2024 AFL Round 5: Port Adelaide v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 5 April 2024 between Port Adelaide and Essendon during round 5 of the 2024 AFL season. Port Adelaide hosted Essendon at Adelaide Oval. Connor Rozee captained the hosts. 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
Back: A. Aliir, B. Zerk-Thatcher, E. Ratugolea
Half-back: L. Jones, D. Houston, K. Farrell
Centre: T. Boak, W. Drew, M. Bergman
Half-forward: J. McEntee, D. Byrne-Jones, J. Finlayson
Forward: W. Rioli, T. Marshall, C. Dixon
Follower: I. Soldo, J. Horne-Francis, C. Rozee (capt.)
Int.: R. Burton, Z. Butters, M. Georgiades, J. Mead
Sub.: J. Burgoyne

Essendon
Back: N. Cox, B. McKay, J. Laverde
Half-back: A. McGrath (vice-capt.), M. Redman, N. Martin
Centre: D. Heppell, S. Draper, J. Kelly
Half-forward: J. Gresham, Z. Merrett (capt.), B. Hobbs
Forward: H. Jones, K. Langford, W. Setterfield
Follower: T. Goldstein, D. Parish, J. Caldwell
Int.: X. Duursma, J. Menzie, A. Perkins, J. Stringer
Sub.: N. Hind

Port Adelaide (17.9.111) defeated Essendon (6.6.42).

Goalkickers
Port Adelaide: D. Byrne-Jones (3), J. Finlayson (3), W. Rioli (3), C. Rozee (3), M. Georgiades (2), T. Marshall, J. McEntee, I. Soldo
Essendon: J. Gresham (3), H. Jones, A. Perkins, J. Stringer

As a result of this match, Port Adelaide were then 6th on the ladder (up from 8th) and Essendon were then 12th on the ladder (down from 9th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Port Adelaide v Essendon
Date: Friday 5 April 2024
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 47,461

Match Results

Outcome: Port Adelaide def. Essendon
Score: 17.9.111 - 6.6.42

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Port Adelaide 4 . 0 10 . 3 13 . 7 17 . 9 17 . 9 (111)
Essendon 3 . 3 4 . 4 6 . 5 6 . 6 6 . 6 (42)
Margin PADL by 3 PADL by 35 PADL by 44 PADL by 69 PADL by 69
Duration 34:02 29:43 29:08 27:08 2:00:01

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ken Hinkley (Port Adelaide), Brad Scott (Essendon)
Captains: Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide), Zach Merrett (Essendon)
Vice-Captains: unknown (Port Adelaide), Andrew McGrath (Essendon)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Connor Rozee PADL 1 3
Jason Horne-Francis PADL 18 2
Zak Butters PADL 9 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Connor Rozee PADL 1 10 2 0 0 0 0
Jason Horne-Francis PADL 18 8 0 2 0 0 0
Ivan Soldo PADL 13 6 0 0 2 0 0
Darcy Byrne-Jones PADL 33 3 0 0 0 1 1
Zak Butters PADL 9 2 0 0 0 1 0
Ben McKay ESSE 32 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 95% 0 0 13 13 0 7 0 2 0 1 0 1 6 1
14 Bergman, Miles WR 82% 0 0 16 12 4 5 0 3 2 5 0 1 1 6
10 Boak, Travis WL↓ 39% 0 0 7 2 5 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1
7 Burgoyne, Jase SUB↑ 43% 0 1 10 9 1 6 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 2
3 Burton, Ryan INT 82% 0 0 19 16 3 6 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 3
9 Butters, Zak INT 74% 0 1 26 13 13 6 0 7 5 3 0 2 2 1
33 Byrne-Jones, Darcy CHF 80% 3 0 14 10 4 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
22 Dixon, Charlie FPR 95% 0 1 10 8 2 7 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 1
28 Drew, Willem C 74% 0 0 18 7 11 2 0 6 6 3 1 0 0 4
6 Farrell, Kane HBFR 82% 0 0 16 9 7 7 0 4 0 2 0 1 0 2
11 Finlayson, Jeremy HFFR 84% 3 1 19 18 1 8 0 1 1 5 0 1 1 3
19 Georgiades, Mitch INT 77% 2 2 15 9 6 8 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 4
18 Horne-Francis, Jason RR 62% 0 0 31 21 10 5 0 3 10 2 1 0 1 7
5 Houston, Dan CHB 83% 0 0 22 16 6 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 5 6
34 Jones, Lachie HBFL 80% 0 0 9 5 4 3 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 2
4 Marshall, Todd FF 67% 1 0 9 6 3 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2
41 McEntee, Jed HFFL 79% 1 0 8 2 6 1 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0
44 Mead, Jackson INT 83% 0 0 17 9 8 6 0 2 1 6 0 3 1 3
27 Ratugolea, Esava BPR 84% 0 0 10 10 0 6 0 2 0 0 2 0 3 2
15 Rioli, Willie FPL 83% 3 0 11 8 3 0 0 1 0 5 2 4 0 3
1 Rozee, Connor (c) RO 82% 3 2 36 20 16 5 0 2 5 6 1 1 3 7
13 Soldo, Ivan RU 94% 1 0 10 5 5 1 23 1 5 5 1 1 0 1
25 Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon FB 94% 0 0 10 9 1 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 1
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 17 9 356 237 119 110 23 48 39 65 9 20 36 63

