2023 AFL Round 20: Essendon v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 29 July 2023 between Essendon and Sydney during round 20 of the 2023 AFL season. Essendon hosted Sydney at Marvel Stadium. Zach Merrett captained the hosts with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

Essendon
Back: A. McGrath (vice-capt.), B. Zerk-Thatcher, J. Laverde
Half-back: M. Redman, N. Cox, N. Hind
Centre: S. Durham, J. Caldwell, J. Kelly
Half-forward: A. Davey, N. Martin, M. Guelfi
Forward: K. Langford, P. Wright, J. Menzie
Follower: A. Phillips, D. Parish, Z. Merrett (capt.)
Int.: N. Bryan, D. Heppell, B. Hobbs, A. Perkins
Sub.: W. Snelling

Sydney
Back: D. Rampe, T. McCartin, H. Cunningham
Half-back: J. Lloyd, N. Blakey, O. Florent
Centre: B. Campbell, L. Parker, E. Gulden
Half-forward: I. Heeney, L. McDonald, S. Wicks
Forward: T. Papley, L. Franklin, J. Amartey
Follower: H. McLean, J. Rowbottom, C. Mills
Int.: R. Fox, W. Hayward, J. McInerney, C. Warner
Sub.: R. Clarke

Essendon (15.9.99) were defeated by Sydney (15.11.101).

Goalkickers
Essendon: K. Langford (5), P. Wright (4), J. Caldwell, S. Durham, N. Hind, N. Martin, J. Menzie, A. Perkins
Sydney: J. Amartey (4), S. Wicks (3), I. Heeney (2), T. Papley (2), E. Gulden, L. McDonald, J. McInerney, C. Warner

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 13th on the ladder (down from 11th) and Sydney were then 10th on the ladder (up from 12th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: Essendon v Sydney
Date: Saturday 29 July 2023
Time: 7:25 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 38,329

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by Sydney
Score: 15.9.99 - 15.11.101

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 5 . 2 7 . 4 10 . 6 15 . 9 15 . 9 (99)
Sydney 5 . 1 10 . 5 14 . 7 15 . 11 15 . 11 (101)
Margin ESSE by 1 SYDN by 19 SYDN by 25 SYDN by 2 SYDN by 2
Duration 33:38 31:57 29:30 29:40 2:04:45

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (Essendon), John Longmire (Sydney)
Captains: Zach Merrett (Essendon), unknown (Sydney)
Vice-Captains: Andrew McGrath (Essendon), unknown (Sydney)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Errol Gulden SYDN 21 3
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 2
Joel Amartey SYDN 36 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Errol Gulden SYDN 21 9 1 1 0 0 0
Kyle Langford ESSE 4 7 ? ? ? ? 0
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 5 ? ? ? ? ?
Joel Amartey SYDN 36 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Jye Caldwell ESSE 6 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Dyson Heppell ESSE 21 3 0 0 ? ? ?

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
24 Bryan, Nick INT 58% 0 2 15 10 5 3 29 0 2 3 1 0 1 4
6 Caldwell, Jye C 68% 1 1 27 8 19 1 0 3 11 2 4 1 1 3
13 Cox, Nik CHB 82% 0 0 7 2 5 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
33 Davey, Alwyn HFFL↓ 48% 0 0 7 4 3 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 2
22 Durham, Sam WL 76% 1 0 13 9 4 6 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 3
35 Guelfi, Matt HFFR 82% 0 0 15 8 7 4 0 4 1 7 2 4 0 4
21 Heppell, Dyson INT 89% 0 0 25 15 10 6 0 4 0 2 1 1 4 3
19 Hind, Nick HBFR 88% 1 0 23 19 4 5 0 1 2 2 0 1 5 3
8 Hobbs, Ben INT 68% 0 1 20 10 10 3 0 3 3 1 1 0 1 6
29 Kelly, Jake WR 92% 0 0 15 5 10 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 3
4 Langford, Kyle FPL 85% 5 0 10 8 2 4 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
15 Laverde, Jayden BPR 84% 0 0 10 4 6 3 0 3 0 3 1 2 3 1
37 Martin, Nic CHF 91% 1 0 16 8 8 4 0 3 1 3 0 1 1 1
1 McGrath, Andrew (vc) BPL 83% 0 0 16 7 9 4 0 2 0 1 0 0 4 3
47 Menzie, Jye FPR 84% 1 0 9 7 2 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 1 3
7 Merrett, Zach (c) RO 82% 0 0 39 18 21 8 0 4 9 2 4 0 2 7
3 Parish, Darcy RR 86% 0 0 27 17 10 2 0 4 6 5 0 0 0 8
16 Perkins, Archie INT 85% 1 1 14 5 9 3 0 3 2 2 2 2 0 2
34 Phillips, Andrew RU 71% 0 0 11 5 6 2 23 1 4 2 1 1 0 3
27 Redman, Mason HBFL 84% 0 0 21 13 8 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 3 3
11 Snelling, Will SUB↑ 29% 0 0 10 7 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
20 Wright, Peter FF 96% 4 1 8 7 1 6 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 2
30 Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon FB 90% 0 0 11 9 2 6 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 1
Rushed 3
Total (23 players) 15 9 369 205 164 81 52 50 42 51 19 18 32 69

