2022 AFL Season Round 5: Essendon v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 17 April 2022 between Essendon and Fremantle during round five of the 2022 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted Fremantle at Marvel Stadium. Dyson Heppell captained the hosts with, in the absence of Zach Merrett, deputy vice-captain Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Ben Rutten and the visitors were coached by Justin Longmuir.

Essendon (8.11.59) were defeated by Fremantle (16.11.107).

Match Details

Season: 2022 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Essendon v Fremantle
Date: Sunday 17 April 2022
Time: 4:40 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 23,935

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by Fremantle
Score: 8.11.59 - 16.11.107

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	1	.	4	5	.	8	5	.	10	8	.	11	8	.	11	(59)
Fremantle	2	.	2	6	.	5	12	.	8	16	.	11	16	.	11	(107)
Margin	FREM by 4			FREM by 3			FREM by 40			FREM by 48			FREM by 48
Duration	28:44			32:26			31:48			28:49			2:01:47

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Dyson Heppell
Vice-Captain: Andrew McGrath (acting)
Coach: Ben Rutten

Fremantle

Captain: unknown
Coach: Justin Longmuir

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

N. Brown (#13)
J. Power (#4)
N. Toner (#25)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Matt Taberner	FREM	20	3
Andrew Brayshaw	FREM	8	2
Sean Darcy	FREM	4	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Matt Taberner	FREM	20	10	2	0	0	0	0
Andrew Brayshaw	FREM	8	8	0	2	0	0	0
Will Brodie	FREM	17	4	0	0	0	2	0
Brennan Cox	FREM	36	3	0	0	1	0	0
Sean Darcy	FREM	4	3	0	0	1	0	0
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	1	0	0	0	0	1
Alex Pearce	FREM	25	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
6	Caldwell, Jye	INT	78%	1	1	23	7	16	2	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	4
13	Cox, Nik	HFFL	80%	1	2	10	6	4	3	0	3	1	2	3	1	0	2
12	Cutler, Tom	SUB↑	69%	0	1	12	7	5	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0
2	Draper, Sam	INT	84%	1	0	8	5	3	0	30	0	3	6	2	3	1	4
22	Durham, Sam	WL	77%	0	0	15	5	10	1	0	1	2	6	2	2	0	2
35	Guelfi, Matt	FPR	78%	1	0	15	10	5	7	0	3	1	4	0	2	0	7
21	Heppell, Dyson (c)	HBFR	79%	0	0	34	13	21	7	0	0	1	3	1	0	6	0
19	Hind, Nick	INT	77%	0	0	8	8	0	4	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
8	Hobbs, Ben	FPL	72%	0	0	15	6	9	6	0	5	0	2	1	1	1	1
29	Kelly, Jake	BPR	100%	0	0	26	19	7	9	0	1	0	2	0	0	8	0
15	Laverde, Jayden	FB	82%	0	0	15	11	4	9	0	0	0	7	1	4	6	1
37	Martin, Nic	WR	85%	2	1	17	11	6	3	0	0	3	3	1	0	1	1
1	McGrath, Andrew (avc)	C	83%	0	0	23	10	13	3	0	1	5	2	1	0	0	1
3	Parish, Darcy	RR	86%	0	0	33	11	22	4	0	2	7	5	0	3	1	4
16	Perkins, Archie	HFFR	70%	0	1	6	3	3	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1
34	Phillips, Andrew	RU↓	9%	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	Redman, Mason	HBFL	78%	0	0	17	9	8	6	0	2	0	5	2	2	2	1
14	Ridley, Jordan	CHB	87%	0	0	17	16	1	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1
9	Shiel, Dylan	RO	78%	0	0	19	6	13	2	0	1	4	2	0	1	1	4
5	Smith, Devon	INT	75%	0	3	16	13	3	0	0	6	1	1	2	0	0	3
45	Waterman, Alec	CHF	80%	2	0	6	3	3	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
20	Wright, Peter	FF	95%	0	1	7	3	4	2	8	2	0	1	3	0	0	3
30	Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon	BPL	97%	0	0	20	9	11	6	0	1	0	4	0	1	2	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				8	11	362	191	171	86	39	37	30	61	21	22	37	41

