2024 AFL Season Round 19: Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 13 July 2024 between Melbourne and Essendon during round nineteen of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Essendon at the MCG. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Simon Goodwin and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Melbourne (13.6.84) defeated Essendon (10.7.67).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 19
Teams: Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Saturday 13 July 2024
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 52,866

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. Essendon
Score: 13.6.84 - 10.7.67

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	3	.	2	6	.	6	8	.	6	13	.	6	13	.	6	(84)
Essendon	3	.	3	4	.	5	5	.	7	10	.	7	10	.	7	(67)
Margin	ESSE by 1			MELB by 13			MELB by 17			MELB by 17			MELB by 17
Duration	30:24			30:13			29:48			31:27			2:01:52

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Trent Rivers	MELB	24	3
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	2
Ed Langdon	MELB	15	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Judd McVee	MELB	4	9	1	1	0	0	0
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	6	?	?	?	?	?
Trent Rivers	MELB	24	6	?	?	?	?	?
Kysaiah Pickett	MELB	36	4	0	?	?	?	?
Ben McKay	ESSE	32	3	0	0	?	?	?
Ed Langdon	MELB	15	2	0	0	0	?	?

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	INT	79%	0	0	13	9	4	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1
37	Chandler, Kade	INT	81%	1	0	11	3	8	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
31	Fritsch, Bayley	FF	90%	3	0	9	7	2	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
15	Langdon, Ed	WL	100%	1	0	31	15	16	8	0	0	4	6	1	3	3	2
8	Lever, Jake	CHB	90%	0	0	16	12	4	7	0	1	0	1	2	0	6	2
1	May, Steven	FB	91%	0	0	24	19	5	6	0	2	0	2	1	1	9	0
25	McDonald, Tom	BPL	96%	0	0	15	12	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	6	0
4	McVee, Judd	BPR	80%	0	0	23	15	8	5	0	1	1	3	2	1	3	1
18	Melksham, Jake	FPR	79%	2	1	12	7	5	4	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	4
45	Moniz-Wakefield, Andy	HBFR↓	62%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	5	0	2	0	0	1	2
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	FPL	85%	0	0	25	14	11	2	0	2	6	2	1	0	2	2
13	Oliver, Clayton	INT	75%	0	1	25	15	10	8	0	3	2	4	0	1	0	5
35	Petty, Harry	RU	84%	0	0	6	3	3	2	10	5	0	4	2	3	1	0
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	HFFL	77%	2	0	15	13	2	1	0	3	6	3	0	1	0	6
24	Rivers, Trent	HBFL	67%	0	1	29	15	14	8	0	7	8	7	0	0	2	5
3	Salem, Christian	RO	85%	0	0	15	12	3	4	0	2	2	5	0	2	2	2
32	Sparrow, Tom	C	77%	0	1	12	10	2	4	0	2	1	2	0	0	2	2
39	Tholstrup, Koltyn	HFFR	80%	0	0	14	9	5	0	0	7	5	3	1	1	1	4
42	Turner, Daniel	INT	68%	3	0	8	5	3	4	0	3	0	1	1	1	0	2
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	CHF	80%	0	0	13	7	6	3	17	1	1	2	0	1	2	0
7	Viney, Jack	RR	74%	0	0	20	11	9	0	0	3	5	3	1	0	1	3
6	Windsor, Caleb	WR	83%	1	0	18	15	3	1	0	1	3	1	0	0	1	5
40	Woewodin, Taj	SUB↑	17%	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				13	6	366	235	131	83	27	56	44	57	14	19	45	49

