2016 AFL Round 4: North Melbourne v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 17 April 2016 between North Melbourne and Fremantle during round 4 of the 2016 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Fremantle at Etihad Stadium. Andrew Swallow captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Ross Lyon.

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

Fremantle
Back: G. Ibbotson, Z. Dawson, L. Spurr
Half-back: C. Sutcliffe, M. Johnson, T. Sheridan
Centre: N. Suban, S. Hill, D. Pearce
Half-forward: M. Walters, M. Pavlich, H. Ballantyne
Forward: A. Pearce, C. Mayne, M. Taberner
Follower: J. Griffin, N. Fyfe, L. Neale
Int.: M. Barlow, H. Crozier, E. Langdon, L. Weller

North Melbourne (20.12.132) defeated Fremantle (14.17.101).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: J. Waite (4), B. Brown (3), S. Gibson (3), J. Ziebell (3), S. Higgins (2), B. Cunnington, B. Harvey, J. Macmillan, L. Thomas, M. Wood
Fremantle: N. Fyfe (4), H. Ballantyne (2), M. Pavlich (2), M. Walters (2), M. Barlow, S. Hill, C. Mayne, L. Neale

As a result of this match, North Melbourne were then 1st on the ladder (up from 3rd) and Fremantle were then 17th on the ladder (down from 16th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2016 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: North Melbourne v Fremantle
Date: Sunday 17 April 2016
Time: 4:40 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 23,393

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Fremantle
Score: 20.12.132 - 14.17.101

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	5	.	4	10	.	6	14	.	9	20	.	12	20	.	12	(132)
Fremantle	2	.	7	7	.	12	12	.	14	14	.	17	14	.	17	(101)
Margin	NMLB by 15			NMLB by 12			NMLB by 7			NMLB by 31			NMLB by 31
Duration	29:35			31:47			31:08			30:38			2:03:08

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brad Scott (North Melbourne), Ross Lyon (Fremantle)
Captains: Andrew Swallow (North Melbourne), unknown (Fremantle)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: J. Bannister (#5), J. Dalgleish (#7), J. Schmitt (#17), E: S. Stewart (#44)
Goal Umpire: D. Dixon, L. Walker, E: M. Palm
Boundary Umpire: J. Andrews, D. Cusack, D. Tee, S. Thiele

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Nat Fyfe	FREM	7	3
Jack Ziebell	NMLB	7	2
Jarrad Waite	NMLB	30	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Jack Ziebell	NMLB	7	10	2	0	0	0	0
Nat Fyfe	FREM	7	5	0	?	?	?	?
Jarrad Waite	NMLB	30	5	0	?	?	?	?
Todd Goldstein	NMLB	22	4	0	?	?	?	?
Sam Gibson	NMLB	43	3	0	0	?	?	?
Jamie Macmillan	NMLB	34	2	0	0	0	1	0
Lachie Neale	FREM	27	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
18	Atley, Shaun	HBFL	85%	0	2	21	10	11	5	0	1	1	2	1	2	0	2
50	Brown, Ben	HFFL	84%	3	0	15	11	4	8	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	3
10	Cunnington, Ben	INT	68%	1	0	23	8	15	3	1	5	4	1	0	0	1	3
15	Dal Santo, Nick	WR	77%	0	0	25	16	9	8	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	4
11	Firrito, Michael	BPL	84%	0	0	15	10	5	3	0	1	0	1	2	0	7	1
43	Gibson, Sam	RR	87%	3	1	26	19	7	5	0	1	2	4	1	0	1	3
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	88%	0	0	17	5	12	2	45	1	3	0	2	0	0	3
29	Harvey, Brent	FPL	85%	1	1	19	8	11	3	0	5	0	1	1	0	0	3
4	Higgins, Shaun	HFFR	89%	2	0	22	7	15	2	0	3	2	0	1	0	1	1
5	Jacobs, Ben	RO	84%	0	0	20	7	13	2	0	4	1	4	1	0	1	2
34	Macmillan, Jamie	INT	83%	1	0	26	19	7	6	0	1	1	4	0	1	2	5
21	McDonald, Luke	HBFR	89%	0	0	18	12	6	9	0	1	3	1	1	0	4	2
20	Petrie, Drew	FF	97%	0	0	13	8	5	5	2	2	0	2	2	0	0	2
9	Swallow, Andrew (c)	INT	66%	0	1	16	8	8	3	0	11	3	5	0	4	1	1
25	Tarrant, Robbie	FB	79%	0	0	12	10	2	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	1
12	Thomas, Lindsay	FPR	75%	1	1	9	4	5	3	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	1
16	Thompson, Scott	CHB	91%	0	0	16	9	7	5	0	3	0	1	1	1	2	0
30	Waite, Jarrad	CHF	92%	4	1	16	11	5	9	0	6	0	0	1	0	1	3
8	Wells, Daniel	C	66%	0	0	25	10	15	4	0	8	4	5	0	1	0	4
32	Wood, Mason	INT	70%	1	1	15	10	5	5	0	3	0	5	1	1	0	1
19	Wright, Sam	BPR	88%	0	0	25	17	8	12	0	2	1	2	0	0	3	1
7	Ziebell, Jack	WL	73%	3	0	26	19	7	7	0	4	8	4	3	1	0	7
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				20	12	420	238	182	114	49	71	36	48	20	12	26	53

