{"id":125158,"date":"2025-09-07T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125158\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:57:08","slug":"defender-has-career-best-outing-in-loss-to-reigning-premiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125158\/","title":{"rendered":"Defender has career-best outing in loss to reigning Premiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Match Report\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Collingwood has gone down to North Melbourne by 45 points.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By afl.com.au, collingwoodfc.com.au\n                            <\/p>\n<p>NORTH Melbourne once again proved they are the best team in the competition as they outplayed Collingwood by 45 points at Arden Street on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With Narrm, Sydney and Hawthorn joint top of the ladder with four wins from four, the Roos sent a reminder that they are the team to beat with a 8.10 (58) to 2.1 (13) win over the Pies to join them on 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>KANGAROOS v MAGPIES\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/aflw\/matches\/7895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is North&#8217;s 16th consecutive win, extending the competition record.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides started hot \u2013 with North scoring their first major late in the first term despite 12 inside-50s to Collingwood&#8217;s five \u2013 however the Pies&#8217; defenders were able to match with the imposing forwards.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Tarni White had a standout performance in the backline, finishing the day with a career-high 27 disposals and 13 intercept possessions, while returning skipper Ruby Schleicher (15 disposals, 11 contested) was an important inclusion in the Pies&#8217; midfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Pies now turn their attention to their Round 5 clash with Sydney at Victoria Park on Saturday 13 September.<\/p>\n<p>NORTH MELBOURNE\u00a0 \u00a01.2 \u00a03.4 \u00a06.8 8.10 (58)<br \/>COLLINGWOOD\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00.0 \u00a00.0 \u00a01.0 \u00a02.1 \u00a0 (13)<\/p>\n<p>GOALS<br \/>North Melbourne:\u00a0Randall 2, King, Bogue, Eddey, O&#8217;Loughlin, Tripodi, Wall<br \/>Collingwood:\u00a0Howarth, Centra<\/p>\n<p>BEST\u00a0<br \/>North Melbourne:\u00a0Randall, Laughlin, King, Kearney<br \/>Collingwood: White, Barnett, Schleicher, Rowe<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES<br \/>North Melbourne:\u00a0Boyd<br \/>Collingwood: Nil<\/p>\n<p>Reports:\u00a0Nil<\/p>\n<p>Crowd:\u00a0TBC at Arden Street Oval<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Collingwood has gone down to North Melbourne by 45 points. By afl.com.au, collingwoodfc.com.au NORTH Melbourne once&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-125158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}