Review Round 7, 2023 - Brisbane Lions vs. Fremantle

[Saucery]

Fun game to watch.

Joe really needs to change his celebration tune, I think maybe "The Gambler" would be more appropriate.




AFL needs to call time on human umpires and start developing an AI alternative.

Couldn't possibly make more mistakes and won't get in the way of the players.

The Buzz on Officiating Drones - Referee.com

At 300 yards long and 160 yards wide, a polo field is the size of several football fields. Drones seem ideally equipped to help umpires keep an eye on the fast and furious action below.

www.referee.com

 

[Nathan Barley]

Oscar had 81 ruck contests for 30 hit outs, he had 9 clearances from 13 disposals but only 5 effective disposals meaning a lot of time he probably handed the footy back to the opposition

I thought it was one of his better games though because he did limit the influence of quite a good ruck

What I would like to see from him is one contested marking around the ground which has disappeared the last few weeks

 

[Gadzorks]

Fun game to watch.

Joe really needs to change his celebration tune, I think maybe "The Gambler" would be more appropriate.

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AFL needs to call time on human umpires and start developing an AI alternative.

Couldn't possibly make more mistakes and won't get in the way of the players.

The Buzz on Officiating Drones - Referee.com

At 300 yards long and 160 yards wide, a polo field is the size of several football fields. Drones seem ideally equipped to help umpires keep an eye on the fast and furious action below.

www.referee.com

Not in favour. Our game has a massive error rate that makes the game exciting and frustrating and infuriating and even laughable.

Umpiring is the same. Take away umpire errors and we'd have nothing to talk about.

It'd be like talking about the freo game all the time. Boring.

 

[On the quiet]

Neale, Ashcroft, Dunkley, McCarthy and Payne got my votes. Rich and Zorko good before going off.

Ashcroft is freakishly good. Wilmot has also developed nicely. Two long term Lions players right there.

Fremantle are really bad. We played some poor footy at stages today but Freo didn’t get close to us. Solid win with room for improvement.

thought Starc was pretty good, especially in the first half and of course goal of the year winner, rising star winning dare I say it...norm smith medalist was great

 

[MSB ROYS]

HTB interpretation yesterday was more lax than normal with both team getting away with dropping it. Problem is that once it's tolerated players start doing it deliberately. Then the umps occasionally ping players for dropping it, which leads to some frustration (although I am personally trying to remain calm during Lions games!).

 

[martinson]

Rewatched a lot of the game last night.

Likes :

Ashcroft kicking GOTY and unsure whether it warranted high 5's
Andrews, Payne and Starcevich clunking marks in defence
McCarthy ,Cameron,Dunkley and Hipwood applying defensive pressure
McCarthy getting badly crunched a few times and getting straight up every time
McKenna running from deep in defence to mark where the old Gunston would've been leading to . And slotting it.
Oscar at least providing some sort of rucking contest . And some physical presence around the ground
Bailey showing signs of improved form and McCluggage halving his clangers
Doing enough to maintain a comfortable lead throughout.
Neale.

Dislikes:

Rich and Zorks iced up on the bench
If Daniher is going to be so selfish at least slot the goal
Us turning over Freo's turnovers with amazing regularity
Umps cool with the ball carrier being attacked in the head before anywhere else
Eleni looking like a spectator in the crowd not overly interested in the footy and No 12 throwing up stinker city inexplicably

 

[M Malice]

Rewatched a lot of the game last night.

Likes :

Ashcroft kicking GOTY and unsure whether it warranted high 5's
Andrews, Payne and Starcevich clunking marks in defence
McCarthy ,Cameron,Dunkley and Hipwood applying defensive pressure
McCarthy getting badly crunched a few times and getting straight up every time
McKenna running from deep in defence to mark where the old Gunston would've been leading to . And slotting it.
Oscar at least providing some sort of rucking contest . And some physical presence around the ground
Bailey showing signs of improved form and McCluggage halving his clangers
Doing enough to maintain a comfortable lead throughout.
Neale.

Dislikes:

Rich and Zorks iced up on the bench
If Daniher is going to be so selfish at least slot the goal
Us turning over Freo's turnovers with amazing regularity
Umps cool with the ball carrier being attacked in the head before anywhere else
Eleni looking like a spectator in the crowd not overly interested in the footy and No 12 throwing up stinker city inexplicably

Yes, that one where Joe ignored Zorko was very selfish, IIRC there were other Lions in space as well.

