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Round: 16 Venue: Subiaco Oval Date: Sun, 10-07-2016 1:20 pm Crowd: 35,168 | |||||
West Coast | 3.2.20 | 9.4.58 | 13.7.85 | 16.8.104 | C: Adam Simpson |
North Melbourne | 2.1.13 | 6.4.40 | 8.4.52 | 11.6.72 | C: Brad Scott |
WCE by 7 | WCE by 18 | WCE by 33 | WCE by 32 |
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Brownlow Medal | 3 Luke Shuey (WCE) | 2 Matt Priddis (WCE) | 1 Josh Kennedy (WCE) |
Only four weeks ago, North Melbourne sat atop the AFL ladder. A month down the track and the Kangaroos have slumped to eighth' having lost four matches in a row, and five of their last six. The latest of those losses came at Subiaco on Sunday, where West Coast kept North at bay - though never by much - in the first half, before breaking away from the Kangaroos in the second half to record a solid 32-point win which enhanced the Eagles' own top four chances.
The Eagles started strongly with their usual suspects up forward - Jack Darling and Josh Kennedy - scoring early goals to give the home side a 13-0 lead after seven minutes. North worked its way into the match after that, and majors to Todd Goldstein and Mason Wood had the Roos back within a point early in time on. A mark on angle right on the 50-metre line saw Josh Kennedy kick a lovely long goal and his second gave West Coast a seven-point quarter-time lead.
Goals proved hard to cone by early in the second term, a 'poster' from Drew Petrie the only score in the first seven minutes. The Eagles threatened to blow the game open with goals to Jamie Cripps and Shannon Hurn at the seven and 10-minute marks, but a long bouncing goal from Ben Brown had North back within 13 a couple of minutes later. The two sides traded majors for the next period, Cripps's second goal answered by Sam Gibson and Scott Lycett's first followed by a first for North's Jed Anderson. Ben Brown's second had the Kangaroos back within six points but crucial goals to Kennedy and Elliott Yeo restored the momentum and a three-goal lead to West Coast on the stroke of half time.
There was no score to either side for the first five minutes of the third term, but the Eagles then stamped their authority on the match with a burst of three goals in six minutes - one each to Patrick McGinnity, Andrew Gaff and Mark LeCras. That took the lead out to 36 points, and West Coast was never really threatened again. It could have put North to the sword soon after that, but Kennedy missed twice and Yeo once before majors to Trent Dumont and Brown cut the margin to 27 to give the Roos a 'sniff'. Kennedy responded with his fourth, though and the Eagles were up by a comfortable 33 at the last end-change.
Any thoughts of a last-quarter revival were dispelled early in the term, with West Coast holding the Roos scoreless for the first 10 minutes while LeCras and Chris Masten added goals to extend the margin to a game-high 46 points. North staged somewhat of a revival after that, with Ben Brown's fourth goal followed by two in a row to Lindsay Thomas but it was too little, too late, and Cripps's third at the 27-minute mark capped off an important win for the Eagles.
Matt Priddis demonstrated why he will again feature in Brownlow Medal calculations this year, with a fine 12-tackle, 25-possession game. For North, Jack Ziebell's 12 tackles and 21 touches put him amongst the best.
The Eagles have another very winnable game coming up, Carlton at the MCG next Sunday, while North will be hoping to return to the winners list against Port Adelaide at Docklands in Saturday's twilight match.
GOALS
West Coast: Kennedy 4; Cripps 3; LeCras 2; Gaff, Hurn, Lycett, Yeo, McGinnity, Darling, Masten
North Melbourne: Brown 4; Thomas 2; Gibson, Dumont, Goldstein, Wood, Anderson
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West Coast: Shuey, Priddis, McGovern, Kennedy, Masten, LeCras
North Melbourne: Swallow, Ziebell, Brown, Gibson, Dumont
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West Coast: Priddis, Kennedy, Masten, Darling, Shuey, Gaff, Cripps
North Melbourne: Brown, Goldstein, Ziebell, Gibson, Swallow, Macmillan
INJURIES
West Coast: Nil
North Melbourne: Dal Santo (illness, replaced in the selected side), Ray (hamstring), Wood (left knee)
UMPIRES: Dalgleish, Nicholls, Kamolins
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Seven Network
COMMENTATORS: Dennis Cometti, Basil Zempilas, Leigh Matthews, Brad Sewell
Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of the AFL.
