2025 AFL Round 8: Port Adelaide v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 26 April 2025 between Port Adelaide and North Melbourne during round 8 of the 2025 AFL season. Port Adelaide hosted North Melbourne at Adelaide Oval. Connor Rozee captained the hosts with Zak Butters as vice-captain. Jy Simpkin captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ken Hinkley and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Port Adelaide
Back: E. Ratugolea, A. Aliir, L. Jones
Half-back: M. Bergman, C. Rozee (capt.), K. Farrell
Centre: J. Burgoyne, O. Wines, C. Moraes
Half-forward: J. Richards, J. Mead, W. Rioli
Forward: D. Byrne-Jones, M. Georgiades, O. Lord
Follower: J. Sweet, Z. Butters (vice-capt.), J. Horne-Francis
Int.: J. Berry, W. Drew, S. Powell-Pepper, J. Sinn
Sub.: J. Finlayson

North Melbourne
Back: C. Comben, K. Dawson, J. Archer
Half-back: L. McDonald, C. Daniel, D. Tucker
Centre: F. O'Sullivan, L. Davies-Uniacke, D. Stephens
Half-forward: P. Curtis, N. Larkey, H. Sheezel
Forward: C. Zurhaar, J. Darling, G. Wardlaw
Follower: T. Xerri, L. Parker, J. Simpkin (capt.)
Int.: R. Hardeman, J. Konstanty, C. McKercher, T. Powell
Sub.: Z. Duursma

Port Adelaide (14.13.97) defeated North Melbourne (13.10.88).

Goalkickers
Port Adelaide: D. Byrne-Jones (3), M. Georgiades (2), O. Lord (2), J. Richards (2), J. Finlayson, J. Horne-Francis, S. Powell-Pepper, W. Rioli, C. Rozee
North Melbourne: P. Curtis (3), C. Zurhaar (2), J. Darling, L. Davies-Uniacke, N. Larkey, C. McKercher, L. Parker, T. Powell, G. Wardlaw, T. Xerri

As a result of this match, Port Adelaide remained 10th on the ladder and North Melbourne remained 17th on the ladder by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Port Adelaide v North Melbourne
Date: Saturday 26 April 2025
Time: 3:45 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 35,004

Match Results

Outcome: Port Adelaide def. North Melbourne
Score: 14.13.97 - 13.10.88

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Port Adelaide	7	.	3	9	.	5	12	.	8	14	.	13	14	.	13	(97)
North Melbourne	2	.	4	7	.	5	10	.	7	13	.	10	13	.	10	(88)
Margin	PADL by 29			PADL by 12			PADL by 13			PADL by 9			PADL by 9
Duration	35:04			37:51			36:45			32:25			2:22:05

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ken Hinkley (Port Adelaide), Alastair Clarkson (North Melbourne)
Captains: Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide), Jy Simpkin (North Melbourne)
Vice-Captains: Zak Butters (Port Adelaide), unknown (North Melbourne)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Zak Butters	PADL	9	3
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	2
Jason Horne-Francis	PADL	18	1

