2024 AFL Round 18: Collingwood v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 5 July 2024 between Collingwood and Essendon during round 18 of the 2024 AFL season. Collingwood hosted Essendon at MCG. Darcy Moore captained the hosts. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Craig McRae and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Collingwood
Back: B. Maynard, D. Moore (capt.), I. Quaynor
Half-back: C. Dean, J. Howe, O. Markov
Centre: S. Sidebottom, S. Pendlebury, J. Daicos
Half-forward: B. Hill, B. Mihocek, L. Schultz
Forward: J. Richards, P. Lipinski, B. Frampton
Follower: D. Cameron, J. De Goey, N. Daicos
Int.: J. Crisp, H. Harrison, W. Hoskin-Elliott, N. Kreuger
Sub.: N. Long

Essendon
Back: J. Ridley, B. McKay, J. Laverde
Half-back: N. Martin, M. Redman, A. McGrath (vice-capt.)
Centre: N. Cox, S. Durham, A. Perkins
Half-forward: M. Guelfi, H. Jones, N. Caddy
Forward: J. Gresham, P. Wright, K. Langford
Follower: S. Draper, J. Caldwell, Z. Merrett (capt.)
Int.: X. Duursma, J. Kelly, D. Shiel, J. Stringer
Sub.: N. Hind

Collingwood (12.8.80) were defeated by Essendon (13.14.92).

Goalkickers
Collingwood: J. Crisp (3), H. Harrison (2), J. Howe (2), N. Kreuger (2), B. Mihocek, S. Pendlebury, L. Schultz
Essendon: K. Langford (2), P. Wright (2), N. Caddy, J. Caldwell, S. Draper, X. Duursma, J. Gresham, M. Guelfi, H. Jones, Z. Merrett, J. Stringer

As a result of this match, Collingwood were then 9th on the ladder (down from 6th) and Essendon remained 4th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Collingwood v Essendon
Date: Friday 5 July 2024
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 81,711

Match Results

Outcome: Collingwood def. by Essendon
Score: 12.8.80 - 13.14.92

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Collingwood 5 . 2 8 . 4 8 . 7 12 . 8 12 . 8 (80)
Essendon 2 . 5 6 . 8 10 . 12 13 . 14 13 . 14 (92)
Margin COLL by 15 COLL by 8 ESSE by 17 ESSE by 12 ESSE by 12
Duration 29:29 29:14 30:37 33:57 2:03:17

Honour Roll

Coaches: Craig McRae (Collingwood), Brad Scott (Essendon)
Captains: Darcy Moore (Collingwood), Zach Merrett (Essendon)
Vice-Captains: unknown (Collingwood), Andrew McGrath (Essendon)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Jye Caldwell ESSE 6 3
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 2
Nick Daicos COLL 35 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 10 2 0 0 0 0
Ben McKay ESSE 32 5 0 1 0 0 1
Jye Caldwell ESSE 6 4 0 1 0 0 0
Jack Crisp COLL 25 3 0 0 1 0 0
Andrew McGrath ESSE 1 3 0 0 1 0 0
Nick Daicos COLL 35 2 0 0 0 1 0
Steele Sidebottom COLL 22 2 0 0 0 1 0
Scott Pendlebury COLL 10 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Collingwood

