2012 Essendon Football Club season

Squad

Trades

Main article: 2011 AFL Draft#Trades

In

Out

Drafts

Main article: 2011 AFL Draft

National Draft

Rookie Draft

Pre-Season Draft

Delisted

Guernsey

Standard

Special Versions

Heritage Guernsey

On 2 July unveiled their Heritage Guernsey. It feature all the names of past premiership players in the background along with the name and signature of club legend John Colman on the breast. Under the signature include the traditional Essendon Football Club motto 'suaviter in modo, fortiter in re' which dates back to the 1870s and translates as 'gentle in manner, resolute in deed.' The most notable change to the guernsey was the removal of the black background to comply with AFL rules requiring each club to provide a clash guernsey. The new Heritage guernsey made its debut during the Round 15 game between and . This marked the end of a 114-year-long tradition as the first time the Essendon Football Club would play an AFL/VFL game without wearing its famous black and red stripe guernsey.

Results

Pre-season (NAB Cup)

Round 1

: The three teams in each pool play each other in games of two 20-minute halves, with all three games being played over a three-hour period at the one venue.

Round 2

The match between Essendon and St Kilda was cancelled, because heavy rain prevented flights chartered by the Essendon Football Club from landing in Wangaratta. Initially the match was reflected as a draw with no score on the NAB Cup Ladder, but later St Kilda was awarded the four points.

Round 3

Round 4 - NAB Challenge Round

This game was played under regular season rules.

Home and Away season

Round 1

Adams, Edwards, Petrie, Thomas 2 Harper, MacMillan, McIntosh, Wells 1 1 Heppell, Hille, Jetta, McVeigh, Ryder, Watson

• Former Essendon player Jordan Bannister made his senior AFL debut as a field umpire in this match. Bannister played for Essendon from 2001–2003, and later played for .
• 3 Brent Stanton ()
• 2 Daniel Wells ()
• 1 Jobe Watson ()
• 50 Cale Hooker

Round 2

Crameri 3 Stanton 2 Carlisle, Dempsey, Hille, Howlett, Hurley, Monfries, Zaharakis 1 3 Westhoff 1 Ebert, McCarthy, Redden, P.Stewart, Thomas, Wingard

• 3 Jobe Watson ()
• 2 Domenic Cassisi ()
• 1 Dustin Fletcher ()

Round 3

Brennan, Caddy, Harbrow, Matera, Rischitelli, Russell, Shaw 1 2 Hurley, Jetta, Ryder, Watson 1 Bellchambers, Davey, Reimers

• 3 Gary Ablett, Jr. ()
• 2 Jobe Watson ()
• 1 Stewart Crameri ()
• 350 Dustin Fletcher
• 50 Michael Hurley
• 50 Tayte Pears

Round 4

Robinson, Garlett, Murphy, McLean, Gibbs, Judd, Hampson 1 3 Davey 1 Melksham, Stanton, Ryder, Zaharakis, Hurley, Fletcher, Monfries

• The match between and was the 2,500th senior VFL/AFL match hosted by the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• 3 Brent Stanton ()
• 2 Jobe Watson ()
• 1 Stewart Crameri ()
• Debut Cory Dell'Olio

Round 5

Blair 2 Sidebottom, Jolly, Beams 1 2 Zaharakis, Monfries 1 Hocking, Howlett, Lonergan, Dell'Olio, Stanton

• 3 Dane Swan ()
• 2 Scott Pendlebury ()
• 1 Dyson Heppell ()
• Dane Swan

Round 6

Jetta, Davey 3 Lonergan, Monfries 2 Melksham, Dyson, Lovett-Murray, Dempsey, Watson 1 1 Hudson, McGrath, Cornelius

• 3 Jobe Watson ()
• 2 Brent Stanton ()
• 1 Dyson Heppell ()

Round 7

Jetta, Ryder, Stanton 2 Bellchambers, Dyson, Lovett-Murray, Melksham 1 1 Brennan, Darling, Hill, Kerr, McGinnity

• 3 Brent Stanton ()
• 2 Jobe Watson ()
• 1 Paddy Ryder ()

Round 8

Stanton, Monfries 3 Watson, Jetta, Davey 2 Crameri, Howlett, Lovett-Murray 1 2 Grigg, Martin 1 Deledio, Jackson, Miller, Nahas, Riewoldt

• 3 Brett Deledio ()
• 2 Brent Stanton ()
• 1 Jobe Watson ()

Round 9

Shiel, Treloar, Giles, McDonald 1 2 Ryder, Monfries 1 Zaharakis, Watson, Melksham, Hurley, Colyer

• The match between and will be the first AFL match played at Skoda Stadium, the new primary home ground for Greater Western Sydney.
• This is the first game former Coaching legend Kevin Sheedy will coach against his old club.
• 3 Jobe Watson ()
• 2 Tom Bellchambers ()
• 1 Brent Stanton ()

