Review Round 10, 2025 - Brisbane Lions vs. Narrm

[Zhesty]

Lester and Bailey our best.

 

[braddsey]

Can’t remember the last time we’ve beaten the Hawks - crap game at Docklands last year and the year before at the G. Hawks a much better side this year. Time to get the monkey off the back. Did it a number of years ago when we had never been the Pies at the G. Big game. Hope us Lions supporters are out in force Saturday arvo.

I’ll be there!
(With my dirty team flipping Hawthorn supporting family members).

 

[jonnobackpocket]

You also can’t win a flag with Hipwood and Daniher… but we proved that wrong.
Replacing Joe was always going to be the challenge this season. Losing all of our backup tall forward options wasn’t part of the plan this year but here we are. We had similar injury challenges last season and found a way through.

It’s up to the rest of the team to scrape the wins until hopefully things improve in that regard.
8 goals from our makeshift tall’s tonight show that perhaps they’re not the issue anyway…

Never ever thought we couldn’t win it with Joe at FF. He was one of the main reasons we could and did win it. You can’t see a glaring issue when the ball going forward?

 

[Nuggo]

In other news Oscar Allen

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Oscar Allen

Age

27

Ht

196cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.8

2star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.1

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.6

3star

K

5.8

3star

HB

2.8

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.0

4star

G

1.2

4star

is playing ok against St Kilda.

 

[braddsey]

Payne’s only job is to punch and intercept mark. He has an incredibly low footy IQ. Before he coughed it up going short in the last (again) I said to my son, he’s going to do something stupid here.

For the record, Ryan Lester’s disposal efficiency was 93% tonight.

Potentially Payne was looking for an option that didn’t involve kicking it to Gawn. I don’t know if they didn’t present, but i’d put it on one of the other smaller defenders to provide those options, even hard running around the back for a handball.

Lester was great tonight.

 

[BrisVegasDru]

Have read that one of the reasons Starce was considering leaving was the chance to become a midfielder.

I know Answorth was poor today, but now we have Kiddy back, and Gardner can play lock down defence, perhaps we could give him a crack, besides Dunkley and occasionally Rayner we really lack a big body in there.

Would really suck watching him become a midfield bull in another jumper.

 

[Pride of lions]

I can’t understand why none of our forwards want to lead at the ball. On so many occasions you see someone streaming through the centre looking for an option to kick to and all our forwards seem to want to get an easy goal out the back or take a screamer over the top. It is so predictable and the opposition teams all know it.

 

[Del35196]

Rubbish effort from a team thinking they can play like millionaires. Played two bottom teams for a loss and a draw. Shithouse.

 

[LoganMorrisFan]

Have read that one of the reasons Starce was considering leaving was the chance to become a midfielder.

I know Answorth was poor today, but now we have Kiddy back, and Gardner can play lock down defence, perhaps we could give him a crack, besides Dunkley and occasionally Rayner we really lack a big body in there.

Would really suck watching him become a midfield bull in another jumper.

Does he have the speed we lack though? others have suggested Motty which I like more.

 

[briztoon]

I can’t understand why none of our forwards want to lead at the ball. On so many occasions you see someone streaming through the centre looking for an option to kick to and all our forwards seem to want to get an easy goal out the back or take a screamer over the top. It is so predictable and the opposition teams all know it.

I have been saying this for years.

 

[Mr Ripper]

I can’t understand why none of our forwards want to lead at the ball. On so many occasions you see someone streaming through the centre looking for an option to kick to and all our forwards seem to want to get an easy goal out the back or take a screamer over the top. It is so predictable and the opposition teams all know it.

Been an irritation of mine for some time.

 

[KissKiss]

I have been saying this for years.

I think it's partially a game plan thing in trying to open up the ground by creating space behind them. Plus we have generally had faster more agile forwards than lead up couch guys.

But the mix of it is wrong. You can still use that space by the lead back more often than just wanting the kick over the top

 

[mighty_lions]

And how can you be so certain of that?

because I have trust in this group that have won a significant amount more games than any other club the last 6 and a half years, I have trust that they turned it around last year when most thought they couldn't, your question how can I be so certain? how can you be certain it wont

 

[beatnik]

Give McKenna a full game and put someone like Wilmot in the middle.

He would be lot more defensive and aggressive on the ball, I'd rather see someone else in the middle as a change up rather than same old ding dong. We are losing anyway, what's the worse that could happen?

Except for the fact that tonight was the first time we’ve lost in 5 weeks

Keep some toys in the cot, if you’re going to have a dorm crisis, you’d want to have it when 2 pts out of 1st place!

 

[3KZ is Football]

It’s clear that we have the talent to be better - but I haven’t seen it consistently enough, and at some point you have to be honest about who you are as a team.

It’s obviously not the end for this group of players and they could turn it around in the back half of the year and make a strong finals run. They are talented enough to turn it around but is the hunger there to do it?



Froggy actually committed to coming forward to pressure the ball on several occasions. Would be nice if some team mates did it too.

He was sensational tonight. One of our only players prepared to risk his neck for the team.

