2025 AFL Round 4: Essendon v Port Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 27 March 2025 between Essendon and Port Adelaide during round 4 of the 2025 AFL season. Essendon hosted Port Adelaide at Marvel Stadium. Zach Merrett captained the hosts with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. Connor Rozee captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Ken Hinkley.

Essendon
Back: A. McGrath (vice-capt.), B. McKay, J. Ridley
Half-back: M. Redman, Z. Reid, J. Prior
Centre: A. Roberts, J. Caldwell, B. Hobbs
Half-forward: J. Gresham, N. Caddy, N. Martin
Forward: H. Jones, S. Draper, I. Kako
Follower: N. Bryan, Z. Merrett (capt.), S. Durham
Int.: X. Duursma, T. Edwards, J. Menzie, D. Shiel
Sub.: S. El-Hawli

Port Adelaide
Back: E. Ratugolea, A. Aliir, J. Sinn
Half-back: M. Bergman, J. Burgoyne, K. Farrell
Centre: C. Moraes, C. Rozee (capt.), T. Boak
Half-forward: D. Byrne-Jones, J. Richards, O. Wines
Forward: S. Powell-Pepper, M. Georgiades, I. Soldo
Follower: J. Sweet, J. Horne-Francis, W. Rioli
Int.: J. Berry, W. Drew, L. Evans, J. Mead
Sub.: T. Cochrane

Essendon (9.18.72) defeated Port Adelaide (8.12.60).

Goalkickers
Essendon: N. Caddy (2), S. Draper (2), J. Gresham, N. Martin, J. Menzie, M. Redman, A. Roberts
Port Adelaide: D. Byrne-Jones (2), M. Georgiades (2), T. Boak, J. Horne-Francis, J. Richards, O. Wines

As a result of this match, Essendon were then 12th on the ladder (up from 16th) and Port Adelaide remained 11th on the ladder by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: Essendon v Port Adelaide
Date: Thursday 27 March 2025
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 25,114

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Port Adelaide
Score: 9.18.72 - 8.12.60

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	2	.	5	3	.	9	5	.	14	9	.	18	9	.	18	(72)
Port Adelaide	3	.	5	4	.	6	7	.	8	8	.	12	8	.	12	(60)
Margin	PADL by 6			PADL by 3			PADL by 6			ESSE by 12			ESSE by 12
Duration	30:50			26:43			30:31			30:07			1:58:11

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (Essendon), Ken Hinkley (Port Adelaide)
Captains: Zach Merrett (Essendon), Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide)
Vice-Captains: Andrew McGrath (Essendon), unknown (Port Adelaide)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	3
Ollie Wines	PADL	16	2
Dylan Shiel	ESSE	9	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Bryan, Nick	RU	79%	0	0	12	8	4	2	21	2	1	1	3	1	2	1
30	Caddy, Nate	CHF	74%	2	2	13	9	4	2	0	3	0	2	2	0	0	1
6	Caldwell, Jye	C	77%	0	1	23	11	12	7	0	5	3	3	1	0	0	6
2	Draper, Sam	FF	100%	2	0	9	6	3	2	10	2	2	4	2	1	0	2
22	Durham, Sam	RO	84%	0	0	28	13	15	4	0	3	5	3	2	0	1	6
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	80%	0	1	29	13	16	8	0	3	4	1	4	0	3	4
45	Edwards, Thomas	INT↓	48%	0	1	6	4	2	2	0	1	0	4	1	2	0	0
41	El-Hawli, Saad	SUB↑	25%	0	0	7	3	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1
11	Gresham, Jade	HFFL	89%	1	0	20	11	9	4	0	7	3	2	1	1	1	4
8	Hobbs, Ben	WR	72%	0	0	21	8	13	1	0	4	4	6	2	2	1	2
23	Jones, Harry	FPL	77%	0	1	13	6	7	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
10	Kako, Isaac	FPR	80%	0	0	10	5	5	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	92%	1	0	20	11	9	4	0	1	2	1	0	0	4	4
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	81%	0	0	9	7	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	0
32	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	10	6	4	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
29	Menzie, Jye	INT	53%	1	1	10	5	5	3	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	2
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RR	82%	0	2	34	15	19	5	0	2	1	4	0	0	0	5
25	Prior, Jaxon	HBFR	82%	0	0	19	15	4	6	0	1	0	4	0	1	9	0
27	Redman, Mason	HBFL	88%	1	0	22	19	3	3	0	4	0	0	1	0	5	4
31	Reid, Zach	CHB	91%	0	0	16	12	4	10	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	1
14	Ridley, Jordan	BPR	91%	0	1	22	15	7	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	2
21	Roberts, Archie	WL	88%	1	0	21	14	7	6	0	4	0	3	1	1	1	3
9	Shiel, Dylan	INT	67%	0	0	25	15	10	5	0	5	5	5	0	1	2	8
Rushed					8
Total (23 players)				9	18	399	231	168	93	31	57	32	53	22	14	35	59

