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14.15.99
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Gold Coast
North Melbourne
Q1
6.3.39
4.5.29

    Gold Coast Events

  • 11 mins - Goal, P.Wright
  • 13 mins - Goal, J.Martin
  • 16 mins - Behind, T.Lynch
  • 17 mins - Goal, B.Ainsworth
  • 22 mins - Behind, G.Ablett
  • 23 mins - Goal, B.Ainsworth
  • 25 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 28 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 31 mins - Behind, S.Lemmens

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 1 mins - Goal, B.Brown
  • 4 mins - Goal, S.Atley
  • 5 mins - Behind, B.Brown
  • 7 mins - Behind, T.Garner
  • 18 mins - Behind, B.Brown
  • 18 mins - Goal, N.Hrovat
  • 20 mins - Goal, J.Waite
  • 25 mins - Behind, M.Wood
  • 30 mins - Behind, T.Garner
Q2
11.5.71
5.8.38

    Gold Coast Events

  • 7 mins - Goal, J.Martin
  • 10 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 14 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 17 mins - Goal, B.Ainsworth
  • 19 mins - Goal, D.Swallow
  • 20 mins - Behind, D.Swallow
  • 26 mins - Goal, A.Sexton

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 23 mins - Behind, C.Wagner
  • 24 mins - Behind, S.Atley
  • 28 mins - Behind, C.Wagner
  • 29 mins - Goal, J.Waite
Q3
13.6.84
8.13.61

    Gold Coast Events

  • 1 mins - Behind, S.Lemmens
  • 9 mins - Goal, A.Sexton
  • 13 mins - Goal, T.Lynch

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 6 mins - Behind, L.McDonald
  • 7 mins - Goal, R.Clarke
  • 14 mins - Behind, R.Clarke
  • 17 mins - Behind, S.Higgins
  • 20 mins - Behind, N.Hrovat
  • 22 mins - Behind, T.Garner
  • 24 mins - Goal, B.Brown
  • 26 mins - Goal, J.Waite
Q4
18.10.118
14.15.99

    Gold Coast Events

  • 6 mins - Goal, B.Fiorini
  • 8 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 9 mins - Behind, S.Lemmens
  • 12 mins - Behind, G.Ablett
  • 18 mins - Goal, B.Ainsworth
  • 21 mins - Behind, P.Wright
  • 24 mins - Behind, S.Lemmens
  • 29 mins - Goal, T.Miller
  • 31 mins - Goal, D.Swallow

    Gold Coast and North Melbourne Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, J.Waite
  • 13 mins - Goal, M.Wood
  • 14 mins - Goal, S.Higgins
  • 20 mins - Behind, M.Daw
  • 23 mins - Goal, B.Brown
  • 25 mins - Goal, M.Daw
  • 33 mins - Goal, A.Mullett
  • 34 mins - Rushed Behind

Scorers

Gold Coast
North Melbourne
Goal Scorers Gold Coast North Melbourne
Goals and Behinds Lynch (5.1), Ainsworth (4.0), Swallow (2.1), Martin (2.0), Sexton (2.0), Wright (1.1), Fiorini (1.0), Miller (1.0), Lemmens (0.4), Ablett (0.2) Waite (4.0), Brown (3.2), Atley (1.1), Clarke (1.1), Daw (1.1), Higgins (1.1), Hrovat (1.1), Wood (1.1), Mullett (1.0), Garner (0.3), Wagner (0.2), McDonald (0.1)

Team Statistics

Gold Coast
North Melbourne

Statistics

 Gold Coast North Melbourne
Goals 18 14
Behinds 10 15
Scoring shots 32 31
Goals/scoring shots 56 45
Disposals 411 340
Gold CoastGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
G.Ablett 37 22 5 15 14 4 1 1 0 10
C.Ah Chee 7 2 0 5 7 2 1 1 0 1
B.Ainsworth 14 8 3 6 4 3 0 0 0 0
R.Davis 10 7 5 3 6 4 2 0 0 2
B.Fiorini 24 11 7 13 9 6 2 0 0 4
P.Hanley 8 5 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 0
J.Harbrow 22 17 7 5 5 1 2 0 0 2
S.Lemmens 17 7 1 10 7 0 0 1 0 0
J.Leslie 7 4 4 3 1 0 0 2 0 0
J.Lonergan 26 7 6 19 7 3 0 0 0 5
T.Lynch 20 15 8 5 6 2 2 1 0 0
J.Lyons 39 19 5 20 23 6 0 1 0 10
J.Martin 22 13 8 9 12 6 3 1 0 1
S.May 21 20 8 1 3 2 1 1 0 0
T.Miller 13 5 3 8 4 6 0 0 0 2
M.Rosa 26 9 4 17 6 2 1 0 0 1
A.Saad 19 10 2 9 5 2 0 1 0 1
A.Sexton 20 13 4 7 6 3 1 1 0 3
D.Swallow 27 16 3 11 11 4 1 0 0 9
R.Thompson 5 3 2 2 2 4 0 1 1 0
J.Witts 14 8 2 6 10 2 1 0 45 5
P.Wright 13 5 1 8 3 1 0 0 4 0
North MelbourneGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
S.Atley 18 12 4 6 4 2 1 0 0 0
B.Brown 12 8 4 4 10 2 1 0 0 0
R.Clarke 14 6 0 8 5 0 0 1 0 2
M.Daw 5 4 1 1 3 3 1 1 8 1
T.Garner 14 9 8 5 7 4 0 1 0 0
S.Gibson 18 9 2 9 6 3 0 0 0 0
T.Goldstein 13 4 3 9 8 2 0 0 42 4
M.Hibberd 13 4 1 9 5 3 1 1 0 0
S.Higgins 19 5 0 14 8 9 0 4 0 6
N.Hrovat 14 4 3 10 6 2 0 0 0 1
J.Macmillan 8 5 3 3 3 2 1 0 0 0
L.McDonald 31 21 4 10 10 4 0 2 0 1
D.Mountford 17 9 3 8 9 10 1 1 0 5
A.Mullett 21 13 2 8 7 1 0 0 0 1
A.Swallow 24 6 5 18 11 3 1 1 0 7
R.Tarrant 13 4 6 9 5 2 0 0 0 0
L.Thomas 13 8 2 5 5 1 0 0 0 0
S.Thompson 11 8 3 3 2 0 0 2 0 0
C.Wagner 10 6 1 4 6 0 1 0 0 1
J.Waite 19 15 4 4 10 6 1 1 0 1
M.Wood 14 8 5 6 4 1 0 0 0 0
J.Ziebell 19 11 2 8 8 4 3 4 0 1

