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  1. AFLQLD

    Review Preliminary Final, 2025 - Collingwood vs. Brisbane Lions

    Ty Gallop has just emerged in the last couple of games. He looks like a future star. The young guys have stood up.
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    Women's Footy Round 4, 2025 - Adelaide vs. Brisbane Lions

    Glad for the win but honestly, some aspects of the game plan appear broken. We won by desperate effort rather than good football. There are three things that need to be urgently addressed: 1. Poor ground ball work. At this level, given we are not a talk team, we simply have to be cleaner when...
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    2nds 2025 VFL thread

    Form what I have seen of McFadyen he seems to have some draftable skills. And a decent size that would be hard to match up on. He plays with aggression as well. I think defenders would hate him. Brain looks quite comfortable in his role. Still depth at this stage but solid depth and possibly...
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    Women's Footy Round 2, 2025 - Fremantle vs. Brisbane Lions

    Our best win in two seasons. Hickie’s best game. I am liking Hampson as the big midfielder body. It means the quicker players like Anderson and Dawes can’t be easily bullied out of contests. Ellinger has the right instincts just not always the right judgement yet in some situations. Grider back...
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    Women's Footy Round 1, 2025 - Brisbane Lions vs. Hawthorn

    The blight of truly atrocious umpiring. They really didn’t want to pay obvious free kicks for holding the ball. AFLW umpires allow far too much to go on in contests. Somehow Hawthorn got the key frees in each quarter. Lions have a lot of work to do. Some poor matchups that should have been...
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    Review Round 23, 2025 - Fremantle vs. Brisbane Lions

    Froggy! He just cleaned things up and turned them around with some great kicks. A goal and a few inside 50s. Good to have him back. Bailey was great but the whole team really lifted. Dunkley just put in. Will and Levi probably lifted their defensive effort. Berry hopefully only a couple of weeks...
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    Review Round 21, 2025 - Collingwood vs. Brisbane Lions

    Clug was massive. Will was so dynamic in the second half. Rayner made sure he had an impact as did Bailey. The defence without Frog really stood up. Wilmot and Fletcher, just amazing what they can do. It won’t matter to all his haters but I thought Eric played an excellent game with all the...
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    2nds 2025 VFL thread

    Hopefully Gallop gets a big off season into him, a little more of a tank and a bit stronger. I would like to see him get half a dozen games next year at least. He needs exposure to the higher level. Annable looks like he can be something. Beecken and Brain look like they have more to offer...
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    Women's Footy Brisbane Lions AFLW 2025

    I had an interesting discussion once with an old wise coach of boys teams who said that hand size is actually critical in terms of the ability to control the ball and changing the footy size only solves part of the problem. Adult sized male hands have a very big advantage just with basic...
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    Women's Footy Brisbane Lions AFLW 2025

    Qld under 18 girls beat WA with the last kick of the game in Nat Championships. The girls had to fight back from about 20 points down and ran over the top of a bigger, older WA team. Some excellent ball movement and really finished all over WA, led by midfield winning more ball and defence...
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    2nds 2025 VFL thread

    Hard to see McFadyen not being picked up by someone on the next draft. Hopefully Lions. Size and impact seem to be there. Hard working and a bit of aggression. A year or two of professional development and he could really be a solid AFL player.
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    2nds 2025 VFL thread

    Of the players yet to get an AFL game, Beecken out there looks the best of them. I would have him ahead of Doedee. Of the undrafted players who are at least semi-regular at VFL level, McFadyen looks the best. A bit undefinable in terms of role, not quite a tall, not small, but he might be the...
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    Review Round 15, 2025 - Geelong vs. Brisbane Lions

    The best we have played since the GF. It seems like during that game we remember how well we can actually play with real teamwork. That was supposed to be the Dangerfield lap of honour. A truly impressive win.
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    2nds 2025 VFL thread

    ZZ’s best game. Torrent has come on quite well but the queue is rather long ahead of him. Gallop looks close to ready. Kiddy probably needs a few more weeks. Beckeen is in the queue of defenders who show enough to maybe get a start, but might need patience. Marshall a little quite. Of the VFL...
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    Review Round 8, 2025 - Brisbane Lions vs. Gold Coast

    I have concluded that the player I was most wrong about was Noah Answerth. I thought for his first couple of years he was a reasonably skilled, but otherwise quite generic, medium defender, capable enough but really bland and unlikely to last once a better option appeared. I was wrong. I’m not...
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    2nds 2025 VFL thread