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
14 Cameron, Darcy RU 71% 0 0 10 8 2 2 21 3 2 4 4 2 2 2
25 Crisp, Jack INT 72% 3 0 24 15 9 6 0 4 5 6 0 1 1 4
7 Daicos, Josh WR 87% 0 0 20 8 12 3 0 0 2 4 0 0 2 1
35 Daicos, Nick RO 85% 0 0 31 23 8 2 0 3 12 5 2 1 3 3
2 De Goey, Jordan RR 83% 0 0 19 7 12 5 0 5 3 5 0 4 2 3
43 Dean, Charlie HBFL↓ 63% 0 0 9 7 2 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0
17 Frampton, Billy FPR 93% 0 0 7 3 4 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1
36 Harrison, Harvey INT 78% 2 1 10 7 3 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
23 Hill, Bobby HFFL 77% 0 1 9 8 1 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 3
32 Hoskin-Elliott, Will INT 82% 0 0 20 16 4 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 5 1
38 Howe, Jeremy CHB 86% 2 0 11 8 3 6 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 4
15 Kreuger, Nathan INT 68% 2 0 8 6 2 3 10 5 1 1 0 0 2 3
1 Lipinski, Patrick FF 83% 0 1 11 6 5 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
44 Long, Ned SUB↑ 32% 0 0 9 5 4 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 3
37 Markov, Oleg HBFR 84% 0 0 17 11 6 5 0 3 0 1 2 1 1 2
4 Maynard, Brayden BPL 85% 0 0 22 15 7 5 0 1 1 3 0 0 6 1
41 Mihocek, Brody CHF 76% 1 0 6 2 4 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
30 Moore, Darcy (c) FB 91% 0 0 14 8 6 6 0 0 0 3 0 1 3 0
10 Pendlebury, Scott C 76% 1 0 24 11 13 7 0 6 4 1 1 0 1 4
3 Quaynor, Isaac BPR 73% 0 0 8 4 4 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
29 Richards, Joe FPL 77% 0 1 8 4 4 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
8 Schultz, Lachie HFFR 89% 1 2 9 5 4 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
22 Sidebottom, Steele WL 89% 0 0 34 22 12 11 0 2 2 3 0 1 4 1
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 12 8 340 209 131 89 33 43 33 51 12 15 33 45

N. Long replaced C. Dean.

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
30 Caddy, Nate HFFR↓ 77% 1 3 12 9 3 6 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 4
6 Caldwell, Jye RR 76% 1 0 30 15 15 6 0 7 8 3 3 0 1 2
13 Cox, Nik WL 80% 0 0 11 6 5 3 6 3 1 1 0 1 0 1
2 Draper, Sam RU 77% 1 1 15 9 6 5 24 0 4 8 3 3 2 5
22 Durham, Sam C 83% 0 0 25 16 9 7 0 4 4 5 1 2 1 7
28 Duursma, Xavier INT 81% 1 0 16 10 6 8 0 3 1 3 0 0 1 1
11 Gresham, Jade FPL 79% 1 1 15 8 7 7 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
35 Guelfi, Matt HFFL 81% 1 1 15 5 10 1 0 4 2 3 0 2 0 2
19 Hind, Nick SUB↑ 6% 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 Jones, Harry CHF 81% 1 0 17 13 4 6 0 2 0 3 3 0 1 2
29 Kelly, Jake INT 82% 0 0 17 11 6 6 0 1 0 2 1 1 3 1
4 Langford, Kyle FPR 95% 2 2 15 10 5 8 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 3
15 Laverde, Jayden BPR 84% 0 0 11 8 3 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
37 Martin, Nic HBFL 85% 0 0 23 13 10 6 0 5 0 2 0 0 3 4
1 McGrath, Andrew (vc) HBFR 84% 0 0 18 12 6 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2
32 McKay, Ben FB 100% 0 0 19 11 8 11 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0
7 Merrett, Zach (c) RO 86% 1 1 30 19 11 6 0 4 5 3 0 0 2 3
16 Perkins, Archie WR 71% 0 1 13 8 5 5 0 4 1 1 0 0 1 3
27 Redman, Mason CHB 75% 0 0 19 17 2 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 2
14 Ridley, Jordan BPL 100% 0 0 25 19 6 15 0 1 0 1 0 0 7 2
9 Shiel, Dylan INT 64% 0 0 26 14 12 5 0 8 6 0 1 0 0 0
25 Stringer, Jake INT 78% 1 1 16 8 8 3 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 2
20 Wright, Peter FF 76% 2 0 13 8 5 7 10 2 0 4 0 2 0 1
Rushed 3
Total (23 players) 13 14 404 252 152 139 40 56 36 49 15 12 33 48

N. Hind replaced N. Caddy.

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

Collingwood Coach: Craig McRae
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
14 J. Ridley 32 B. McKay 15 J. Laverde 14 D. Cameron 25 J. Crisp
17 B. Frampton 1 P. Lipinski 29 J. Richards 2 J. De Goey 36 H. Harrison
FORWARD 35 N. Daicos 32 W. Hoskin-Elliott
HALF-BACK

