2022 AFL Round 18: Essendon v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 17 July 2022 between Essendon and Gold Coast during round 18 of the 2022 AFL season. Essendon hosted Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium. Dyson Heppell captained the hosts with Zach Merrett as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Ben Rutten and the visitors were coached by Stuart Dew.

Essendon
Back: J. Ridley, J. Laverde, B. Zerk-Thatcher
Half-back: M. Redman, J. Kelly, A. McGrath
Centre: S. Durham, D. Shiel, D. Heppell (capt.)
Half-forward: M. Guelfi, N. Martin, K. Langford
Forward: P. Wright, J. Stringer, H. Jones
Follower: A. Phillips, Z. Merrett (vice-capt.), J. Caldwell
Int.: S. Draper, N. Hind, B. Hobbs, W. Snelling
Sub.: B. Ham

Gold Coast
Back: C. Graham, S. Collins, S. Lemmens
Half-back: J. Bowes, C. Ballard, B. Ellis
Centre: S. Day, N. Anderson, D. Swallow
Half-forward: B. Ainsworth, M. Chol, J. Lukosius
Forward: I. Rankine, N. Holman, L. Casboult
Follower: J. Witts, M. Rowell, T. Miller
Int.: B. Fiorini, S. Flanders, O. Markov, H. Oea
Sub.: R. Atkins

Essendon (14.19.103) defeated Gold Coast (8.7.55).

Goalkickers
Essendon: J. Stringer (4), S. Draper (2), H. Jones (2), N. Martin (2), P. Wright (2), S. Durham, A. Phillips
Gold Coast: L. Casboult (2), M. Chol (2), S. Day (2), J. Lukosius, I. Rankine

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 14th on the ladder (up from 16th) and Gold Coast were then 12th on the ladder (down from 11th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2022 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Essendon v Gold Coast
Date: Sunday 17 July 2022
Time: 4:40 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 23,484

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Gold Coast
Score: 14.19.103 - 8.7.55

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 4 . 4 9 . 10 11 . 16 14 . 19 14 . 19 (103)
Gold Coast 4 . 1 5 . 4 5 . 6 8 . 7 8 . 7 (55)
Margin ESSE by 3 ESSE by 30 ESSE by 46 ESSE by 48 ESSE by 48
Duration 30:28 31:35 28:26 31:08 2:01:37

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ben Rutten (Essendon), Stuart Dew (Gold Coast)
Captains: Dyson Heppell (Essendon), unknown (Gold Coast)
Vice-Captains: Zach Merrett (Essendon), unknown (Gold Coast)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: D. Johanson (#6), B. Rosebury (#8), A. Whetton (#19)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 3
Mason Redman ESSE 27 2
Dylan Shiel ESSE 9 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Mason Redman ESSE 27 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Andrew McGrath ESSE 1 6 ? ? ? ? ?
Dylan Shiel ESSE 9 5 ? ? ? ? ?
Jake Stringer ESSE 25 3 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 RO 81% 0 0 21 13 8 4 0 3 3 3 3 2 0 6
2 Draper, Sam INT 78% 2 1 13 10 3 2 23 4 5 4 0 2 0 1
22 Durham, Sam WL 84% 1 0 13 7 6 4 0 3 2 3 0 0 4 0
35 Guelfi, Matt HFFL 79% 0 0 14 9 5 6 0 10 0 3 3 1 1 3
33 Ham, Brayden SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Heppell, Dyson (c) WR 78% 0 0 19 12 7 8 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 4
19 Hind, Nick INT 76% 0 1 26 18 8 6 0 1 1 5 1 1 6 4
8 Hobbs, Ben INT 65% 0 2 15 7 8 1 0 6 3 3 0 1 0 2
23 Jones, Harry FPR 83% 2 0 8 6 2 4 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1
29 Kelly, Jake CHB 88% 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1
4 Langford, Kyle HFFR 77% 0 3 19 11 8 3 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 1
15 Laverde, Jayden FB 87% 0 0 14 6 8 7 0 2 0 3 0 3 3 0
37 Martin, Nic CHF 90% 2 1 25 14 11 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2
1 McGrath, Andrew HBFR 86% 0 0 29 18 11 11 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 2
7 Merrett, Zach (vc) RR 83% 0 1 36 16 20 8 0 5 9 1 1 1 1 7
34 Phillips, Andrew RU 68% 1 0 7 4 3 3 13 2 1 1 0 1 0 1
27 Redman, Mason HBFL 81% 0 1 34 26 8 10 0 4 0 3 2 0 6 5
14 Ridley, Jordan BPL 93% 0 0 18 15 3 7 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 2
9 Shiel, Dylan C 83% 0 0 29 14 15 3 0 5 7 2 2 0 0 9
11 Snelling, Will INT 74% 0 0 13 7 6 4 0 1 2 4 2 1 0 2
25 Stringer, Jake FF 78% 4 2 16 12 4 4 0 1 1 3 3 1 0 1
20 Wright, Peter FPL 100% 2 3 13 11 2 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6
30 Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon BPR 89% 0 0 12 8 4 5 0 1 0 1 1 0 5 0
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 14 19 408 252 156 117 36 53 36 48 27 17 37 60

