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| Round: 22 Venue: Bellerive Oval Date: Sat, 23-08-2014 1:45 pm Crowd: 10,702 | |||||
| North Melbourne | 4.3.27 | 5.6.36 | 9.12.66 | 14.17.101 | C: Brad Scott |
| Adelaide | 2.3.15 | 5.7.37 | 10.11.71 | 13.16.94 | C: Brenton Sanderson |
| NTH by 12 | ADEL by 1 | ADEL by 5 | NTH by 7 | ||
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| Brownlow Medal | 3 Jack Ziebell (NTH) | 2 Scott Thompson (ADEL) | 1 Andrew Swallow (NTH) |
Match Report
North Melbourne guaranteed itself a place in this year's September action with a narrow win against Adelaide ay Bellerive Oval on Saturday afternoon. The Kangaroos controlled the match early, leading by two goals at quarter time but kicked only one goal in the second quarter to trail by one point at the long break. A free-flowing third term saw scores level on several occasions but the Crows kicked the last goal of the tern through Josh Jenkins to lead by five points at three-quarter time.
Adelaide extended that advantage to 11 points with a goal to Brad Crouch at the start of the last term but two goals and a behind to Jack Ziebell saw the Kangaroos wrest back the lead by the eight-minute mark of the term. They extended that lead to as much as 15 points during the last quarter but the Crows fought on, with North ultimately prevailing by seven points.
Ziebell was magnificent for North, with 25 possessions and four goals, while Levi Greenwood (26 disposals, eight marks) and Nick Dal Santo (28 touches and four marks) were also fine contributors. For the Crows, Scott Thompson was his usual prolific self, collecting 27 disposals and laying seven tackles, while Richard Douglas (27 touches, five tackles) and Brad Crouch (eight tackles, 22 possessions) were excellent all day.
The win locks North into sixth place on the ladder, with the outcome of its match against Melbourne irrelevant, at least in terms of ladder positioning. For Adelaide, the loss means its fate is now out of its hands. To make the eight, the Crows will need Collingwood to lose to Hawthorn on Friday night, Richmond to lose to Sydney on Saturday night and record a significant win against St Kilda on Sunday, depending on the outcome of the Gold Coast-West Coast game on the same day.
GOALS
North Melbourne: Ziebell 4; Petrie 3; Turner, Bastinac 2; Goldstein, Thomas, Brown
Adelaide: Lyons 3; Cameron, Wright, Walker, Betts 2; Jenkins, Crouch
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North Melbourne: Ziebell, Bastinac, Swallow, Petrie, Dal Santo, Thompson
Adelaide: Thompson, Douglas, Sloane, Lyons, Crouch, Betts
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North Melbourne: Ziebell, Dal Santo, Greenwood, Bastinac, Firrito, Goldstein
Adelaide: Douglas, Thompson, Crouch, Dangerfield, Jacobs, Sloane
INJURIES
North Melbourne: Lachie Hansen (soreness) replaced in selected side by Aaron Mullett
Adelaide: Laird (concussion)
SUBSTITUTES
North Melbourne: Leigh Adams replaced Ben Brown at three-quarter time
Adelaide: Rory Laird replaced Ben Rutten in the final quarter
UMPIRES: Robert Findlay, Troy Pannell, Andrew Mitchell
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Seven Network
COMMENTATORS: Hamish McLachlan, Basil Zempilas, Tom Harley, Andrew Welsh
Source
Match Report by Andrew GigaczFootnotes
Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.
