2015 AFL Season Round 1: Adelaide v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 5 April 2015 between Adelaide and North Melbourne during round one of the 2015 season of the Australian Football League. Adelaide hosted North Melbourne at Adelaide Oval. Taylor Walker captained the hosts. Andrew Swallow captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Phil Walsh and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Adelaide (21.14.140) defeated North Melbourne (9.9.63).

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Adelaide v North Melbourne
Date: Sunday 5 April 2015
Time: 2:50 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 45,607

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. North Melbourne
Score: 21.14.140 - 9.9.63

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Adelaide	6	.	4	12	.	10	15	.	12	21	.	14	21	.	14	(140)
North Melbourne	2	.	1	3	.	1	9	.	4	9	.	9	9	.	9	(63)
Margin	ADEL by 27			ADEL by 63			ADEL by 44			ADEL by 77			ADEL by 77
Duration	29:09			31:29			30:08			29:51			2:00:37

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Adelaide) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (North Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Adelaide

Captain: Taylor Walker
Coach: Phil Walsh

North Melbourne

Captain: Andrew Swallow
Coach: Brad Scott

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

L. Fisher (#3)
J. Mollison (#32)
M. Nicholls (#15)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Taylor Walker	ADEL	13	3
Patrick Dangerfield	ADEL	32	2
Eddie Betts	ADEL	18	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Taylor Walker	ADEL	13	10	2	0	0	0	0
Patrick Dangerfield	ADEL	32	7	0	1	1	0	0
Rory Sloane	ADEL	9	4	0	1	0	0	0
Eddie Betts	ADEL	18	3	0	0	?	?	?
Rory Laird	ADEL	29	3	0	0	?	?	?
Richard Douglas	ADEL	26	2	0	0	0	1	0
Shaun Higgins	NMLB	4	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
18	Betts, Eddie	HFFL	92%	4	0	21	15	6	8	0	7	2	2	0	1	1	4
16	Brown, Luke	CHB↓	46%	0	0	8	5	3	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0
23	Cameron, Charlie	FF	85%	1	3	11	11	0	5	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	5
25	Cheney, Kyle	BPR	99%	0	0	14	11	3	7	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	1
32	Dangerfield, Patrick	RR	82%	2	0	25	15	10	2	0	4	7	4	0	2	0	5
26	Douglas, Richard	RO	88%	0	0	31	22	9	5	0	3	10	9	0	3	3	7
28	Ellis-Yolmen, Cam	INT	67%	0	0	15	8	7	2	2	2	2	3	1	2	0	4
15	Hartigan, Kyle	FB	99%	0	0	16	6	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
45	Henderson, Ricky	WL	53%	0	0	12	10	2	1	0	2	1	2	1	0	4	3
24	Jacobs, Sam	RU	84%	0	0	13	10	3	7	26	1	0	0	1	0	1	2
10	Jaensch, Matthew	HBFR	81%	0	0	14	12	2	6	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	3
4	Jenkins, Josh	INT	81%	3	1	14	7	7	7	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	1
29	Laird, Rory	HBFL	88%	1	0	24	14	10	7	0	2	1	4	0	2	3	2
27	Lynch, Tom	FPR	89%	1	0	10	8	2	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
31	Lyons, Jarryd	SUB↑	32%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	4	3	2	0	0	1	0
14	MacKay, David	INT	81%	0	0	15	7	8	4	0	3	2	1	0	0	4	1
9	Sloane, Rory	C	88%	2	0	26	14	12	6	1	5	5	5	4	3	1	4
33	Smith, Brodie	WR	80%	1	0	22	14	8	5	0	3	3	3	2	0	5	6
12	Talia, Daniel	BPL	100%	0	0	17	7	10	4	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	0
7	van Berlo, Nathan	HFFR	82%	0	0	17	10	7	4	0	4	3	1	1	1	1	6
13	Walker, Taylor (c)	FPL	97%	6	5	22	21	1	15	0	0	0	4	1	2	0	7
11	Wright, Matthew	CHF	90%	0	0	9	8	1	3	0	4	0	3	0	1	1	2
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				21	14	366	241	125	114	32	57	41	50	16	17	35	63

J. Lyons replaced L. Brown.

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
18	Atley, Shaun	HBFL	88%	0	0	17	8	9	3	0	8	1	0	1	0	1	5
3	Bastinac, Ryan	INT	79%	1	0	15	9	6	3	0	3	1	3	0	2	3	4
10	Cunnington, Ben	RR	78%	0	0	26	11	15	8	0	2	4	5	0	0	1	2
15	Dal Santo, Nick	HFFR	80%	0	0	20	13	7	2	0	1	3	2	1	1	1	6
11	Firrito, Michael	BPR	98%	0	0	10	7	3	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	1
43	Gibson, Sam	WR	87%	1	1	23	16	7	5	0	0	5	4	0	0	4	3
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	90%	0	0	10	2	8	4	35	4	2	0	0	0	0	1
29	Harvey, Brent	FPR	95%	0	1	18	9	9	1	0	0	0	3	1	1	1	1
4	Higgins, Shaun	WL	90%	4	0	15	6	9	4	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3
5	Jacobs, Ben	INT	70%	0	0	11	9	2	3	0	1	0	3	1	1	3	1
34	Macmillan, Jamie	HBFR	80%	0	0	17	13	4	7	0	2	0	2	0	0	6	2
21	McDonald, Luke	BPL	88%	0	0	10	5	5	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	96%	1	2	8	6	2	3	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	3
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	RO	81%	0	0	22	4	18	0	0	3	5	4	1	2	1	1
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPL	91%	2	0	17	10	7	4	0	2	1	4	2	1	1	3
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	88%	0	0	14	6	8	4	0	1	0	3	2	1	4	1
36	Tippett, Joel	CHB↓	48%	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
40	Turner, Kayne	SUB↑	48%	0	1	8	6	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2
30	Waite, Jarrad	CHF	88%	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	4	0	4	1	1	0	1
8	Wells, Daniel	INT	75%	0	0	11	2	9	1	2	5	2	2	0	1	0	1
19	Wright, Sam	HFFL	82%	0	0	16	11	5	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	2
7	Ziebell, Jack	C	83%	0	1	17	13	4	3	1	6	2	3	2	2	1	4
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				9	9	316	172	144	72	41	50	26	48	17	16	33	47

