2012 AFL Round 18: North Melbourne v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 28 July 2012 between North Melbourne and Melbourne during round 18 of the 2012 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Melbourne at Etihad Stadium. Andrew Swallow captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Mark Neeld.

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

Melbourne
Back: D. Nicholson, J. Sellar, T. McDonald
Half-back: J. MacDonald, J. Frawley, C. Garland
Centre: R. Bail, J. Grimes, J. Trengove
Half-forward: C. Sylvia, S. Martin, L. Dunn
Forward: N. Jetta, J. Rivers, B. Green
Follower: J. Spencer, J. McKenzie, N. Jones
Int.: S. Blease, J. Howe, B. Moloney
Sub.: J. Strauss

North Melbourne (19.13.127) defeated Melbourne (11.7.73).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: D. Petrie (4), R. Tarrant (4), L. Adams (2), B. Harvey (2), L. Thomas (2), L. Anthony, R. Bastinac, K. Harper, J. Macmillan, A. Swallow
Melbourne: B. Green (3), C. Sylvia (3), S. Blease, C. Garland, J. Howe, N. Jones, S. Martin

As a result of this match, North Melbourne remained 8th on the ladder and Melbourne remained 16th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: North Melbourne v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 28 July 2012
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 20,816

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Melbourne
Score: 19.13.127 - 11.7.73

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	5	.	4	9	.	6	15	.	10	19	.	13	19	.	13	(127)
Melbourne	1	.	2	5	.	5	7	.	5	11	.	7	11	.	7	(73)
Margin	NMLB by 26			NMLB by 25			NMLB by 53			NMLB by 54			NMLB by 54
Duration	28:12			31:27			31:29			31:18			2:02:26

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (North Melbourne), Mark Neeld (Melbourne)
Captains: Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne), unknown (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: J. Armstrong (#26), D. Harris (#34), S. McBurney (#3), E: M. Brown (#35)
Goal Umpire: C. Appleton, P. Gonis, E: D. Dixon
Boundary Umpire: G. Bergroth, S. Jones, C. Morrison, T. Morrison

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Andrew Swallow	NMLB	9	3
Todd Goldstein	NMLB	22	2
Nathan Jones	MELB	2	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Andrew Swallow	NMLB	9	9	1	1	0	0	0
Sam Gibson	NMLB	43	8	1	0	1	0	0
Todd Goldstein	NMLB	22	4	0	1	0	0	0
Ryan Bastinac	NMLB	3	3	0	0	1	0	0
Ben Cunnington	NMLB	10	2	0	0	0	?	?
Brent Harvey	NMLB	29	2	0	0	0	?	?
Nathan Jones	MELB	2	2	0	0	0	?	?

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Adams, Leigh	HFFL	56%	2	0	9	6	3	0	0	3	3	1	2	1	0	0
4	Anthony, Liam	INT	75%	1	2	29	13	16	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	4
18	Atley, Shaun	HBFL	95%	0	0	19	9	10	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	4
3	Bastinac, Ryan	WL	82%	1	1	29	12	17	7	0	1	1	4	0	1	3	5
33	Campbell, Matt	SUB↑	37%	0	1	11	7	4	1	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	4
10	Cunnington, Ben	WR	77%	0	0	27	6	21	1	0	8	7	2	1	1	0	0
11	Firrito, Michael	BPR	95%	0	0	20	10	10	5	0	0	0	3	0	3	2	2
43	Gibson, Sam	INT	79%	0	0	36	23	13	8	0	4	3	2	1	1	2	10
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	94%	0	0	22	6	16	3	48	0	7	3	2	2	0	2
17	Grima, Nathan	CHB	93%	0	0	20	9	11	5	0	1	1	1	1	0	2	0
6	Hansen, Lachlan	INT	94%	0	0	4	3	1	2	2	5	1	1	0	1	0	3
23	Harper, Kieran	FPL	71%	1	3	6	5	1	1	0	2	1	1	1	1	0	2
29	Harvey, Brent	RO	83%	2	0	30	12	18	6	0	2	3	0	0	0	1	0
34	Macmillan, Jamie	HBFR	91%	1	0	24	13	11	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3
42	McMahon, Scott	BPL↓	51%	0	0	9	7	2	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	95%	4	0	13	10	3	7	1	0	0	4	1	2	0	3
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	RR	83%	1	0	32	14	18	3	0	17	3	3	5	2	2	7
25	Tarrant, Robbie	CHF	99%	4	1	17	11	6	4	0	2	0	5	3	1	0	2
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPR	84%	2	0	8	6	2	2	0	3	1	1	1	1	0	2
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	90%	0	0	17	3	14	3	0	3	0	2	0	1	1	2
8	Wells, Daniel	C	85%	0	1	26	9	17	2	0	3	9	1	2	1	2	4
19	Wright, Sam	HFFR	90%	0	2	24	15	9	7	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				19	13	432	209	223	85	51	61	42	40	22	19	24	62

