Preview Changes & Preview Thread for Round 17, 2025 vs Brisbane

[Traveling_Power]

Liddy stiff.

I was disappointed that he was dropped

and i am glad Jackson is still in the team

 

[PortAdelFC1997]

I was disappointed that he was dropped

and i am glad Jackson is still in the team

I reckon the sub is either gonna be Boak or Jackson.

 

[Georgemehardies]

I'm getting in early. We will win this.

 

[Willsy10]

That round 1 fluke a couple years back.

Theyve won 7 of the last 8, and those wins have either been through blistering patches we couldn't stop, or absolute spankings.

Average margin of 41 points.

Across a period we have finished top 4, 4 times.

Brisbane are absolutely our bogey side, they match up well on us and have the weapons to handle us with ease. They are significantly better stacked with talent than us, and when they get going, we will drop our bundle again. As we have in the last 2 outings, 48 and 79 point thrashings.

This will be ugly. Anyone thinking otherwise is kidding themselves.

Why was round 1 2023 a fluke?

We smashed them that game, and played extremely well as a team, one of our best home and away performances.

It didn’t seem like a flukey win to me

 

[Willsy10]

Best side picked all year but so was the sanfl team last week and they lost to an under 18 Souf Adelaide.

Luko from memory dominated the Darwin games for the suns so hopefully the Brisbane night conditions are good for him. We’ve been pretty short up forward so I definitely don’t think we are too tall now, seems like the mix is more balanced now if anything.

 

[HHHAMMERtime]

Mackinley emergency over Lorenz? taking the Mickey now surely.

 

[Ah12]

Don’t like the two rucks. Purely because Sweet offers nothing around the ground and becomes a liability when the ball isn’t being tossed in the air. Just play Vis in ruck with Luko and Georgiades forward. Sam Day

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Sam Day

Age

33

Ht

196cm

Wt

106kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.8

2star

K

5.2

2star

HB

4.6

3star

M

3.5

4star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.7

4star

D

8.0

2star

K

3.6

1star

HB

4.4

3star

M

1.9

2star

T

1.5

2star

G

0.9

4star

D

8.6

3star

K

3.2

2star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

0.8

3star

G

0.2

3star

is their backup ruck, wines can easily go head 2 head with him.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Some good ins there.

Lukosius is exciting. I'm not expecting a lot from his first game but hopefully he shows signs of what he can do.
Wines back. For his faults, he also gets 30 possies and tops out our contested possessions as well. 4th banana in the midfield. Doesn't have to ruck.

I'm not a fan of the two rucks but we don't have an obvious 2nd ruck, KPF type like Dixon.

Liddy and Evans out seems right.

I'd like to see Boak out but he's joined at the hip with Hinkley. I'd much prefer Lorenz or a young guy.

Hugh Jackson rightfully holds on to a spot after a big first quarter last week.

Pretty good.

 

[PJ Power]

I reckon the sub is either gonna be Boak or Jackson.

Absolutely. Hope it’s Boak. Although Boak was pretty good against Carlton, his lack of speed on the wings against the likes of Fletcher will be noticeable against Brisbane and we can ill afford Prelim-like turnovers. Let’s see if Jackson can elevate his game in the Gabba cauldron.

 

[PJ Power]

Some good ins there.

Lukosius is exciting. I'm not expecting a lot from his first game but hopefully he shows signs of what he can do.
Wines back. For his faults, he also gets 30 possies and tops out our contested possessions as well. 4th banana in the midfield. Doesn't have to ruck.

I'm not a fan of the two rucks but we don't have an obvious 2nd ruck, KPF type like Dixon.

Liddy and Evans out seems right.

I'd like to see Boak out but he's joined at the hip with Hinkley. I'd much prefer Lorenz or a young guy.

Hugh Jackson rightfully holds on to a spot after a big first quarter last week.

Pretty good.

Interested to see Visentini forward again, although probably get Andrews if that’s the case. The notion of Visentini taking 3-4 marks forward of centre with arms outstretched and then taking 8-10 per quarter min of ruck against Sam Day is appealing. Let’s see how it plays out.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Interested to see Visentini forward again, although probably get Andrews if that’s the case. The notion of Visentini taking 3-4 marks forward of centre with arms outstretched and then taking 8-10 per quarter min of ruck against Sam Day is appealing. Let’s see how it plays out.

I was thinking the exact same thing, that I was a bit excited to see Dante do a really good impression of Brendon Lade in the forward line.

If he can ruck and rest forward and being dangerous and kick a sausage roll or two, it would make that second ruck position very flexible.

 

[MrChow]

Interested to see Visentini forward again, although probably get Andrews if that’s the case. The notion of Visentini taking 3-4 marks forward of centre with arms outstretched and then taking 8-10 per quarter min of ruck against Sam Day is appealing. Let’s see how it plays out.

