2008 AFL Round 6: North Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 27 April 2008 between North Melbourne and Sydney during round 6 of the 2008 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Sydney at Telstra Dome. Adam Simpson captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Dean Laidley and the visitors were coached by Paul Roos.

North Melbourne
Back: L. Harding, M. Firrito, S. Watt
Half-back: S. Power, D. Petrie, S. Thompson
Centre: J. Sinclair, B. Rawlings, S. Grant
Half-forward: B. Harvey, L. Thomas, E. Sansbury
Forward: A. Edwards, N. Thompson, C. Jones
Follower: H. McIntosh, D. Wells, A. Simpson (capt.)
Int.: M. Campbell, D. Hale, D. Harris, E. Lower

Sydney
Back: T. Kennelly, L. Barry, M. Mattner
Half-back: C. Bolton, T. Richards, P. Bevan
Centre: J. McVeigh, B. Kirk, K. Jack
Half-forward: R. O'Keefe, L. Roberts-Thomson, J. Bolton
Forward: J. White, M. O'Loughlin, J. Moore
Follower: D. Jolly, A. Goodes, A. Buchanan
Int.: L. Ablett, E. Barlow, C. Bird, N. Davis

North Melbourne (9.10.64) drew with Sydney (8.16.64).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: D. Hale (2), C. Jones (2), N. Thompson (2), M. Campbell, L. Harding, H. McIntosh
Sydney: M. O'Loughlin (3), A. Goodes (2), C. Bird, N. Davis, D. Jolly

As a result of this match, North Melbourne remained 6th on the ladder and Sydney were then 5th on the ladder (down from 4th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 6
Teams: North Melbourne v Sydney
Date: Sunday 27 April 2008
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Telstra Dome
Attendance: 28,392

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne drew with Sydney
Score: 9.10.64 - 8.16.64

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 1 . 2 3 . 7 7 . 9 9 . 10 9 . 10 (64)
Sydney 3 . 5 4 . 7 6 . 10 8 . 16 8 . 16 (64)
Margin SYDN by 15 SYDN by 6 NMLB by 5 level drawn
Duration 29:13 27:29 30:35 29:45 1:57:02

Honour Roll

Coaches: Dean Laidley (North Melbourne), Paul Roos (Sydney)
Captains: Adam Simpson (North Melbourne), unknown (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Avon (#27), S. McLaren (#11), S. Ryan (#25)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Adam Goodes SYDN 37 3
Drew Petrie NMLB 20 2
Brent Harvey NMLB 29 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Adam Goodes SYDN 37 10 2 0 0 0 0
Paul Bevan SYDN 42 7 0 1 1 0 0
Drew Petrie NMLB 20 6 0 1 0 1 0
Michael Firrito NMLB 11 5 0 0 1 1 0
Brent Harvey NMLB 29 1 0 0 0 0 1
Brett Kirk SYDN 31 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
33 Campbell, Matt INT 86% 1 0 6 3 3 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
27 Edwards, Aaron FPL 39% 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
11 Firrito, Michael FB 97% 0 1 14 9 5 6 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 7
6 Grant, Shannon WR 96% 0 0 6 2 4 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
31 Hale, David INT 76% 2 1 12 6 6 5 18 3 1 2 1 1 1 1
39 Harding, Leigh BPL 90% 1 0 14 12 2 5 0 2 3 2 2 2 3 2
4 Harris, Daniel INT 70% 0 0 16 8 8 4 0 7 5 2 2 1 3 3
29 Harvey, Brent HFFL 81% 0 1 22 13 9 7 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 5
21 Jones, Corey FPR 89% 2 0 11 10 1 7 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 2
2 Lower, Ed INT 87% 0 0 12 4 8 2 0 3 2 6 0 3 4 2
1 McIntosh, Hamish RU 65% 1 0 10 6 4 4 23 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
20 Petrie, Drew CHB 97% 0 0 22 19 3 12 0 0 2 1 3 1 5 3
5 Power, Sam HBFL 83% 0 1 15 9 6 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 4
3 Rawlings, Brady C 87% 0 0 16 12 4 5 0 2 6 1 1 1 0 6
32 Sansbury, Eddie HFFR 85% 0 0 4 1 3 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0
7 Simpson, Adam (c) RO 80% 0 1 19 10 9 1 0 5 4 2 2 1 0 5
9 Sinclair, Jess WL 68% 0 0 7 6 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 1
12 Thomas, Lindsay CHF 79% 0 0 7 4 3 2 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 2
23 Thompson, Nathan FF 94% 2 2 12 10 2 7 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2
37 Thompson, Scott HBFR 84% 0 0 8 6 2 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 2
36 Watt, Shannon BPR 94% 0 0 4 3 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
8 Wells, Daniel RR 76% 0 0 14 11 3 5 0 4 0 4 0 0 3 2
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 9 10 253 166 87 87 42 44 33 31 17 14 28 50