Match Details

Gold Coast
North Melbourne
START TIME
4:35PM
WEATHER
Clear
VENUE
Metricon Stadium
Umpires
Shaun Ryan, Sam Hay, Leigh Haussen
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Gold Coast Suns rise to occasion of Gary Ablett's 300th game

Andrew Stafford


GOLD COAST 
6.3   11.5   13.6   18.10 (118)
NORTH MELBOURNE 
4.5   5.8   8.13   14.15 (99)
GOALS
Gold Coast: Lynch 5, Ainsworth4, Sexton 2, Swallow 2, Martin 2, Fiorini, Wright, Miller. 
North Melbourne: Waite 4, Brown 3, Mullett, Daw, Wood, Hrovat, Clarke, Atley, Higgins. 
BEST - Gold Coast: Lynch Martin Lyons May Ablett Swallow. 
North Melbourne: Waite McDonald Goldstein Brown Higgins Mountford.
INJURIES - North Melbourne: Williams replaced in selected side by Thomas; Waite (calf). 
Gold Coast: Hanley (hamstring). 
UMPIRES Ryan, Hay, Haussen.
CROWD 12,779 at Metricon Stadium. 

Come the (eventual) milestone, come the man. Driving his team forward, chopping off the opposition time and again. But enough about Steven May, the Suns' co-captain playing his 100th game. The man he and Tom Lynch supplanted, Gary Ablett, has played three times that many.

In the end his team saluted, but it didn't come without a scare, with the Kangaroos cutting what had been a 40 point lead to 14 late in the last quarter. Lynch was superb for his team with five goals. No. 4 draft pick Ben Ainsworth was deadly with four, and Jack Martin played his best four-quarter game for the Suns. 

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Suns celebrate Gary Ablett's 300th game in style

The Gold Coast Suns win over the Kangaroos ensured Ablett celebrated his 300th game with a victory.

If that sounds like Ablett was somewhat overshadowed in a game that was really all about him, it's true. And that's the way it should and must be, if the Suns are ever going to progress beyond their current status in the competition as a flakey and hopelessly uneven side. 

But he was still a force, finishing with 36 possessions, 13 of them in a crucial final quarter to make sure of the result he deserved. 

His kicking is not what it once was – he missed two shots that he would once have made short work of – but his 10 clearances were golden. 

The Suns went tall in defence to counteract the Kangaroos tall forwards Jarrad Waite, Ben Brown and Majak Daw. Rory Thompson took Brown and was given a run-around, while Jack Leslie took Majak Daw and mostly took him out of the game. The most fascinating match was between Waite and May. Here the Suns gambled. May provided both offensive drive and defensive pressure, but often it wasn't on Waite, who kicked four goals and was a key player in his side's recovery until, in a twist than can perhaps only be described as Waite-ian, he was benched in the last quarter with ice on his calf. 

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Caught flat-footed at the opening – the Roos winning the first clearance and Ben Brown making good after doubling back on a long lead, then adding a second when Jarrad Waite found the equally hard-running Shaun Atley – the Suns sparked into life when Peter Wright opened their account. 

It was fast, open free-flowing football, and the lead changed three times in the opening quarter as the ball zipped from end to end. That sort of game can make the Suns look good – better than they are when a team forces them into a scrap. It certainly allowed their most skilful players to shine. 

Like Martin, who curled in identical snaps off his right foot from marks taken on the boundary. And Ainsworth, who put in a strong case for a Rising Star nomination with three first-half goals, two kicked from opposite pockets, the third a soccer out of mid-air, the shot of a pure talent. 

Lynch was dominating too, running tirelessly and getting on the end of three majors; lower-profile but effective was former Crow Jarrod Lyons, who won 22 disposals for the half as the Suns opened up a 33-point lead at the main break. Ablett to that point had 18. 

In unhappier news, poor Pearce Hanley was off, another hamstring pinged in what's been a wretched year, both personally and physically. The third quarter settled into more of a wrestle, and the Kangaroos gave themselves a chance to challenge when Ryan Clarke floated through a snap. 

But Alex Sexton and Lynch found the necessary replies, and from there the Roos looked like kicking themselves out of the contest with four consecutive behinds before Brown finally added his second from an excellent overhead mark in the goal square. 

Then Waite split an apple over the umpire's hat from deep in a pocket, making the margin 23 at the last change, then 17 when he rolled through another. The game was on, but the Suns dug deep, even after being challenged a second time, before chairing the champion off.