AustralianFootball.com                Celebrating the history of the great australian game                           

 

Game Detail

Round: 16   Venue: Football Park   Date: Sat, 14-07-2012 1:40 pm   Attendance: 17,344
Port Adelaide 4.3.27 8.6.54 11.9.75 11.11.77 C:
Essendon 4.2.26 8.4.52 13.8.86 19.13.127 C:
  PA by 1 PA by 2 ES by 11 ES by 50  
Brownlow Medal 3 Leroy Jetta (ES)2 Brett Ebert (PA)1 Dyson Heppell (ES)

Match Report

Essendon was pushed hard for three quarters, but ultimately they proved to be too good for a fading Port Adelaide side. It was the Bombers’ first win against Port in Adelaide since their last premiership year of 2000. Essendon were buoyed by the return of injury-prone big man Scott Gumbleton. He was taken at number two in the 2006 draft but has played just 23 games since coming to the club. Gumbleton got through the game and played an important role up forward, slotting three goals. But it wasn’t all good news for James Hird’s side – they lost another player to a soft-tissue injury. Promising youngster Michael Hibberd didn’t last the game, going down with a quad injury that could see him out for up to a month. Port went into the game with their own injury concerns, and while the inexperienced line-up lost by 50 points, the game much closer in general play than the final margin suggests.

GOALS

Port Adelaide: Westhoff, Ebert 3; D Stewart 2; McCarthy, P Stewart, Thomas
Essendon: Gumbleton, Jetta 3; Dell'Olio, Bellchambers, Hille 2; Davey, Dyson, Melksham, Reimers, Howlett, Myers, Watson

BEST - AFL.COM.AU
Port Adelaide: Brad Ebert, Brett Ebert, Moore, Broadbent, Boak, Westhoff
Essendon: Bellchambers, Howlett, Jetta, Gumbleton, Heppell, Watson

BEST - SPORTAL
Port Adelaide: Broadbent, Brett Ebert, Cornes, Pearce, Westhoff, Brad Ebert
Essendon: Howlett, Watson, Bellchambers, Jetta, Myers, Heppell, Dyson, Fletcher

COACHES COMMENTS
Matthew Primus (Port): There are too many games this year that we thought we could have won. This group (of players), they have improved - but they haven't improved enough.

James Hird (Ess): It's an ongoing debate with how hard you work your players, but the one thing we want to do with this group is get them to a point that when we get a chance ... in finals, we can beat the best teams. If you're not fit enough and if you're not strong enough you can't do it.

Umpires: Farmer, Ritchie, Fila

Match report by Oliver Caffrey

Player Stats

Port AdelaideMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
10 Boak, Travis 11 4 18 29 0 1 0 4 1 2 23y 348d 102 50
5 Broadbent, Matthew 14 1 12 26 0 1 1 1 0 1 21y 348d 48 21
27 Carlile, Alipate 10 4 8 18 0 0 0 1 0 1 25y 75d 105 4
30 Chaplin, Troy 8 4 4 12 0 0 0 2 0 0 26y 142d 137 10
18 Cornes, Kane 8 4 17 25 0 0 0 2 0 1 29y 191d 238 85
7 Ebert, Brad 15 4 10 25 0 1 0 6 2 0 22y 103d 91 45
33 Ebert, Brett 12 6 9 21 3 1 0 1 2 0 28y 239d 159 228
42 Jonas, Tom 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 21y 187d 7 0
23 Lobbe, Matthew 3 2 3 6 0 0 9 4 0 0 23y 153d 16 3
44 Logan, Tom 10 5 9 19 0 1 0 1 2 0 27y 12d 98 22
35 McCarthy, John 14 6 6 20 1 1 1 0 0 1 22y 238d 32 15
26 Moore, Andrew 8 3 10 18 0 1 0 7 1 0 21y 45d 19 4
6 Pearce, Danyle 18 2 9 27 0 0 0 1 0 3 26y 98d 147 74
31 Pfeiffer, Darren 10 3 11 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 24y 290d 18 6
34 Redden, Jarrad 4 4 11 15 0 0 18 3 2 1 21y 200d 7 1
43 Stewart, Daniel 10 6 3 13 2 1 0 0 2 0 23y 258d 31 29
14 Stewart, Paul 9 7 6 15 1 1 0 2 1 2 25y 4d 59 16
21 Thomas, Matt 8 5 7 15 1 0 0 3 2 1 25y 138d 76 25
12 Trengove, Jackson 6 2 13 19 0 0 0 1 1 0 21y 255d 54 6
39 Westhoff, Justin 12 5 8 20 3 0 1 2 2 3 25y 287d 104 138
20 Wingard, Chad 3 1 3 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 18y 289d 13 5
40 Young, Aaron 3 0 9 12 0 1 0 0 1 1 19y 221d 6 1
Rushed           1              
Totals 196 78 190 386 11 11 31 43 19 17 23y 337d 1567 788
EssendonMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
46 Baguley, Mark 12 7 8 20 0 0 0 2 3 1 25y 54d 1 0
44 Bellchambers, Tom 8 3 5 13 2 1 34 3 1 2 23y 5d 37 17
22 Carlisle, Jake 7 6 11 18 0 0 0 1 1 1 20y 287d 23 7
29 Davey, Alwyn 12 6 7 19 1 5 0 3 1 1 28y 60d 80 96
47 DellOlio, Cory 7 3 4 11 2 1 0 1 0 1 22y 219d 5 7
15 Dempsey, Courtenay 9 5 3 12 0 0 0 4 2 1 24y 321d 67 16
2 Dyson, Ricky 12 8 7 19 1 0 1 4 1 1 26y 290d 113 43
31 Fletcher, Dustin 12 7 4 16 0 0 0 1 1 1 37y 68d 361 69
3 Gumbleton, Scott 8 5 6 14 3 0 0 2 0 0 23y 346d 23 25
34 Hardingham, Kyle 8 4 3 11 0 0 0 1 1 1 23y 317d 42 9
21 Heppell, Dyson 11 4 13 24 0 0 0 6 3 0 20y 61d 36 5
43 Hibberd, Michael 8 1 5 13 0 0 0 1 0 0 22y 193d 18 1
19 Hille, David 7 6 9 16 2 2 2 2 0 1 31y 42d 190 150
26 Hooker, Cale 8 6 6 14 0 0 0 1 0 1 23y 275d 61 5
40 Howlett, Ben 15 4 11 26 1 1 0 8 0 1 23y 267d 53 20
7 Jetta, Leroy 14 7 4 18 3 1 0 4 0 1 24y 8d 76 69
42 Lovett-Murray, Nathan 2 1 3 5 0 0 1 2 0 3 29y 239d 137 70
17 Melksham, Jake 9 4 6 15 1 1 0 1 1 0 20y 320d 52 25
23 Myers, David 14 4 11 25 1 0 0 1 0 1 23y 14d 43 9
37 Reimers, Kyle 4 1 2 6 1 1 0 3 1 0 23y 186d 60 69
5 Stanton, Brent 16 6 5 21 0 0 0 3 0 1 26y 74d 177 115
4 Watson, Jobe 18 6 10 28 1 0 0 7 1 1 27y 157d 147 75
Rushed           0              
Totals 221 104 143 364 19 13 38 61 17 20 25y 40d 1802 902