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[Hollow Knight]

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BRISBANE's Jonathan Brown, Hawthorn's Lance Franklin, St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt and Port Adelaide's Chad Cornes head a hit list for the new Gold Coast club mooted to start in 2011.

Agents working behind the scenes for the new club have identified the four elite players in a bid to lure at least two of them north as marquee players when the 17th club licence is activated.

This follows an AFL proposal, revealed by chief executive Andrew Demetriou to The Australian last week, to introduce a form of free agency and provide the Gold Coast team with one uncontracted player per club at the end of 2010.

But the 16 clubs are moving swiftly to ensure they don't lose any of their star players to the Gold Coast, which will be armed with an abundance of cash in pursuit of quality players. The Lions are about to start contract negotiations with Brown's agent Glenn Warry on a new deal.

Brown, who will earn $1.2 million this year on a back-ended contract that expires at the end of the season, yesterday refused to comment on his future.

"I'm not prepared to talk about it," Brown said. "I'm not entering into any contract talks from now on, discussions will be private between myself and the club."

Brisbane is preparing to re-sign their 26-year-old co-captain for a period of between three and four years, which would secure him from any massive incentives from the Gold Coast.

 

[Cousin Jed]

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According to his live cross with Ian Healy on Channel 9 tonight, Browny and Bradshaw had a light night on the track.

 

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Wanted: a Lion-tamer
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ANDREW CAPEL
April 11, 2008 12:30am

FOR the first time in four years, Port Adelaide will have to find a new way to stop Brisbane Lions matchwinner Jonathan Brown.
In what looms as the key duel at AAMI Stadium tomorrow night, the Power no longer can call on Darryl Wakelin to be the great Lion-tamer.
He has retired - and now sits in the Port boardroom - leaving coach Mark Williams to find a new way of stopping the man who threatens to rip the game from the Power and continue its horror start to the season.
Not since Chad Cornes silenced Brown in the 2004 grand final has Port had any other player but Wakelin run with the imposing force.
This poses the question, who gets him tomorrow night?
"I'm not sure who's going to get the job," Cornes said. "If Choco (Williams) came to me and said 'I want you to play on him', then I certainly would, but he hasn't done that yet."
Cornes kept a clearly-injured Brown to just 13 disposals and no goals in the 2004 grand final but he has been used primarily as an attacking midfielder this season.
In the three Power-Lions clashes since Port's historic premiership, Wakelin has got the job, with mixed success.
He conceded 11 goals to the powerhouse forward but restricted him to a modest 38 disposals.
Cornes knows how valuable Brown is, saying he is the player who stands between Port and a first win of the season.
"If we stop Jonathan Brown that will go a long way towards helping us win," he noted.
"I don't know the statistics but most of their inside-50 entries are aimed towards him."
Last season Brown was the target of a Brisbane inside-50 kick 279 times - 54 more than any other AFL player and a whopping 230 more than the next Lion, Jared Brennan.
After three rounds this season - with fellow key forward Daniel Bradshaw back from a knee reconstruction - the Lions have aimed for Brown just 26 times (ranked equal eighth in the AFL). Bradshaw has been the target 24 times. Complicating matters for the Power is that its 2008 defence - without Wakelin for the first time since 2001 and tough defender Michael Wilson (sidelined with a ruptured Achilles) - is inexperienced and widely regarded as the team's weak link.
Aside from Cornes, Port's key defensive options are Troy Chaplin, Toby Thurstans and the raw Alipate Carlile. But none has set the world on fire this season.
Cornes says Port's ruckmen, Brendon Lade and Dean Brogan, will have to drop back into defence to act as a roadblock to Brown while stopping glamour Lions on-ballers Simon Black, Luke Power and Nigel Lappin delivering the ball to him on a plate will also be important.
"If you've got no pressure in the midfield, it's impossible for backmen to stop him," Cornes said of the Brown threat.
"But if our midfielders are on their game like they were last week (against Adelaide) and can put pressure on and get the higher, long-bomb kicks coming inside 50 then it almost makes it easy for them. That's the key."

 

[ZoBlitz]

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Just have to say, cracking photo.

