2015 AFL Elimination Final 1: Richmond v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 13 September 2015 between Richmond and North Melbourne in the first elimination final of the 2015 AFL season. Richmond hosted North Melbourne at MCG. Trent Cotchin captained the hosts. Andrew Swallow captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Richmond
Back: C. Newman, J. Batchelor, A. Rance
Half-back: B. Houli, N. Vlastuin, T. Chaplin
Centre: B. Ellis, T. Cotchin (capt.), K. McIntosh
Half-forward: D. Martin, B. Griffiths, S. Edwards
Forward: J. Riewoldt, B. Deledio, T. Vickery
Follower: I. Maric, A. Miles, T. Hunt
Int.: S. Grigg, D. Grimes, K. Lambert
Sub.: R. Conca

North Melbourne
Back: M. Firrito, S. Thompson, S. Atley
Half-back: L. Hansen, R. Tarrant, J. Macmillan
Centre: S. Wright, J. Ziebell, B. Jacobs
Half-forward: S. Higgins, D. Petrie, T. Garner
Forward: R. Nahas, J. Waite, B. Harvey
Follower: T. Goldstein, A. Swallow (capt.), S. Gibson
Int.: B. Brown, B. Cunnington, N. Dal Santo
Sub.: L. Thomas

Richmond (14.4.88) were defeated by North Melbourne (15.15.105).

Goalkickers
Richmond: J. Riewoldt (4), C. Newman (2), T. Vickery (2), R. Conca, B. Deledio, S. Edwards, K. Lambert, K. McIntosh, A. Miles
North Melbourne: J. Waite (4), B. Brown (2), B. Harvey (2), D. Petrie (2), T. Garner, S. Higgins, J. Macmillan, R. Nahas, L. Thomas

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

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Elimination Final 1
Teams: Richmond v North Melbourne
Date: Sunday 13 September 2015
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 90,186

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. by North Melbourne
Score: 14.4.88 - 15.15.105

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Richmond	2	.	3	9	.	3	12	.	3	14	.	4	14	.	4	(88)
North Melbourne	1	.	6	6	.	8	11	.	13	15	.	15	15	.	15	(105)
Margin	RICH by 3			RICH by 13			NMLB by 4			NMLB by 17			NMLB by 17
Duration	27:53			32:34			32:02			29:10			2:01:39

Honour Roll

Coaches: Damien Hardwick (Richmond), Brad Scott (North Melbourne)
Captains: Trent Cotchin (Richmond), Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. Jeffery (#29), S. McInerney (#30), B. Rosebury (#8), E: J. Mollison (#32)
Goal Umpire: S. Axon, L. Walker, E: D. Wilson
Boundary Umpire: C. Gordon, R. Haala, J. Morris, S. Thiele

