2015 AFL Round 20: North Melbourne v St Kilda

This is the match report for the match played on 15 August 2015 between North Melbourne and St Kilda during round 20 of the 2015 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted St Kilda at Blundstone Arena. Andrew Swallow captained the hosts. Nick Riewoldt captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Alan Richardson.

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

St Kilda
Back: S. Gilbert, S. Fisher, S. Dempster
Half-back: J. Geary, H. Goddard, D. Roberton
Centre: J. Webster, D. Armitage, J. Newnes
Half-forward: S. Ross, N. Riewoldt (capt.), M. Weller
Forward: D. Minchington, J. Bruce, T. Hickey
Follower: B. Longer, J. Steven, L. Montagna
Int.: B. Acres, J. Sinclair, N. Wright
Sub.: J. Saunders

North Melbourne (18.12.120) defeated St Kilda (11.17.83).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: D. Petrie (4), L. Thomas (3), T. Garner (2), B. Harvey (2), S. Atley, B. Cunnington, S. Gibson, S. Higgins, R. Nahas, J. Waite, J. Ziebell
St Kilda: J. Bruce (2), T. Hickey (2), N. Riewoldt (2), D. Armitage, J. Geary, D. Minchington, J. Newnes, J. Sinclair

As a result of this match, North Melbourne were then 7th on the ladder (down from 6th) and St Kilda remained 13th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: North Melbourne v St Kilda
Date: Saturday 15 August 2015
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Blundstone Arena
Attendance: 14,346

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. St Kilda
Score: 18.12.120 - 11.17.83

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	2	.	1	4	.	3	13	.	8	18	.	12	18	.	12	(120)
St Kilda	3	.	3	6	.	11	8	.	13	11	.	17	11	.	17	(83)
Margin	STKL by 8			STKL by 20			NMLB by 25			NMLB by 37			NMLB by 37
Duration	29:31			29:41			32:47			32:18			2:04:17

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (North Melbourne), Alan Richardson (St Kilda)
Captains: Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne), Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Deboy (#11), C. Donlon (#1), J. Schmitt (#17), E: M. Clarke (#39)
Goal Umpire: M. Ensbey, S. Williams, E: C. Lai
Boundary Umpire: J. Andrews, T. Lougoon, J. Moore, J. Scully

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Drew Petrie	NMLB	20	3
Leigh Montagna	STKL	11	2
Andrew Swallow	NMLB	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Andrew Swallow	NMLB	9	10	2	0	0	0	0
David Armitage	STKL	20	4	0	?	?	?	?
Ben Cunnington	NMLB	10	4	0	?	?	?	?
Drew Petrie	NMLB	20	4	0	?	?	?	?
Todd Goldstein	NMLB	22	3	0	0	?	?	?
Ben Jacobs	NMLB	5	3	0	0	?	?	?
Jack Newnes	STKL	16	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
18	Atley, Shaun	WR	81%	1	0	17	12	5	5	0	3	0	1	1	1	3	2
50	Brown, Ben	INT	83%	0	0	8	5	3	1	3	0	0	2	2	0	1	3
10	Cunnington, Ben	RR	78%	1	1	24	12	12	3	0	5	6	4	2	2	1	1
15	Dal Santo, Nick	WL	84%	0	0	22	13	9	1	0	5	1	3	2	0	3	2
11	Firrito, Michael	BPL	82%	0	0	16	12	4	7	1	2	0	1	0	1	4	4
27	Garner, Taylor	INT↓	57%	2	0	5	4	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1
43	Gibson, Sam	INT	94%	1	0	24	16	8	3	0	2	2	3	0	0	2	3
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	89%	0	0	11	2	9	1	39	6	4	1	2	0	1	3
6	Hansen, Lachlan	BPR	89%	0	0	8	4	4	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
29	Harvey, Brent	HFFR	94%	2	0	24	10	14	3	0	4	3	0	3	0	1	3
4	Higgins, Shaun	FPL	83%	1	1	22	4	18	1	0	1	2	2	1	2	0	2
5	Jacobs, Ben	HBFR	81%	0	1	20	9	11	3	0	6	9	6	1	2	0	4
21	McDonald, Luke	HFFL	90%	0	0	15	4	11	0	0	2	3	1	1	0	3	1
28	Nahas, Robin	SUB↑	26%	1	0	4	2	2	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
20	Petrie, Drew	CHF	90%	4	1	15	8	7	8	0	5	0	2	1	1	0	2
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	RO	80%	0	0	25	13	12	1	0	7	8	2	1	2	1	6
25	Tarrant, Robbie	FB	88%	0	0	11	8	3	3	1	2	0	1	1	1	3	1
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPR	82%	3	1	9	7	2	4	0	3	0	6	1	4	1	3
16	Thompson, Scott	CHB	91%	0	0	13	9	4	7	0	1	0	2	0	0	5	0
30	Waite, Jarrad	FF	87%	1	3	13	9	4	3	0	2	0	1	2	0	0	3
19	Wright, Sam	HBFL	91%	0	0	24	13	11	6	0	2	0	4	1	0	2	3
7	Ziebell, Jack	C	78%	1	1	17	12	5	7	0	6	4	6	0	1	3	3
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				18	12	347	188	159	73	44	67	43	52	23	20	35	50