T. Cutler replaced A. Phillips during the first quarter.

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Acres, Blake	WR	87%	0	0	21	11	10	6	0	2	2	3	0	1	3	2
11	Aish, James	INT	61%	0	0	16	6	10	3	0	2	2	1	2	0	1	1
41	Banfield, Bailey	INT	85%	2	2	10	9	1	2	0	1	0	3	2	2	1	2
8	Brayshaw, Andrew	C	78%	1	1	34	15	19	5	0	4	5	3	2	0	2	5
17	Brodie, Will	RR	63%	0	0	26	8	18	3	0	2	9	3	2	1	0	4
27	Chapman, Heath	HBFR	82%	0	0	15	10	5	7	0	2	0	5	0	0	1	0
6	Clark, Jordan	BPR	81%	0	0	20	6	14	3	0	7	1	5	0	1	1	2
33	Colyer, Travis	HFFL	86%	0	1	15	14	1	4	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	6
36	Cox, Brennan	BPL	90%	0	0	20	17	3	9	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0
4	Darcy, Sean	RU	83%	2	2	18	9	9	5	23	2	8	7	1	2	1	1
32	Frederick, Michael	FPL	85%	2	0	13	9	4	5	0	2	0	5	1	0	0	4
37	Lobb, Rory	FF	100%	0	1	12	5	7	2	8	6	3	2	2	2	1	3
16	Mundy, David	INT	69%	0	1	20	8	12	2	0	3	4	1	0	0	1	3
30	O'Driscoll, Nathan	WL	80%	0	0	22	13	9	3	0	1	3	4	1	1	0	6
25	Pearce, Alex	FB	86%	0	0	14	8	6	6	0	1	0	4	1	1	3	0
13	Ryan, Luke	CHB	87%	0	0	19	15	4	7	0	2	0	2	0	1	6	1
3	Serong, Caleb	RO	76%	0	1	30	18	12	7	0	2	3	4	2	1	3	6
39	Switkowski, Sam	HFFR	81%	2	0	9	5	4	4	0	5	1	3	0	2	0	2
20	Taberner, Matt	CHF	85%	7	0	11	10	1	6	0	1	0	1	3	0	0	0
18	Tucker, Darcy	SUB	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Walker, Brandon	INT	79%	0	0	14	7	7	2	0	0	1	7	0	3	2	1
10	Walters, Michael	FPR	89%	0	1	15	9	6	5	0	2	0	6	2	1	0	0
26	Young, Hayden	HBFL	86%	0	0	24	14	10	9	0	1	0	5	0	1	2	4
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				16	11	398	226	172	105	31	49	42	77	22	21	30	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

Essendon							Coach: Ben Rutten
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	36	B. Cox	25	A. Pearce	6	J. Clark	34	A. Phillips	6	J. Caldwell
	35	M. Guelfi	20	P. Wright	8	B. Hobbs	3	D. Parish	2	S. Draper
FORWARD							9	D. Shiel	19	N. Hind
HALF-BACK									5	D. Smith
	26	H. Young	13	L. Ryan	27	H. Chapman			12	T. Cutler
	16	A. Perkins	45	A. Waterman	13	N. Cox
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	30	N. O'Driscoll	8	A. Brayshaw	9	B. Acres
	37	N. Martin	1	A. McGrath (avc)	22	S. Durham	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							4	S. Darcy	11	J. Aish
HALF-FORWARD							17	W. Brodie	41	B. Banfield
	33	T. Colyer	20	M. Taberner	39	S. Switkowski	3	C. Serong	16	D. Mundy
	21	D. Heppell (c)	14	J. Ridley	27	M. Redman			31	B. Walker
HALF-BACK									18	D. Tucker
FORWARD
	32	M. Frederick	37	R. Lobb	10	M. Walters
	29	J. Kelly	15	J. Laverde	30	B. Zerk-Thatcher
BACK
Fremantle							Coach: Justin Longmuir

