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Seriously? Booing a first gamer for getting hit in the head? There is something wrong with that. This isn't rocket science. This is a particularly elusive player who gets his head over the ball who stands out because he's in a team that aren't elusive enough who don't get their head over the...

There is not one duck in that whole video.

Jason Akermanis. At the end of 98, he seemed to me like an inconsistent outside player who peaked early. Then Lethal arrived, made him accountable for one season as a back pocket, he made the AA team, and the rest is history.

Eleven votes so far and not one for Brisbane. Bloody typical. Northern state clubs always getting forgotten.

When I was very young, I thought there was a rule that if you kicked it too hard and too far through the goals, it was a free kick to the opposition. The only explanation I can think of is that I saw goal umpires raising their arms to signal the ball had gone out on the full, and somehow...

Young man does something stupid on social media. Well, this is clearly a harbinger of the apocalypse.

1999, North v Brisbane at the MCG. I think it was round 14. The best team of the late 90s just getting past their peak against the best team of the early 00s about to reach theirs. Voss had the ball on a string, as did some kid in his ~20th game called Simon Black. But our advantage in the...

Should be Crouch, hope it's Cutler.

Because Aish was clearly the best player available. Maybe Aish was more likely to leave than the average draftee, but it's only a question of degrees. It's a risk for every single player the Lions (or any club, for that matter) drafts from interstate. There wasn't a Queenslander in that range...

I think the better question here is how does Gubby Allan escape criticism. The last major event he was involved with at Brisbane was the Fevola trade, goes to GWS and makes a bit of a meal of the Scully recruitment. Admittedly GWS' recruitment overall has probably been okay, but they do seem to...

Two first round picks, wasn't it?

Doc Wheildon

How about Liam Jones or an inanimate carbon rod?

Yep. It might also reduce the focus on endurance in training a little bit, and lead to a more dynamic, faster game.

I don't think that logic holds. They had an absurdly easy draw in the first nine games of last year. They played and defeated each of the league's bottom five sides in that time. They played Richmond in round one, when the Tigers seriously struggled in the early part of the season. Starting...

The Bulldogs are a bit further along the development process than Melbourne or St Kilda, so for that reason they should finish higher.

Fitzroy South Melbourne University They each devised a cunning plan to never lose a game again.

- The Bulldogs did not underperform in 2014. - Essendon will finish top four in 2015. - The impact of key forwards is greatly overrated.

Do you think that's a sign that some clubs might not rate this year's draft prospects as highly as previous years, Masto?

This is an odd thread to start in the year after the Lions sacked their coach, chairman and CEO. I'd agree that previous Brisbane administrations weren't held to appropriate levels of accountability, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

By the look of him, I think more a henpecked husband lashing out on the one treat allowed for the year.

I saw one person yesterday in Canberra wearing a Swans jumper. That was the only sign of the grand final all week in the ACT. And don't worry about QLD: with Hawthorn and particularly Sydney having big supporter bases here, that is very surprising. Outside of Vic, the grand final culture is...

Fitzroy supporters own this thread. I cried when Paul Roos left. I knew that was the death of the club. Eleven year olds have a lot of capacity for self-delusion but I knew that was it. That might have been the last time I cried, I think.

Agreed.

Yeah, Spot on. So close it's obviously much of a muchness who wins. I reckon I'm about as excited to have Taylor as a Lion as the Doggies are to have Bonts. Looking forward to the 600 games they'll play between them for their respective clubs.

Yeah, this is pretty much where I'm at right now. It's likely to be one of them, and either of them would be good winners.

24-16 doesn't seem like a big discrepancy in the free kick count. Are you really only talking about one game - against Sydney?

Before the Brisbane v Adelaide game Lynchy was talking up Taylor's rising star chances to one of the other commentators, who apparently is on the panel this year. Can't remember who it was. Lynchy told him to watch Taylor very closely today. Taylor proceded to have his worst game of the...

Anyway, if history is a guide, we should all be arguing about why player X from our own team shouldn't win the award. It's not exactly a guarantee of success. And in that vein, Aish should not win the rising star.

I stand to be corrected, but I thought Bontempelli played the first few rounds of the season in the VFL? Not true?