    Arnold moves alright up forward.
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    Review Round 7, 2025 - St.Kilda vs. Brisbane Lions

    Never looked too troubled. We are about at 75% of our true best. But that is ok at this stage. Next week will be a big one. The Suns think this is their time. They start favourites against Sydney at home tomorrow. Hopefully that will be a tough game for them. Team defence beats the Suns.
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    Review Round 5, 2025 - Western Bulldogs vs. Brisbane Lions

    It was mentioned in the commentary how much of a bargain buy Cal was. Rare for commentators to be so insightful and observant but it is true. Brave, versatile, smart in attack and defense, very team first. He is an instinctive small forward by nature but that isn’t all he offers. Dependable and...
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    Review Round 4, 2025 - Richmond vs. Brisbane Lions

    Really phoned in the second half it’s fair to say. And put the phone down entirely in the fourth quarter. Fletcher was excellent as was Wilmot. A few guys got a bad game out of their system hopefully, at no great cost. We are missing Lohmann who allows Ah Chee to roam more widely. Would be good...
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    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    At least the right decision got made. It took three years and both parties should have to hang their heads in shame for the way it played out. This isn’t political, it was made political. The brief was to build the best stadium that would provide a legacy for the city and it would have taken...
  21. AFLQLD

    Review Round 2, 2025 - Brisbane Lions vs. West Coast

    The frog is like a fine wine. Excellent at reading the state of the game and doing what is required. That run down tackle lifted the whole team.
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    Review Round 2, 2025 - Brisbane Lions vs. West Coast

    Frog and Harris saved us numerous times. I thought Hipwoods game was important. Some truly awful umpiring and Eagles were playing with the intent to stop us moving the ball quickly. All sorts of holds and from on contact. We didn’t adjust well to them using the wings often. How that call was...
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    2nds 2025 VFL thread

    From the bits I saw, the commentators were better off not saying anything. No insights, no player recognition, no useful stats, barely any play-by-play description. I’m pretty sure they were like those Mitchell and Webb snooker commentators, there for the food and drinks and any commentating...
  24. AFLQLD

    Review Round 1, 2025 - Sydney vs. Brisbane Lions

    To win with a bunch of injuries against a very desperate team and Lochie with a very hard tag was a good tough win. A few things to work on. Someone will need to step into Starc’s role, and looks like someone gets a chance in Lohmann’s role as well. Sydney looked good when things were easy but...
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    Preview The return of the Brisbane Lions v Geelong Cats Preview (Round 3, Post-Alfred!)

    One of the predictive models (not necessarily the most accurate) shows the cyclone’s eye directly over the Gabba about 9pm on Thursday. That would make for an interesting coin toss to win! Get the “breeze” at your back for Q1 and Q3. Survive the gale against you in Q2 (and then also survive the...
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    Preview The return of the Brisbane Lions v Geelong Cats Preview (Round 3, Post-Alfred!)

    This is very likely to be the case based on Emergency Services recommendations early next week. If schools are likely to be declared closed on Thursday for example, it is also likely that any other large movement of people will not be approved in such bad conditions. Getting cars off the road...
  27. AFLQLD

    Women's Footy Lions AFLW 2024 (Season 9) Discussion

    I would have liked to have picked up Chloe Gaunt but the price was probably a little steep. Would like to see us think outside the box with the next pick.
  28. AFLQLD

    Women's Footy Preliminary Final, 2024 - Brisbane Lions vs. Adelaide

    Pressure is what can beat the Roos. They like to play in clear air but if we make it a scrap I think we begin to tire their bigger players out. If it was bucketing down I wouldn’t be too disappointed. I think we play the messy ground ball game better than they do. Everyone play with the...
  29. AFLQLD

    Women's Footy Preliminary Final, 2024 - Brisbane Lions vs. Adelaide

    Lily P and Orla were outstanding. Grider, Koenen, Campbell stood up all game. We probably weren’t at our best for parts of the game but they held us together. Dawes is just a game changer. Hodder was vital. Looking Harthill’s game more each time she plays. We will go in as underdogs next week...
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    Women's Footy Preliminary Final, 2024 - Brisbane Lions vs. Adelaide

    Need to keep Hodder in the middle in the second half. We need her tackling in there and just pressure them out of the ball.

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