2023 AFL Season Round 8: Port Adelaide v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 7 May 2023 between Port Adelaide and Essendon during round eight of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. Port Adelaide hosted Essendon at Adelaide Oval. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Ken Hinkley and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Port Adelaide (12.20.92) defeated Essendon (13.9.87).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Port Adelaide v Essendon
Date: Sunday 7 May 2023
Time: 12:40 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 36,247

Match Results

Outcome: Port Adelaide def. Essendon
Score: 12.20.92 - 13.9.87

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Port Adelaide	3	.	4	5	.	11	9	.	16	12	.	20	12	.	20	(92)
Essendon	6	.	1	9	.	1	11	.	3	13	.	9	13	.	9	(87)
Margin	ESSE by 15			ESSE by 14			PADL by 1			PADL by 5			PADL by 5
Duration	31:24			30:56			29:38			31:22			2:03:20

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Port Adelaide

Captain: unknown
Coach: Ken Hinkley

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	3
Connor Rozee	PADL	20	2
Jason Horne-Francis	PADL	18	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Zak Butters	PADL	9	10	2	0	0	0	0
Connor Rozee	PADL	20	6	0	1	0	1	0
Miles Bergman	PADL	14	4	0	1	0	0	0
Sam Draper	ESSE	2	3	0	0	?	?	?
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	3	0	0	?	?	?
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	3	0	0	?	?	?
Dan Houston	PADL	5	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Port Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Aliir, Aliir	BPL	100%	0	0	9	5	4	4	0	1	0	5	0	2	3	0
14	Bergman, Miles	HBFL	86%	0	0	15	12	3	7	0	2	1	2	1	0	5	2
10	Boak, Travis	WL	81%	1	1	21	9	12	5	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	1
26	Bonner, Riley	WR	82%	0	2	20	13	7	4	0	4	2	1	0	0	1	2
3	Burton, Ryan	CHB	80%	0	0	20	17	3	6	0	1	1	4	0	1	7	3
9	Butters, Zak	INT	71%	0	0	28	16	12	5	0	6	6	2	3	1	1	6
33	Byrne-Jones, Darcy	CHF	85%	2	1	14	11	3	3	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	3
22	Dixon, Charlie	FPR	100%	2	2	13	7	6	6	9	1	1	2	1	0	0	2
28	Drew, Willem	C	67%	0	0	22	10	12	5	0	8	4	1	1	0	0	4
31	Evans, Francis	SUB↑	30%	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
11	Finlayson, Jeremy	INT	73%	1	4	17	13	4	6	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	6
18	Horne-Francis, Jason	RO	78%	0	1	20	17	3	6	0	5	5	2	3	1	0	5
5	Houston, Dan	HBFR	84%	0	1	25	20	5	6	0	3	1	2	1	1	4	7
1	Jonas, Tom	BPR↓	53%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
4	Marshall, Todd	FF	82%	1	1	13	11	2	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	3
41	McEntee, Jed	HFFL	77%	1	0	9	5	4	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
12	McKenzie, Trent	FB	91%	0	0	6	5	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
2	Powell-Pepper, Sam	HFFR	82%	1	1	7	2	5	2	0	5	1	2	0	2	0	0
15	Rioli, Willie	FPL	82%	2	3	14	9	5	2	0	3	1	2	1	1	0	4
20	Rozee, Connor	RR	85%	1	0	29	11	18	5	0	3	4	6	0	2	1	5
27	Teakle, Brynn	RU	81%	0	0	7	2	5	3	14	3	0	2	0	1	3	0
23	Williams, Dylan	INT	79%	0	0	24	17	7	8	0	0	0	4	3	0	4	5
16	Wines, Ollie	INT	71%	0	0	21	5	16	5	0	2	2	2	0	0	1	3
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				12	20	361	221	140	101	23	55	35	48	16	12	33	65

F. Evans replaced T. Jonas.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
6	Caldwell, Jye	HFFR	80%	1	0	17	8	9	3	0	5	1	1	0	0	1	4
33	Davey, Alwyn	INT	63%	0	0	9	3	6	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0
2	Draper, Sam	RU	78%	0	1	16	11	5	2	24	3	4	1	1	1	1	5
21	Heppell, Dyson	INT	86%	0	0	18	10	8	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	4	0
19	Hind, Nick	FPL	78%	0	0	11	7	4	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
8	Hobbs, Ben	HFFL	69%	1	0	15	7	8	1	0	5	3	4	1	2	2	1
29	Kelly, Jake	BPL	93%	0	0	14	10	4	6	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	2
4	Langford, Kyle	HBFR	100%	2	1	19	14	5	10	0	2	0	2	1	1	5	2
37	Martin, Nic	WR	95%	0	0	19	8	11	3	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	1
43	McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony	FPR	77%	1	0	13	6	7	2	0	4	1	1	1	0	0	0
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	HBFL	79%	0	0	19	15	4	4	0	2	0	1	2	0	10	0
47	Menzie, Jye	SUB↑	43%	1	0	3	1	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RR	84%	1	1	28	16	12	2	0	10	4	6	1	2	4	5
3	Parish, Darcy	C	86%	0	0	37	13	24	4	0	5	9	8	1	1	3	4
16	Perkins, Archie	INT	78%	2	1	13	8	5	1	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	5
34	Phillips, Andrew	INT	64%	0	1	9	6	3	4	21	1	2	4	0	1	1	1
27	Redman, Mason	BPR	70%	0	0	21	14	7	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	6	2
14	Ridley, Jordan	CHB↓	36%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
12	Setterfield, Will	RO	88%	0	0	16	10	6	5	0	4	0	3	0	1	2	4
9	Shiel, Dylan	WL	84%	0	0	19	7	12	3	0	2	2	1	2	0	0	1
25	Stringer, Jake	FF	77%	2	1	18	8	10	0	0	2	6	4	0	1	0	4
10	Weideman, Sam	CHF	94%	2	1	9	6	3	5	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	4
30	Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon	FB	100%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	1	2	6	0	1	6	0
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				13	9	360	198	162	73	45	62	35	56	12	16	52	47

