AFL

Gold Coast
11.15.81
North Melbourne
18.11.119
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Match Tracker

Gold Coast
North Melbourne
Q1
3.4.22
6.4.40

    Gold Coast Events

  • 8 mins - Goal, P.Wright
  • 12 mins - Behind, J.Lonergan
  • 14 mins - Behind, J.Martin
  • 21 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 21 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 22 mins - Goal, J.Grant
  • 31 mins - Goal, T.Lynch

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 1 mins - Goal, T.Goldstein
  • 5 mins - Behind, J.Waite
  • 9 mins - Goal, B.Brown
  • 11 mins - Behind, D.Petrie
  • 13 mins - Behind, B.Harvey
  • 18 mins - Goal, B.Brown
  • 19 mins - Goal, D.Petrie
  • 24 mins - Goal, T.Goldstein
  • 25 mins - Behind, B.Brown
  • 29 mins - Goal, S.Gibson
Q2
6.10.46
10.8.68

    Gold Coast Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, P.Wright
  • 4 mins - Behind, T.Lynch
  • 6 mins - Goal, C.Ah Chee
  • 9 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 16 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 17 mins - Behind, A.Sexton
  • 17 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 19 mins - Goal, M.Rischitelli
  • 27 mins - Rushed Behind

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 8 mins - Behind, N.Dal Santo
  • 12 mins - Behind, S.Higgins
  • 15 mins - Goal, S.Higgins
  • 21 mins - Goal, S.Higgins
  • 24 mins - Behind, J.Waite
  • 26 mins - Goal, J.Macmillan
  • 29 mins - Behind, J.Ziebell
  • 31 mins - Goal, B.Brown
Q3
9.13.67
13.10.88

    Gold Coast Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 5 mins - Behind, K.Kolodjashnij
  • 10 mins - Behind, G.Ablett
  • 12 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 15 mins - Goal, P.Wright
  • 26 mins - Behind, D.Currie

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 6 mins - Behind, L.Thomas
  • 17 mins - Goal, S.Higgins
  • 18 mins - Goal, J.Ziebell
  • 20 mins - Goal, L.Thomas
  • 24 mins - Rushed Behind
Q4
11.15.81
18.11.119

    Gold Coast Events

  • 6 mins - Behind, T.Miller
  • 19 mins - Goal, G.Ablett
  • 22 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 29 mins - Behind, P.Wright

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 3 mins - Behind, B.Harvey
  • 5 mins - Goal, D.Petrie
  • 7 mins - Goal, J.Waite
  • 9 mins - Goal, J.Waite
  • 11 mins - Goal, L.Thomas
  • 26 mins - Goal, B.Brown

Scorers

Gold Coast
North Melbourne
Goal Scorers Gold Coast North Melbourne
Goals and Behinds Lynch (4.1), Wright (3.1), Ablett (1.1), Ah Chee (1.0), Grant (1.0), Rischitelli (1.0), Currie (0.1), Kolodjashnij (0.1), Lonergan (0.1), Martin (0.1), Miller (0.1), Sexton (0.1) Brown (4.1), Higgins (3.1), Waite (2.2), Petrie (2.1), Thomas (2.1), Goldstein (2.0), Ziebell (1.1), Gibson (1.0), Macmillan (1.0), Harvey (0.2), Dal Santo (0.1)

Team Statistics

Gold Coast
North Melbourne

Statistics

Gold Coast North Melbourne
Goals 11 18
Behinds 15 11
Scoring shots 23 29
Goals/scoring shots 48 62
Disposals 366 362
Gold CoastGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
G.Ablett 28 12 1 16 12 3 1 0 0 6
C.Ah Chee 8 7 2 1 3 4 1 1 0 0
C.Cameron 14 4 3 10 4 3 1 0 0 1
D.Currie 8 3 2 5 6 3 1 5 21 2
S.Day 10 3 4 7 7 3 1 0 0 0
J.Grant 11 6 5 5 2 1 1 0 0 0
A.Hall 32 16 3 16 9 1 1 0 0 2
J.Harbrow 19 9 3 10 3 3 0 1 0 1
K.Kolodjashnij 21 13 7 8 3 2 1 0 0 0
S.Lemmens 17 7 4 10 8 0 3 3 0 2
J.Lonergan 18 5 5 13 5 4 0 1 0 1
T.Lynch 12 10 8 2 6 0 1 1 0 0
N.Malceski 23 14 4 9 9 3 1 2 0 2
J.Martin 18 6 5 12 6 5 1 1 0 4
T.McKenzie 12 9 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 0
T.Miller 14 5 2 9 6 1 1 2 0 3
M.Rischitelli 25 10 4 15 10 4 0 2 0 3
M.Rosa 29 12 7 17 9 2 1 0 5 2
L.Russell 3 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0
A.Saad 15 7 3 8 7 2 0 0 0 1
A.Sexton 12 8 4 4 6 3 0 2 0 0
P.Wright 17 12 8 5 11 2 4 0 4 0
North MelbourneGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
S.Atley 23 12 5 11 3 1 0 0 0 1
B.Brown 14 12 5 2 9 3 2 1 1 1
B.Cunnington 20 7 3 13 13 3 0 3 0 2
N.Dal Santo 28 16 6 12 10 5 2 0 0 1
M.Firrito 9 5 3 4 2 0 0 3 0 0
S.Gibson 15 10 5 5 4 2 1 1 0 1
T.Goldstein 18 8 3 10 9 3 4 1 24 3
B.Harvey 22 16 5 6 5 2 0 0 0 0
S.Higgins 18 13 5 5 3 3 0 0 1 0
B.Jacobs 10 2 1 8 9 3 1 0 0 5
J.Macmillan 16 10 4 6 3 3 1 1 0 1
L.McDonald 14 8 4 6 3 2 0 0 0 0
D.Petrie 15 10 6 5 5 3 1 2 0 0
A.Swallow 23 10 1 13 17 3 2 0 0 7
R.Tarrant 14 12 9 2 4 1 2 0 0 0
L.Thomas 9 7 2 2 4 2 1 2 0 0
S.Thompson 14 11 7 3 6 0 2 2 0 0
K.Turner 13 3 4 10 6 4 0 0 0 0
J.Waite 18 14 10 4 6 1 1 1 0 0
D.Wells 16 6 1 10 9 6 1 1 0 3
S.Wright 11 10 4 1 2 1 0 1 0 0
J.Ziebell 22 16 4 6 6 6 1 1 0 4

