2024 AFL Season Round 12: Richmond v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 25 May 2024 between Richmond and Essendon during round twelve of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Richmond hosted Essendon at the MCG. Toby Nankervis captained the hosts. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Adem Yze and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Richmond (10.14.74) were defeated by Essendon (12.14.86).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 12
Teams: Richmond v Essendon
Date: Saturday 25 May 2024
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 79,359

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. by Essendon
Score: 10.14.74 - 12.14.86

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Richmond	3	.	3	6	.	7	9	.	10	10	.	14	10	.	14	(74)
Essendon	3	.	3	7	.	7	10	.	12	12	.	14	12	.	14	(86)
Margin	level			ESSE by 6			ESSE by 8			ESSE by 12			ESSE by 12
Duration	29:35			32:51			32:54			30:10			2:05:30

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Richmond

Captain: Toby Nankervis
Coach: Adem Yze

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jordan Ridley	ESSE	14	3
Sam Durham	ESSE	22	2
Dustin Martin	RICH	4	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Jordan Ridley	ESSE	14	10	2	0	0	0	0
Dustin Martin	RICH	4	5	0	1	0	0	1
Toby Nankervis	RICH	25	5	0	1	0	0	1
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	3	0	0	1	0	0
Jake Stringer	ESSE	25	3	0	0	1	0	0
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	2	0	0	0	1	0
Mason Redman	ESSE	27	2	0	0	0	1	0

Player Statistics

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Baker, Liam	C	81%	0	1	23	14	9	4	0	1	4	7	1	2	2	7
21	Balta, Noah	FPL	80%	0	0	12	11	1	7	0	1	0	6	0	1	2	5
29	Bolton, Shai	CHF↓	72%	2	0	16	10	6	6	0	2	3	1	1	0	1	4
35	Broad, Nathan	BPR	93%	0	0	15	9	6	6	0	1	1	2	2	1	3	0
30	Brown, Tom	BPL	80%	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	1	1	3	0	1	4	1
44	Campbell, Seth	HFFL	86%	0	1	14	5	9	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0
38	Cumberland, Noah	HFFR	83%	0	2	11	6	5	2	0	3	1	3	0	1	0	4
27	Dow, Thomson	RO	73%	0	0	21	9	12	1	0	3	5	3	1	0	2	2
48	Green, Steely	SUB↑	13%	0	0	6	5	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1
42	Lefau, Mykelti	FF	88%	2	0	5	2	3	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
4	Martin, Dustin	FPR	79%	3	2	23	13	10	5	0	0	2	4	0	2	0	5
28	McAuliffe, Kane	INT	66%	0	0	16	6	10	2	0	5	4	1	1	0	0	4
33	McIntosh, Kamdyn	WL	78%	1	1	17	10	7	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	3
46	Miller, Ben	FB	94%	0	0	7	7	0	4	0	1	0	2	2	1	5	0
25	Nankervis, Toby (c)	RU	79%	0	0	17	9	8	1	44	2	8	3	2	0	3	4
50	Pickett, Marlion	WR	83%	1	3	18	8	10	4	0	2	0	3	0	2	1	4
3	Prestia, Dion	RR	82%	0	0	27	12	15	2	0	1	4	4	0	0	2	1
13	Ralphsmith, Hugo	HBFL	92%	1	0	17	12	5	4	0	2	3	3	0	1	2	4
17	Rioli, Daniel	HBFR	83%	0	0	24	14	10	2	0	1	1	4	0	0	9	2
32	Ryan, Samson	INT	61%	0	0	5	1	4	2	6	1	1	1	0	0	1	0
15	Short, Jayden	INT	76%	0	0	19	18	1	3	0	1	2	6	1	0	6	0
40	Sonsie, Tyler	INT	82%	0	1	12	5	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	3
1	Vlastuin, Nick	CHB	94%	0	0	17	11	6	3	0	2	0	6	2	4	7	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				10	14	354	203	151	77	50	37	41	65	14	17	56	55

S. Green replaced S. Bolton.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Caddy, Nate	CHF	75%	0	2	10	6	4	2	0	3	0	2	3	1	0	3
6	Caldwell, Jye	RR	70%	0	0	18	8	10	4	0	5	5	1	1	1	1	4
13	Cox, Nik	WL↓	12%	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
33	Davey, Alwyn	WR	77%	1	0	8	4	4	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	2
22	Durham, Sam	C	78%	0	1	25	14	11	4	0	3	5	2	2	0	2	6
17	Goldstein, Todd	RU	82%	0	0	13	4	9	4	16	2	3	2	0	1	0	2
11	Gresham, Jade	HFFL	77%	0	2	15	11	4	2	0	1	0	2	2	0	1	6
35	Guelfi, Matt	HFFR	83%	0	1	9	4	5	4	0	3	0	4	0	2	0	1
21	Heppell, Dyson	INT	86%	0	0	26	8	18	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	6	1
19	Hind, Nick	INT	68%	2	0	25	19	6	5	0	3	2	2	2	0	2	7
29	Kelly, Jake	INT	86%	0	0	9	6	3	5	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	2
4	Langford, Kyle	FPR	98%	3	1	16	11	5	9	0	5	0	4	1	2	0	2
15	Laverde, Jayden	BPR	94%	0	0	21	10	11	4	0	2	0	2	2	0	7	1
37	Martin, Nic	HBFL	94%	0	1	29	20	9	6	0	1	1	3	1	0	3	5
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	HBFR	84%	0	0	19	11	8	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	6	1
32	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	8	5	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RO	88%	1	1	31	22	9	5	0	2	4	6	1	2	1	5
16	Perkins, Archie	INT	64%	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	2	1	3	0	2	1	2
27	Redman, Mason	CHB	85%	0	0	24	18	6	8	0	2	1	3	0	0	6	6
14	Ridley, Jordan	BPL	77%	1	0	31	24	7	12	0	1	0	2	0	0	7	3
25	Stringer, Jake	FPL	78%	4	0	11	9	2	2	0	2	2	6	1	3	0	4
5	Tsatas, Elijah	SUB↑	66%	0	0	16	7	9	6	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	2
20	Wright, Peter	FF	79%	0	1	19	8	11	3	8	4	2	2	1	0	0	2
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				12	14	400	237	163	102	24	49	31	55	17	14	45	68