 

[lionshine]

thought Starc was pretty good, especially in the first half and of course goal of the year winner, rising star winning dare I say it...norm smith medalist was great

Yeah Starc was great!

 

[Dalions]

Payney growing in confidence is great to see.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Fun game to watch.

Joe really needs to change his celebration tune, I think maybe "The Gambler" would be more appropriate.

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AFL needs to call time on human umpires and start developing an AI alternative.

Couldn't possibly make more mistakes and won't get in the way of the players.

The Buzz on Officiating Drones - Referee.com

At 300 yards long and 160 yards wide, a polo field is the size of several football fields. Drones seem ideally equipped to help umpires keep an eye on the fast and furious action below.

www.referee.com

Or..

 

[3KZ is Football]

“Joe the lion, made of iron.”

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

Watching the game for the first time (late 3rd quarter ) and I have noticed that Hipwood played in front unlike last week. I wonder if this was planned.

 

[Cubs2Lions]

Or..

 

[Nunez]

Finally got to watch. Weird reading some of the negative comments about the win - 47 points against a team who threw everything at us is a great result.

Top 5 for me: Neale, Ashcroft, Andrews, Starce, Dunkley.

We've become a really balanced team in attack and defence and have proven our gameplan works against the best in the comp. We've got the tools to win it this year. Need luck to go our way, but this is the exact football you'd hope to see early in the season, especially so with upside in the likes of McCluggage, Berry & Bailey.

 

[Quested]

Finally got to watch. Weird reading some of the negative comments about the win - 47 points against a team who threw everything at us is a great result.

Top 5 for me: Neale, Ashcroft, Andrews, Starce, Dunkley.

We've become a really balanced team in attack and defence and have proven our gameplan works against the best in the comp. We've got the tools to win it this year. Need luck to go our way, but this is the exact football you'd hope to see early in the season, especially so with upside in the likes of McCluggage, Berry & Bailey.

I think Geelong are back to kicking A$# so for mine, that will be the real test

 

[BuntonRules]

Speaking of umps and refs - just saw this - viewer warning too

Man arrested after Sydney football referee’s jaw broken in alleged assault

Other spectators shouted ‘oi ref, get out of there’ as they feared what was to come.

7news.com.au

I hope that grub does jail time. Serious jail time.

 

[Dalions]

For those of you thinking this could have been Lester’s fairwell game.

 

[luthor]

For those of you thinking this could have been Lester’s fairwell game.

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Nah.

Just giving a shout out to 3KZ

 

[Elixuh]

Yes, that one where Joe ignored Zorko was very selfish, IIRC there were other Lions in space as well.

I know the one. This isn’t a great opinion but I’m somewhat ok with him doing it. He is clearly comfortable with that move and I’d prefer he doesn’t start second guessing whether to do it when he is easily in range.

 

[3KZ is Football]

For those of you thinking this could have been Lester’s fairwell game.

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Too early in the season for a farewell game.

 

[Dalions]

Too early in the season for a farewell game.

Especially with our lack of key position depth.

 

[Thomasno]

All of them. Can't hip drop in NRL. Can't horse collar in NFL. Every tackle code has eliminated particular forms of tackle because of the risk of injury. The one that annoys me is the forceful contact below the knee because it's such a lotto - hardly ever paid, most could go either way because it often involves high contact, and added in response to a single incident unlike most rules which are based off a trend of problematic tackles.

In Rugby if you tackle a player while they’re jumping it’s a straight up red card.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Especially with our lack of key position depth.

People seem to begrudge Lester getting a game and almost wilfully ignore his contribution yesterday.

Compare Lester with Starcevich yesterday to see what I mean.

Lester: 13 Disposals with 84% Efficiency, 4 Marks, 2 Tackles, 1 Clearance, 0 i50, 148 metres gained.

Starcevich: 13 Disposals with 76% Efficiency, 3 Marks, 1 Tackle, 1 Clearance, 2 i50, 115 metres gained.

Lester +1 on marks, +1 on tackles, -2 on i50, +33 on metres gained and +8% on Disposal Efficiency.

Additionally, Lester racked up more one on one spoils as he went the fist. Upshot?
19 people say Starcevich was in our top 5 players / while 7 say Lester was. On the back of his performance people are also calling for Lester to be dropped. Makes no sense. Massive exercise in group think.

 

[morsie]

Interesting that we were the second most experienced team this round.Things have certainly changed.

 

[Elixuh]

David King on First Crack showed a brief highlight package of Big O doing the no look handballs. Some of it might be planned I don't know, but it kinda drives me crazy as well. I hate this because Big O is my boy.