2026 AFL Season Round 10: Greater Western Sydney v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 9 May 2026 between Greater Western Sydney and Essendon during round ten of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Greater Western Sydney hosted Essendon at ENGIE Stadium. Toby Greene captained the hosts. Andrew McGrath captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Adam Kingsley and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Greater Western Sydney (16.7.103) defeated Essendon (13.11.89).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 10
Teams: Greater Western Sydney v Essendon
Date: Saturday 9 May 2026
Time: 4:15 PM
Venue: ENGIE Stadium
Attendance: 9,416

Match Results

Outcome: Greater Western Sydney def. Essendon
Score: 16.7.103 - 13.11.89

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Greater Western Sydney 4 . 0 5 . 2 11 . 5 16 . 7 16 . 7 (103)
Essendon 3 . 2 7 . 5 11 . 7 13 . 11 13 . 11 (89)
Margin GWSY by 4 ESSE by 15 ESSE by 2 GWSY by 14 GWSY by 14
Duration 30:46 30:02 33:31 30:44 2:05:03

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: Toby Greene
Coach: Adam Kingsley

Essendon

Captain: Andrew McGrath
Coach: Brad Scott

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Clayton Oliver GWSY 10 3
Finn Callaghan GWSY 17 2
Sam Durham ESSE 22 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1

Player Statistics

Greater Western Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
7 Ash, Lachie RR 81% 0 0 23 16 7 9 0 1 0 4 2 2 5 5
14 Bedford, Toby HFFL 82% 0 1 14 8 6 1 0 4 2 4 0 1 1 3
32 Briggs, Kieren RU 72% 0 0 13 7 6 0 33 4 4 4 3 0 0 0
44 Buckley, Jack FB 95% 0 0 12 9 3 3 0 2 0 1 2 1 3 1
5 Cadman, Aaron FPL 91% 1 2 14 10 4 7 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2
17 Callaghan, Finn RO 82% 0 0 30 14 16 1 0 5 6 4 1 1 4 5
3 Coniglio, Stephen WL 81% 0 0 13 5 8 1 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 2
16 Daniels, Brent CHF 77% 2 0 17 13 4 2 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 4
37 Fonti, Joe CHB 81% 0 0 12 9 3 5 0 1 0 4 0 2 2 2
11 Gothard, Phoenix INT 80% 2 0 9 4 5 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
4 Greene, Toby (c) HFFR 79% 3 1 18 13 5 4 0 6 7 4 1 2 1 5
35 Gruzewski, Max INT 68% 2 0 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1
13 Hannaford, Ollie INT 37% 0 0 5 1 4 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 1
27 Himmelberg, Harry HBFL 82% 1 0 16 9 7 6 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0
39 Idun, Connor BPR 100% 0 0 24 10 14 8 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 0
25 Laverde, Jayden BPL 87% 0 0 19 11 8 12 0 1 0 1 2 0 3 0
30 Leake, James INT 74% 0 0 14 7 7 2 0 0 3 3 0 0 2 1
31 McMullin, Toby INT 56% 0 1 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1
10 Oliver, Clayton C 81% 0 0 26 6 20 1 0 7 11 9 3 3 2 2
26 Riccardi, Jake FPR 69% 2 1 14 7 7 6 5 1 0 5 0 2 0 2
20 Stringer, Jake FF 82% 3 0 11 9 2 6 0 2 0 5 1 2 0 2
1 Thomas, Harvey WR 83% 0 0 23 10 13 5 0 2 1 7 0 2 6 1
6 Whitfield, Lachie HBFR 81% 0 0 35 26 9 7 0 2 0 4 0 0 8 5
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 16 7 370 211 159 90 38 49 41 71 17 22 48 46

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
46 Blakiston, Lachlan WR 100% 0 0 15 9 6 3 0 3 2 5 0 3 2 0
24 Bryan, Nick INT 57% 0 0 11 8 3 2 19 2 2 2 1 2 0 3
30 Caddy, Nate CHF 88% 2 1 13 11 2 5 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 5
13 Cox, Nik WL 77% 0 0 9 4 5 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
44 Day-Wicks, Archer INT 77% 0 0 9 3 6 1 0 4 1 2 2 0 0 0
22 Durham, Sam RO 77% 0 0 26 10 16 3 0 6 8 4 1 1 3 5
28 Duursma, Xavier INT 79% 2 1 11 8 3 3 0 1 3 0 4 0 1 2
2 Farrow, Jacob HBFR 71% 0 0 13 5 8 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
40 Johnson, Zak INT 72% 0 0 15 9 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
4 Langford, Kyle FF 85% 0 2 13 9 4 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1 1
26 May, Archie FPL 84% 3 0 6 5 1 5 0 3 0 5 0 4 0 1
1 McGrath, Andrew (c) BPR 83% 0 0 20 13 7 6 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 0
7 Merrett, Zach RR 83% 0 0 31 20 11 5 0 4 4 3 1 1 2 5
42 Nguyen, Jayden C 81% 0 1 10 5 5 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 3
3 Parish, Darcy INT 75% 1 1 23 13 10 5 0 3 2 2 0 0 2 5
16 Perkins, Archie FPR 85% 1 0 19 15 4 10 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 5
25 Prior, Jaxon BPL 77% 0 0 16 11 5 4 0 3 1 3 0 1 1 3
27 Redman, Mason CHB 70% 1 1 18 12 6 5 0 1 1 3 4 1 7 2
31 Reid, Zach FB 89% 0 0 9 6 3 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
21 Roberts, Archie HBFL 82% 0 0 42 31 11 11 0 2 0 3 1 0 5 5
9 Robey, Sullivan HFFR 74% 0 0 20 12 8 4 0 5 4 6 1 2 0 6
15 Sharp, Dyson HFFL 50% 0 0 17 7 10 3 0 2 5 4 1 1 0 3
20 Wright, Peter RU 83% 3 3 13 10 3 6 21 1 2 0 1 0 0 2
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 13 11 379 236 143 104 41 52 37 50 22 17 30 61

