Review Semi Final, 2022 - Melbourne vs. Brisbane Lions

[Nunez]

Hipwood > Curnow

 

[Bob Neil]

Let’s be clear - Garry Lyon doesn’t want to harp on the Berry-Oliver incident…I know that because he’s said it ten times already.

Great win by your lads - congratulations.

 

[iBeng]

Our persistence and consistent games into Hipwood since his return is showing the doubters why it was needed.

 

[ibd77]

Cracking game, well done.

Extraordinary comeback in the 2nd halve whilst missing key personnel. Your gonna need that intensity next week against Geelong to give yourselves a shot for the GF. Zorko & Berry impressive tonight. Just need Cam Rayner to fire

 

[janty]

My breakdown of the game

1st quarter: Hitting my couch
2nd quarter: Repeatedly saying “don’t get my hopes up”
3rd quarter: Repeatedly saying “I’m going to be sick”
4th quarter: hitting my couch

 

[Happy_Neale]

The irony of an ARC decision being deemed as insufficient evidence is not lost on me as well. Almost would have had a laugh, if I wasn't busy having a heart attack.

 

[MSB ROYS]

Looking forward from stories from people at the game...

 

[jonnobackpocket]

That was the flipping best night I have ever had at the G. Took my 9 year old to finals just so he could experience it and look what we good. I love footy.

 

[Gibbo_88]

Love a lot of what Robertson does but he makes Mitch Robinson look like a great kick.

Needs to show some composure and take half a second

Those quick kicks forward from congestion were what put us in a position to win the game. A fair few of our midfielders were doing it when we had momentum.

 

[Section 5]

We had a bad first quarter and were lucky Melbourne did not have a much bigger lead. Thank god for that
From then on we slowly got back in the game and were looking much better positioned at 3/4 time
Still had to get the job done which the boys did in the end
A great finals win the hard way.
This should give the group lots of confidence v Geelong next week

A great team effort but my best was to Rich for his four quarter effort

 

[MSB ROYS]

That was the *ing best night I have ever had at the G. Took my 9 year old to finals just so he could experience it and look what we good. I love footy.

A memory for ever!

 

[western royboy]

No Wolf of Wall Street tonight…

 

[FLVanLandingham]

The irony of an ARC decision being deemed as insufficient evidence is not lost on me as well. Almost would have had a laugh, if I wasn't busy having a heart attack.

yeh they didn't show the snicko (the bailey one right?)

already had a friend complain about the lever one.. that one was the most blatant and funny free/50 i've ever seen. What a let off.

 

[Happy_Neale]

yeh they didn't show the snicko (the bailey one right?)

already had a friend complain about the lever one.. that one was the most blatant and funny free/50 i've ever seen. What a let off.

Yep no edge shown. Not sure why. Lever one was fantastic stuff.

 

[Aphrodite]

So happy for Chris Fagan.

Just watched his presser.

That smile

 

[Nunez]

Love a lot of what Robertson does but he makes Mitch Robinson look like a great kick.

Needs to show some composure and take half a second

Friend he was very clearly coached to do that.

 

[Brett C]

Those quick kicks forward from congestion were what put us in a position to win the game. A fair few of our midfielders were doing it when we had momentum.

Except the handful that resulted in turnovers to Melbourne defenders

 

[Brett C]

Friend he was very clearly coached to do that.

Coached to hack kick to the opposition multiple times and show no composure?

Doesn’t sound like that’s what he’d be coached to do

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Zorko was very level headed tonight. That leader we need. He wanted to headlock campaigners but he did the happy gilmore and restrained himself.

 

[MacMum]

But conveniently, Ginnivan can chicken wing Danger last week, no one talks about it and the media keep it under wraps, Christian and the MRO miss it and then the media talk about it when the AFL does nothing about it and here we are Jerry will be scrutiized like no one else.

He was going for his jumper and his hand slipped.....thats what happened, yeah that was it.

I should listen to Mr MM more...he said at half time that we would win. Wow, did we ever!

So proud of our boys

p.s....did others notice how often May and Lever were argueing...and other players at times too. We just got on with. We're a happy lot

 

[FLVanLandingham]

the pressure around the ground was good, but we made their defenders make many mistakes and htb etc. that was some great stuff by not just our smalls.

 

[briztoon]

Yep no edge shown. Not sure why. Lever one was fantastic stuff.

Because the umpire asked the arc to check which side of the post the ball through. He didn’t ask to check if it hit the post.

No idea why the arc said it was inconclusive if it hit the post or not.

 

[FLVanLandingham]

Zorko was very level headed tonight. That leader we need. He wanted to headlock campaigners but he did the happy gilmore and restrained himself.

he did do one headlock on Spargo can't have a fully clean slate ahaha.

 

[western royboy]

Going to own up and say I was critical and cynical of some of you that were saying during the year that we were building for the finals series or latter part of the year and to be honest, I just didn't see it. We either won ugly, lost ugly, dropped games we should'nt have or crapped the bed on occasions but boy were some of you right - we look really good and in fact, better than any time of the year which has coincided with the coaches being daring and learning and like they say a lot in US sports - Believe and Belief.I think we are and we can.

Go Lions

In the past two weeks we have eliminated the past two Premiers and the two teams that have monstered us in recent years. I fear no one left like I did those two, therefore…

 

[Nunez]

Coached to hack kick to the opposition multiple times and show no composure?

Doesn’t sound like that’s what he’d be coached to do

Exaggetion. Went at 79% and only had 1 turnover. If you rewatch the game and pay attention to it, you'll see it was deliberate and done to make it hard to mark. It worked.