Review Round 24, 2025 - Brisbane Lions vs. Hawthorn

[3KZ is Football]

My votes were McCluggage, Dunkley, Andrews, Wilmot and Lester.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Fox is showing the Cats’ last 8 weeks. Christ, with Sydney not showing up they have really played no one at all. No idea what to expect

And isn’t it amazing that Stewart’s return to form coincided with an extended run against bottom teams

 

[Lazza16]

On my way home to book flights for the first final.

Does anyone know if they will play finals on the Thursday night? Or is that home and away only?

On roaming Brian....the Ceo wasn't sure but thought we may play on the Saturday.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Joys of top 4. Wouldn't it be nice to be gifted the run they got ?

Nah.
Hodge and Kane just said (and I concur) that was the perfect sort of game you want heading into finals.
To have the pressure ramp right up in the 2nd half and come out on top in a close one.

 

[brutus76]

On roaming Brian....the Ceo wasn't sure but thought we may play on the Saturday.

On last year's structure that would be correct but as the Suns play Wednesday and likely have to go to WA I'm sure the AFL will give them an extra day of rest seeing they'll have to fly to Perth to play the Dockers

 

[Paul Mac]

Nah.
Hodge and Kane just said (and I concur) that was the perfect sort of game you want heading into finals.
To have the pressure ramp right up in the 2nd half and come out on top in a close one.

Lately when we have played Geelong they have had soft games the week before and we have knocked them off. Im really happy with our prep.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Revillle was sensational tonight, Marshall was great, Bailey, Fletcher, Cameron, Rayner, Starcevich, both Ashcrofts, and Fort all stood up too.

That was a TEAM WIN!

 

[Paul Mac]

Gutsy Gutsy Gutsy. Made it hard for ourselves but still showed the group still has that determination and will.

 

[3KZ is Football]

All that said, I worry about Darcy Gardiner

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Darcy Gardiner

Age

30

Ht

192cm

Wt

91kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.6

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

4.1

4star

T

2.1

4star

G

0.0

1star

D

10.7

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

2.9

2star

M

3.7

4star

T

2.1

3star

G

0.0

1star

D

10.2

3star

K

6.0

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.0

1star

. He had a poor night.

 

[Brizzys Squizzy]

He might make it from week 2 onwards but I don't expect him to be fit for Geelong in week 1.

He'll be fit in 2 weeks for sure.

 

[moncon]

First up, the umpiring tonight was DISGRACEFUL! They gave so much latitude to Hawks players who were tackled and incorrectly disposed of the ball. Then Jasper Fletcher gets pinged for holding the ball when he is tackled a nano-second after taking possession. Umpires appeared to be doing their level best to gift the game to Hawthorn.

I was convinced the AFL wanted a Geelong-Hawthorn QF, that umpiring was the worst I've ever seen, and it was bad for both teams, the Amon one was a joke, the Starcevich one was a joke, there was another one where NO-ONE knew what it was for, not the players, not the crowd, not the comms, nobody. The one against Day was ridiculous. By the way I thought both Day and Gallop were really good tonight, the lead-up to Dunkley's set shot was all Ty, he won two two-on-ones, one in the centre and one straight after on the wing, you can tell he hates losing, I rate him.

 

[Brizzys Squizzy]

Its been an issue for years, but thankfully it clicked last years finals series, and hope it will this year. Hoping either Adelaide or Brisbane take it, or basically any interstate side over Geelong, Collingwood or Hawthorn, even Freo.

ABC rule for me. (anyone but Collingwood).

 

[Lazza16]

What an inspiring leader Froggy is....that ferocious tackle in the last qtr was truly...I will follow you anywhere man. Made me gasp it was so special.

 

[PerthBoy86]

ABC rule for me. (anyone but Collingwood).

Geelong Collingwood GF would be a hard watch as I really don't want either to win it. Would marginally take a Hawthorn premiership before that, but either would both annoy me as all have had a lot of recent success, and further diminish our 4 AFL premiership record. Well I guess the Lions winning would put them on 5, but won't mind that that much. I guess I still would prefer Adelaide for that reason and their 27 year drought. But would be happy to see Brissie go b2b.

 

[Pride of lions]

I thought Fort did really well to neutralise Meek in the ruck. He seems to have taken a big step up since Oscar went down.

 

[Nunez]

Wilmot
Ashcroft
Ashcroft
Fletcher
Lohmann
Morris
Marshall

**** me our rorts have been top shelf haven't they.

 

[M Malice]

Fantastic win, vital players out injured, missing easy shots but still gritted it out, on the general run of play felt like we were well on top for most of the night. They looked dangerous when they got out the back, we need to fix that up, Berry out is a big missing piece re our defensive set up.

Reville, Lester, Zorko, McCluggage, Fletcher, Starcevich, Andrews, Wilmot all looked really good at the ground live.

Thought Gallop competed really well, give him another crack in the QF if Hippy is not back.

Kai looked ok first game back, usually takes him a few games to get back into it after a layoff.
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Onward and upward to the Cats at the G.

 

[3KZ is Football]

What an inspiring leader Froggy is....that ferocious tackle in the last qtr was truly...I will follow you anywhere man. Made me gasp it was so special.

#YouHaveBeenTackledByLester

 

[Chucky_23]

Didn’t give him a vote but thought Gallop had a good competitive game

 

[DevRoboGun]

Sportsbet seems to have us for 7.30 Thursday night …

 

[wattoxi]

Bruce getting better every game, high impact player, seems to get a lot more ball than the stats say, if he can work on the tank and average another 5 touches a game he will really solidify his spot going forward and become a real player.

 

[Haso]

I submit to you Exhibit B for the case that the Brisbane Lions play football like a gifted but dysregulated young adult with ADHD. The 'normal' way for getting the task done wasn't quite within our grasp today, and we forgot that we didn't have breakfast many of our best players today, but we still kept grinding our way and found an odd looking but in the end effective way to get the thing finished. But we had to work like three times harder than anyone else would to make it work, but you know what it got the flipping job done alright.

 

[SpecialBruce]

To finish 3rd is amazing. Such a hard draw and

Would be great to get Bez and Neale back. Probably Tunstill and 1 of Reville or Marshall miss out

Reville ain’t being dropped

 

[Tom14]

58 today, great way to end celebrations. Stupidly frustrating on the score board but the kids are amazing. Even without our best squad the game plan holds up and most importantly the replacements trust the plan. If Raynor could play 4 quarters, he would be another Voss. Oh and Andrews is a defensive GOD, I never played AFL I was from the UK and played FA football, but he is what I would call a premier league sweeper. His footy IQ is off the charts.

Cam is the greatest player in the comp for 5-10 minutes per game, then you might not see him for half an hour. Accept his greatness and be happy about it imo.

 

[braddsey]

Feel sorry for Hugh. We ripped him off with his contract if lesser players are getting $2m per season!

Nah - he’s winning flag(s) with us, and playing in a team that has years to go at the top.
Players getting $2m/season aren’t winning a flag anytime soon.