Blog log from R19 of 2025: Sydney vs North Melbourne

McLean takes a contested grab over Dawson at the top of the square for the first goal of a sunny late afternoon. (Q1 2:55)
Gulden tumbles a kick towards the hotspot after receiving behind a stoppage from Grundy, Heeney marks and goals. (Q1 5:26)
Teakle busts a pack to take a contested grab 20m out in front, he converts. (Q1 7:41)
Buller marks the next centre clearance in front of Logue 30m out in front, he converts. (Q1 9:26)
Jordon misses from the pocket. (Q1 12:50)
Harvey curls in a high quality snap from the pocket 25m out after Konstanty roves a Comben contest near the hotspot and gives wide with a strong handball. (Q1 18:51)
Chad Warner runs to the flank from a stoppage on members wing and lets fly from 45m… starts left and stays left. (Q1 21:17)
Curtis marks a McKercher pass from members wing to 45m on the flank but tugs the set shot to the right off his left. (Q1 28:37)
Comben marks in front of Melican 45m out on a slight angle just before the QT siren, his set shot starts on line but hooks to the left. (Qtr Time)
Grundy grabs the ball out of ruck deep in defence, but his dump kick skews to Darling 20m out in front who accepts the charity goal. (Q2 2:19)
Jordon marks a Gulden kick just inside 50m on a slight angle, despite a late challenge from behind by McKercher. His set shot hangs to the right. (Q2 6:18)
Heeney marks a Blakey pass in the pocket and plays on inside for the finish from 15m. (Q2 9:24)
Gulden snaps another quality finish from the HFF to blow out what had been a tight tussle up to then. (Q2 11:19)
Konstanty roves two Roos spoiling each other near CHF, he gives to Sheezel who does the rest off the left. (Q2 17:35)
Buller marks 30m out on the flank and sails through his second goal. (Q2 19:32)
Zurhaar roves at the foot of Grundy and steps inside for a snap from 20m off the left but it’s skewed wide. (Q2 22:36)
Jordon receives from Warner in the centre, spins and kicks across CHF to the fat side for Bice to mark 45m out on a slight angle behind Darling. Bice punches it to the left. (Q2 26:50)
Sheezel gets a hospital handball from Davies-Uniacke running from a stoppage in defence, he can’t escape the McInerney tackle and is pinged for HTB. McInerney goals from 45m. (Q2 29:45)
Heeney marks a low pass by McLean 40m out in the corridor, almost plays on but doesn’t, then lines up for his third goal which is no good, hung to the right. (Q3 4:51)
Hayward roves and snaps high from the hotspot but Hardeman gets back on the line to mark in relief. (Q3 11:08)
After a terrible Logue kick clanger on the wing under no pressure, McInerney hits the post on the counter attack. (Q3 12:17)
Simpkin is front and centre for a long speculator to the top of the square and goals off the left. (Q3 13:07)
Several senior Swans giving it the teapot after that play, no one was on Simpkin. (Q3 13:54)
Warner just snaps to the left from CHF. (Q3 17:03)
Rowbottom receives from Warner hard in the pocket 20m out and tries a low-percentage snap, that goes narrow to the right. (Q3 19:07)
Buller marks a high speculator by Sheldrick from members wing to 35m out on a slight angle, but shanks it to the right and OOTF. (Q3 25:19)
After a free off the ball for dissent by Gulden, Curtis gets a boot to a loose ball in the square that McInerney tried to touch through, an unlikely goal! (Q3 28:20)
That play could very easily have been a free against Curtis for kicking in danger, as McInerney’s finger was right near the footy. But the review ruling is it was touched anyway. (Q3 29:15)
Grundy taps from ruck at half forward wide to the flank for Heeney who curls in a high quality snap off the right from 35m. (Q4 0:34)
McKercher kicks short from a kick in straight to Hayward who goes quickly across half forward for Warner 45m out on a slight angle, Chad converts. (Q4 5:04)
As was almost inevitable, the Swans with their more mature bodies have outlasted the plucky but undermanned Kangaroos. A ten-goal belting is on the cards here, sadly. (Q4 5:24)
McInerney spots up Campbell 40m out on the flank after the Swans get a convoy going on members wing from a stoppage on the HBF. Campbell sails through a cherry goal. (Q4 10:36)
Heeney sails through his fourth goal from the pocket 25m out off the left to underline his BOG credentials. (Q4 13:51)
Simpkin runs his full measure from a stoppage on members wing and kicks over the back for Harvey to get some junk. (Q4 15:38)
Heeney burns off Phillips on outer wing for a pass to Haywayrd 45m out on the flank, whose kick is wayward for no score. (Q4 17:19)
Comben gets a 50m penalty on Grundy to bring him to 50m on a slight angle but hooks his kick to the left. (Q4 19:50)
Warner misses a sauntering snap from 40m on the flank. (Q4 20:47)
McKercher marks 45m out in front and points at the goals to let the ump know he’s got the leg, he converts. (Q4 22:20)
Heeney marks a Jordon pass in front of Pink 40m out on a slight angle and shoots for goal number five… a thing of beauty. (Q4 24:20)
Lloyd snaps high and just to the left from the hotspot. (Q4 27:50)