R. Nahas replaced T. Garner.

St Kilda

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
8	Acres, Blake	INT	76%	0	0	11	4	7	3	1	4	2	1	1	1	0	4
20	Armitage, David	C	87%	1	0	28	13	15	2	0	7	7	1	3	0	4	6
27	Bruce, Josh	FF	96%	2	2	11	9	2	7	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	0
24	Dempster, Sean	BPR	81%	0	0	18	9	9	7	0	1	0	3	1	1	2	0
25	Fisher, Sam	FB	96%	0	0	14	10	4	7	1	1	0	3	0	2	0	3
14	Geary, Jarryn	HBFL	86%	1	0	20	12	8	5	0	4	1	3	1	0	2	4
19	Gilbert, Sam	BPL	81%	0	1	21	8	13	5	0	8	3	3	1	1	0	2
33	Goddard, Hugh	CHB	88%	0	0	20	7	13	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	3	0
1	Hickey, Tom	FPR	86%	2	2	12	6	6	7	9	0	2	2	1	2	0	1
18	Longer, Billy	RU	87%	0	0	8	3	5	3	12	3	1	2	1	1	0	1
41	Minchington, Darren	FPL	85%	1	3	11	5	6	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Montagna, Leigh	RO	90%	0	0	33	18	15	8	0	1	2	7	0	1	4	5
16	Newnes, Jack	WR	89%	1	0	26	15	11	10	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	6
12	Riewoldt, Nick (c)	CHF	88%	2	2	18	13	5	12	1	1	0	1	2	1	0	1
17	Roberton, Dylan	HBFR	82%	0	0	14	12	2	3	0	2	0	6	2	4	4	2
6	Ross, Sebastian	HFFL	83%	0	0	20	9	11	2	2	6	2	1	2	0	0	2
35	Saunders, Josh	SUB↑	29%	0	0	6	3	3	1	0	3	1	4	0	2	1	1
40	Sinclair, Jack	INT↓	57%	1	0	5	2	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
3	Steven, Jack	RR	88%	0	1	21	16	5	2	0	1	5	1	1	0	2	5
29	Webster, Jimmy	WL	87%	0	0	21	15	6	2	0	4	1	7	2	4	3	3
44	Weller, Maverick	HFFR	79%	0	2	19	10	9	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	6
34	Wright, Nathan	INT	78%	0	0	15	8	7	1	0	4	0	0	1	0	3	2
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				11	17	372	207	165	100	27	60	28	52	20	23	30	56

