2024 AFL Season Round 9: West Coast v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 4 May 2024 between West Coast and Essendon during round nine of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. West Coast hosted Essendon at Optus Stadium. Liam Duggan captained the hosts with Tom Barrass as vice-captain. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Adam Simpson and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

West Coast (11.5.71) were defeated by Essendon (11.11.77).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: West Coast v Essendon
Date: Saturday 4 May 2024
Time: 6:10 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 51,751

Match Results

Outcome: West Coast def. by Essendon
Score: 11.5.71 - 11.11.77

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
West Coast	1	.	1	4	.	2	8	.	5	11	.	5	11	.	5	(71)
Essendon	2	.	5	7	.	6	10	.	8	11	.	11	11	.	11	(77)
Margin	ESSE by 10			ESSE by 22			ESSE by 15			ESSE by 6			ESSE by 6
Duration	28:14			32:33			33:08			31:19			2:05:14

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

West Coast

Captain: Liam Duggan
Vice-Captain: Tom Barrass
Coach: Adam Simpson

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	3
Liam Duggan	WCST	14	2
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	10	2	0	0	0	0
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	7	0	1	1	0	0
Tim Kelly	WCST	11	5	0	?	?	?	?
Jake Waterman	WCST	2	4	0	?	?	?	?
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	3	0	0	?	?	?
Sam Durham	ESSE	22	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

West Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
37	Barrass, Tom (vc)	FB	96%	0	0	22	14	8	8	0	0	2	2	1	0	8	1
18	Chesser, Campbell	HFFL	92%	1	1	12	6	6	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0
28	Cole, Tom	INT	80%	0	0	13	9	4	1	0	5	2	2	2	1	2	1
15	Cripps, Jamie	HFFR	85%	0	1	20	8	12	4	0	3	4	3	0	2	0	4
27	Darling, Jack	FF	96%	2	0	11	7	4	3	4	0	0	4	1	1	0	1
14	Duggan, Liam (c)	HBFL	87%	0	0	26	20	6	6	0	2	2	4	0	0	10	3
16	Edwards, Luke	WR	83%	0	0	11	6	5	5	0	2	1	4	0	2	0	4
7	Ginbey, Reuben	WL	80%	0	0	16	11	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
19	Hough, Brady	HBFR	90%	0	0	15	10	5	3	0	2	2	2	0	1	2	1
24	Johnston, Harvey	SUB↑	25%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
11	Kelly, Tim	RR	84%	0	0	29	18	11	2	0	4	9	2	2	0	3	6
13	Long, Noah	FPL↓	56%	0	1	9	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3
20	McGovern, Jeremy	CHB	85%	0	0	16	11	5	4	2	2	0	1	2	1	6	0
21	Petruccelle, Jack	FPR	84%	0	0	12	8	4	2	0	3	2	2	2	0	2	2
9	Reid, Harley	RO	80%	0	0	14	5	9	1	0	5	2	3	2	1	2	0
35	Rotham, Josh	BPR	76%	0	0	10	9	1	8	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1
1	Ryan, Liam	INT	72%	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
4	Sheed, Dom	INT	70%	0	0	14	5	9	1	0	3	2	4	2	0	2	1
2	Waterman, Jake	CHF	95%	3	1	11	9	2	8	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
32	Williams, Bailey	RU	76%	1	0	17	10	7	4	18	1	5	4	0	1	3	3
34	Williams, Jack	INT	71%	3	1	15	9	6	3	4	2	2	1	0	1	1	4
23	Witherden, Alex	BPL	86%	0	0	20	8	12	4	0	3	0	2	1	0	1	3
6	Yeo, Elliot	C	50%	1	0	13	7	6	2	0	4	4	1	1	0	0	3
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				11	5	337	202	135	82	28	45	40	46	18	13	48	44