Gold Coast

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
9 Ainsworth, Ben HFFL 88% 0 0 12 8 4 5 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3
15 Anderson, Noah C 87% 0 0 24 19 5 6 0 4 7 6 1 1 4 4
2 Atkins, Rory SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Ballard, Charlie CHB 81% 0 0 8 8 0 5 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0
3 Bowes, Jack HBFL 74% 0 0 11 9 2 4 0 0 1 1 0 1 5 0
30 Casboult, Levi FPR 74% 2 0 5 4 1 3 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0
1 Chol, Mabior CHF 80% 2 2 8 7 1 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1
25 Collins, Sam FB 98% 0 0 12 8 4 7 0 2 0 2 0 1 4 0
12 Day, Sam WL 80% 2 0 6 4 2 4 2 2 0 2 0 1 0 1
4 Ellis, Brandon HBFR 89% 0 0 21 17 4 7 0 1 1 3 0 2 7 1
8 Fiorini, Brayden INT 65% 0 1 15 9 6 5 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 3
26 Flanders, Sam INT 72% 0 0 15 6 9 5 0 4 1 3 0 0 0 3
46 Graham, Caleb BPL 96% 0 0 8 6 2 4 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1
7 Holman, Nick FF 88% 0 0 8 4 4 2 0 3 0 5 4 3 0 2
23 Lemmens, Sean BPR 84% 0 0 14 11 3 3 0 2 0 4 1 1 4 1
13 Lukosius, Jack HFFR 85% 1 0 22 18 4 6 0 3 0 4 1 2 6 3
17 Markov, Oleg INT 80% 0 0 18 13 5 7 0 1 0 3 0 1 6 2
11 Miller, Touk RO 85% 0 1 28 17 11 4 0 7 8 7 4 4 1 7
47 Oea, Hewago INT 69% 0 0 5 2 3 2 0 6 0 2 1 0 2 1
22 Rankine, Izak FPL 89% 1 1 11 8 3 1 0 2 2 5 0 3 0 3
18 Rowell, Matt RR 70% 0 0 14 4 10 2 0 5 7 4 0 3 0 3
24 Swallow, David WR 83% 0 0 17 9 8 4 0 1 3 4 0 1 4 4
28 Witts, Jarrod RU 83% 0 0 11 9 2 2 34 1 3 0 2 0 1 2
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 8 7 293 200 93 91 36 48 34 68 17 27 45 45

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
46 C. Graham 25 S. Collins 23 S. Lemmens 34 A. Phillips 2 S. Draper
23 H. Jones 25 J. Stringer 20 P. Wright 7 Z. Merrett (vc) 19 N. Hind
FORWARD 6 J. Caldwell 8 B. Hobbs
HALF-BACK

11 W. Snelling
3 J. Bowes 10 C. Ballard 4 B. Ellis

33 B. Ham
4 K. Langford 37 N. Martin 35 M. Guelfi



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



12 S. Day 15 N. Anderson 24 D. Swallow



21 D. Heppell (c) 9 D. Shiel 22 S. Durham FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 28 J. Witts 8 B. Fiorini
HALF-FORWARD 18 M. Rowell 26 S. Flanders
9 B. Ainsworth 1 M. Chol 13 J. Lukosius 11 T. Miller 17 O. Markov
1 A. McGrath 29 J. Kelly 27 M. Redman

