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North Melbourne vs Melbourne

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Round: 18   Venue: Docklands   Date: Sat, 28-07-2012 2:10 pm   Crowd: 20,816  
North Melbourne 5.4.349.6.6015.10.10019.13.127 C:  Brad Scott
Melbourne 1.2.85.5.357.5.4711.7.73 C:  Mark Neeld
  NTH by 26NTH by 25NTH by 53NTH by 54  
Brownlow Medal 3 Andrew Swallow (NTH)2 Todd Goldstein (NTH)1 Nathan Jones (MELB)

Match Report

North Melbourne has been one of the more inconsistent teams of the competition of 2012. Huge wins have also been combined with dreadful losses, but they made no mistake in disposing of 16th placed Melbourne. The Kangaroos were never headed after jumping out of the blocks to a 33-point in the opening 20 minutes of the contest. North’s Leigh Adams appeared to be in trouble again with a shoulder injury. It comes after Adams hurt the same shoulder in the infamous Chris Judd chicken-wing tackle incident two weeks earlier. The win secured the Roos position in the top eight, but they have to keep winning to remain a chance of playing finals for the first time since 2008. In-form forward Drew Petrie followed up back-to-back seven goal hauls with another four goals, while Robbie Tarrant showed his considerable improvement in 2012 with four of his own. Former Demons skipper Brad Green was playing his 250th game and finished as one of his side's best players, kicking three goals.

GOALS

North Melbourne: Petrie, Tarrant 4; Adams, Thomas, Harvey 2; Bastinac, Macmillan, Anthony, Swallow, Harper
Melbourne: Green, Sylvia 3; Blease, Howe, Garland, Martin, Jones

BEST - AFL.COM.AU
North Melbourne: Harvey, Gibson, Wells, Cunnington, Swallow, Goldstein, Atley
Melbourne: Jones, Green, Moloney, Howe, Macdonald

BEST - SPORTAL
North Melbourne: Swallow, Harvey, Goldstein, Gibson, Wells, Petrie, Tarrant
Melbourne: Jones, Moloney, Green, Dunn

COACHES COMMENTS
Brad Scott (NM): Some periods of play at the start of the game and the start of the third [quarter] were quite outstanding. All in all [it was] a good performance, but [there are] still some things that are a little frustrating that we need to continue to work on.

Mark Neeld (Melb): They're pretty slick, the Kangaroos. They move the ball too quick for us to handle at this stage, but that's OK, that's where we're at.

