1979 VFL Season Preliminary Final: North Melbourne v Collingwood

This is the match report for the match played on 22 September 1979 between North Melbourne and Collingwood in the preliminary final of the 1979 season of the Victorian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Collingwood at VFL Park. Ray Shaw captained the visitors with Kevin Morris as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Ron Barassi and the visitors were coached by Tom Hafey.

North Melbourne (13.17.95) were defeated by Collingwood (18.14.122).

Match Details

Season: 1979 VFL Season
Round: Preliminary Final
Teams: North Melbourne v Collingwood
Date: Saturday 22 September 1979
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: VFL Park
Attendance: 73,380

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Collingwood
Score: 13.17.95 - 18.14.122

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 2 . 7 5 . 10 11 . 11 13 . 17 13 . 17 (95)
Collingwood 3 . 1 8 . 3 14 . 7 18 . 14 18 . 14 (122)
Margin level COLL by 11 COLL by 14 COLL by 27 COLL by 27
Duration

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Ron Barassi

Collingwood

Captain: Ray Shaw
Vice-Captain: Kevin Morris
Coach: Tom Hafey

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Deller
I. Robinson

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
2 Alves, Stan ? ? 0 0 13 11 2 3 0 3 3
15 Blight, Malcolm ? ? 5 1 28 23 5 8 2 0 3
44 Boyse, Maurice ? ? 0 1 13 11 2 4 0 0 1
6 Briedis, Arnold ? ? 2 3 18 10 8 7 0 0 2
3 Cassin, John ? ? 2 1 22 13 9 2 0 1 5
8 Crosswell, Brent ? ? 2 4 12 10 2 6 0 1 3
24 Dempsey, Gary ? ? 0 0 19 13 6 9 32 6 1
23 Dench, David ? ? 0 0 10 5 5 2 0 2 1
1 Easton, Stephen ? ? 0 0 9 4 5 1 2 2 3
7 Ebert, Russell ? ? 0 0 5 4 1 0 0 0 1
27 Greig, Keith ? ? 0 0 17 12 5 3 0 1 2
36 Icke, Stephen ? ? 0 0 9 5 4 2 0 1 3
47 Jarrott, Alan ? ? 0 0 19 9 10 3 0 1 3
16 McCann, Stephen ? ? 0 0 20 15 5 5 1 1 1
17 Melrose, Graham ? ? 1 1 16 11 5 5 0 1 3
12 Montgomery, Ken ? ? 0 0 12 9 3 0 0 5 3
38 Ramsay, Roy ? ? 0 0 14 8 6 1 0 0 0
20 Schimmelbusch, Wayne ? ? 0 0 15 12 3 6 0 1 1
5 Sutton, Darryl ? ? 0 1 11 11 0 0 0 2 1
25 Tanner, Xavier ? ? 1 2 17 13 4 1 0 2 4
Rushed 3
Total (20 players) 13 17 299 209 90 68 37 30 44

Collingwood

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
21 Anderson, Graeme ? ? 3 2 15 14 1 4 0 1 0
12 Banks, Denis ? ? 1 0 6 5 1 1 0 1 0
43 Barham, Ricky ? ? 0 1 14 11 3 2 0 2 1
20 Brewer, Ross ? ? 3 1 13 11 2 8 0 1 5
26 Byrne, Ray ? ? 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 2 0
29 Carlson, Leigh ? ? 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 2
19 Davis, Craig ? ? 3 0 8 7 1 4 0 0 2
55 Dreher, Mark ? ? 0 0 10 9 1 2 0 3 0
8 Edwards, Allan ? ? 2 2 16 13 3 4 0 1 1
24 Ireland, Andrew ? ? 0 0 15 10 5 1 0 5 2
36 Kink, Rene ? ? 2 1 15 11 4 4 0 5 1
6 McCormack, Peter ? ? 0 0 13 11 2 5 0 4 2
30 Moore, Peter ? ? 0 1 17 12 5 7 21 3 3
14 Morris, Kevin (vc) ? ? 1 0 15 11 4 0 0 3 1
34 Ohlsen, Russell ? ? 1 1 15 9 6 1 1 3 3
25 Picken, Bill ? ? 0 0 12 12 0 3 0 3 2
4 Shaw, Derek ? ? 1 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 2
23 Shaw, Ray (c) ? ? 0 4 19 17 2 6 0 2 2
5 Wearmouth, Ronnie ? ? 1 0 26 19 7 2 0 4 0
27 Worthington, Kevin ? ? 0 0 9 5 4 5 0 0 1
Rushed 1
Total (20 players) 18 14 257 199 58 64 23 44 30

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s