2025 AFL Round 19: Richmond v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 12 July 2025 between Richmond and Essendon during round 19 of the 2025 AFL season. Richmond hosted Essendon at MCG. Toby Nankervis captained the hosts. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Adem Yze and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Richmond
Back: T. Young, B. Miller, N. Broad
Half-back: J. Short, S. Banks, N. Vlastuin
Centre: K. McIntosh, D. Prestia, L. Trainor
Half-forward: T. Sonsie, S. Campbell, M. Rioli
Forward: J. Koschitzke, J. Faull, R. Mansell
Follower: T. Nankervis (capt.), T. Taranto, J. Hopper
Int.: T. Brown, T. Hotton, J. Ross, T. Sims
Sub.: J. Trezise

Essendon
Back: A. McGrath (vice-capt.), J. Laverde, A. Roberts
Half-back: M. Redman, J. Ridley, A. Clarke
Centre: X. Duursma, Z. Merrett (capt.), L. Blakiston
Half-forward: W. Setterfield, N. Caddy, N. Martin
Forward: A. May, P. Wright, I. Kako
Follower: T. Goldstein, O. Smartt, S. Durham
Int.: B. Hobbs, L. Lual, J. Prior, E. Tsatas
Sub.: Z. Johnson

Richmond (6.10.46) defeated Essendon (4.13.37).

Goalkickers
Richmond: S. Banks, J. Faull, J. Hopper, T. Hotton, J. Short, T. Taranto
Essendon: N. Caddy, S. Durham, A. May, E. Tsatas

As a result of this match, Richmond remained 17th on the ladder and Essendon remained 13th on the ladder by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 19
Teams: Richmond v Essendon
Date: Saturday 12 July 2025
Time: 7:35 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 52,125

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. Essendon
Score: 6.10.46 - 4.13.37

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Richmond 3 . 4 3 . 5 3 . 9 6 . 10 6 . 10 (46)
Essendon 3 . 0 3 . 6 4 . 10 4 . 13 4 . 13 (37)
Margin RICH by 4 ESSE by 1 ESSE by 7 RICH by 9 RICH by 9
Duration 31:06 27:22 25:41 30:27 1:54:36

Honour Roll

Coaches: Adem Yze (Richmond), Brad Scott (Essendon)
Captains: Toby Nankervis (Richmond), Zach Merrett (Essendon)
Vice-Captains: unknown (Richmond), Andrew McGrath (Essendon)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Tim Taranto RICH 14 3
Sam Durham ESSE 22 2
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 1

Player Statistics

Richmond

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
41 Banks, Sam CHB 76% 1 0 20 13 7 8 0 3 1 1 1 1 4 0
35 Broad, Nathan BPR 96% 0 0 13 7 6 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
30 Brown, Tom INT 82% 0 0 23 16 7 11 0 1 1 4 0 0 8 3
44 Campbell, Seth CHF 90% 0 0 13 5 8 3 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 3
26 Faull, Jonty FF 74% 1 1 8 5 3 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Hopper, Jacob RO 89% 1 1 27 13 14 3 0 2 5 5 1 1 3 4
24 Hotton, Taj INT 56% 1 0 10 6 4 3 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3
20 Koschitzke, Jacob FPL 80% 0 1 6 2 4 3 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0
7 Mansell, Rhyan FPR 82% 0 0 5 4 1 2 0 3 0 4 0 3 1 2
33 McIntosh, Kamdyn WL 88% 0 0 20 11 9 5 0 1 0 3 1 1 2 1
12 Miller, Ben FB 94% 0 0 14 11 3 8 0 3 1 2 1 2 4 3
25 Nankervis, Toby (c) RU 82% 0 0 18 10 8 1 28 1 7 2 3 2 5 0
3 Prestia, Dion C 85% 0 0 28 10 18 2 0 1 3 7 0 2 2 6
17 Rioli, Maurice HFFR 73% 0 1 9 7 2 3 0 2 0 4 1 2 0 1
5 Ross, Jack INT 82% 0 0 21 7 14 4 0 8 5 3 0 2 2 2
15 Short, Jayden HBFL 80% 1 0 25 19 6 10 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 5
38 Sims, Tom INT 73% 0 0 7 1 6 2 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0
40 Sonsie, Tyler HFFL↓ 59% 0 1 14 9 5 6 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3
14 Taranto, Tim RR 86% 1 0 34 15 19 7 0 5 4 3 2 0 1 5
31 Trainor, Luke WR 73% 0 2 16 11 5 5 0 5 0 4 2 2 1 1
36 Trezise, James SUB↑ 27% 0 1 9 4 5 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1
1 Vlastuin, Nick HBFR 83% 0 0 23 15 8 8 0 4 0 2 1 0 3 2
45 Young, Tylar BPL 89% 0 0 18 11 7 8 0 1 0 1 0 1 6 0
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 6 10 381 212 169 113 28 50 31 59 16 22 50 46

