2023 AFL Season Round 3: St Kilda v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 1 April 2023 between St Kilda and Essendon during round three of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. St Kilda hosted Essendon at the MCG. Callum Wilkie captained the hosts. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Ross Lyon and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

St Kilda (14.8.92) defeated Essendon (11.8.74).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: St Kilda v Essendon
Date: Saturday 1 April 2023
Time: 7:25 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 69,255

Match Results

Outcome: St Kilda def. Essendon
Score: 14.8.92 - 11.8.74

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
St Kilda	5	.	4	7	.	5	9	.	7	14	.	8	14	.	8	(92)
Essendon	1	.	1	4	.	5	6	.	6	11	.	8	11	.	8	(74)
Margin	STKL by 27			STKL by 18			STKL by 19			STKL by 18			STKL by 18
Duration	28:34			31:32			28:40			36:24			2:05:10

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

St Kilda

Captain: Callum Wilkie
Coach: Ross Lyon

Essendon

Captain: Zach Merrett
Vice-Captain: Andrew McGrath
Coach: Brad Scott

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Brad Crouch	STKL	5	3
Jack Higgins	STKL	22	2
Mason Wood	STKL	32	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Mason Wood	STKL	32	10	2	0	0	0	0
Callum Wilkie	STKL	44	8	0	2	0	0	0
Jack Higgins	STKL	22	4	0	0	1	0	1
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	3	0	0	1	0	0
Jye Caldwell	ESSE	6	2	0	0	0	1	0
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	2	0	0	0	1	0
Dan Butler	STKL	16	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

St Kilda

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
26	Battle, Josh	BPL	95%	0	0	14	10	4	10	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	1
16	Butler, Dan	INT	73%	4	0	13	11	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	6
13	Byrnes, Ryan	WR	96%	0	1	23	12	11	6	0	5	0	3	1	0	3	1
47	Caminiti, Anthony	FPR	70%	1	1	8	6	2	2	0	5	0	2	3	1	0	2
11	Clark, Hunter	INT	66%	0	0	21	7	14	2	0	3	3	3	1	1	1	2
21	Cordy, Zaine	INT↓	30%	0	0	1	1	0	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
5	Crouch, Brad	RR	78%	0	0	32	18	14	6	0	6	8	5	4	2	1	4
4	Gresham, Jade	FF	88%	1	1	23	14	9	7	0	0	2	9	1	1	0	6
22	Higgins, Jack	HFFR	78%	4	0	18	9	9	4	0	3	0	3	0	1	1	1
8	Hill, Bradley	CHF	95%	1	0	23	11	12	4	0	1	2	3	0	2	0	4
20	Howard, Dougal	FB	94%	0	0	13	11	2	7	0	1	0	2	0	2	3	0
19	Marshall, Rowan	RU	88%	0	1	19	14	5	8	25	1	3	4	0	2	2	4
10	Owens, Mitch	FPL	87%	1	2	14	8	6	3	3	2	1	2	4	1	1	2
33	Paton, Ben	SUB↑	33%	0	0	6	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
25	Phillipou, Mattaes	HFFL	88%	0	1	14	4	10	2	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0
6	Ross, Sebastian	RO	81%	0	0	24	15	9	5	0	9	4	3	3	0	3	5
35	Sinclair, Jack	CHB	90%	0	0	26	14	12	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	3	2
14	Stocker, Liam	HBFL	67%	0	0	17	8	9	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	5	0
7	Wanganeen-Milera, Nasiah	HBFR	81%	0	0	19	15	4	7	0	2	0	1	0	1	4	2
29	Webster, Jimmy	INT	58%	0	0	16	10	6	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0
44	Wilkie, Callum (c)	BPR	100%	0	0	19	15	4	13	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	1
17	Windhager, Marcus	C	85%	1	0	14	5	9	5	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	1
32	Wood, Mason	WL	80%	1	0	27	21	6	11	0	3	2	8	1	3	3	6
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				14	8	404	242	162	119	32	49	29	63	20	18	37	52

B. Paton replaced Z. Cordy.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
6	Caldwell, Jye	BPR	88%	2	1	18	7	11	2	0	2	4	2	0	0	0	2
42	D'Ambrosio, Massimo	INT	78%	0	0	27	17	10	8	0	2	0	3	0	2	5	3
33	Davey, Alwyn	INT	68%	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	4
2	Draper, Sam	RU	82%	0	0	9	5	4	3	27	5	4	1	0	1	1	3
22	Durham, Sam	RO	70%	0	0	16	9	7	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1
21	Heppell, Dyson	WL	79%	0	0	16	6	10	5	0	4	0	5	1	2	1	0
19	Hind, Nick	SUB↑	34%	0	0	13	10	3	2	0	1	2	2	0	0	1	1
23	Jones, Harry	CHF↓	55%	0	1	11	6	5	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1
29	Kelly, Jake	HBFL	95%	0	0	29	15	14	11	0	0	0	3	3	0	5	0
4	Langford, Kyle	HFFR	81%	1	0	17	13	4	7	0	1	0	3	1	1	4	0
15	Laverde, Jayden	CHB	91%	0	0	16	10	6	9	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	1
37	Martin, Nic	INT	96%	1	2	28	19	9	7	0	1	3	5	1	0	2	2
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	HBFR	85%	0	0	24	12	12	6	0	1	2	2	0	1	5	0
47	Menzie, Jye	FPR	73%	1	0	8	4	4	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RR	86%	0	0	25	13	12	4	0	7	6	4	3	1	0	3
3	Parish, Darcy	INT	78%	1	0	35	17	18	7	0	2	4	3	1	1	4	5
16	Perkins, Archie	HFFL	82%	2	1	14	11	3	5	0	3	0	2	0	2	0	5
27	Redman, Mason	BPL	87%	0	0	20	15	5	6	0	1	0	5	2	3	4	2
14	Ridley, Jordan	FB	78%	0	0	21	17	4	14	0	3	0	7	1	4	4	0
12	Setterfield, Will	C	79%	0	0	21	12	9	7	0	4	5	2	0	1	0	3
9	Shiel, Dylan	WR	71%	2	0	22	15	7	3	0	8	5	2	1	1	0	7
25	Stringer, Jake	FPL	80%	1	0	8	5	3	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	2
10	Weideman, Sam	FF	83%	0	0	10	5	5	4	5	2	2	2	1	0	0	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				11	8	420	250	170	127	32	57	42	59	18	20	38	48