 

[BangyBangy]

because I have trust in this group that have won a significant amount more games than any other club the last 6 and a half years, I have trust that they turned it around last year when most thought they couldn't, your question how can I be so certain? how can you be certain it wont

Fair response haha

 

[GenericUsername202]

I would be swapping Will for Levi in the midfield at this point.

 

[Squizz89]

Have read that one of the reasons Starce was considering leaving was the chance to become a midfielder.

I know Answorth was poor today, but now we have Kiddy back, and Gardner can play lock down defence, perhaps we could give him a crack, besides Dunkley and occasionally Rayner we really lack a big body in there.

Would really suck watching him become a midfield bull in another jumper.

Fletcher is the one that I have hopes for that we might see end up in there at some stage. Doubt we’d do it this year, but I think he offers a point of difference to what we’ve got in that he has a bit more speed and seems a bit more defensively minded then the Ashcroft’s etc. He’s also a nice kick of the ball so if he can get more touches in the middle that can only be a good thing.

 

[mpal6]

Except for the fact that tonight was the first time we’ve lost in 5 weeks

Keep some toys in the cot, if you’re going to have a dorm crisis, you’d want to have it when 2 pts out of 1st place!

Thanks for the patronizing note, I really appreciate it. I want to see changes and based on your sarcasm, looks like all's well up there. Each to our own then.

May be we'll meet again in few weeks time to see how we are going? I'll admit I got it wrong if they turn it around but stats so far paint a totally different picture.

In the mean time, feel free to pick up more toys as there are a few cots you need to walk past with your high n mighty attitude tut tut'ing the concerns of other supporters.

 

[Coastal Lion]

Except for the fact that tonight was the first time we’ve lost in 5 weeks

Keep some toys in the cot, if you’re going to have a dorm crisis, you’d want to have it when 2 pts out of 1st place!

Yes your right.
But we should of put this 1 away that's why I think a large % of people are frustrated with the result myself included.
In retrospect we have had worse losses but we got beaten by the same handful of Melbourne players that shine when we have been beaten by them over the last 6 years. Kossi Melksham and Gawn always play well against us and Melbourne always have big 4th quarters against us and run over of the top of us for some reason.

 

[braddsey]

Never ever thought we couldn’t win it with Joe at FF. He was one of the main reasons we could and did win it. You can’t see a glaring issue when the ball going forward?

The Hipwood/Daniher comments was a swipe at our media detractors.
The fact is we don’t have Joe this year. He just doesn’t love us like we love him.
We do have a structural issue going forward currently and we knew this was going to be a problem from the moment Joe celebrated his final goal for the club last season.

Today the lack of Joe Daniher didn’t force our forward entries in the second half to repeatedly kick it to the opposition in the F50. This is on this players who are still wearing the guernsey.

The challenge is on the club to use our fleet of small/medium forwards and mid’s to score.

 

[GenericUsername202]

because I have trust in this group that have won a significant amount more games than any other club the last 6 and a half years, I have trust that they turned it around last year when most thought they couldn't, your question how can I be so certain? how can you be certain it wont

Statistics will tell you we've fallen off a cliff defensively this season. It also tells us that we're not a top 4 team on paper, and the ladder position is a facade. We have the worst percentage of any team who was on top of the ladder, and even our percentage last season (when we were 12th) is higher than it is right now. Anyone who knows anything about AFL knows it's not where you are on the ladder that counts, it's how you're playing. And we have been off since the start of the season and only now are some of the fans are realising where we truly sit. You're using optimism and faith, which is fair, but the stats are telling us a different story.

Look at Essendon last season. 7 wins. 1 draw and 2 defeats after round 10. Awful percentage as well. Exactly the same position as us. If anything, that's what we should be fearing, because that's more of a reality than us winning finals at this point.

 

[Coastal Lion]

Fletcher is the one that I have hopes for that we might see end up in there at some stage. Doubt we’d do it this year, but I think he offers a point of difference to what we’ve got in that he has a bit more speed and seems a bit more defensively minded then the Ashcroft’s etc. He’s also a nice kick of the ball so if he can get more touches in the middle that can only be a good thing.

I secretly feel Jasper will be brisbanes best midfielder in a few more years hopefully he fills out a little more like Hugh has over the journey and can move from an outside roll to an inside one fingers crossed you can see the skill and footy iq in him already.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

What's the go with Andrews taking Melksham ?

 

[Coastal Lion]

Statistics will tell you we've fallen off a cliff defensively this season. It also tells us that we're not a top 4 team on paper, and the ladder position is a facade. We have the worst percentage of any team who was on top of the ladder, and even our percentage last season (when we were 12th) is higher than it is right now. Anyone who knows anything about AFL knows it's not where you are on the ladder that counts, it's how you're playing. And we have been off since the start of the season and only now are some of the fans are realising where we truly sit. You're using optimism and faith, which is fair, but the stats are telling us a different story.

Look at Essendon last season. 7 wins. 1 draw and 2 defeats after round 10. Awful percentage as well. Exactly the same position as us. If anything, that's what we should be fearing, because that's more of a reality than us winning finals at this point.

Very well said and it's scary