47 H. Oea
HALF-BACK

2 R. Atkins
FORWARD



22 I. Rankine 7 N. Holman 30 L. Casboult



30 B. Zerk-Thatcher 15 J. Laverde 14 J. Ridley



BACK



Gold Coast Coach: Stuart Dew

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 GCST Mabior Chol behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 00:51
ESSE Nic Martin goal 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 02:25
ESSE Sam Durham goal 2.0.12 - 0.1.1 05:30
ESSE Peter Wright goal 3.0.18 - 0.1.1 07:17
ESSE Peter Wright goal 4.0.24 - 0.1.1 09:04
ESSE Nic Martin behind 4.1.25 - 0.1.1 11:11
GCST Mabior Chol goal 4.1.25 - 1.1.7 13:24
GCST Levi Casboult goal 4.1.25 - 2.1.13 15:06
GCST Mabior Chol goal 4.1.25 - 3.1.19 17:16
GCST Levi Casboult goal 4.1.25 - 4.1.25 18:57
ESSE Peter Wright behind 4.2.26 - 4.1.25 22:43
ESSE Zach Merrett behind 4.3.27 - 4.1.25 26:06
ESSE Mason Redman behind 4.4.28 - 4.1.25 26:48
Q2 GCST Mabior Chol behind 4.4.28 - 4.2.26 00:26
ESSE Harry Jones goal 5.4.34 - 4.2.26 01:38
ESSE Jake Stringer behind 5.5.35 - 4.2.26 05:01
GCST Rushed behind 5.5.35 - 4.3.27 06:57
ESSE Andrew Phillips goal 6.5.41 - 4.3.27 08:57
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 7.5.47 - 4.3.27 12:00
ESSE Sam Draper behind 7.6.48 - 4.3.27 13:39
GCST Sam Day goal 7.6.48 - 5.3.33 15:11
ESSE Nick Hind behind 7.7.49 - 5.3.33 17:22
ESSE Peter Wright behind 7.8.50 - 5.3.33 20:11
ESSE Sam Draper goal 8.8.56 - 5.3.33 21:51
GCST Brayden Fiorini behind 8.8.56 - 5.4.34 23:04
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 8.9.57 - 5.4.34 25:09
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 9.9.63 - 5.4.34 26:06
ESSE Ben Hobbs behind 9.10.64 - 5.4.34 27:44
Q3 ESSE Kyle Langford behind 9.11.65 - 5.4.34 00:50
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 10.11.71 - 5.4.34 06:40
ESSE Rushed behind 10.12.72 - 5.4.34 09:03
ESSE Rushed behind 10.13.73 - 5.4.34 12:43
GCST Izak Rankine behind 10.13.73 - 5.5.35 13:50
ESSE Rushed behind 10.14.74 - 5.5.35 15:57
ESSE Harry Jones goal 11.14.80 - 5.5.35 19:19
ESSE Jake Stringer behind 11.15.81 - 5.5.35 21:06
ESSE Ben Hobbs behind 11.16.82 - 5.5.35 23:09
GCST Rushed behind 11.16.82 - 5.6.36 23:58
Q4 GCST Touk Miller behind 11.16.82 - 5.7.37 01:51
ESSE Rushed behind 11.17.83 - 5.7.37 05:58
ESSE Peter Wright behind 11.18.84 - 5.7.37 08:37
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 11.19.85 - 5.7.37 09:06
GCST Jack Lukosius goal 11.19.85 - 6.7.43 11:54
GCST Sam Day goal 11.19.85 - 7.7.49 13:43
ESSE Sam Draper goal 12.19.91 - 7.7.49 14:50
GCST Izak Rankine goal 12.19.91 - 8.7.55 17:38
ESSE Nic Martin goal 13.19.97 - 8.7.55 26:05
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 14.19.103 - 8.7.55 27:59