Review Round 1, 2023 - Port Adelaide vs. Brisbane Lions

[Bucking Beads]

They've absolutely nailed us. Now it is time to see this group respond. The response needs to be over a season not a handful of matches. This team shouldn't lose by 50 points ever! Too much talent in our group for that.

 

[M Malice]

‘Is their head in the sand?’: Damning truth proves Lions ‘in denial’ after ‘horror show’

‘Is their head in the sand?’: Damning truth proves Lions ‘in denial’ after ‘horror show’

www.foxsports.com.au

Are we as good as we think we are? A few stats in that article that may suggest we aren't.

Those stats are damning and factual.

Surely "a team like us" is better than that..... when we get beaten by the better sides it is always the same method, the next 3 rounds v Demons, Dogs and Pies will be defining for this group of players and coaches.

A fired up emotional close win over the Demons followed by a let down flogging by Dogs and/or Pies will not be good enough, our form must be more consistent.

 

[mpal6]

They've absolutely nailed us. Now it is time to see this group respond. The response needs to be over a season not a handful of matches. This team shouldn't lose by 50 points ever! Too much talent in our group for that.

I think that'll temper expectations with supporters as well. Even if we get some blowouts and high margin wins later in the season, we appear to lack a playing system which will keep us close even on a bad day. Unless we get that addressed during the year, finals (if we make it) will be another hard slog.

 

[Nathan Barley]

When we were banking wins last year which resulted in us being top of table we were often overcoming slow starts and periods of the game against weak opposition.

 

[KissKiss]

Gunners is a good mark, but service was poop. Reason why i think Fort should come in, he is a great mark and overall i think better than O.

This is my argument that we shouldve done more to keep McStay - he was a great mark and should have been the money - id hazard to say that Hippy and Joe are overpaid, b/c they pick and choose when they want to play - Macca did to to a degree b/c he was not w/o his faults but he could mark. I get Charlie being paid well b/c he puts bums on seats and the kids love him. Linc Im having me doubts to to inconsistent and hopefully he gets a rocket but surely he know he has to be better.

I’ll put my foot down here, McStay is not worth anything close to what Collingwood pay him and I would be pretty pissed off if we did

Funnily enough I agree with both sides of this.

Daniher and Hipwood are better players and bring in crowds, excitement and value to the club as a marquee player and a local. But they are both kinda similar in style. Playing both together can work but in a way you probably dont need both without a complimentary forward.

McStay got an amazing deal at Collingwood (I dont blame him for taking it at all) and we would have been crazy to match it. But I do kinda of agree that from a structure sense one of Hippy/Joe with a more contested key forward might be better.

I also think Gunston is the smartest forward of the lot and his forward craft we badly need. But he is still not a big contested style player.

I think it was the right move to let McStay go but I dont think the game plan we default to is the best option for the forward line we kept

 

[mpal6]

When we were banking wins last year which resulted in us being top of table we were often overcoming slow starts and periods of the game against weak opposition.

Yep, but its the good opposition I'm talking about. Slow start against top 4, we tend to struggle from that.

Last year's finals win against Demons - Melbourne fell into a pattern by then where they slowed down in second half giving opposition a chance. Whether its Petracca and Gawn playing injured or something else, we don't know. In full flight, they usually have us covered. I think our player group knows it as well, we can sort of tell from Neale setting up the "even if we lose" narrative.

 

[mpal6]

Funnily enough I agree with both sides of this.

Daniher and Hipwood are better players and bring in crowds, excitement and value to the club as a marquee player and a local. But they are both kinda similar in style. Playing both together can work but in a way you probably dont need both without a complimentary forward.

McStay got an amazing deal at Collingwood (I dont blame him for taking it at all) and we would have been crazy to match it. But I do kinda of agree that from a structure sense one of Hippy/Joe with a more contested key forward might be better.

I also think Gunston is the smartest forward of the lot and his forward craft we badly need. But he is still not a big contested style player.

I think it was the right move to let McStay go but I dont think the game plan we default to is the best option for the forward line we kept

We had the right idea talking to Darcy Fogarty. There was some inside trader talk around this one.

But Fogarty decided to become a dead-eye and kill it late in the season.

 

[Dalions]

I think our player group knows it as well, we can sort of tell from Neale setting up the "even if we lose" narrative.

Although Neale was talking about the year as a whole.
That even if we lose this game it’s not going to write off our year.
Not that they aren’t going to be trying to win this game.

 

[3KZ is Football]

We lost this week, but I predict that we will beat Melbourne by eleven points. I predict the ground lights will fail with 12 minutes remaining in the last quarter. We will give up a forty point lead but still win by eleven once the game resumes. I predict there will be savage melts on the Lions Board, but as they say in the Spirit World, "A WIN IS A WIN!"

 

[Viceregal]

We lost this week, but I predict that we will beat Melbourne by eleven points. I predict the ground lights will fail with 12 minutes remaining in the last quarter. We will give up a forty point lead but still win by eleven once the game resumes. I predict there will be savage melts on the Lions Board, but as they say in the Spirit World, "A WIN IS A WIN!"

,,Might'' have added a bit more credibility on the prophetic front with an earlier timestamp ... actually if you ,,had'' predicted and published that ... cancel that let's not go there as you wouldn't want to see how your life would turn out from there

 

[3KZ is Football]

,,Might'' have added a bit more credibility on the prophetic front with an earlier timestamp ... actually if you ,,had'' predicted and published that ... cancel that let's not go there as you wouldn't want to see how your life would turn out from there

I predict Viceregal will mention the time stamp on my original prediction.

 

[Cubs2Lions]

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I predict Viceregal will mention the time stamp on my original prediction.