2025 AFL Season Round 6: Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 12 April 2025 between Melbourne and Essendon during round six of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Essendon at Adelaide Oval. Max Gawn captained the hosts with Jack Viney as vice-captain. 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 (8.9.57) were defeated by Essendon (15.6.96).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 6
Teams: Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Saturday 12 April 2025
Time: 7:05 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 45,039

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 8.9.57 - 15.6.96

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	1	.	4	2	.	5	7	.	7	8	.	9	8	.	9	(57)
Essendon	3	.	4	7	.	4	10	.	5	15	.	6	15	.	6	(96)
Margin	ESSE by 12			ESSE by 29			ESSE by 16			ESSE by 39			ESSE by 39
Duration	30:02			33:14			35:10			32:24			2:10:50

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: Max Gawn
Vice-Captain: Jack Viney
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	3
Mason Redman	ESSE	27	2
Kysaiah Pickett	MELB	36	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	BPL	83%	0	0	23	18	5	6	0	2	4	3	0	0	2	3
37	Chandler, Kade	WL	93%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	6	0	0	1	0	1	3
31	Fritsch, Bayley	INT	84%	2	0	10	6	4	4	0	5	0	1	2	0	0	2
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	82%	0	0	22	7	15	4	49	2	8	3	1	1	1	3
43	Henderson, Jack	INT↓	46%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
15	Langdon, Ed	WR	100%	1	0	25	19	6	12	0	1	3	1	1	1	5	6
19	Langford, Harvey	RO	73%	0	0	23	11	12	5	0	1	3	5	1	0	1	2
20	Lindsay, Xavier	HFFL	64%	0	1	14	8	6	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
1	May, Steven	FB	92%	0	0	12	9	3	3	0	1	0	2	1	0	3	1
25	McDonald, Tom	CHB	100%	0	0	15	8	7	4	0	2	1	2	1	1	1	1
18	Melksham, Jake	FPL	76%	0	0	7	5	2	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	3
13	Oliver, Clayton	CHF	81%	0	1	24	6	18	2	0	9	6	5	1	0	1	2
5	Petracca, Christian	RR	86%	0	2	27	13	14	6	0	5	4	5	0	1	0	9
35	Petty, Harry	BPR	88%	1	0	10	5	5	5	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	0
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	HFFR	87%	2	0	23	18	5	6	0	1	4	4	1	0	0	5
24	Rivers, Trent	INT	76%	0	1	22	15	7	3	0	3	4	1	0	0	2	4
3	Salem, Christian	HBFR	88%	0	0	21	15	6	10	0	2	1	2	0	2	5	2
30	Sharp, Harry	SUB↑	35%	1	0	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Spargo, Charlie	FPR	73%	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	1	0	3	2	1	0	3
32	Sparrow, Tom	HBFL	63%	1	0	5	3	2	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	75%	0	0	7	2	5	1	9	2	3	1	1	1	0	0
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	C	75%	0	1	21	11	10	2	0	5	2	4	2	1	1	0
6	Windsor, Caleb	INT	80%	0	1	13	6	7	5	0	2	1	3	0	1	3	1
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				8	9	354	201	153	97	58	54	45	50	17	13	28	51

H. Sharp replaced J. Henderson.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Bryan, Nick	RU↓	9%	0	0	3	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Caddy, Nate	CHF	78%	2	0	7	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0
2	Draper, Sam	FF	87%	0	0	22	12	10	5	26	2	5	4	2	2	3	3
22	Durham, Sam	RO	84%	0	0	28	14	14	6	0	3	5	2	2	1	1	8
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	83%	1	0	17	8	9	3	0	1	4	3	0	1	3	2
41	El-Hawli, Saad	SUB↑	62%	0	0	18	8	10	5	0	4	2	3	1	1	0	3
11	Gresham, Jade	HFFL	81%	1	0	18	6	12	5	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	3
8	Hobbs, Ben	INT	63%	2	1	20	10	10	3	0	4	5	4	0	0	2	0
23	Jones, Harry	FPL	89%	1	1	7	4	3	2	4	3	0	4	0	2	0	1
10	Kako, Isaac	FPR	86%	0	0	9	5	4	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	95%	1	0	28	18	10	11	0	2	1	4	0	0	2	1
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	82%	0	0	26	13	13	3	0	3	1	7	1	2	4	0
32	McKay, Ben	FB	98%	0	0	16	8	8	4	0	1	0	4	2	3	0	0
29	Menzie, Jye	INT	66%	4	0	15	13	2	8	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	2
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	RR	85%	0	1	37	15	22	8	0	5	2	5	0	0	0	5
16	Perkins, Archie	INT	75%	1	0	17	10	7	4	0	0	1	4	2	1	0	3
25	Prior, Jaxon	HBFR	77%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	1	0	3	0	1	6	0
27	Redman, Mason	HBFL	87%	1	0	22	14	8	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	1
31	Reid, Zach	CHB	96%	0	0	21	14	7	10	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	0
14	Ridley, Jordan	BPR	86%	0	0	26	17	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
21	Roberts, Archie	C	84%	0	0	28	15	13	8	0	6	1	3	0	2	4	3
12	Setterfield, Will	WL	78%	0	0	21	13	8	3	0	10	2	1	0	0	2	2
9	Shiel, Dylan	WR	69%	1	0	30	12	18	3	0	1	7	6	0	0	2	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				15	6	448	244	204	116	34	57	41	64	13	17	41	43