Player Statistics

Port Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Aliir, Aliir	FB	100%	0	0	11	7	4	1	0	3	1	4	1	0	4	1
14	Bergman, Miles	HBFL	79%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	2	0	3	0	1	1	3
5	Berry, Joe	INT	54%	0	0	9	6	3	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	2	3
7	Burgoyne, Jase	WL	91%	0	0	22	9	13	5	0	1	5	2	1	1	5	1
9	Butters, Zak (vc)	RR	82%	0	0	27	14	13	1	0	13	5	1	3	0	1	4
33	Byrne-Jones, Darcy	FPL	78%	3	0	13	10	3	5	0	1	1	3	1	1	0	4
28	Drew, Willem	INT	76%	0	1	17	7	10	1	0	11	6	1	3	1	0	1
6	Farrell, Kane	HBFR	80%	0	1	17	15	2	4	0	3	2	5	0	3	6	3
11	Finlayson, Jeremy	SUB↑	50%	1	0	5	3	2	2	4	2	0	1	0	1	0	0
19	Georgiades, Mitch	FF	86%	2	2	17	14	3	10	0	1	0	7	1	1	0	5
18	Horne-Francis, Jason	RO	79%	1	0	27	15	12	3	0	4	6	8	1	4	1	7
34	Jones, Lachie	BPR	86%	0	0	5	2	3	1	0	3	0	3	0	2	3	0
30	Lord, Ollie	FPR	85%	2	2	12	5	7	4	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0
44	Mead, Jackson	CHF	92%	0	0	14	8	6	3	0	7	3	2	0	1	0	3
31	Moraes, Christian	WR	81%	0	0	10	2	8	2	0	6	0	2	0	1	1	1
2	Powell-Pepper, Sam	INT	80%	1	2	17	12	5	7	0	5	1	4	1	1	0	6
27	Ratugolea, Esava	BPL	97%	0	0	9	7	2	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	3	0
35	Richards, Joe	HFFL	80%	2	0	10	4	6	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
15	Rioli, Willie	HFFR	90%	1	1	10	7	3	3	0	3	1	3	0	1	1	2
1	Rozee, Connor (c)	CHB	91%	1	0	27	20	7	7	0	1	3	5	3	0	4	5
8	Sinn, Josh	INT↓	16%	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
24	Sweet, Jordon	RU	84%	0	0	8	7	1	0	39	6	2	5	1	5	1	3
16	Wines, Ollie	C	67%	0	2	24	13	11	3	5	4	7	5	0	1	1	4
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				14	13	325	195	130	72	48	83	45	67	20	26	35	56

J. Finlayson replaced J. Sinn.

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
34	Archer, Jackson	BPR	79%	0	0	12	5	7	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	1
30	Comben, Charlie	BPL	98%	0	0	7	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
25	Curtis, Paul	HFFL	85%	3	1	16	12	4	3	0	5	1	3	4	2	1	4
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	85%	0	0	22	17	5	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	8	1
28	Darling, Jack	FF	76%	1	1	9	5	4	3	7	3	0	0	0	0	0	2
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	95%	1	0	25	8	17	2	0	4	11	4	0	1	1	2
42	Dawson, Kallan	FB	91%	0	0	7	5	2	2	0	0	0	3	0	1	3	0
7	Duursma, Zane	SUB↑	18%	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
17	Hardeman, Riley	INT	65%	0	0	12	9	3	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	3	2
41	Konstanty, Jacob	INT	64%	0	1	6	4	2	1	0	2	2	2	1	1	0	2
20	Larkey, Nick	CHF	95%	1	2	12	7	5	7	0	1	0	6	1	2	0	0
11	McDonald, Luke	HBFL	90%	0	0	13	8	5	0	0	3	0	3	1	0	4	1
10	McKercher, Colby	INT	70%	1	0	19	11	8	1	0	1	3	5	0	1	2	2
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	WL	78%	0	1	12	4	8	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	2
26	Parker, Luke	RR	79%	1	1	27	13	14	4	0	4	2	6	1	2	0	2
24	Powell, Tom	INT	68%	1	0	19	11	8	3	0	3	7	2	1	0	3	6
3	Sheezel, Harry	HFFR	92%	0	0	30	20	10	4	0	1	3	3	2	1	8	5
12	Simpkin, Jy (c)	RO	90%	0	0	19	11	8	1	0	1	5	8	4	3	0	3
15	Stephens, Dylan	WR	80%	0	0	15	7	8	3	0	2	1	4	1	1	2	2
13	Tucker, Darcy	HBFR↓	69%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
6	Wardlaw, George	FPR	63%	1	0	20	11	9	1	0	6	2	1	0	0	0	7
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	83%	1	0	23	10	13	2	39	3	7	2	6	1	1	1
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	FPL	86%	2	3	11	8	3	4	0	3	1	2	1	1	1	2
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				13	10	339	190	149	48	46	54	46	60	26	20	42	49