E. Tsatas replaced N. Cox.

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

Richmond							Coach: Adem Yze
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	14	J. Ridley	32	B. McKay	15	J. Laverde	25	T. Nankervis (c)	28	K. McAuliffe
	4	D. Martin	42	M. Lefau	21	N. Balta	3	D. Prestia	32	S. Ryan
FORWARD							27	T. Dow	15	J. Short
HALF-BACK									40	T. Sonsie
	37	N. Martin	27	M. Redman	1	A. McGrath (vc)			48	S. Green
	38	N. Cumberland	29	S. Bolton	44	S. Campbell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	N. Cox	22	S. Durham	33	A. Davey
	50	M. Pickett	7	L. Baker	33	K. McIntosh	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							17	T. Goldstein	21	D. Heppell
HALF-FORWARD							6	J. Caldwell	19	N. Hind
	11	J. Gresham	30	N. Caddy	35	M. Guelfi	7	Z. Merrett (c)	29	J. Kelly
	17	D. Rioli	1	N. Vlastuin	13	H. Ralphsmith			16	A. Perkins
HALF-BACK									5	E. Tsatas
FORWARD
	25	J. Stringer	20	P. Wright	4	K. Langford
	35	N. Broad	46	B. Miller	30	T. Brown
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	RICH	Marlion Pickett behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:28
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	03:33
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	05:09
	RICH	Kamdyn McIntosh goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	06:31
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	11:14
	RICH	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	15:32
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	16:34
	RICH	Dustin Martin goal	2.2.14	-	2.2.14	18:05
	RICH	Marlion Pickett behind	2.3.15	-	2.2.14	20:51
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	2.3.15	-	3.2.20	24:32
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	3.3.21	26:28
	RICH	Shai Bolton goal	3.3.21	-	3.3.21	27:48
Q2	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	3.3.21	-	3.4.22	02:21
	RICH	Dustin Martin goal	4.3.27	-	3.4.22	02:50
	RICH	Rushed behind	4.4.28	-	3.4.22	04:44
	RICH	Marlion Pickett behind	4.5.29	-	3.4.22	08:33
	ESSE	Alwyn Davey goal	4.5.29	-	4.4.28	09:29
	RICH	Noah Cumberland behind	4.6.30	-	4.4.28	11:34
	RICH	Seth Campbell behind	4.7.31	-	4.4.28	12:39
	ESSE	Jade Gresham behind	4.7.31	-	4.5.29	13:58
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	4.7.31	-	4.6.30	16:04
	ESSE	Nick Hind goal	4.7.31	-	5.6.36	17:55
	ESSE	Jordan Ridley goal	4.7.31	-	6.6.42	21:02
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	4.7.31	-	6.7.43	22:54
	ESSE	Nick Hind goal	4.7.31	-	7.7.49	24:33
	RICH	Mykelti Lefau goal	5.7.37	-	7.7.49	26:33
	RICH	Mykelti Lefau goal	6.7.43	-	7.7.49	28:12
Q3	RICH	Liam Baker behind	6.8.44	-	7.7.49	00:44
	RICH	Marlion Pickett goal	7.8.50	-	7.7.49	01:49
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi behind	7.8.50	-	7.8.50	04:16
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	7.8.50	-	8.8.56	04:35
	ESSE	Sam Durham behind	7.8.50	-	8.9.57	07:04
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	7.8.50	-	9.9.63	09:41
	RICH	Tyler Sonsie behind	7.9.51	-	9.9.63	12:17
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.9.51	-	9.10.64	14:28
	ESSE	Nic Martin behind	7.9.51	-	9.11.65	19:27
	RICH	Shai Bolton goal	8.9.57	-	9.11.65	22:52
	RICH	Dustin Martin goal	9.9.63	-	9.11.65	25:06
	RICH	Rushed behind	9.10.64	-	9.11.65	26:30
	ESSE	Jade Gresham behind	9.10.64	-	9.12.66	27:10
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	9.10.64	-	10.12.72	31:39
Q4	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.10.64	-	10.13.73	03:34
	RICH	Dustin Martin behind	9.11.65	-	10.13.73	04:46
	RICH	Noah Cumberland behind	9.12.66	-	10.13.73	08:34
	RICH	Kamdyn McIntosh behind	9.13.67	-	10.13.73	09:06
	RICH	Dustin Martin behind	9.14.68	-	10.13.73	10:34
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	9.14.68	-	11.13.79	18:13
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.14.68	-	11.14.80	19:31
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	9.14.68	-	12.14.86	20:58
	RICH	Hugo Ralphsmith goal	10.14.74	-	12.14.86	24:40

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