2024 AFL Season Round 18: North Melbourne v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 6 July 2024 between North Melbourne and Gold Coast during round eighteen of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium. With the presence of multiple North Melbourne co-captains, namely Luke McDonald and Jy Simpkin, playing for the side, it is not yet known who specifically captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Damien Hardwick.

North Melbourne (13.9.87) defeated Gold Coast (12.11.83).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: North Melbourne v Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 6 July 2024
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 17,781

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Gold Coast
Score: 13.9.87 - 12.11.83

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	3	.	1	8	.	3	11	.	7	13	.	9	13	.	9	(87)
Gold Coast	5	.	1	7	.	3	9	.	6	12	.	11	12	.	11	(83)
Margin	GCST by 12			NMLB by 6			NMLB by 13			NMLB by 4			NMLB by 4
Duration	31:42			33:16			29:18			29:07			2:03:23

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 (Gold Coast) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Gold Coast

Captain: unknown
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	3
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	2
Colby McKercher	NMLB	10	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	10	2	0	0	0	0
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	8	0	2	0	0	0
Colby McKercher	NMLB	10	5	0	0	1	1	0
Tristan Xerri	NMLB	38	3	0	0	1	0	0
Noah Anderson	GCST	15	2	0	0	0	1	0
Aidan Corr	NMLB	4	1	0	0	0	0	1
Sam Day	GCST	12	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
34	Archer, Jackson	HBFL	87%	0	0	11	6	5	3	0	2	0	1	3	1	3	0
30	Comben, Charlie	FB	100%	0	0	17	10	7	9	0	2	0	2	0	0	7	0
4	Corr, Aidan	BPL	90%	0	0	15	11	4	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	4	0
25	Curtis, Paul	FPL	80%	1	0	10	7	3	4	0	4	0	3	1	1	0	3
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	86%	1	1	30	16	14	4	0	3	9	2	1	0	2	5
42	Dawson, Kallan	INT	76%	1	0	13	6	7	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0
40	Ford, Eddie	INT	71%	0	2	12	7	5	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
20	Larkey, Nick	FF	93%	3	0	6	6	0	5	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0
11	McDonald, Luke	HBFR	81%	0	0	18	11	7	4	0	2	1	2	1	0	2	3
10	McKercher, Colby	WR	83%	0	0	37	27	10	6	0	1	1	2	0	0	13	1
29	Phillips, Will	HFFR	69%	0	0	12	9	3	3	0	6	3	2	1	1	0	3
32	Pink, Toby	BPR	78%	1	0	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Powell, Tom	INT	75%	0	0	22	8	14	5	0	4	3	2	1	0	0	4
8	Scott, Bailey	INT	86%	0	0	23	15	8	4	0	2	2	2	0	0	3	2
3	Sheezel, Harry	CHB	87%	1	0	35	14	21	8	0	5	10	4	0	0	2	5
14	Shiels, Liam	RR	79%	1	1	10	4	6	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	1
12	Simpkin, Jy	RO	85%	0	1	28	19	9	6	0	5	5	5	1	3	1	8
15	Stephens, Dylan	WL↓	70%	0	0	13	9	4	4	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	1
5	Taylor, Curtis	SUB↑	14%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
43	Teakle, Brynn	CHF	62%	2	0	4	2	2	3	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
13	Tucker, Darcy	HFFL	79%	0	0	24	11	13	4	0	2	2	0	1	0	4	1
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	81%	1	0	17	10	7	3	35	7	6	7	2	2	1	3
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	FPR	87%	1	1	9	6	3	2	0	7	1	1	4	1	0	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				13	9	372	217	155	90	40	63	45	41	20	13	49	46

C. Taylor replaced D. Stephens.

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ainsworth, Ben	C	83%	1	1	9	6	3	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
15	Anderson, Noah	RR	87%	1	0	30	17	13	6	0	1	3	7	1	1	4	7
31	Andrew, Mac	FB	92%	1	0	16	10	6	5	2	2	1	1	2	1	4	4
10	Ballard, Charlie	BPR	89%	0	0	11	5	6	2	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0
16	Berry, Tom	INT	74%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	1
33	Clohesy, Sam	WR	84%	0	0	15	7	8	3	0	5	2	2	3	1	1	6
25	Collins, Sam	BPL	100%	0	0	10	6	4	5	0	2	0	2	0	1	2	0
12	Day, Sam	INT	54%	2	1	11	8	3	8	5	0	0	2	0	1	0	2
3	Flanders, Sam	HBFL	86%	1	0	27	10	17	3	0	2	6	1	0	0	2	5
26	Graham, Will	INT	73%	1	0	15	5	10	1	0	3	0	1	1	1	0	5
7	Holman, Nick	WL	87%	0	0	9	3	6	1	0	5	0	1	0	1	2	0
19	Humphrey, Bailey	SUB↑	33%	0	0	6	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
40	Jeffrey, Joel	FF	77%	0	1	16	12	4	2	0	4	0	2	0	0	1	5
34	King, Ben	FPL	88%	1	1	6	5	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2
22	Long, Ben	HFFR	88%	2	2	11	10	1	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	4
13	Lukosius, Jack	FPR	84%	1	0	6	4	2	2	2	3	0	2	0	1	0	2
11	Miller, Touk	CHF↓	44%	0	0	14	6	8	2	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0
49	Moyle, Ned	RU	81%	0	0	18	7	11	4	26	6	6	7	3	3	1	4
27	Powell, Wil	CHB	80%	1	1	15	9	6	4	0	2	0	2	0	2	6	2
18	Rowell, Matt	RO	82%	0	1	24	10	14	1	0	8	7	5	1	2	0	4
6	Sexton, Alex	INT	76%	0	0	15	10	5	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	4	2
24	Swallow, David	HFFL	73%	0	0	10	4	6	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
32	Uwland, Bodhi	HBFR	85%	0	0	15	9	6	4	0	1	1	2	1	2	5	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				12	11	319	171	148	75	35	55	29	46	13	20	33	62