S. El-Hawli replaced T. Edwards.

Port Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Aliir, Aliir	FB	97%	0	0	15	10	5	8	0	1	0	3	0	2	5	0
14	Bergman, Miles	HBFL	87%	0	0	26	19	7	10	0	0	0	4	3	0	5	3
5	Berry, Joe	INT	72%	0	1	15	10	5	5	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	5
10	Boak, Travis	WR	80%	1	0	18	10	8	6	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	4
7	Burgoyne, Jase	CHB	100%	0	0	27	16	11	10	0	3	1	1	0	0	4	2
33	Byrne-Jones, Darcy	HFFL	80%	2	0	15	12	3	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	3
37	Cochrane, Tom	SUB↑	22%	0	1	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	Drew, Willem	INT	73%	0	0	15	6	9	3	0	4	3	4	2	3	2	1
22	Evans, Logan	INT	74%	0	0	10	8	2	3	0	2	0	5	0	3	2	0
6	Farrell, Kane	HBFR	72%	0	0	18	15	3	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	6	1
19	Georgiades, Mitch	FF	89%	2	2	13	9	4	6	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	1
18	Horne-Francis, Jason	RR	78%	1	1	22	9	13	4	0	1	6	4	1	1	0	2
44	Mead, Jackson	INT	79%	0	0	14	5	9	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
31	Moraes, Christian	WL	84%	0	0	27	13	14	7	0	1	1	1	1	0	4	4
2	Powell-Pepper, Sam	FPL	82%	0	1	14	8	6	6	0	4	3	4	0	1	1	4
27	Ratugolea, Esava	BPL	90%	0	0	12	7	5	8	0	1	0	2	1	2	4	0
35	Richards, Joe	CHF	71%	1	0	13	7	6	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1
15	Rioli, Willie	RO	82%	0	1	16	11	5	4	0	1	0	5	1	4	1	5
1	Rozee, Connor (c)	C	86%	0	1	22	8	14	5	0	4	1	3	0	0	2	2
8	Sinn, Josh	BPR	78%	0	1	18	16	2	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	7	0
13	Soldo, Ivan	FPR↓	60%	0	0	5	3	2	1	9	1	1	2	0	1	0	1
24	Sweet, Jordon	RU	85%	0	0	14	7	7	5	27	4	4	3	2	1	2	1
16	Wines, Ollie	HFFR	78%	1	0	31	13	18	4	0	3	5	8	1	2	2	4
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				8	12	382	224	158	116	36	41	29	60	14	22	50	44