Umpires: McBurney, Armstrong, Harris

Source

Match report by Oliver Caffrey

Match stats

North Melbourne Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
13 Adams, Leigh 6 0 3 9 2 0 0 3 2 1 24y 113d 61 50
4 Anthony, Liam 12 5 16 28 1 2 0 3 0 0 24y 323d 43 23
18 Atley, Shaun 9 1 10 19 0 0 0 2 0 0 19y 319d 33 5
3 Bastinac, Ryan 12 7 17 29 1 1 0 1 0 1 21y 36d 51 21
33 Campbell, Matt 7 1 4 11 0 1 0 1 1 0 25y 189d 76 73
10 Cunnington, Ben 5 1 21 26 0 0 0 8 1 1 21y 28d 48 14
11 Firrito, Michael 10 5 10 20 0 0 0 0 0 3 28y 244d 187 28
43 Gibson, Sam 23 8 13 36 0 0 0 4 1 1 26y 62d 7 0
22 Goldstein, Todd 6 3 16 22 0 0 48 0 2 2 24y 27d 73 36
17 Grima, Nathan 9 5 11 20 0 0 0 1 1 0 26y 358d 52 0
6 Hansen, Lachlan 3 2 1 4 0 0 2 5 0 1 23y 346d 73 59
23 Harper, Kieran 5 1 1 6 1 3 0 2 1 1 20y 43d 31 30
29 Harvey, Brent 12 6 18 30 2 0 0 2 0 0 34y 75d 340 400
34 Macmillan, Jamie 13 8 11 24 1 0 0 0 0 0 20y 309d 30 13
42 McMahon, Scott 7 4 2 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 26y 56d 100 27
20 Petrie, Drew 10 7 3 13 4 0 1 0 1 2 29y 287d 216 250
9 Swallow, Andrew 14 3 18 32 1 0 0 17 5 2 25y 56d 123 64
25 Tarrant, Robbie 10 4 6 16 4 1 0 2 3 1 23y 94d 19 15
12 Thomas, Lindsay 6 2 2 8 2 0 0 3 1 1 24y 150d 106 143
16 Thompson, Scott 3 3 14 17 0 0 0 3 0 1 26y 80d 87 3
8 Wells, Daniel 9 2 17 26 0 1 0 3 2 1 27y 176d 187 113
19 Wright, Sam 15 7 9 24 0 2 0 0 1 0 22y 13d 48 44
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 206 85 223 429 19 13 51 61 22 19 24y 303d 1991 1411
Melbourne Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
44 Bail, Rohan 11 4 5 16 0 3 0 4 2 1 24y 32d 31 12
17 Blease, Sam 8 4 3 11 1 1 0 2 0 1 21y 160d 16 10
14 Dunn, Lynden 6 2 5 11 0 0 0 3 1 1 25y 75d 94 86
8 Frawley, James 9 6 5 14 0 0 0 2 1 1 23y 312d 97 3
20 Garland, Colin 3 1 1 4 1 1 0 4 0 0 24y 91d 75 12
18 Green, Brad 9 6 1 10 3 1 0 1 1 0 31y 137d 250 341
16 Grimes, Jack 11 5 12 23 0 0 0 2 1 0 23y 78d 48 3
38 Howe, Jeremy 13 6 7 20 1 0 1 4 4 1 22y 29d 30 31
39 Jetta, Neville 4 4 3 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 22y 167d 32 18
2 Jones, Nathan 14 4 18 32 1 0 0 4 0 1 24y 190d 130 66
28 MacDonald, Joel 7 4 13 20 0 0 0 0 0 1 27y 292d 118 6
34 Martin, Stefan 4 1 8 12 1 0 11 4 2 0 25y 254d 57 23
25 McDonald, Tom 12 5 11 23 0 0 0 3 0 0 19y 314d 17 0
13 McKenzie, Jordie 8 2 13 21 0 0 0 6 2 2 22y 37d 53 7
22 Moloney, Brent 13 3 16 29 0 0 0 4 0 3 28y 182d 143 37
26 Nicholson, Daniel 6 4 7 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 21y 269d 18 2
27 Rivers, Jared 9 4 9 18 0 0 0 0 0 1 27y 284d 145 13
30 Sellar, James 6 4 8 14 0 0 0 1 2 4 23y 126d 32 4
42 Spencer, Jake 1 0 4 5 0 0 27 5 2 2 22y 293d 12 0
19 Strauss, James 2 2 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 22y 44d 14 0
12 Sylvia, Colin 10 7 2 12 3 1 0 6 1 1 26y 263d 133 117
9 Trengove, Jack 8 5 9 17 0 0 1 6 0 1 20y 330d 54 26
  Totals 174 83 163 337 11 7 40 62 19 22 24y 63d 1599 817

Match highlights

Ben Cunnington had 21 handballs for North Melbourne vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R18)
Todd Goldstein had 48 hitouts for North Melbourne vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R18)
Andrew Swallow had 17 tackles for North Melbourne vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R18)
Scott McMahon played his 100th V/AFL game: North Melbourne vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R18)
Brad Green played his 250th V/AFL game: Melbourne vs. North Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R18)
Brent Harvey kicked his 400th career V/AFL goal: North Melbourne vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R18)
Stefan Martin played his last game for Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R18)

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.