2025 AFL Round 24: North Melbourne v Richmond

This is the match report for the match played on 17 August 2025 between North Melbourne and Richmond during round 24 of the 2025 AFL season. North Melbourne hosted Richmond at Ninja Stadium. Jy Simpkin captained the hosts. Toby Nankervis captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Adem Yze.

North Melbourne
Back: C. Comben, T. Pink, G. Logue
Half-back: T. Powell, C. Daniel, F. O'Sullivan
Centre: B. Scott, L. Davies-Uniacke, C. McKercher
Half-forward: P. Curtis, C. Trembath, J. Simpkin (capt.)
Forward: J. Konstanty, J. Darling, C. Zurhaar
Follower: T. Xerri, H. Sheezel, G. Wardlaw
Int.: C. Harvey, L. Parker, G. Payne, D. Stephens
Sub.: M. Whitlock

Richmond
Back: T. Young, B. Miller, N. Vlastuin
Half-back: N. Broad, S. Banks, T. Brown
Centre: K. McIntosh, D. Prestia, J. Trezise
Half-forward: M. Rioli, S. Campbell, T. Hotton
Forward: H. Armstrong, T. Lynch, R. Mansell
Follower: T. Nankervis (capt.), T. Taranto, J. Hopper
Int.: N. Balta, J. Ross, J. Short, T. Sonsie
Sub.: S. Green

North Melbourne (20.15.135) defeated Richmond (13.9.87).

Goalkickers
North Melbourne: P. Curtis (5), C. Trembath (3), G. Payne (2), H. Sheezel (2), J. Darling, L. Davies-Uniacke, J. Konstanty, G. Logue, T. Powell, J. Simpkin, M. Whitlock, C. Zurhaar
Richmond: S. Campbell (3), T. Lynch (3), N. Balta (2), S. Green, R. Mansell, K. McIntosh, M. Rioli, J. Trezise

As a result of this match, North Melbourne were then 16th on the ladder (up from 17th) and Richmond were then 17th on the ladder (down from 16th) by the end of the day.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 24
Teams: North Melbourne v Richmond
Date: Sunday 17 August 2025
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: Ninja Stadium
Attendance: 11,176

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Richmond
Score: 20.15.135 - 13.9.87

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	2	.	7	6	.	11	14	.	13	20	.	15	20	.	15	(135)
Richmond	4	.	2	6	.	3	7	.	9	13	.	9	13	.	9	(87)
Margin	RICH by 7			NMLB by 8			NMLB by 46			NMLB by 48			NMLB by 48
Duration	32:30			34:45			35:28			37:17			2:20:00

Honour Roll

Coaches: Alastair Clarkson (North Melbourne), Adem Yze (Richmond)
Captains: Jy Simpkin (North Melbourne), Toby Nankervis (Richmond)

Brownlow Votes

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

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Comben, Charlie	BPL	97%	0	1	12	6	6	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1
25	Curtis, Paul	HFFL	80%	5	1	15	7	8	5	0	3	3	1	1	0	0	1
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	83%	0	0	25	13	12	2	0	1	1	2	0	0	3	3
28	Darling, Jack	FF	96%	1	0	10	5	5	3	2	2	1	3	0	2	0	1
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	88%	1	1	40	18	22	9	0	7	10	4	2	0	1	12
37	Harvey, Cooper	INT	60%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	Konstanty, Jacob	FPL	62%	1	0	12	7	5	2	0	4	2	3	0	1	1	2
19	Logue, Griffin	BPR	94%	1	0	16	6	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
10	McKercher, Colby	WR	89%	0	0	29	20	9	1	0	2	0	5	2	0	3	7
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	HBFR	88%	0	2	21	12	9	3	0	3	1	1	0	0	3	2
26	Parker, Luke	INT	78%	0	1	30	12	18	5	0	5	6	6	0	2	0	4
23	Payne, Geordie	INT	75%	2	1	8	4	4	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	1
32	Pink, Toby	FB	89%	0	0	10	7	3	6	0	0	0	3	0	1	3	0
24	Powell, Tom	HBFL	82%	1	2	22	10	12	5	0	3	2	2	0	1	0	3
8	Scott, Bailey	WL	77%	0	0	17	11	6	6	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	3
3	Sheezel, Harry	RR	86%	2	2	54	25	29	7	0	5	6	6	1	1	0	8
12	Simpkin, Jy (c)	HFFR	92%	1	1	24	14	10	4	0	2	2	3	0	0	3	4
15	Stephens, Dylan	INT	91%	0	1	22	11	11	3	0	2	4	2	0	1	1	3
47	Trembath, Cooper	CHF	79%	3	1	9	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
6	Wardlaw, George	RO	65%	0	0	25	12	13	1	0	2	5	6	1	3	2	4
35	Whitlock, Matt	SUB↑	41%	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	86%	0	0	22	3	19	1	40	18	6	1	3	0	0	1
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	FPR↓	21%	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				20	15	431	211	220	81	42	64	49	54	13	16	27	62