H. Johnston replaced N. Long.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
6	Caldwell, Jye	RR↓	49%	0	1	15	4	11	3	0	4	2	0	1	0	0	0
13	Cox, Nik	HFFR	80%	0	0	16	8	8	4	0	2	4	2	0	0	3	0
33	Davey, Alwyn	INT	59%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
22	Durham, Sam	HFFL	80%	1	0	25	10	15	2	0	3	7	5	0	4	1	3
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	86%	1	0	22	13	9	5	0	4	2	1	0	0	1	3
17	Goldstein, Todd	RU	79%	0	0	12	5	7	3	31	5	3	6	2	3	0	4
11	Gresham, Jade	FPR	90%	0	0	11	10	1	5	0	1	2	4	0	1	0	7
35	Guelfi, Matt	INT	69%	0	2	10	5	5	3	0	4	1	1	1	1	1	0
21	Heppell, Dyson	BPL	83%	0	0	14	8	6	3	0	5	0	1	1	0	0	1
8	Hobbs, Ben	SUB↑	26%	0	0	7	2	5	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	2
23	Jones, Harry	FPL	75%	0	0	6	3	3	2	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	2
29	Kelly, Jake	WR	92%	0	0	19	13	6	8	0	3	1	2	0	0	1	1
4	Langford, Kyle	CHF	97%	3	3	12	6	6	4	2	4	0	3	2	2	0	1
15	Laverde, Jayden	BPR	89%	0	0	16	12	4	5	0	2	0	2	2	0	5	0
37	Martin, Nic	HBFL	97%	0	0	32	22	10	8	0	2	2	5	1	0	6	4
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	HBFR	84%	0	0	23	7	16	4	0	4	2	2	0	1	2	1
32	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	18	8	10	7	4	4	0	2	0	1	0	1
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RO	85%	3	1	29	12	17	4	0	3	3	3	0	1	1	4
3	Parish, Darcy	C	84%	0	0	36	22	14	11	0	5	6	2	0	0	5	6
16	Perkins, Archie	INT	63%	0	0	17	9	8	4	0	5	2	4	1	0	0	8
27	Redman, Mason	CHB	79%	0	1	20	15	5	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	4
25	Stringer, Jake	WL	66%	1	2	9	8	1	2	0	2	2	4	1	2	0	5
20	Wright, Peter	FF	86%	2	0	8	6	2	4	16	2	1	2	1	0	1	3
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				11	11	381	210	171	96	53	67	41	58	13	18	33	60

B. Hobbs replaced J. Caldwell.

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

West Coast							Coach: Adam Simpson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	21	D. Heppell	32	B. McKay	15	J. Laverde	32	B. Williams	28	T. Cole
	21	J. Petruccelle	27	J. Darling	13	N. Long	11	T. Kelly	1	L. Ryan
FORWARD							9	H. Reid	4	D. Sheed
HALF-BACK									34	J. Williams
	37	N. Martin	27	M. Redman	1	A. McGrath (vc)			24	H. Johnston
	15	J. Cripps	2	J. Waterman	18	C. Chesser
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	25	J. Stringer	3	D. Parish	29	J. Kelly
	16	L. Edwards	6	E. Yeo	7	R. Ginbey	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							17	T. Goldstein	33	A. Davey
HALF-FORWARD							6	J. Caldwell	28	X. Duursma
	22	S. Durham	4	K. Langford	13	N. Cox	7	Z. Merrett (c)	35	M. Guelfi
	19	B. Hough	20	J. McGovern	14	L. Duggan (c)			16	A. Perkins
HALF-BACK									8	B. Hobbs
FORWARD
	23	H. Jones	20	P. Wright	11	J. Gresham
	35	J. Rotham	37	T. Barrass (vc)	23	A. Witherden
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Mason Redman behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:58
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	02:36
	WCST	Jamie Cripps behind	0.1.1	-	0.2.2	06:02
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi behind	0.1.1	-	0.3.3	12:38
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	0.1.1	-	1.3.9	14:04
	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	1.1.7	-	1.3.9	16:00
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	1.1.7	-	2.3.15	18:42
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	1.1.7	-	2.4.16	21:49
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	1.1.7	-	2.5.17	24:47
Q2	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	2.1.13	-	2.5.17	01:06
	WCST	Elliot Yeo goal	3.1.19	-	2.5.17	04:28
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	3.1.19	-	3.5.23	07:15
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	3.1.19	-	4.5.29	09:23
	WCST	Campbell Chesser behind	3.2.20	-	4.5.29	13:16
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	3.2.20	-	5.5.35	15:21
	ESSE	Sam Durham goal	3.2.20	-	6.5.41	18:35
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi behind	3.2.20	-	6.6.42	20:43
	WCST	Jack Williams goal	4.2.26	-	6.6.42	23:14
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	4.2.26	-	7.6.48	27:17
Q3	WCST	Jake Waterman behind	4.3.27	-	7.6.48	01:08
	WCST	Bailey Williams goal	5.3.33	-	7.6.48	04:17
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	5.3.33	-	8.6.54	09:22
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell behind	5.3.33	-	8.7.55	11:22
	WCST	Noah Long behind	5.4.34	-	8.7.55	14:07
	WCST	Campbell Chesser goal	6.4.40	-	8.7.55	15:18
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	6.4.40	-	8.8.56	16:58
	WCST	Jack Williams goal	7.4.46	-	8.8.56	19:21
	WCST	Jack Darling goal	8.4.52	-	8.8.56	21:20
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	8.4.52	-	9.8.62	22:56
	WCST	Jack Williams behind	8.5.53	-	9.8.62	26:58
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	8.5.53	-	10.8.68	29:04
Q4	WCST	Jack Darling goal	9.5.59	-	10.8.68	01:03
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	9.5.59	-	10.9.69	03:59
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	9.5.59	-	11.9.75	10:12
	WCST	Jake Waterman goal	10.5.65	-	11.9.75	15:04
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.5.65	-	11.10.76	18:22
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	10.5.65	-	11.11.77	24:33
	WCST	Jack Williams goal	11.5.71	-	11.11.77	29:05

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