Choose your own fairy tale.

[TheBrownDog]

Okay, Brisbane finishes 8th this year, and against all odds they fight their way into an unlikely Grand Final berth.

We are trailing by 5 points with 30 seconds to go, yet 20 minutes later, the mighty Brisbane Lions are on the podium receiving the cup.

How did it happen? Create your ultimate fairytale.

- Who is the opponent?
- Who kicked the sealer?
- How did the sealing goal happen?
- Who wins the Norm Smith?

[notting18]

Brisbane vs Geelong (I would love to beat the best and then you don't have to put up with the Kangaroos 1999 Flag situation where Essendon "lost it" instead of being beaten in some people's opinion)
Brown. Who else would it be?
Pretty simple scenario in my book, but definitely the best IMO. We goal with 30 seconds to go to put us 5 points behind. Centre square bounce where Charman pulls out a Keating-esque thump forward which is picked up by Lappin who kicks to the top of the square and Brown marks running back into the pack.
Norm Smith would be Lappin, just ahead of Brown. Both players deserve the recognition, but the fact it would be the best retirement gift for Nige means he wins out.

A good idea TBD, and a great way to get lost in an afternoon daydream:thumbsu:

[TheBrownDog]

Brisbane vs Geelong (I would love to beat the best and then you don't have to put up with the Kangaroos 1999 Flag situation where Essendon "lost it" instead of being beaten in some people's opinion)
Brown. Who else would it be?
Pretty simple scenario in my book, but definitely the best IMO. We goal with 30 seconds to go to put us 5 points behind. Centre square bounce where Charman pulls out a Keating-esque thump forward which is picked up by Lappin who kicks to the top of the square and Brown marks running back into the pack.
Norm Smith would be Lappin, just ahead of Brown. Both players deserve the recognition, but the fact it would be the best retirement gift for Nige means he wins out.

A good idea TBD, and a great way to get lost in an afternoon daydream:thumbsu:

Nice one. :thumbsu: Haven't nailed mine down yet, but Lappin is definitely involved. :D

[dlanod]

Brisbane vs Essendon. Mal Michael takes the kick-in from a behind and proceeds to kick six booming behinds (a la the one we all remember) in an amazing meltdown. ;)

[TheBrownDog]

Brisbane vs Essendon. Mal Michael takes the kick-in from a behind and proceeds to kick six booming behinds (a la the one we all remember) in an amazing meltdown. ;)

Hahahaha, brilliant. Does Mal win the Normie in the process?

I guessed Akermanis or Michael may figure in some of these.

[Duritz]

Okay, Brisbane finishes 8th this year, and against all odds they fight their way into an unlikely Grand Final berth.

We are trailing by 5 points with 30 seconds to go, yet 20 minutes later, the mighty Brisbane Lions are on the podium receiving the cup.

How did it happen? Create your ultimate fairytale.

- Who is the opponent?
- Who kicked the sealer?
- How did the sealing goal happen?
- Who wins the Norm Smith?

Versus Collingwood, who slipped into 4th spot and got all cocky about their finals chances.

Didak has the ball on the boundary with 30 seconds to go, our back flank, he makes the crying sign with his hands to the player on the mark (Adcock), then is told to play on. He does, tries to run around Adcock but is caught in another gem of a Jed tackle. Adcock gets his own crumbs and runs through the middle, handball over the top to Power, the one-two back to Adcock, skips around Burns, runs to 55m and delivers a pass to the leading.... ME!!!!! In a miraculous feat I've come out of retirement and have been picked up by the Lions, playing in a pocket alongside Bradshaw, and I've taken the mark, and kicked the winning goal!!!!! :D

Norm Smith... Luke Power, and the Brownlow had gone to S.Black a week earlier.

[Ceebee]

Versus Collingwood, who slipped into 4th spot and got all cocky about their finals chances.

Didak has the ball on the boundary with 30 seconds to go, our back flank, he makes the crying sign with his hands to the player on the mark (Adcock), then is told to play on. He does, tries to run around Adcock but is caught in another gem of a Jed tackle. Adcock gets his own crumbs and runs through the middle, handball over the top to Power, the one-two back to Adcock, skips around Burns, runs to 55m and delivers a pass to the leading.... ME!!!!! In a miraculous feat I've come out of retirement and have been picked up by the Lions, playing in a pocket alongside Bradshaw, and I've taken the mark, and kicked the winning goal!!!!! :D

Norm Smith... Luke Power, and the Brownlow had gone to S.Black a week earlier..
Still smiling, love your imagination.:)

[Cara_Cougar #16]

