2018 AFL Season Round 7: Sydney v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 5 May 2018 between Sydney and North Melbourne during round seven of the 2018 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted North Melbourne at the SCG. Josh Kennedy captained the hosts. Jack Ziebell captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Sydney (9.12.66) were defeated by North Melbourne (9.14.68).

Match Details

Season: 2018 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Sydney v North Melbourne
Date: Saturday 5 May 2018
Time: 7:25 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 29,124

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by North Melbourne
Score: 9.12.66 - 9.14.68

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Sydney 2 . 1 4 . 4 6 . 8 9 . 12 9 . 12 (66)
North Melbourne 3 . 3 5 . 5 7 . 10 9 . 14 9 . 14 (68)
Margin NMLB by 8 NMLB by 7 NMLB by 8 NMLB by 2 NMLB by 2
Duration 28:45 28:44 31:56 34:07 2:03:32

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: Josh Kennedy
Coach: John Longmire

North Melbourne

Captain: Jack Ziebell
Coach: Brad Scott

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Findlay (#23)
H. Gavine (#14)
M. Nicholls (#15)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Shaun Higgins NMLB 4 3
Mason Wood NMLB 32 2
Ben Jacobs NMLB 5 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Shaun Higgins NMLB 4 9 1 1 0 0 0
Mason Wood NMLB 32 9 1 1 0 0 0
Josh Kennedy SYDN 12 4 0 0 1 0 1
Callum Sinclair SYDN 18 3 0 0 1 0 0
Heath Grundy SYDN 39 2 0 0 0 1 0
Ben Jacobs NMLB 5 2 0 0 0 1 0
Ed Vickers-Willis NMLB 33 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
7 Cunningham, Harry WL 86% 0 0 9 4 5 2 0 3 2 5 0 2 2 1
13 Florent, Oliver INT 72% 0 1 9 5 4 1 0 4 2 3 0 2 1 1
42 Fox, Robbie HBFR 69% 1 0 10 4 6 1 0 2 0 3 1 3 0 1
39 Grundy, Heath FB 85% 0 0 22 13 9 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2
9 Hayward, Will CHF 87% 3 2 12 8 4 5 0 3 0 3 1 2 0 1
5 Heeney, Isaac RO 89% 0 1 18 11 7 6 0 3 3 3 0 1 0 4
29 Hewett, George HFFR 80% 0 0 18 11 7 3 0 2 3 2 2 0 0 3
15 Jack, Kieren FPR 76% 0 3 24 17 7 2 0 1 3 3 2 1 1 4
10 Jones, Zak WR 88% 1 0 18 11 7 4 0 2 1 1 0 0 3 4
12 Kennedy, Josh (c) C 81% 0 0 31 17 14 2 0 9 9 1 1 0 1 10
44 Lloyd, Jake BPL 92% 1 0 17 11 6 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 0
31 Marsh, Harry INT 63% 0 0 16 10 6 4 0 1 1 3 0 0 6 0
3 McVeigh, Jarrad HFFL 83% 0 0 21 8 13 6 0 3 4 2 1 0 4 2
14 Mills, Callum HBFL 81% 0 0 20 11 9 7 0 3 1 3 1 1 3 2
11 Papley, Tom FPL 78% 0 2 11 7 4 3 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 3
26 Parker, Luke RR 89% 1 0 21 8 13 3 0 2 7 1 0 0 0 4
24 Rampe, Dane CHB 97% 0 0 11 6 5 2 0 5 0 6 1 3 1 3
16 Rohan, Gary FF 88% 0 0 10 9 1 4 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 3
25 Ronke, Ben INT 67% 0 2 13 10 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 3
18 Sinclair, Callum RU 89% 1 0 20 12 8 7 27 2 3 3 4 2 1 4
40 Smith, Nick BPR 93% 0 0 8 6 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 2
22 Towers, Dean INT 69% 1 1 10 4 6 3 0 4 1 4 0 2 0 1
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 9 12 349 203 146 84 27 59 41 51 16 23 36 58

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
3 Anderson, Jed INT 72% 0 1 24 9 15 5 0 4 3 4 0 1 1 1
18 Atley, Shaun FPL 83% 0 1 16 7 9 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 3
50 Brown, Ben FF 97% 1 2 12 12 0 6 8 0 1 3 5 1 4 1
13 Clarke, Ryan INT 86% 0 1 22 16 6 4 0 1 2 2 1 1 4 2
10 Cunnington, Ben RR 75% 1 0 24 12 12 6 0 4 5 9 0 3 0 1
14 Dumont, Trent INT 72% 0 1 22 15 7 7 0 4 1 1 2 0 4 2
22 Goldstein, Todd RU 90% 0 0 8 6 2 2 40 1 2 1 1 1 1 2
39 Hartung, Billy WL 85% 1 0 19 11 8 7 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 2
4 Higgins, Shaun HFFL 88% 1 0 31 16 15 4 0 2 5 2 1 0 1 3
5 Jacobs, Ben RO 83% 0 0 29 10 19 6 0 9 3 3 0 1 1 5
34 Macmillan, Jamie HBFL 85% 0 0 15 8 7 4 0 2 1 3 3 1 1 3
11 McDonald, Luke WR 74% 0 0 15 9 6 0 0 4 1 2 0 0 0 3
12 Simpkin, Jy INT 72% 1 0 13 8 5 4 0 2 3 2 0 0 1 2
25 Tarrant, Robbie FB 97% 0 0 13 7 6 6 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 1
16 Thompson, Scott CHB 88% 0 0 13 10 3 6 0 2 0 2 2 2 3 3
28 Turner, Kayne HFFR 80% 0 1 9 3 6 3 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0
33 Vickers-Willis, Ed HBFR 74% 0 0 11 6 5 4 0 3 1 3 1 2 2 0
2 Williams, Marley BPR 81% 0 0 12 8 4 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 4 0
32 Wood, Mason CHF 79% 4 0 17 12 5 9 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 3
19 Wright, Sam BPL 79% 0 0 19 12 7 7 0 0 0 2 1 0 4 2
7 Ziebell, Jack (c) C 86% 0 4 19 15 4 6 0 1 0 4 1 2 0 7
44 Zurhaar, Cameron FPR 73% 0 1 8 6 2 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 9 14 371 218 153 101 48 48 31 53 23 16 39 48