J. Burgoyne replaced T. Boak.

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
6 Caldwell, Jye RO 68% 0 0 24 11 13 5 0 8 3 5 0 1 1 4
13 Cox, Nik BPL 97% 0 0 16 14 2 5 0 1 0 5 0 0 6 2
2 Draper, Sam C 77% 0 1 8 7 1 1 14 2 1 4 0 0 0 3
28 Duursma, Xavier INT 89% 0 0 26 12 14 5 0 4 2 1 4 0 6 1
17 Goldstein, Todd RU 68% 0 0 8 3 5 1 20 1 0 2 1 1 1 0
11 Gresham, Jade HFFL 80% 3 0 12 6 6 1 0 1 0 5 1 2 0 3
21 Heppell, Dyson WL 83% 0 0 25 13 12 7 0 2 2 1 0 0 5 0
19 Hind, Nick SUB↑ 33% 0 1 5 5 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 4
8 Hobbs, Ben HFFR 84% 0 0 13 9 4 3 0 7 0 2 1 1 0 1
23 Jones, Harry FPL 85% 1 0 11 8 3 9 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3
29 Kelly, Jake WR 91% 0 0 20 9 11 5 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2
4 Langford, Kyle FF 100% 0 0 9 4 5 2 0 4 1 2 0 1 0 1
15 Laverde, Jayden BPR 85% 0 0 10 5 5 5 0 2 0 1 1 0 4 0
37 Martin, Nic HBFR 96% 0 0 35 18 17 7 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 3
1 McGrath, Andrew (vc) HBFL 83% 0 0 16 11 5 1 0 4 4 4 2 1 6 2
32 McKay, Ben FB 100% 0 0 18 9 9 6 0 1 0 1 3 0 3 0
47 Menzie, Jye INT↓ 40% 0 1 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
7 Merrett, Zach (c) CHF 86% 0 1 36 22 14 6 0 5 7 4 2 0 2 7
3 Parish, Darcy RR 80% 0 0 21 6 15 2 0 3 2 3 0 0 1 0
16 Perkins, Archie INT 50% 1 1 16 10 6 1 0 2 3 1 2 0 0 3
27 Redman, Mason CHB 76% 0 0 15 9 6 3 0 2 0 2 1 0 3 1
12 Setterfield, Will FPR 82% 0 0 19 8 11 2 0 7 4 5 0 0 3 2
25 Stringer, Jake INT 67% 1 0 9 5 4 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 6 6 376 206 170 84 34 65 30 57 20 9 44 43

N. Hind replaced J. Menzie.

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
13 N. Cox 32 B. McKay 15 J. Laverde 13 I. Soldo 3 R. Burton
22 C. Dixon 4 T. Marshall 15 W. Rioli 18 J. Horne-Francis 9 Z. Butters
FORWARD 1 C. Rozee (c) 19 M. Georgiades
HALF-BACK