Player Statistics

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
11	Batchelor, Jake	FB	84%	0	0	13	8	5	6	1	4	1	0	0	0	2	1
25	Chaplin, Troy	HBFR	96%	0	0	8	5	3	7	0	3	0	3	0	1	1	1
30	Conca, Reece	SUB↑	32%	1	0	8	6	2	2	0	1	2	2	0	1	2	2
9	Cotchin, Trent (c)	C	85%	0	0	9	3	6	1	0	3	1	3	1	1	0	0
3	Deledio, Brett	FF	87%	1	0	17	10	7	2	1	6	4	5	1	2	1	2
10	Edwards, Shane	HFFR	82%	1	0	8	2	6	3	0	3	2	3	0	3	0	3
5	Ellis, Brandon	WL	88%	0	0	10	5	5	1	0	3	2	3	0	2	1	1
24	Griffiths, Ben	CHF↓	56%	0	2	4	3	1	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Grigg, Shaun	INT	80%	0	0	17	11	6	4	2	4	4	3	0	0	0	4
2	Grimes, Dylan	INT	73%	0	0	12	6	6	4	0	3	0	0	1	0	3	1
14	Houli, Bachar	HBFL	90%	0	0	17	14	3	6	0	1	0	2	1	0	3	4
28	Hunt, Taylor	RO	89%	0	0	16	9	7	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2
48	Lambert, Kane	INT	74%	1	0	10	5	5	1	0	2	3	2	3	1	1	1
20	Maric, Ivan	RU	87%	0	0	9	3	6	1	19	1	3	1	1	0	0	0
4	Martin, Dustin	HFFL	83%	0	0	21	17	4	4	0	0	1	5	0	3	7	3
33	McIntosh, Kamdyn	WR	86%	1	0	15	10	5	4	0	4	0	3	1	0	1	4
26	Miles, Anthony	RR	83%	1	0	22	11	11	6	0	1	9	2	3	2	0	4
1	Newman, Chris	BPL	75%	2	1	12	10	2	4	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	3
18	Rance, Alex	BPR	100%	0	0	18	10	8	5	0	3	1	1	0	1	8	0
8	Riewoldt, Jack	FPL	99%	4	0	14	10	4	7	3	4	0	2	1	2	0	3
29	Vickery, Ty	FPR	89%	2	1	11	11	0	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	3
31	Vlastuin, Nick	CHB	80%	0	0	12	8	4	3	0	2	0	2	1	1	3	0
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				14	4	283	177	106	83	31	51	35	45	17	21	35	42

R. Conca replaced B. Griffiths during the third quarter.

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
18	Atley, Shaun	BPR	82%	0	0	17	8	9	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	1
50	Brown, Ben	INT	73%	2	1	8	5	3	0	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
10	Cunnington, Ben	INT	73%	0	0	21	10	11	1	0	3	7	4	2	3	1	6
15	Dal Santo, Nick	INT	83%	0	0	15	9	6	2	1	3	3	4	0	2	2	5
11	Firrito, Michael	BPL	91%	0	0	10	7	3	5	0	0	0	2	1	1	3	2
27	Garner, Taylor	HFFR↓	60%	1	0	10	6	4	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
43	Gibson, Sam	RO	91%	0	0	20	11	9	6	0	3	1	1	1	0	0	2
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	91%	0	0	13	7	6	3	46	2	3	2	1	1	0	5
6	Hansen, Lachlan	HBFL	90%	0	0	21	11	10	9	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2
29	Harvey, Brent	FPR	87%	2	0	31	16	15	2	0	1	8	3	1	0	2	3
4	Higgins, Shaun	HFFL	89%	1	3	15	12	3	8	0	4	4	2	2	1	1	6
5	Jacobs, Ben	WR	85%	0	0	9	4	5	3	0	8	1	1	0	1	0	2
34	Macmillan, Jamie	HBFR	83%	1	0	20	9	11	5	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	1
28	Nahas, Robin	FPL	86%	1	0	9	7	2	2	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	2
20	Petrie, Drew	CHF	92%	2	3	13	12	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	RR	77%	0	0	22	8	14	2	0	9	7	1	5	0	1	2
25	Tarrant, Robbie	CHB	88%	0	0	10	4	6	1	0	3	0	3	0	2	2	1
12	Thomas, Lindsay	SUB↑	24%	1	0	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	0
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	99%	0	0	9	6	3	3	0	1	0	2	2	2	2	0
30	Waite, Jarrad	FF	90%	4	2	16	12	4	8	0	7	1	4	1	0	0	3
19	Wright, Sam	WL	89%	0	0	14	12	2	4	0	1	1	1	1	1	4	5
7	Ziebell, Jack	C	78%	0	1	23	17	6	7	1	2	5	5	0	0	2	2
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				15	15	329	196	133	82	51	59	42	42	21	17	27	55