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

Greater Western Sydney Coach: Adam Kingsley
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
25 J. Prior 31 Z. Reid 1 A. McGrath (c) 32 K. Briggs 11 P. Gothard
26 J. Riccardi 20 J. Stringer 5 A. Cadman 7 L. Ash 35 M. Gruzewski
FORWARD 17 F. Callaghan 13 O. Hannaford
HALF-BACK

30 J. Leake
21 A. Roberts 27 M. Redman 2 J. Farrow

31 T. McMullin
4 T. Greene (c) 16 B. Daniels 14 T. Bedford



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



13 N. Cox 42 J. Nguyen 46 L. Blakiston



1 H. Thomas 10 C. Oliver 3 S. Coniglio FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 20 P. Wright 24 N. Bryan
HALF-FORWARD 7 Z. Merrett 44 A. Day-Wicks
15 D. Sharp 30 N. Caddy 9 S. Robey 22 S. Durham 28 X. Duursma
6 L. Whitfield 37 J. Fonti 27 H. Himmelberg

40 Z. Johnson
HALF-BACK

3 D. Parish
FORWARD



26 A. May 4 K. Langford 16 A. Perkins



39 C. Idun 44 J. Buckley 25 J. Laverde



BACK



Essendon Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 GWSY Toby Greene goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 04:47
ESSE Mason Redman goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 06:32
GWSY Max Gruzewski goal 2.0.12 - 1.0.6 11:27
ESSE Xavier Duursma goal 2.0.12 - 2.0.12 13:52
ESSE Xavier Duursma goal 2.0.12 - 3.0.18 17:47
ESSE Peter Wright behind 2.0.12 - 3.1.19 22:52
GWSY Jake Stringer goal 3.0.18 - 3.1.19 24:54
ESSE Xavier Duursma behind 3.0.18 - 3.2.20 28:46
GWSY Jake Riccardi goal 4.0.24 - 3.2.20 29:45
Q2 ESSE Nate Caddy behind 4.0.24 - 3.3.21 02:05
GWSY Toby Greene goal 5.0.30 - 3.3.21 03:48
ESSE Peter Wright goal 5.0.30 - 4.3.27 06:37
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 5.0.30 - 4.4.28 08:47
ESSE Nate Caddy goal 5.0.30 - 5.4.34 10:26
ESSE Darcy Parish goal 5.0.30 - 6.4.40 14:57
ESSE Rushed behind 5.0.30 - 6.5.41 17:55
ESSE Archie May goal 5.0.30 - 7.5.47 21:54
GWSY Toby Greene behind 5.1.31 - 7.5.47 25:36
GWSY Toby McMullin behind 5.2.32 - 7.5.47 26:24
Q3 ESSE Peter Wright behind 5.2.32 - 7.6.48 01:53
GWSY Aaron Cadman behind 5.3.33 - 7.6.48 02:57
GWSY Aaron Cadman behind 5.4.34 - 7.6.48 05:06
ESSE Mason Redman behind 5.4.34 - 7.7.49 06:11
GWSY Jake Stringer goal 6.4.40 - 7.7.49 06:44
ESSE Nate Caddy goal 6.4.40 - 8.7.55 08:39
ESSE Peter Wright goal 6.4.40 - 9.7.61 13:41
GWSY Jake Riccardi behind 6.5.41 - 9.7.61 15:14
ESSE Archie Perkins goal 6.5.41 - 10.7.67 16:34
GWSY Jake Riccardi goal 7.5.47 - 10.7.67 18:09
GWSY Phoenix Gothard goal 8.5.53 - 10.7.67 21:32
GWSY Brent Daniels goal 9.5.59 - 10.7.67 25:00
GWSY Max Gruzewski goal 10.5.65 - 10.7.67 26:48
ESSE Archie May goal 10.5.65 - 11.7.73 28:46
GWSY Jake Stringer goal 11.5.71 - 11.7.73 33:31
Q4 ESSE Darcy Parish behind 11.5.71 - 11.8.74 04:15
ESSE Archie May goal 11.5.71 - 12.8.80 05:24
GWSY Toby Greene goal 12.5.77 - 12.8.80 07:31
ESSE Peter Wright goal 12.5.77 - 13.8.86 13:29
GWSY Aaron Cadman goal 13.5.83 - 13.8.86 14:45
ESSE Jayden Nguyen behind 13.5.83 - 13.9.87 16:20
GWSY Harry Himmelberg goal 14.5.89 - 13.9.87 17:23
GWSY Brent Daniels goal 15.5.95 - 13.9.87 18:27
ESSE Kyle Langford behind 15.5.95 - 13.10.88 20:20
GWSY Rushed behind 15.6.96 - 13.10.88 21:35
GWSY Toby Bedford behind 15.7.97 - 13.10.88 23:07
GWSY Phoenix Gothard goal 16.7.103 - 13.10.88 24:52
ESSE Peter Wright behind 16.7.103 - 13.11.89 28:06