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Chapter 1: What happened in the first quarter of the North Melbourne vs Gold Coast match?
Shut up, the footies of Triple M. This is Triple M footies mini-match of the round. Now, get ready for the first quarter.
Here we go, Saturday, Arvo, ball thrown in the air, Sherry parked underneath it. Through came Petrarca, but went without the ball. David Zuniak head over at Petrarca, a little tunnel ball gets back to him. Suns to half-board with a bounce, through came Griffin Logue. And the extraction came from Davies-Uniak beautifully through to Sheazle. Low as the eyes, gets to Trembath, centre of the ground.
Got Larkey on long, doesn't want to go there. Instead, sneaks a sideways one back to Sheazle.
How good was LDAU there? Just to draw the players, execute the handball. And the difference between the really good sides and poor sides at the moment is executing those final skills.
Bailey Humphrey, 65 from goal. Left half forward for Gold Coast. He's not sure where to go. There's a lot of bodies inside the 50, so he squares it into the middle to set a half forward and Powell.
Big run, Charlie! Picked the eyes out of it. Powell keying a lead and doubles back. Griffin Logue pushes him... Out of it all, Powell runs to centre-half forward and unloads with a great big long ball that has gone all the way. Unbelievable bomb from Will Powell. And the Suns kick the first of the afternoon. Bunnings trade scoreboard, one straight. Suns, North haven't scored.
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Well, they're just really careful with their ball use there. The Suns, as soon as they had an option, they broke the line, but just... Found uncontested marks all the way through the field and then a kick back inside to Powell. You were sort of watching what was happening in their forward line, looking for the movement, which there was.
Then Will Powell just went back and said, I can actually kick it from here. He didn't even really take his full measure. Just rolled a little bit onto that right and well and truly had the journey.
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Chapter 2: How did Gold Coast establish a strong lead in the first half?
And he'll take a shot on goal from about 30 out. Not much angle.
I know Luke Parker's trying to set the patterns early there. North Melbourne want to be aggressive, take on the middle of the ground. But Griffin Logue had really good positioning and was aggressive in his defence there to take the intercept mark. You just want to get a better play than what that was, turning it over in the middle of the ground.
Two in a row now, Jed Walter. Not much angle, not very far out, and he has kicked it. Two straight for the Gold Coast Suns. Triple M Bunnings trade scoreboard.
North Melbourne's tolls with their defence have been the issue for the last few years. And I know Ben King will be closely watched this afternoon. So if Jed Walter can pop up and hit the scoreboard, he could be a real danger here for the North defenders.
Suns have worked it from the back pocket up towards the defensive side of the wing. Anderson. Good kick into the middle. All on his own moil. He's not really inconspicuous, the big fella. Lombard receives it from him. Kicks towards long inside the 50. He pushes off Stephens way too easily. A hand pass to Humphrey. Top of the 50. Hand pass away. Lombard gives by hand. Long round the body.
Curling kick. Goal. The Suns have three. And North has concern. Might have been Miller, I reckon. It's Miller around the body with the goal. Turk Miller's the goal kicker. Thanks, JB. Three straight, the Suns, North Melbourne yet to score, and we've been going 10 minutes. It's been kicking this season. Turk Miller.
Well, you compare the two passages of play then, Izzy. Moyle had the ball in the exact same position that North did with three players around him down the other end. It wasn't perfect from the Suns, but they make it work. When you get the ball in that spot, you simply must end up with a shot on goal, and they go forward, they kick a goal from it, but North
They should have been having the same opportunity down the other end.
Dawson can give it to O'Sullivan by hand. O'Sullivan slams along one inside 50. Parker taken out of it, not Parker. It was Darling with a push and he'll get a shot on goal. Crude from Eulon.
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Chapter 3: What adjustments did North Melbourne make after halftime?
He had 58 kicks this season. He's picked 33 goals, eight. Easy as you like for Gold Coast's fourth goal. They've got the early jump. 14-minute mark, first quarter. Gold Coast four straight. North Melbourne one straight on the Triple M Bunnings Trade scoreboard. Bunnings Trade get tax time sorted with big deals on big brands.
Well, I mean, a man that's in the goal-kicking form that he's in, Ben King, to give away a free kick early. Just watching the Harvey Norman... Just the arms around at the end. I think at first they were both engaged, but then when King went to sort of lead and take off, Logue just put that arm around.
And when you've got that one umpire just looking at things happening inside that forward 50, probably going to see that and call that most of the time.
Ends up with Uland who goes inside 50. The kick missed. Look out. That's gone. Hardeman run down from behind, holding the ball. And the Gold Coast Suns will get another shot on goal. This time it's Goulburn.