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
19 S. Wright 25 R. Tarrant 2 M. Williams 18 C. Sinclair 13 O. Florent
15 K. Jack 16 G. Rohan 11 T. Papley 26 L. Parker 31 H. Marsh
FORWARD 5 I. Heeney 25 B. Ronke
HALF-BACK

22 D. Towers
34 J. Macmillan 16 S. Thompson 33 E. Vickers-Willis



29 G. Hewett 9 W. Hayward 3 J. McVeigh



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



39 B. Hartung 7 J. Ziebell (c) 11 L. McDonald



10 Z. Jones 12 J. Kennedy (c) 7 H. Cunningham FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 22 T. Goldstein 3 J. Anderson
HALF-FORWARD 10 B. Cunnington 13 R. Clarke
4 S. Higgins 32 M. Wood 28 K. Turner 5 B. Jacobs 14 T. Dumont
42 R. Fox 24 D. Rampe 14 C. Mills

12 J. Simpkin
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



18 S. Atley 50 B. Brown 44 C. Zurhaar



40 N. Smith 39 H. Grundy 44 J. Lloyd



BACK



North Melbourne Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 NMLB Rushed behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 00:23
NMLB Mason Wood goal 0.0.0 - 1.1.7 04:13
NMLB Ben Brown behind 0.0.0 - 1.2.8 06:09
SYDN Callum Sinclair goal 1.0.6 - 1.2.8 06:51
SYDN Dean Towers goal 2.0.12 - 1.2.8 16:48
NMLB Ben Brown behind 2.0.12 - 1.3.9 23:26
NMLB Billy Hartung goal 2.0.12 - 2.3.15 25:05
NMLB Shaun Higgins goal 2.0.12 - 3.3.21 26:57
SYDN Kieren Jack behind 2.1.13 - 3.3.21 28:41
Q2 SYDN Ben Ronke behind 2.2.14 - 3.3.21 00:30
NMLB Jack Ziebell behind 2.2.14 - 3.4.22 01:47
NMLB Ben Brown goal 2.2.14 - 4.4.28 03:15
SYDN Will Hayward goal 3.2.20 - 4.4.28 04:45
SYDN Kieren Jack behind 3.3.21 - 4.4.28 07:27
SYDN Robbie Fox goal 4.3.27 - 4.4.28 08:34
NMLB Jy Simpkin goal 4.3.27 - 5.4.34 18:43
SYDN Tom Papley behind 4.4.28 - 5.4.34 23:33
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar behind 4.4.28 - 5.5.35 24:47
Q3 SYDN Will Hayward behind 4.5.29 - 5.5.35 00:52
NMLB Mason Wood goal 4.5.29 - 6.5.41 02:40
SYDN Will Hayward goal 5.5.35 - 6.5.41 05:58
NMLB Jed Anderson behind 5.5.35 - 6.6.42 09:19
NMLB Trent Dumont behind 5.5.35 - 6.7.43 13:20
SYDN Kieren Jack behind 5.6.36 - 6.7.43 20:58
NMLB Shaun Atley behind 5.6.36 - 6.8.44 21:38
SYDN Ben Ronke behind 5.7.37 - 6.8.44 23:07
SYDN Luke Parker goal 6.7.43 - 6.8.44 23:26
SYDN Isaac Heeney behind 6.8.44 - 6.8.44 24:57
NMLB Jack Ziebell behind 6.8.44 - 6.9.45 28:22
NMLB Ben Cunnington goal 6.8.44 - 7.9.51 29:09
NMLB Jack Ziebell behind 6.8.44 - 7.10.52 31:52
Q4 SYDN Will Hayward goal 7.8.50 - 7.10.52 01:09
SYDN Will Hayward behind 7.9.51 - 7.10.52 03:16
SYDN Zak Jones goal 8.9.57 - 7.10.52 04:45
SYDN Oliver Florent behind 8.10.58 - 7.10.52 07:49
NMLB Mason Wood goal 8.10.58 - 8.10.58 13:34
SYDN Jake Lloyd goal 9.10.64 - 8.10.58 15:55
SYDN Dean Towers behind 9.11.65 - 8.10.58 17:41
NMLB Rushed behind 9.11.65 - 8.11.59 19:51
NMLB Kayne Turner behind 9.11.65 - 8.12.60 20:57
NMLB Jack Ziebell behind 9.11.65 - 8.13.61 22:03
NMLB Ryan Clarke behind 9.11.65 - 8.14.62 26:53
NMLB Mason Wood goal 9.11.65 - 9.14.68 28:54
SYDN Tom Papley behind 9.12.66 - 9.14.68 31:24