McInerney is in an acre of space for a rebound kick to the centre by Rampe, he goes long to Papley who doesn’t make the distance from 45m in the corridor. (Q1 2:19)
Davies-Uniacke worries Wicks off a ground ball in the centre and starts a counter attack that ends with Darling marking at the hotspot for the first goal of the day. (Q1 3:31)
Heeney sails through a snap from a ball up near CHF. (Q1 5:44)
Heeney starts one of those newly trademarked forward handball chains by the Swans through the centre, ending with McDonald marking 30m out on a slight angle for his first major. (Q1 8:02)
Replay showed a fair dinkum throw by Blakey in the build up, missed by the umps. (Q1 8:32)
North works by hand through heavy traffic at CHF, Davies-Uniacke feeds wide to Zurhaar who snaps the goal off a step from 50m on a slight angle. (Q1 9:27)
Blamires speculates with a long bomb from outer wing on a repeat inside 50, Grundy holds Xerri off the contest to concede the free and goal from near the hotspot. (Q1 11:57)
McKercher bounces twice through the centre with several Swans chasing, does a one-two with Stephens but misses from 40m, disappointingly. (Q1 16:51)
Papley receives from Sheldrick but his kick from 45m on a slight angle is spoiled by two Roos off the hands of McDonald for a point. (Q1 17:30)
Sydney are putting heat on the ballcarrier but North are working through it, Darling marks in the pocket in front of Melican and checksides his second goal from 20m. (Q1 19:06)
McLean takes a link mark on outer side to set up Cootee for a pass to the lead of McDonald 40m out on the flank, he converts. (Q1 21:20)
Wardlaw’s pass to Duursma is too short but Curtis roves and gives back to Duursma to grubber the goal from 20m. (Q1 24:15)
North forcing repeat inside 50s with the wall set up, O’Sullivan curls in a nice snap from a pack 30m out on a slight angle. (Q1 28:18)
McLean takes a strong pack mark 40m out on the flank leaping in front of Logue on the back of Parker. His set shot is a peach. (Q1 30:18)
After Warner’s centre clearance, Blakey causes a crumb for Amartey who snaps across his body from the hotspot for another quick one. (Q1 31:58)
Logue intercepts deep in defence but the ump saw a block by Comben on McLean, very soft but he did take his eyes off the ball. McLean converts. (Q2 4:40)
O’Sullivan gives up a HTB free to Heeney in a pack 30m out on a slight angle under a chicken wing tackle. Heeney puts Sydney in front with his second goal. (Q2 8:04)
Papley curls in a trademark snap from a stoppage 30m out. (Q2 10:13)
Zurhaar was left in Papley’s wake on that play, no defender craft at all. (Q2 10:40)
Larkey marks a nice long ball by Stephens from members wing to the pocket 20m out, late whack to the chops by McLean but no penalty, Larkey hits the far left post. (Q2 12:50)
Trembath passes across half forward for Darling to mark 45m out on a slight angle and miss. (Q2 14:44)
Sydney keep turning the ball over on rebound straight to North, on the latest repeat inside 50 Spargo roves Darling’s contest against two and goals from 20m. (Q2 17:41)
McKercher passes to Darling to mark 35m out on a slight angle, he plays on and curls it in for goal number three! (Q2 18:54)
North Melbourne back into the lead on the back of forcing turnovers in midfield with high pressure. (Q2 19:07)
A late review nixes the goal for Darling. (Q2 20:37)
Melican just gets a hand to a Konstanty snap from the HFF to level the scores. (Q2 21:31)
Larkey has a McKercher mark bounce off his chest 45m out in front and is lucky that Edwards catches him late and high to get a free kick. He misses, North into the lead by that. (Q2 26:13)
Darling stays down to rove a dropped McInerney mark on the HFF, he gives to Simpkin who streams down the flank to 35m and pops through the goal. (Q2 27:31)
Rosas centres from the HFF for McDonald to hold the mark in front of O’Sullivan 45m out on a slight angle. He hoofs through goal number three. (Q2 29:22)
