2021 AFL Season Round 7: North Melbourne v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 2 May 2021 between North Melbourne and Melbourne during round seven of the 2021 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Melbourne at Blundstone Arena. Jack Ziebell captained the hosts. Max Gawn captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by David Noble and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

North Melbourne (11.7.73) were defeated by Melbourne (16.7.103).

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: North Melbourne v Melbourne
Date: Sunday 2 May 2021
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: Blundstone Arena
Attendance: 6,009

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Melbourne
Score: 11.7.73 - 16.7.103

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
North Melbourne 4 . 1 9 . 5 10 . 6 11 . 7 11 . 7 (73)
Melbourne 3 . 2 6 . 4 12 . 7 16 . 7 16 . 7 (103)
Margin NMLB by 5 NMLB by 19 MELB by 13 MELB by 30 MELB by 30
Duration 30:25 33:51 30:32 28:52 2:03:40

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 (Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: Jack Ziebell
Coach: David Noble

Melbourne

Captain: Max Gawn
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

C. Donlon (#1)
S. Meredith (#21)
J. Power (#4)
E: A. Whetton (#19)

Goal Umpires

M. Ensbey
M. Maclure
E: S. Piperno

Boundary Umpires

J. Andrews
P. Cran
M. Jenkinson
L. Rayner

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Ben Cunnington NMLB 10 3
Bayley Fritsch MELB 31 2
Kysaiah Pickett MELB 36 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Bayley Fritsch MELB 31 10 2 0 0 0 0
Ben Cunnington NMLB 10 8 0 2 0 0 0
Aaron Hall NMLB 43 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Christian Petracca MELB 5 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Christian Salem MELB 3 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Kysaiah Pickett MELB 36 2 0 0 0 1 0
Luke Jackson MELB 6 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 BPR 91% 1 0 15 9 6 6 0 3 2 1 0 0 3 1
16 Bonar, Aiden BPL↓ 22% 0 0 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
15 Bosenavulagi, Atu INT 72% 0 0 15 7 8 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 2
42 Campbell, Tom HFFR 68% 2 0 11 5 6 4 8 0 2 4 1 2 0 0
10 Cunnington, Ben RR 84% 2 0 35 19 16 1 0 6 8 8 4 2 3 3
22 Goldstein, Todd RU 94% 0 0 11 5 6 2 23 0 4 1 1 0 0 2
43 Hall, Aaron HBFR 81% 0 0 33 25 8 12 0 4 4 5 0 0 6 4
20 Larkey, Nick FF 82% 2 1 13 7 6 5 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 2
35 Lazzaro, Charlie INT 66% 0 0 15 8 7 3 0 2 1 4 1 0 2 2
1 Mahony, Jack FPL 73% 1 0 14 4 10 4 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 2
23 McKay, Ben FB 95% 0 0 5 4 1 3 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1
31 Menadue, Connor SUB↑ 36% 0 0 8 6 2 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 0
29 Phillips, Will CHF 77% 0 1 16 9 7 4 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 2
24 Powell, Tom RO 79% 1 0 23 14 9 4 0 6 1 2 2 0 0 6
12 Simpkin, Jy C 87% 1 1 30 13 17 8 0 1 4 3 2 0 1 2
2 Stephenson, Jaidyn WR 88% 0 1 18 13 5 7 0 2 0 2 1 1 1 6
5 Taylor, Curtis INT 76% 0 0 7 2 5 0 0 3 0 5 0 1 0 2
26 Thomas, Tarryn FPR 72% 0 0 15 9 6 2 0 3 4 3 1 1 0 3
28 Turner, Kayne HFFL 85% 0 0 27 14 13 5 0 6 5 3 2 0 3 4
19 Walker, Josh CHB 88% 0 0 11 7 4 8 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0
17 Young, Lachie WL 88% 0 0 11 8 3 3 0 2 2 3 2 2 3 2
7 Ziebell, Jack (c) HBFL 94% 0 0 23 19 4 9 0 2 0 5 0 0 5 3
44 Zurhaar, Cameron INT 79% 1 1 8 7 1 3 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 2
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 11 7 367 217 150 102 32 51 40 63 21 16 34 51

