Review 2012 Season Review - From a non Lions supporter

[haydo]

Hey there guys. I am doing a club by club season review and have started off with your mob the Brisbane Lions.

Check out my blog page and see what i thought of the Lions 2012 season and the future ahead.

http://www.empowernetwork.com/haydo169/?p=82

Please leave a comment on the blog or on here to leave me your thoughts

P.S- Go Lions

 

[spotthedog1]

Not a bad review. Seems fair and unbiased. The forwards and mids are fairly accurate. A couple of quick notes:

• Defence - The 2012 B&F Winner didn't even rate a mention? How about the vice captain? We actually have a pretty decent defence - the problem isn't that it isn't there, it's that it's too old. That said, we've had a couple coming through who are good defenders, but we're missing young KPDs. We have McGrath, Staker, Patfull, Adcock, Maguire and Merrett all about the same age, plus Drummond, who is now gone.
• Our rucks don't rate a mention either? We've probably got the 2nd best ruck combo for potential in the comp after Cox/Nicnat, but durability is a problem.

 

[Full Wingspan]

Love your effort, but that review is woeful. Might want to watch a Lions game or two before doing a season review on them. Sorry mate.

 

[patfullfankezz]

I was about to go ape for the omission of clearly our best defender ever, but you beat me to it spotthedog1

 

[chopperduck]

Not a bad write up and i agree, seems unbiased and pretty fair. Agree with the above though, could give the defense a bit more credit, it has been one of our strengths for years. Patfull and Goose held down the defensive posts most of the year whilst Merrett was up forward, and they were rarely beaten. IIRC, we had some kind of stat that our defensive was 4th best in the AFL for stopping inside 50's turning into scoring shots. But all our defenders will be 28 or older next year, so we need to start looking for the next generation of key defenders.

Our rucks are also a strong point, although it was largely missed this year with Bergs out, Huddo was recruit of the year doing a great job. Bergs will be back next year, so we will see an improvement with our midfield functioning. Longer is also doing really well for a first year ruck, he has been able to put some good size on, we should see more of him next year.

Our key forwards is an issue for us going forward, we have a few smaller options, but no real true key forward sized players. Staker should help up forward next year, and Lisle had a strong finish to the year, but the cupboard is bare outside of that, which is why Merrett ended up forward. There is no quick fix for this, i'd expect us to run with a smaller more well rounded forward line over the next few years whilst we look to trade in some more forward options. We dont' have time to spend 4-5 years developing a Brown replacement, we need them now, so we will target players like we did with Lisle, early 20's, ready to play senior footy.

The one thing that did improve for us in the forward line though was the spread of goal kickers. For years we have relied way too much on the talls to kick our goals, this year was a lot better, as you pointed out. This will hold us in good stead until we can find those tall forward replacements.

Overall good write up.

 

[PattyKwasagun]

Love your effort, but that review is woeful. Might want to watch a Lions game or two before doing a season review on them. Sorry mate.

Bit harsh. There are a few things I'd change, but on the whole I thought it was pretty much on the mark. Even more impressive that it was written by a Crows fan. I didn't think they'd have anything nice to say about us for years.

 

[Viceregal]

They will win more games, but most teams will win more as well <-- my arithmetical senses seem to be a bit twitchy on this bit ....
If the competition is going to be more even then wouldn't *less* games be what you need to get into the finals since the ones who had more before now have a bit less?

 

[Monkey Daniel]

"10-12 for the year is a pretty good result considering what many of the experts had to say at the start of the year. Still a dissapointing result for the players and coaching staff"
I wouldn't have thought this to be the case....

 

[Matt_BL]

You've got to give Hayden credit, making the effort to review a club you don't support, and we probably flew under the radar a fair bit. I thought it was a very good review. Covered it all well, of course Lions fans are going to disagree with some parts, but that can be a good thing for a healthy debate. Well done, I hope to see more of your work.

 

[Lionator]

Yeah good effort of course we see more detail but overall well done. The detail you did have was very good for a non supporter. I like yourr powerhouse prediction. It's good to hear someone outside our club say it