M. Whitlock replaced C. Zurhaar.

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
34	Armstrong, Harry	FPL	78%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
21	Balta, Noah	INT	81%	2	1	7	5	2	3	11	3	1	0	1	0	1	0
41	Banks, Sam	CHB	83%	0	0	14	10	4	2	0	3	1	1	0	0	3	0
35	Broad, Nathan	HBFL	98%	0	0	8	7	1	5	0	7	0	2	1	0	1	3
30	Brown, Tom	HBFR	83%	0	0	12	9	3	1	0	1	3	2	0	1	5	0
44	Campbell, Seth	CHF	88%	3	0	10	7	3	2	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1
48	Green, Steely	SUB↑	31%	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
2	Hopper, Jacob	RO	88%	0	1	27	9	18	1	0	5	6	3	1	2	1	4
24	Hotton, Taj	HFFR	67%	0	0	16	4	12	2	0	4	5	2	0	0	0	0
19	Lynch, Tom	FF	86%	3	4	13	11	2	7	0	2	2	3	4	1	0	0
7	Mansell, Rhyan	FPR	72%	1	0	12	9	3	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	0	2
33	McIntosh, Kamdyn	WL	87%	1	0	17	8	9	5	0	1	1	3	0	1	3	2
12	Miller, Ben	FB	97%	0	0	13	12	1	5	0	4	0	3	0	1	5	2
25	Nankervis, Toby (c)	RU	81%	0	0	21	9	12	4	30	2	3	1	0	1	0	4
3	Prestia, Dion	C	83%	0	1	14	7	7	0	0	4	5	2	0	1	0	4
17	Rioli, Maurice	HFFL	77%	1	0	11	6	5	1	0	7	0	2	1	0	1	1
5	Ross, Jack	INT	76%	0	0	19	8	11	1	0	5	3	4	2	2	1	5
15	Short, Jayden	INT	86%	0	0	14	9	5	6	0	2	0	1	0	0	4	4
40	Sonsie, Tyler	INT	72%	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	3	1	6	0	1	2	2
14	Taranto, Tim	RR	79%	0	0	19	8	11	1	0	8	5	5	0	0	0	3
36	Trezise, James	WR	81%	1	0	18	7	11	2	0	3	1	4	2	0	1	2
1	Vlastuin, Nick	BPR↓	35%	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0
45	Young, Tylar	BPL	94%	0	0	13	11	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	9	1
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				13	9	297	167	130	57	41	71	40	51	16	13	39	42

S. Green replaced N. Vlastuin.

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
	45	T. Young	12	B. Miller	1	N. Vlastuin	38	T. Xerri	37	C. Harvey
	44	C. Zurhaar	28	J. Darling	41	J. Konstanty	3	H. Sheezel	26	L. Parker
FORWARD							6	G. Wardlaw	23	G. Payne
HALF-BACK									15	D. Stephens
	35	N. Broad	41	S. Banks	30	T. Brown			35	M. Whitlock
	12	J. Simpkin (c)	47	C. Trembath	25	P. Curtis
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	33	K. McIntosh	3	D. Prestia	36	J. Trezise
	10	C. McKercher	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	8	B. Scott	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							25	T. Nankervis (c)	21	N. Balta
HALF-FORWARD							14	T. Taranto	5	J. Ross
	17	M. Rioli	44	S. Campbell	24	T. Hotton	2	J. Hopper	15	J. Short
	2	F. O'Sullivan	5	C. Daniel	24	T. Powell			40	T. Sonsie
HALF-BACK									48	S. Green
FORWARD
	34	H. Armstrong	19	T. Lynch	7	R. Mansell
	19	G. Logue	32	T. Pink	30	C. Comben
BACK
Richmond							Coach: Adem Yze

