2014 AFL Elimination Final 2: North Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 6 September 2014 between North Melbourne and Essendon in the second elimination final of the 2014 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Essendon at MCG. Andrew Swallow captained the hosts. Jobe Watson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Mark Thompson.

North Melbourne
Back: L. McDonald, S. Thompson, M. Firrito
Half-back: J. Macmillan, N. Grima, S. Atley
Centre: S. Wright, A. Swallow (capt.), B. Jacobs
Half-forward: L. Greenwood, B. Brown, K. Turner
Forward: L. Thomas, D. Petrie, A. Black
Follower: T. Goldstein, B. Cunnington, J. Ziebell
Int.: N. Dal Santo, S. Gibson, D. Wells
Sub.: R. Bastinac

Essendon
Back: M. Baguley, C. Hooker, A. Steinberg
Half-back: J. Winderlich, M. Hurley, M. Hibberd
Centre: B. Goddard, J. Watson (capt.), D. Heppell
Half-forward: P. Chapman, J. Daniher, T. Colyer
Forward: D. Zaharakis, T. Bellchambers, Z. Merrett
Follower: P. Ryder, D. Myers, H. Hocking
Int.: M. Gleeson, B. Howlett, B. Stanton
Sub.: C. Dempsey

North Melbourne (14.9.93) defeated Essendon (12.9.81).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: B. Brown (4), L. Thomas (3), D. Petrie (2), B. Cunnington, N. Dal Santo, S. Gibson, L. Greenwood, J. Ziebell
Essendon: J. Daniher (4), P. Chapman (2), T. Colyer (2), T. Bellchambers, B. Goddard, B. Howlett, P. Ryder

As a result of this match, North Melbourne faced Geelong in the second semi final and Essendon were eliminated (finishing 7th overall).

Match Details

Season: 2014 AFL Season
Round: Elimination Final 2
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Saturday 6 September 2014
Time: 7:15 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 78,561

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Essendon
Score: 14.9.93 - 12.9.81

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	2	.	3	2	.	4	9	.	5	14	.	9	14	.	9	(93)
Essendon	2	.	4	6	.	7	10	.	8	12	.	9	12	.	9	(81)
Margin	ESSE by 1			ESSE by 27			ESSE by 9			NMLB by 12			NMLB by 12
Duration	27:44			30:20			31:36			30:51			2:00:31

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (North Melbourne), Mark Thompson (Essendon)
Captains: Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne), Jobe Watson (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Donlon (#1), R. Findlay (#23), D. Margetts (#6), E: S. McInerney (#30)
Goal Umpire: B. Rogers, J. Venkataya, E: D. Dixon
Boundary Umpire: J. Collingridge, N. Doig, R. Haala, C. Roberts

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
18	Atley, Shaun	HBFR	88%	0	1	21	16	5	4	0	1	1	4	0	1	2	9
3	Bastinac, Ryan	SUB↑	28%	0	0	7	5	2	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	1
35	Black, Aaron	FPR	94%	0	0	12	10	2	9	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	3
50	Brown, Ben	CHF	95%	4	1	9	8	1	6	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1
10	Cunnington, Ben	RR	70%	1	0	30	12	18	7	0	3	7	2	1	1	2	1
15	Dal Santo, Nick	INT	84%	1	0	24	16	8	4	1	4	2	1	0	0	3	2
11	Firrito, Michael	BPR	95%	0	0	10	5	5	5	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	1
43	Gibson, Sam	INT	86%	1	0	27	17	10	10	0	3	2	3	1	0	2	4
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	87%	0	0	11	4	7	1	39	7	5	2	0	2	0	0
24	Greenwood, Levi	HFFL	86%	1	0	32	20	12	7	0	7	6	5	0	2	0	7
17	Grima, Nathan	CHB	91%	0	0	19	12	7	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	5	1
5	Jacobs, Ben	WR↓	60%	0	0	15	6	9	2	0	1	0	2	1	1	2	1
34	Macmillan, Jamie	HBFL	82%	0	0	19	10	9	5	0	5	0	2	1	1	2	0
21	McDonald, Luke	BPL	85%	0	0	11	7	4	4	0	2	0	3	0	1	4	0
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	96%	2	2	11	7	4	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	C	76%	0	1	23	9	14	5	0	3	4	2	0	2	1	3
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPL	90%	3	1	10	8	2	2	0	2	1	2	2	1	0	1
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	97%	0	1	24	17	7	13	0	2	0	1	2	0	6	7
40	Turner, Kayne	HFFR	79%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	3	0	2	1	0	1	4
8	Wells, Daniel	INT	76%	0	0	28	14	14	9	0	1	4	0	0	0	2	3
19	Wright, Sam	WL	81%	0	0	23	14	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	3
7	Ziebell, Jack	RO	75%	1	0	12	10	2	2	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	4
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				14	9	390	234	156	122	43	57	37	40	12	16	38	59

