2014 AFL Semi Final 2: Geelong v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 12 September 2014 between Geelong and North Melbourne in the second semi final of the 2014 AFL season. Geelong hosted North Melbourne at MCG. Joel Selwood captained the hosts. Andrew Swallow captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Geelong
Back: H. Taylor, T. Lonergan, J. Rivers
Half-back: A. Mackie, C. Enright, C. Guthrie
Centre: J. Kelly, J. Selwood (capt.), M. Stokes
Half-forward: S. Motlop, M. Brown, J. Murdoch
Forward: J. Thurlow, T. Hawkins, J. Bartel
Follower: M. Blicavs, J. Caddy, M. Duncan
Int.: G. Horlin-Smith, T. Varcoe, J. Walker
Sub.: L. McCarthy

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

Geelong (13.14.92) were defeated by North Melbourne (14.14.98).

Goalkickers
Geelong: T. Hawkins (5), J. Walker (3), J. Bartel, M. Blicavs, J. Caddy, M. Duncan, C. Enright
North Melbourne: D. Petrie (4), L. Thomas (3), J. Ziebell (2), A. Black, N. Dal Santo, T. Goldstein, B. Harvey, K. Turner

As a result of this match, North Melbourne faced Sydney in the first preliminary final and Geelong were eliminated (finishing 5th overall).

Match Details

Season: 2014 AFL Season
Round: Semi Final 2
Teams: Geelong v North Melbourne
Date: Friday 12 September 2014
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 65,964

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. by North Melbourne
Score: 13.14.92 - 14.14.98

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	5	.	1	5	.	6	8	.	9	13	.	14	13	.	14	(92)
North Melbourne	7	.	1	9	.	6	12	.	9	14	.	14	14	.	14	(98)
Margin	NMLB by 12			NMLB by 24			NMLB by 24			NMLB by 6			NMLB by 6
Duration	35:06			26:30			30:23			31:35			2:03:34

Honour Roll

Coaches: Chris Scott (Geelong), Brad Scott (North Melbourne)
Captains: Joel Selwood (Geelong), Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. Meredith (#21), M. Nicholls (#15), T. Pannell (#28), E: B. Rosebury (#8)
Goal Umpire: C. Appleton, L. Walker, E: S. Williams
Boundary Umpire: J. Creasey, C. Gordon, M. Konetschka, C. Roberts

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Bartel, Jimmy	FPR	94%	1	1	14	10	4	4	0	3	0	5	1	2	1	5
46	Blicavs, Mark	RU	87%	1	0	9	4	5	3	22	6	2	3	2	2	2	1
1	Brown, Mitch	CHF	89%	0	0	10	7	3	5	1	4	0	0	0	0	2	1
23	Caddy, Josh	RR	89%	1	2	26	13	13	5	1	1	4	4	0	1	1	5
22	Duncan, Mitch	RO	90%	1	0	20	11	9	5	0	5	2	1	0	0	2	6
44	Enright, Corey	CHB	89%	1	0	15	11	4	6	0	0	1	3	1	2	1	3
29	Guthrie, Cameron	HBFR	80%	0	0	12	5	7	1	0	6	8	6	2	3	0	2
26	Hawkins, Tom	FF	98%	5	3	18	15	3	13	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	3
33	Horlin-Smith, George	INT	71%	0	0	10	4	6	1	0	3	5	2	1	0	1	3
9	Kelly, James	WL	87%	0	0	9	6	3	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	3	0
13	Lonergan, Tom	FB	92%	0	0	9	6	3	3	0	3	0	1	1	1	3	1
4	Mackie, Andrew	HBFL	94%	0	0	18	14	4	7	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	6
6	McCarthy, Lincoln	SUB↑	32%	0	1	6	3	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Motlop, Steven	HFFL	88%	0	2	14	11	3	4	0	1	2	3	0	1	3	3
21	Murdoch, Jordan	HFFR	78%	0	0	7	3	4	2	0	2	1	1	1	0	1	1
25	Rivers, Jared	BPR	67%	0	1	10	6	4	4	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	1
14	Selwood, Joel (c)	C	86%	0	0	24	14	10	5	0	8	11	2	5	2	2	4
27	Stokes, Mathew	WR	86%	0	0	12	7	5	2	0	2	2	1	1	1	2	1
7	Taylor, Harry	BPL	90%	0	0	10	7	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	2
40	Thurlow, Jackson	FPL↓	48%	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
5	Varcoe, Travis	INT	86%	0	0	14	9	5	2	0	5	1	2	1	1	3	3
34	Walker, Josh	INT	80%	3	1	7	5	2	4	7	3	0	4	0	2	0	1
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				13	14	279	173	106	82	31	59	39	46	20	19	33	52

