2025 AFL Round 16: Carlton v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 21 June 2025 between Carlton and North Melbourne during round 16 of the 2025 AFL season. Carlton hosted North Melbourne at MCG. Patrick Cripps captained the hosts. Jy Simpkin captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Michael Voss and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Carlton
Back: N. Haynes, J. Weitering, A. Cincotta
Half-back: O. Hollands, J. Silvagni, A. Saad
Centre: S. Docherty, P. Cripps (capt.), B. Acres
Half-forward: C. Durdin, M. McGovern, M. Pittonet
Forward: J. Binns, C. Curnow, L. Fogarty
Follower: T. De Koning, A. Cerra, G. Hewett
Int.: M. Carroll, O. Fantasia, C. Lord, Z. Williams
Sub.: J. Motlop

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

Carlton (10.13.73) were defeated by North Melbourne (13.6.84).

Goalkickers
Carlton: M. McGovern (4), O. Fantasia (2), B. Acres, L. Fogarty, J. Motlop, Z. Williams
North Melbourne: C. Zurhaar (3), P. Curtis (2), C. McKercher (2), J. Darling, R. Hansen, N. Larkey, H. Sheezel, D. Stephens, T. Xerri

As a result of this match, Carlton remained 10th on the ladder and North Melbourne remained 16th on the ladder by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 16
Teams: Carlton v North Melbourne
Date: Saturday 21 June 2025
Time: 1:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 56,236

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. by North Melbourne
Score: 10.13.73 - 13.6.84

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Carlton	2	.	6	2	.	7	5	.	8	10	.	13	10	.	13	(73)
North Melbourne	1	.	3	7	.	5	13	.	6	13	.	6	13	.	6	(84)
Margin	CARL by 9			NMLB by 28			NMLB by 46			NMLB by 11			NMLB by 11
Duration	28:50			32:24			36:00			30:43			2:07:57

Honour Roll

Coaches: Michael Voss (Carlton), Alastair Clarkson (North Melbourne)
Captains: Patrick Cripps (Carlton), Jy Simpkin (North Melbourne)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	3
Tom Powell	NMLB	24	2
George Hewett	CARL	29	1

Player Statistics

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Acres, Blake	WR	81%	1	2	21	13	8	7	0	3	2	4	1	1	0	4
25	Binns, Jaxon	FPL	80%	0	0	17	14	3	7	0	1	1	3	0	0	3	3
32	Carroll, Matt	INT	82%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
5	Cerra, Adam	RR	84%	0	1	25	16	9	5	0	8	3	5	1	2	2	7
39	Cincotta, Alex	BPR	86%	0	0	7	0	7	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Cripps, Patrick (c)	C	78%	0	1	24	9	15	2	1	7	5	5	3	1	2	2
30	Curnow, Charlie	FF	88%	0	1	9	7	2	3	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	2
12	De Koning, Tom	RU	81%	0	1	14	7	7	5	19	3	3	3	0	3	1	2
15	Docherty, Sam	WL	88%	0	0	29	17	12	16	0	2	0	3	0	0	2	2
19	Durdin, Corey	HFFL	75%	0	0	7	6	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	4
14	Fantasia, Orazio	INT	69%	2	0	14	8	6	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	5
8	Fogarty, Lachie	FPR	88%	1	2	18	9	9	6	0	7	1	2	2	0	1	2
26	Haynes, Nick	BPL	84%	0	0	17	14	3	11	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	0
29	Hewett, George	RO	78%	0	0	31	7	24	2	0	8	8	6	1	2	0	5
4	Hollands, Oliver	HBFL	93%	0	0	20	11	9	5	0	3	1	4	0	1	2	2
36	Lord, Cooper	INT↓	45%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1
11	McGovern, Mitch	CHF	86%	4	0	16	13	3	7	0	3	0	3	1	2	0	2
3	Motlop, Jesse	SUB↑	29%	1	1	10	6	4	1	0	1	2	1	2	1	1	2
27	Pittonet, Marc	HFFR	67%	0	0	14	7	7	1	21	2	4	3	2	1	1	2
42	Saad, Adam	HBFR	79%	0	0	18	10	8	2	0	4	0	2	2	0	2	1
1	Silvagni, Jack	CHB	88%	0	0	13	10	3	3	0	3	0	3	2	2	1	0
23	Weitering, Jacob	FB	86%	0	0	20	15	5	10	0	3	0	0	2	0	3	3
6	Williams, Zac	INT	84%	1	1	18	11	7	7	0	6	4	0	0	0	3	4
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				10	13	383	222	161	113	41	73	36	55	21	20	27	56

