2025 AFL Season Round 9: Essendon v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 1 May 2025 between Essendon and North Melbourne during round nine of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium. Zach Merrett captained the hosts with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. Jy Simpkin captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Essendon (9.11.65) defeated North Melbourne (9.8.62).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: Essendon v North Melbourne
Date: Thursday 1 May 2025
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 35,439

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. North Melbourne
Score: 9.11.65 - 9.8.62

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	6	.	1	7	.	5	8	.	7	9	.	11	9	.	11	(65)
North Melbourne	2	.	3	3	.	4	8	.	6	9	.	8	9	.	8	(62)
Margin	ESSE by 22			ESSE by 25			ESSE by 1			ESSE by 3			ESSE by 3
Duration	32:35			29:03			31:47			27:30			2:00:55

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

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

North Melbourne

Captain: Jy Simpkin
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	3
Tristan Xerri	NMLB	38	2
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Caddy, Nate	INT	73%	2	3	15	9	6	5	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	2
22	Durham, Sam	RO	79%	0	0	25	10	15	3	0	4	5	2	0	0	2	2
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	87%	0	0	25	9	16	2	0	6	2	3	3	1	2	3
17	Goldstein, Todd	RU	84%	0	0	11	2	9	4	17	1	1	4	1	3	0	1
11	Gresham, Jade	HFFL	68%	0	1	16	6	10	3	0	6	4	1	2	0	0	0
8	Hobbs, Ben	RR	76%	1	2	12	8	4	3	0	4	1	2	1	1	1	3
23	Jones, Harry	INT	59%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	1	0	1	3	0	0	2
10	Kako, Isaac	FPR	80%	1	0	12	5	7	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4
4	Langford, Kyle	FPL	86%	1	0	13	8	5	6	0	1	0	5	1	2	1	1
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	86%	1	0	21	11	10	5	0	3	0	2	0	2	1	2
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	81%	0	0	18	7	11	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	4	0
32	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	4	0	2	0	2	1	1
29	Menzie, Jye	SUB↑	47%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	C	83%	0	1	35	17	18	7	0	3	5	6	2	2	0	8
16	Perkins, Archie	WR	86%	3	1	15	9	6	6	0	2	1	2	0	1	1	3
25	Prior, Jaxon	HBFR	80%	0	0	13	7	6	3	0	3	0	3	2	2	1	1
27	Redman, Mason	HBFL	88%	0	0	21	16	5	6	0	3	0	2	0	1	7	1
31	Reid, Zach	CHB	100%	0	0	15	12	3	6	0	7	0	1	2	0	2	0
14	Ridley, Jordan	BPR↓	36%	0	0	9	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
21	Roberts, Archie	CHF	93%	0	0	26	11	15	6	0	3	2	3	1	0	3	1
12	Setterfield, Will	WL	81%	0	0	21	14	7	6	0	9	4	3	5	1	4	1
5	Tsatas, Elijah	INT	60%	0	0	16	6	10	1	0	0	5	4	2	2	2	0
20	Wright, Peter	FF	88%	0	2	15	12	3	8	9	5	0	5	2	1	0	5
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				9	11	368	194	174	90	26	68	30	56	30	22	36	41

J. Menzie replaced J. Ridley.

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
34	Archer, Jackson	BPR↓	36%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
30	Comben, Charlie	BPL	97%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	0	0	5	1	4	2	2
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	85%	0	0	23	16	7	6	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	4
28	Darling, Jack	FF	84%	0	0	5	2	3	1	2	0	1	5	0	3	0	2
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	89%	0	0	28	9	19	3	0	6	6	8	0	4	1	3
42	Dawson, Kallan	FB	89%	0	0	8	3	5	4	0	2	0	2	1	2	2	0
7	Duursma, Zane	WL	65%	1	2	9	5	4	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
17	Hardeman, Riley	INT	79%	0	0	15	12	3	7	0	2	0	1	2	0	2	1
41	Konstanty, Jacob	INT	62%	0	1	5	4	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1
20	Larkey, Nick	CHF	94%	2	0	10	6	4	5	0	0	0	5	1	3	0	2
39	Maley, Finnbar	FPR	78%	1	1	8	5	3	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	2
11	McDonald, Luke	HBFL	85%	0	0	14	5	9	3	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0
10	McKercher, Colby	WR	84%	1	0	11	6	5	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	INT	68%	0	0	11	8	3	2	0	4	0	1	0	1	4	3
26	Parker, Luke	RR	82%	0	0	20	9	11	4	0	6	1	2	1	1	1	3
29	Phillips, Will	INT	60%	0	0	15	5	10	1	0	9	5	3	0	2	1	0
24	Powell, Tom	HBFR	82%	0	0	28	14	14	2	0	9	6	5	1	1	1	7
8	Scott, Bailey	SUB↑	50%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Sheezel, Harry	HFFR	90%	0	0	32	21	11	9	0	5	0	5	2	0	4	2
12	Simpkin, Jy (c)	RO	88%	2	0	21	13	8	4	0	4	3	3	2	1	1	3
15	Stephens, Dylan	HFFL	89%	0	0	25	15	10	8	0	1	0	2	1	1	4	4
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	85%	0	0	25	11	14	2	39	4	10	4	5	2	2	2
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	FPL	81%	2	1	9	7	2	3	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	1
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				9	8	338	185	153	77	41	61	34	62	22	30	31	46