Round 10

Davey, Melksham, Hocking, Colyer 1 1 Howe, Morton, Moloney, Jones, Clark, Sylvia

• 3 Jack Watts ()
• 2 Jobe Watson ()
• 1 Daniel Nicholson ()

Round 11

Watson 2 Hocking, Howlett, Jetta, Lovett-Murray, Myers, Stanton 1 2 Jack, Reid 1 Bolton, Everitt, McVeigh, Mumford, Roberts-Thomson, Shaw

• 3 Jude Bolton ()
• 2 Lewis Jetta ()
• 1 Jobe Watson ()

Round 12

Bye

Round 13

Pavlich 3 Clarke, Broughton 2 Barlow, Griffin, de Boer 1 2 Monfries, Dell'Olio, Crameri 1 Heppell, Ryder, Hille, Melksham, Watson

• 3 Jobe Watson ()

• 2 Michael Hurley ()

• 1 Matthew Pavlich ()

• 50 Ben Howlett

Round 14

Reimers 3 Watson 3 Crameri, Ryder, Dell'Olio, Melksham 2 Hocking, Dempsey 1 2 Liberatore 1 Campbell, Smith, Boyd

• 3 Jobe Watson ()
• 2 Michael Hurley ()
• 1 Heath Hocking ()
• 50 Jake Melksham

Round 15

Riewoldt 4 Koschitzke, Siposs, Wilkes, Saad, Schneider 2 Gilbert, Gram 1 1 Carlisle, Hurley, Reimers, Davey

• 3 Nick Riewoldt ()
• 2 Nick Dal Santo ()
• 1 Stephen Milne ()

Round 16

D Stewart 2 McCarthy, P Stewart, Thomas 1 2 Dell'Olio, Bellchambers, Hille 1 Davey, Dyson, Melksham, Reimers, Howlett, Myers, Watson

• 3 Leroy Jetta ()
• 2 Brett Ebert ()
• 1 Dyson Heppell ()
• Debut Mark Baguley

Round 17

Smedts 3 Johnson, Murdoch, Taylor, Chapman 2 Duncan, Mackie, Motlop, Walker 1 1 Crameri, Davey, Dell'Ollio, Gumbleton, Jetta, Monfries, Myers

• 3 Andrew Mackie ()
• 2 Mitch Duncan ()
• 1 Steve Johnson ()

Round 18

Hille 2 Dell'Ollio, Howlett, Jetta, Lovett-Murray, Monfries, Winderlich 1 4 Suckling 3 Gunston, Roughead 2 Young, Breust, Rioli, Smith 1 Lewis, Puopolo, Shiels, Whitecross

• 3 Cyril Rioli ()

• 2 Sam Mitchell ()

• 1 Matt Suckling ()

• Debut Elliott Kavanagh

Round 19

Dangerfield 3 Johncock, Jenkins 2 Jacobs, Sloane, Porplyzia, Riley, van Berlo 1 2 Browne, Gumbleton 1 Colyer, Dempsey, Davey, Hurley, Jetta, Lonergan, Watson

• 3 Jobe Watson ()
• 2 Patrick Dangerfield ()
• 1 Rory Sloane ()
• 150 Jobe Watson
• 100 Jason Winderlich

Round 20

Crameri, Lovett-Murray, Lonergan, Melksham, Watson 1 2 Garlett, Gibson 1 Wells, Wright

• 3 Sam Wright ()
• 2 Tom Bellchambers ()
• 1 Jobe Watson ()

Round 21

Watson, Lonergan, Stanton, Hurley 1 3 McLean, Simpson, Walker, Garlett, Casboult 2 Betts, Murphy

• 3 Marc Murphy ()
• 2 Jarrad Waite ()
• 1 Kade Simpson ()

Round 22

Edwards, McGuane 2 Astbury, Deledio, Grigg, Martin, Nahas, O'Hanlon 1 1 Browne, Gumbleton, Hurley, Jetta, O'Brien

• 3 Trent Cotchin ()
• 2 Shane Tuck ()
• 1 Brett Deledio ()
• Debut Nick O'Brien

Round 23

Crameri, Monfries, Hurley, Myers, Watson, Heppell 1 2 Fasolo 1 Beams, Goldsack, Paine, Swan, Krakouer, Shaw, O'Brien

• 3 Dane Swan ()
• 2 Travis Cloke ()
• 1 Scott Pendlebury ()
• 150 Angus Monfries
• Debut Jackson Merrett

Ladder

Ladder progress

Tribunal cases

Season statistics

Home attendance

Awards

[[2012 Brownlow Medal]]

Crichton Medal

Other Awards

Season Financials

EFC Annual Report 2012

Notes

• "Points" refers to carry-over points accrued following the sanction. For example, 154.69 points draw a one-match suspension, with 54.69 carry-over points (for every 100 points, a one-match suspension is given).
• Denotes amount of seasons on the list only.

References

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