Match stats
| North Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 13 | Adams, Leigh | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26y 139d | 103 | 71 |
| 18 | Atley, Shaun | 8 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 21y 344d | 82 | 9 |
| 3 | Bastinac, Ryan | 13 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23y 62d | 100 | 57 |
| 35 | Black, Aaron | 7 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23y 267d | 43 | 62 |
| 50 | Brown, Ben | 6 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21y 276d | 7 | 9 |
| 10 | Cunnington, Ben | 8 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23y 54d | 95 | 41 |
| 15 | Dal Santo, Nick | 20 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30y 182d | 281 | 146 |
| 11 | Firrito, Michael | 10 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 30y 269d | 227 | 29 |
| 43 | Gibson, Sam | 13 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28y 88d | 56 | 21 |
| 22 | Goldstein, Todd | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 26y 53d | 122 | 57 |
| 24 | Greenwood, Levi | 15 | 8 | 11 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25y 185d | 71 | 24 |
| 17 | Grima, Nathan | 9 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 29y 18d | 82 | 1 |
| 5 | Jacobs, Ben | 6 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22y 226d | 44 | 8 |
| 21 | McDonald, Luke | 7 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19y 195d | 20 | 0 |
| 41 | Mullett, Aaron | 12 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22y 181d | 47 | 24 |
| 20 | Petrie, Drew | 9 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 31y 312d | 265 | 349 |
| 9 | Swallow, Andrew | 12 | 2 | 12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 27y 82d | 160 | 72 |
| 12 | Thomas, Lindsay | 9 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 26y 175d | 150 | 243 |
| 16 | Thompson, Scott | 8 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 28y 106d | 132 | 6 |
| 40 | Turner, Kayne | 10 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18y 235d | 2 | 3 |
| 19 | Wright, Sam | 14 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24y 39d | 80 | 54 |
| 7 | Ziebell, Jack | 18 | 8 | 7 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 23y 176d | 96 | 52 |
| Rushed | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 218 | 83 | 150 | 368 | 14 | 17 | 39 | 49 | 10 | 15 | 25y 83d | 2265 | 1338 | |
| Adelaide | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 18 | Betts, Eddie | 11 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 27y 270d | 205 | 336 |
| 16 | Brown, Luke | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21y 335d | 45 | 2 |
| 42 | Cameron, Charlie | 6 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20y 49d | 7 | 9 |
| 2 | Crouch, Brad | 11 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 20y 221d | 24 | 9 |
| 32 | Dangerfield, Patrick | 13 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 24y 140d | 130 | 141 |
| 26 | Douglas, Richard | 17 | 5 | 10 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 27y 198d | 154 | 106 |
| 45 | Henderson, Ricky | 9 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 25y 346d | 63 | 39 |
| 24 | Jacobs, Sam | 5 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26y 135d | 103 | 24 |
| 10 | Jaensch, Matthew | 11 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 24y 339d | 66 | 25 |
| 4 | Jenkins, Josh | 7 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25y 196d | 47 | 75 |
| 29 | Laird, Rory | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20y 237d | 34 | 3 |
| 31 | Lyons, Jarryd | 10 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22y 32d | 21 | 11 |
| 36 | Martin, Brodie | 11 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25y 290d | 34 | 12 |
| 1 | Podsiadly, James | 9 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 32y 347d | 103 | 194 |
| 25 | Rutten, Ben | 8 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 31y 87d | 228 | 8 |
| 9 | Sloane, Rory | 6 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 24y 159d | 99 | 59 |
| 33 | Smith, Brodie | 11 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22y 221d | 75 | 20 |
| 12 | Talia, Daniel | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22y 325d | 75 | 4 |
| 6 | Thompson, Luke | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23y 196d | 20 | 2 |
| 5 | Thompson, Scott | 18 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 31y 162d | 263 | 150 |
| 13 | Walker, Taylor | 7 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24y 120d | 83 | 194 |
| 11 | Wright, Matthew | 7 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24y 252d | 78 | 58 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 186 | 77 | 113 | 299 | 13 | 16 | 43 | 63 | 15 | 10 | 25y 29d | 1957 | 1481 | |
Match highlights
Jack Ziebell kicked 5 behinds for North Melbourne against Adelaide (AFL, Premiership Season, R22)Rory Sloane had 10 tackles for Adelaide vs. North Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R22)
Ryan Bastinac played his 100th V/AFL game: North Melbourne vs. Adelaide (AFL, Premiership Season, R22)
Lindsay Thomas played his 150th V/AFL game: North Melbourne vs. Adelaide (AFL, Premiership Season, R22)