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:24
	FREM	Caleb Serong behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	02:56
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell behind	0.2.2	-	0.1.1	07:51
	FREM	Michael Frederick goal	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	09:38
	FREM	Matt Taberner goal	0.2.2	-	2.1.13	12:53
	ESSE	Nic Martin behind	0.3.3	-	2.1.13	16:07
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	1.3.9	-	2.1.13	20:13
	ESSE	Tom Cutler behind	1.4.10	-	2.1.13	23:08
	FREM	Bailey Banfield behind	1.4.10	-	2.2.14	26:28
Q2	ESSE	Devon Smith behind	1.5.11	-	2.2.14	00:43
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	2.5.17	-	2.2.14	01:53
	FREM	David Mundy behind	2.5.17	-	2.3.15	04:48
	ESSE	Nik Cox goal	3.5.23	-	2.3.15	06:06
	FREM	Matt Taberner goal	3.5.23	-	3.3.21	08:06
	ESSE	Alec Waterman goal	4.5.29	-	3.3.21	10:01
	FREM	Sam Switkowski goal	4.5.29	-	4.3.27	11:51
	FREM	Andrew Brayshaw behind	4.5.29	-	4.4.28	15:53
	ESSE	Devon Smith behind	4.6.30	-	4.4.28	18:26
	FREM	Bailey Banfield goal	4.6.30	-	5.4.34	19:35
	FREM	Michael Walters behind	4.6.30	-	5.5.35	21:20
	ESSE	Nik Cox behind	4.7.31	-	5.5.35	22:24
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi goal	5.7.37	-	5.5.35	24:44
	FREM	Bailey Banfield goal	5.7.37	-	6.5.41	26:08
	ESSE	Nik Cox behind	5.8.38	-	6.5.41	32:23
Q3	FREM	Rory Lobb behind	5.8.38	-	6.6.42	00:49
	FREM	Matt Taberner goal	5.8.38	-	7.6.48	03:19
	FREM	Matt Taberner goal	5.8.38	-	8.6.54	15:37
	FREM	Sean Darcy goal	5.8.38	-	9.6.60	16:53
	FREM	Matt Taberner goal	5.8.38	-	10.6.66	18:34
	FREM	Andrew Brayshaw goal	5.8.38	-	11.6.72	22:19
	FREM	Matt Taberner goal	5.8.38	-	12.6.78	24:30
	FREM	Bailey Banfield behind	5.8.38	-	12.7.79	26:26
	ESSE	Devon Smith behind	5.9.39	-	12.7.79	27:25
	FREM	Rushed behind	5.9.39	-	12.8.80	29:45
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	5.10.40	-	12.8.80	30:40
Q4	FREM	Travis Colyer behind	5.10.40	-	12.9.81	04:43
	FREM	Matt Taberner goal	5.10.40	-	13.9.87	06:54
	FREM	Michael Frederick goal	5.10.40	-	14.9.93	08:40
	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	5.11.41	-	14.9.93	10:16
	FREM	Sean Darcy goal	5.11.41	-	15.9.99	12:24
	ESSE	Alec Waterman goal	6.11.47	-	15.9.99	17:23
	ESSE	Sam Draper goal	7.11.53	-	15.9.99	18:37
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell goal	8.11.59	-	15.9.99	20:27
	FREM	Sean Darcy behind	8.11.59	-	15.10.100	23:20
	FREM	Sam Switkowski goal	8.11.59	-	16.10.106	26:16
	FREM	Sean Darcy behind	8.11.59	-	16.11.107	28:25

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