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To balance the whipping boys thread I thought this might also lead to some interesting discussion. Which players have you been pleasantly surprised by? Perhaps a late draft pick or trade steak knives who added something great to our team.

Just a place to accumulate summary stats for the season as a whole: An interesting one to start - Brisbane played the most games against the eventual top eight (12 games). The least against top eight sides was North with only eight. The next most after us was Sydney and Carlton with 11 games...

I thought it was worth a thread to admit the things we got wrong about the team or players since the start of the season. Here is mine: Stefan Martin I thought he was, at best, a last-resort depth player that would be strictly a stop gap measure when we had no one else to throw in to the team...

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas fellow Lions supporters. Will be relaxing by the pool eating prawns tomorrow. My Lions Christmas wish: a key forward emerges to take over from Browny. Come on Santa, deliver us one you big fat bastard!

Ten rounds down and our mid-season bye is upon us. Pick a player and write his report card.

I overheard two guys recently talking about Dayne Zorko and the way he ended up in Brisbane. One said, "It's a bit like if your neighbor has a mower he claims is no good and not worth keeping, so you buy it off him for a slab of beer, take it home and tinker with it for ten minutes and it runs...

Some home and away games become famous (or infamous) in a club's history because of the significance of the result, the scoreline, controversy etc. and as a result the game becomes known by a title that defines it within the club's history and folklore. For example, Round 10 2001 v Essendon...

Watching bits of the last few games, it is easy to imagine that Tom Rockliff is nearly ready to take over the captaincy. He won't, I assume, until Brownie is gone. And while Adcock is an honest leader and well respected I don't feel that he really has the fire in the belly to be a long term...

Just thought we might need it. Only positive things about the Lions. And no negatives dressed up as positives eg "well the positive is we can't play any worse." Genuinely positive stuff only. To start: Mayes is going to be a gun, really top quality in a season or so.

Which player in your club now, or in the recent past do you think "if only..." It could be because of injury or a single skill deficiency or an attitudinal thing that makes you wonder how good that player could actually be. The Lions (and now Suns) had Brennan who has an abundance of natural...

This is the current team of players who wear the number one jersey on their backs in the AFL. Couldn't quite make up a whole 18 but some handy players in the group and a couple who might prove to be very very good. And also , some I have never heard of. The team of number ones. Adelaide...

Help settle a discussion - has the grand final parade always followed the same route or has it changed in the last couple of decades?

Just wanted to say that your team were respectful of the opposition after the win and by and large your fans have been elated, quite rightly, but still respectful of other fans and commentators, even those who said you weren't good enough. Class act all round. Enjoy it!

Let me start off by saying that this isn't a whinge about who polled well or injustices that might have been done. Any of the top half dozen would have been deserving winners. I am curious about what catches an umpire's eye. There is obviously a tendency for midfielders to poll well because...

It is always interesting how rivalries develop between clubs and this is true for the rivalries that the Lions have developed with other teams. What are the major and minor elements of the rivalries that make some games have a little more spice than others? I thought I would kick off with two...