2017 AFL Season Round 8: North Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 14 May 2017 between North Melbourne and Sydney during round eight of the 2017 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Sydney at Etihad Stadium. Jack Ziebell captained the hosts. Josh Kennedy captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

North Melbourne (11.12.78) were defeated by Sydney (18.12.120).

Match Details

Season: 2017 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: North Melbourne v Sydney
Date: Sunday 14 May 2017
Time: 4:40 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 21,589

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Sydney
Score: 11.12.78 - 18.12.120

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	3	.	3	7	.	5	8	.	8	11	.	12	11	.	12	(78)
Sydney	5	.	2	11	.	7	15	.	9	18	.	12	18	.	12	(120)
Margin	SYDN by 11			SYDN by 26			SYDN by 43			SYDN by 42			SYDN by 42
Duration	30:17			34:02			27:27			29:37			2:01:23

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: Jack Ziebell
Coach: Brad Scott

Sydney

Captain: Josh Kennedy
Coach: John Longmire

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

T. Pannell (#28)
B. Ryan (#27)
A. Stephens (#12)
E: L. Haussen (#5)

Umpire Replacements

L. Haussen replaced T. Pannell.

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Josh Kennedy	SYDN	12	3
Luke Parker	SYDN	26	2
Dan Hannebery	SYDN	4	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Josh Kennedy	SYDN	12	10	2	0	0	0	0
Luke Parker	SYDN	26	8	0	2	0	0	0
Dan Hannebery	SYDN	4	5	0	0	1	1	0
Nic Newman	SYDN	28	4	0	0	1	0	1
Sam Reid	SYDN	20	3	0	0	0	1	1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Anderson, Jed	RO	74%	1	0	11	4	7	2	0	8	0	1	2	0	0	1
18	Atley, Shaun	WR	83%	0	1	17	11	6	3	0	3	1	3	0	0	3	5
50	Brown, Ben	FF	95%	2	0	7	3	4	2	2	0	2	2	1	1	0	2
13	Clarke, Ryan	INT	74%	0	1	16	7	9	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0
10	Cunnington, Ben	C	82%	1	0	28	10	18	3	0	6	11	1	0	0	0	4
14	Dumont, Trent	INT	72%	0	1	12	6	6	1	0	5	2	3	0	0	1	1
24	Durdin, Sam	BPL	88%	0	1	9	5	4	2	0	1	0	2	1	2	2	1
43	Gibson, Sam	WL	86%	0	2	27	17	10	5	0	3	1	2	1	0	3	5
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	90%	2	0	11	6	5	2	41	2	1	0	2	0	0	2
6	Hansen, Lachlan	HBFL	96%	1	0	13	7	6	4	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	2
4	Higgins, Shaun	FPR	81%	1	1	21	12	9	6	0	4	3	4	1	2	0	6
8	Hrovat, Nathan	FPL	81%	1	1	12	5	7	3	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	1
34	Macmillan, Jamie	HBFR	91%	0	0	19	9	10	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	7	2
11	McDonald, Luke	INT	82%	0	0	11	7	4	0	0	8	1	2	1	1	0	4
21	Simpkin, Jy	INT	12%	0	0	4	3	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	1
25	Tarrant, Robbie	FB	95%	0	0	20	10	10	6	0	2	1	4	0	2	6	1
16	Thompson, Scott	CHB	88%	0	0	17	8	9	3	0	4	2	2	1	0	4	0
28	Turner, Kayne	HFFL	88%	2	1	9	8	1	2	0	10	1	1	1	0	0	4
33	Vickers-Willis, Ed	BPR	85%	0	0	21	6	15	3	0	2	1	4	1	0	4	0
2	Williams, Marley	HFFR	86%	0	0	19	8	11	4	0	1	0	3	1	1	2	3
32	Wood, Mason	CHF	92%	0	0	11	3	8	1	0	2	0	5	0	1	0	1
7	Ziebell, Jack (c)	RR	81%	0	1	22	11	11	2	0	12	6	2	3	0	1	3
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				11	12	337	166	171	61	43	83	35	47	19	12	35	49

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Cunningham, Harry	HFFL	83%	0	0	12	6	6	3	0	5	1	2	0	1	1	0
23	Franklin, Lance	FF	88%	1	3	21	20	1	8	0	2	0	5	2	2	0	8
39	Grundy, Heath	FB	94%	0	0	22	15	7	10	0	0	0	2	0	0	7	1
4	Hannebery, Dan	RO	76%	2	0	33	11	22	5	0	4	2	2	0	1	2	1
9	Hayward, Will	HFFR	83%	1	0	10	6	4	1	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	4
5	Heeney, Isaac	WL	86%	2	2	25	14	11	9	0	4	3	1	0	1	4	1
29	Hewett, George	INT	78%	1	1	29	15	14	5	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	7
10	Jones, Zak	WR	88%	1	0	15	8	7	5	0	5	2	5	1	2	1	3
12	Kennedy, Josh (c)	C	85%	1	0	37	11	26	2	0	6	9	3	1	0	1	5
44	Lloyd, Jake	INT	92%	0	1	28	20	8	8	0	1	1	2	1	0	3	2
31	Marsh, Harry	BPR	83%	0	1	14	8	6	5	0	1	0	4	0	1	2	3
3	McVeigh, Jarrad	HBFL	45%	2	0	5	4	1	2	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	0
43	Melican, Lewis	CHB	87%	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0
14	Mills, Callum	HBFR	89%	0	0	23	16	7	7	0	1	0	1	2	1	3	1
35	Naismith, Sam	RU	69%	0	0	7	2	5	0	23	0	2	3	0	3	0	3
28	Newman, Nic	INT	77%	0	0	35	19	16	11	0	4	1	2	0	1	3	2
41	Papley, Tom	FPR	86%	2	1	15	10	5	5	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	3
26	Parker, Luke	RR	82%	2	1	36	19	17	3	0	5	11	6	0	4	0	7
20	Reid, Sam	CHF	95%	3	0	22	14	8	12	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0
18	Sinclair, Callum	FPL	65%	0	0	7	5	2	2	15	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
40	Smith, Nick	BPL	85%	0	0	13	6	7	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
22	Towers, Dean	INT	83%	0	1	20	11	9	6	0	5	0	1	2	0	1	4
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				18	12	435	243	192	117	38	54	38	49	12	19	34	57

