2012 AFL Round 2: North Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 8 April 2012 between North Melbourne and Greater Western Sydney during round 2 of the 2012 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Greater Western Sydney at Blundstone Arena. Andrew Swallow captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Kevin Sheedy.

North Melbourne
Back: S. McMahon, S. Thompson, J. Macmillan
Half-back: C. Delaney, M. Firrito, D. Wells
Centre: L. Adams, A. Swallow (capt.), S. Atley
Half-forward: R. Bastinac, T. Goldstein, S. Wright
Forward: M. Campbell, D. Petrie, L. Thomas
Follower: H. McIntosh, L. Anthony, B. Harvey
Int.: B. Cunnington, A. Edwards, K. Harper
Sub.: A. Mullett

Greater Western Sydney
Back: L. Power, T. Mohr, C. Cornes
Half-back: T. Bugg, P. Davis, A. Kennedy
Centre: R. Palmer, J. Townsend, T. Scully
Half-forward: S. Coniglio, J. Cameron, C. Hampton
Forward: N. Wilson, I. Folau, D. Smith
Follower: J. Giles, C. Ward, D. Shiel
Int.: T. Greene, J. Hombsch, W. Hoskin-Elliott
Sub.: D. Tyson

North Melbourne (28.15.183) defeated Greater Western Sydney (8.6.54).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: A. Edwards (5), H. McIntosh (3), L. Anthony (2), R. Bastinac (2), B. Cunnington (2), T. Goldstein (2), B. Harvey (2), A. Mullett (2), D. Petrie (2), L. Adams, K. Harper, J. Macmillan, A. Swallow, D. Wells, S. Wright
Greater Western Sydney: J. Cameron (4), P. Davis, J. Giles, D. Smith, C. Ward

As a result of this match, North Melbourne were then 6th on the ladder (up from 10th) and Greater Western Sydney remained 18th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: North Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney
Date: Sunday 8 April 2012
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: Blundstone Arena
Attendance: 11,127

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Greater Western Sydney
Score: 28.15.183 - 8.6.54

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	7	.	4	12	.	8	20	.	9	28	.	15	28	.	15	(183)
Greater Western Sydney	0	.	3	0	.	4	6	.	6	8	.	6	8	.	6	(54)
Margin	NMLB by 43			NMLB by 76			NMLB by 87			NMLB by 129			NMLB by 129
Duration	30:23			30:13			34:30			32:23			2:07:29

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (North Melbourne), Kevin Sheedy (Greater Western Sydney)
Captains: Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne), unknown (Greater Western Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: A. Mitchell (#31), B. Rosebury (#8), B. Ryan (#27), E: B. Hosking (#16)
Goal Umpire: D. Dixon, A. Wojcik, E: P. Gonis
Boundary Umpire: M. Jenkinson, S. Jones, M. Le Fevre, M. Tomkins

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Michael Firrito	NMLB	11	3
Daniel Wells	NMLB	8	2
Andrew Swallow	NMLB	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Ryan Bastinac	NMLB	3	10	2	0	0	0	0
Liam Anthony	NMLB	4	4	0	?	0	?	0
Michael Firrito	NMLB	11	4	0	?	0	?	0
Brent Harvey	NMLB	29	4	0	?	0	?	0
Aaron Edwards	NMLB	27	3	0	0	1	0	0
Andrew Swallow	NMLB	9	3	0	0	1	0	0
Leigh Adams	NMLB	13	1	0	0	0	0	1
Scott Thompson	NMLB	16	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
13	Adams, Leigh	WL	79%	1	2	37	12	25	6	0	4	2	5	0	1	0	5
4	Anthony, Liam	RR	75%	2	1	38	16	22	5	1	0	5	3	0	0	4	5
18	Atley, Shaun	WR	99%	0	0	25	7	18	2	0	0	1	4	2	1	4	7
3	Bastinac, Ryan	HFFL	82%	2	3	45	17	28	2	0	4	5	3	0	1	0	5
33	Campbell, Matt	FPL	78%	0	0	13	4	9	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	2
10	Cunnington, Ben	INT	72%	2	0	25	10	15	2	0	5	3	3	3	1	2	5
31	Delaney, Cameron	HBFL	86%	0	0	19	6	13	5	0	1	1	2	1	2	3	0
27	Edwards, Aaron	INT	92%	5	1	15	11	4	9	0	2	1	3	1	1	0	2
11	Firrito, Michael	CHB	98%	0	0	33	8	25	6	0	2	2	1	1	1	3	2
22	Goldstein, Todd	CHF	92%	2	0	13	3	10	2	18	3	5	3	0	2	0	2
23	Harper, Kieran	INT	70%	1	1	16	10	6	4	0	5	2	3	0	0	1	6
29	Harvey, Brent	RO	88%	2	1	32	21	11	2	0	2	1	3	1	1	2	9
34	Macmillan, Jamie	BPR	78%	1	0	21	11	10	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	6
1	McIntosh, Hamish	RU	82%	3	0	20	8	12	5	21	1	1	1	0	0	1	4
42	McMahon, Scott	BPL	97%	0	0	20	8	12	3	0	3	0	2	2	2	4	2
41	Mullett, Aaron	SUB↑	44%	2	0	16	5	11	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	2
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	97%	2	0	15	9	6	7	0	5	0	3	3	1	0	4
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	C	76%	1	1	30	15	15	1	0	3	10	2	6	2	3	7
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPR↓	43%	0	1	4	2	2	0	0	5	1	1	0	1	0	0
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	95%	0	0	23	7	16	6	0	2	1	2	2	1	2	0
8	Wells, Daniel	HBFR	84%	1	2	28	15	13	8	1	3	1	4	0	1	0	5
19	Wright, Sam	HFFR	94%	1	0	19	8	11	5	0	2	2	3	0	0	1	3
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				28	15	507	213	294	88	41	56	48	52	23	19	32	83