 

[Cousin Jed]

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Last season Brown was the target of a Brisbane inside-50 kick 279 times - 54 more than any other AFL player and a whopping 230 more than the next Lion, Jared Brennan. After three rounds this season - with fellow key forward Daniel Bradshaw back from a knee reconstruction - the Lions have aimed for Brown just 26 times (ranked equal eighth in the AFL). Bradshaw has been the target 24 times.

 

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Brisbane Lions attack to keep Jonathan Brown
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April 14, 2008 12:00am

LIONS coach Leigh Matthews have launched a pre-emptive strike in the battle for Jonathan Brown by pleading with the AFL to stamp out salary cap rorting. Brown comes out of contract at the end of the year and is certain to be swamped with offers from Victorian clubs willing to make him the highest paid player in the competition.
His price is likely to start at $1 million a season.
Matthews said Brisbane would do everything in its power to keep Brown, but the club needed protection from the AFL's salary cap auditors to ensure the negotiations took place within the rules. "If someone wants to sell their grandstand, I guess that's what they'd have to do," he said of a rival club's hopes of luring the co-captain away from Brisbane.
"As long as we are totally certain people are only spending what is in the cap, not finding a way to compensate a player for another half a million or something.
"Then everyone has the same amount of money and the percentage you spend on one player is your choice.
"That's the challenge for the AFL and the salary cap people, to make sure the bending of the rules is eradicated, if they exist at all."
Matthews became cagey when asked whether Brown deserved to be the highest paid player in the game.
"Well, close enough. Jonathan is as good as any of them," he said.
When asked if there was a better player, and if so, who the best player in the game was, Matthews replied: "No, let's not go down that path."

 

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Big-dollar offer tipped to include captaincy
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Damian Barrett
April 17, 2008 12:00am

THE Brisbane Lions expect Collingwood to launch a massive bid for their off-contract champion Jonathan Brown. While confident of retaining Brown, the Lions expect Collingwood soon to offer the captaincy, huge dollars and several options on a career beyond playing as enticement to transfer.
Collingwood lobbied hard for Brown, 26, the last time he was coming out of contract, in 2005, offering a package of more than $1 million a year.
After the retirements of Nathan Buckley, James Clement and Paul Licuria, the Pies have even more room to move in their salary cap this year.
Brown, a triple premiership centre half-forward with the Lions, is weighing up many options, and is known to place extreme importance on the pursuit of more flags.
If he believes Brisbane, which has not finished higher than 10th in the past three years after making four consecutive Grand Finals, is reloading for another flag tilt, he will likely stay.
Magpies president Eddie McGuire refused to comment yesterday about an approach to Brown.
"There is no comment because there is nothing happening," McGuire said.
Asked if, as the Lions expect, Collingwood would soon consider approaching Brown's management, he said: "There is no comment."
Collingwood chief executive Gary Pert said: "We haven't had any discussions (with Brown). We would always be open and always have been open to a discussion with any player or their manager if they wanted to come and talk to the Collingwood Football Club."
"Whether we weigh it up as something we wanted to take forward, or even if we were in a position to take it forward, that depends on the dynamics of our team mix and our situation with draft picks," Pert said.
"But there is no serious discussions of that regard at this stage."
Brown, who played for South Warrnambool seniors at 15, as well as Geelong under-18s, will captain the Victorian team in the AFL's Hall of Fame game against a Dream Team at the MCG on May 10.
Collingwood, a preliminary finalist last year, is tipped to finish high on the ladder this season. That will not help with its trading options for Brown, should he decide to leave the Lions.
Another dilemma is the strong possibility of the introduction of a form of free agency by the end of 2010, to coincide with the entry to the national competition of a team on the Gold Coast.
Brown will need to decide his future by October. Trade week is held early that month, and October 31 is the cut-off for clubs to list contracted players for the following season.
Under AFL rules, an uncontracted player can nominate an asking price before nominating for the national and pre-season drafts.
Brown's management, Brisbane-based Velocity Sports, said it would be making no public comment on the issue and no time frame had been placed on its resolution.
Lions chief executive Michael Bowers said: "You know our club policy. We do not comment on contracts."
Brown could not be contacted yesterday, but said two weeks ago on The Footy Show "the percentages" favoured him staying with Brisbane.

