1979 Round 1: North Melbourne v Essendon

Match Details

Season: 1979 VFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Saturday, April 7th, 1979
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Arden Street Oval
Attendance: 22,633
Capacity: unknown

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Essendon
Score: 17.27.129 - 16.13.109

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 4 . 8 8 . 14 14 . 20 17 . 27 17 . 27 (129)
Essendon 5 . 3 8 . 9 12 . 10 16 . 13 16 . 13 (109)
Margin ESS by 1 NOR by 5 NOR by 22 NOR by 20 NOR by 20
Duration

Honour Roll

Coach(es): Ron Barassi (North Melbourne), Barry Davis (Essendon)
Captain(s): unknown (North Melbourne), Ken Fletcher (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire(s): Rowan Sawers, John Sutcliffe
Goal Umpire(s):
Boundary Umpire(s):
Umpire Replacement(s): No known replacements

Brownlow Votes

3 - unknown/invalid 2 - unknown/invalid 1 - unknown/invalid

Player Statistics (Basic)

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
2 Alves, Stan ? ? 0 2 19 14 5 5 1 2 4
15 Blight, Malcolm ? ? 7 4 16 12 4 7 0 1 4
6 Briedis, Arnold ? ? 3 3 22 11 11 5 0 2 5
9 Bryant, Kevin ? ? 0 0 24 18 6 11 0 2 1
21 Byrne, John ? ? 1 2 25 13 12 3 0 0 4
3 Cassin, John ? ? 0 2 10 5 5 2 0 1 5
11 Cornes, Graham ? ? 2 4 15 9 6 6 1 0 2
24 Dempsey, Gary ? ? 0 2 17 7 10 9 15 3 2
23 Dench, David ? ? 0 0 17 14 3 2 0 1 3
7 Ebert, Russell ? ? 1 0 17 11 6 3 1 2 2
4 Glendinning, Ross ? ? 0 0 21 14 7 4 0 2 3
27 Greig, Keith ? ? 0 0 19 15 4 2 0 4 0
13 Law, John ? ? 0 0 14 12 2 1 0 1 2
16 McCann, Stephen ? ? 2 2 17 13 4 6 11 1 4
17 Melrose, Graham ? ? 1 5 31 23 8 4 0 3 2
33 Payne, Glenn ? ? 0 0 8 5 3 2 0 1 1
38 Ramsay, Roy ? ? 0 0 21 13 8 6 0 1 2
20 Schimmelbusch, Wayne ? ? 0 0 12 4 8 1 0 2 0
19 Smith, Doug ? ? 0 0 10 8 2 2 0 1 3
5 Sutton, Darryl ? ? 0 0 7 5 2 1 0 1 1
Rushed 1
Total 17 27 342 226 116 82 29 31 50

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
38 Bennett, Peter ? ? 0 1 23 20 3 5 0 3 2
30 Besanko, Neil ? ? 0 0 13 6 7 3 0 0 3
17 Boyd, Colin ? ? 0 0 18 16 2 2 0 7 1
31 Crow, Max ? ? 3 2 24 17 7 9 4 4 3
6 Daniher, Neale ? ? 0 0 10 4 6 1 0 1 1
5 Daniher, Terry ? ? 5 0 15 11 4 4 0 2 0
29 Davis, Allan ? ? 1 1 18 18 0 2 0 5 2
3 Day, Barry ? ? 0 1 17 12 5 6 0 2 1
21 Fletcher, Ken ? ? 0 0 15 12 3 1 0 1 0
10 Foulds, Garry ? ? 2 0 23 19 4 4 0 3 2
27 Madden, Simon ? ? 0 2 18 9 9 6 14 3 1
37 Marsh, Ian ? ? 0 0 21 13 8 1 0 2 6
25 Merrett, Roger ? ? 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 0
34 Neagle, Merv ? ? 0 0 5 2 3 1 0 0 1
15 Primmer, Wayne ? ? 0 1 13 7 6 2 0 3 1
2 Reid, Alan ? ? 0 0 18 13 5 3 0 2 3
36 Scanlon, Denis ? ? 0 0 18 13 5 4 0 1 2
26 Shaw, Robert ? ? 0 0 7 5 2 0 0 4 0
18 Vander Haar, Paul ? ? 4 2 12 7 5 5 3 1 1
32 Watson, Tim ? ? 1 2 15 11 4 0 0 5 1
Rushed 1
Total 16 13 305 216 89 59 23 50 31

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CP: Contested Posessions, UP: Uncontested Posessions, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s, MF: Marks Inside 50, RB: Running Bounces, OP: One-Percenters, GA: Goal Assists

Player Line-Up

North Melbourne Coach: Ron Barassi
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Essendon Coach: Barry Davis

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