B. Scott replaced J. Archer.

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
	30	C. Comben	42	K. Dawson	34	J. Archer	17	T. Goldstein	30	N. Caddy
	10	I. Kako	20	P. Wright	4	K. Langford	8	B. Hobbs	28	X. Duursma
FORWARD							22	S. Durham	23	H. Jones
HALF-BACK									5	E. Tsatas
	11	L. McDonald	5	C. Daniel	24	T. Powell			29	J. Menzie
	37	N. Martin	21	A. Roberts	11	J. Gresham
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	7	Z. Duursma	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	10	C. McKercher
	16	A. Perkins	7	Z. Merrett (c)	12	W. Setterfield	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							38	T. Xerri	17	R. Hardeman
HALF-FORWARD							26	L. Parker	41	J. Konstanty
	15	D. Stephens	20	N. Larkey	3	H. Sheezel	12	J. Simpkin (c)	2	F. O'Sullivan
	25	J. Prior	31	Z. Reid	27	M. Redman			29	W. Phillips
HALF-BACK									8	B. Scott
FORWARD
	44	C. Zurhaar	28	J. Darling	39	F. Maley
	14	J. Ridley	32	B. McKay	1	A. McGrath (vc)
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:51
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	04:07
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	3.0.18	-	0.0.0	07:03
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	3.0.18	-	1.0.6	10:49
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	3.1.19	-	1.0.6	15:00
	NMLB	Finnbar Maley goal	3.1.19	-	2.0.12	17:08
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	4.1.25	-	2.0.12	19:50
	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty behind	4.1.25	-	2.1.13	21:26
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs goal	5.1.31	-	2.1.13	25:19
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	6.1.37	-	2.1.13	27:50
	NMLB	Finnbar Maley behind	6.1.37	-	2.2.14	29:36
	NMLB	Zane Duursma behind	6.1.37	-	2.3.15	32:28
Q2	ESSE	Ben Hobbs behind	6.2.38	-	2.3.15	04:14
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	6.3.39	-	2.3.15	06:07
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin goal	6.3.39	-	3.3.21	06:50
	NMLB	Zane Duursma behind	6.3.39	-	3.4.22	11:25
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs behind	6.4.40	-	3.4.22	22:53
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	7.4.46	-	3.4.22	25:37
	ESSE	Jade Gresham behind	7.5.47	-	3.4.22	28:16
Q3	NMLB	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	3.5.23	01:25
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	7.6.48	-	3.5.23	01:55
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	7.7.49	-	3.5.23	06:09
	NMLB	Colby McKercher goal	7.7.49	-	4.5.29	07:44
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	7.7.49	-	5.5.35	11:00
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	7.7.49	-	6.5.41	15:38
	NMLB	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	6.6.42	17:26
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin goal	7.7.49	-	7.6.48	20:43
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	8.7.55	-	7.6.48	23:37
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	8.7.55	-	8.6.54	26:26
Q4	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar behind	8.7.55	-	8.7.55	02:26
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	8.8.56	-	8.7.55	03:54
	ESSE	Isaac Kako goal	9.8.62	-	8.7.55	04:43
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	9.9.63	-	8.7.55	07:57
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.10.64	-	8.7.55	19:59
	NMLB	Zane Duursma goal	9.10.64	-	9.7.61	20:29
	ESSE	Archie Perkins behind	9.11.65	-	9.7.61	23:07
	NMLB	Rushed behind	9.11.65	-	9.8.62	25:54

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