Sheezel from the middle, crumb falls for Edwards but Curtis, who had a very quiet first half, wins a HTB free with a chicken wing tackle and converts. (Q3 0:36)
Cootee feeds Papley in the centre to run towards CHF, has options inside 50 but goes himself and skids it to the right. (Q3 2:56)
Papley beats Daniel to rove Xerri’s tap on the HFF and snap his second goal off the left from 25m on a slight angle. (Q3 7:27)
Warner sharks a handball by Zurhaar and snaps over his left shoulder from the hotspot for an opportunist goal. (Q3 8:55)
Jordon passes short to Cootee 40m out on a slight angle and sails through another one for the Swans. (Q3 10:27)
McKercher passes wide from CHF to the flank 40m out for Blamires to mark untouched and steers through a steadying goal. (Q3 13:55)
Lloyd marks a Blakey short pass from CHF to 40m in the corridor and delivers the quick replying goal. (Q3 17:22)
Darling volleys a crumb on the HFF towards the hotspot, bounce favours Spargo who gathers and feeds Duursma to checkside the goal off the right. (Q3 18:50)
Logue roves a loose ball in defence but immediately gets caught HTB by Heeney 30m out on a slight angle, he makes no mistake on the free kick. (Q3 21:42)
Warner plays on to advantage from a ruck free in the centre but skids his snap to the left. (Q3 23:26)
Repeat inside 50 chance from the kick in after Simpkin’s handball clanger falls for Sheldrick who goals from mid range. (Q3 24:02)
Blakey receives from Warner on outer wing and passes to Amartey 40m out in front on the end of another midfield turnover. Amartey delivers the first set shot miss from the Swom. (Q3 26:42)
Papley passes wide to McLean 45m out on the flank on the end of another forward handball chain through the centre by the Swans. McLean tugs his kick left and OOTF. (Q3 28:23)
Trembath takes a link mark on members wing and goes long to Darling, crumb falls for Bice but his handball is off Wicks’ hands to Konstanty who goals from 25m. (Q3 30:13)
After a Mills kick clanger at half back, Wardlaw passes to Duursma on the boundary 45m out, whose set shot is across the face to the left. (Q4 2:36)
Curtis takes a contested grab 45m out on the flank but tugs his set shot to the right. (Q4 5:57)
Cunningham’s chase forces a McKercher kick clanger on rebound then marks 20m out on a slight angle… and misses. (Q4 7:33)
After the clock ticks to 10:00, Sheezel delivers the first goal of the quarter with a snap from a pack near the hotspot. (Q4 12:04)
Konstanty falls over in possession in the centre and coughs up a weak handball, but McInerney’s snap from 50m on a slight angle slices to the right on the counter attack. (Q4 13:58)
Duursma provides a crumb in the pocket for Curtis who snaps OOTF from 20m. (Q4 14:22)
Sydney rebounds all the way via Sheldrick with Warner bouncing past Dawson to pass to McLean 20m out, who converts. (Q4 15:03)
7:35 to go and three kicks in it now, North are on the ropes. (Q4 15:22)
Swans surge from the centre but Papley’s snap from 50m on a slight angle hooks just to the left. (Q4 16:36)
North attacks the corridor on the kick in and it comes off through Spargo, he passes to Duursma near the hotspot who misses right, disappointingly. (Q4 17:47)
Papley misses from a stoppage in the pocket 25m out. Sydney leads by his scoreboard tally of two goals three. (Q4 21:05)
Xerri marks just inside 50m out on the flank, he hurries the set shot, falls short but O’Sullivan takes a big pack mark and goals! (Q4 24:03)
Nine points in it and 1:03 to play, still a live game. (Q4 24:22)
Zurhaar misses on the run from CHF! (Q4 25:36)
That would have made things very interesting. (Q4 25:36)
Wardlaw pumps a kick to the pocket, towards Zurhaar, off hands for a stoppage, 20m out. (Q4 26:47)
Free kick for high contact on Xerri to Blakey, game over. (Q4 26:47)