We finished 8th just making it into the finals after losing most of our games on the run home. Brown, Black, Adcock, Charman, Roe and Drummond are all out and are not expected back unless we make the grand final, which seems extremley unlikely. We smash Collingwood by 139 points in the 1st elimination final surprising eveyone. Play Geelong in the semi and go in expecting to finish the season so Leigh decides to chuck in a handfull of first-gamers. We debut Dalziell, Kiel, Clouston and bring in Moody to see how he goes before we delist him. Dalziell ends up with 56 possesions and holds Ablett to 1 (mainly due because he got injured :p), Kiel keeps Chapman and Steve Johnson to 1 goal. Clouston kicks 10 and Moody kicks a new record, 5 goals 31 with 43 possies off half foward. Brisbane end up winning by another huge margin - 168 points. Now 3rd favourites for the premiership, Leigh plays the same team but they let him down, all 4 having 4 possies (1 each) and they are injured for 2 weeks.
We play against the Western Bulldogs and go into half time without a bench. We are trailing by 64 points and we have pretty muched lost. But a loke by the name of Bradshaw ends up kicking 17 second half goals (he equals the record of 18) with bullet like passes coming from the likes of Brennan and Lappin we end up winning by 24 points. We go into the Grand Final with Brown, Black, Drummond, Adcock, Charman and Roe back in. Adcock had won the brownlow that week. We verse a hungry Hawthorn Outfit and in the 1st quater, Buddy kicks 10, but at the other end Brown and Bradshaw put 15 on the board together. Lions lead by 3 points.
In the 2nd quater everyone is inspired an there is a huge brawl when Lappin is hit off the ball. The teams are reduced to a 16 v 16 game because so many players got servely injured in the brawl. In the last 30 seconds Lions are down by 5 points and Brown marks on centre wing. But the siren sounds. All the Hawks fans erupt with cheers. Brown has no choice but to have a shot on goal. The hawks are already doing a victory lap Brown doesnt make the distance, but wait, no one is in the foward 50 and it bounces through - the goals. All the Lions supporters cheer and the rest of the ground is silent. The umpires take 10 minutes to give the all clear and the goal umpire signals a goal. Lions by 1 point. Brown is judged best afield with 15 goals.

[TheBrownDog]

We finished 8th just making it into the finals after losing most of our games on the run home. Brown, Black, Adcock, Charman, Roe and Drummond are all out and are not expected back unless we make the grand final, which seems extremley unlikely. We smash Collingwood by 139 points in the 1st elimination final surprising eveyone. Play Geelong in the semi and go in expecting to finish the season so Leigh decides to chuck in a handfull of first-gamers. We debut Dalziell, Kiel, Clouston and bring in Moody to see how he goes before we delist him. Dalziell ends up with 56 possesions and holds Ablett to 1 (mainly due because he got injured :p), Kiel keeps Chapman and Steve Johnson to 1 goal. Clouston kicks 10 and Moody kicks a new record, 5 goals 31 with 43 possies off half foward. Brisbane end up winning by another huge margin - 168 points. Now 3rd favourites for the premiership, Leigh plays the same team but they let him down, all 4 having 4 possies (1 each) and they are injured for 2 weeks.
We play against the Western Bulldogs and go into half time without a bench. We are trailing by 64 points and we have pretty muched lost. But a loke by the name of Bradshaw ends up kicking 17 second half goals (he equals the record of 18) with bullet like passes coming from the likes of Brennan and Lappin we end up winning by 24 points. We go into the Grand Final with Brown, Black, Drummond, Adcock, Charman and Roe back in. Adcock had won the brownlow that week. We verse a hungry Hawthorn Outfit and in the 1st quater, Buddy kicks 10, but at the other end Brown and Bradshaw put 15 on the board together. Lions lead by 3 points.
In the 2nd quater everyone is inspired an there is a huge brawl when Lappin is hit off the ball. The teams are reduced to a 16 v 16 game because so many players got servely injured in the brawl. In the last 30 seconds Lions are down by 5 points and Brown marks on centre wing. But the siren sounds. All the Hawks fans erupt with cheers. Brown has no choice but to have a shot on goal. The hawks are already doing a victory lap Brown doesnt make the distance, but wait, no one is in the foward 50 and it bounces through - the goals. All the Lions supporters cheer and the rest of the ground is silent. The umpires take 10 minutes to give the all clear and the goal umpire signals a goal. Lions by 1 point. Brown is judged best afield with 15 goals.

I like my footy fairy tales tempered with a bit of realism, but whatever floats your boat. ;)

[Cara_Cougar #16]

I like my footy fairy tales tempered with a bit of realism, but whatever floats your boat. ;)

Clouston might make his debut this week lol

[dlanod]

Hahahaha, brilliant. Does Mal win the Normie in the process?

I guessed Akermanis or Michael may figure in some of these.