S. El-Hawli replaced N. Bryan.

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
	1	A. McGrath (vc)	32	B. McKay	14	J. Ridley	11	M. Gawn (c)	31	B. Fritsch
	9	C. Spargo	2	J. van Rooyen	18	J. Melksham	5	C. Petracca	43	J. Henderson
FORWARD							19	H. Langford	24	T. Rivers
HALF-BACK									6	C. Windsor
	27	M. Redman	31	Z. Reid	25	J. Prior			30	H. Sharp
	36	K. Pickett	13	C. Oliver	20	X. Lindsay
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	12	W. Setterfield	21	A. Roberts	9	D. Shiel
	15	E. Langdon	7	J. Viney (vc)	37	K. Chandler	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							24	N. Bryan	28	X. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD							7	Z. Merrett (c)	8	B. Hobbs
	11	J. Gresham	30	N. Caddy	37	N. Martin	22	S. Durham	29	J. Menzie
	3	C. Salem	25	T. McDonald	32	T. Sparrow			16	A. Perkins
HALF-BACK									41	S. El-Hawli
FORWARD
	23	H. Jones	2	S. Draper	10	I. Kako
	35	H. Petty	1	S. May	17	J. Bowey
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Harry Jones behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	03:29
	MELB	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	03:57
	ESSE	Harry Jones goal	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	06:27
	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	0.1.1	-	2.1.13	08:58
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	11:02
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs behind	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	13:07
	ESSE	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	2.3.15	15:10
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs goal	1.1.7	-	3.3.21	16:54
	ESSE	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	3.4.22	18:27
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	3.4.22	24:13
	MELB	Jack Viney behind	1.3.9	-	3.4.22	25:50
	MELB	Xavier Lindsay behind	1.4.10	-	3.4.22	27:43
Q2	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	2.4.16	-	3.4.22	03:31
	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	2.4.16	-	4.4.28	08:18
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	2.4.16	-	5.4.34	11:19
	ESSE	Dylan Shiel goal	2.4.16	-	6.4.40	20:47
	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	2.4.16	-	7.4.46	23:37
	MELB	Caleb Windsor behind	2.5.17	-	7.4.46	29:23
Q3	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	2.5.17	-	8.4.52	01:18
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	2.6.18	-	8.4.52	03:50
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	2.6.18	-	8.5.53	05:51
	MELB	Harry Petty goal	3.6.24	-	8.5.53	07:54
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	4.6.30	-	8.5.53	11:58
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	5.6.36	-	8.5.53	17:34
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	6.6.42	-	8.5.53	22:15
	MELB	Clayton Oliver behind	6.7.43	-	8.5.53	23:23
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	6.7.43	-	9.5.59	25:48
	MELB	Harry Sharp goal	7.7.49	-	9.5.59	29:19
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	7.7.49	-	10.5.65	31:13
Q4	MELB	Trent Rivers behind	7.8.50	-	10.5.65	01:32
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	7.8.50	-	11.5.71	04:08
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	7.9.51	-	11.5.71	06:22
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs goal	7.9.51	-	12.5.77	14:34
	MELB	Tom Sparrow goal	8.9.57	-	12.5.77	17:30
	ESSE	Rushed behind	8.9.57	-	12.6.78	20:34
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	8.9.57	-	13.6.84	22:02
	ESSE	Mason Redman goal	8.9.57	-	14.6.90	31:06
	ESSE	Jye Menzie goal	8.9.57	-	15.6.96	32:19

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