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
1	Ballantyne, Hayden	HFFR	74%	2	0	12	10	2	2	0	1	2	2	3	1	0	5
21	Barlow, Michael	INT	68%	1	0	14	4	10	2	1	9	6	3	0	2	0	2
17	Crozier, Hayden	INT	57%	0	2	9	7	2	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	1
3	Dawson, Zac	FB	97%	0	0	8	2	6	3	0	3	0	2	1	1	2	0
7	Fyfe, Nat	RR	86%	4	0	27	12	15	7	0	7	7	2	1	1	0	6
12	Griffin, Jon	RU	89%	0	0	11	3	8	0	16	0	2	1	1	1	1	0
32	Hill, Stephen	C	78%	1	1	24	18	6	3	1	6	6	6	0	1	2	6
5	Ibbotson, Garrick	BPL	89%	0	0	18	8	10	6	0	1	0	4	1	1	4	0
37	Johnson, Michael	CHB	97%	0	1	15	12	3	8	0	1	0	2	0	1	3	0
26	Langdon, Ed	INT	61%	0	0	11	3	8	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	0
23	Mayne, Chris	FF	90%	1	1	14	5	9	6	0	7	0	1	1	1	0	1
27	Neale, Lachie	RO	76%	1	1	35	15	20	5	0	6	4	3	1	0	0	4
29	Pavlich, Matthew	CHF	89%	2	3	18	10	8	1	1	2	2	5	0	3	1	0
25	Pearce, Alex	FPL	97%	0	0	11	5	6	4	0	2	0	2	0	1	2	1
6	Pearce, Danyle	WR	74%	0	0	17	10	7	2	0	1	1	6	1	2	1	2
11	Sheridan, Tom	HBFR	90%	0	0	16	8	8	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1
34	Spurr, Lee	BPR	88%	0	0	20	12	8	9	0	2	0	2	0	1	6	1
8	Suban, Nick	WL	70%	0	0	11	2	9	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	1
33	Sutcliffe, Cam	HBFL	91%	0	1	19	9	10	7	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	3
20	Taberner, Matt	FPR	90%	0	0	13	7	6	2	4	3	0	5	1	3	0	2
10	Walters, Michael	HFFL	83%	2	1	14	12	2	6	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	6
14	Weller, Lachie	INT	66%	0	1	15	10	5	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	4
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				14	17	352	184	168	80	23	67	32	53	12	20	31	46

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
	5	G. Ibbotson	3	Z. Dawson	34	L. Spurr	22	T. Goldstein	10	B. Cunnington
	12	L. Thomas	20	D. Petrie	29	B. Harvey	43	S. Gibson	34	J. Macmillan
FORWARD							5	B. Jacobs	9	A. Swallow (c)
HALF-BACK									32	M. Wood
	33	C. Sutcliffe	37	M. Johnson	11	T. Sheridan
	4	S. Higgins	30	J. Waite	50	B. Brown
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	8	N. Suban	32	S. Hill	6	D. Pearce
	15	N. Dal Santo	8	D. Wells	7	J. Ziebell	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							12	J. Griffin	21	M. Barlow
HALF-FORWARD							7	N. Fyfe	17	H. Crozier
	10	M. Walters	29	M. Pavlich	1	H. Ballantyne	27	L. Neale	26	E. Langdon
	21	L. McDonald	16	S. Thompson	18	S. Atley			14	L. Weller
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	25	A. Pearce	23	C. Mayne	20	M. Taberner
	19	S. Wright	25	R. Tarrant	11	M. Firrito
BACK
Fremantle							Coach: Ross Lyon