A. Mullett replaced L. Thomas.

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Bugg, Tomas	HBFL	88%	0	0	18	8	10	4	0	1	2	4	0	1	2	0
18	Cameron, Jeremy	CHF	87%	4	0	12	8	4	7	0	2	0	5	1	2	0	2
3	Coniglio, Stephen	HFFL	80%	0	0	18	9	9	3	0	2	4	3	1	1	2	4
11	Cornes, Chad	BPR	93%	0	0	32	15	17	10	2	3	1	5	0	2	10	3
1	Davis, Phil	CHB	92%	1	0	11	10	1	3	0	5	0	3	1	2	5	0
4	Folau, Israel	FF	80%	0	0	5	2	3	2	4	2	0	2	1	1	0	1
26	Giles, Jonathan	RU	91%	1	0	21	17	4	3	26	2	5	3	2	0	0	5
35	Greene, Toby	INT	84%	0	2	31	16	15	6	0	3	2	5	0	1	4	3
2	Hampton, Curtly	HFFR	76%	0	2	9	4	5	1	0	2	1	2	0	1	0	1
36	Hombsch, Jack	INT	89%	0	0	13	9	4	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	6	0
33	Hoskin-Elliott, Will	INT	76%	0	0	12	6	6	3	0	0	0	4	1	3	1	4
40	Kennedy, Adam	HBFR	88%	0	0	23	12	11	3	0	1	2	2	1	0	5	0
39	Mohr, Tim	FB	91%	0	0	10	9	1	2	1	3	0	3	0	0	5	0
7	Palmer, Rhys	WL	90%	0	1	15	5	10	2	0	2	2	5	0	1	1	3
6	Power, Luke	BPL	77%	0	0	18	9	9	3	0	4	3	1	0	0	4	1
9	Scully, Tom	WR	90%	0	0	25	11	14	4	0	4	1	5	1	1	2	3
5	Shiel, Dylan	RO	82%	0	0	19	6	13	4	0	2	2	2	0	2	1	2
34	Smith, Devon	FPR	87%	1	0	21	10	11	2	0	3	2	5	2	2	0	2
31	Townsend, Jacob	C	79%	0	0	8	6	2	2	2	6	3	2	3	1	0	1
29	Tyson, Dom	SUB↑	33%	0	0	6	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
8	Ward, Callan	RR	88%	1	1	21	13	8	4	2	7	3	1	2	1	0	4
16	Wilson, Nathan	FPL↓	56%	0	0	4	4	0	1	0	3	0	2	2	0	2	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				8	6	352	191	161	71	38	57	35	66	19	23	50	41

D. Tyson replaced N. Wilson during the third quarter.

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: Brad Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	6	L. Power	39	T. Mohr	11	C. Cornes	1	H. McIntosh	10	B. Cunnington
	12	L. Thomas	20	D. Petrie	33	M. Campbell	4	L. Anthony	27	A. Edwards
FORWARD							29	B. Harvey	23	K. Harper
HALF-BACK									41	A. Mullett
	14	T. Bugg	1	P. Davis	40	A. Kennedy
	19	S. Wright	22	T. Goldstein	3	R. Bastinac
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	7	R. Palmer	31	J. Townsend	9	T. Scully
	18	S. Atley	9	A. Swallow (c)	13	L. Adams	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							26	J. Giles	35	T. Greene
HALF-FORWARD							8	C. Ward	36	J. Hombsch
	3	S. Coniglio	18	J. Cameron	2	C. Hampton	5	D. Shiel	33	W. Hoskin-Elliott
	8	D. Wells	11	M. Firrito	31	C. Delaney			29	D. Tyson
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	16	N. Wilson	4	I. Folau	34	D. Smith
	34	J. Macmillan	16	S. Thompson	42	S. McMahon
BACK
Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Kevin Sheedy