L. Thomas replaced T. Garner.

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

Richmond							Coach: Damien Hardwick
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	11	M. Firrito	16	S. Thompson	18	S. Atley	20	I. Maric	6	S. Grigg
	29	T. Vickery	3	B. Deledio	8	J. Riewoldt	26	A. Miles	2	D. Grimes
FORWARD							28	T. Hunt	48	K. Lambert
HALF-BACK									30	R. Conca
	6	L. Hansen	25	R. Tarrant	34	J. Macmillan
	10	S. Edwards	24	B. Griffiths	4	D. Martin
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	19	S. Wright	7	J. Ziebell	5	B. Jacobs
	33	K. McIntosh	9	T. Cotchin (c)	5	B. Ellis	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							22	T. Goldstein	50	B. Brown
HALF-FORWARD							9	A. Swallow (c)	10	B. Cunnington
	4	S. Higgins	20	D. Petrie	27	T. Garner	43	S. Gibson	15	N. Dal Santo
	25	T. Chaplin	31	N. Vlastuin	14	B. Houli			12	L. Thomas
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	28	R. Nahas	30	J. Waite	29	B. Harvey
	18	A. Rance	11	J. Batchelor	1	C. Newman
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	RICH	Chris Newman goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	03:16
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	04:16
	RICH	Brett Deledio goal	2.0.12	-	0.1.1	05:24
	RICH	Chris Newman behind	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	09:34
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	2.1.13	-	0.2.2	10:54
	RICH	Ben Griffiths behind	2.2.14	-	0.2.2	13:58
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	15:20
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	2.2.14	-	1.3.9	16:52
	NMLB	Rushed behind	2.2.14	-	1.4.10	17:33
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	2.2.14	-	1.5.11	19:03
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	2.2.14	-	1.6.12	22:03
	RICH	Ben Griffiths behind	2.3.15	-	1.6.12	23:32
Q2	RICH	Jack Riewoldt goal	3.3.21	-	1.6.12	01:03
	RICH	Ty Vickery goal	4.3.27	-	1.6.12	04:07
	RICH	Anthony Miles goal	5.3.33	-	1.6.12	06:32
	NMLB	Taylor Garner goal	5.3.33	-	2.6.18	09:12
	RICH	Jack Riewoldt goal	6.3.39	-	2.6.18	11:24
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	6.3.39	-	3.6.24	15:00
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	6.3.39	-	3.7.25	17:45
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	6.3.39	-	4.7.31	19:20
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	6.3.39	-	5.7.37	21:32
	RICH	Shane Edwards goal	7.3.45	-	5.7.37	26:08
	RICH	Chris Newman goal	8.3.51	-	5.7.37	27:11
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	8.3.51	-	6.7.43	28:15
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	8.3.51	-	6.8.44	29:38
	RICH	Jack Riewoldt goal	9.3.57	-	6.8.44	31:05
Q3	NMLB	Rushed behind	9.3.57	-	6.9.45	02:10
	NMLB	Robin Nahas goal	9.3.57	-	7.9.51	03:07
	RICH	Kamdyn McIntosh goal	10.3.63	-	7.9.51	05:37
	NMLB	Ben Brown behind	10.3.63	-	7.10.52	07:29
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	10.3.63	-	8.10.58	09:13
	NMLB	Rushed behind	10.3.63	-	8.11.59	11:02
	NMLB	Jamie Macmillan goal	10.3.63	-	9.11.65	12:46
	RICH	Reece Conca goal	11.3.69	-	9.11.65	17:36
	NMLB	Rushed behind	11.3.69	-	9.12.66	19:46
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	11.3.69	-	10.12.72	26:33
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	11.3.69	-	11.12.78	28:12
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell behind	11.3.69	-	11.13.79	29:24
	RICH	Ty Vickery goal	12.3.75	-	11.13.79	31:00
Q4	RICH	Jack Riewoldt goal	13.3.81	-	11.13.79	03:42
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	13.3.81	-	12.13.85	05:29
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	13.3.81	-	13.13.91	09:10
	RICH	Kane Lambert goal	14.3.87	-	13.13.91	14:56
	NMLB	Rushed behind	14.3.87	-	13.14.92	16:45
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	14.3.87	-	14.14.98	20:02
	RICH	Ty Vickery behind	14.4.88	-	14.14.98	22:10
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	14.4.88	-	15.14.104	24:34
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	14.4.88	-	15.15.105	26:21

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