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
20 Ablett, Luke INT 67% 0 0 15 12 3 5 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 2
11 Barlow, Ed INT 73% 0 1 15 12 3 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 3
21 Barry, Leo FB 96% 0 0 9 3 6 1 0 4 0 1 0 1 2 0
42 Bevan, Paul HBFR 92% 0 0 14 9 5 5 0 5 0 0 1 0 3 0
14 Bird, Craig INT 63% 1 0 16 5 11 5 0 4 2 0 0 0 3 0
6 Bolton, Craig HBFL 89% 0 0 18 9 9 7 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0
24 Bolton, Jude HFFR 79% 0 0 19 13 6 8 1 2 3 6 3 1 2 3
32 Buchanan, Amon RO 69% 0 0 15 5 10 3 0 3 3 6 2 5 1 3
2 Davis, Nick INT 63% 1 2 9 5 4 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
37 Goodes, Adam RR 94% 2 0 21 14 7 7 4 4 3 4 2 1 3 5
15 Jack, Kieren WR 84% 0 0 13 10 3 4 0 5 1 3 1 1 1 2
16 Jolly, Darren RU 71% 1 1 13 8 5 5 27 1 2 3 1 2 1 3
17 Kennelly, Tadhg BPL 91% 0 0 18 13 5 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 3 3
31 Kirk, Brett C 81% 0 2 23 8 15 4 0 6 3 2 1 1 3 2
29 Mattner, Martin BPR 93% 0 0 15 11 4 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 1
3 McVeigh, Jarrad WL 88% 0 0 21 9 12 6 1 4 6 2 0 0 1 2
33 Moore, Jarred FPR 74% 0 2 18 13 5 4 0 4 3 2 0 0 1 6
5 O'Keefe, Ryan HFFL 100% 0 1 19 12 7 5 0 2 1 3 0 2 1 3
19 O'Loughlin, Michael FF 90% 3 1 13 9 4 6 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 2
25 Richards, Ted CHB 98% 0 0 14 5 9 5 0 3 1 1 1 0 1 0
30 Roberts-Thomson, Lewis CHF 78% 0 0 9 3 6 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1
18 White, Jesse FPL 67% 0 0 7 3 4 3 7 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
Rushed 6
Total (22 players) 8 16 334 191 143 99 42 62 31 42 14 17 37 43

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

Player Line-Up

North Melbourne Coach: Dean Laidley
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
17 T. Kennelly 21 L. Barry 29 M. Mattner 1 H. McIntosh 33 M. Campbell
21 C. Jones 23 N. Thompson 27 A. Edwards 8 D. Wells 31 D. Hale
FORWARD 7 A. Simpson (c) 4 D. Harris
HALF-BACK

