West Coast – 14.10 (94)
North Melbourne – 16.14 (110)
North Melbourne have helped give captain Brent Harvey a 300th game to remember with a hard fought victory that saw both teams throw everything at the game to come away with the 4 points.
West Coast started off well kicking 5 of the first 6 goals but North’s intensity lifted after Leigh Adams was floored by a beauty of a bump by Beau Waters towards the end of the last quarter.
From then onwards, it was a neck and neck until late in the last quarter when North got out to a 21 point lead.
Key Players for West Coast
Callum Wilson – With his 4 goals to add to his pretty good game against Port, West Coast may have a supporting forward for Josh Kennedy.
Shannon Hurn – 20 disposals with a remarkable 20 kicks. And has you would expect with him, they were used beautifully.
Key Players for North Melbourne
Andrew Swallow – North’s 2009 B&F winner will vote well in this game thanks to his 28 possessions and 3 goals.
Awesome game.
Sam Wright – 4.2, many of them at crucial times made his impact on the game pretty important.
Musings from the Match
SuperCoach Points – Highs & Lows
Andrew Swallows excellent game yielded 152 points which was the best score of the game by a fiar bit.
The next best was Scott Thompson with 133 points.
For West Coast, Andrew Embley was the only one to score really well with 132 points.
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Good review, Vish.
Not sure what’s happened with Brad Ebert – he used to be a decent and reliable user in his first year and at under 18s. A few have suggested it may be the influence of development and skills coach Michael Broadbridge.
Very impressed with Shuey – even moreso considering all that he has been through personally and on the injury front in his first two seasons.
MacKenzie’s defensive job on the inform Hansen was very good and he ran off to provide some good rebound too. Scott Selwood also had a good game too with 22 disposals – setting up a few scoring opportunities and kicking a goal himself.
For North, I thought Daniel Wells was particularly instrumental in North Melbourne shifting the momentum of the match in the second quarter.
Scott Thompson also did a very good job on Josh Kennedy, providing a number of spoils and ran off him well too, also pushing forward well in the last to kick a critical goal for North (which no doubt helped his SC score).
http://www.wceblog.com/2010/08/west-coast-vs-north-melbourne-review.html