2020 AFL Round 3: North Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 20 June 2020 between North Melbourne and Sydney during round 3 of the 2020 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Sydney at Marvel Stadium. Jack Ziebell captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Rhyce Shaw and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

North Melbourne
Back: K. Hayden, R. Tarrant, J. Pittard
Half-back: L. McDonald, J. Walker, S. Atley
Centre: T. Dumont, J. Simpkin, J. Polec
Half-forward: T. Thomas, B. Brown, A. Hall
Forward: C. Taylor, C. Zurhaar, M. Wood
Follower: T. Goldstein, J. Ziebell (capt.), S. Higgins
Int.: P. Ahern, J. Anderson, A. Bonar, J. Macmillan

Sydney
Back: J. Lloyd, D. Rampe, C. O'Riordan
Half-back: C. Mills, A. Aliir, H. Cunningham
Centre: O. Florent, L. Parker, I. Heeney
Half-forward: G. Hewett, T. McCartin, J. Dawson
Forward: S. Gray, C. Sinclair, W. Hayward
Follower: H. McLean, J. Kennedy, T. Papley
Int.: N. Blakey, R. Fox, J. Rowbottom, L. Taylor

North Melbourne (8.12.60) were defeated by Sydney (10.11.71).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: B. Brown (3), P. Ahern, T. Dumont, A. Hall, J. Simpkin, C. Zurhaar
Sydney: T. Papley (2), N. Blakey, J. Dawson, W. Hayward, I. Heeney, H. McLean, L. Parker, J. Rowbottom, L. Taylor

As a result of this match, North Melbourne were then 6th on the ladder (down from 2nd) and Sydney were then 7th on the ladder (up from 9th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2020 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: North Melbourne v Sydney
Date: Saturday 20 June 2020
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Sydney
Score: 8.12.60 - 10.11.71

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 2 . 3 3 . 9 5 . 11 8 . 12 8 . 12 (60)
Sydney 2 . 1 5 . 3 10 . 8 10 . 11 10 . 11 (71)
Margin NMLB by 2 SYDN by 6 SYDN by 27 SYDN by 11 SYDN by 11
Duration 23:32 27:47 27:52 25:58 1:45:09

Honour Roll

Coaches: Rhyce Shaw (North Melbourne), John Longmire (Sydney)
Captains: Jack Ziebell (North Melbourne), unknown (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: N. Foot (#2), A. Gianfagna (#27), S. Ryan (#25), E: P. Rebeschini (#31)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Jy Simpkin NMLB 12 3
Isaac Heeney SYDN 5 2
Oliver Florent SYDN 13 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Isaac Heeney SYDN 5 9 1 1 0 0 0
Jy Simpkin NMLB 12 9 1 1 0 0 0
George Hewett SYDN 29 4 0 0 ? ? ?
Tom Papley SYDN 11 4 0 0 ? ? ?
Luke Parker SYDN 26 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Jake Lloyd SYDN 44 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
15 Ahern, Paul INT 53% 1 0 10 5 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
3 Anderson, Jed INT 68% 0 0 14 10 4 3 0 5 2 2 0 0 0 2
18 Atley, Shaun HBFR 92% 0 0 12 6 6 2 0 3 0 3 1 2 2 0
16 Bonar, Aiden INT 49% 0 0 8 3 5 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 1 1
50 Brown, Ben CHF 100% 3 2 6 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
14 Dumont, Trent WL 91% 1 1 17 9 8 3 0 3 1 2 0 0 3 1
22 Goldstein, Todd RU 96% 0 1 18 7 11 2 36 2 9 3 4 0 1 1
43 Hall, Aaron HFFR 78% 1 3 21 15 6 4 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 6
37 Hayden, Kyron BPL 79% 0 0 6 2 4 1 0 4 1 3 0 3 0 0
4 Higgins, Shaun RO 89% 0 0 11 4 7 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2
34 Macmillan, Jamie INT 66% 0 0 9 4 5 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 0
11 McDonald, Luke HBFL 87% 0 0 12 5 7 0 0 2 0 5 1 3 3 0
17 Pittard, Jasper BPR 88% 0 0 19 13 6 3 0 3 0 5 1 1 6 2
13 Polec, Jared WR 86% 0 0 12 5 7 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 2 1
12 Simpkin, Jy C 88% 1 1 26 13 13 2 0 4 8 2 5 1 1 5
25 Tarrant, Robbie FB 94% 0 0 14 10 4 2 0 2 0 3 1 1 5 3
31 Taylor, Curtis FPL 76% 0 0 10 5 5 2 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 2
26 Thomas, Tarryn HFFL 76% 0 0 7 2 5 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 2
19 Walker, Josh CHB 94% 0 0 10 5 5 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2
32 Wood, Mason FPR 74% 0 0 9 2 7 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2
7 Ziebell, Jack (c) RR 88% 0 2 14 7 7 7 0 3 2 2 0 0 0 4
44 Zurhaar, Cameron FF 87% 1 1 7 5 2 3 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 3
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 8 12 272 143 129 45 36 52 32 39 23 14 31 39

