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Game Detail

Round: 17   Venue: M.C.G   Date: Sun, 22-07-2012 3:15 pm   Attendance: 47,432
Richmond 2.3.15 5.9.39 10.12.72 14.15.99 C:
North Melbourne 3.5.23 5.9.39 9.11.65 15.13.103 C:
  NM by 8 NM by 0 RI by 7 NM by 4  
Brownlow Medal 3 Drew Petrie (NM)1 Trent Cotchin (RI)

Match Report

This game was a classic contest that will go down as one of the best of the season. It might have been only round 17, but this had all the hallmarks of a sudden-death final. Richmond and North Melbourne traded goals for much of the game – the lead changed 14 times - but it was the Kangaroos that came out on top and set themselves up for a finals spot. For the Tigers, it was another heartbreaking loss after losing to the previously winless Gold Coast a week earlier. Richmond sat two games out of the eight after the loss. While North was fantastic, they can thank one man for the win. Veteran forward Drew Petrie played one of the great last quarters, kicking five goals to finish with seven majors for the second consecutive week. When North led by 16 points with five minutes to go, they looked set for victory. But Richmond didn’t lie down and threatened to do to North what the Suns did to them a week earlier. But the Kangaroos held on for a four-point win.

GOALS
North Melbourne: Petrie 7; Anthony, Harper 2; Harvey, Macmillan, Hansen, Campbell
Richmond: Riewoldt, Nahas 3; Martin, Tuck, Edwards 2; Cotchin, Houli

BEST - AAP
North Melbourne: Swallow, Petrie, Bastinac, Grima, Goldstein, Thompson
Richmond: Cotchin, Morris, Deledio, Tuck, Riewoldt, Jackson

BEST - HERALD SUN
Richmond: Tuck, Cotchin, Deledio, Morris, Riewoldt, Edwards
North Melbourne: Petrie, Harvey, Grima, Thompson, Swallow, Adams

COACHES COMMENTS
Damien Hardwick (Rich): You go back into the history books and you look at the sides that have had [those sort of close results], it means you're going to step up pretty quickly. We want to do that now.

Brad Scott (NM): When the siren went, I thought we'd done enough to deserve to win the game. I was rapt that the boys got their reward for effort.

Umpires: McBurney, Jennings, Mollison

Match report by Oliver Caffrey

Player Stats

RichmondMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
30 Conca, Reece 15 2 6 21 0 0 0 5 2 0 19y 345d 32 5
9 Cotchin, Trent 18 3 6 24 1 1 0 5 5 2 22y 106d 80 48
7 Dea, Matt 3 4 7 10 0 0 0 1 0 0 20y 283d 18 0
3 Deledio, Brett 16 6 15 31 0 0 1 2 1 1 25y 95d 166 112
10 Edwards, Shane 7 7 9 16 2 1 0 1 0 0 23y 271d 103 57
42 Ellis, Brandon 12 5 9 21 0 1 0 0 0 0 18y 354d 16 2
6 Grigg, Shaun 12 6 8 20 0 1 3 0 0 0 24y 94d 80 27
14 Houli, Bachar 8 3 2 10 1 0 0 4 1 0 24y 71d 64 16
23 Jackson, Daniel 15 4 8 23 0 3 0 5 2 1 26y 88d 117 37
20 Maric, Ivan 6 2 9 15 0 0 34 4 0 3 26y 200d 92 34
47 Maric, Addam 4 3 3 7 0 0 0 3 0 0 22y 95d 30 16
4 Martin, Dustin 13 3 9 22 2 2 0 4 2 2 21y 26d 57 61
16 McGuane, Luke 7 2 5 12 0 2 2 6 0 2 25y 161d 87 8
40 Moore, Kelvin 9 5 5 14 0 0 0 1 2 2 28y 119d 86 12
38 Morris, Steven 10 4 13 23 0 0 0 3 2 3 23y 204d 15 1
26 Nahas, Robin 5 1 3 8 3 0 0 2 0 1 24y 255d 71 88
17 Newman, Chris 9 1 6 15 0 0 0 2 0 0 30y 65d 208 30
45 O'Hanlon, Brett 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 19y 5d 5 0
37 Post, Jayden 5 4 9 14 0 0 0 0 0 1 22y 230d 24 5
18 Rance, Alex 16 9 9 25 0 0 0 0 0 1 22y 287d 60 7
8 Riewoldt, Jack 8 6 4 12 3 2 0 3 3 2 23y 265d 106 244
21 Tuck, Shane 14 4 12 26 2 0 0 4 3 1 30y 211d 156 65
Rushed           2              
Totals 213 85 159 372 14 15 40 55 23 22 23y 340d 1673 875
North MelbourneMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
13 Adams, Leigh 12 5 8 20 0 0 0 3 1 1 24y 107d 60 48
4 Anthony, Liam 13 9 13 26 2 0 0 3 0 1 24y 317d 42 22
18 Atley, Shaun 6 2 10 16 0 1 0 0 1 0 19y 313d 32 5
3 Bastinac, Ryan 16 1 13 29 0 0 0 3 0 1 21y 30d 50 20
33 Campbell, Matt 3 1 5 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 25y 183d 75 73
10 Cunnington, Ben 8 4 10 18 0 1 0 6 0 2 21y 22d 47 14
11 Firrito, Michael 9 2 2 11 0 0 0 1 1 0 28y 238d 186 28
43 Gibson, Sam 16 6 8 24 0 0 0 2 0 1 26y 56d 6 0
22 Goldstein, Todd 4 0 4 8 0 1 47 5 2 0 24y 21d 72 36
17 Grima, Nathan 12 10 11 23 0 0 0 1 0 2 26y 352d 51 0
6 Hansen, Lachlan 6 2 6 12 1 0 0 3 2 4 23y 340d 72 59
23 Harper, Kieran 7 3 6 13 2 0 1 1 2 1 20y 37d 30 29
29 Harvey, Brent 16 6 8 24 1 1 0 4 1 0 34y 69d 339 398
34 MacMillan, Jamie 11 3 3 14 1 0 0 2 0 0 20y 297d 29 12
42 McMahon, Scott 11 9 7 18 0 0 0 4 0 2 26y 50d 99 27
20 Petrie, Drew 12 7 1 13 7 1 1 6 4 1 29y 281d 215 246
9 Swallow, Andrew 11 1 18 29 0 2 1 5 3 3 25y 50d 122 63
25 Tarrant, Robbie 4 2 5 9 0 0 0 1 1 0 23y 88d 18 11
12 Thomas, Lindsay 10 1 2 12 0 0 0 2 2 1 24y 145d 105 141
16 Thompson, Scott 8 5 9 17 0 0 0 3 2 2 26y 74d 86 3
8 Wells, Daniel 12 2 7 19 0 1 0 4 0 1 27y 170d 186 113
19 Wright, Sam 9 5 11 20 0 0 0 1 0 0 22y 7d 47 44
Rushed           5              
Totals 216 86 167 383 15 13 50 61 22 23 24y 297d 1969 1392