2015 AFL Season Semi Final 1: Sydney v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 19 September 2015 between Sydney and North Melbourne in the first semi final of the 2015 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted North Melbourne at ANZ Stadium. Jarrad McVeigh captained the hosts. Andrew Swallow captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Sydney (7.9.51) were defeated by North Melbourne (11.11.77).

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: First Semi Final
Teams: Sydney v North Melbourne
Date: Saturday 19 September 2015
Time: 7:20 PM
Venue: ANZ Stadium
Attendance: 31,162

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by North Melbourne
Score: 7.9.51 - 11.11.77

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	2	.	1	3	.	3	5	.	7	7	.	9	7	.	9	(51)
North Melbourne	2	.	3	5	.	6	7	.	8	11	.	11	11	.	11	(77)
Margin	NMLB by 2			NMLB by 15			NMLB by 13			NMLB by 26			NMLB by 26
Duration	28:47			31:04			29:52			33:16			2:02:59

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: Jarrad McVeigh
Coach: John Longmire

North Melbourne

Captain: Andrew Swallow
Coach: Brad Scott

Match Umpires

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Cunningham, Harry	HFFR	89%	0	0	13	5	8	1	0	4	2	0	0	0	2	0
37	Goodes, Adam	CHF	93%	2	1	18	15	3	10	1	2	1	2	2	0	1	5
39	Grundy, Heath	CHB	99%	0	0	16	8	8	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0
4	Hannebery, Dan	RO	89%	1	0	20	6	14	2	0	3	3	2	1	2	0	2
5	Heeney, Isaac	FPR	78%	1	0	13	11	2	6	0	6	0	4	1	1	0	2
32	Jetta, Lewis	WL↓	60%	0	0	7	2	5	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	2
10	Jones, Zak	SUB↑	29%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	0
12	Kennedy, Josh	RR	88%	1	1	28	14	14	3	1	11	4	5	2	1	1	7
11	Laidler, Jeremy	INT	81%	0	0	19	8	11	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	5	1
44	Lloyd, Jake	INT	76%	0	0	17	12	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4
21	McGlynn, Ben	FPL	93%	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	5	3	1	3	1	0	1
3	McVeigh, Jarrad (c)	HBFR	92%	0	0	21	14	7	7	0	6	4	4	1	1	2	6
6	Mitchell, Tom	C	81%	0	0	19	6	13	3	0	4	2	1	1	1	1	1
38	Pyke, Mike	RU	78%	0	0	9	3	6	3	19	2	0	6	0	5	1	1
24	Rampe, Dane	BPL	88%	0	1	31	23	8	8	0	6	3	7	2	4	9	6
25	Richards, Ted	FB	96%	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	1	0	1	1	1	5	0
16	Rohan, Gary	WR	67%	0	1	11	7	4	4	0	2	0	3	0	2	0	2
1	Rose, James	INT	73%	0	1	9	6	3	6	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	2
2	Shaw, Rhyce	HBFL	85%	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0
40	Smith, Nick	BPR	91%	0	1	24	10	14	8	0	4	1	2	0	1	3	2
8	Tippett, Kurt	FF	89%	2	1	16	12	4	10	14	4	3	3	4	2	1	3
22	Towers, Dean	HFFL	88%	0	0	12	8	4	4	6	4	2	2	2	1	1	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				7	9	335	188	147	95	41	76	30	50	20	27	38	48

Z. Jones replaced L. Jetta 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	81%	1	0	16	9	7	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	1
50	Brown, Ben	INT	73%	0	0	10	5	5	2	4	2	1	1	1	0	1	1
10	Cunnington, Ben	RO	78%	0	0	29	14	15	2	1	5	7	3	1	1	2	4
15	Dal Santo, Nick	INT	84%	0	0	29	11	18	3	2	1	3	4	0	0	0	2
11	Firrito, Michael	BPL	89%	0	0	15	10	5	1	0	4	0	1	3	0	5	0
27	Garner, Taylor	HFFR	80%	0	1	16	6	10	6	1	2	0	3	1	0	1	1
43	Gibson, Sam	HBFR	84%	2	2	17	10	7	2	0	4	2	5	1	0	1	1
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	89%	1	0	11	4	7	4	34	4	4	5	2	3	1	3
6	Hansen, Lachlan	HBFL	92%	0	0	16	10	6	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0
29	Harvey, Brent	FPR	92%	1	1	16	12	4	2	0	1	0	3	1	2	1	2
4	Higgins, Shaun	HFFL	91%	0	1	28	11	17	3	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	5
5	Jacobs, Ben	WR	84%	0	0	12	4	8	1	0	5	2	0	1	0	0	1
34	Macmillan, Jamie	CHB	89%	0	0	20	11	9	7	0	2	0	1	1	0	6	2
21	McDonald, Luke	INT	78%	1	0	13	9	4	4	0	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
20	Petrie, Drew	CHF	90%	1	3	14	10	4	9	0	2	0	3	1	2	0	4
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	RR	83%	0	0	22	12	10	1	0	6	6	7	2	3	1	5
12	Thomas, Lindsay	SUB↑	18%	1	0	3	3	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	1	0
16	Thompson, Scott	FB	94%	0	0	6	6	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	1
40	Turner, Kayne	FPL↓	64%	0	1	6	3	3	1	0	3	1	2	2	2	1	3
30	Waite, Jarrad	FF	90%	3	1	14	11	3	9	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	4
19	Wright, Sam	WL	97%	0	0	20	12	8	4	0	1	0	2	3	1	7	1
7	Ziebell, Jack	C	79%	0	0	25	21	4	3	1	8	8	6	2	2	2	9
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				11	11	358	204	154	76	43	61	40	53	27	20	38	51