M. Campbell replaced S. McMahon during the third quarter.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
44	Bail, Rohan	WL	87%	0	3	16	11	5	4	0	4	1	2	2	1	0	5
17	Blease, Sam	INT	77%	1	1	11	8	3	4	0	2	0	2	0	1	3	2
14	Dunn, Lynden	HFFR	89%	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	3	0	3	1	1	1	0
8	Frawley, James	CHB	100%	0	0	14	9	5	6	0	2	0	1	1	1	3	1
20	Garland, Colin	HBFR	82%	1	1	4	3	1	1	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	2
18	Green, Brad	FPR	94%	3	1	10	9	1	6	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
16	Grimes, Jack	C	82%	0	0	23	11	12	5	0	2	2	2	1	0	3	2
38	Howe, Jeremy	INT	77%	1	0	20	13	7	6	1	4	5	3	4	1	2	4
39	Jetta, Neville	FPL↓	48%	0	0	7	4	3	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
2	Jones, Nathan	RO	81%	1	0	32	14	18	4	0	4	10	2	0	1	2	1
28	MacDonald, Joel	HBFL	93%	0	0	20	7	13	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	6	0
34	Martin, Stefan	CHF	84%	1	0	12	4	8	1	11	4	2	2	2	0	0	0
25	McDonald, Tom	BPR	98%	0	0	23	12	11	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	4	2
13	McKenzie, Jordie	RR	75%	0	0	21	8	13	2	0	6	3	2	2	2	1	3
22	Moloney, Brent	INT	77%	0	0	29	13	16	3	0	4	3	3	0	3	3	5
26	Nicholson, Daniel	BPL	85%	0	0	13	6	7	4	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	1
27	Rivers, Jared	FF	99%	0	0	18	9	9	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	1
30	Sellar, James	FB	97%	0	0	14	6	8	4	0	1	0	6	2	4	3	0
42	Spencer, Jake	RU	87%	0	0	5	1	4	0	27	5	3	2	2	2	0	0
19	Strauss, James	SUB↑	30%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
12	Sylvia, Colin	HFFL	84%	3	1	12	10	2	7	0	6	1	3	1	1	1	1
9	Trengove, Jack	WR	73%	0	0	17	8	9	5	1	6	2	3	0	1	3	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				11	7	337	174	163	83	40	62	33	44	19	22	40	37

J. Strauss replaced N. Jetta.

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
	26	D. Nicholson	30	J. Sellar	25	T. McDonald	22	T. Goldstein	4	L. Anthony
	12	L. Thomas	20	D. Petrie	23	K. Harper	9	A. Swallow (c)	43	S. Gibson
FORWARD							29	B. Harvey	6	L. Hansen
HALF-BACK									33	M. Campbell
	28	J. MacDonald	8	J. Frawley	20	C. Garland
	19	S. Wright	25	R. Tarrant	13	L. Adams
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	44	R. Bail	16	J. Grimes	9	J. Trengove
	10	B. Cunnington	8	D. Wells	3	R. Bastinac	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							42	J. Spencer	17	S. Blease
HALF-FORWARD							13	J. McKenzie	38	J. Howe
	12	C. Sylvia	34	S. Martin	14	L. Dunn	2	N. Jones	22	B. Moloney
	34	J. Macmillan	17	N. Grima	18	S. Atley			19	J. Strauss
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	39	N. Jetta	27	J. Rivers	18	B. Green
	11	M. Firrito	16	S. Thompson	42	S. McMahon
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Mark Neeld

