user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: When did Essendon play as the home team?
Columns: ['Home team', 'Home team score', 'Away team', 'Away team score', 'Venue', 'Crowd', 'Date']
Types: ['text', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'real', 'text']
Sample row: ['Richmond', '10.14 (74)', 'South Melbourne', '12.14 (86)', 'Punt Road Oval', 19000.0, '2 August 1952']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Date" FROM "Table" WHERE "Home team" = 'Essendon';