2009 AFL Season Round 1: Melbourne v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 29 March 2009 between Melbourne and North Melbourne during round one of the 2009 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted North Melbourne at the MCG. James McDonald captained the hosts. Brent Harvey captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Dean Bailey and the visitors were coached by Dani Laidley.

Melbourne (10.7.67) were defeated by North Melbourne (15.11.101).

Match Details

Season: 2009 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Melbourne v North Melbourne
Date: Sunday 29 March 2009
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 28,707

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by North Melbourne
Score: 10.7.67 - 15.11.101

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 3 . 3 6 . 5 9 . 6 10 . 7 10 . 7 (67)
North Melbourne 3 . 3 7 . 6 11 . 8 15 . 11 15 . 11 (101)
Margin level NMLB by 7 NMLB by 14 NMLB by 34 NMLB by 34
Duration 30:14 29:15 30:14 29:03 1:58:46

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Melbourne) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (North Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: James McDonald
Coach: Dean Bailey

North Melbourne

Captain: Brent Harvey
Coach: Dani Laidley

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. Grun (#13)
S. McInerney (#30)
J. Mollison (#32)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Hamish McIntosh NMLB 1 3
Leigh Harding NMLB 39 2
Nathan Jones MELB 2 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Hamish McIntosh NMLB 1 10 2 0 0 0 0
Leigh Harding NMLB 39 8 0 2 0 0 0
Brent Moloney MELB 22 5 0 0 1 1 0
Andrew Swallow NMLB 9 3 0 0 1 0 0
Kyle Cheney MELB 25 2 0 0 0 ? ?
Daniel Wells NMLB 8 2 0 0 0 ? ?

Player Statistics

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
3 Bartram, Clint BPR 82% 0 0 7 3 4 2 0 4 1 1 2 1 0 0
6 Bate, Matthew FF 94% 1 0 12 6 6 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 2
43 Bennell, Jamie INT 73% 0 0 9 6 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 1
32 Bruce, Cameron HFFL 87% 0 0 22 12 10 7 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 2
1 Buckley, Simon RO 71% 0 0 15 9 6 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 3
25 Cheney, Kyle HFFR 77% 0 0 22 8 14 7 0 2 0 1 0 0 5 0
36 Davey, Aaron WL 81% 1 0 11 8 3 3 0 5 0 2 1 2 2 1
8 Frawley, James CHB 95% 0 0 17 7 10 5 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0
20 Garland, Colin HBFL 94% 0 0 19 12 7 5 0 3 1 1 0 1 5 1
18 Green, Brad HBFR 90% 2 1 18 10 8 1 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 2
39 Jetta, Neville INT 73% 1 1 16 11 5 2 0 2 0 3 2 0 1 5
11 Johnson, Paul CHF 86% 1 1 14 8 6 7 18 2 0 5 0 2 2 3
2 Jones, Nathan INT 77% 0 0 23 12 11 0 0 1 4 2 2 1 2 3
23 McDonald, James (c) RR 79% 0 1 23 13 10 6 2 10 4 2 3 0 3 4
5 McLean, Brock C 73% 0 0 19 11 8 1 0 6 7 2 3 2 0 2
7 Miller, Brad FPL 83% 0 2 11 10 1 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3
22 Moloney, Brent WR 78% 1 0 29 9 20 4 0 5 7 2 2 1 2 3
10 Morton, Cale INT 81% 1 0 15 12 3 7 1 0 1 2 1 1 3 2
15 Petterd, Ricky FPR 83% 2 1 16 11 5 9 1 4 0 4 2 3 1 2
27 Rivers, Jared BPL 86% 0 0 9 5 4 4 0 5 0 1 0 0 1 1
42 Spencer, Jake RU 68% 0 0 8 3 5 3 9 3 2 1 2 0 0 0
37 Warnock, Matthew FB 92% 0 0 11 5 6 2 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 0
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 10 7 346 191 155 86 32 62 32 42 25 16 38 40

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
33 Campbell, Matt FPL 86% 2 1 11 7 4 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
11 Firrito, Michael FB 75% 1 1 11 7 4 2 1 3 4 2 1 2 1 4
38 Gibson, Josh HBFR 89% 0 0 11 4 7 4 0 5 0 3 0 3 1 4
31 Hale, David FF 79% 1 1 6 3 3 0 4 0 0 3 2 3 0 1
6 Hansen, Lachlan CHB 93% 0 0 19 9 10 6 0 2 2 3 0 3 1 0
39 Harding, Leigh HBFL 75% 1 0 28 20 8 12 0 7 4 3 3 0 2 4
29 Harvey, Brent (c) RO 89% 1 1 16 15 1 3 0 3 1 4 0 1 0 3
2 Lower, Ed HFFL 88% 0 0 4 2 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1
1 McIntosh, Hamish RU 75% 3 1 21 12 9 9 21 0 3 0 0 0 1 3
42 McMahon, Scott BPR 93% 1 0 20 13 7 6 0 1 0 1 0 1 6 0
20 Petrie, Drew CHF 92% 2 3 12 9 3 6 8 6 2 4 1 2 1 2
5 Power, Sam INT 76% 0 0 21 17 4 7 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 4
30 Pratt, Daniel BPL 92% 0 0 19 14 5 10 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 2
3 Rawlings, Brady WL 89% 0 0 21 11 10 5 0 1 0 2 2 1 3 1
7 Simpson, Adam C 62% 1 0 24 10 14 8 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 3
18 Smith, Josh FPR 73% 0 1 10 5 5 6 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0
9 Swallow, Andrew INT 69% 0 0 21 11 10 7 0 4 8 3 4 3 1 3
12 Thomas, Lindsay HFFR 84% 2 2 16 10 6 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 6
16 Thompson, Scott WR 95% 0 0 17 8 9 9 0 5 1 2 1 1 3 1
14 Urquhart, Gavin INT 73% 0 0 20 11 9 5 0 3 2 2 0 0 3 2
8 Wells, Daniel RR 91% 0 0 20 17 3 8 0 3 1 2 1 0 1 8
19 Ziebell, Jack INT 62% 0 0 10 6 4 3 0 4 2 2 0 2 0 1
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 15 11 358 221 137 125 34 60 34 45 16 25 27 53