K. Turner replaced J. Tippett.

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

Adelaide							Coach: Phil Walsh
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	21	L. McDonald	16	S. Thompson	11	M. Firrito	24	S. Jacobs	28	C. Ellis-Yolmen
	27	T. Lynch	23	C. Cameron	13	T. Walker (c)	32	P. Dangerfield	4	J. Jenkins
FORWARD							26	R. Douglas	14	D. MacKay
HALF-BACK									31	J. Lyons
	18	S. Atley	36	J. Tippett	34	J. Macmillan
	7	N. van Berlo	11	M. Wright	18	E. Betts
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	4	S. Higgins	7	J. Ziebell	43	S. Gibson
	33	B. Smith	9	R. Sloane	45	R. Henderson	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							22	T. Goldstein	3	R. Bastinac
HALF-FORWARD							10	B. Cunnington	5	B. Jacobs
	19	S. Wright	30	J. Waite	15	N. Dal Santo	9	A. Swallow (c)	8	D. Wells
	10	M. Jaensch	16	L. Brown	29	R. Laird			40	K. Turner
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	12	L. Thomas	20	D. Petrie	29	B. Harvey
	25	K. Cheney	15	K. Hartigan	12	D. Talia
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ADEL	Rory Sloane goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:16
	ADEL	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	02:26
	NMLB	Brent Harvey behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	05:48
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	07:32
	ADEL	Charlie Cameron behind	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	09:19
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	2.2.14	-	1.1.7	10:02
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	2.3.15	-	1.1.7	11:31
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	2.3.15	-	2.1.13	12:56
	ADEL	Josh Jenkins goal	3.3.21	-	2.1.13	19:57
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	3.4.22	-	2.1.13	21:55
	ADEL	Brodie Smith goal	4.4.28	-	2.1.13	22:28
	ADEL	Eddie Betts goal	5.4.34	-	2.1.13	27:05
	ADEL	Tom Lynch goal	6.4.40	-	2.1.13	29:01
Q2	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	7.4.46	-	2.1.13	01:23
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	7.5.47	-	2.1.13	03:15
	ADEL	Eddie Betts goal	8.5.53	-	2.1.13	04:52
	ADEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	9.5.59	-	2.1.13	07:35
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	9.6.60	-	2.1.13	09:02
	ADEL	Rushed behind	9.7.61	-	2.1.13	15:07
	ADEL	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	2.1.13	18:54
	ADEL	Rushed behind	9.9.63	-	2.1.13	20:57
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	10.9.69	-	2.1.13	24:15
	ADEL	Charlie Cameron behind	10.10.70	-	2.1.13	25:28
	ADEL	Eddie Betts goal	11.10.76	-	2.1.13	26:07
	ADEL	Rory Sloane goal	12.10.82	-	2.1.13	27:10
	NMLB	Ryan Bastinac goal	12.10.82	-	3.1.19	29:32
Q3	NMLB	Rushed behind	12.10.82	-	3.2.20	00:19
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	12.10.82	-	4.2.26	01:04
	NMLB	Rushed behind	12.10.82	-	4.3.27	02:35
	NMLB	Kayne Turner behind	12.10.82	-	4.4.28	03:11
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	12.10.82	-	5.4.34	06:40
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	12.10.82	-	6.4.40	07:50
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	12.10.82	-	7.4.46	10:28
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	12.10.82	-	8.4.52	13:44
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	13.10.88	-	8.4.52	15:18
	ADEL	Rushed behind	13.11.89	-	8.4.52	16:46
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	13.12.90	-	8.4.52	18:06
	ADEL	Rory Laird goal	14.12.96	-	8.4.52	21:13
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	14.12.96	-	9.4.58	26:27
	ADEL	Josh Jenkins goal	15.12.102	-	9.4.58	30:02
Q4	ADEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	16.12.108	-	9.4.58	00:20
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	17.12.114	-	9.4.58	01:59
	NMLB	Rushed behind	17.12.114	-	9.5.59	10:03
	ADEL	Charlie Cameron behind	17.13.115	-	9.5.59	10:36
	NMLB	Sam Gibson behind	17.13.115	-	9.6.60	11:33
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	18.13.121	-	9.6.60	18:05
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell behind	18.13.121	-	9.7.61	19:54
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	18.13.121	-	9.8.62	20:49
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	18.13.121	-	9.9.63	22:05
	ADEL	Charlie Cameron goal	19.13.127	-	9.9.63	22:46
	ADEL	Josh Jenkins goal	20.13.133	-	9.9.63	26:32
	ADEL	Eddie Betts goal	21.13.139	-	9.9.63	28:06
	ADEL	Josh Jenkins behind	21.14.140	-	9.9.63	29:35

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