Ouch

West Coast v North Melbourne in the 2012 First Elimination Final at Patersons Stadium, Subiaco, from 13:15 09Sep12.

Oi! Pick on someone your own size!
And age!! Adam Selwood and Brent
"Boomer" Harvey size up at Subi. 

North has not been in a finals series since 2008 so it was time for the Shinboners to step up. But it appears that this was not to be their year.Slow out of the blocks (2.8 for the first half, vs 11.8 from the home-side) they bounced back in the third with 6.2 to 4.3, but the Eagles put that all behind them, with a staggering 9.7 to 1.2 in the last.

Arden Street will be left to assess the ruins of their finals campaign for another year, a little earlier in the year than they would have wanted, but later than some other clubs which should have been in there but simply capitulated... Half of the league has started trimming the fat, but North aren't one of them .. just yet.

Final Scores
West Coast 7.4 11.8 15.11 24.18 (162).
Scorers Kennedy, Darling, Embley 4; Lynch 3; Hill, MacKenzie,  Hurn, Kerr, Nasten, Natanui, Shuey, McGinnty, Cox.

North Melbourne 0.3 2.8 8.10 9.12 (66)

Scorers Campbell, Harvey 3; Petrie, Hansen, Cunnington.

The  Weagles  travel to Melbourne next week to face the Magpies in a do-or-die battle to see who plays Sydney at the Olympic Stadium in the qualifying finals the following week. It's all shaping up to be an excellent Finals Series!