C. Menadue replaced A. Bonar.

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
33 Baker, Oskar RR 85% 0 0 15 12 3 5 0 4 2 2 0 0 1 6
10 Brayshaw, Angus WL 78% 0 0 15 7 8 4 0 4 3 3 1 2 1 1
50 Brown, Ben FF 74% 2 1 5 4 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0
31 Fritsch, Bayley FPR 93% 6 1 14 10 4 6 0 1 0 6 0 4 0 1
11 Gawn, Max (c) RU 97% 0 1 13 5 8 4 28 2 1 4 1 3 1 0
14 Hibberd, Michael BPR 82% 0 0 19 13 6 10 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1
29 Hunt, Jayden HBFR 77% 0 0 11 6 5 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
6 Jackson, Luke INT 79% 1 0 22 6 16 2 7 2 2 1 1 0 1 1
2 Jones, Nathan SUB↑ 49% 0 0 14 7 7 5 0 2 2 1 0 0 2 1
23 Jordon, James INT 72% 1 0 20 10 10 3 0 7 4 2 1 1 0 4
15 Langdon, Ed WR 93% 1 0 25 17 8 12 0 2 2 1 1 0 4 2
8 Lever, Jake BPL 100% 0 0 17 13 4 7 0 2 0 2 2 2 4 2
1 May, Steven FB 100% 0 0 25 21 4 14 0 1 0 2 0 0 8 1
25 McDonald, Tom CHF 92% 0 0 15 8 7 5 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 1
18 Melksham, Jake INT 68% 0 0 17 10 7 6 0 3 0 7 1 2 1 6
30 Neal-Bullen, Alex HFFL 71% 0 0 10 6 4 2 0 0 0 6 1 3 0 2
13 Oliver, Clayton RO 88% 1 0 25 13 12 2 0 5 7 3 2 1 3 6
5 Petracca, Christian C 88% 0 1 23 16 7 7 0 4 8 4 0 1 0 9
36 Pickett, Kysaiah HFFR 77% 3 2 17 9 8 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 2
24 Rivers, Trent INT 68% 0 0 14 11 3 6 0 3 1 1 0 0 3 1
3 Salem, Christian HBFL 81% 0 0 29 19 10 4 0 3 1 1 2 0 3 0
9 Spargo, Charlie FPL 73% 1 0 10 8 2 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
20 Tomlinson, Adam CHB↓ 6% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 16 7 375 231 144 117 36 54 35 51 16 21 39 52

N. Jones replaced A. Tomlinson.

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: David Noble
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
8 J. Lever 1 S. May 14 M. Hibberd 22 T. Goldstein 15 A. Bosenavulagi
26 T. Thomas 20 N. Larkey 1 J. Mahony 10 B. Cunnington 35 C. Lazzaro
FORWARD 24 T. Powell 5 C. Taylor
HALF-BACK

44 C. Zurhaar
3 C. Salem 20 A. Tomlinson 29 J. Hunt

31 C. Menadue
42 T. Campbell 29 W. Phillips 28 K. Turner



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



10 A. Brayshaw 5 C. Petracca 15 E. Langdon



2 J. Stephenson 12 J. Simpkin 17 L. Young FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 11 M. Gawn (c) 6 L. Jackson
HALF-FORWARD 33 O. Baker 23 J. Jordon
30 A. Neal-Bullen 25 T. McDonald 36 K. Pickett 13 C. Oliver 18 J. Melksham
43 A. Hall 19 J. Walker 7 J. Ziebell (c)

24 T. Rivers
HALF-BACK

2 N. Jones
FORWARD



9 C. Spargo 50 B. Brown 31 B. Fritsch



18 S. Atley 23 B. McKay 16 A. Bonar



BACK



Melbourne Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 NMLB Tom Campbell goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 00:55
NMLB Shaun Atley goal 2.0.12 - 0.0.0 03:19
MELB Kysaiah Pickett behind 2.0.12 - 0.1.1 06:01
NMLB Rushed behind 2.1.13 - 0.1.1 07:33
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 2.1.13 - 1.1.7 09:43
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 2.1.13 - 2.1.13 11:44
MELB Luke Jackson goal 2.1.13 - 3.1.19 17:12
NMLB Tom Campbell goal 3.1.19 - 3.1.19 18:50
MELB Ben Brown behind 3.1.19 - 3.2.20 22:23
NMLB Tom Powell goal 4.1.25 - 3.2.20 24:59
Q2 NMLB Rushed behind 4.2.26 - 3.2.20 02:11
NMLB Jy Simpkin goal 5.2.32 - 3.2.20 03:46
NMLB Will Phillips behind 5.3.33 - 3.2.20 06:46
MELB Ed Langdon goal 5.3.33 - 4.2.26 08:03
MELB Ben Brown goal 5.3.33 - 5.2.32 10:58
NMLB Nick Larkey goal 6.3.39 - 5.2.32 13:37
NMLB Nick Larkey behind 6.4.40 - 5.2.32 16:59
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 6.4.40 - 6.2.38 17:27
MELB Kysaiah Pickett behind 6.4.40 - 6.3.39 19:00
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar goal 7.4.46 - 6.3.39 22:53
NMLB Jaidyn Stephenson behind 7.5.47 - 6.3.39 25:36
NMLB Ben Cunnington goal 8.5.53 - 6.3.39 30:18
NMLB Nick Larkey goal 9.5.59 - 6.3.39 32:09
MELB Rushed behind 9.5.59 - 6.4.40 33:37
Q3 MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 9.5.59 - 7.4.46 01:43
NMLB Jack Mahony goal 10.5.65 - 7.4.46 06:44
MELB Charlie Spargo goal 10.5.65 - 8.4.52 08:19
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 10.5.65 - 9.4.58 12:01
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar behind 10.6.66 - 9.4.58 13:33
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 10.6.66 - 10.4.64 14:03
MELB Ben Brown goal 10.6.66 - 11.4.70 16:11
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 10.6.66 - 11.5.71 17:24
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 10.6.66 - 12.5.77 18:50
MELB Max Gawn behind 10.6.66 - 12.6.78 22:34
MELB Christian Petracca behind 10.6.66 - 12.7.79 25:26
Q4 NMLB Ben Cunnington goal 11.6.72 - 12.7.79 08:43
NMLB Jy Simpkin behind 11.7.73 - 12.7.79 11:27
MELB James Jordon goal 11.7.73 - 13.7.85 13:34
MELB Clayton Oliver goal 11.7.73 - 14.7.91 14:55
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 11.7.73 - 15.7.97 17:52
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 11.7.73 - 16.7.103 23:43