L. McCarthy replaced J. Thurlow.

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
18	Atley, Shaun	WR	73%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0
3	Bastinac, Ryan	SUB↑	35%	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
35	Black, Aaron	INT	85%	1	3	11	7	4	4	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	1
50	Brown, Ben	CHF	84%	0	1	8	4	4	3	0	4	1	2	0	2	0	1
10	Cunnington, Ben	RR	76%	0	0	22	7	15	1	0	3	5	4	0	4	0	2
15	Dal Santo, Nick	INT	83%	1	0	35	22	13	8	1	4	4	2	2	0	5	6
11	Firrito, Michael	BPR	95%	0	0	13	8	5	2	0	3	1	0	0	0	4	1
43	Gibson, Sam	HBFR	84%	0	0	35	17	18	8	0	5	6	1	1	0	2	6
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	91%	1	1	15	8	7	4	54	5	5	2	2	1	1	3
24	Greenwood, Levi	HFFL	77%	0	1	22	14	8	5	0	5	2	1	0	0	1	3
17	Grima, Nathan	CHB	83%	0	0	13	10	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
29	Harvey, Brent	HFFR	91%	1	0	25	14	11	2	0	3	2	2	3	1	0	6
34	Macmillan, Jamie	WL↓	51%	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
21	McDonald, Luke	BPL	89%	0	0	20	11	9	6	0	1	0	3	1	1	2	4
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	97%	4	4	13	11	2	7	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	3
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	C	84%	0	0	21	9	12	4	0	4	5	5	0	3	3	3
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPL	88%	3	3	9	8	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	97%	0	0	17	10	7	6	0	3	0	3	1	2	3	2
40	Turner, Kayne	FPR	87%	1	0	8	3	5	2	0	9	1	3	2	1	1	1
8	Wells, Daniel	INT	76%	0	0	22	11	11	5	0	1	4	5	1	2	1	3
19	Wright, Sam	HBFL	91%	0	0	21	12	9	5	0	1	1	1	1	0	5	3
7	Ziebell, Jack	RO	84%	2	0	13	10	3	6	0	8	0	2	0	1	2	1
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				14	14	359	203	156	87	55	69	37	39	19	20	36	52

