2021 AFL 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 7 of the 2021 AFL season. 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
Back: A. Bonar, B. McKay, S. Atley
Half-back: J. Ziebell (capt.), J. Walker, A. Hall
Centre: L. Young, J. Simpkin, J. Stephenson
Half-forward: K. Turner, W. Phillips, T. Campbell
Forward: J. Mahony, N. Larkey, T. Thomas
Follower: T. Goldstein, B. Cunnington, T. Powell
Int.: A. Bosenavulagi, C. Lazzaro, C. Taylor, C. Zurhaar
Sub.: C. Menadue

Melbourne
Back: J. Lever, S. May, M. Hibberd
Half-back: C. Salem, A. Tomlinson, J. Hunt
Centre: A. Brayshaw, C. Petracca, E. Langdon
Half-forward: A. Neal-Bullen, T. McDonald, K. Pickett
Forward: C. Spargo, B. Brown, B. Fritsch
Follower: M. Gawn (capt.), O. Baker, C. Oliver
Int.: L. Jackson, J. Jordon, J. Melksham, T. Rivers
Sub.: N. Jones

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

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: T. Campbell (2), B. Cunnington (2), N. Larkey (2), S. Atley, J. Mahony, T. Powell, J. Simpkin, C. Zurhaar
Melbourne: B. Fritsch (6), K. Pickett (3), B. Brown (2), L. Jackson, J. Jordon, E. Langdon, C. Oliver, C. Spargo

As a result of this match, North Melbourne remained 18th on the ladder and Melbourne were then 1st on the ladder (up from 2nd) by the end of the round.

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

Honour Roll

Coaches: David Noble (North Melbourne), Simon Goodwin (Melbourne)
Captains: Jack Ziebell (North Melbourne), Max Gawn (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Donlon (#1), S. Meredith (#21), J. Power (#4), E: A. Whetton (#19)
Goal Umpire: M. Ensbey, M. Maclure, E: S. Piperno
Boundary Umpire: 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

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