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Round: 13 Venue: Docklands Date: Sun, 24-06-2012 4:40 pm Crowd: 18,866 | |||||
North Melbourne | 6.6.42 | 10.10.70 | 13.14.92 | 17.19.121 | C: Brad Scott |
Adelaide | 3.2.20 | 4.5.29 | 9.8.62 | 13.11.89 | C: Brenton Sanderson |
NTH by 22 | NTH by 41 | NTH by 30 | NTH by 32 |
Brownlow Medal | 3 Leigh Adams (NTH) | 2 Ryan Bastinac (NTH) | 1 Daniel Wells (NTH) |
North Melbourne pulled off one of the upsets of the season by easily accounting for Adelaide. The Kangaroos had been bitterly disappointing since what was supposed to be a landmark win against Geelong in round three. But against Adelaide, they got their running game back and completely dominated the highly-fancied Crows; apart from a period in the third quarter when the visitors threatened to storm back into the contest. Adelaide blew a golden opportunity to go to equal top of the ladder with Collingwood by winning this game. The Crows kicked five goals in a row in the third quarter to get back within 22 points, but North controlled the tempo from the start of the match. Injury-prone forward Robbie Tarrant played the best game of his AFL career, kicking four goals, while the wayward kicking Lindsay Thomas got back into some brilliant form. The pressure had been on North for a number of weeks, particularly on chairman James Brayshaw. The media personality was visibly emotional as the Kangaroos stormed home to the surprise victory.
GOALS
North Melbourne: Tarrant 4; Adams, Thomas 3; Bastinac, Petrie 2; Hansen, Harper, Harvey
Adelaide: Walker 3; Vince 2; Callinan, Dangerfield, Douglas, McKernan, Sloane, Tippett, Wright, Porplyzia
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North Melbourne: Wells, Atley, Adams, Goldstein, Thomas, Ziebell, Tarrant
Adelaide: Thompson, Sloane, Douglas, Reilly, Walker
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North Melbourne: Wells, Atley, Adams, Grima, Tarrant, Wright, Bastinac
Adelaide: Thompson, Sloane, Walker, Callinan
COACHES COMMENTS
Brad Scott (NM): We firmly believe when we play at our best, our best is pretty good and it is capable of taking it up to the best sides in the competition, and Adelaide have proven to this point of the year that they're one of them. So we just had to get back to the fundamentals of what makes us play well. We focused on those while trying to blunt some of Adelaide's obvious strengths
Brenton Sanderson (Adel): The number that we take the most pride in as a football club is our contested ball, and when you go in as No.1 in the competition and you get beaten by 19, that's probably the main reason we got beaten. We've been so good inside the contest, but today we got beaten inside the contest and outside.
Umpires: Nicholls, Kamolins, Pannell
North Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
13 | Adams, Leigh | 14 | 4 | 12 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 24y 79d | 56 | 45 |
4 | Anthony, Liam | 7 | 2 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24y 289d | 38 | 20 |
18 | Atley, Shaun | 12 | 6 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19y 285d | 28 | 4 |
3 | Bastinac, Ryan | 12 | 4 | 13 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21y 2d | 46 | 18 |
10 | Cunnington, Ben | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20y 360d | 46 | 14 |
11 | Firrito, Michael | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28y 210d | 182 | 28 |
43 | Gibson, Sam | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26y 28d | 2 | 0 |
22 | Goldstein, Todd | 7 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23y 359d | 68 | 36 |
17 | Grima, Nathan | 14 | 11 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26y 324d | 47 | 0 |
6 | Hansen, Lachlan | 8 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23y 312d | 68 | 50 |
23 | Harper, Kieran | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20y 9d | 26 | 23 |
29 | Harvey, Brent | 8 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34y 41d | 335 | 392 |
34 | Macmillan, Jamie | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20y 275d | 25 | 10 |
42 | McMahon, Scott | 10 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 26y 22d | 95 | 27 |
20 | Petrie, Drew | 10 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 29y 253d | 211 | 228 |
9 | Swallow, Andrew | 8 | 3 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25y 22d | 118 | 60 |
25 | Tarrant, Robbie | 11 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23y 60d | 14 | 5 |
12 | Thomas, Lindsay | 14 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 24y 116d | 101 | 132 |
16 | Thompson, Scott | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 26y 46d | 84 | 3 |
8 | Wells, Daniel | 25 | 5 | 6 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27y 142d | 182 | 110 |
19 | Wright, Sam | 11 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 21y 345d | 43 | 43 |
7 | Ziebell, Jack | 17 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 21y 117d | 55 | 17 |
Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 209 | 98 | 143 | 352 | 17 | 19 | 37 | 41 | 16 | 13 | 24y 201d | 1870 | 1265 |
Adelaide | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
37 | Callinan, Ian | 6 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29y 187d | 14 | 20 |
32 | Dangerfield, Patrick | 15 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22y 80d | 76 | 78 |
11 | Doughty, Michael | 6 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 32y 324d | 219 | 46 |
26 | Douglas, Richard | 13 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25y 139d | 101 | 67 |
24 | Jacobs, Sam | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24y 75d | 48 | 8 |
10 | Jaensch, Matthew | 9 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22y 280d | 33 | 14 |
14 | Mackay, David | 8 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 23y 335d | 74 | 20 |
36 | Martin, Brodie | 9 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23y 231d | 13 | 1 |
35 | McKernan, Shaun | 7 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 21y 297d | 21 | 13 |
23 | Petrenko, Jared | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22y 185d | 48 | 29 |
40 | Porplyzia, Jason | 8 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27y 210d | 99 | 149 |
3 | Reilly, Brent | 14 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 28y 225d | 168 | 49 |
25 | Rutten, Ben | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 29y 27d | 181 | 6 |
34 | Shaw, Sam | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21y 80d | 4 | 0 |
9 | Sloane, Rory | 9 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 22y 99d | 45 | 25 |
12 | Talia, Daniel | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20y 266d | 21 | 0 |
5 | Thompson, Scott | 20 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 29y 102d | 210 | 134 |
4 | Tippett, Kurt | 6 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 25y 47d | 95 | 175 |
7 | Van Berlo, Nathan | 6 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 26y 18d | 150 | 48 |
17 | Vince, Bernie | 11 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26y 266d | 96 | 55 |
13 | Walker, Taylor | 15 | 10 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 22y 60d | 55 | 122 |
47 | Wright, Matthew | 12 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 22y 193d | 28 | 28 |
Rushed | 2 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 192 | 96 | 94 | 286 | 13 | 11 | 36 | 42 | 13 | 16 | 25y 3d | 1799 | 1087 |