J. Saunders replaced J. Sinclair 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
	19	S. Gilbert	25	S. Fisher	24	S. Dempster	22	T. Goldstein	50	B. Brown
	12	L. Thomas	30	J. Waite	4	S. Higgins	10	B. Cunnington	27	T. Garner
FORWARD							9	A. Swallow (c)	43	S. Gibson
HALF-BACK									28	R. Nahas
	14	J. Geary	33	H. Goddard	17	D. Roberton
	29	B. Harvey	20	D. Petrie	21	L. McDonald
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	29	J. Webster	20	D. Armitage	16	J. Newnes
	18	S. Atley	7	J. Ziebell	15	N. Dal Santo	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							18	B. Longer	8	B. Acres
HALF-FORWARD							3	J. Steven	40	J. Sinclair
	6	S. Ross	12	N. Riewoldt (c)	44	M. Weller	11	L. Montagna	34	N. Wright
	5	B. Jacobs	16	S. Thompson	19	S. Wright			35	J. Saunders
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	41	D. Minchington	27	J. Bruce	1	T. Hickey
	6	L. Hansen	25	R. Tarrant	11	M. Firrito
BACK
St Kilda							Coach: Alan Richardson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	STKL	Tom Hickey behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	03:46
	NMLB	Taylor Garner goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	08:07
	NMLB	Shaun Atley goal	2.0.12	-	0.1.1	15:00
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	16:53
	STKL	Jack Sinclair goal	2.1.13	-	1.1.7	18:37
	STKL	Tom Hickey goal	2.1.13	-	2.1.13	20:52
	STKL	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	24:04
	STKL	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	25:42
	STKL	Josh Bruce goal	2.1.13	-	3.3.21	27:23
Q2	STKL	Darren Minchington goal	2.1.13	-	4.3.27	01:39
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	2.2.14	-	4.3.27	03:34
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	3.2.20	-	4.3.27	04:06
	STKL	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	4.4.28	06:31
	STKL	Maverick Weller behind	3.2.20	-	4.5.29	07:36
	STKL	Tom Hickey behind	3.2.20	-	4.6.30	09:54
	NMLB	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	4.6.30	12:10
	STKL	Darren Minchington behind	3.3.21	-	4.7.31	15:01
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt behind	3.3.21	-	4.8.32	16:04
	STKL	Jack Newnes goal	3.3.21	-	5.8.38	17:09
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt behind	3.3.21	-	5.9.39	19:20
	STKL	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	5.10.40	20:44
	STKL	Darren Minchington behind	3.3.21	-	5.11.41	21:46
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	4.3.27	-	5.11.41	24:15
	STKL	Tom Hickey goal	4.3.27	-	6.11.47	28:21
Q3	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	5.3.33	-	6.11.47	02:08
	STKL	David Armitage goal	5.3.33	-	7.11.53	04:40
	NMLB	Taylor Garner goal	6.3.39	-	7.11.53	07:06
	STKL	Josh Bruce behind	6.3.39	-	7.12.54	10:13
	STKL	Jarryn Geary goal	6.3.39	-	8.12.60	11:18
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	7.3.45	-	8.12.60	12:24
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	8.3.51	-	8.12.60	14:02
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	9.3.57	-	8.12.60	16:06
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	10.3.63	-	8.12.60	18:53
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	11.3.69	-	8.12.60	20:24
	STKL	Maverick Weller behind	11.3.69	-	8.13.61	23:57
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell behind	11.4.70	-	8.13.61	26:06
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	12.4.76	-	8.13.61	27:50
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	12.5.77	-	8.13.61	29:09
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	12.6.78	-	8.13.61	29:44
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	13.6.84	-	8.13.61	30:13
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	13.7.85	-	8.13.61	31:54
	NMLB	Rushed behind	13.8.86	-	8.13.61	32:40
Q4	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	14.8.92	-	8.13.61	00:19
	STKL	Sam Gilbert behind	14.8.92	-	8.14.62	01:17
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington behind	14.9.93	-	8.14.62	02:24
	STKL	Josh Bruce behind	14.9.93	-	8.15.63	06:12
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	14.9.93	-	9.15.69	07:30
	STKL	Jack Steven behind	14.9.93	-	9.16.70	09:04
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	15.9.99	-	9.16.70	10:58
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	16.9.105	-	9.16.70	13:55
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	16.10.106	-	9.16.70	15:38
	NMLB	Robin Nahas goal	17.10.112	-	9.16.70	16:08
	NMLB	Ben Jacobs behind	17.11.113	-	9.16.70	18:54
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	17.11.113	-	10.16.76	20:10
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	18.11.119	-	10.16.76	22:20
	NMLB	Rushed behind	18.12.120	-	10.16.76	25:52
	STKL	Darren Minchington behind	18.12.120	-	10.17.77	28:36
	STKL	Josh Bruce goal	18.12.120	-	11.17.83	29:36

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