R. Bastinac replaced B. Jacobs during the third quarter.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
12	Baguley, Mark	BPL	89%	0	0	20	7	13	2	0	4	0	0	1	0	2	1
2	Bellchambers, Tom	FF	78%	1	1	12	8	4	4	9	0	1	2	1	1	0	2
3	Chapman, Paul	HFFL	77%	2	1	22	12	10	3	0	3	4	0	1	0	0	4
32	Colyer, Travis	HFFR	90%	2	0	15	12	3	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	4
6	Daniher, Joe	CHF	88%	4	1	11	8	3	4	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	0
15	Dempsey, Courtenay	SUB↑	33%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Gleeson, Martin	INT↓	54%	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
9	Goddard, Brendon	WL	83%	1	0	23	14	9	5	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	7
21	Heppell, Dyson	WR	86%	0	1	34	20	14	5	4	2	7	2	1	0	5	6
1	Hibberd, Michael	HBFR	86%	0	0	24	15	9	4	0	3	2	3	1	0	9	2
39	Hocking, Heath	RO	86%	0	0	16	12	4	5	0	4	4	0	0	0	2	5
26	Hooker, Cale	FB	98%	0	0	13	6	7	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	1	1
40	Howlett, Ben	INT	83%	1	0	15	7	8	2	0	7	2	2	1	1	0	3
18	Hurley, Michael	CHB	94%	0	0	20	13	7	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	1
27	Merrett, Zach	FPR	85%	0	2	18	10	8	4	0	5	2	2	1	0	2	3
23	Myers, David	RR	81%	0	1	20	12	8	2	2	6	3	2	1	0	0	5
30	Ryder, Paddy	RU	90%	1	1	15	7	8	5	19	3	3	0	1	0	2	2
5	Stanton, Brent	INT	84%	0	0	19	10	9	3	0	6	0	4	0	0	3	2
25	Steinberg, Ariel	BPR	79%	0	0	11	5	6	2	0	0	0	2	2	1	3	0
4	Watson, Jobe (c)	C	89%	0	0	25	8	17	6	0	6	5	5	0	3	0	1
8	Winderlich, Jason	HBFL	86%	0	0	12	6	6	3	0	1	0	3	0	2	1	2
11	Zaharakis, David	FPL	83%	0	0	20	12	8	2	0	4	1	3	0	1	1	2
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				12	9	371	207	164	71	35	64	36	38	16	12	42	53

C. Dempsey replaced M. Gleeson 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
	12	M. Baguley	26	C. Hooker	25	A. Steinberg	22	T. Goldstein	15	N. Dal Santo
	35	A. Black	20	D. Petrie	12	L. Thomas	10	B. Cunnington	43	S. Gibson
FORWARD							7	J. Ziebell	8	D. Wells
HALF-BACK									3	R. Bastinac
	8	J. Winderlich	18	M. Hurley	1	M. Hibberd
	40	K. Turner	50	B. Brown	24	L. Greenwood
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	9	B. Goddard	4	J. Watson (c)	21	D. Heppell
	5	B. Jacobs	9	A. Swallow (c)	19	S. Wright	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							30	P. Ryder	35	M. Gleeson
HALF-FORWARD							23	D. Myers	40	B. Howlett
	3	P. Chapman	6	J. Daniher	32	T. Colyer	39	H. Hocking	5	B. Stanton
	18	S. Atley	17	N. Grima	34	J. Macmillan			15	C. Dempsey
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	11	D. Zaharakis	2	T. Bellchambers	27	Z. Merrett
	11	M. Firrito	16	S. Thompson	21	L. McDonald
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Mark Thompson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:47
	ESSE	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:01
	ESSE	Joe Daniher behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	06:32
	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	0.0.0	-	2.2.14	08:19
	ESSE	Paul Chapman behind	0.0.0	-	2.3.15	10:25
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	0.1.1	-	2.3.15	13:02
	NMLB	Nick Dal Santo goal	1.1.7	-	2.3.15	13:23
	NMLB	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	2.3.15	15:45
	NMLB	Levi Greenwood goal	2.2.14	-	2.3.15	16:47
	ESSE	Dyson Heppell behind	2.2.14	-	2.4.16	20:48
	NMLB	Ben Brown behind	2.3.15	-	2.4.16	24:33
Q2	ESSE	Travis Colyer goal	2.3.15	-	3.4.22	04:12
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	2.3.15	-	4.4.28	06:56
	ESSE	Brendon Goddard goal	2.3.15	-	5.4.34	17:00
	ESSE	Paul Chapman goal	2.3.15	-	6.4.40	21:04
	NMLB	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	6.4.40	23:18
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder behind	2.4.16	-	6.5.41	24:29
	ESSE	David Myers behind	2.4.16	-	6.6.42	27:02
	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers behind	2.4.16	-	6.7.43	29:30
Q3	NMLB	Shaun Atley behind	2.5.17	-	6.7.43	00:44
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	2.5.17	-	6.8.44	02:28
	ESSE	Paul Chapman goal	2.5.17	-	7.8.50	03:52
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	3.5.23	-	7.8.50	06:06
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	4.5.29	-	7.8.50	07:39
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	5.5.35	-	7.8.50	09:07
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	6.5.41	-	7.8.50	13:24
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	7.5.47	-	7.8.50	17:30
	ESSE	Ben Howlett goal	7.5.47	-	8.8.56	20:20
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	8.5.53	-	8.8.56	23:08
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	8.5.53	-	9.8.62	24:19
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	9.5.59	-	9.8.62	28:08
	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers goal	9.5.59	-	10.8.68	31:30
Q4	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	10.5.65	-	10.8.68	01:58
	NMLB	Andrew Swallow behind	10.6.66	-	10.8.68	03:08
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	10.6.66	-	11.8.74	06:24
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	11.6.72	-	11.8.74	08:02
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	11.7.73	-	11.8.74	09:38
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	12.7.79	-	11.8.74	11:04
	ESSE	Paddy Ryder goal	12.7.79	-	12.8.80	18:05
	NMLB	Scott Thompson behind	12.8.80	-	12.8.80	19:42
	ESSE	Zach Merrett behind	12.8.80	-	12.9.81	20:50
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	13.8.86	-	12.9.81	23:45
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	14.8.92	-	12.9.81	24:49
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	14.9.93	-	12.9.81	26:56

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