2023 AFL Season Round 22: North Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 12 August 2023 between North Melbourne and Essendon during round twenty-two of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Essendon at Marvel Stadium. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

North Melbourne (12.5.77) were defeated by Essendon (13.8.86).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 22
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Saturday 12 August 2023
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 37,231

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 12.5.77 - 13.8.86

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	3	.	0	6	.	1	9	.	3	12	.	5	12	.	5	(77)
Essendon	2	.	1	5	.	2	10	.	4	13	.	8	13	.	8	(86)
Margin	NMLB by 5			NMLB by 5			ESSE by 7			ESSE by 9			ESSE by 9
Duration	28:57			29:02			31:56			31:13			2:01:08

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	3
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	2
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	10	2	0	0	0	0
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	5	0	?	?	?	?
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	5	0	?	?	?	?
Nick Larkey	NMLB	20	4	0	?	?	?	?
Mason Redman	ESSE	27	4	0	?	?	?	?
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	2	0	0	0	?	?

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
34	Archer, Jackson	INT↓	44%	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0
4	Corr, Aidan	BPL	87%	0	0	9	7	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	4	0
10	Cunnington, Ben	RR	63%	2	0	24	8	16	1	0	3	10	4	0	1	3	1
25	Curtis, Paul	FPR	82%	0	1	10	5	5	2	0	8	2	2	0	2	0	1
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	86%	1	0	28	18	10	5	0	3	6	2	0	0	4	10
40	Ford, Eddie	INT	80%	1	1	10	6	4	6	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	2
31	Goater, Josh	HBFL	75%	0	0	11	3	8	2	0	3	1	4	1	1	2	0
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	85%	0	0	5	1	4	0	23	2	2	6	1	5	0	1
20	Larkey, Nick	FF	100%	5	1	7	6	1	5	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	0
35	Lazzaro, Charlie	SUB↑	26%	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
11	McDonald, Luke	HBFR	91%	0	0	13	5	8	2	0	4	0	3	0	1	1	2
23	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	16	8	8	8	0	1	0	0	3	0	4	0
8	Scott, Bailey	WR	80%	0	0	26	21	5	4	0	2	0	5	2	0	4	6
3	Sheezel, Harry	CHF	87%	0	0	32	16	16	6	0	3	0	1	0	0	5	3
12	Simpkin, Jy	RO	86%	1	1	22	15	7	3	0	3	3	3	0	0	0	5
2	Stephenson, Jaidyn	HFFR	77%	2	0	13	10	3	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2
5	Taylor, Curtis	WL	90%	0	0	8	2	6	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
26	Thomas, Tarryn	CHB	82%	0	0	22	9	13	6	0	3	5	3	1	1	2	3
13	Tucker, Darcy	INT	81%	0	0	15	8	7	3	0	2	1	0	3	0	3	3
28	Turner, Kayne	HFFL	74%	0	0	15	7	8	3	0	4	0	2	0	1	2	4
6	Wardlaw, George	INT	55%	0	0	14	8	6	2	0	9	4	3	4	1	1	2
38	Xerri, Tristan	FPL	80%	0	0	12	5	7	1	17	2	4	4	2	2	2	1
7	Ziebell, Jack	BPR	89%	0	0	27	15	12	5	0	2	0	7	1	1	7	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				12	5	349	187	162	70	40	63	39	58	20	22	45	47

C. Lazzaro replaced J. Archer.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
26	Baldwin, Kaine	BPR	84%	0	0	8	8	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1
24	Bryan, Nick	INT↓	46%	0	0	7	6	1	4	10	3	1	0	1	0	3	1
13	Cox, Nik	INT	75%	0	1	12	7	5	4	0	1	1	7	0	3	1	3
22	Durham, Sam	WL	82%	0	0	22	8	14	5	0	1	0	3	1	1	2	5
35	Guelfi, Matt	CHF	82%	1	0	12	6	6	2	0	6	0	2	1	0	0	1
21	Heppell, Dyson	INT	84%	0	0	16	13	3	7	0	1	1	1	1	0	4	1
19	Hind, Nick	HBFR	84%	0	0	23	16	7	8	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	2
8	Hobbs, Ben	RO	77%	0	0	29	16	13	6	0	6	3	9	1	3	1	8
29	Kelly, Jake	HFFL	76%	0	0	11	6	5	5	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	3
4	Langford, Kyle	FF	95%	3	1	16	5	11	3	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	0
15	Laverde, Jayden	BPL	82%	0	0	19	13	6	7	0	2	0	2	3	1	4	1
37	Martin, Nic	WR	93%	3	0	32	19	13	6	0	2	1	4	2	0	3	4
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	HBFL	83%	0	0	17	8	9	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	1
47	Menzie, Jye	HFFR	77%	2	1	11	8	3	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RR	85%	0	0	21	9	12	2	0	9	5	4	3	2	1	4
3	Parish, Darcy	C	87%	0	0	33	17	16	6	0	3	9	4	2	1	1	10
16	Perkins, Archie	FPR	76%	1	0	20	12	8	7	0	4	2	4	1	3	0	4
34	Phillips, Andrew	RU	76%	0	1	6	5	1	1	17	3	3	1	2	1	0	2
27	Redman, Mason	CHB	82%	0	0	24	17	7	8	0	1	0	3	0	0	7	1
11	Snelling, Will	SUB↑	18%	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Tsatas, Elijah	INT	60%	1	0	23	12	11	4	0	3	4	3	1	1	1	2
20	Wright, Peter	FPL	94%	2	1	10	6	4	5	2	3	2	2	0	1	0	2
30	Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon	FB	100%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	4	0	1	2	1	0	1
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				13	8	386	223	163	108	29	62	34	58	22	20	36	60

