Where and When: Adelaide Oval, Sunday 8 August at 6:10pm (AEST)
Last time they met: North Melbourne 13.10 (88) def Melbourne 12.11 (83) at Blundstone Arena, Hobart.
What is means for Melbourne: This a massive danger game for Melbourne. With Gawn and Viney out, they will need to dig deep to overcome North in their first meeting in South Australia. If they lose too many more matches, they will lose touch with the top 8.
What it means for North: Like Melbourne, North are in danger of losing pace with the leading pack and to be honest, if they can’t defeat an ailing Dees, should they play finals? If they chalk up another loss tonight, they should start planning their end of season trip back to the Gold Coast.
Supercoach Watch: This is all about Clayton Oliver and Petracca. They are both in form and without Gawn and Viney, there are plenty of SC points to go around. The footy may not be good to watch, but if you own both of them, this match will be very attractive!
Thommo’s Watch: I was shocked to discover a little green dot next to Rivers today. I’m hoping he can do enough to push his price up. Thommo needs $$$$
Thommo’s Tip: North by 6 points.
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No Late Changes to either team.
Who score’s more at D6.
T/U.. Rivers
T/D.. McKay
No Gawn..
I like North in this one.
Goldie named in the centre and Daw at Ruck!! That may put a crimp in the Gawn to Goldie trades … if Daw takes a lot of the ruck contests …
good way to rest goldy
get him to ruck in the centre & daw to do the leg work around the ground
cmon simpkin , ton up champ
keen to see how oliver goes without gawn & viney there
It’s going to be weird without Gawn dominating the ruck. The game Gawn missed last year Pruess played and did pretty well.
Qtr time scores with north leading 20-10
Melbourne:
Oliver 26
Petracca 48
Rivers: 5
Nth Melbourne:
Simpkin 35
Mckay 21
Goldstein 18
Thanks for the score’s t.
brayshaws enjoying vineys role
Monday teams are posted in “The Teams rd 11”
cmon rivers , need yr score now simpsons out
I’m going to have to take one of Rivers, Close or Ruscoe score
Guessing it won’t be rivers
Jack Martin got injured after I traded him in… not exactly the plan.
dont expect much from close after what i saw of him last week
Dumont is having one hell of a season… in 576 teams…
In my Draft team GP.
The most under owned “Premo” in SC.
11th Mid over all , 5 round Ave of 119.
If only I had gone to Rowell to Dumont in R5.
Hmmmm I traded out Gawn. But decided on Nic Nat….
Good call. They seem to have a nurse goldie through the byes plan in place
not a lot of stoppages or ball ups / thrown ins etc for Goldie to be involved in thus far … weird game – no crowd
They both should be used to no crowds by now in the cold weather, ie ski seasons and, well just no crowds……
Simpkins butchers the ball a lot …
Been like this since he hurt his ankle.
I’m an owner and am hoping a full week between games will improve his ankle… I live in hope at least
Half Time and it’s the Dees by 5 points over the Roos
Melb 4.7.31
Roos 4.2.26
MELB
Sam Weideman 76
Christian Petracca 66
Angus Brayshaw 61
Clayton Oliver 58
Jake Lever 54
Tom Sparrow 45
Tom McDonald 43
Ed Langdon 43
Christian Salem 40
Mitch Hannan 35
Michael Hibberd 35
Charlie Spargo 33
Nathan Jones 32
Luke Jackson 28
Adam Tomlinson 26
Trent Rivers 24
Kysaiah Pickett 23
Jake Melksham 22
Aaron Vandenberg 20
James Harmes 11
Bayley Fritsch 10
Steven May 7
NTH MELB
Luke McDonald 79
Trent Dumont 69
L. Davies-Uniacke 66
Aiden Bonar 60
Robbie Tarrant 56
Nick Larkey 53
Jamie Macmillan 51
Shaun Higgins 47
Jy Simpkin 46
Cameron Zurhaar 43
Todd Goldstein 41
Jed Anderson 40
Shaun Atley 37
Aaron Hall 36
Majak Daw* 28
Jared Polec 28
Ben McKay 28
Josh Walker 26
Sam Durdin 21
Jack Mahony 21
Jasper Pittard 21
Bailey Scott 2
how many rounds left after this one
is it 6
2 + 4 finals ?
I think its 3 plus finals
only 16 stoppages @ 1/2 time
I didn’t trade you in for this Goldy !!!
4 day break is hard to recover from
BE 106 , needs a big 4th Q
both these teams have very average fwd lines
bonnar in the rooms with maybe a shoulder issue
bonnar done for the day
anderson has an eye injury
Is Rhyce Shaw takin the p155?
Goldy on a wing and Higgins fuck knows where
yeh , in hindsight shaw shoulda just rested goldy higgins & co
now hes got 6 injured players to replace & a handful of players that still need a game off
must be about time nth sacked another coach
Doesn’t even makes sense. Rhyce Shaw is only our fourth coach since the start of 1993!!!
is simpkin still out there
hasn’t scores in the 2nd 1/2
doing SFA – scared of getting leather poisoning.
Seriously though, it’s like he is too afraid to do anything after absolutely butchering kicks in the first half … just not competing … both teams ball skills leave a lot to be desired
Simpkin had 6 Clangers most in the game there is -30 points right there had enough of the ball just poor use of it.
