Review Round 6, 2026 - Melbourne vs. Brisbane Lions

[ZoBlitz]

Timeslot of champions.

 

[Nathan Barley]

That missed trip on Bailey

 

[LionsOrDieTrion]

On brand loss to lose to a junk side on a Sunday afternoon. Should have see it coming.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Absolutely shocking performance

Can only assume 75% of the team was sick

Some winners in the forward and backline

Shocking umpiring and injuries to compound a horrible day

 

[Sproj]

Some very home town decisions but given we were nowhere near our best and banged up, amazing to get so close. We'll be fine, these results happen at this time of year. Some good signs and Charlie gave us a goal of the year contender.

 

[janty]

That missed trip on Bailey

Karma for playing terrible all game.

 

[SizeMatters]

Losing Fort was huge and the difference. Draper just got absolutely towelled up by Gawn.

Pathetic umpiring. But end of day not surprised by the result. Demons play well against the Lions. Also Lions have just not been playing well this year at all.

Hopefully not too many injuries.

 

[MSB ROYS]

So many what ifs...

 

[Lions2Good]

Injuries concerning. Really worried for Answerth with repeated head knocks…hope it isn’t a starcevich situation again

 

[Nathan Barley]

Votes to Logan, Charlie, Andrews and Gallop

Draper unlucky

Our 4 A graders on ballers let us down and Zac Bailey

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Zac Bailey

Age

26

Ht

181cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.7

3star

K

6.9

3star

HB

5.9

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.2

4star

CL

0.9

3star

D

12.9

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

5.6

3star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.4

3star

CL

0.7

3star

D

13.4

4star

K

6.6

3star

HB

6.8

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

2.8

5star

CL

0.6

3star

was pathetic

 

[Sproj]

Injuries concerning. Really worried for Answerth with repeated head knocks…hope it isn’t a starcevich situation again

If it were anyone but a golden child in Pickett, I'd think that player would get a few weeks for that bump.

 

[Beware The Wounded Lion]

Whoever wants to offer Bailey 1.5mil should watch the replay.

 

[FLVanLandingham]

Hope Answerth is okay. The close up they showed he was out of it (was within half a second of the impact though so who knows..


Ugly game, ugly defending and some pretty ugly set shots too.

 

[luthor]

That missed trip on Bailey

And a few other dodgy calls.

HTB seemed to mostly go one way.


Why was Logan Morris not allowed to play on and goal?

Why does a Review cancel out mark and play on?

 

[p4p1]

We played terribly, but clear missed free kicks, a clear mark that the player has every right to play on from and goal and soft free kicks going to the Demons made a difference today.

 

[Ceebee]

Great game .
Shame we couldn’t get it done for the milestone boys .
Seemed lethargic today.

 

[gapwedge0]

That play on goal from Morris. Understand if he was in front of the mark when he played on, but he had to move back off the mark to get back in play. Baffling!

 

[Bucking Beads]

Super frustrated with our ability to lose games that should be easy wins. We just aren't motivated to really turn up every week are we

 

[Harris Specter]

Bailey better hope that contract had a “valid for 90 days” on it. His attitude is appalling.

 

[Mazza44]

That missed trip on Bailey

The dive called a block against Mcluggage.

The missed chopping the arms against Allen.

The score review that stopped Morris from scoring.

The 50m penalty against Lester.

We deserved to lose, but geez. Felt like between the umpiring and injuries we had our backs against the wall.

 

[cotter101]

I’d blame illness, but we’ve realistically looked like this all year.

Terrible performance.

 

[Squizz89]

Frustrating loss, even more so on a big day for the club but not overly surprising either. We have a couple of these types of games every year where we rock up expecting to win, the opposition plays well and catches us on the back foot and we fail to get over the line.

Few players down on form from last year though, with the biggest worry I think atm the amount of injuries we are picking up. Possibly the amount of games we’ve played compared to others the last few years is starting to catch up to a couple?

Backs and forwards were ok all day. Mids so-so all afternoon. Zac wouldn’t wanna be meeting with any prospective buyers this week off the back of that game.

Recover and move on.

 

[Elixuh]

Our new gameplan of trying to win games by playing 10 minutes of good football is a bold strategy. Let’s see how it plays out.

 

[Jordos Lions]

Frustrating af final quarter
-Mcclugage giving away a stupid free kick
-Morris passing it off to Bruce when he could’ve easily snapped on his left and Bruce missing
-Rayner missing the game winner

 

[Dalions]

We looked physically spent in that game.
I wonder if all of the travel in the first third of the season is taking its toll.