Isaac Smith

Well, they've flipped the second part of this first quarter on its head.

Pressure from both teams has ramped up the last 10 minutes.

Melbourne, North Melbourne, 257.

Gold Coast, 207.

You can feel it's just gone up a notch from both teams.

But in that whole time, North have had the ascendancy.

That center bounce clearance with, what, 30 seconds on the clock.

Doesn't matter if you don't win it.

You cannot let your opposition win it the way that the Gold Coast Suns just did.

Petrarca just shoulders out running towards goal, putting it out in the path of Walter.

But to see it on the Harvey Norman will be interesting.

Just having a look at it now.

Low at his height.

Like what we see the likes of Wiz and Giddy doing.

That was brilliant forward craft from Larkey.

Thought Darling might want to get it in quickly because he had the one-on-one and he's just worked well to get down there to make the distance and then even when he didn't get it, he just kept moving, kept moving and then there was a big leading lane up the middle of the ground and then led there, Darling laced him out.

Well, they are ramping up the pressure and they're trying to just affect the possession of the ball carrier.

But as a result of that intent, there's two and three players from North Melbourne going to the one Gold Coast Suns player.

So when they're able to get little chains of handball out and around the contest...

They're just being able to find someone that's free.