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:59
	NMLB	Aaron Edwards goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	04:59
	NMLB	Kieran Harper behind	2.1.13	-	0.0.0	06:28
	NMLB	Daniel Wells behind	2.2.14	-	0.0.0	08:53
	NMLB	Aaron Edwards goal	3.2.20	-	0.0.0	09:53
	NMLB	Aaron Edwards goal	4.2.26	-	0.0.0	11:26
	NMLB	Liam Anthony behind	4.3.27	-	0.0.0	14:52
	NMLB	Rushed behind	4.4.28	-	0.0.0	16:22
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	5.4.34	-	0.0.0	18:04
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	6.4.40	-	0.0.0	23:21
	GWSY	Curtly Hampton behind	6.4.40	-	0.1.1	24:47
	NMLB	Hamish McIntosh goal	7.4.46	-	0.1.1	27:01
	GWSY	Curtly Hampton behind	7.4.46	-	0.2.2	28:04
	GWSY	Rhys Palmer behind	7.4.46	-	0.3.3	28:40
Q2	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac behind	7.5.47	-	0.3.3	00:36
	NMLB	Rushed behind	7.6.48	-	0.3.3	02:49
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein goal	8.6.54	-	0.3.3	04:30
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	9.6.60	-	0.3.3	07:24
	NMLB	Leigh Adams goal	10.6.66	-	0.3.3	13:22
	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac behind	10.7.67	-	0.3.3	17:03
	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac goal	11.7.73	-	0.3.3	20:34
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	11.8.74	-	0.3.3	23:32
	NMLB	Liam Anthony goal	12.8.80	-	0.3.3	26:30
	GWSY	Callan Ward behind	12.8.80	-	0.4.4	28:51
Q3	GWSY	Jonathan Giles goal	12.8.80	-	1.4.10	00:55
	NMLB	Aaron Mullett goal	13.8.86	-	1.4.10	02:36
	NMLB	Sam Wright goal	14.8.92	-	1.4.10	03:44
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	14.8.92	-	1.5.11	05:03
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron goal	14.8.92	-	2.5.17	07:18
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron goal	14.8.92	-	3.5.23	12:13
	GWSY	Devon Smith goal	14.8.92	-	4.5.29	13:53
	NMLB	Hamish McIntosh goal	15.8.98	-	4.5.29	15:04
	GWSY	Phil Davis goal	15.8.98	-	5.5.35	17:58
	NMLB	Hamish McIntosh goal	16.8.104	-	5.5.35	20:36
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	16.8.104	-	5.6.36	22:41
	NMLB	Aaron Edwards goal	17.8.110	-	5.6.36	24:12
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein goal	18.8.116	-	5.6.36	27:07
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron goal	18.8.116	-	6.6.42	28:32
	NMLB	Aaron Edwards goal	19.8.122	-	6.6.42	32:11
	NMLB	Leigh Adams behind	19.9.123	-	6.6.42	33:56
	NMLB	Daniel Wells goal	20.9.129	-	6.6.42	34:25
Q4	NMLB	Daniel Wells behind	20.10.130	-	6.6.42	01:03
	NMLB	Andrew Swallow behind	20.11.131	-	6.6.42	02:23
	NMLB	Aaron Mullett goal	21.11.137	-	6.6.42	02:48
	NMLB	Leigh Adams behind	21.12.138	-	6.6.42	04:42
	NMLB	Brent Harvey behind	21.13.139	-	6.6.42	06:36
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	22.13.145	-	6.6.42	08:09
	GWSY	Callan Ward goal	22.13.145	-	7.6.48	09:12
	NMLB	Liam Anthony goal	23.13.151	-	7.6.48	10:25
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron goal	23.13.151	-	8.6.54	13:10
	NMLB	Aaron Edwards behind	23.14.152	-	8.6.54	15:37
	NMLB	Jamie Macmillan goal	24.14.158	-	8.6.54	18:33
	NMLB	Andrew Swallow goal	25.14.164	-	8.6.54	22:27
	NMLB	Kieran Harper goal	26.14.170	-	8.6.54	24:11
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	27.14.176	-	8.6.54	25:35
	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac behind	27.15.177	-	8.6.54	26:37
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	28.15.183	-	8.6.54	29:42

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