2025 AFL Season Round 12: Essendon v Richmond

This is the match report for the match played on 23 May 2025 between Essendon and Richmond during round twelve of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon "hosted" Richmond at the MCG. Zach Merrett captained the hosts with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. In the absence of Toby Nankervis, Nathan Broad captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Adem Yze.

Essendon (11.15.81) defeated Richmond (8.10.58).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 12
Teams: Essendon v Richmond
Date: Friday 23 May 2025
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 76,051

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Richmond
Score: 11.15.81 - 8.10.58

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	2	.	1	6	.	4	9	.	8	11	.	15	11	.	15	(81)
Richmond	1	.	2	4	.	7	7	.	8	8	.	10	8	.	10	(58)
Margin	ESSE by 5			ESSE by 9			ESSE by 12			ESSE by 23			ESSE by 23
Duration	28:07			34:14			31:48			28:36			2:02:45

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 (Richmond) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Essendon

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

Richmond

Captain: Nathan Broad (acting)
Coach: Adem Yze

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	3
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	2
Sam Durham	ESSE	22	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	CHF	86%	1	2	11	7	4	1	0	0	0	6	0	1	0	3
6	Caldwell, Jye	RR	74%	0	0	29	9	20	3	0	11	6	4	0	0	2	3
36	Clarke, Angus	WR	84%	3	1	16	14	2	8	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	6
22	Durham, Sam	RO	78%	1	1	26	12	14	4	0	5	6	3	0	1	1	2
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	91%	0	2	27	17	10	9	0	2	0	5	1	1	4	4
17	Goldstein, Todd	RU	79%	0	0	11	2	9	0	38	2	8	5	4	4	0	0
11	Gresham, Jade	WL	80%	0	0	10	3	7	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
35	Guelfi, Matt	HFFL	75%	1	0	9	2	7	0	0	5	0	2	2	1	0	1
8	Hobbs, Ben	SUB↑	45%	0	1	9	5	4	2	0	3	0	1	2	0	1	0
10	Kako, Isaac	FPR	76%	0	0	15	5	10	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
4	Langford, Kyle	FPL↓	37%	0	0	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
15	Laverde, Jayden	INT	91%	0	0	17	10	7	6	0	1	2	4	0	1	3	0
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	86%	2	0	35	26	9	9	0	8	6	4	2	1	1	8
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	81%	0	0	31	14	17	5	0	2	1	4	0	0	5	2
32	McKay, Ben	FB	98%	0	0	8	4	4	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	C	91%	0	1	37	22	15	8	0	7	3	1	0	0	2	6
16	Perkins, Archie	INT	81%	1	0	24	13	11	2	0	4	6	5	0	0	1	1
25	Prior, Jaxon	HBFR	88%	0	0	23	20	3	8	0	2	0	4	0	2	7	3
27	Redman, Mason	HBFL	76%	0	0	15	10	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	1
31	Reid, Zach	CHB	58%	0	0	15	9	6	5	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	0
21	Roberts, Archie	BPR	81%	0	1	34	20	14	6	0	0	1	4	1	0	5	6
12	Setterfield, Will	INT	73%	0	0	19	8	11	6	0	8	3	0	2	0	2	0
20	Wright, Peter	FF	89%	2	3	18	14	4	5	18	4	2	3	0	1	0	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				11	15	442	249	193	102	56	74	45	63	15	16	39	55

B. Hobbs replaced K. Langford.

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
41	Banks, Sam	CHB	82%	0	0	29	23	6	8	0	2	0	4	0	1	7	2
35	Broad, Nathan (ac)	BPL	94%	0	0	22	15	7	8	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	2
30	Brown, Tom	INT	83%	0	0	21	16	5	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	5	2
44	Campbell, Seth	HFFL	85%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	3	1	3	0	0	1	2
27	Dow, Thomson	WL↓	42%	0	0	11	3	8	3	0	3	0	2	0	0	1	0
26	Faull, Jonty	FPL	89%	1	1	9	5	4	2	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	3
50	Gray, Campbell	BPR	84%	0	0	11	6	5	6	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	0
48	Green, Steely	INT	83%	0	1	9	5	4	3	0	1	0	4	0	2	0	3
2	Hopper, Jacob	RO	85%	0	1	23	15	8	3	0	5	9	3	3	1	1	5
22	Lalor, Sam	FF	64%	2	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Mansell, Rhyan	HFFR	74%	1	2	11	7	4	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	4
28	McAuliffe, Kane	INT	75%	0	1	21	9	12	6	0	6	2	0	0	0	2	2
33	McIntosh, Kamdyn	C	82%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	5	1	2	0	0	1	1
12	Miller, Ben	FB	91%	0	0	14	11	3	6	0	3	0	1	1	0	6	1
13	Ralphsmith, Hugo	WR	86%	2	1	17	11	6	4	0	4	0	3	2	2	2	5
17	Rioli, Maurice	SUB↑	46%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
5	Ross, Jack	CHF	85%	0	0	18	9	9	7	0	4	0	3	1	1	1	5
32	Ryan, Samson	RU	75%	0	0	11	4	7	2	27	1	3	5	2	4	0	3
38	Sims, Tom	FPR	73%	0	0	9	2	7	1	3	3	1	3	1	1	0	1
49	Smith, Kaleb	HBFL	77%	0	0	20	9	11	5	0	1	2	2	1	0	3	1
14	Taranto, Tim	RR	83%	2	0	23	12	11	5	0	4	2	3	0	0	1	3
31	Trainor, Luke	INT	75%	0	0	8	4	4	2	0	0	0	4	1	2	0	1
1	Vlastuin, Nick	HBFR	85%	0	0	24	17	7	4	0	2	1	4	2	0	7	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				8	10	342	201	141	94	30	54	23	57	16	15	44	48

