Review Round 9, 2024 - Adelaide vs. Brisbane Lions

[ZoBlitz]

Twilight Sunday, only slightly better than night Sunday games.

 

[braddsey]

I’ll take the draw!!

Awesome game. I thought it was going to slip, but the boys toughed it out.

 

[PTizzle]

Well, better than a loss.

Ah Chee, Andrews and Payne were incredible

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Ah Chee should stay forward, Berry should stay midfield, McKenna should stay VFL.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Draws are poo. Play extra time. Does nothing for our position in the season. We deserve better for the effort as frustrating as we are a lot of the time.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Fitting

Better pressure this week but not enough individual winners through the midfield and forwardline

 

[FLVanLandingham]

Undoubtedly a frustrating game

3 Goals up and we just let them go bang bang bang


Berry was good, Brain with his second touch did well after a pretty harsh htb on him for his first


oh well...

 

[Morbidly_Obese]

I wish this guy was our coach

 

[Jakev0]

I'll take a draw!

 

[Hollow Knight]

Draw doesn’t do us much good unless we have a Carlton 2023 romp home in the back half of the season.

 

[lionsrules]

Probs the one time you wanted Joe to be selfish from 60 out and just go all the way

 

[alscotoz2]

Goddamn. Draw no good for either team

 

[Elixuh]

Inaccuracy + conceding about 5 bottom 4 side goals.

Adelaide quality but we missed Starce/Answerth down back.

 

[M Malice]

That holding the ball against McCluggage in the centre square was a joke, no prior opportunity whatsoever, we were 18 up at the time, changed the momentum.

 

[Nunez]

Expected scores would have us win this one no doubt. So many easy shots missed.

Such a disappointing game. No better than a loss to a team desperate for 4 points.

 

[mpal6]

Brain looks a lot more composed field kicking and has a bit of mongrel defending. Would have been better on the ground than sub.

 

[SizeMatters]

Season done unless we have a Carlton 2023 romp home in the back half of the season.

 

[Tom14]

Probs the one time you wanted Joe to be selfish from 60 out and just go all the way

Think he was trying, got dragged down on the kick

 

[Nathan Barley]

Midfield very poor for the 5th or 6th time this year

 

[bato]

Sadly the same old things haunting us. Can say in win loss or DRAW now too.

 

[Toffee Lion]

I don't know what to say. There's almost too much to say, both good & bad.

Looking at it holistically with so many players out, playing away at AO against a Crows side who knocked off Port, it's not the worst result of the season. No idea how we haven't scrubbed it over for a point at the end there. Alas.

How good was Shadeau Brain though when he came on, really was a point of difference. The kids have looked good, that's the most promising part. Some of the older statesmen though, need to pull a finger out.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Out: Underwood, Russell, Riccuito

 

[McIvor]

Undoubtedly a frustrating game

3 Goals up and we just let them go bang bang bang


Berry was good, Brain with his second touch did well after a pretty harsh htb on him for his first


oh well...

That’s the season done in terms of playing finals. Just had to win and again crapped the bed when it mattered. As good as a loss. Karma for naming a debutante as sub as said before the game.

 

[Harris Specter]

I don’t see it with McKenna. A first gamer in Brain had more composure than him. Cost the game with his comical around the corner kicks.

 

[Squizz89]

Whilst we did well to peg it back after going behind, we should never have let it get that far after getting 3 goals ahead with only 12 minutes to go.

I still don’t understand for a team as experienced as ours how we are always so bad in those situations. It’s like trying to lock things up at the end of quarters. We have never been real good at it even when we were contending.

In terms of the players I would’ve had Harris, Berry and Cal as in our bests. Probably raffle the rest. McKenna is probably lucky we have so many injuries now. And Cam and Eric are probably lucky this board has just come to accept those types of games from them.

Edit. Forgot Payne. He was huge today. Few skill errors but that’s just him but defensively he was good on a tough opponent.