 

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Heat map player tracking data obtained from AFL statisticians Champion Data show the majority of Lance Franklin's score involvements, be they shots on goal or direct assists, occur on the right half-forward flank. Lions spearhead Jonathan Brown heads in the same direction but doesn't push as far wide and gets more shots on goal from in front.
According to Champion Data, Brown is statistically a more valuable player than Franklin, which is why almost every club double-teams the Coleman Medallist.
Whereas Brown presents in several directions and often offers multiple leads in each attacking movement, Franklin relies more on his upfield players moving the ball quickly through the middle and pumping it long and fast into the scoring zone.The theory is simple: Put the ball out into space and Franklin will get it. It helps that he is super-quick, super-fit and super-agile.

 

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One brand that Brisbane needs
Caroline Wilson
April 20, 2008

THE choice of Jonathan Brown as captain of Victoria was a masterstroke by the AFL. Having failed to outsmart the logistical obstacles to produce a state-of-origin clash that actually meant something, the league had to ensure that the exhibition game it compromised upon would prove a crowd-pleaser.
Not only should the prospect of the strapping champion forward from Warrnambool coming home to lead his state prove enough to lure football fans to the MCG, but a Big V-clad Brown should also help attract enough good players worthy of the jumper to push aside club concerns and join him.
Brown is a natural leader. This is no disrespect to Simon Black, Nigel Lappin or Luke Power but it still seems bizarre that Brown was not given the chance to take over the captaincy seamlessly from Michael Voss.
The word "brand" has become a tediously overused word in football, largely the fault of the image-conscious AFL. Teams no longer play good football but a "good brand of football". But it is true that if you were to brand the Brisbane Lions, you would tattoo their logo with Brown's face and mark the Gabba with his giant footprint.
And the club has been as great for Brown as he has for the club. Which is why he will never leave despite all the talk that no doubt will prevail until the 26-year-old signs yet another massive contract.
Certainly, every Victorian club would love to have him but I do not believe it will ever happen. The time for such a radical move was at the end of 2005, the year that Collingwood president Eddie McGuire and his then chief executive Greg Swann flew to Sydney to meet Brown's adviser Glenn Warry and speculate what the economic and social future might hold for Brown in a Magpie guernsey.
Back then, the talk was $1 million a year plus.
Being the plain-speaking no-nonsense clubman that he is, the player quickly killed off the story by committing to Brisbane. It seemed then — and still does — like the end of the story. Several weeks ago, Brown was interviewed by Channel Nine's The Footy Show and listening to his refusal to rule out leaving Brisbane was excruciating.
Brown's old-fashioned attractive demeanour does not include a poker face and you could tell his heart, despite his hip pocket, was not in it.
I suspect, given his back-ended contract, that he is the highest-paid player in the AFL this season, earning at least $1 million. The Lions are quite capable of matching money with any other club and the fact that Brown is engaged and building a dream home up north would also indicate he is not going anywhere.
Remember how Daniel Kerr became suspicious when fellow Eagle Chris Judd remained in his relatively modest house in his final year in Perth?
It is all very well to speculate that Brown will not commit to the club unless he believes it is capable of another premiership but who is to say that, for example, Collingwood is any closer than the Lions? Geelong could not fit him in its salary cap without massive and ridiculous sacrifice and Hawthorn has Buddy Franklin, who Lions coach Leigh Matthews rates at least alongside Brown and probably ahead of Brown in natural athleticism.
Brown's age might suggest he is capable of a tempting five-year contract offer but his body does not. There seem few signs that he is taking his on-field life any easier and the wear and tear must be comparable to that which contributed to the dramatic downward curve that accompanied the final seasons of Dermott Brereton and Wayne Carey.
The club and Brown's management — a company that intriguingly boasts Voss as a director — refuse to discuss his future but the Lions seem supremely confident of retaining him. If he agrees to a two-year deal, there will be speculation Brown could consider twilight time on the Gold Coast but again, why would he leave Brisbane for any other reason than to return to his home state?
Because Brown is a legacy of a gentler and kinder father-son rule era, he came to the Lions as a link with Fitzroy, where his father Brian managed just over 50 games. Not only does that symbolism add value to his relationship with Brisbane, but his rich western Victorian football pedigree has helped bridge the cultural divide with relative newcomer Queensland.
For Brown to take his three premiership medals and leave Queensland now would be a terrible setback for the game in that state at a crucial time, devastating for the Lions and in the end likely to hurt Brown's valuable legacy.
As tantalising as it will be to watch him run onto the MCG turf as a Victorian, that should be the closest Brown ever comes to leaving Brisbane.