15 N. Kreuger
37 N. Martin 27 M. Redman 1 A. McGrath (vc)

44 N. Long
8 L. Schultz 41 B. Mihocek 23 B. Hill



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



13 N. Cox 22 S. Durham 16 A. Perkins



7 J. Daicos 10 S. Pendlebury 22 S. Sidebottom FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 2 S. Draper 28 X. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD 6 J. Caldwell 29 J. Kelly
35 M. Guelfi 23 H. Jones 30 N. Caddy 7 Z. Merrett (c) 9 D. Shiel
37 O. Markov 38 J. Howe 43 C. Dean

25 J. Stringer
HALF-BACK

19 N. Hind
FORWARD



11 J. Gresham 20 P. Wright 4 K. Langford



3 I. Quaynor 30 D. Moore (c) 4 B. Maynard



BACK



Essendon Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Zach Merrett goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 02:08
COLL Jeremy Howe goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 04:57
ESSE Sam Draper behind 1.0.6 - 1.1.7 07:23
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 1.0.6 - 1.2.8 08:42
COLL Jack Crisp goal 2.0.12 - 1.2.8 09:44
COLL Jack Crisp goal 3.0.18 - 1.2.8 10:53
COLL Jack Crisp goal 4.0.24 - 1.2.8 12:34
COLL Harvey Harrison behind 4.1.25 - 1.2.8 15:04
COLL Joe Richards behind 4.2.26 - 1.2.8 17:57
ESSE Nate Caddy behind 4.2.26 - 1.3.9 19:33
COLL Harvey Harrison goal 5.2.32 - 1.3.9 22:21
ESSE Rushed behind 5.2.32 - 1.4.10 24:18
ESSE Matt Guelfi behind 5.2.32 - 1.5.11 25:04
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 5.2.32 - 2.5.17 29:26
Q2 COLL Patrick Lipinski behind 5.3.33 - 2.5.17 01:10
ESSE Rushed behind 5.3.33 - 2.6.18 02:56
ESSE Zach Merrett behind 5.3.33 - 2.7.19 03:50
COLL Jeremy Howe goal 6.3.39 - 2.7.19 05:00
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 6.3.39 - 3.7.25 06:32
ESSE Nate Caddy goal 6.3.39 - 4.7.31 11:36
COLL Scott Pendlebury goal 7.3.45 - 4.7.31 12:57
ESSE Harry Jones goal 7.3.45 - 5.7.37 15:44
ESSE Jade Gresham goal 7.3.45 - 6.7.43 17:10
COLL Rushed behind 7.4.46 - 6.7.43 20:05
ESSE Nate Caddy behind 7.4.46 - 6.8.44 22:02
COLL Lachie Schultz goal 8.4.52 - 6.8.44 24:33
Q3 ESSE Jake Stringer behind 8.4.52 - 6.9.45 01:33
ESSE Archie Perkins behind 8.4.52 - 6.10.46 02:33
ESSE Sam Draper goal 8.4.52 - 7.10.52 08:19
ESSE Peter Wright goal 8.4.52 - 8.10.58 10:09
ESSE Jade Gresham behind 8.4.52 - 8.11.59 13:31
ESSE Nate Caddy behind 8.4.52 - 8.12.60 14:23
COLL Lachie Schultz behind 8.5.53 - 8.12.60 16:19
ESSE Xavier Duursma goal 8.5.53 - 9.12.66 24:10
COLL Lachie Schultz behind 8.6.54 - 9.12.66 25:52
ESSE Kyle Langford goal 8.6.54 - 10.12.72 28:07
COLL Bobby Hill behind 8.7.55 - 10.12.72 29:54
Q4 ESSE Matt Guelfi goal 8.7.55 - 11.12.78 00:52
ESSE Jye Caldwell goal 8.7.55 - 12.12.84 03:14
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 8.7.55 - 12.13.85 06:22
ESSE Rushed behind 8.7.55 - 12.14.86 07:30
COLL Harvey Harrison goal 9.7.61 - 12.14.86 10:27
ESSE Peter Wright goal 9.7.61 - 13.14.92 12:11
COLL Brody Mihocek goal 10.7.67 - 13.14.92 16:38
COLL Nathan Kreuger goal 11.7.73 - 13.14.92 21:43
COLL Nathan Kreuger goal 12.7.79 - 13.14.92 28:39
COLL Rushed behind 12.8.80 - 13.14.92 31:19