It's their defensive work rate. So whether or not they're taking away those little kicks for North Melbourne to exit, they're not giving them anything uncontested in their defensive 50. But then that, as soon as the ball went in, three and four Gold Coast Suns players just running across to put pressure on. That was really nice from their small forwards.
Almost directly in front, Goulburn for the fifth. Looked like it was right, but it's there. Five straight. Gold Coast, North Melbourne, one straight. Triple M, Bunnings trade scoreboard.
It's just an avalanche at the moment. Inside 50s, Truman.
12-4, the Suns wave, but they've kicked five zip from those 12 entries. Super efficient. Contested possession. Contested possessions. Suns are at plus one. It's those uncontested marks recapping again, especially in the midfield. Overall, it's 23-11. At the moment, it's 20-9 in the midfield zone. Suns wave.
From the middle, Davies Uniak gets it. Hand pass to Sheazle. Sheazle, a sidestep from the circles. Sends them forward. Trembath now positioned. Constante Roves dribbling kick. Good finish. Little left foot snap. Here's a goal. How they needed that. North's second comes at the 20 minute mark. Gold Coast five straight. North two straight. On the Triple M Bunnings trade scoreboard.
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Chapter 4: How did the third quarter unfold for both teams?
Picked off by Humphrey. Beautiful handball to Raul. Raul floats it inside 50. Down front and centre is long. Too easy. Way too easy. Ben Long, a simple front and centre goal. Six straight sons. North two straight on the Bunnings trade scoreboard.
That was a direct one-on-one. UDL, LDU in the middle against Matt Rau. And one of them was going to win the clearance, you felt like, Izzy. It was whoever had the best of that was going to win the clearance. And Matt Rau owned that balance at the stoppage.
and then was able to get that handball out after it just collapsed in, and then from there you thought it was just going to be a Gold Coast Suns goal.
Yeah, and it hurt LDU because Wardlaw got sucked into the contest as well, so then he's come across, and that's just easy centre bounce work. Once one collapses, then it just becomes a domino effect, and Gold Coast are so powerful in that.
Horrible kick inside 50 might work for Darling. Held front position, took a very good mark. And he's had three shots at goal almost from exactly the same spot. This one's slightly more acute.
Yeah, let's hope he's just corrected it a little bit. Hit the first one nicely. The last one not so well. Hopefully he hits this one. But what a mark. Just beautiful forward craft. Great positioning.
Able to clunk it.
Darling. On the runway. That looks better. That looks really good. Got his second shot. And North Melbourne now 3-1-19. Gold Coast 6 straight 36. Triple M funding straight scoreboard.
They've owned the last 10 minutes of the game because Gold Coast haven't had one uncontested mark. Early in the game, they were all over it. They're just owning everything now.
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Chapter 5: What critical moments defined the final quarter of the match?
We don't muddy sugarcoat it here on Triple M. They've sucked a bit of ass.
Yeah, that's a fair call, JB, unfortunately. I'm giving a say, but you said it. I agree with you.
That's how we call it. Poxy. Sun's deep in attack. Petrarca tries to rip it clear, his kick smothered. Going through, can stand it. He can take it. Then he took a hold of Rowell, who was given a long time to get rid of it. It comes to Miller. He almost threw that out to Rowell, who slaps it goalward. And he has put it through. From 25 out, the snap from Rowell. Slammed it on his boots.
North fans aggravated again. A four-goal lead to the Gold Coast Suns. They're 9-1-55. North Melbourne 5-1-31. Eight-minute mark for this second quarter. Triple M play. The Tundra scoreboard.
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.
But having a look at the Harvey Norman, probably should have been holding the ball about three handballs earlier from Matt Rowell as he just threw it out under pressure.
Right on the front point of the square as he starts his slow walk in into a skip. Kicks from 53, makes good contact. Is it long enough? Up they go on the line and Walter pulls in a beautiful pack mark. Right on the goal line and he will bang it through. So three for Walter. There we go. Puts it into level three. And now we have a big lead of 31 points for the Gold Coast Suns. 10-2, 62, 5-1, 31.
North Melbourne Triple M's hardly touched the scoreboard.
Knowing Alistair Clarkson and being coached by him for a decade, he's going to absolutely be flipping his lid at halftime that Walter was able to take that mark on the goal line. You've got to be able to spoil that. See, Coleman, you've got to be coming the other angle. You can't be running towards the middle of the ground.
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Chapter 6: How did North Melbourne come back from a 43-point deficit?
Is it just a bit left? No, it is there. From set shots, Ash. JB, that is now nine straight. Nine straight under the roof. 12-2 to 5-1. Triple M Toyota Tundra scoreboard.