B. Humphrey replaced T. Miller.

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: Alastair Clarkson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	25	S. Collins	31	M. Andrew	10	C. Ballard	38	T. Xerri	42	K. Dawson
	44	C. Zurhaar	20	N. Larkey	25	P. Curtis	14	L. Shiels	40	E. Ford
FORWARD							12	J. Simpkin	24	T. Powell
HALF-BACK									8	B. Scott
	3	S. Flanders	27	W. Powell	32	B. Uwland			5	C. Taylor
	29	W. Phillips	43	B. Teakle	13	D. Tucker
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	7	N. Holman	9	B. Ainsworth	33	S. Clohesy
	10	C. McKercher	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	15	D. Stephens	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							49	N. Moyle	16	T. Berry
HALF-FORWARD							15	N. Anderson	12	S. Day
	24	D. Swallow	11	T. Miller	22	B. Long	18	M. Rowell	26	W. Graham
	11	L. McDonald	3	H. Sheezel	34	J. Archer			6	A. Sexton
HALF-BACK									19	B. Humphrey
FORWARD
	34	B. King	40	J. Jeffrey	13	J. Lukosius
	32	T. Pink	30	C. Comben	4	A. Corr
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Damien Hardwick

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	00:53
	NMLB	Tristan Xerri goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	04:00
	NMLB	Brynn Teakle goal	2.1.13	-	0.0.0	06:23
	GCST	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	08:30
	NMLB	Liam Shiels goal	3.1.19	-	0.1.1	13:23
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth goal	3.1.19	-	1.1.7	15:03
	GCST	Sam Day goal	3.1.19	-	2.1.13	19:04
	GCST	Sam Day goal	3.1.19	-	3.1.19	20:41
	GCST	Will Graham goal	3.1.19	-	4.1.25	26:03
	GCST	Jack Lukosius goal	3.1.19	-	5.1.31	29:37
Q2	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	4.1.25	-	5.1.31	01:42
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke goal	5.1.31	-	5.1.31	04:41
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar behind	5.2.32	-	5.1.31	07:23
	NMLB	Toby Pink goal	6.2.38	-	5.1.31	09:50
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	7.2.44	-	5.1.31	12:17
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin behind	7.3.45	-	5.1.31	15:26
	GCST	Noah Anderson goal	7.3.45	-	6.1.37	16:43
	GCST	Ben Long behind	7.3.45	-	6.2.38	22:44
	NMLB	Kallan Dawson goal	8.3.51	-	6.2.38	24:50
	GCST	Ben King goal	8.3.51	-	7.2.44	27:29
	GCST	Joel Jeffrey behind	8.3.51	-	7.3.45	30:06
Q3	NMLB	Rushed behind	8.4.52	-	7.3.45	00:45
	GCST	Rushed behind	8.4.52	-	7.4.46	01:52
	GCST	Sam Day behind	8.4.52	-	7.5.47	04:18
	GCST	Mac Andrew goal	8.4.52	-	8.5.53	05:26
	NMLB	Rushed behind	8.5.53	-	8.5.53	07:28
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	9.5.59	-	8.5.53	11:26
	NMLB	Eddie Ford behind	9.6.60	-	8.5.53	13:11
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	10.6.66	-	8.5.53	14:25
	GCST	Ben Long goal	10.6.66	-	9.5.59	19:32
	GCST	Rushed behind	10.6.66	-	9.6.60	22:16
	NMLB	Liam Shiels behind	10.7.67	-	9.6.60	24:03
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel goal	11.7.73	-	9.6.60	25:56
Q4	GCST	Ben Long behind	11.7.73	-	9.7.61	01:52
	NMLB	Brynn Teakle goal	12.7.79	-	9.7.61	03:26
	GCST	Matt Rowell behind	12.7.79	-	9.8.62	05:55
	GCST	Ben King behind	12.7.79	-	9.9.63	07:37
	GCST	Wil Powell behind	12.7.79	-	9.10.64	08:18
	NMLB	Eddie Ford behind	12.8.80	-	9.10.64	11:06
	GCST	Ben Long goal	12.8.80	-	10.10.70	11:54
	GCST	Sam Flanders goal	12.8.80	-	11.10.76	13:41
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	13.8.86	-	11.10.76	17:49
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke behind	13.9.87	-	11.10.76	19:49
	GCST	Wil Powell goal	13.9.87	-	12.10.82	25:45
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	13.9.87	-	12.11.83	27:18

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