J. Trezise replaced T. Sonsie.

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
46 Blakiston, Lachlan WR 80% 0 0 10 9 1 5 11 2 1 4 2 2 2 2
30 Caddy, Nate CHF 87% 1 2 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0
36 Clarke, Angus HBFR 96% 0 0 6 2 4 4 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
22 Durham, Sam RO 84% 1 0 22 13 9 0 0 2 7 5 1 1 2 8
28 Duursma, Xavier WL 86% 0 1 22 8 14 6 0 6 3 5 0 1 5 2
17 Goldstein, Todd RU 71% 0 0 16 9 7 4 20 1 5 2 1 2 1 4
8 Hobbs, Ben INT 79% 0 1 18 11 7 4 0 6 1 3 1 1 2 1
40 Johnson, Zak SUB↑ 54% 0 0 11 6 5 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1
10 Kako, Isaac FPR 92% 0 1 12 6 6 3 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 4
15 Laverde, Jayden FB 100% 0 0 20 12 8 9 0 3 0 2 0 1 8 2
34 Lual, Luamon INT 77% 0 0 7 4 3 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2
37 Martin, Nic HFFR↓ 14% 0 0 5 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
26 May, Archie FPL 89% 1 1 11 7 4 5 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 2
1 McGrath, Andrew (vc) BPL 83% 0 0 22 10 12 2 0 3 1 2 0 1 1 0
7 Merrett, Zach (c) C 82% 0 0 31 18 13 3 0 3 6 2 1 0 4 7
25 Prior, Jaxon INT 93% 0 0 14 10 4 5 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 0
27 Redman, Mason HBFL 70% 0 0 17 13 4 3 0 1 1 3 3 0 2 3
14 Ridley, Jordan CHB 77% 0 0 20 14 6 10 0 0 0 2 1 2 7 0
21 Roberts, Archie BPR 90% 0 0 31 18 13 7 0 4 1 2 3 0 2 3
12 Setterfield, Will HFFL 65% 0 0 18 8 10 2 0 7 4 3 1 1 0 3
47 Smartt, Oskar RR 83% 0 0 6 6 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 3
5 Tsatas, Elijah INT 63% 1 0 19 10 9 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 6
20 Wright, Peter FF 87% 0 1 7 5 2 4 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
Rushed 6
Total (23 players) 4 13 349 206 143 86 40 56 33 52 22 16 40 55

Z. Johnson replaced N. Martin.

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

Richmond Coach: Adem Yze
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
1 A. McGrath (vc) 15 J. Laverde 21 A. Roberts 25 T. Nankervis (c) 30 T. Brown
7 R. Mansell 26 J. Faull 20 J. Koschitzke 14 T. Taranto 24 T. Hotton
FORWARD 2 J. Hopper 5 J. Ross
HALF-BACK

38 T. Sims
27 M. Redman 14 J. Ridley 36 A. Clarke

36 J. Trezise
17 M. Rioli 44 S. Campbell 40 T. Sonsie



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



28 X. Duursma 7 Z. Merrett (c) 46 L. Blakiston



31 L. Trainor 3 D. Prestia 33 K. McIntosh FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 17 T. Goldstein 8 B. Hobbs
HALF-FORWARD 47 O. Smartt 34 L. Lual
12 W. Setterfield 30 N. Caddy 37 N. Martin 22 S. Durham 25 J. Prior
1 N. Vlastuin 41 S. Banks 15 J. Short

5 E. Tsatas
HALF-BACK

40 Z. Johnson
FORWARD



26 A. May 20 P. Wright 10 I. Kako



35 N. Broad 12 B. Miller 45 T. Young



BACK



Essendon Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 RICH Tyler Sonsie behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 02:40
ESSE Sam Durham goal 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 03:24
RICH Jacob Koschitzke behind 0.2.2 - 1.0.6 09:38
RICH Sam Banks goal 1.2.8 - 1.0.6 11:18
RICH Taj Hotton goal 2.2.14 - 1.0.6 13:13
RICH Jonty Faull behind 2.3.15 - 1.0.6 15:11
ESSE Elijah Tsatas goal 2.3.15 - 2.0.12 18:24
ESSE Nate Caddy goal 2.3.15 - 3.0.18 20:12
RICH Maurice Rioli behind 2.4.16 - 3.0.18 24:56
RICH Jayden Short goal 3.4.22 - 3.0.18 29:10
Q2 ESSE Archie May behind 3.4.22 - 3.1.19 02:12
ESSE Peter Wright behind 3.4.22 - 3.2.20 08:08
ESSE Xavier Duursma behind 3.4.22 - 3.3.21 10:47
RICH Rushed behind 3.5.23 - 3.3.21 20:15
ESSE Rushed behind 3.5.23 - 3.4.22 24:07
ESSE Isaac Kako behind 3.5.23 - 3.5.23 26:08
ESSE Ben Hobbs behind 3.5.23 - 3.6.24 27:18
Q3 RICH Luke Trainor behind 3.6.24 - 3.6.24 02:21
RICH Jacob Hopper behind 3.7.25 - 3.6.24 03:18
ESSE Nate Caddy behind 3.7.25 - 3.7.25 04:53
ESSE Rushed behind 3.7.25 - 3.8.26 09:04
RICH Rushed behind 3.8.26 - 3.8.26 13:57
ESSE Archie May goal 3.8.26 - 4.8.32 15:33
ESSE Rushed behind 3.8.26 - 4.9.33 17:04
RICH Luke Trainor behind 3.9.27 - 4.9.33 19:08
ESSE Rushed behind 3.9.27 - 4.10.34 20:54
Q4 RICH James Trezise behind 3.10.28 - 4.10.34 01:46
RICH Tim Taranto goal 4.10.34 - 4.10.34 04:58
ESSE Rushed behind 4.10.34 - 4.11.35 08:22
RICH Jacob Hopper goal 5.10.40 - 4.11.35 13:38
ESSE Nate Caddy behind 5.10.40 - 4.12.36 16:09
RICH Jonty Faull goal 6.10.46 - 4.12.36 17:27
ESSE Rushed behind 6.10.46 - 4.13.37 23:31