Michael Hartley courageously went back with the flgiht of the ball and suffered a heavy knock.  He was assisted from the field and Mitch Brown was moved to defence.  The former Cat is on Peter Wright.  Patrick Ambrose is on Tom Lynch and Matt Dea is on Sam Day.

Conor McKenna kicked the Dons opening goal of the term.  He's playing across half back and had eight possessions by the midway point of the second term.  By half time, he was up to 14.

On several occasions throughout the game, Essendon has been able to find targets running into an empty forward line.  Orazio Fantasia has kicked his two goals in this manner.

Jake Long set up his second goal of the game when he found Joe Daniher inside 50.

With five minutes to go in the second term, David Zaharakis was up to 22 disposals.  Matt Rosa and Jack Martin have spent time on the Dons midfielder.

By half time, Zaharakis had 24 disposals.

Zach Merrett (22) and James Kelly (17) are the other leading ball winners.