Match

North Melbourne vs West Coast Eagles

Commentary / 20 Sep 2020

Pre Game

00:00
Shaun Atley ranks fifth in the competition for total handball metres gained with 415. He has recorded a retention rate of 92% from his handballs – ranked equal-third of the top-50.

Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
02:18
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Sam Durdin)
02:45
North Melbourne leads disposals 12 to three early on and West Coast is yet to have an uncontested possession.
08:55
Neither side has separated themselves to this point with five inside 50s each and an even split for time in forward half with 50% each.
12:04
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Shaun Higgins)
12:26
Shaun Higgins gets the first goal of the night and just his fourth of the season, this is his lowest goal total in a season since he kicked three goals in 2013 when he played three matches.
14:24
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Nick Larkey)
14:51
North Melbourne has kicked the first two goals through marks inside 50, the kicks originated in the corridor. Three of North Melbourne's seven kicks inside 50 to this point have started in the corridor.
18:00
Kangaroos Interchange - Robbie Tarrant off due to an injury.
18:16
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Tom Murphy)
18:56
The Eagles have six tackles inside 50 in this quarter, which is the third most they have had in a quarter this season.
19:00
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Rushed)
22:12
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Aaron Hall)
23:12
The Eagles have been held scoreless in a first quarter for the first time since Champion Data became the official AFL statistical provider in 1999.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
01:28
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Rushed)
03:16
Tim Kelly has just three disposals and one contested possession to this point. Kelly recorded a season-high 30 disposals and 15 contested possessions last round against St Kilda.
04:41
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Rushed)
04:54
The Kangaroos lead effective clearances 10 to two, nine different Kangaroos players have an effective clearance.
08:28
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
08:37
Jack Darling has kicked West Coast's first goal of the match and his 27th of the season. Darling has kicked multiple goals in a match 10 times since Round 4.
10:44
West Coast is losing the uncontested possessions by 32, it has won this measure just five times this season by an average of 30 when the measure is won.
11:22
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Brayden Ainsworth)
12:15
West Coast has reduced the margin to just four points. Elsewhere in the contested possessions, the players leading this measure are perhaps surprising in Luke McDonald and Brad Sheppard with six each.
14:08
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Tom Murphy)
16:18
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Liam Ryan)
16:37
Liam Ryan breaks a tackle and kicks a goal to put West Coast in front for the first time. In the last four rounds, he has nine goals and five score assists.
18:41
Eagles Interchange - Josh J. Kennedy and is possibly out for the game.
19:04
Jed Anderson leads all players with 16 disposals, from his eight kicks he has a kicking efficiency of 88% - his kicking efficiency for the season is 57%.
20:49
Kangaroos Interchange - Nick Larkey off due to an injury.
22:10
The Kangaroos have a kicking efficiency of 54% in the defensive midfield in this term, the Eagles are going at 80% in the same zone.
23:14
Whilst Jack Darling and Liam Ryan were impactful in the second term hitting the scoreboard, Liam Duggan stood out with 11 disposals and five contested possessions. Both the equal second-most he has recorded in a quarter during his career.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
01:50
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Jack Ziebell)
03:33
With a host of midfielders missing through injury, Andrew Gaff has attended seven of eight centre bounces in this match. He attended a game and season-high 18 centre bounces last round.
05:07
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Liam Ryan)
05:43
Early in this second half the Kangaroos lead kicking efficiency 80% to 54%, but eight of their 10 kicks have occurred in the defensive half.
06:10
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Oscar Allen)
08:10
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Cameron Zurhaar)
08:28
Cam Zurhaar kicks North Melbourne's first goal since the 15th minute of the first quarter. North Melbourne has produced all of its scoring shots from set shots, and leads marks inside 50 six to two.
11:41
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Brayden Ainsworth)
13:58
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Petruccelle)
14:32
In the last 10 minutes, West Coast has a kicking efficiency of just 47% and a pressure factor of just 166 to North Melbourne's 220.
16:30
West Coast has lost six and won just one of its 10 offensive one-on-one contests in this match. This is a loss percentage of 60% which is presently the sixth worst this season and significantly higher than West Coast's previous worst of 38% this season against Gold Coast in Round 2.
17:00
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Jy Simpkin)
19:23
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Todd Goldstein)
20:21
Since kicking two goals with its first three scoring shots in this match, North Melbourne has kicked 1.6 along with two rushed behinds. This includes three behinds from set shots within 30 metres of goal.
21:10
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Jack Ziebell)
22:17
All three of Tim Kelly's disposals in the third term came in the final three minutes.

Quarter 4

00:00
Q4 is now underway.
01:58
West Coast has lost four of the five matches this season when it has taken less than 10 contested marks, it has just two in this match so far.
04:12
There were six hitouts-to-advantage in the first quarter and just five since in this match. Todd Goldstein has not had a hitout-to-advntage since the first term.
06:48
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Oscar Allen)
07:24
West Coat has kicked five of the last six goals, two of which from Oscar Allen. West Coast has generated 27 points from turnovers in this match.
08:24
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Oscar Allen)
08:44
Oscar Allen kicks his third goal, extending the lead to 12 points the largest of the night for West Coast. This is an equal career-high in goals for Allen, having achieved this tally four times previously.
12:39
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Liam Ryan)
13:57
Since the first quarter, Liam Ryan has an equal high nine contested possessions and combined this with two goals and a goal assist.
15:28
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Petruccelle)
16:47
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Rushed)
17:41
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Jed Anderson)
19:54
Andrew Gaff has a team-high 25 disposals and game-high 13 contested possessions.
24:20
Brad Sheppard has an equal career high seven tackles.
26:07
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Brendon Ah Chee)
26:52
After the first quarter, the Eagles won contested possessions by five, clearances by seven, and had a post-clearance kick-to-handball ratio of 1.75 outside the forward 50 compared to the Kangaroos 0.83 in the same time and zones.