W. Snelling replaced A. Davey.

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
36 Amartey, Joel FPR 75% 4 1 11 10 1 7 4 2 0 1 1 0 0 3
22 Blakey, Nick CHB 80% 0 0 19 9 10 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1
16 Campbell, Braeden WL 75% 0 1 26 19 7 8 0 4 3 4 1 1 5 3
4 Clarke, Ryan SUB↑ 51% 0 0 6 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
7 Cunningham, Harry BPR 87% 0 0 21 11 10 4 0 4 1 0 2 0 6 0
13 Florent, Oliver HBFR 87% 0 0 21 11 10 3 0 1 0 3 0 2 2 2
42 Fox, Robbie INT 81% 0 0 13 9 4 6 0 4 0 1 0 0 5 1
23 Franklin, Lance FF↓ 29% 0 0 3 2 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2
21 Gulden, Errol WR 85% 1 0 37 24 13 10 0 4 6 5 1 3 4 9
9 Hayward, Will INT 87% 0 1 9 5 4 4 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
5 Heeney, Isaac HFFL 82% 2 0 17 9 8 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
44 Lloyd, Jake HBFL 80% 0 0 31 23 8 8 0 4 0 0 2 0 9 2
30 McCartin, Tom FB 96% 0 0 16 6 10 5 0 1 0 3 0 1 4 0
6 McDonald, Logan CHF 77% 1 1 12 8 4 5 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2
27 McInerney, Justin INT 81% 1 0 20 6 14 3 0 1 2 3 1 1 3 1
2 McLean, Hayden RU 80% 0 1 16 7 9 5 14 3 3 4 1 3 2 1
14 Mills, Callum RO 88% 0 2 14 10 4 3 0 3 0 3 0 1 3 0
11 Papley, Tom FPL 86% 2 1 19 15 4 6 0 1 3 4 1 2 0 5
26 Parker, Luke C 80% 0 0 12 6 6 4 0 4 2 4 0 2 1 4
24 Rampe, Dane BPL 77% 0 0 10 4 6 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 4 0
8 Rowbottom, James RR 74% 0 0 19 5 14 1 0 5 5 3 1 1 1 1
1 Warner, Chad INT 78% 1 0 26 16 10 1 0 3 3 2 3 0 2 6
15 Wicks, Sam HFFR 84% 3 1 14 5 9 1 0 5 0 1 2 0 0 1
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 15 11 392 222 170 100 18 56 29 47 18 19 53 47

R. Clarke replaced L. Franklin.

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: Brad Scott
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
24 D. Rampe 30 T. McCartin 7 H. Cunningham 34 A. Phillips 24 N. Bryan
47 J. Menzie 20 P. Wright 4 K. Langford 3 D. Parish 21 D. Heppell
FORWARD 7 Z. Merrett (c) 8 B. Hobbs
HALF-BACK

16 A. Perkins
44 J. Lloyd 22 N. Blakey 13 O. Florent

11 W. Snelling
35 M. Guelfi 37 N. Martin 33 A. Davey



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



16 B. Campbell 26 L. Parker 21 E. Gulden



29 J. Kelly 6 J. Caldwell 22 S. Durham FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 2 H. McLean 42 R. Fox
HALF-FORWARD 8 J. Rowbottom 9 W. Hayward
5 I. Heeney 6 L. McDonald 15 S. Wicks 14 C. Mills 27 J. McInerney
19 N. Hind 13 N. Cox 27 M. Redman