Best on ground would have to be Bradshaw, for menacing Mal enough. :D

[MacMum]

I like the idea of a centre bounce, Charman taps to Black, who kicks to Notting, who thumps the ball straight onto Browns chest!...Game over!...Malthouse and Didak crying again!:thumbsu:

[awesome_assassin]

Grand final against the Cats. Ottens wins the tap to Bartel who quickly puts it on the boot...looks like its going to be a Steve Johnson mark. Flying towards the ball is our own Johnstone( of the Travis variety). With courage he smashes the ball towards the centre square. 15 Seconds to go Black swoops picks up his 35th possession, he drops the ball onto his trusty left foot, 50 metre pass inside forward 50. Scarlett, milburn and Wojo are deep in defense. But so is J. Brown. Brown running back with the flight smashes into all 3, and takes a screaming mark( mark of the year possibly). He marks it on a 45 degree angle 40 metres out. Siren goes. Its all up the big man. Lines up for his 7th, he runs in. Beautiful drop onto the right slipper. Sails through. Lions win 115- 114. Brown kicks 7.3 and Black wins the Normie again 35 touches and a goal.
You little Beauty:thumbsu:

[dmac_55]

The lions play collingwood at the MCG in front of a packed crowd first final.. In a huge turn of events the Brisbane Lions choose to wear the much maligned clash strip, which in turn forces Eddie to develop a clash jumper looking something like this.. Modelled by Big Bad Barry and Designed by Carson Cresley (http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r153222_549313.jpg)
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The lions dominate the pies, winning by 10 goals... Browny kicks 6.16, due to some Baseketball esque style intimidation when lining up for goal..

Next we play Hawthorn at Tasmania (for some reason unknown). The boys are in trouble at 3 quarter time, before some local heroics from our very own Alastair Lynch. At the time was boundary riding for Fox, walks up through the middle of the pack and gets the boys fired up. At one stage he was so angry he was throwing rain makers, no damage was done to any players though due to poor accuracy (and coordination).
The boys get up in the end by a couple of goals, with Sherminator on fire kicking 5 from the guts.

In the prelim we meet Port Adelaide who have made a miriculous comeback to play finals footy. The game is at Adelaide and Warren and Chad have been talking up their chances all week.. Tredders gave a remark about a few of the Lions attractive other-halfs. In the game as Lethal walks to the 3 quarter time huddle a typical Power supporter in the outer spits on him.. Without hesitation Leigh fights through the pack and finds the ________ to do to him only Leigh could. Tredders is hit by a Merrett/Browny sandwhich, and the medical staff wouldnt 'answer the call'.

In the final pretty simple really. Leigh was banned for a week for violence at a game, so in another swing of events Vossy is apointed as coach for a one-off. We were playing the doggies at the G, and at Half time down by 15 goals. Aka was absolutely killing us, so Vossy borrowed Sam Sheldon's guernsey and acted as playing coach for the second half. Tags aka right out of the game, allowing Black, Lappin and co to dominate. Right at the end of the game Aka was streaming out of defence with 15 seconds to be chased down by a 100m Johnathon Brown run... The siren sounds and Browny is vomiting he is so worn out.. On the left boundary, 50 out (exact spot as Swans) Browny sails it through at goal post height to be jumped on by the boys!!! Lappin retires and is chaired off...

Thats about it :D
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[morphous]

- Who is the opponent? Collingwood

- Who kicked the sealer? Johnstone

- How did the sealing goal happen? Dale Thomas finds himself with the ball when Brown lines him up for a tackle 70m out from the Lions goal (which Joffa is sitting behind with gold jacket on). DT craps himself and drops the ball giving away a free to Brown who handballs it off to Johnstone.

- Who wins the Norm Smith? Brown who announces in the mic when accepting (Thanks but no thanks Eddie, I'm a Lion for life'

[lions_den]

- Who is the opponent? Geelong/Sydney
- Who kicked the sealer? Brown
- How did the sealing goal happen? Similar to that of the Draw against Syd last year
- Who wins the Norm Smith? Lappin

[NANX]

Playing freo in the grand final at the Gabba(well it did say fairytale). Down by 48 at three quarter time but clawed our way back to within 5 points with 30 seconds to go. Sherman does one of his runs from the centre and kicks at goal but it fades late and only goes through for a behind. From the kick-in they get it to our halfback flank where Drummond cuts it off and runs to 70 and nails a goal.

With 7 seconds to go the ball is bounced. Sandi gets the tap and clearance. It hits Pav on the chest after Patfull had been earlier stretchered off due to chronic testicular damage. Siren goes and it's down to Pav for Freo's first flag. He runs in, kicks looks good. The 4 freo supporters start singing the anthem. Ball looks to be through but then bounces on the top of the goal post and the goal umpire signals the behind. Lions have won by 1. :)

Norm-Smith to Lappin in his final game

[Cara_Cougar #16]

Playing freo in the grand final at the Gabba(well it did say fairytale). Down by 48 at three quarter time but clawed our way back to within 5 points with 30 seconds to go. Sherman does one of his runs from the centre and kicks at goal but it fades late and only goes through for a behind. From the kick-in they get it to our halfback flank where Drummond cuts it off and runs to 70 and nails a goal.

With 7 seconds to go the ball is bounced. Sandi gets the tap and clearance. It hits Pav on the chest after Patfull had been earlier stretchered off due to chronic testicular damage. Siren goes and it's down to Pav for Freo's first flag. He runs in, kicks looks good. The 4 freo supporters start singing the anthem. Ball looks to be through but then bounces on the top of the goal post and the goal umpire signals the behind. Lions have won by 1. :)

Norm-Smith to Lappin in his final game

Pisser :thumbsu:

[CoZi36]

End up 5th or 6th at the conclusion of round 22.