Harris Andrews will play up to 20m off Visentini - standing 20m out from goal - knowing Vis can’t kick straight Andrews will take more risk and let him go a bit. Andrews will attempt to get to every ball kicked inside 50, getting over Georgi/Luko.

How Vis stops Andrews will be the difference in the game. Love to see Vis get physical and push Andrews out of that zone. He needs some Jed Mcentee spirit.

Gardner will play on Georgi. Starcevich maybe on Luko. Hopefully these boys kick their goals from 40m+

 

[MrChow]

I’d love to see Bergman used like Heeney against us in the final last year.

Heeney played as a marking target one on one on the open side, and so many kicks out of defence went to him. And he just tore us apart, marking everything. It opened the whole game up.

With Wines back in, hopefully Hornet up and about in the middle, Bergman can be such a weapon.

 

[AlbertPower]

I think Jackson as sub (even though he needs full games).
Then we have options to switch with Boak if he looks too old, Sweet if the 3x talls aren't working or Jones if he's having a shocker.

 

[Coobk001]

Why was round 1 2023 a fluke?

We smashed them that game, and played extremely well as a team, one of our best home and away performances.

It didn’t seem like a flukey win to me

We got lucky on a 3rd quarter rampage. Round 1 throws up random results and inconsistencies and we were lucky to capitalise on that. History and the obvious trend against the Lions shows we don't match up on them at all well. 7 of 8, with an average losing margin of 41 says it all, and we're particularly bad at the GABBA.

Really there are 2 teams and places we don't want to play as a Club:

• Collingwood at the MCG
• Brisbane at the GABBA.

Both are nightmare fixtures for us.

 

[Alberton Proud]

IN: J Lukosius 12, O Wines 16
OUT: L Evans 22, M Liddy 50 (omitted)

EMERG: Liddy, Evans, Mackinlay

Interesting
Must be impressing

 

[Powerade 08]

Interesting
Must be impressing

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Would've played a few weeks back if he kicked 3.1 instead of 1.3

Very good athlete. He and Moraes looked like they could play another game right after.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Don’t like the two rucks. Purely because Sweet offers nothing around the ground and becomes a liability when the ball isn’t being tossed in the air. Just play Vis in ruck with Luko and Georgiades forward. Sam Day is their backup ruck, wines can easily go head 2 head with him.

Agree. Vis had a solid game as a key forward last week despite his goalkicking, but most of the time the output of Vis and Sweet together is roughly the same as either one of them alone.

 

[Coobk001]

Interesting
Must be impressing

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He's very quick which we need. Just needs to stop missing so many chances and be a bit cleaner. He is a good list upgrade on McEntee.

 

[Waspy79]

Agree. Vis had a solid game as a key forward last week despite his goalkicking, but most of the time the output of Vis and Sweet together is roughly the same as either one of them alone.

If we go in with only one, and he goes down injured, who rucks the game out? Esava? A horrific thought.

 

[The Hobo]

Not a fan of sweet and vis playing together, but oh well, whatever i dont really care until next year

Worked ok with Vis as the fwd.. but with Luko back this week, will be interesting to see how it works..

MG, Luko, Vis up forward with Sweet doing most of the rucking. Could be with a view of stretching the Brisbane defence with Payne out.

But a night game in QLD is not usually conducive to being too tall

 

[The Hobo]

With Bergman's move in the centre, Drew's position is very much vulnerable

Yup - particularly as Drew is not getting those tagging roles anymore, and isn't really winning much ball either.

I think he's had a relatively quiet season - but the past 2 weeks or so has seen some improvement.

He is most definitely on watch.

 

[Windy Cindy]

This mob have bullied us for near on a decade

be a nice time to make a stand and play some hard footy for 4 quarters and win.

this is an important game to maybe get our season somewhat back on track, so I'm expecting the normal no-show and a blowout brissy win.

 

[raptalia]

No 12 for those that may have forgotten Jack Lukosius

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Jack Lukosius

Age

25

Ht

195cm

Wt

91kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.8

4star

K

11.5

4star

HB

3.3

3star

M

3.4

3star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.4

3star

D

14.8

4star

K

11.5

4star

HB

3.3

2star

M

3.4

3star

T

1.8

3star

G

0.4

3star

D

13.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

2.4

3star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.2

4star

G

0.4

3star

' number.

 

[raptalia]

This mob have bullied us for near on a decade

be a nice time to make a stand and play some hard footy for 4 quarters and win.

this is an important game to maybe get our season somewhat back on track, so I'm expecting the normal no-show and a blowout brissy win.

If we win the last quarter it will be an achievement. Winning only one last quarter in 15 games is a disgraceful statistic.