T. Cochrane replaced I. Soldo.

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

Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	E. Ratugolea	21	A. Aliir	8	J. Sinn	24	N. Bryan	28	X. Duursma
	10	I. Kako	2	S. Draper	23	H. Jones	7	Z. Merrett (c)	45	T. Edwards
FORWARD							22	S. Durham	29	J. Menzie
HALF-BACK									9	D. Shiel
	14	M. Bergman	7	J. Burgoyne	6	K. Farrell			41	S. El-Hawli
	37	N. Martin	30	N. Caddy	11	J. Gresham
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	31	C. Moraes	1	C. Rozee (c)	10	T. Boak
	8	B. Hobbs	6	J. Caldwell	21	A. Roberts	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							24	J. Sweet	5	J. Berry
HALF-FORWARD							18	J. Horne-Francis	28	W. Drew
	33	D. Byrne-Jones	35	J. Richards	16	O. Wines	15	W. Rioli	22	L. Evans
	25	J. Prior	31	Z. Reid	27	M. Redman			44	J. Mead
HALF-BACK									37	T. Cochrane
FORWARD
	2	S. Powell-Pepper	19	M. Georgiades	13	I. Soldo
	14	J. Ridley	32	B. McKay	1	A. McGrath (vc)
BACK
Port Adelaide							Coach: Ken Hinkley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	04:06
	ESSE	Jordan Ridley behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	05:09
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	07:19
	ESSE	Sam Draper goal	1.2.8	-	1.0.6	11:05
	ESSE	Jye Menzie behind	1.3.9	-	1.0.6	12:17
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	2.3.15	-	1.0.6	13:46
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	2.3.15	-	2.0.12	15:37
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma behind	2.4.16	-	2.0.12	16:57
	ESSE	Thomas Edwards behind	2.5.17	-	2.0.12	18:39
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper behind	2.5.17	-	2.1.13	20:50
	PADL	Joe Berry behind	2.5.17	-	2.2.14	23:16
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades behind	2.5.17	-	2.3.15	25:20
	PADL	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	2.4.16	25:57
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades behind	2.5.17	-	2.5.17	27:34
	PADL	Travis Boak goal	2.5.17	-	3.5.23	29:01
Q2	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	2.5.17	-	4.5.29	02:47
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.6.18	-	4.5.29	05:45
	PADL	Rushed behind	2.6.18	-	4.6.30	08:00
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.7.19	-	4.6.30	12:30
	ESSE	Harry Jones behind	2.8.20	-	4.6.30	15:42
	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.9.21	-	4.6.30	18:12
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	3.9.27	-	4.6.30	25:46
Q3	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.10.28	-	4.6.30	01:02
	PADL	Joe Richards goal	3.10.28	-	5.6.36	05:19
	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	4.10.34	-	5.6.36	08:41
	PADL	Ollie Wines goal	4.10.34	-	6.6.42	13:19
	PADL	Josh Sinn behind	4.10.34	-	6.7.43	16:07
	ESSE	Archie Roberts goal	5.10.40	-	6.7.43	18:52
	PADL	Rushed behind	5.10.40	-	6.8.44	20:24
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.11.41	-	6.8.44	23:28
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	5.12.42	-	6.8.44	24:09
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	5.12.42	-	7.8.50	26:43
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.13.43	-	7.8.50	27:52
	ESSE	Rushed behind	5.14.44	-	7.8.50	28:55
Q4	ESSE	Jye Caldwell behind	5.15.45	-	7.8.50	00:19
	PADL	Jason Horne-Francis goal	5.15.45	-	8.8.56	01:15
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	6.15.51	-	8.8.56	03:31
	PADL	Tom Cochrane behind	6.15.51	-	8.9.57	06:01
	ESSE	Mason Redman goal	7.15.57	-	8.9.57	08:17
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	7.16.58	-	8.9.57	12:37
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	7.17.59	-	8.9.57	13:23
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	8.17.65	-	8.9.57	15:56
	PADL	Connor Rozee behind	8.17.65	-	8.10.58	17:12
	ESSE	Sam Draper goal	9.17.71	-	8.10.58	19:00
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.18.72	-	8.10.58	26:33
	PADL	Willie Rioli behind	9.18.72	-	8.11.59	28:14
	PADL	Jason Horne-Francis behind	9.18.72	-	8.12.60	29:06

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