44 J. Mead
1 A. McGrath (vc) 27 M. Redman 37 N. Martin

7 J. Burgoyne
11 J. Finlayson 33 D. Byrne-Jones 41 J. McEntee



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



21 D. Heppell 2 S. Draper 29 J. Kelly



14 M. Bergman 28 W. Drew 10 T. Boak FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 17 T. Goldstein 28 X. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD 3 D. Parish 47 J. Menzie
11 J. Gresham 7 Z. Merrett (c) 8 B. Hobbs 6 J. Caldwell 16 A. Perkins
6 K. Farrell 5 D. Houston 34 L. Jones

25 J. Stringer
HALF-BACK

19 N. Hind
FORWARD



23 H. Jones 4 K. Langford 12 W. Setterfield



27 E. Ratugolea 25 B. Zerk-Thatcher 21 A. Aliir



BACK



Essendon Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Jade Gresham goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 02:11
PADL Willie Rioli goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 03:24
PADL Connor Rozee goal 2.0.12 - 1.0.6 06:23
ESSE Jade Gresham goal 2.0.12 - 2.0.12 12:52
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 2.0.12 - 3.0.18 18:40
PADL Mitch Georgiades goal 3.0.18 - 3.0.18 20:20
PADL Todd Marshall goal 4.0.24 - 3.0.18 23:34
ESSE Archie Perkins behind 4.0.24 - 3.1.19 27:08
ESSE Sam Draper behind 4.0.24 - 3.2.20 31:54
ESSE Zach Merrett behind 4.0.24 - 3.3.21 32:38
Q2 PADL Darcy Byrne-Jones goal 5.0.30 - 3.3.21 00:53
ESSE Jye Menzie behind 5.0.30 - 3.4.22 04:03
ESSE Archie Perkins goal 5.0.30 - 4.4.28 06:17
PADL Connor Rozee goal 6.0.36 - 4.4.28 07:33
PADL Jeremy Finlayson goal 7.0.42 - 4.4.28 12:32
PADL Rushed behind 7.1.43 - 4.4.28 13:42
PADL Mitch Georgiades behind 7.2.44 - 4.4.28 16:44
PADL Connor Rozee behind 7.3.45 - 4.4.28 20:40
PADL Willie Rioli goal 8.3.51 - 4.4.28 26:20
PADL Connor Rozee goal 9.3.57 - 4.4.28 27:36
PADL Jeremy Finlayson goal 10.3.63 - 4.4.28 29:38
Q3 PADL Jeremy Finlayson behind 10.4.64 - 4.4.28 01:43
PADL Ivan Soldo goal 11.4.70 - 4.4.28 06:20
PADL Zak Butters behind 11.5.71 - 4.4.28 13:58
PADL Willie Rioli goal 12.5.77 - 4.4.28 15:42
ESSE Jade Gresham goal 12.5.77 - 5.4.34 17:06
PADL Jeremy Finlayson goal 13.5.83 - 5.4.34 18:20
PADL Mitch Georgiades behind 13.6.84 - 5.4.34 23:16
PADL Jase Burgoyne behind 13.7.85 - 5.4.34 24:10
ESSE Harry Jones goal 13.7.85 - 6.4.40 25:38
ESSE Nick Hind behind 13.7.85 - 6.5.41 27:27
Q4 PADL Jed McEntee goal 14.7.91 - 6.5.41 02:27
PADL Darcy Byrne-Jones goal 15.7.97 - 6.5.41 07:46
PADL Charlie Dixon behind 15.8.98 - 6.5.41 13:17
PADL Darcy Byrne-Jones goal 16.8.104 - 6.5.41 14:00
PADL Mitch Georgiades goal 17.8.110 - 6.5.41 17:23
PADL Connor Rozee behind 17.9.111 - 6.5.41 18:38
ESSE Rushed behind 17.9.111 - 6.6.42 21:40