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

Melbourne Coach: Dean Bailey
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
30 D. Pratt 11 M. Firrito 42 S. McMahon 42 J. Spencer 43 J. Bennell
15 R. Petterd 6 M. Bate 7 B. Miller 23 J. McDonald (c) 39 N. Jetta
FORWARD 1 S. Buckley 2 N. Jones
HALF-BACK

10 C. Morton
39 L. Harding 6 L. Hansen 38 J. Gibson



25 K. Cheney 11 P. Johnson 32 C. Bruce



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



3 B. Rawlings 7 A. Simpson 16 S. Thompson



22 B. Moloney 5 B. McLean 36 A. Davey FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 1 H. McIntosh 5 S. Power
HALF-FORWARD 8 D. Wells 9 A. Swallow
2 E. Lower 20 D. Petrie 12 L. Thomas 29 B. Harvey (c) 14 G. Urquhart
18 B. Green 8 J. Frawley 20 C. Garland

19 J. Ziebell
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



33 M. Campbell 31 D. Hale 18 J. Smith



3 C. Bartram 37 M. Warnock 27 J. Rivers



BACK



North Melbourne Coach: Dani Laidley

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 NMLB Lindsay Thomas goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 02:06
NMLB Josh Smith behind 0.0.0 - 1.1.7 04:57
NMLB Matt Campbell goal 0.0.0 - 2.1.13 06:03
MELB Neville Jetta behind 0.1.1 - 2.1.13 08:08
MELB Paul Johnson behind 0.2.2 - 2.1.13 08:38
NMLB David Hale behind 0.2.2 - 2.2.14 10:18
MELB Matthew Bate goal 1.2.8 - 2.2.14 11:25
NMLB Drew Petrie behind 1.2.8 - 2.3.15 16:09
MELB Aaron Davey goal 2.2.14 - 2.3.15 17:20
MELB Brent Moloney goal 3.2.20 - 2.3.15 24:52
NMLB Brent Harvey goal 3.2.20 - 3.3.21 27:14
MELB James McDonald behind 3.3.21 - 3.3.21 29:46
Q2 NMLB Lindsay Thomas behind 3.3.21 - 3.4.22 01:07
MELB Neville Jetta goal 4.3.27 - 3.4.22 02:21
NMLB Lindsay Thomas goal 4.3.27 - 4.4.28 05:26
NMLB Brent Harvey behind 4.3.27 - 4.5.29 07:55
MELB Ricky Petterd goal 5.3.33 - 4.5.29 10:34
NMLB Scott McMahon goal 5.3.33 - 5.5.35 14:28
NMLB Hamish McIntosh goal 5.3.33 - 6.5.41 16:30
NMLB Michael Firrito behind 5.3.33 - 6.6.42 18:51
MELB Brad Green goal 6.3.39 - 6.6.42 19:51
MELB Ricky Petterd behind 6.4.40 - 6.6.42 22:22
NMLB Leigh Harding goal 6.4.40 - 7.6.48 24:24
MELB Brad Green behind 6.5.41 - 7.6.48 26:18
Q3 NMLB Drew Petrie goal 6.5.41 - 8.6.54 03:08
NMLB Matt Campbell goal 6.5.41 - 9.6.60 04:56
NMLB Drew Petrie behind 6.5.41 - 9.7.61 10:05
MELB Ricky Petterd goal 7.5.47 - 9.7.61 12:01
MELB Brad Green goal 8.5.53 - 9.7.61 15:43
MELB Brad Miller behind 8.6.54 - 9.7.61 17:54
NMLB Adam Simpson goal 8.6.54 - 10.7.67 20:28
MELB Cale Morton goal 9.6.60 - 10.7.67 22:20
NMLB Hamish McIntosh goal 9.6.60 - 11.7.73 25:44
NMLB Drew Petrie behind 9.6.60 - 11.8.74 29:22
Q4 NMLB Matt Campbell behind 9.6.60 - 11.9.75 03:30
NMLB Hamish McIntosh goal 9.6.60 - 12.9.81 04:36
NMLB David Hale goal 9.6.60 - 13.9.87 11:29
MELB Brad Miller behind 9.7.61 - 13.9.87 13:05
NMLB Lindsay Thomas behind 9.7.61 - 13.10.88 13:46
NMLB Michael Firrito goal 9.7.61 - 14.10.94 15:20
NMLB Hamish McIntosh behind 9.7.61 - 14.11.95 17:58
MELB Paul Johnson goal 10.7.67 - 14.11.95 20:32
NMLB Drew Petrie goal 10.7.67 - 15.11.101 24:39