2024 AFL Season Round 3: Sydney v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 23 March 2024 between Sydney and Essendon during round three of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Essendon at the SCG. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Sydney (19.17.131) defeated Essendon (15.11.101).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Sydney v Essendon
Date: Saturday 23 March 2024
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 34,954

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Essendon
Score: 19.17.131 - 15.11.101

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	4	.	4	8	.	9	13	.	13	19	.	17	19	.	17	(131)
Essendon	4	.	1	8	.	5	10	.	8	15	.	11	15	.	11	(101)
Margin	SYDN by 3			SYDN by 4			SYDN by 23			SYDN by 30			SYDN by 30
Duration	37:45			32:07			31:36			35:43			2:17:11

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: John Longmire

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Isaac Heeney	SYDN	5	3
Tom Papley	SYDN	11	2
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Isaac Heeney	SYDN	5	9	1	1	0	0	0
Tom Papley	SYDN	11	7	1	0	0	1	0
Errol Gulden	SYDN	21	6	0	?	?	?	0
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	6	0	?	?	?	0
Sam Draper	ESSE	2	1	0	0	0	0	1
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Amartey, Joel	FF	67%	2	0	5	4	1	2	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	2
22	Blakey, Nick	HBFL	84%	1	1	18	13	5	4	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	2
16	Campbell, Braeden	INT	73%	0	1	14	9	5	1	0	4	0	2	1	0	2	2
7	Cunningham, Harry	HBFR↓	5%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Florent, Oliver	CHB	91%	0	1	20	13	7	4	0	4	2	4	0	0	3	1
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	75%	0	0	19	11	8	2	30	3	6	6	2	3	0	3
21	Gulden, Errol	HFFL	89%	2	0	24	19	5	9	0	5	6	6	0	3	6	6
9	Hayward, Will	FPL	80%	3	1	9	7	2	4	0	5	0	1	1	0	1	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	RR	84%	1	1	32	14	18	6	0	4	8	4	1	1	2	4
17	Jordon, James	INT	80%	1	0	18	9	9	3	0	4	1	1	0	0	1	2
44	Lloyd, Jake	WR	86%	0	1	22	13	9	3	0	1	1	3	0	2	3	2
30	McCartin, Tom	FB	91%	0	0	11	8	3	4	0	0	0	3	2	1	5	1
6	McDonald, Logan	CHF	83%	1	1	7	7	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
27	McInerney, Justin	WL	93%	0	0	22	13	9	5	0	0	2	3	3	1	0	4
2	McLean, Hayden	INT	71%	2	2	15	9	6	7	5	2	2	5	0	2	1	2
43	Melican, Lewis	BPL	77%	0	0	9	5	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
11	Papley, Tom	HFFR	88%	4	1	24	15	9	10	0	2	1	2	2	0	0	5
24	Rampe, Dane	BPR	89%	0	0	9	7	2	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	6	0
34	Roberts, Matt	INT	82%	0	0	19	13	6	8	0	3	0	1	1	1	3	4
8	Rowbottom, James	RO	85%	0	0	10	7	3	1	0	9	0	4	2	2	2	3
1	Warner, Chad	C	82%	2	1	28	15	13	6	0	2	3	4	1	1	2	4
37	Warner, Corey	SUB↑	64%	0	3	11	6	5	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	4
15	Wicks, Sam	FPR	81%	0	0	11	4	7	2	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	3
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				19	17	357	221	136	94	35	56	33	60	18	19	41	59

C. Warner replaced H. Cunningham.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
6	Caldwell, Jye	C	69%	0	0	16	7	9	3	0	4	2	2	0	0	0	3
13	Cox, Nik	WR	76%	1	1	12	6	6	1	0	0	0	4	1	1	1	1
33	Davey, Alwyn	SUB↑	18%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
2	Draper, Sam	RU↓	59%	1	1	12	9	3	2	10	1	6	3	2	2	1	5
22	Durham, Sam	HFFL	85%	0	0	18	9	9	4	0	6	1	3	1	2	1	3
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	73%	0	0	15	7	8	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	1	4
17	Goldstein, Todd	INT	67%	1	0	7	3	4	2	19	0	3	2	2	1	0	0
11	Gresham, Jade	FPR	89%	3	1	23	12	11	4	0	2	1	2	1	1	0	6
21	Heppell, Dyson	CHB	87%	0	0	21	13	8	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	1
19	Hind, Nick	HBFL	88%	0	0	10	7	3	1	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	1
8	Hobbs, Ben	INT	70%	0	1	16	7	9	3	0	0	3	3	1	1	1	4
4	Langford, Kyle	CHF	92%	2	1	14	11	3	7	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
15	Laverde, Jayden	BPR	95%	0	0	12	4	8	4	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	0
37	Martin, Nic	HBFR	96%	0	0	31	20	11	4	0	2	2	5	1	0	6	3
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	85%	0	0	25	19	6	3	0	1	2	2	1	1	9	2
32	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	9	1	8	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	0
47	Menzie, Jye	INT	54%	0	1	6	3	3	1	0	3	1	1	2	0	0	0
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RO	86%	2	0	32	16	16	2	0	6	5	5	3	1	2	5
16	Perkins, Archie	HFFR	79%	0	0	21	9	12	1	0	3	7	3	2	1	2	3
12	Setterfield, Will	RR	86%	0	0	29	12	17	5	0	7	8	2	2	0	3	7
25	Stringer, Jake	FPL	80%	3	1	14	11	3	7	0	0	1	6	0	1	1	3
5	Tsatas, Elijah	WL	85%	0	1	14	9	5	3	0	1	1	4	0	0	3	1
20	Wright, Peter	FF	82%	2	0	9	4	5	4	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				15	11	367	200	167	71	31	48	43	64	19	18	40	56

