Williams clears with a tumbler down the flank from outer wing, Naughton marks 30m out and misses to kick off the scoring. (Q1 5:21)
Duursma earns a high contact free at a ball up 40m out on the flank on Sanders but he shoots narrow to the left. (Q1 6:41)
Dolan roves Darcy’s speculation to a big pack at the hotspot and gives to the outside for Bontempelli to stroke through the first goal off the left with ease. (Q1 7:35)
Dolan gives to Darcy on the HFF for a pressured kick that goes inside to the corridor for Bramble 40m out, excellent vision by the Unicorn. Bramble converts. (Q1 9:45)
Handballs around half forward for the Bulldogs ends with Bramble feeding Williams who curls in a snap from 35m on the flank. (Q1 11:20)
Bontempelli out of the middle to Darcy 40m out on a slight angle, goal Bulldogs. Procession has begun. (Q1 12:47)
Bontempelli catches Durham HTB after the next centre contest, Darcy marks in the pocket but shanks for no score. (Q1 14:37)
Darcy marks again at the hotspot from a high speculator by Williams, Reid looking like a boy against a man. He boots goal number two. (Q1 15:35)
May leaps in front of Lobb to mark a Roberts kick to 20m on a slight angle, he boots Essendon’s opener. (Q1 18:50)
Guelfi just barely scores a behind with a pressured snap from the boundary 25m out. (Q1 23:51)
Jones snaps a goal from the HFF on the end of the rebound. (Q1 24:30)
Arthur Jones takes a pack mark at the hotspot leaping over poor Reid from a long O’Donnell speculator from the centre for back to back goals. (Q1 26:30)
Jones gets a push free on McGrath 45m out near the boundary, shoots for three in a row… just across the face. (Q1 29:01)
Darcy gets a ruck free on Blakiston 30m out on a slight angle and hits the right post. (Q2 4:24)
Prior is in the hole but gives away an arm chop free to Naughton 50m out on a slight angle going for a Bramble pass, Naughton converts. (Q2 6:14)
Naughton gives to Kennedy for the next one from the hotspot. (Q2 8:25)
Naughton hits the post from 15m out after Bontempelli kicks inside 50 from the next centre contest. (Q2 9:42)
Khamis falls over to allow May to mark in the pocket 20m out but the set shot drop punt goes narrow to the right. (Q2 12:30)
Parish baulks and passes from half forward to Archer-Wicks 45m out in front, who shoots to the right. (Q2 15:29)
Prior makes no impact on a contest 20m out to allow Artie Jones to mark untouched and boot his third goal. (Q2 16:58)
Darcy marks deep in the pocket 30m out and curls his set shot too early. (Q2 19:00)
El-Hawli is very lucky to get a contact free after backing into O’Donnell and falling down. He shanks near side left, fittingly. (Q2 19:00)
Langford passes to Edwards 45m out on a slight angle who kicks the first goal of Q3. (Q3 0:28)
Gresham snaps another one from the pocket 20m out. (Q3 2:09)
Jaques receives and snaps off a step from 40m on a slight angle but tugs it to the left. (Q3 4:29)
Gresham centres from outer wing to Edwards 45m out on a slight angle, who sails through another one for Essendon. (Q3 6:09)
Jones marks on the lead 45m out on a slight angle but tugs the set shot to the left. (Q3 8:02)
West misses from 45m on the flank. (Q3 9:19)
Caldwell has Wright over the back on a slingshot to mark behind Khamis at the hotspot and kicks straight. Dons scratching their way back into it. (Q3 12:49)
West bounces a behind across the face from the HFF. (Q3 14:52)
Roberts and McNeil chase a loose ball but Roberts pushes McNeil in the back, free kick 40m out which McNeil misses to the left. (Q3 16:34)
Edwards bounces a behind to the left from half forward. (Q3 18:44)
Parish passes to Wright 50m out on a slight angle who tugs his set shot narrow to the left. (Q3 23:23)
Bontempelli passes to Darcy to mark in front of McKay 40m out on the flank who kicks across the face for a behind. (Q3 27:35)
Farrow passes to Wright to mark over Khamis near the boundary 35m out who misses. (Q4 1:29)
Dolan marks on the HFF and plays on to pass to the pocket for Naughton 15m out. Naughton curls in the goal off his left. (Q4 3:10)
Davidson roves on the HFF and centres for Dolan near the hotspot for converts. (Q4 7:06)
Gresham is first to an Edwards snap that sits up in the square to pinch the six points. (Q4 8:15)
Edwards gets an arm chop free 45m out in front but hooks it to the right. (Q4 11:44)
Naughton gets a Joe the Goose special from McNeil. (Q4 13:06)
Gresham roves Guelfi’s contest against Khamis at the top of the square for some more junk. (Q4 14:42)
Budarick hits the lead of Naughton 40m out in front who misses left. (Q4 16:30)
May floats across a lead of Wright to mark 40m out on a slight angle, and goal. (Q4 16:49)
Darcy adds his third goal from 20m. (Q4 16:49)
Caldwell adds some junk. (Q4 23:26)