W. Snelling replaced N. Bryan.

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

North Melbourne							Coach: Alastair Clarkson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	15	J. Laverde	30	B. Zerk-Thatcher	26	K. Baldwin	22	T. Goldstein	34	J. Archer
	25	P. Curtis	20	N. Larkey	38	T. Xerri	10	B. Cunnington	40	E. Ford
FORWARD							12	J. Simpkin	13	D. Tucker
HALF-BACK									6	G. Wardlaw
	1	A. McGrath (vc)	27	M. Redman	19	N. Hind			35	C. Lazzaro
	2	J. Stephenson	3	H. Sheezel	28	K. Turner
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	22	S. Durham	3	D. Parish	37	N. Martin
	8	B. Scott	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	5	C. Taylor	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							34	A. Phillips	24	N. Bryan
HALF-FORWARD							7	Z. Merrett (c)	13	N. Cox
	29	J. Kelly	35	M. Guelfi	47	J. Menzie	8	B. Hobbs	21	D. Heppell
	11	L. McDonald	26	T. Thomas	31	J. Goater			5	E. Tsatas
HALF-BACK									11	W. Snelling
FORWARD
	20	P. Wright	4	K. Langford	16	A. Perkins
	7	J. Ziebell	23	B. McKay	4	A. Corr
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Jaidyn Stephenson goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	03:04
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	04:35
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	17:20
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	2.0.12	-	2.0.12	20:08
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.0.12	-	2.1.13	21:31
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	3.0.18	-	2.1.13	23:42
Q2	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	3.0.18	-	3.1.19	02:16
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	4.0.24	-	3.1.19	06:06
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	4.0.24	-	4.1.25	11:25
	ESSE	Rushed behind	4.0.24	-	4.2.26	12:37
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin goal	5.0.30	-	4.2.26	18:00
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	6.0.36	-	4.2.26	21:50
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	6.0.36	-	5.2.32	24:00
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	6.1.37	-	5.2.32	26:07
Q3	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	6.1.37	-	6.2.38	00:43
	NMLB	Rushed behind	6.2.38	-	6.2.38	04:02
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	6.3.39	-	6.2.38	05:37
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	6.3.39	-	7.2.44	07:35
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke goal	7.3.45	-	7.2.44	11:47
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	8.3.51	-	7.2.44	14:19
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	8.3.51	-	8.2.50	16:48
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi goal	8.3.51	-	9.2.56	20:36
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	8.3.51	-	9.3.57	23:04
	ESSE	Nik Cox behind	8.3.51	-	9.4.58	27:40
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	8.3.51	-	10.4.64	29:04
	NMLB	Jaidyn Stephenson goal	9.3.57	-	10.4.64	30:47
Q4	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	10.3.63	-	10.4.64	02:14
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	10.3.63	-	10.5.65	04:17
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.3.63	-	10.6.66	08:17
	ESSE	Andrew Phillips behind	10.3.63	-	10.7.67	10:43
	ESSE	Jye Menzie behind	10.3.63	-	10.8.68	12:01
	ESSE	Elijah Tsatas goal	10.3.63	-	11.8.74	13:58
	NMLB	Eddie Ford behind	10.4.64	-	11.8.74	17:06
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	10.4.64	-	12.8.80	18:49
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin behind	10.5.65	-	12.8.80	21:20
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	11.5.71	-	12.8.80	23:12
	NMLB	Eddie Ford goal	12.5.77	-	12.8.80	24:57
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	12.5.77	-	13.8.86	29:03

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