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:24
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	02:27
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	2.0.12	-	0.1.1	03:28
	NMLB	Shaun Atley behind	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	04:30
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite behind	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	05:04
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	3.2.20	-	0.1.1	07:25
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	4.2.26	-	0.1.1	10:39
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	4.2.26	-	1.1.7	11:43
	FREM	Nat Fyfe goal	4.2.26	-	2.1.13	13:13
	FREM	Hayden Crozier behind	4.2.26	-	2.2.14	15:29
	NMLB	Shaun Atley behind	4.3.27	-	2.2.14	16:08
	FREM	Michael Johnson behind	4.3.27	-	2.3.15	19:29
	FREM	Michael Walters behind	4.3.27	-	2.4.16	20:49
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	5.3.33	-	2.4.16	21:50
	FREM	Rushed behind	5.3.33	-	2.5.17	25:28
	FREM	Stephen Hill behind	5.3.33	-	2.6.18	26:09
	FREM	Rushed behind	5.3.33	-	2.7.19	27:38
	NMLB	Rushed behind	5.4.34	-	2.7.19	29:00
Q2	FREM	Lachie Neale goal	5.4.34	-	3.7.25	00:34
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	6.4.40	-	3.7.25	03:18
	NMLB	Rushed behind	6.5.41	-	3.7.25	07:28
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	6.5.41	-	4.7.31	08:15
	NMLB	Sam Gibson behind	6.6.42	-	4.7.31	09:35
	FREM	Chris Mayne behind	6.6.42	-	4.8.32	10:22
	FREM	Cam Sutcliffe behind	6.6.42	-	4.9.33	11:11
	FREM	Nat Fyfe goal	6.6.42	-	5.9.39	12:15
	FREM	Rushed behind	6.6.42	-	5.10.40	15:27
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	7.6.48	-	5.10.40	17:17
	FREM	Stephen Hill goal	7.6.48	-	6.10.46	18:58
	FREM	Rushed behind	7.6.48	-	6.11.47	20:57
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	8.6.54	-	6.11.47	22:35
	FREM	Lachie Neale behind	8.6.54	-	6.12.48	23:41
	FREM	Hayden Ballantyne goal	8.6.54	-	7.12.54	24:20
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	9.6.60	-	7.12.54	26:39
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	10.6.66	-	7.12.54	29:42
Q3	FREM	Michael Walters goal	10.6.66	-	8.12.60	03:39
	FREM	Hayden Ballantyne goal	10.6.66	-	9.12.66	05:15
	FREM	Michael Walters goal	10.6.66	-	10.12.72	07:58
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	10.6.66	-	10.13.73	09:25
	NMLB	Jamie Macmillan goal	11.6.72	-	10.13.73	10:50
	NMLB	Mason Wood behind	11.7.73	-	10.13.73	14:02
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	12.7.79	-	10.13.73	16:42
	NMLB	Andrew Swallow behind	12.8.80	-	10.13.73	18:06
	FREM	Michael Barlow goal	12.8.80	-	11.13.79	20:41
	FREM	Chris Mayne goal	12.8.80	-	12.13.85	22:10
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	13.8.86	-	12.13.85	24:51
	NMLB	Rushed behind	13.9.87	-	12.13.85	25:53
	FREM	Rushed behind	13.9.87	-	12.14.86	28:46
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	14.9.93	-	12.14.86	29:47
Q4	NMLB	Rushed behind	14.10.94	-	12.14.86	00:25
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell goal	15.10.100	-	12.14.86	01:33
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	15.10.100	-	12.15.87	03:38
	NMLB	Sam Gibson goal	16.10.106	-	12.15.87	06:11
	NMLB	Brent Harvey goal	17.10.112	-	12.15.87	08:03
	NMLB	Brent Harvey behind	17.11.113	-	12.15.87	09:57
	NMLB	Mason Wood goal	18.11.119	-	12.15.87	11:33
	NMLB	Jarrad Waite goal	19.11.125	-	12.15.87	13:23
	FREM	Lachie Weller behind	19.11.125	-	12.16.88	19:01
	FREM	Nat Fyfe goal	19.11.125	-	13.16.94	19:45
	FREM	Hayden Crozier behind	19.11.125	-	13.17.95	21:22
	FREM	Nat Fyfe goal	19.11.125	-	14.17.101	23:18
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	20.11.131	-	14.17.101	25:51
	NMLB	Lindsay Thomas behind	20.12.132	-	14.17.101	30:35

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