R. Bastinac replaced J. Macmillan 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

Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	21	L. McDonald	16	S. Thompson	11	M. Firrito	46	M. Blicavs	33	G. Horlin-Smith
	3	J. Bartel	26	T. Hawkins	40	J. Thurlow	23	J. Caddy	5	T. Varcoe
FORWARD							22	M. Duncan	34	J. Walker
HALF-BACK									6	L. McCarthy
	19	S. Wright	17	N. Grima	43	S. Gibson
	21	J. Murdoch	1	M. Brown	32	S. Motlop
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	34	J. Macmillan	9	A. Swallow (c)	18	S. Atley
	27	M. Stokes	14	J. Selwood (c)	9	J. Kelly	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							22	T. Goldstein	35	A. Black
HALF-FORWARD							10	B. Cunnington	15	N. Dal Santo
	24	L. Greenwood	50	B. Brown	29	B. Harvey	7	J. Ziebell	8	D. Wells
	29	C. Guthrie	44	C. Enright	4	A. Mackie			3	R. Bastinac
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	12	L. Thomas	20	D. Petrie	40	K. Turner
	25	J. Rivers	13	T. Lonergan	7	H. Taylor
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:20
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:30
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	05:15
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	1.0.6	-	3.0.18	06:35
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	1.0.6	-	4.0.24	08:08
	GEEL	Josh Walker goal	2.0.12	-	4.0.24	11:11
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	2.0.12	-	5.0.30	13:24
	GEEL	Josh Caddy behind	2.1.13	-	5.0.30	16:23
	NMLB	Kayne Turner goal	2.1.13	-	6.0.36	18:13
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	2.1.13	-	6.1.37	26:55
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein goal	2.1.13	-	7.1.43	27:15
	GEEL	Josh Walker goal	3.1.19	-	7.1.43	30:34
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	4.1.25	-	7.1.43	32:10
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	5.1.31	-	7.1.43	35:02
Q2	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	5.2.32	-	7.1.43	00:48
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	5.2.32	-	8.1.49	05:15
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	5.2.32	-	8.2.50	07:55
	GEEL	Jimmy Bartel behind	5.3.33	-	8.2.50	09:24
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	5.3.33	-	8.3.51	10:41
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	5.3.33	-	8.4.52	12:21
	GEEL	Jared Rivers behind	5.4.34	-	8.4.52	17:41
	NMLB	Ben Brown behind	5.4.34	-	8.5.53	18:46
	GEEL	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	8.5.53	19:58
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	5.5.35	-	8.6.54	21:08
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	5.5.35	-	9.6.60	21:42
	GEEL	Josh Walker behind	5.6.36	-	9.6.60	23:46
Q3	GEEL	Josh Caddy behind	5.7.37	-	9.6.60	00:32
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein behind	5.7.37	-	9.7.61	04:21
	NMLB	Aaron Black goal	5.7.37	-	10.7.67	08:20
	GEEL	Josh Caddy goal	6.7.43	-	10.7.67	09:54
	NMLB	Nick Dal Santo goal	6.7.43	-	11.7.73	11:41
	GEEL	Mark Blicavs goal	7.7.49	-	11.7.73	14:31
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	7.7.49	-	12.7.79	19:20
	NMLB	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	12.8.80	20:48
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	7.7.49	-	12.9.81	21:27
	GEEL	Steven Motlop behind	7.8.50	-	12.9.81	23:25
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	7.9.51	-	12.9.81	26:59
	GEEL	Corey Enright goal	8.9.57	-	12.9.81	29:07
Q4	GEEL	Josh Walker goal	9.9.63	-	12.9.81	00:57
	NMLB	Aaron Black behind	9.9.63	-	12.10.82	03:03
	NMLB	Aaron Black behind	9.9.63	-	12.11.83	04:45
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	9.10.64	-	12.11.83	06:06
	GEEL	Rushed behind	9.11.65	-	12.11.83	06:47
	NMLB	Aaron Black behind	9.11.65	-	12.12.84	10:23
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	9.11.65	-	13.12.90	11:42
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	9.11.65	-	13.13.91	12:41
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	9.11.65	-	14.13.97	13:55
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	10.11.71	-	14.13.97	16:27
	GEEL	Steven Motlop behind	10.12.72	-	14.13.97	17:42
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	11.12.78	-	14.13.97	18:47
	NMLB	Levi Greenwood behind	11.12.78	-	14.14.98	20:37
	GEEL	Rushed behind	11.13.79	-	14.14.98	21:37
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	12.13.85	-	14.14.98	22:24
	GEEL	Lincoln McCarthy behind	12.14.86	-	14.14.98	24:49
	GEEL	Jimmy Bartel goal	13.14.92	-	14.14.98	26:38

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