Oh, Q-Man, I'm telling you, you would not want to be a player in the North Melbourne rooms at half-time.
Paint the picture. What are they going to get?
I'll tell you what I used to do. I used to put fake earphones on or headphones on, so I couldn't hear. Because you would have spit, you'd have paint coming off the wall, you'd have dust that had been sitting in the roof for 15 years falling on your head. There will be things being thrown.
All fans starting to get a little restless for good reason. Long ball, well marked by Darlington. He got ahead of him. It's going to be Sherry who takes the mark. 40 out. He wants to play on. I'm not sure why. He didn't want to go through. It does. It's Constandy who kicked it in the end. It's a touch ball. No. It's a goal. Constandy's got a couple. North get their second of this second term.
6-1-37, 12-2-74, Triple M Toyota Tundra scoreboard.
Well, I think he played on JB because the umpire didn't pay the mark. He didn't.
Put the whistle away a bit early. He put the whistle away.
We've been asking for it, but when it's a mark, you've got to blow the bloody thing. They are structurally out of sorts, North Melbourne. 75-37, 13 seconds left. Up it goes.
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Chapter 7: What were the standout performances in this match?
25 disposals, one major, and also using it well by Cook, going at 80%.
Long to half forward. King gets belted into. Hardeman went with the foot when he should have gone with the hands. Petrarca will make him pay. Brilliant finish, Petrarca. Second goal of the term. The Gold Coast Suns back out to 26 points.
Every time they've been able to chew into this lead, North, and feel like they've had some momentum, especially in this second half so far. The Suns have just found something and found another goal, whether it's been a North Melbourne mistake that's led to it or whether they've been able to find some individual brilliance from the likes of Uland running onto his left.
He just apologised to, I think it was Hardeman I said. It was actually Simpkin who went with his foot instead of bending down and picking the footy up. So Riley Hardeman, my apologies. Simpkin. Long one here. Sherry in good marking position. Big twist. Takes it. 20 out, not much angle.
I really like that from LDU on the open side. He could have gone quickly to Suvlaki, but Mac Andrew was creeping space there and would have gone across and spotted out of bounds, held it up. Simpkin runs past and just a nice kick into a little bit of space, which let Sherry launch at it.
Sherry, I should say, from the set shot, and he's kicked it to a piece. They are hanging in the kangaroos. 20 points adrift to the Gold Coast Suns. Triple M totally worked their scoreboard.
Now is this centre bounce here that's coming up in this game. It's so important for North. It doesn't matter if they don't win it, but they need to make sure Gold Coast do not exit straight out the front door and go inside their forward 50. Make it a scrap.
Sinkin takes them on. Gets it to Daniel. Daniel goes corridor. Wardlaw. Great spoil from Petrarca. She's been good in this game, Christian Petrarca. Trembar. Back to Wardlaw. He'll get it back now, George Wardlaw. Slide it over the top for Curtis. 35 from home. 40 from home directly in front.
Petrarca's numbers, Ash. Number one rated player with his 23 touches, JB. Eight clearances and the goal.
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Chapter 8: What does this match mean for the future of both teams?
Minute 29 left. Dersmer lowers the eyes. Davy Zuniac has it. 30 out, not much angle. This goes through. It is all tied up. Luke Davies-Uniak with a massive set shot here. North fans below us cannot look. Set shot is good. It is all tied up. 16-9 apiece. 46 seconds left. What about this centre clearance now? Well, LDU, that's huge.
You've been North Melbourne's best player this year and you took the moment there. Al, BT gave you the arse out of the MCG.
Bad luck, BT. Hope the cashie was worth it. Gold Coast led by 43. Scores locked up under a minute to go. Anderson out of the middle. Ports! O'Sullivan got him. Spills to Petrarca. Gets it up towards half forward. No mark taken. Hardeman goes in. Couldn't win it. McKercher there. He's tackled dispossessed. Little hair pass comes out to Wardlaw. Center half back into the middle. Scored.
It's marked. Off to Parker. Parker long. Freaking surely to Zerha. He's pulled out of the marking contest. North Melbourne's going to win this. He's only 25 meters out directly in front. 18 seconds to go. Zerha was manhandled. His free kick. An extraordinary fight back.
Will have its final act here. We're just seeing on the Harvey Norman here. That's a free kick every day of the week. Really good positioning by Zerha. But unbelievable from North Melbourne to rip that off half back and give themselves an opportunity.
Seven seconds. He'll kick after the siren here, Zerha. They know. They've been craving that performance that showed they're taking that big next step. Zaha goals. He disappears in a sea of blue and white jumpers. They stream in off the bench. An extraordinary North Melbourne win from 43 points down.
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