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:30
	NMLB	Jamie Macmillan goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	05:40
	NMLB	Liam Anthony behind	2.1.13	-	0.0.0	07:33
	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac behind	2.2.14	-	0.0.0	08:31
	NMLB	Liam Anthony goal	3.2.20	-	0.0.0	09:52
	NMLB	Andrew Swallow goal	4.2.26	-	0.0.0	11:25
	NMLB	Kieran Harper behind	4.3.27	-	0.0.0	13:04
	NMLB	Daniel Wells behind	4.4.28	-	0.0.0	15:25
	MELB	Colin Garland behind	4.4.28	-	0.1.1	18:52
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	5.4.34	-	0.1.1	20:05
	MELB	Sam Blease goal	5.4.34	-	1.1.7	21:14
	MELB	Colin Sylvia behind	5.4.34	-	1.2.8	23:14
Q2	NMLB	Robbie Tarrant goal	6.4.40	-	1.2.8	09:15
	MELB	Jeremy Howe goal	6.4.40	-	2.2.14	13:25
	MELB	Colin Garland goal	6.4.40	-	3.2.20	14:32
	MELB	Brad Green behind	6.4.40	-	3.3.21	16:10
	MELB	Rohan Bail behind	6.4.40	-	3.4.22	16:35
	NMLB	Robbie Tarrant goal	7.4.46	-	3.4.22	17:48
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	8.4.52	-	3.4.22	19:38
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	9.4.58	-	3.4.22	21:45
	MELB	Stefan Martin goal	9.4.58	-	4.4.28	23:15
	MELB	Rohan Bail behind	9.4.58	-	4.5.29	25:00
	MELB	Nathan Jones goal	9.4.58	-	5.5.35	29:06
	NMLB	Rushed behind	9.5.59	-	5.5.35	30:20
	NMLB	Rushed behind	9.6.60	-	5.5.35	31:15
Q3	NMLB	Leigh Adams goal	10.6.66	-	5.5.35	00:14
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	11.6.72	-	5.5.35	01:51
	NMLB	Robbie Tarrant goal	12.6.78	-	5.5.35	03:59
	NMLB	Leigh Adams goal	13.6.84	-	5.5.35	08:23
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	14.6.90	-	5.5.35	10:30
	NMLB	Liam Anthony behind	14.7.91	-	5.5.35	13:47
	NMLB	Sam Wright behind	14.8.92	-	5.5.35	14:43
	MELB	Brad Green goal	14.8.92	-	6.5.41	15:35
	NMLB	Kieran Harper behind	14.9.93	-	6.5.41	20:57
	NMLB	Matt Campbell behind	14.10.94	-	6.5.41	21:38
	MELB	Brad Green goal	14.10.94	-	7.5.47	24:38
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	15.10.100	-	7.5.47	29:28
Q4	NMLB	Robbie Tarrant behind	15.11.101	-	7.5.47	02:54
	NMLB	Kieran Harper goal	16.11.107	-	7.5.47	03:36
	MELB	Colin Sylvia goal	16.11.107	-	8.5.53	05:51
	MELB	Brad Green goal	16.11.107	-	9.5.59	08:10
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	17.11.113	-	9.5.59	12:29
	MELB	Colin Sylvia goal	17.11.113	-	10.5.65	15:36
	NMLB	Kieran Harper behind	17.12.114	-	10.5.65	17:38
	NMLB	Sam Wright behind	17.13.115	-	10.5.65	19:13
	MELB	Rohan Bail behind	17.13.115	-	10.6.66	20:51
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	18.13.121	-	10.6.66	23:40
	MELB	Sam Blease behind	18.13.121	-	10.7.67	26:45
	MELB	Colin Sylvia goal	18.13.121	-	11.7.73	29:12
	NMLB	Robbie Tarrant goal	19.13.127	-	11.7.73	31:09

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