 

[Grimreepah]

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A contender for the softest report of the year

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Michael Osborne remonstrates but the commentators all said it should be thrown out.

 

[whatboutbob]

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http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1795/brown34co1.jpg

Hehehe...LegoHead...

 

[konstas_87]

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disgrace that got reported, are the afl serious? at the time (although a bit caught up in the moment), i was furious he even got a 50m penalty.
if he misses games for that we may as well put singlets on the players saying "wing defence, centre, wing attack, goal shooter".

 

[notting18]

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An interesting comment by Leigh today where he apologised to Brown for mismanaging him and not giving him a rest on the bench during the Hawks game as he played as a HFF/Midfielder. The more I think about it, the more I suspect that Leigh might have pulled a great move and had Brown play as a Decoy last week to capitalise on Bradshaw's great form...

Source for the comments was 10 news, a clip played from his Press Conference today.

 

[Hollow Knight]

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Source for the comments was 10 news, a clip played from his Press Conference today.

Saw a clip on ABC news of Lethal saying that supporters should be reassured that re-signing Jonathan is a maximum priority.

 

[Cousin Jed]

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Robert Walls on On the Couch about Brown "Is he Happy?"

 

[Hollow Knight]

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Robert Walls on On the Couch about Brown "Is he Happy?"

More info Jed!

What bullshit is Wallsy trying to spin?

 

[Cousin Jed]

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That was it. Just asked the question. Had nothing.

 

[notting18]

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Robert Walls on On the Couch about Brown "Is he Happy?"

Yeah just crap - A contract subtle dig and then went on to say Brown was "struggling" to cope with Bradshaw being the focus, or he has just had a few below par games maybe and still kicked more than 2 goals on average?

 

[chopperduck]

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they just can't help but bring out the big wooden spoons and start stirring every time browns contract comes up. when will those melbourne people learn, he didn't kidnap him and have been forcing him to play here, he choose us and likes it up here.

i would imagine being a player of his stature living in melbourne would bug someone like browny. bet he loves the peace and quiet he gets up here

 

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/22/2223622.htm?section=sport

Lions desperate to keep Brown

The Brisbane Lions have vowed to do all they can to retain key forward and co-captain Jonathan Brown.
Brisbane expects its off-contract star to receive massive offers from other clubs.
The Lions will not comment on contract negotiations, but coach Leigh Matthews says he obviously wants Brown to remain in Brisbane.
"The only thing that's important is our supporters need to know that we will doing our best as a footy club to make sure Browny plays for us for the rest of his career," he said.
Matthews admits he let Brown down in the Lions' 12 point loss to the Hawks on Saturday evening.
Hawthorn held Brown goalless, but he did not get a break despite playing up the field.
Matthews says Brown should have spent some time on the interchange bench.
"We hung Browny out to dry on the weekend, I mean I really am going to apologise to Browny because he didn't come off the field," he said.
"Browny virtually played as a midfield half-forward and he played the whole game.
"We really handled him badly on the weekend I thought."

 

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And when quizzed about Brown's efforts against Hawthorn, he said the star forward had been let down by the coaching staff on Saturday night and deserved an apology. "We hung Brownie out to dry on the weekend, I'm going to apologise because he didn't come off the field," Matthews said.
He said Brown had played almost the whole game as a running midfielder and deserved to be given rests like the rest of the midfield rotation.
"We really handled him badly," he said.
"If you are playing deep forward, like Daniel Bradshaw, you can play pretty much the whole game at full-forward.
"But once you are up the field it is just too quick, we failed to use Brownie the same we did with our other midfield half-forwards."