N. Hind replaced H. Jones.

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

St Kilda							Coach: Ross Lyon
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	M. Redman	14	J. Ridley	6	J. Caldwell	19	R. Marshall	16	D. Butler
	47	A. Caminiti	4	J. Gresham	10	M. Owens	5	B. Crouch	11	H. Clark
FORWARD							6	S. Ross	21	Z. Cordy
HALF-BACK									29	J. Webster
	29	J. Kelly	15	J. Laverde	1	A. McGrath (vc)			33	B. Paton
	22	J. Higgins	8	B. Hill	25	M. Phillipou
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	21	D. Heppell	12	W. Setterfield	9	D. Shiel
	13	R. Byrnes	17	M. Windhager	32	M. Wood	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	S. Draper	42	M. D'Ambrosio
HALF-FORWARD							7	Z. Merrett (c)	33	A. Davey
	16	A. Perkins	23	H. Jones	4	K. Langford	22	S. Durham	37	N. Martin
	7	N. Wanganeen-Milera	35	J. Sinclair	14	L. Stocker			3	D. Parish
HALF-BACK									19	N. Hind
FORWARD
	25	J. Stringer	10	S. Weideman	47	J. Menzie
	44	C. Wilkie (c)	20	D. Howard	26	J. Battle
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	STKL	Ryan Byrnes behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	00:52
	STKL	Mason Wood goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	01:39
	STKL	Mattaes Phillipou behind	1.2.8	-	0.0.0	04:48
	STKL	Anthony Caminiti goal	2.2.14	-	0.0.0	07:06
	STKL	Rowan Marshall behind	2.3.15	-	0.0.0	09:22
	STKL	Mitch Owens goal	3.3.21	-	0.0.0	10:12
	STKL	Mitch Owens behind	3.4.22	-	0.0.0	12:02
	STKL	Dan Butler goal	4.4.28	-	0.0.0	13:59
	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	5.4.34	-	0.0.0	17:47
	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	5.4.34	-	0.1.1	19:10
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	5.4.34	-	1.1.7	21:32
Q2	ESSE	Dylan Shiel goal	5.4.34	-	2.1.13	03:58
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.4.34	-	2.2.14	07:28
	ESSE	Nic Martin behind	5.4.34	-	2.3.15	14:32
	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	6.4.40	-	2.3.15	15:45
	STKL	Mitch Owens behind	6.5.41	-	2.3.15	17:37
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	6.5.41	-	3.3.21	18:56
	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	7.5.47	-	3.3.21	22:39
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	3.4.22	26:00
	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	7.5.47	-	4.4.28	26:54
	ESSE	Nic Martin behind	7.5.47	-	4.5.29	27:59
Q3	STKL	Anthony Caminiti behind	7.6.48	-	4.5.29	11:43
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	7.6.48	-	5.5.35	12:49
	STKL	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	5.5.35	15:05
	ESSE	Harry Jones behind	7.7.49	-	5.6.36	16:49
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	7.7.49	-	6.6.42	17:58
	STKL	Dan Butler goal	8.7.55	-	6.6.42	19:38
	STKL	Dan Butler goal	9.7.61	-	6.6.42	22:27
Q4	ESSE	Jye Caldwell goal	9.7.61	-	7.6.48	01:20
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	9.7.61	-	8.6.54	03:04
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell behind	9.7.61	-	8.7.55	07:11
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell goal	9.7.61	-	9.7.61	09:32
	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	10.7.67	-	9.7.61	13:41
	STKL	Jade Gresham goal	11.7.73	-	9.7.61	16:25
	STKL	Marcus Windhager goal	12.7.79	-	9.7.61	20:15
	STKL	Jade Gresham behind	12.8.80	-	9.7.61	21:35
	STKL	Dan Butler goal	13.8.86	-	9.7.61	22:07
	STKL	Bradley Hill goal	14.8.92	-	9.7.61	24:52
	ESSE	Rushed behind	14.8.92	-	9.8.62	26:27
	ESSE	Darcy Parish goal	14.8.92	-	10.8.68	30:24
	ESSE	Dylan Shiel goal	14.8.92	-	11.8.74	35:05

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