2025 AFL Season Round 2: Hawthorn v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 14 March 2025 between Hawthorn and Essendon during round two of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Hawthorn hosted Essendon at the MCG. James Sicily captained the hosts with Dylan Moore as vice-captain. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Sam Mitchell and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Hawthorn (17.9.111) defeated Essendon (12.13.85).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Hawthorn v Essendon
Date: Friday 14 March 2025
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 80,735

Match Results

Outcome: Hawthorn def. Essendon
Score: 17.9.111 - 12.13.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Hawthorn	6	.	1	10	.	4	13	.	7	17	.	9	17	.	9	(111)
Essendon	1	.	4	4	.	5	7	.	11	12	.	13	12	.	13	(85)
Margin	HWTH by 27			HWTH by 35			HWTH by 32			HWTH by 26			HWTH by 26
Duration	32:23			33:26			31:55			33:38			2:11:22

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Hawthorn

Captain: James Sicily
Vice-Captain: Dylan Moore
Coach: Sam Mitchell

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Dylan Moore	HWTH	13	3
Jye Caldwell	ESSE	6	2
James Sicily	HWTH	6	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Amon, Karl	RO	84%	0	0	28	21	7	10	0	2	1	3	2	2	5	7
37	Barrass, Tom	BPL	87%	0	0	12	8	4	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	1
24	Battle, Josh	HBFR	89%	0	0	19	14	5	6	0	3	0	3	0	0	10	1
18	Chol, Mabior	FF	80%	2	2	8	8	0	6	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
16	D'Ambrosio, Massimo	BPR	66%	1	0	9	6	3	3	0	2	1	2	1	1	1	0
12	Day, Will	FPR	81%	1	1	16	9	7	5	0	4	2	3	1	1	0	2
8	Frost, Sam	SUB↑	49%	0	0	5	4	1	0	0	2	1	4	1	2	3	0
33	Ginnivan, Jack	FPL	83%	2	1	15	10	5	4	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	3
15	Hardwick, Blake	FB	94%	2	0	13	8	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	2
4	Impey, Jarman	CHB	78%	0	0	11	9	2	4	0	5	1	1	1	0	1	3
31	MacDonald, Connor	HFFL	81%	1	0	23	13	10	8	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	5
28	Mackenzie, Cam	INT	73%	0	0	21	9	12	2	0	3	4	2	2	1	1	2
20	Maginness, Finn	INT	76%	1	0	15	6	9	6	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2
17	Meek, Lloyd	RU	86%	0	0	11	3	8	1	33	2	2	5	0	2	0	0
13	Moore, Dylan (vc)	WL	94%	3	1	21	17	4	6	0	0	1	2	4	1	0	1
1	Morrison, Harry	CHF	84%	0	0	14	10	4	9	0	3	0	3	2	2	3	0
11	Nash, Conor	C	75%	0	0	22	9	13	4	0	10	3	4	0	1	1	2
3	Newcombe, Jai	RR	83%	0	2	25	20	5	3	0	3	7	5	1	2	1	8
14	Scrimshaw, Jack	INT↓	27%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
6	Sicily, James (c)	WR	96%	0	0	24	18	6	7	0	0	1	1	1	0	10	1
25	Ward, Josh	INT	81%	0	1	22	16	6	5	0	3	3	2	0	0	4	4
34	Watson, Nick	HFFR	74%	3	0	13	8	5	3	0	2	0	1	3	1	0	2
23	Weddle, Josh	HBFL	79%	1	0	6	3	3	2	0	4	0	0	1	0	1	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				17	9	357	230	127	103	34	58	31	46	23	17	46	48

S. Frost replaced J. Scrimshaw.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Bryan, Nick	INT	63%	0	0	10	8	2	4	29	3	2	0	0	0	1	2
30	Caddy, Nate	HFFL	85%	0	1	12	9	3	5	0	2	1	4	0	0	0	5
6	Caldwell, Jye	C	75%	1	1	36	18	18	4	0	11	10	7	2	3	0	7
2	Draper, Sam	FF	82%	1	2	12	9	3	2	25	5	5	5	2	2	1	4
22	Durham, Sam	RR	83%	0	0	23	8	15	3	0	4	4	4	2	2	1	4
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	83%	2	0	19	10	9	4	0	7	1	0	3	0	0	3
11	Gresham, Jade	SUB↑	50%	1	0	12	7	5	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
8	Hobbs, Ben	INT	64%	0	0	13	3	10	1	0	7	1	2	0	1	0	0
23	Jones, Harry	FPL	79%	1	0	14	11	3	6	0	3	2	2	0	1	1	2
10	Kako, Isaac	FPR	82%	1	2	14	8	6	2	0	1	3	2	0	1	0	3
4	Langford, Kyle	CHF	62%	2	0	11	5	6	0	0	1	1	2	1	1	1	2
37	Martin, Nic	WL	95%	0	1	24	16	8	10	0	3	0	4	2	1	1	7
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	85%	0	0	27	15	12	9	0	4	1	6	0	2	6	2
32	McKay, Ben	FB	96%	0	0	7	5	2	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RO	90%	2	0	26	14	12	3	0	3	4	4	0	1	1	4
16	Perkins, Archie	HFFR	85%	1	2	22	13	9	5	0	2	4	2	0	1	1	4
25	Prior, Jaxon	HBFR	92%	0	0	11	10	1	7	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	0
27	Redman, Mason	HBFL	92%	0	2	19	12	7	2	0	7	2	2	2	2	5	3
31	Reid, Zach	CHB	86%	0	0	11	10	1	9	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	0
14	Ridley, Jordan	BPR↓	43%	0	0	9	6	3	2	0	1	0	5	1	3	3	0
21	Roberts, Archie	WR	86%	0	0	19	12	7	4	0	4	1	3	0	1	2	1
9	Shiel, Dylan	RU	85%	0	0	23	14	9	3	0	2	2	2	1	0	2	2
5	Tsatas, Elijah	INT	57%	0	0	18	9	9	1	0	2	5	1	0	0	0	2
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				12	13	392	232	160	93	54	78	50	63	17	23	30	58