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	RICH	Tom Lynch behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:43
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	02:05
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	04:58
	RICH	Tom Lynch goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	07:26
	RICH	Tom Lynch goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	09:22
	RICH	Rhyan Mansell goal	1.1.7	-	3.1.19	11:27
	RICH	Tom Lynch behind	1.1.7	-	3.2.20	15:44
	NMLB	Tom Powell behind	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	16:11
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin goal	2.2.14	-	3.2.20	18:17
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	2.3.15	-	3.2.20	20:27
	NMLB	Geordie Payne behind	2.4.16	-	3.2.20	22:14
	RICH	James Trezise goal	2.4.16	-	4.2.26	23:51
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke behind	2.5.17	-	4.2.26	26:27
	NMLB	Charlie Comben behind	2.6.18	-	4.2.26	30:03
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath behind	2.7.19	-	4.2.26	31:39
Q2	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	3.7.25	-	4.2.26	03:24
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	4.7.31	-	4.2.26	05:13
	RICH	Dion Prestia behind	4.7.31	-	4.3.27	06:26
	NMLB	Finn O'Sullivan behind	4.8.32	-	4.3.27	08:39
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin behind	4.9.33	-	4.3.27	12:21
	RICH	Maurice Rioli goal	4.9.33	-	5.3.33	15:38
	NMLB	Geordie Payne goal	5.9.39	-	5.3.33	19:09
	RICH	Noah Balta goal	5.9.39	-	6.3.39	27:06
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel goal	6.9.45	-	6.3.39	28:14
	NMLB	Luke Parker behind	6.10.46	-	6.3.39	33:17
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel behind	6.11.47	-	6.3.39	34:38
Q3	RICH	Noah Balta behind	6.11.47	-	6.4.40	01:28
	RICH	Tom Lynch behind	6.11.47	-	6.5.41	05:41
	RICH	Rushed behind	6.11.47	-	6.6.42	06:45
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	7.11.53	-	6.6.42	07:55
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	8.11.59	-	6.6.42	09:39
	RICH	Jacob Hopper behind	8.11.59	-	6.7.43	11:23
	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty goal	9.11.65	-	6.7.43	13:39
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel goal	10.11.71	-	6.7.43	14:48
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	11.11.77	-	6.7.43	16:41
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	11.11.77	-	7.7.49	19:21
	NMLB	Tom Powell goal	12.11.83	-	7.7.49	23:06
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	13.11.89	-	7.7.49	24:36
	NMLB	Finn O'Sullivan behind	13.12.90	-	7.7.49	26:24
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens behind	13.13.91	-	7.7.49	29:07
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke goal	14.13.97	-	7.7.49	31:23
	RICH	Tom Lynch behind	14.13.97	-	7.8.50	33:11
	RICH	Rushed behind	14.13.97	-	7.9.51	35:25
Q4	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	14.13.97	-	8.9.57	03:20
	NMLB	Rushed behind	14.14.98	-	8.9.57	05:09
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	15.14.104	-	8.9.57	06:42
	RICH	Steely Green goal	15.14.104	-	9.9.63	08:23
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	16.14.110	-	9.9.63	10:30
	NMLB	Matt Whitlock goal	17.14.116	-	9.9.63	11:47
	NMLB	Griffin Logue goal	18.14.122	-	9.9.63	16:07
	RICH	Tom Lynch goal	18.14.122	-	10.9.69	20:18
	RICH	Noah Balta goal	18.14.122	-	11.9.75	22:08
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	18.14.122	-	12.9.81	23:36
	RICH	Kamdyn McIntosh goal	18.14.122	-	13.9.87	28:23
	NMLB	Tom Powell behind	18.15.123	-	13.9.87	32:54
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	19.15.129	-	13.9.87	34:04
	NMLB	Geordie Payne goal	20.15.135	-	13.9.87	35:51

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