West Coast | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
37 | Barrass, Tom | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 20y 276d | 7 | 0 |
1 | Brown, Mitchell | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 27y 206d | 92 | 13 |
26 | Butler, Sam | 10 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 30y 178d | 150 | 16 |
15 | Cripps, Jamie | 10 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24y 78d | 90 | 110 |
27 | Darling, Jack | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24y 27d | 120 | 216 |
3 | Gaff, Andrew | 18 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 24y 24d | 124 | 47 |
33 | Hill, Josh | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 27y 173d | 153 | 201 |
25 | Hurn, Shannon | 16 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 28y 310d | 192 | 48 |
34 | Hutchings, Mark | 5 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25y 46d | 49 | 27 |
23 | Jetta, Lewis | 7 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 27y 67d | 137 | 103 |
17 | Kennedy, Josh | 12 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 28y 320d | 180 | 421 |
2 | LeCras, Mark | 15 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 29y 315d | 169 | 365 |
29 | Lycett, Scott | 8 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 23y 288d | 41 | 34 |
7 | Masten, Chris | 13 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27y 69d | 153 | 56 |
35 | McGinnity, Patrick | 6 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 27y 143d | 92 | 29 |
20 | McGovern, Jeremy | 10 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24y 86d | 47 | 19 |
11 | Priddis, Matt | 13 | 0 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 31y 111d | 211 | 64 |
31 | Schofield, Will | 10 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 27y 168d | 147 | 19 |
5 | Sheppard, Brad | 10 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 25y 48d | 99 | 15 |
13 | Shuey, Luke | 15 | 3 | 14 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 26y 38d | 126 | 107 |
12 | Wellingham, Sharrod | 8 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 28y 3d | 150 | 73 |
6 | Yeo, Elliot | 12 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 22y 283d | 77 | 34 |
Totals | 215 | 102 | 118 | 333 | 16 | 8 | 32 | 77 | 27 | 24 | 26y 165d | 2606 | 2017 |
North Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
3 | Anderson, Jed | 7 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 22y 159d | 12 | 5 |
18 | Atley, Shaun | 12 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 23y 301d | 124 | 16 |
50 | Brown, Ben | 8 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 23y 233d | 48 | 77 |
13 | Clarke, Ryan | 11 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19y 23d | 1 | 0 |
10 | Cunnington, Ben | 7 | 1 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 25y 10d | 137 | 57 |
14 | Dumont, Trent | 11 | 3 | 10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 21y 10d | 13 | 4 |
11 | Firrito, Michael | 5 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32y 226d | 267 | 29 |
43 | Gibson, Sam | 16 | 7 | 13 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 30y 44d | 100 | 43 |
22 | Goldstein, Todd | 3 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 28y 9d | 163 | 84 |
29 | Harvey, Brent | 15 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 38y 57d | 424 | 507 |
34 | Macmillan, Jamie | 16 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 24y 291d | 96 | 38 |
2 | McKenzie, Brad | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23y 42d | 31 | 5 |
17 | Mullett, Aaron | 8 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 24y 138d | 59 | 25 |
20 | Petrie, Drew | 8 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 33y 269d | 308 | 420 |
44 | Ray, Farren | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30y 109d | 209 | 59 |
9 | Swallow, Andrew | 7 | 5 | 18 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 29y 38d | 200 | 76 |
25 | Tarrant, Robbie | 11 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 27y 76d | 76 | 41 |
12 | Thomas, Lindsay | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 28y 132d | 188 | 306 |
16 | Thompson, Scott | 12 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 30y 62d | 174 | 6 |
41 | Wagner, Corey | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 19y 109d | 3 | 0 |
32 | Wood, Mason | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 22y 301d | 16 | 16 |
7 | Ziebell, Jack | 15 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 25y 133d | 139 | 85 |
Totals | 197 | 76 | 137 | 334 | 11 | 6 | 69 | 60 | 24 | 27 | 26y 176d | 2788 | 1899 |