M. Rioli replaced T. Dow.

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
	35	N. Broad (ac)	12	B. Miller	50	C. Gray	17	T. Goldstein	28	X. Duursma
	10	I. Kako	20	P. Wright	4	K. Langford	6	J. Caldwell	15	J. Laverde
FORWARD							22	S. Durham	16	A. Perkins
HALF-BACK									12	W. Setterfield
	49	K. Smith	41	S. Banks	1	N. Vlastuin			8	B. Hobbs
	37	N. Martin	30	N. Caddy	35	M. Guelfi
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	27	T. Dow	33	K. McIntosh	13	H. Ralphsmith
	36	A. Clarke	7	Z. Merrett (c)	11	J. Gresham	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							32	S. Ryan	30	T. Brown
HALF-FORWARD							14	T. Taranto	48	S. Green
	44	S. Campbell	5	J. Ross	7	R. Mansell	2	J. Hopper	28	K. McAuliffe
	25	J. Prior	31	Z. Reid	27	M. Redman			31	L. Trainor
HALF-BACK									17	M. Rioli
FORWARD
	26	J. Faull	22	S. Lalor	38	T. Sims
	21	A. Roberts	32	B. McKay	1	A. McGrath (vc)
BACK
Richmond							Coach: Adem Yze

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	02:17
	RICH	Tim Taranto goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	12:29
	ESSE	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	16:00
	RICH	Jacob Hopper behind	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	22:00
	RICH	Rhyan Mansell behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	24:17
	ESSE	Angus Clarke goal	2.1.13	-	1.2.8	25:31
Q2	RICH	Sam Lalor goal	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	00:57
	RICH	Steely Green behind	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	03:00
	RICH	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	2.4.16	03:33
	RICH	Hugo Ralphsmith behind	2.1.13	-	2.5.17	04:20
	ESSE	Archie Roberts behind	2.2.14	-	2.5.17	06:15
	ESSE	Angus Clarke goal	3.2.20	-	2.5.17	07:33
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	4.2.26	-	2.5.17	10:14
	RICH	Jonty Faull behind	4.2.26	-	2.6.18	11:52
	RICH	Jonty Faull goal	4.2.26	-	3.6.24	13:00
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	4.3.27	-	3.6.24	19:15
	RICH	Rushed behind	4.3.27	-	3.7.25	20:17
	RICH	Hugo Ralphsmith goal	4.3.27	-	4.7.31	21:54
	ESSE	Angus Clarke goal	5.3.33	-	4.7.31	24:44
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	5.4.34	-	4.7.31	30:30
	ESSE	Sam Durham goal	6.4.40	-	4.7.31	32:08
Q3	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	7.4.46	-	4.7.31	02:23
	RICH	Rhyan Mansell goal	7.4.46	-	5.7.37	03:46
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	7.5.47	-	5.7.37	07:34
	RICH	Tim Taranto goal	7.5.47	-	6.7.43	09:00
	RICH	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	6.8.44	12:36
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	7.6.48	-	6.8.44	16:05
	RICH	Sam Lalor goal	7.6.48	-	7.8.50	17:07
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	8.6.54	-	7.8.50	19:58
	ESSE	Rushed behind	8.7.55	-	7.8.50	22:23
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi goal	9.7.61	-	7.8.50	27:45
	ESSE	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	7.8.50	31:14
Q4	ESSE	Xavier Duursma behind	9.9.63	-	7.8.50	00:53
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	10.9.69	-	7.8.50	04:18
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	10.10.70	-	7.8.50	08:15
	ESSE	Sam Durham behind	10.11.71	-	7.8.50	09:29
	ESSE	Angus Clarke behind	10.12.72	-	7.8.50	10:29
	ESSE	Ben Hobbs behind	10.13.73	-	7.8.50	13:46
	RICH	Kane McAuliffe behind	10.13.73	-	7.9.51	16:09
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	11.13.79	-	7.9.51	18:51
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma behind	11.14.80	-	7.9.51	21:58
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	11.15.81	-	7.9.51	22:57
	RICH	Rhyan Mansell behind	11.15.81	-	7.10.52	24:59
	RICH	Hugo Ralphsmith goal	11.15.81	-	8.10.58	28:33

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