2026 Pre-Season Thread

[Dalions]

Worst club in the comp for this and also astounding there isn’t a pointed effort to cash in on recent success and keep the ball rolling

Maybe the are relying on the old saying, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

 

[briztoon]

Don’t keep us hanging… where’s the cup?

It “accidentally” sunk off Thursday island last I heard. No one’s willing to jump in and rescue it either.

 

[irel]

Worst club in the comp for this and also astounding there isn’t a pointed effort to cash in on recent success and keep the ball rolling

Unbelievable. For an organisation that performs at such a high level in so many areas, our media output is remarkably poor. We have a salaried Media Manager, yet the function doesn’t appear to operate like a managed department, nor does it seem to deliver the level of output expected from that role. At the moment, it’s difficult to see what tangible work is actually being produced, as the evidence suggests very little meaningful activity.

 

[Nunez]

I personally blame Mr Ripper who should be committed to covering pre season games.

 

[MSB ROYS]

Unbelievable. For an organisation that performs at such a high level in so many areas, our media output is remarkably poor. We have a salaried Media Manager, yet the function doesn’t appear to operate like a managed department, nor does it seem to deliver the level of output expected from that role. At the moment, it’s difficult to see what tangible work is actually being produced, as the evidence suggests very little meaningful activity.

Not defending them, but apparently they also do internal videos for the club (heard sometime on the Roar Deal last year).

 

[irel]

I personally blame Mr Ripper who should be committed to covering pre season games.

Ahh, so Mr Ripper is the Lions' Media Manager. Figures.

 

[Perrip]

One would assume we'd get more content in the next few days given it's the Sunny Coast community camp this week.

 

[Elixuh]

The blues SM team would be better placed not uploading any footage.

 

[McLuggages]

Who gets more mid time - Levi, Annabel or neither? They're both fighting for any leftover minutes after Neale, Dunks, Hugh, Wash and maybe even Bails.

 

[lioninthesand]

Worst club in the comp for this and also astounding there isn’t a pointed effort to cash in on recent success and keep the ball rolling

Agree. Never anything of substance, no training behind the scenes. It’s as if they just think ‘they’ll be back because we are good’ so no effort needed. Make hay while the sunshine’s and sell your brand while everyone is watching!

 

[Lace Out]

Agree. Never anything of substance, no training behind the scenes. It’s as if they just think ‘they’ll be back because we are good’ so no effort needed. Make hay while the sunshine’s and sell your brand while everyone is watching!

Yeah playing like premiers promoting like spooners

 

[Mr Ripper]

Ahh, so Mr Ripper is the Lions' Media Manager. Figures.

@SpecialBruce and I job share.

 

[davemc_lions]

Media department not been great
Although maybe lack of posts also stop the Trolls posting about Lachie. Newscorpse obsessed with it.

 

[Dalions]

Media department not been great
Although maybe lack of posts also stop the Trolls posting about Lachie. Newscorpse obsessed with it.

Was watching channel 7 news last night and in the intro on a segment, apparently about the Lions he says, The Lions are off to the Sunshine Coast on a week long Camp and that the quest for a 3 peat begins now.

I was expecting them to go to a clip of Lions training and maybe a few clips from an interview with a player or Coach but they went to a reporter standing there on her own talking about the breakup of Lachie and Jules and how she was venturing out for her first Public event since the breakup.

Nothing about the lions at all, not a thing.

 

[Perrip]

Was watching channel 7 news last night and in the intro on a segment, apparently about the Lions he says, The Lions are off to the Sunshine Coast on a week long Camp and that the quest for a 3 peat begins now.

I was expecting them to go to a clip of Lions training and maybe a few clips from an interview with a player or Coach but they went to a reporter standing there on her own talking about the breakup of Lachie and Jules and how she was venturing out for her first Public event since the breakup.

Nothing about the lions at all, not a thing.

The community camp only starts today and runs through to Friday. Hard to get training video from the community camp from training that hasn't happened yet.

 

[Dalions]

The community camp only starts today and runs through to Friday. Hard to get training video from the community camp from training that hasn't happened yet.

My point was the media obsession with the Lachie thing.
I don’t know when the camp starts because we get nothing of any real substance from the club.

 

[Bucking Beads]

I just get this feeling that Levi Ashcroft can bulk right up with the view of being a big boy inside mid.

 

[Perrip]

My point was the media obsession with the Lachie thing.
I don’t know when the camp starts because we get nothing of any real substance from the club.

Fair enough, it got revealed like a week before Xmas.
Lions set to return to the Sunshine Coast for 2026 Community Camp

 

[Sproj]

I just get this feeling that Levi Ashcroft can bulk right up with the view of being a big boy inside mid.

Quite likely you'd think. Will has already bulked up significantly so similar genes.

 

[Maboo]

My point was the media obsession with the Lachie thing.
I don’t know when the camp starts because we get nothing of any real substance from the club.

It's pathetic really, there is at least one story every day in the courier/Herald Sun, I don't know how many times I have read or heard unimaginable betrayal. there is never any connection to the headline in the story.

 

[Dalions]

Quite likely you'd think. Will has already bulked up significantly so similar genes.

Similar genes but I have heard their Mother say that Will has always had to work hard to keep his bulk where as Levi only needs to touch a weight and the bulk falls on him.

 

[Sproj]

Similar genes but I have heard their Mother say that Will has always had to work hard to keep his bulk where as Levi only needs to touch a weight and the bulk falls on him.

Yeah that's really interesting because you look at them, and well at least to me, its always looked like Will has been a bit more stocky whereas Levi a bit more lean.

 

[Dalions]

Yeah that's really interesting because you like at them, and well at least to me, its always looked like Will has been a bit more stocky whereas Levi a bit more lean.

I think Will has more lean muscle tone than Levi, but Levi is younger and still building into his body.
Levi may end up a more similar body tone to Zorko or even Lachie Neale.

 

[Perrip]

Noz been bulking up while injured it seems

 

[Nathan Barley]

They tend to be at their bulkiest at this time of year