Review Round 1, 2026 - Sydney vs. Brisbane Lions

[McLuggages]

I was at the game - looked like one very sharp primed team, vs one who was underdone playing 8 guys who hadn't played in years.

Couldn't have dreamed of a worse set of outs.

We had Answerth and Fletcher on amarty at times.

Thought Willmott was excellent, as well as frog.

 

[3KZ is Football]

If we can’t turn this around after the week off, we …

 

[Lazza16]

Who was responsible for the Lizard? In games like that everyone has to be accountable. It is blindingly obvious that their game plan is based on run from Half back. We just let them do it unencumbered. Not happy.

Ah Chee

 

[3KZ is Football]

Stop being morbid....the sun will rise tomorrow n we can't lose next week.

He just needs to stick fat.

My votes in order of merit:

Lester, Reville, Cameron, Draper, Annable

 

[martinson]

The effort wasn't there in the first half. And that was the game.

I don't expect us to find ourselves 0-4 but we won't be beating anybody unless there's a turnaround in intent in 2 weeks time.

There were some good signs from a few players.

 

[AFLQLD]

Lester perhaps our best in both games so far. The frog keeps on frogging!!

 

[scoman]

Seeing Collingwood pinged 50m twice and then Keays nail the sealer for Adelaide was a nice finish to the night.

 

[Squizz89]

It really has been a perfect storm to start the season with respect to the injuries + suspensions, plus guys who are out there carrying injuries/returning (Cam, Kiddy, Oscar, Linc, Drapes).

Looks like we escaped unscathed tonight thankfully, but it might still take a few games after this bye to get going. My concern is we drop to many games before then to give us a chance at top 4. I think realistically we need top 4 again this year as there seems to be quite a few strong teams towards the pointy end.

Just need to do all we can to scrape wins over the next month when we get back.

 

[Ceebee]

Thank goodness that’s over , now bring on the real season .

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Kai, washcroft, neale, Berry.

No intentions of doing anything defensive tonight

 

[bain22]

So much to work on. But more Zorko games like that and it might be time for a conversation. He was woeful.

 

[Saintsone]

Kai, washcroft, neale, Berry.

No intentions of doing anything defensive tonight

Berry held Heanny to,six touches after 1/4 time

 

[martinson]

I thought Berry was ok.

Kai's a funny player. It's a tough position but he doesn't play a lot of good games. Might be believing his own BS and needs to start working a lot harder on the defensive aspects of the game. Put to bed all this lighting the place up crap. Look how much better Charlie's game has come back since he started focusing on the defensive side of his game.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Berry held Heanny to,six touches after 1/4 time

Berry watched players run past him all night.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Biggest worry, apart from the loss, was that the ‘Leadership Group’ provided ZERO LEADERSHIP.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Our defence was good tonight. Zero help from anyone up field. ZZ thrown into the deep end due to Gardiner's typical thug brain fart.

 

[Jordos Lions]

That first half was the worst performance I’ve seen from us in years, totally set us up for a dismantling. Allen was very ordinary, at this rate I would take take Gallop any day over Allen.

 

[braddsey]

I didn’t expect us to win tonight, but that first half was awful. Aside from the smashing, we missed set shots.
Clearly our structure fall apart.

One third of the team was either returning from LTI or very inexperienced. There’s only so much of that you can carry. So the senior players looked average (other than Froggy, Charlie, a few others), but it takes a team for all the pieces to work right.

Bailey, Morris, Dizzy, McCluggage back after the bye.
Out: ZZ, Linc, Tunstall, one other out (maybe Annable, but could be Gallop or Oscar Allen

4

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

to get some fitness up in the 2’s).

 

[braddsey]

That first half was the worst performance I’ve seen from us in years, totally set us up for a dismantling. Allen was very ordinary, at this rate I would take take Gallop any day over Allen.

Neither were very good, but the long bombs into F50 didn’t help.

 

[briztoon]

 

[Perrip]

So much to work on. But more Zorko games like that and it might be time for a conversation. He was woeful.

I've said this after the last two games that we've had Kiddy & Zorko play in together, and I'll say it again, they don't work together in the same backline. Especially with Wilmot. We need another lockdown or intercept defender there instead of an attacking one.

 

[Lazza16]

I've said this after the last two games that we've had Kiddy & Zorko play in together, and I'll say it again, they don't work together in the same backline. Especially with Wilmot. We need another lockdown or intercept defender there instead of an attacking one.

Brain?

 

[dlanod]

I blame David King - he said we'd win 20 games in the regular season.

There's still time!

 

[Ray Button]

Bailey, Morris, Dizzy, McCluggage back after the bye.
Out: ZZ, Linc, Tunstall, one other out (maybe Annable, but could be Gallop or Oscar Allen to get some fitness up in the 2’s).

I'd keep Linc ahead of Kai.

Thought he worked a damn sight harder than Kai. Wouldn't hurt Kai to spend time in the ressies sharpening some basics like defence instead of ineffectual flashy marking efforts.

Linc's first up game after nearly two years out was commendable.

 

[Squizz89]

I've said this after the last two games that we've had Kiddy & Zorko play in together, and I'll say it again, they don't work together in the same backline. Especially with Wilmot. We need another lockdown or intercept defender there instead of an attacking one.

Thats right we lost the only game they played together last year too. Obviously far too simplistic to put it down solely to that, but you’re right we do look unbalanced back there with them + Motty & Fletcher.

Not sure we can move either of them to another position right now, so maybe we just have to give that combination more time. Kiddy still looks timid to me, not just in general play, but even pulling the trigger on some of his kicks. If he gets that back and starts setting up scoring chains going the other way it may not be as big an issue.