1 C. Warner
HALF-BACK

4 R. Clarke
FORWARD



11 T. Papley 23 L. Franklin 36 J. Amartey



15 J. Laverde 30 B. Zerk-Thatcher 1 A. McGrath (vc)



BACK



Sydney Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Kyle Langford goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 00:24
SYDN Sam Wicks goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 03:45
SYDN Rushed behind 1.0.6 - 1.1.7 06:11
ESSE Nick Hind goal 2.0.12 - 1.1.7 07:15
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 3.0.18 - 1.1.7 09:24
SYDN Sam Wicks goal 3.0.18 - 2.1.13 12:19
SYDN Joel Amartey goal 3.0.18 - 3.1.19 15:13
ESSE Nick Bryan behind 3.1.19 - 3.1.19 18:56
SYDN Isaac Heeney goal 3.1.19 - 4.1.25 21:03
SYDN Joel Amartey goal 3.1.19 - 5.1.31 22:53
ESSE Peter Wright behind 3.2.20 - 5.1.31 25:45
ESSE Jye Caldwell goal 4.2.26 - 5.1.31 28:01
ESSE Peter Wright goal 5.2.32 - 5.1.31 30:46
Q2 SYDN Joel Amartey goal 5.2.32 - 6.1.37 03:46
SYDN Joel Amartey behind 5.2.32 - 6.2.38 06:24
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 6.2.38 - 6.2.38 07:38
ESSE Archie Perkins goal 7.2.44 - 6.2.38 11:55
SYDN Chad Warner goal 7.2.44 - 7.2.44 13:43
ESSE Ben Hobbs behind 7.3.45 - 7.2.44 15:01
ESSE Nick Bryan behind 7.4.46 - 7.2.44 17:04
SYDN Logan McDonald behind 7.4.46 - 7.3.45 19:05
SYDN Callum Mills behind 7.4.46 - 7.4.46 22:03
SYDN Justin McInerney goal 7.4.46 - 8.4.52 23:19
SYDN Joel Amartey goal 7.4.46 - 9.4.58 26:05
SYDN Will Hayward behind 7.4.46 - 9.5.59 27:20
SYDN Sam Wicks goal 7.4.46 - 10.5.65 28:31
Q3 SYDN Errol Gulden goal 7.4.46 - 11.5.71 01:22
SYDN Isaac Heeney goal 7.4.46 - 12.5.77 03:04
SYDN Hayden McLean behind 7.4.46 - 12.6.78 06:09
ESSE Jye Caldwell behind 7.5.47 - 12.6.78 06:52
SYDN Tom Papley goal 7.5.47 - 13.6.84 07:46
ESSE Nic Martin goal 8.5.53 - 13.6.84 09:47
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 9.5.59 - 13.6.84 12:14
ESSE Archie Perkins behind 9.6.60 - 13.6.84 14:07
SYDN Logan McDonald goal 9.6.60 - 14.6.90 18:43
SYDN Braeden Campbell behind 9.6.60 - 14.7.91 22:36
ESSE Peter Wright goal 10.6.66 - 14.7.91 24:07
Q4 SYDN Callum Mills behind 10.6.66 - 14.8.92 03:41
ESSE Rushed behind 10.7.67 - 14.8.92 05:07
SYDN Tom Papley behind 10.7.67 - 14.9.93 05:58
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 11.7.73 - 14.9.93 07:31
ESSE Peter Wright goal 12.7.79 - 14.9.93 11:06
SYDN Sam Wicks behind 12.7.79 - 14.10.94 14:31
ESSE Peter Wright goal 13.7.85 - 14.10.94 15:45
ESSE Sam Durham goal 14.7.91 - 14.10.94 20:00
ESSE Rushed behind 14.8.92 - 14.10.94 21:18
SYDN Tom Papley goal 14.8.92 - 15.10.100 22:34
ESSE Rushed behind 14.9.93 - 15.10.100 24:09
SYDN Rushed behind 14.9.93 - 15.11.101 27:13
ESSE Jye Menzie goal 15.9.99 - 15.11.101 28:28