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
	40	N. Smith	39	H. Grundy	31	H. Marsh	22	T. Goldstein	13	R. Clarke
	4	S. Higgins	50	B. Brown	8	N. Hrovat	7	J. Ziebell (c)	14	T. Dumont
FORWARD							3	J. Anderson	11	L. McDonald
HALF-BACK									21	J. Simpkin
	3	J. McVeigh	43	L. Melican	14	C. Mills
	2	M. Williams	32	M. Wood	28	K. Turner
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	5	I. Heeney	12	J. Kennedy (c)	10	Z. Jones
	18	S. Atley	10	B. Cunnington	43	S. Gibson	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							35	S. Naismith	29	G. Hewett
HALF-FORWARD							26	L. Parker	44	J. Lloyd
	7	H. Cunningham	20	S. Reid	9	W. Hayward	4	D. Hannebery	28	N. Newman
	34	J. Macmillan	16	S. Thompson	6	L. Hansen			22	D. Towers
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	18	C. Sinclair	23	L. Franklin	41	T. Papley
	33	E. Vickers-Willis	25	R. Tarrant	24	S. Durdin
BACK
Sydney							Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Kayne Turner behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	02:40
	SYDN	Sam Reid goal	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	03:40
	NMLB	Nathan Hrovat behind	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	05:24
	SYDN	Dean Towers behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	07:22
	SYDN	Zak Jones goal	0.2.2	-	2.1.13	10:54
	SYDN	Luke Parker goal	0.2.2	-	3.1.19	12:54
	SYDN	George Hewett behind	0.2.2	-	3.2.20	18:38
	NMLB	Kayne Turner goal	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	20:21
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein goal	2.2.14	-	3.2.20	22:17
	NMLB	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	3.2.20	23:24
	NMLB	Nathan Hrovat goal	3.3.21	-	3.2.20	24:26
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	3.3.21	-	4.2.26	26:08
	SYDN	Dan Hannebery goal	3.3.21	-	5.2.32	27:40
Q2	NMLB	Todd Goldstein goal	4.3.27	-	5.2.32	01:36
	SYDN	Josh Kennedy goal	4.3.27	-	6.2.38	03:42
	NMLB	Lachlan Hansen goal	5.3.33	-	6.2.38	06:52
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	5.3.33	-	6.3.39	08:18
	SYDN	Sam Reid goal	5.3.33	-	7.3.45	12:39
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.3.33	-	7.4.46	14:50
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	5.3.33	-	7.5.47	17:00
	NMLB	Sam Gibson behind	5.4.34	-	7.5.47	18:01
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins goal	6.4.40	-	7.5.47	18:33
	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh goal	6.4.40	-	8.5.53	19:59
	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh goal	6.4.40	-	9.5.59	21:19
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	6.4.40	-	10.5.65	23:02
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	6.4.40	-	10.6.66	24:17
	SYDN	Luke Parker goal	6.4.40	-	11.6.72	26:23
	NMLB	Ryan Clarke behind	6.5.41	-	11.6.72	27:53
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	7.5.47	-	11.6.72	31:01
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	7.5.47	-	11.7.73	33:06
Q3	SYDN	Sam Reid goal	7.5.47	-	12.7.79	00:59
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd behind	7.5.47	-	12.8.80	04:08
	SYDN	Dan Hannebery goal	7.5.47	-	13.8.86	06:45
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	7.5.47	-	13.9.87	08:50
	NMLB	Jack Ziebell behind	7.6.48	-	13.9.87	15:48
	NMLB	Kayne Turner goal	8.6.54	-	13.9.87	16:49
	NMLB	Trent Dumont behind	8.7.55	-	13.9.87	22:21
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	8.7.55	-	14.9.93	24:37
	NMLB	Rushed behind	8.8.56	-	14.9.93	26:00
	SYDN	George Hewett goal	8.8.56	-	15.9.99	27:25
Q4	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	9.8.62	-	15.9.99	03:18
	NMLB	Sam Durdin behind	9.9.63	-	15.9.99	05:13
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	9.9.63	-	16.9.105	06:28
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	10.9.69	-	16.9.105	08:03
	SYDN	Harry Marsh behind	10.9.69	-	16.10.106	10:43
	NMLB	Jed Anderson goal	11.9.75	-	16.10.106	11:47
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	11.9.75	-	17.10.112	14:22
	NMLB	Shaun Atley behind	11.10.76	-	17.10.112	18:01
	NMLB	Sam Gibson behind	11.11.77	-	17.10.112	18:56
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	11.12.78	-	17.10.112	19:45
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	11.12.78	-	17.11.113	22:24
	SYDN	Luke Parker behind	11.12.78	-	17.12.114	24:15
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	11.12.78	-	18.12.120	27:31

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