J. Gresham replaced J. Ridley.

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

Hawthorn							Coach: Sam Mitchell
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	1	A. McGrath (vc)	32	B. McKay	14	J. Ridley	17	L. Meek	28	C. Mackenzie
	12	W. Day	18	M. Chol	33	J. Ginnivan	3	J. Newcombe	20	F. Maginness
FORWARD							10	K. Amon	14	J. Scrimshaw
HALF-BACK									25	J. Ward
	27	M. Redman	31	Z. Reid	25	J. Prior			8	S. Frost
	34	N. Watson	1	H. Morrison	31	C. MacDonald
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	37	N. Martin	6	J. Caldwell	21	A. Roberts
	6	J. Sicily (c)	11	C. Nash	13	D. Moore (vc)	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							9	D. Shiel	24	N. Bryan
HALF-FORWARD							22	S. Durham	28	X. Duursma
	30	N. Caddy	4	K. Langford	16	A. Perkins	7	Z. Merrett (c)	8	B. Hobbs
	24	J. Battle	4	J. Impey	23	J. Weddle			5	E. Tsatas
HALF-BACK									11	J. Gresham
FORWARD
	23	H. Jones	2	S. Draper	10	I. Kako
	16	M. D'Ambrosio	15	B. Hardwick	37	T. Barrass
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Sam Draper behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	04:59
	ESSE	Isaac Kako goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	09:48
	HWTH	Blake Hardwick goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	11:12
	HWTH	Jack Ginnivan goal	2.0.12	-	1.1.7	12:52
	HWTH	Josh Ward behind	2.1.13	-	1.1.7	14:22
	HWTH	Nick Watson goal	3.1.19	-	1.1.7	16:44
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.1.19	-	1.2.8	19:08
	HWTH	Massimo D'Ambrosio goal	4.1.25	-	1.2.8	21:14
	HWTH	Mabior Chol goal	5.1.31	-	1.2.8	22:26
	HWTH	Nick Watson goal	6.1.37	-	1.2.8	26:36
	ESSE	Mason Redman behind	6.1.37	-	1.3.9	28:26
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	6.1.37	-	1.4.10	30:58
Q2	HWTH	Jai Newcombe behind	6.2.38	-	1.4.10	01:35
	HWTH	Jack Ginnivan goal	7.2.44	-	1.4.10	08:02
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	7.2.44	-	2.4.16	09:23
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	7.2.44	-	3.4.22	12:48
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	7.2.44	-	4.4.28	14:58
	HWTH	Mabior Chol behind	7.3.45	-	4.4.28	16:43
	HWTH	Will Day goal	8.3.51	-	4.4.28	20:20
	HWTH	Dylan Moore behind	8.4.52	-	4.4.28	24:15
	HWTH	Nick Watson goal	9.4.58	-	4.4.28	25:52
	HWTH	Blake Hardwick goal	10.4.64	-	4.4.28	28:34
	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	10.4.64	-	4.5.29	30:30
Q3	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	10.4.64	-	5.5.35	01:31
	ESSE	Sam Draper behind	10.4.64	-	5.6.36	04:46
	HWTH	Jai Newcombe behind	10.5.65	-	5.6.36	05:57
	ESSE	Harry Jones goal	10.5.65	-	6.6.42	10:17
	HWTH	Mabior Chol behind	10.6.66	-	6.6.42	12:59
	HWTH	Mabior Chol goal	11.6.72	-	6.6.42	16:16
	ESSE	Isaac Kako behind	11.6.72	-	6.7.43	18:41
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.6.72	-	6.8.44	19:15
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	11.6.72	-	7.8.50	20:10
	ESSE	Nic Martin behind	11.6.72	-	7.9.51	23:06
	ESSE	Mason Redman behind	11.6.72	-	7.10.52	24:22
	HWTH	Dylan Moore goal	12.6.78	-	7.10.52	24:50
	ESSE	Isaac Kako behind	12.6.78	-	7.11.53	27:43
	HWTH	Dylan Moore goal	13.6.84	-	7.11.53	29:26
	HWTH	Jack Ginnivan behind	13.7.85	-	7.11.53	31:51
Q4	ESSE	Jye Caldwell behind	13.7.85	-	7.12.54	01:58
	HWTH	Connor MacDonald goal	14.7.91	-	7.12.54	03:07
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell goal	14.7.91	-	8.12.60	05:24
	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	14.7.91	-	8.13.61	09:18
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	14.7.91	-	9.13.67	10:16
	HWTH	Josh Weddle goal	15.7.97	-	9.13.67	12:09
	ESSE	Sam Draper goal	15.7.97	-	10.13.73	16:42
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	15.7.97	-	11.13.79	19:32
	HWTH	Dylan Moore goal	16.7.103	-	11.13.79	20:55
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	16.7.103	-	12.13.85	26:06
	HWTH	Finn Maginness goal	17.7.109	-	12.13.85	27:49
	HWTH	Rushed behind	17.8.110	-	12.13.85	29:24
	HWTH	Will Day behind	17.9.111	-	12.13.85	31:23

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