A. Davey replaced S. Draper.

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

Sydney							Coach: John Longmire
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	1	A. McGrath (vc)	32	B. McKay	15	J. Laverde	4	B. Grundy	16	B. Campbell
	15	S. Wicks	36	J. Amartey	9	W. Hayward	5	I. Heeney	17	J. Jordon
FORWARD							8	J. Rowbottom	2	H. McLean
HALF-BACK									34	M. Roberts
	19	N. Hind	21	D. Heppell	37	N. Martin			37	C. Warner
	11	T. Papley	6	L. McDonald	21	E. Gulden
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	5	E. Tsatas	6	J. Caldwell	13	N. Cox
	44	J. Lloyd	1	C. Warner	27	J. McInerney	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	S. Draper	28	X. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD							12	W. Setterfield	17	T. Goldstein
	22	S. Durham	4	K. Langford	16	A. Perkins	7	Z. Merrett (c)	8	B. Hobbs
	7	H. Cunningham	13	O. Florent	22	N. Blakey			47	J. Menzie
HALF-BACK									33	A. Davey
FORWARD
	25	J. Stringer	20	P. Wright	11	J. Gresham
	24	D. Rampe	30	T. McCartin	43	L. Melican
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:48
	ESSE	Nik Cox goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	02:55
	SYDN	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	2.0.12	10:05
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	13:41
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	1.1.7	-	3.0.18	16:33
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	1.1.7	-	4.0.24	21:38
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	2.1.13	-	4.0.24	25:03
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	4.1.25	26:32
	SYDN	Logan McDonald behind	2.2.14	-	4.1.25	28:27
	SYDN	Corey Warner behind	2.3.15	-	4.1.25	28:59
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	3.3.21	-	4.1.25	31:37
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	4.3.27	-	4.1.25	34:13
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	4.4.28	-	4.1.25	37:05
Q2	ESSE	Sam Draper goal	4.4.28	-	5.1.31	01:29
	ESSE	Nik Cox behind	4.4.28	-	5.2.32	02:44
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	5.4.34	-	5.2.32	05:45
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	5.2.32	07:29
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	6.5.41	-	5.2.32	09:55
	ESSE	Jye Menzie behind	6.5.41	-	5.3.33	12:09
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs behind	6.5.41	-	5.4.34	13:40
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	6.5.41	-	6.4.40	14:38
	SYDN	Corey Warner behind	6.6.42	-	6.4.40	17:23
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	6.6.42	-	7.4.46	18:36
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	7.6.48	-	7.4.46	20:05
	ESSE	Todd Goldstein goal	7.6.48	-	8.4.52	22:15
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.6.48	-	8.5.53	25:43
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	7.7.49	-	8.5.53	26:42
	SYDN	Nick Blakey behind	7.8.50	-	8.5.53	27:18
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	8.8.56	-	8.5.53	28:58
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	8.9.57	-	8.5.53	31:10
Q3	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	9.9.63	-	8.5.53	01:15
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	9.9.63	-	8.6.54	02:58
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	9.9.63	-	9.6.60	04:43
	ESSE	Sam Draper behind	9.9.63	-	9.7.61	09:06
	SYDN	Errol Gulden goal	10.9.69	-	9.7.61	12:17
	ESSE	Elijah Tsatas behind	10.9.69	-	9.8.62	15:15
	SYDN	Corey Warner behind	10.10.70	-	9.8.62	16:29
	SYDN	Rushed behind	10.11.71	-	9.8.62	16:58
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	10.12.72	-	9.8.62	18:26
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	11.12.78	-	9.8.62	20:19
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	11.13.79	-	9.8.62	24:08
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	11.13.79	-	10.8.68	25:31
	SYDN	Nick Blakey goal	12.13.85	-	10.8.68	28:06
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	13.13.91	-	10.8.68	31:34
Q4	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	14.13.97	-	10.8.68	00:38
	SYDN	Oliver Florent behind	14.14.98	-	10.8.68	02:19
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	14.14.98	-	11.8.74	05:00
	ESSE	Rushed behind	14.14.98	-	11.9.75	06:17
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	14.15.99	-	11.9.75	09:15
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	14.15.99	-	12.9.81	10:51
	ESSE	Jade Gresham behind	14.15.99	-	12.10.82	15:32
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	14.15.99	-	13.10.88	16:34
	SYDN	Errol Gulden goal	15.15.105	-	13.10.88	18:46
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	15.16.106	-	13.10.88	20:38
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	16.16.112	-	13.10.88	22:28
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	16.16.112	-	13.11.89	24:15
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd behind	16.17.113	-	13.11.89	26:17
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	16.17.113	-	14.11.95	27:15
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	17.17.119	-	14.11.95	28:52
	SYDN	James Jordon goal	18.17.125	-	14.11.95	31:25
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	19.17.131	-	14.11.95	32:52
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	19.17.131	-	15.11.101	35:40

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