Match Details

Gold Coast
North Melbourne
START TIME
4:35PM
WEATHER
Windy Partly cloudy
VENUE
Metricon Stadium
Umpires
Ben Ryan, Jacob Mollison, Simon Meredith

AFL season 2016: Roos make it five out of five with win over Suns

NORTH MELBOURNE 6.4 10.8 13.10 18.11 (119) GOLD COAST 3.4 6.10 9.13 11.15 (81)
Goals: North Melbourne: B Brown 4, S Higgins 3, D Petrie 2, J Waite 2, L Thomas 2, T Goldstein 2, J MacMillan, J Ziebell, S Gibson. Gold Coast: T Lynch 4, P Wright 3, C Ah Chee, G Ablett, J Grant, M Rischitelli.
BEST: North Melbourne: Goldstein, Waite, Higgins, Dal Santo, Ziebell, Brown.Gold Coast: Lynch, Rischitelli, Ablett, Wright, Saad, Hall.
Injuries North Melbourne: Wood replaced in selected side by Turner.
Reports: North Melbourne: Cunnington reported for rough conduct against Ablett (Suns) in the second quarter.
Umpires: Ben Ryan, Simon Meredith, Jacob Mollison.
Official Crowd: 13,351 at Metricon Stadium.

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Five-goal final term gives North Melbourne victory

North Melbourne get a 38-point win over Gold Coast to maintain their unbeaten start to the season.

Five matches, five wins. North Melbourne might not have headed too many tipsters' books heading into this season, but they're on top of the ladder, have beaten a struggling Fremantle and a hot Adelaide, and – crucially – have passed 100 points in every win. Not bad for a team that looked slow, old and somewhat dour.

This time, they convincingly dispatched Gold Coast away from home, easing away in the end after establishing an early break, then struggling to shake them off in the second and third quarters. They put the Suns away with four goals early in the last quarter, eventually prevailing by 38 points.

North Melbourne big men Ben Brown and Jarrad Waite celebrate a goal.
North Melbourne big men Ben Brown and Jarrad Waite celebrate a goal.  Photo: Getty Images

To be fair, the Suns started with a couple of severe handicaps. One was self-inflicted: the five-match suspension to Steven May, which left them undermanned in the back half, with Rory Thompson already absent through injury. The other was Gary Ablett, who copped an early hammering and struggled throughout.

Ablett finished with 28 disposals, but if he's still better than 95 per cent of the competition, he looked about 50 per cent of his old self. Tellingly, he played mostly off a forward flank. And this game was won out of the centre, where Todd Goldstein dictated the terms of the game. Centre clearances were 10-19, North's way.

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Jarrad Waite continued his brilliant form, with four goal assists, 18 possessions and 10 marks. Shaun Higgins was even better, his skills silky as ever, his three goals all coming at critical times. Nick Dal Santo provided all the outside class he was recruited for.

Their height advantage in attack was always going to trouble the Suns without May and Thompson. Ben Brown got lucky with some of his goals, but he kept putting himself in positions to get them. At ground level, Jack Ziebell, Andrew Swallow (who had seven clearances from the centre) dominated.

Aaron Hall of the Suns is tackled by Ben Cunnington of the Kangaroos.
Aaron Hall of the Suns is tackled by Ben Cunnington of the Kangaroos. Photo: Getty Images

It was a hard lesson for the Suns. Several usually reliable players butchered the ball, Kade Kolodjashnij setting the tone in the first quarter when he gave away one goal and hit the target just once with six possessions. 

Up forward there were better signs. Tom Lynch continued his brilliant form with four goals, and the brightest spark was young Peter Wright, playing his first game for the Suns this year, who had 17 possessions, took eight marks and kicked three goals, two of them from beyond 50 which sailed through with ease. He looks here to stay.

But after such a bright start with three straight wins, the Suns have sunk like a stone these last two weeks. They face Geelong and Greater Western Sydney, both away, and Adelaide in the next month. With their captain struggling and their full-back out for another month, they've got problems.