 1 0 20 15 5 2 0 1 5 0 0 0 3 3
9 Sloane, Rory (c) HFFR 78% 0 1 17 9 8 2 0 6 4 6 1 1 3 1
33 Smith, Brodie HBFL 86% 0 0 15 10 5 4 0 1 1 3 0 0 5 1
13 Walker, Taylor FF 83% 4 0 18 12 6 6 0 1 1 6 1 1 0 7
Rushed 3
Total (23 players) 15 9 373 211 162 81 25 45 40 77 26 24 50 53

B. Cook replaced M. Hinge.

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: Blake Caracella
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
22 B. Frampton 41 J. Butts 16 L. Brown 34 A. Phillips 6 J. Caldwell
11 W. Snelling 20 P. Wright 35 M. Guelfi 3 D. Parish 2 S. Draper
FORWARD 9 D. Shiel 19 N. Hind
HALF-BACK

40 T. Wanganeen
33 B. Smith 39 T. Doedee 1 C. Jones

5 D. Smith
37 N. Martin 45 A. Waterman 16 A. Perkins



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



12 J. Dawson 29 R. Laird 38 L. Sholl



33 B. Ham 1 A. McGrath (avc) 22 S. Durham FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 43 R. O'Brien 5 M. Crouch
HALF-FORWARD 2 B. Keays 20 M. Hinge
25 N. McHenry 34 E. Himmelberg 9 R. Sloane (c) 26 H. Schoenberg 4 L. Murphy
14 J. Ridley 21 D. Heppell (c) 27 M. Redman

31 J. Rowe
HALF-BACK

15 B. Cook
FORWARD



8 J. Rachele 13 T. Walker 44 L. Gollant



29 J. Kelly 15 J. Laverde 30 B. Zerk-Thatcher



BACK



Adelaide Coach: Matthew Nicks

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Sam Durham goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 01:07
ADEL Lachlan Gollant behind 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 06:40
ESSE Peter Wright goal 2.0.12 - 0.1.1 08:25
ADEL Lachlan Gollant behind 2.0.12 - 0.2.2 10:37
ADEL James Rowe goal 2.0.12 - 1.2.8 14:01
ADEL Taylor Walker goal 2.0.12 - 2.2.14 19:09
ESSE Alec Waterman goal 3.0.18 - 2.2.14 21:02
ESSE Dylan Shiel behind 3.1.19 - 2.2.14 22:58
ESSE Peter Wright behind 3.2.20 - 2.2.14 24:29
ADEL Josh Rachele goal 3.2.20 - 3.2.20 26:17
ESSE Peter Wright goal 4.2.26 - 3.2.20 28:00
ESSE Archie Perkins goal 5.2.32 - 3.2.20 29:17
ESSE Rushed behind 5.3.33 - 3.2.20 30:21
ADEL Lachlan Sholl goal 5.3.33 - 4.2.26 31:18
Q2 ESSE Rushed behind 5.4.34 - 4.2.26 04:24
ADEL Josh Rachele goal 5.4.34 - 5.2.32 05:16
ESSE Mason Redman goal 6.4.40 - 5.2.32 08:28
ADEL Taylor Walker goal 6.4.40 - 6.2.38 09:58
ESSE Rushed behind 6.5.41 - 6.2.38 12:07
ESSE Rushed behind 6.6.42 - 6.2.38 13:22
ESSE Peter Wright goal 7.6.48 - 6.2.38 14:45
ESSE Jye Caldwell goal 8.6.54 - 6.2.38 15:49
ADEL James Rowe goal 8.6.54 - 7.2.44 19:37
ADEL Rushed behind 8.6.54 - 7.3.45 25:25
ADEL Elliott Himmelberg goal 8.6.54 - 8.3.51 26:16
ADEL Lachlan Murphy behind 8.6.54 - 8.4.52 29:19
ESSE Alec Waterman goal 9.6.60 - 8.4.52 31:32
Q3 ESSE Nic Martin goal 10.6.66 - 8.4.52 02:52
ADEL Rory Sloane behind 10.6.66 - 8.5.53 04:43
ADEL Rushed behind 10.6.66 - 8.6.54 06:33
ADEL Ben Keays goal 10.6.66 - 9.6.60 08:14
ESSE Andrew Phillips goal 11.6.72 - 9.6.60 12:37
ADEL Ned McHenry goal 11.6.72 - 10.6.66 14:35
ADEL Josh Rachele goal 11.6.72 - 11.6.72 17:22
ADEL Taylor Walker goal 11.6.72 - 12.6.78 20:00
ESSE Matt Guelfi behind 11.7.73 - 12.6.78 22:02
ESSE Alec Waterman behind 11.8.74 - 12.6.78 22:49
ESSE Archie Perkins behind 11.9.75 - 12.6.78 25:59
ESSE Matt Guelfi goal 12.9.81 - 12.6.78 27:23
ESSE Devon Smith behind 12.10.82 - 12.6.78 28:32
ESSE Nic Martin behind 12.11.83 - 12.6.78 30:20
Q4 ESSE Peter Wright behind 12.12.84 - 12.6.78 01:59
ESSE Sam Durham behind 12.13.85 - 12.6.78 04:38
ADEL Elliott Himmelberg goal 12.13.85 - 13.6.84 08:04
ESSE Devon Smith goal 13.13.91 - 13.6.84 12:19
ADEL Rushed behind 13.13.91 - 13.7.85 13:39
ADEL Harry Schoenberg behind 13.13.91 - 13.8.86 14:38
ADEL Josh Rachele behind 13.13.91 - 13.9.87 15:25
ESSE Archie Perkins goal 14.13.97 - 13.9.87 18:11
ADEL Taylor Walker goal 14.13.97 - 14.9.93 23:18
ESSE Sam Draper goal 15.13.103 - 14.9.93 26:06
ADEL Lachlan Gollant goal 15.13.103 - 15.9.99 28:46