T. Woewodin replaced A. Moniz-Wakefield.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Caddy, Nate	HFFR	79%	0	1	10	9	1	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	3
6	Caldwell, Jye	RR	85%	0	0	23	13	10	3	0	12	3	3	4	0	1	7
13	Cox, Nik	WL	81%	0	1	12	5	7	2	3	4	3	2	1	0	1	1
2	Draper, Sam	RU	80%	0	0	20	13	7	4	33	1	7	10	1	4	3	2
22	Durham, Sam	C	75%	1	0	21	13	8	4	0	4	7	6	1	1	0	1
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	78%	2	0	18	10	8	9	0	3	0	3	0	0	3	3
11	Gresham, Jade	BPR	93%	0	0	15	5	10	1	0	5	1	3	0	0	0	0
35	Guelfi, Matt	HFFL	82%	0	0	11	6	5	1	0	3	0	2	0	1	1	1
21	Heppell, Dyson	INT	72%	0	0	20	7	13	3	0	1	0	2	1	2	1	2
19	Hind, Nick	SUB↑	27%	0	0	8	6	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
23	Jones, Harry	CHF	79%	1	2	15	7	8	3	0	2	2	4	0	0	3	0
29	Kelly, Jake	FF	87%	0	0	18	14	4	10	0	0	0	3	1	1	4	1
4	Langford, Kyle	FPR	97%	2	0	15	9	6	5	0	2	0	3	1	0	0	6
37	Martin, Nic	HBFL	94%	4	0	26	21	5	9	0	4	0	3	3	0	2	3
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	HBFR	77%	0	0	18	9	9	3	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	3
32	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	21	12	9	7	0	2	0	1	2	1	2	0
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RO	83%	0	1	25	14	11	3	0	4	1	4	1	0	3	6
16	Perkins, Archie	WR	62%	0	1	10	7	3	2	0	6	1	0	0	0	2	0
27	Redman, Mason	CHB	76%	0	0	20	18	2	7	0	4	0	2	2	0	1	4
14	Ridley, Jordan	BPL	100%	0	0	29	23	6	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	1
9	Shiel, Dylan	INT	70%	0	0	28	16	12	3	0	6	5	3	0	1	2	5
25	Stringer, Jake	FPL	78%	0	1	20	12	8	6	0	3	2	6	0	2	0	7
20	Wright, Peter	INT↓	49%	0	0	8	1	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				10	7	411	250	161	101	43	70	32	67	19	14	35	56

N. Hind replaced P. Wright.

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

Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	14	J. Ridley	32	B. McKay	11	J. Gresham	35	H. Petty	17	J. Bowey
	18	J. Melksham	31	B. Fritsch	30	A. Neal-Bullen	7	J. Viney	37	K. Chandler
FORWARD							3	C. Salem	13	C. Oliver
HALF-BACK									42	D. Turner
	37	N. Martin	27	M. Redman	1	A. McGrath (vc)			40	T. Woewodin
	39	K. Tholstrup	2	J. van Rooyen	36	K. Pickett
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	N. Cox	22	S. Durham	16	A. Perkins
	6	C. Windsor	32	T. Sparrow	15	E. Langdon	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	S. Draper	28	X. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD							6	J. Caldwell	21	D. Heppell
	35	M. Guelfi	23	H. Jones	30	N. Caddy	7	Z. Merrett (c)	9	D. Shiel
	45	A. Moniz-Wakefield	8	J. Lever	24	T. Rivers			20	P. Wright
HALF-BACK									19	N. Hind
FORWARD
	25	J. Stringer	29	J. Kelly	4	K. Langford
	4	J. McVee	1	S. May	25	T. McDonald
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:06
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	05:31
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	07:36
	ESSE	Sam Durham goal	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	10:21
	MELB	Trent Rivers behind	1.2.8	-	2.0.12	14:07
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	15:26
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	16:15
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	17:49
	ESSE	Harry Jones behind	1.2.8	-	3.3.21	21:31
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	2.2.14	-	3.3.21	22:46
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	3.2.20	-	3.3.21	29:03
Q2	MELB	Clayton Oliver behind	3.3.21	-	3.3.21	00:27
	MELB	Jake Melksham behind	3.4.22	-	3.3.21	01:13
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	4.4.28	-	3.3.21	02:04
	MELB	Tom Sparrow behind	4.5.29	-	3.3.21	04:48
	MELB	Caleb Windsor goal	5.5.35	-	3.3.21	05:38
	MELB	Rushed behind	5.6.36	-	3.3.21	10:08
	ESSE	Harry Jones behind	5.6.36	-	3.4.22	13:05
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	5.6.36	-	4.4.28	17:37
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	6.6.42	-	4.4.28	19:48
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	6.6.42	-	4.5.29	22:38
Q3	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	6.6.42	-	4.6.30	03:29
	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	7.6.48	-	4.6.30	09:59
	ESSE	Harry Jones goal	7.6.48	-	5.6.36	12:37
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	8.6.54	-	5.6.36	18:31
	ESSE	Nik Cox behind	8.6.54	-	5.7.37	22:52
Q4	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	8.6.54	-	6.7.43	01:21
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	9.6.60	-	6.7.43	02:54
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	10.6.66	-	6.7.43	08:11
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	11.6.72	-	6.7.43	10:16
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	12.6.78	-	6.7.43	12:48
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	13.6.84	-	6.7.43	14:26
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	13.6.84	-	7.7.49	18:51
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	13.6.84	-	8.7.55	19:56
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	13.6.84	-	9.7.61	22:09
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	13.6.84	-	10.7.67	26:11

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