Still looks sore to me. Not sure when North’s bye will be but he might be looking at a week off before that.
Gee its painful to watch this game … both sides are bloody awful … Roos just that much worse (sorry RooBloke and Troroo)
Roos mids just look lost and hopeless at getting hands on the ball … will not help Goldie and his owners at all.
Come on Oliver boost that VC score! i need a good score
gna be a low scoring round for ppl that did a lot of trading this week
26 scoring shots to 10
could have been a lot worse than a 50 pt loss
simpkins gna loose cash this week
Full Time – big win by Melb 13.14.92 defeat Nth Melb 5.5.35
DEMONS
Christian Petracca 155
Clayton Oliver 133
Angus Brayshaw 109
Tom McDonald 98
Jake Lever 88
Sam Weideman 83
Ed Langdon 81
Tom Sparrow 78
Michael Hibberd 76
Charlie Spargo 75
Mitch Hannan 73
Luke Jackson 70
Bayley Fritsch 69
Kysaiah Pickett 65
Christian Salem 64
Trent Rivers 52
Jake Melksham 52
Nathan Jones 49
Adam Tomlinson 47
Aaron Vandenberg 37
Steven May 35
James Harmes 31
NTH MELB
Luke McDonald 134
Trent Dumont 127
Robbie Tarrant 100
Todd Goldstein 96
L. Davies-Uniacke 94
Jared Polec 80
Nick Larkey 79
Aaron Hall 77
Shaun Higgins 72
Jy Simpkin 72
Jamie Macmillan 72
Shaun Atley 68
Ben McKay 66
Aiden Bonar 65
Jasper Pittard 63
Cameron Zurhaar 58
Jed Anderson 47
Josh Walker 47
Majak Daw* 45
Bailey Scott 37
Jack Mahony 37
Sam Durdin 32
Goldstein barely tons v the second fiddle in Jackson lol.
Imagine what Gawn would have done to him…
Nothing to do with him and his work GD.
Roos mids were pathetic and couldn’t touch the ball.
23 HO’s to 5+2 on the Demons
Strange game with not a lot of stoppages for ball ups etc … but his biggest problem was his mids around him were pathetic …
Did you watch the game? That ton was massive overs…lol
Goldy’s score was reflective of Shaw’s use of Goldy, not of Goldy’s play. What i mean is that Goldy didn’t have many CBA’s which is where he does some of his best work. He can’t get a clearance if he’s not in the centre circle. Quite happy that Goldy got a ton from very little impact on the game.
Shaw’s use of Goldy over the last few weeks is concerning for us Goldy owners. Hopefully it’s just managing Goldy through consecutive 4 day breaks and not a sign of him sharing the ruck permanently with Majak.
Really disappointed with that result but not being helped by poor coaching starting at selection. Not just this week either.
8 players over 195 cm is too tall by a couple.
If Goldy needs a rest then dont play him.
Higgins seemed to play as a defensive winger.
We are not helped by having the most injuries in the AFL.
Looking forward to a clean out at the end of the year and getting rid of list cloggers.
At least it is a shorter season.
Shaggi, that was one strange game to watch ,… but gee your boys were awful!! Seemed to be a lot of running around chasing leather with no direction and when they had stoppages Goldie was basically winning everything, but his mids just did not support him …
Cats would be very happy to take Goldy. God knows they could use a ruckman!
imagine what he would score with danger duncan selwood etc @ his feet
We really are missing Cunnington and not having Higgins in the centre square was not helpful.
I get the feeling that Shaw is already coaching for next year.
Simpkin will be very very good for us and LDU once he gets a full preseason under his belt will be a star.
Commendable performances by McDonald and Dumont.
Maybe McDonald become SC relevent next year.
Too many players just not up to AFL standard and some happy to come to North just for the bigger pay cheque.
Totally agree Shaggi. Our team looks like the Aussie cricket team heading into a 5th test. You know the team where you’ve got a random all rounder at 5, the wickie at 6, a 2nd spinner for no real reason at 7 …. it doesn’t look right from the get go and it just never works.
I didn’t count 8 talls in the team though.
Tarrant and McKay are our two tall defenders. Goldy is our solo ruck. Larkey our tall fwd. With Brown out we need another tall fwd so Walker goes fwd. Daw played really well two years back as our 3rd tall defender so put him there, not as our first ruck drifting fwd. He’s not good at that role. Why Durdin was in the team with all the other talls is beyond me!
I counted the talls as Tarrant, McKay, Durdin, Larkey, Walker, Daw , Goldy and ???. Okay you got me there.
I guess Durdin was in there to see if he is of AFL standard.
Polec plays like M.Crouch and is not damaging enough . Has had a disappointing year.
Hall is no longer consistently of an AFL standard.
Pittard seems lost in the forward line and Hinkley would have been glad for him to go cause he is a coach killer.
I would like to see players like Scott, Bonar and Ahern given an extended go.
My personal view with everything B.Brown is that at the end of the year North will make the call depending on what they might get for him. A 1st round pick then I think they will let him go as he won’t be in our next premiership side. He does work well with Larkey though.