L. Thomas replaced K. Turner.

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

Sydney							Coach: John Longmire
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	11	M. Firrito	16	S. Thompson	18	S. Atley	38	M. Pyke	11	J. Laidler
	5	I. Heeney	8	K. Tippett	21	B. McGlynn	12	J. Kennedy	44	J. Lloyd
FORWARD							4	D. Hannebery	1	J. Rose
HALF-BACK									10	Z. Jones
	6	L. Hansen	34	J. Macmillan	43	S. Gibson
	7	H. Cunningham	37	A. Goodes	22	D. Towers
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	19	S. Wright	7	J. Ziebell	5	B. Jacobs
	16	G. Rohan	6	T. Mitchell	32	L. Jetta	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							22	T. Goldstein	50	B. Brown
HALF-FORWARD							9	A. Swallow (c)	15	N. Dal Santo
	4	S. Higgins	20	D. Petrie	27	T. Garner	10	B. Cunnington	21	L. McDonald
	3	J. McVeigh (c)	39	H. Grundy	2	R. Shaw			12	L. Thomas
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	40	K. Turner	30	J. Waite	29	B. Harvey
	40	N. Smith	25	T. Richards	24	D. Rampe
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:58
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	09:31
	SYDN	Dan Hannebery goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	11:47
	SYDN	Gary Rohan behind	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	13:00
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	2.1.13	-	1.1.7	14:18
	NMLB	Luke McDonald goal	2.1.13	-	2.1.13	20:41
	NMLB	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	22:25
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	24:59
Q2	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	3.1.19	-	2.3.15	03:37
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	3.1.19	-	3.3.21	05:46
	NMLB	Kayne Turner behind	3.1.19	-	3.4.22	10:47
	SYDN	Kurt Tippett behind	3.2.20	-	3.4.22	12:27
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	3.2.20	-	3.5.23	15:26
	NMLB	Drew Petrie goal	3.2.20	-	4.5.29	17:31
	NMLB	Sam Gibson behind	3.2.20	-	4.6.30	19:33
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	3.2.20	-	5.6.36	20:28
	SYDN	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	5.6.36	28:47
Q3	SYDN	Kurt Tippett goal	4.3.27	-	5.6.36	01:30
	SYDN	Josh Kennedy goal	5.3.33	-	5.6.36	04:10
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	5.3.33	-	6.6.42	06:05
	SYDN	Josh Kennedy behind	5.4.34	-	6.6.42	08:42
	SYDN	James Rose behind	5.5.35	-	6.6.42	12:12
	SYDN	Nick Smith behind	5.6.36	-	6.6.42	16:16
	SYDN	Dane Rampe behind	5.7.37	-	6.6.42	17:03
	NMLB	Brent Harvey behind	5.7.37	-	6.7.43	18:01
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	5.7.37	-	6.8.44	20:32
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	5.7.37	-	7.8.50	27:28
Q4	SYDN	Kurt Tippett goal	6.7.43	-	7.8.50	00:46
	NMLB	Drew Petrie behind	6.7.43	-	7.9.51	03:09
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	6.7.43	-	8.9.57	06:08
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	6.7.43	-	9.9.63	07:14
	SYDN	Rushed behind	6.8.44	-	9.9.63	09:39
	NMLB	Sam Gibson behind	6.8.44	-	9.10.64	19:25
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	6.9.45	-	9.10.64	21:05
	NMLB	Shaun Atley goal	6.9.45	-	10.10.70	23:40
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	6.9.45	-	11.10.76	28:32
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	7.9.51	-	11.10.76	30:27
	NMLB	Taylor Garner behind	7.9.51	-	11.11.77	33:02

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2015 AFL Season Semi Final 1: Sydney v North Melbourne

Match Details

Match Results

Quarter Breakdown

Score Worm

Honour Roll

Sydney

North Melbourne

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

Goal Umpires

Boundary Umpires

Player Statistics

Sydney

North Melbourne

Legend

Player Line-Up

Score Timeline

Links