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
36 Aliir, Aliir CHB 89% 0 0 11 5 6 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 1
22 Blakey, Nick INT 75% 1 2 6 5 1 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 2
7 Cunningham, Harry HBFR 88% 0 0 11 4 7 1 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 2
34 Dawson, Jordan HFFR 78% 1 0 16 14 2 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 1
13 Florent, Oliver WL 85% 0 1 22 13 9 3 0 2 2 2 1 2 2 4
42 Fox, Robbie INT 78% 0 0 13 12 1 5 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 5
15 Gray, Sam FPL 78% 0 0 13 4 9 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 1
9 Hayward, Will FPR 78% 1 0 6 2 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 1
5 Heeney, Isaac WR 92% 1 2 18 12 6 8 0 2 1 3 1 1 1 3
29 Hewett, George HFFL 88% 0 0 11 3 8 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 1 0
12 Kennedy, Josh RR 75% 0 1 22 11 11 1 0 6 6 1 1 0 0 4
44 Lloyd, Jake BPL 89% 0 0 22 15 7 6 0 1 0 2 2 0 3 2
30 McCartin, Tom CHF 60% 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 3 0 2 1 0
41 McLean, Hayden RU 84% 1 0 7 4 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
14 Mills, Callum HBFL 89% 0 0 9 7 2 4 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 1
38 O'Riordan, Colin BPR 78% 0 0 4 1 3 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0
11 Papley, Tom RO 87% 2 1 14 11 3 2 0 4 1 3 5 1 0 3
26 Parker, Luke C 83% 1 0 19 11 8 6 0 3 5 5 0 4 1 4
24 Rampe, Dane FB 100% 0 0 8 5 3 1 0 1 0 3 0 2 2 0
8 Rowbottom, James INT 73% 1 0 18 9 9 1 0 3 5 1 1 1 3 1
18 Sinclair, Callum FF 80% 0 0 8 3 5 1 19 1 1 4 0 4 0 2
28 Taylor, Lewis INT 75% 1 0 5 4 1 2 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 10 11 265 156 109 57 23 53 26 36 14 23 30 41

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: Rhyce Shaw
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
44 J. Lloyd 24 D. Rampe 38 C. O'Riordan 22 T. Goldstein 15 P. Ahern
32 M. Wood 44 C. Zurhaar 31 C. Taylor 7 J. Ziebell (c) 3 J. Anderson
FORWARD 4 S. Higgins 16 A. Bonar
HALF-BACK

34 J. Macmillan
14 C. Mills 36 A. Aliir 7 H. Cunningham



43 A. Hall 50 B. Brown 26 T. Thomas



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



13 O. Florent 26 L. Parker 5 I. Heeney



13 J. Polec 12 J. Simpkin 14 T. Dumont FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 41 H. McLean 22 N. Blakey
HALF-FORWARD 12 J. Kennedy 42 R. Fox
29 G. Hewett 30 T. McCartin 34 J. Dawson 11 T. Papley 8 J. Rowbottom
18 S. Atley 19 J. Walker 11 L. McDonald

28 L. Taylor
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



15 S. Gray 18 C. Sinclair 9 W. Hayward



17 J. Pittard 25 R. Tarrant 37 K. Hayden



BACK



Sydney Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 NMLB Ben Brown goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 00:36
NMLB Ben Brown goal 2.0.12 - 0.0.0 04:38
NMLB Ben Brown behind 2.1.13 - 0.0.0 07:02
SYDN Nick Blakey behind 2.1.13 - 0.1.1 08:55
NMLB Todd Goldstein behind 2.2.14 - 0.1.1 12:21
SYDN Hayden McLean goal 2.2.14 - 1.1.7 14:38
NMLB Ben Brown behind 2.3.15 - 1.1.7 16:45
SYDN Tom Papley goal 2.3.15 - 2.1.13 18:52
Q2 SYDN Rushed behind 2.3.15 - 2.2.14 02:58
SYDN Will Hayward goal 2.3.15 - 3.2.20 03:47
NMLB Jack Ziebell behind 2.4.16 - 3.2.20 07:20
SYDN Jordan Dawson goal 2.4.16 - 4.2.26 09:26
NMLB Aaron Hall behind 2.5.17 - 4.2.26 10:55
NMLB Aaron Hall behind 2.6.18 - 4.2.26 11:57
SYDN Rushed behind 2.6.18 - 4.3.27 17:55
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar behind 2.7.19 - 4.3.27 19:47
SYDN Nick Blakey goal 2.7.19 - 5.3.33 21:12
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar goal 3.7.25 - 5.3.33 23:11
NMLB Aaron Hall behind 3.8.26 - 5.3.33 24:31
NMLB Jack Ziebell behind 3.9.27 - 5.3.33 26:32
Q3 SYDN Isaac Heeney goal 3.9.27 - 6.3.39 00:47
SYDN Tom Papley goal 3.9.27 - 7.3.45 02:59
SYDN Tom Papley behind 3.9.27 - 7.4.46 04:54
SYDN Isaac Heeney behind 3.9.27 - 7.5.47 05:59
NMLB Jy Simpkin behind 3.10.28 - 7.5.47 08:59
SYDN Tom McCartin behind 3.10.28 - 7.6.48 10:25
SYDN James Rowbottom goal 3.10.28 - 8.6.54 12:28
SYDN Isaac Heeney behind 3.10.28 - 8.7.55 15:14
SYDN Oliver Florent behind 3.10.28 - 8.8.56 15:58
NMLB Paul Ahern goal 4.10.34 - 8.8.56 17:14
NMLB Trent Dumont behind 4.11.35 - 8.8.56 19:52
SYDN Lewis Taylor goal 4.11.35 - 9.8.62 20:55
SYDN Luke Parker goal 4.11.35 - 10.8.68 23:08
NMLB Aaron Hall goal 5.11.41 - 10.8.68 26:28
Q4 SYDN Nick Blakey behind 5.11.41 - 10.9.69 06:16
SYDN Josh Kennedy behind 5.11.41 - 10.10.70 07:57
NMLB Ben Brown goal 6.11.47 - 10.10.70 13:37
NMLB Trent Dumont goal 7.11.53 - 10.10.70 17:42
SYDN Rushed behind 7.11.53 - 10.11.71 21:55
NMLB Jy Simpkin goal 8.11.59 - 10.11.71 22:51
NMLB Rushed behind 8.12.60 - 10.11.71 24:34