2 E. Lower
6 C. Bolton 25 T. Richards 42 P. Bevan



32 E. Sansbury 12 L. Thomas 29 B. Harvey



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



3 J. McVeigh 31 B. Kirk 15 K. Jack



6 S. Grant 3 B. Rawlings 9 J. Sinclair FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 16 D. Jolly 20 L. Ablett
HALF-FORWARD 37 A. Goodes 11 E. Barlow
5 R. O'Keefe 30 L. Roberts-Thomson 24 J. Bolton 32 A. Buchanan 14 C. Bird
37 S. Thompson 20 D. Petrie 5 S. Power

2 N. Davis
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



18 J. White 19 M. O'Loughlin 33 J. Moore



36 S. Watt 11 M. Firrito 39 L. Harding



BACK



Sydney Coach: Paul Roos

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 SYDN Darren Jolly goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 00:48
SYDN Rushed behind 0.0.0 - 1.1.7 06:27
SYDN Rushed behind 0.0.0 - 1.2.8 11:15
NMLB Nathan Thompson behind 0.1.1 - 1.2.8 14:02
SYDN Rushed behind 0.1.1 - 1.3.9 15:03
SYDN Craig Bird goal 0.1.1 - 2.3.15 19:02
SYDN Nick Davis behind 0.1.1 - 2.4.16 20:49
NMLB Sam Power behind 0.2.2 - 2.4.16 23:23
SYDN Rushed behind 0.2.2 - 2.5.17 24:29
NMLB Corey Jones goal 1.2.8 - 2.5.17 27:47
SYDN Nick Davis goal 1.2.8 - 3.5.23 29:07
Q2 NMLB Brent Harvey behind 1.3.9 - 3.5.23 03:03
SYDN Adam Goodes goal 1.3.9 - 4.5.29 06:20
NMLB Rushed behind 1.4.10 - 4.5.29 07:47
NMLB Nathan Thompson goal 2.4.16 - 4.5.29 10:53
NMLB Nathan Thompson goal 3.4.22 - 4.5.29 12:42
SYDN Nick Davis behind 3.4.22 - 4.6.30 14:26
NMLB Michael Firrito behind 3.5.23 - 4.6.30 17:07
NMLB Nathan Thompson behind 3.6.24 - 4.6.30 20:10
NMLB Rushed behind 3.7.25 - 4.6.30 23:45
SYDN Rushed behind 3.7.25 - 4.7.31 25:07
Q3 SYDN Brett Kirk behind 3.7.25 - 4.8.32 00:52
NMLB Matt Campbell goal 4.7.31 - 4.8.32 01:43
SYDN Michael O'Loughlin behind 4.7.31 - 4.9.33 03:37
SYDN Darren Jolly behind 4.7.31 - 4.10.34 04:55
NMLB Leigh Harding goal 5.7.37 - 4.10.34 09:48
SYDN Michael O'Loughlin goal 5.7.37 - 5.10.40 11:44
NMLB Adam Simpson behind 5.8.38 - 5.10.40 12:55
NMLB David Hale behind 5.9.39 - 5.10.40 16:21
NMLB David Hale goal 6.9.45 - 5.10.40 21:24
SYDN Adam Goodes goal 6.9.45 - 6.10.46 24:26
NMLB Hamish McIntosh goal 7.9.51 - 6.10.46 26:04
Q4 NMLB David Hale goal 8.9.57 - 6.10.46 05:12
NMLB Corey Jones goal 9.9.63 - 6.10.46 06:54
SYDN Jarred Moore behind 9.9.63 - 6.11.47 08:01
SYDN Rushed behind 9.9.63 - 6.12.48 11:40
NMLB Rushed behind 9.10.64 - 6.12.48 14:05
SYDN Michael O'Loughlin goal 9.10.64 - 7.12.54 18:50
SYDN Michael O'Loughlin goal 9.10.64 - 8.12.60 20:17
SYDN Ed Barlow behind 9.10.64 - 8.13.61 22:04
SYDN Ryan O'Keefe behind 9.10.64 - 8.14.62 25:23
SYDN Jarred Moore behind 9.10.64 - 8.15.63 26:56
SYDN Brett Kirk behind 9.10.64 - 8.16.64 27:40