2025 AFL Season Round 19: Richmond v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 12 July 2025 between Richmond and Essendon during round nineteen of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Richmond hosted Essendon at the 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 (6.10.46) defeated Essendon (4.13.37).

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

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Richmond

Captain: Toby Nankervis
Coach: Adem Yze

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

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

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	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

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