J. Motlop replaced C. Lord.

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Comben, Charlie	BPL	85%	0	0	14	7	7	4	0	1	0	1	2	0	3	0
25	Curtis, Paul	FPL	74%	2	3	10	8	2	4	0	5	0	3	1	3	1	1
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	87%	0	0	24	14	10	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	5	2
28	Darling, Jack	FF	73%	1	0	6	4	2	2	3	2	1	2	2	1	2	2
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	86%	0	1	30	11	19	4	0	4	7	1	0	1	3	4
16	Fisher, Zac	SUB↑	24%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	2	1
46	Hansen, Robert	INT	66%	1	0	9	6	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0
17	Hardeman, Riley	INT	67%	0	0	15	10	5	3	0	2	0	3	0	0	2	2
41	Konstanty, Jacob	INT	71%	0	1	9	7	2	3	0	5	1	3	2	2	0	1
20	Larkey, Nick	CHF	95%	1	0	7	4	3	3	0	5	0	1	0	0	1	3
19	Logue, Griffin	BPR	86%	0	0	8	3	5	3	0	1	0	2	2	2	1	0
11	McDonald, Luke	HBFR	95%	0	0	18	14	4	8	0	3	0	0	1	0	2	0
10	McKercher, Colby	HFFR	82%	2	0	29	20	9	1	0	3	2	6	0	2	9	3
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	HBFL	77%	0	0	18	9	9	3	0	2	1	2	0	1	2	2
26	Parker, Luke	RR	81%	0	0	28	10	18	5	0	8	8	4	0	2	0	1
32	Pink, Toby	FB	97%	0	0	13	11	2	9	0	1	0	0	2	0	4	0
24	Powell, Tom	HFFL	81%	0	0	34	16	18	3	0	5	8	4	0	0	3	5
3	Sheezel, Harry	RO	86%	1	0	30	16	14	9	0	3	1	6	1	2	0	3
12	Simpkin, Jy (c)	WR	81%	0	0	18	6	12	3	0	3	3	1	0	1	1	3
15	Stephens, Dylan	WL	89%	1	1	13	8	5	6	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2
6	Wardlaw, George	INT↓	45%	0	0	11	8	3	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	2
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	86%	1	0	12	3	9	1	28	5	5	2	3	1	0	4
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	FPR	84%	3	0	11	6	5	3	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	1
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				13	6	377	207	170	87	31	65	38	49	20	21	45	42

Z. Fisher replaced G. Wardlaw.

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

Carlton							Coach: Michael Voss
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	30	C. Comben	32	T. Pink	19	G. Logue	12	T. De Koning	32	M. Carroll
	8	L. Fogarty	30	C. Curnow	25	J. Binns	5	A. Cerra	14	O. Fantasia
FORWARD							29	G. Hewett	36	C. Lord
HALF-BACK									6	Z. Williams
	2	F. O'Sullivan	5	C. Daniel	11	L. McDonald			3	J. Motlop
	27	M. Pittonet	11	M. McGovern	19	C. Durdin
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	15	D. Stephens	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	12	J. Simpkin (c)
	13	B. Acres	9	P. Cripps (c)	15	S. Docherty	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							38	T. Xerri	46	R. Hansen
HALF-FORWARD							26	L. Parker	17	R. Hardeman
	24	T. Powell	20	N. Larkey	10	C. McKercher	3	H. Sheezel	41	J. Konstanty
	42	A. Saad	1	J. Silvagni	4	O. Hollands			6	G. Wardlaw
HALF-BACK									16	Z. Fisher
FORWARD
	25	P. Curtis	28	J. Darling	44	C. Zurhaar
	39	A. Cincotta	23	J. Weitering	26	N. Haynes
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	CARL	Charlie Curnow behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	05:08
	CARL	Lachie Fogarty behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	06:55
	CARL	Mitch McGovern goal	1.2.8	-	0.0.0	08:24
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	1.2.8	-	1.0.6	10:46
	CARL	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	1.0.6	16:43
	CARL	Orazio Fantasia goal	2.3.15	-	1.0.6	18:34
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	2.3.15	-	1.1.7	20:23
	CARL	Patrick Cripps behind	2.4.16	-	1.1.7	21:09
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	2.4.16	-	1.2.8	22:26
	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty behind	2.4.16	-	1.3.9	24:34
	CARL	Tom De Koning behind	2.5.17	-	1.3.9	25:57
	CARL	Blake Acres behind	2.6.18	-	1.3.9	27:05
Q2	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	2.6.18	-	2.3.15	05:27
	CARL	Lachie Fogarty behind	2.7.19	-	2.3.15	08:31
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	2.7.19	-	3.3.21	14:25
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	2.7.19	-	4.3.27	16:12
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens behind	2.7.19	-	4.4.28	17:30
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	2.7.19	-	5.4.34	18:24
	NMLB	Colby McKercher goal	2.7.19	-	6.4.40	21:55
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	2.7.19	-	7.4.46	23:04
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	2.7.19	-	7.5.47	32:21
Q3	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	2.7.19	-	8.5.53	04:55
	NMLB	Tristan Xerri goal	2.7.19	-	9.5.59	06:10
	CARL	Orazio Fantasia goal	3.7.25	-	9.5.59	10:15
	CARL	Mitch McGovern goal	4.7.31	-	9.5.59	11:40
	NMLB	Robert Hansen goal	4.7.31	-	10.5.65	15:09
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens goal	4.7.31	-	11.5.71	17:35
	CARL	Rushed behind	4.8.32	-	11.5.71	18:38
	CARL	Zac Williams goal	5.8.38	-	11.5.71	26:03
	NMLB	Colby McKercher goal	5.8.38	-	12.5.77	28:58
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke behind	5.8.38	-	12.6.78	31:21
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel goal	5.8.38	-	13.6.84	32:08
Q4	CARL	Blake Acres goal	6.8.44	-	13.6.84	01:32
	CARL	Blake Acres behind	6.9.45	-	13.6.84	09:28
	CARL	Lachie Fogarty goal	7.9.51	-	13.6.84	11:03
	CARL	Rushed behind	7.10.52	-	13.6.84	15:07
	CARL	Jesse Motlop behind	7.11.53	-	13.6.84	17:28
	CARL	Adam Cerra behind	7.12.54	-	13.6.84	18:33
	CARL	Mitch McGovern goal	8.12.60	-	13.6.84	25:14
	CARL	Mitch McGovern goal	9.12.66	-	13.6.84	26:53
	CARL	Zac Williams behind	9.13.67	-	13.6.84	27:58
	CARL	Jesse Motlop goal	10.13.73	-	13.6.84	29:08

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