Z. Duursma replaced D. Tucker.

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

Port Adelaide							Coach: Ken Hinkley
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	30	C. Comben	42	K. Dawson	34	J. Archer	24	J. Sweet	5	J. Berry
	30	O. Lord	19	M. Georgiades	33	D. Byrne-Jones	9	Z. Butters (vc)	28	W. Drew
FORWARD							18	J. Horne-Francis	2	S. Powell-Pepper
HALF-BACK									8	J. Sinn
	11	L. McDonald	5	C. Daniel	13	D. Tucker			11	J. Finlayson
	15	W. Rioli	44	J. Mead	35	J. Richards
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	2	F. O'Sullivan	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	15	D. Stephens
	31	C. Moraes	16	O. Wines	7	J. Burgoyne	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							38	T. Xerri	17	R. Hardeman
HALF-FORWARD							26	L. Parker	41	J. Konstanty
	25	P. Curtis	20	N. Larkey	3	H. Sheezel	12	J. Simpkin (c)	10	C. McKercher
	6	K. Farrell	1	C. Rozee (c)	14	M. Bergman			24	T. Powell
HALF-BACK									7	Z. Duursma
FORWARD
	44	C. Zurhaar	28	J. Darling	6	G. Wardlaw
	34	L. Jones	21	A. Aliir	27	E. Ratugolea
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:54
	NMLB	Finn O'Sullivan behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	03:54
	PADL	Ollie Lord behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	08:43
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	10:12
	NMLB	Tom Powell goal	2.1.13	-	1.1.7	12:53
	PADL	Ollie Lord goal	3.1.19	-	1.1.7	14:36
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	3.1.19	-	1.2.8	18:24
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	3.1.19	-	2.2.14	19:53
	PADL	Ollie Lord behind	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	21:56
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	3.2.20	-	2.3.15	23:10
	PADL	Willie Rioli goal	4.2.26	-	2.3.15	24:28
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper goal	5.2.32	-	2.3.15	27:27
	PADL	Connor Rozee goal	6.2.38	-	2.3.15	29:00
	PADL	Kane Farrell behind	6.3.39	-	2.3.15	30:58
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	7.3.45	-	2.3.15	33:15
	NMLB	Luke Parker behind	7.3.45	-	2.4.16	35:00
Q2	NMLB	Colby McKercher goal	7.3.45	-	3.4.22	02:45
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper behind	7.4.46	-	3.4.22	04:30
	NMLB	Jack Darling behind	7.4.46	-	3.5.23	09:32
	NMLB	Tristan Xerri goal	7.4.46	-	4.5.29	11:13
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades behind	7.5.47	-	4.5.29	15:40
	PADL	Jason Horne-Francis goal	8.5.53	-	4.5.29	21:53
	NMLB	Luke Parker goal	8.5.53	-	5.5.35	23:19
	PADL	Joe Richards goal	9.5.59	-	5.5.35	24:50
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	9.5.59	-	6.5.41	33:34
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	9.5.59	-	7.5.47	35:01
Q3	PADL	Jeremy Finlayson goal	10.5.65	-	7.5.47	11:47
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar behind	10.5.65	-	7.6.48	15:41
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar behind	10.5.65	-	7.7.49	16:29
	PADL	Sam Powell-Pepper behind	10.6.66	-	7.7.49	18:32
	PADL	Ollie Wines behind	10.7.67	-	7.7.49	23:28
	PADL	Joe Richards goal	11.7.73	-	7.7.49	24:03
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	11.7.73	-	8.7.55	27:36
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	11.7.73	-	9.7.61	30:16
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke goal	11.7.73	-	10.7.67	32:37
	PADL	Darcy Byrne-Jones goal	12.7.79	-	10.7.67	34:26
	PADL	Willem Drew behind	12.8.80	-	10.7.67	35:51
Q4	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	13.8.86	-	10.7.67	02:28
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	13.8.86	-	11.7.73	04:39
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	13.8.86	-	12.7.79	06:41
	PADL	Ollie Wines behind	13.9.87	-	12.7.79	11:08
	PADL	Willie Rioli behind	13.10.88	-	12.7.79	13:23
	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty behind	13.10.88	-	12.8.80	14:37
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar behind	13.10.88	-	12.9.81	16:15
	PADL	Rushed behind	13.11.89	-	12.9.81	18:44
	PADL	Ollie Lord goal	14.11.95	-	12.9.81	21:46
	NMLB	George Wardlaw goal	14.11.95	-	13.9.87	24:44
	PADL	Rushed behind	14.12.96	-	13.9.87	26:03
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	14.12.96	-	13.10.88	27:37
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades behind	14.13.97	-	13.10.88	30:56

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