J. Menzie replaced J. Ridley.

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

Port Adelaide							Coach: Ken Hinkley
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	29	J. Kelly	30	B. Zerk-Thatcher	27	M. Redman	27	B. Teakle	9	Z. Butters
	22	C. Dixon	4	T. Marshall	15	W. Rioli	20	C. Rozee	11	J. Finlayson
FORWARD							18	J. Horne-Francis	23	D. Williams
HALF-BACK									16	O. Wines
	1	A. McGrath (vc)	14	J. Ridley	4	K. Langford			31	F. Evans
	2	S. Powell-Pepper	33	D. Byrne-Jones	41	J. McEntee
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	9	D. Shiel	3	D. Parish	37	N. Martin
	26	R. Bonner	28	W. Drew	10	T. Boak	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	S. Draper	33	A. Davey
HALF-FORWARD							7	Z. Merrett (c)	21	D. Heppell
	8	B. Hobbs	10	S. Weideman	6	J. Caldwell	12	W. Setterfield	16	A. Perkins
	5	D. Houston	3	R. Burton	14	M. Bergman			34	A. Phillips
HALF-BACK									47	J. Menzie
FORWARD
	19	N. Hind	25	J. Stringer	43	A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
	1	T. Jonas	12	T. McKenzie	21	A. Aliir
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:14
	ESSE	Sam Weideman goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	04:16
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	07:15
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	1.0.6	-	3.0.18	08:51
	PADL	Jed McEntee goal	2.0.12	-	3.0.18	11:09
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell goal	2.0.12	-	4.0.24	15:53
	PADL	Jason Horne-Francis behind	2.1.13	-	4.0.24	18:21
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones behind	2.2.14	-	4.0.24	19:50
	PADL	Willie Rioli goal	3.2.20	-	4.0.24	21:00
	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	3.2.20	-	4.1.25	23:20
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	3.2.20	-	5.1.31	24:09
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs goal	3.2.20	-	6.1.37	25:19
	PADL	Jeremy Finlayson behind	3.3.21	-	6.1.37	28:01
	PADL	Willie Rioli behind	3.4.22	-	6.1.37	30:23
Q2	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	3.4.22	-	7.1.43	01:42
	PADL	Todd Marshall goal	4.4.28	-	7.1.43	05:03
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper behind	4.5.29	-	7.1.43	08:03
	PADL	Jeremy Finlayson behind	4.6.30	-	7.1.43	10:41
	ESSE	Sam Weideman goal	4.6.30	-	8.1.49	13:10
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	5.6.36	-	8.1.49	19:11
	PADL	Charlie Dixon behind	5.7.37	-	8.1.49	20:56
	PADL	Rushed behind	5.8.38	-	8.1.49	21:51
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	5.8.38	-	9.1.55	22:33
	PADL	Rushed behind	5.9.39	-	9.1.55	24:19
	PADL	Dan Houston behind	5.10.40	-	9.1.55	26:07
	PADL	Travis Boak behind	5.11.41	-	9.1.55	30:27
Q3	PADL	Charlie Dixon behind	5.12.42	-	9.1.55	00:53
	PADL	Riley Bonner behind	5.13.43	-	9.1.55	03:31
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper goal	6.13.49	-	9.1.55	05:52
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	6.13.49	-	10.1.61	09:20
	PADL	Jeremy Finlayson behind	6.14.50	-	10.1.61	10:37
	PADL	Travis Boak goal	7.14.56	-	10.1.61	12:17
	PADL	Rushed behind	7.15.57	-	10.1.61	13:49
	PADL	Todd Marshall behind	7.16.58	-	10.1.61	16:39
	PADL	Charlie Dixon goal	8.16.64	-	10.1.61	21:13
	PADL	Charlie Dixon goal	9.16.70	-	10.1.61	23:09
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	9.16.70	-	10.2.62	24:17
	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	9.16.70	-	11.2.68	27:12
	ESSE	Sam Weideman behind	9.16.70	-	11.3.69	29:33
Q4	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	9.16.70	-	12.3.75	02:30
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	9.16.70	-	12.4.76	03:38
	PADL	Jeremy Finlayson goal	10.16.76	-	12.4.76	06:19
	ESSE	Sam Draper behind	10.16.76	-	12.5.77	07:58
	PADL	Riley Bonner behind	10.17.77	-	12.5.77	10:23
	PADL	Jeremy Finlayson behind	10.18.78	-	12.5.77	12:35
	PADL	Connor Rozee goal	11.18.84	-	12.5.77	13:25
	PADL	Willie Rioli goal	12.18.90	-	12.5.77	16:02
	ESSE	Rushed behind	12.18.90	-	12.6.78	19:42
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	12.18.90	-	13.6.84	21:18
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	12.18.90	-	13.7.85	23:49
	PADL	Willie Rioli behind	12.19.91	-	13.7.85	26:36
	PADL	Willie Rioli behind	12.20.92	-	13.7.85	27:18
	ESSE	Rushed behind	12.20.92	-	13.8.86	28:16
	ESSE	Andrew Phillips behind	12.20.92	-	13.9.87	30:34

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