1981 VFL Season Round 18: North Melbourne v St Kilda

This is the match report for the match played on 1 August 1981 between North Melbourne and St Kilda during round eighteen of the 1981 season of the Victorian Football League. North Melbourne hosted St Kilda at Arden Street Oval. Bruce Duperouzel captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Barry Cable and the visitors were coached by Alex Jesaulenko.

North Melbourne (16.21.117) defeated St Kilda (12.13.85).

Match Details

Season: 1981 VFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: North Melbourne v St Kilda
Date: Saturday 1 August 1981
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Arden Street Oval
Attendance: 11,517

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. St Kilda
Score: 16.21.117 - 12.13.85

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 9 . 8 11 . 10 15 . 18 16 . 21 16 . 21 (117)
St Kilda 2 . 0 5 . 4 7 . 9 12 . 13 12 . 13 (85)
Margin NMLB by 50 NMLB by 42 NMLB by 57 NMLB by 32 NMLB by 32
Duration

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Barry Cable (caretaker)

St Kilda

Captain: Bruce Duperouzel
Coach: Alex Jesaulenko

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

G. Marcy
R. Sawers

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
15 Blight, Malcolm ? ? 8 6 18 17 1 6 0 1 4
9 Bryant, Kevin ? ? 0 0 10 6 4 2 0 2 1
21 Byrne, John ? ? 1 2 25 15 10 2 0 2 3
48 Demetriou, Andrew ? ? 1 0 26 17 9 2 0 2 2
24 Dempsey, Gary ? ? 0 0 29 19 10 10 41 9 3
23 Dench, David ? ? 0 0 14 6 8 3 0 1 0
44 Dugdale, Dean ? ? 1 2 17 11 6 2 0 2 2
46 Dugdale, Glenn ? ? 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1
4 Glendinning, Ross ? ? 0 0 15 13 2 4 0 1 0
26 Henderson, Darryl ? ? 0 0 10 7 3 3 0 1 0
34 Henshaw, Ross ? ? 0 0 15 8 7 3 0 1 0
17 Hodgeman, Kym ? ? 0 1 17 11 6 3 0 1 2
56 Holt, John ? ? 2 2 16 10 6 5 0 0 2
13 Law, John ? ? 0 0 13 8 5 4 0 2 1
16 McCann, Stephen ? ? 1 2 15 11 4 7 7 1 5
30 Reeves, Michael ? ? 0 0 6 4 2 0 0 0 0
39 Smith, Peter ? ? 0 0 17 16 1 6 0 0 4
2 Spencer, Peter ? ? 1 3 23 16 7 5 0 0 2
25 Tanner, Xavier ? ? 0 1 21 16 5 5 0 3 3
32 Wright, Rodney ? ? 1 1 15 7 8 0 0 1 1
Rushed 1
Total (20 players) 16 21 323 218 105 73 49 30 36

St Kilda

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
1 Barker, Trevor ? ? 1 1 31 17 14 5 1 2 2
35 Brown, Peter ? ? 0 0 16 9 7 5 0 1 1
11 Burns, Greg ? ? 0 1 30 22 8 3 0 5 3
7 Cox, Doug ? ? 0 0 8 5 3 1 0 2 1
8 Dunne, Jeff ? ? 0 0 16 11 5 1 0 3 2
3 Duperouzel, Bruce (c) ? ? 0 1 22 11 11 2 1 0 2
33 Elphinstone, Robert ? ? 1 0 12 11 1 2 0 5 0
9 Faletic, Milan ? ? 2 1 19 16 3 3 0 2 2
13 Fehring, Jeff ? ? 0 0 4 4 0 1 4 1 2
36 Fidler, Geoff ? ? 0 0 5 1 4 0 0 0 1
41 Gorozidis, Con ? ? 6 3 11 9 2 6 0 1 0
26 Hewitt, Darryl ? ? 1 1 19 15 4 1 1 0 1
21 Kellett, Mark ? ? 0 0 10 7 3 2 0 1 2
14 Middlemiss, Glenn ? ? 0 2 11 6 5 5 0 0 1
39 Mildenhall, Bill ? ? 1 1 19 15 4 1 0 1 0
10 Roberts, Michael ? ? 0 0 20 17 3 0 0 5 2
31 Sarau, Jeff ? ? 0 1 13 8 5 0 14 4 6
19 Scott, Mark ? ? 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
23 Smedts, Alby ? ? 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1
18 Thomas, Grant ? ? 0 0 22 21 1 4 1 3 1
Rushed 1
Total (20 players) 12 13 292 207 85 42 22 36 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