 

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The Lions’ best player in this Sunday’s AFL ANZAC Round clash against Melbourne will be presented with the Sands of Gallipoli Award. Co-captain Jonathan Brown has won the award three times since it was introduced by the Club in 2003. Brown earned the honour in 2004, 2006 and 2007 while Michael Voss (2003) and Nigel Lappin (2005) are the only other two recipients

 

[acuguy]

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Brown has just had a couple of poor games and Braddles has stood up, this happened last year and we got pumped by 10 goals, now we can still win or be competitive, this is a good thing. Brown had opportunities and didn't nut them, things didn't fall his way, he will be back bigger and better than ever this week.

 

[chopperduck]

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Brown has just had a couple of poor games and Braddles has stood up, this happened last year and we got pumped by 10 goals, now we can still win or be competitive, this is a good thing. Brown had opportunities and didn't nut them, things didn't fall his way, he will be back bigger and better than ever this week.

exactly. after lethals comments in the paper as well re: coaching staff stuffing up browns game, i expect him to be up forward and dominating this week. brown will be keen for a big one and the coaching staff wont make the same mistake twice.

might even play out of the goal square after the hawks game.

 

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Brown to become the first $6m man
Chip Le Grand
April 23, 2008

JONATHAN BROWN has begun contract negotiations with Brisbane which, if successful, will make him a Lion for life and Australia's highest paid domestic footballer.
Brown's asking price to stay with the club he shared three premierships with is $1.2million a season - the same salary he is being paid this year - for the next five years. Under these terms, when he next comes out of contract he will be 32.
The contract proposed by Brown's management would make him the game's first $6m man and dwarf the salaries of St George Illawarra's Mark Gasnier, Wallaby Lote Tuqiri and Sydney FC's John Aloisi, the highest earners in their respective codes.
The deal is being negotiated by Sydney-based sports consultant Glenn Warry who, prior to working with Australian rugby and soccer, clinched five-year "lifetime" deals for Essendon's James Hird in 2000 and Joe Misiti in 2001.
Warry refused to comment yesterday on negotiations but confirmed he had renewed his accreditation with the AFL Players' Association to act on Brown's behalf. It is understood he met Lions officials this week.
Brown is determined to play his entire AFL career with Brisbane and has instructed Warry not to enter negotiations with rival clubs. He has also revealed plans beyond this season, choosing a function room within the Lions' Gabba headquarters for his wedding reception in October.
The sticking point is likely to be the length of the contract, with the Lions having indicated their preference for a three- or four-year deal.
Although Brown has not missed a game through injury since 2006, his 144 career matches have exacted a savage toll on his body, in part because of the high-impact position he plays. In the five years between 2003 and 2007, Brown missed 28 matches through injury and suspension.
Brisbane's reticence to sign Brown for such an extended period is well-placed given the recent history of five-year player contracts within the AFL.
While the Misiti deal was an unmitigated disaster for Essendon, Carlton has only this year cleared its books of the fifth and final year of Anthony Koutoufides' back-ended contract.
According to the original terms of Aaron Hamill's five-year deal with St Kilda, he should have been playing this season. Instead, he is working as a radio commentator, having played 39 of 96 possible games in the previous four seasons.
Brisbane experienced this first-hand when it signed Justin Leppitsch for a five-year contract until the end of 2008. Instead of holding up the Lions defence, the injury-ravaged Leppitsch has spent the past two seasons holding a magnetic board in the coaches' box.
Yet for all the risks inherent in signing Brown until the end of 2013 - by which time he will have played 14 gruelling seasons - Brisbane will be tempted to make use of the AFL's veterans' list allowance, which Brown will qualify for in the final two years of a five-year deal. Under current AFL rules, only half of Brown's salary would be counted under the club's salary cap.
The club is also mindful that by the end of 2010, it is likely a form of free agency will be in place to assist the AFL's new Gold Coast team to recruit out-of-contract players for its debut season. Brown is one of four marquee players identified as recruiting priorities by the Gold Coast organisation.
When Brown is fit and in form, as he was for all of last season, he is the most destructive player in the game. For all the buzz about Hawthorn's Lance Franklin at the moment, Brown in 2007 kicked more goals, created more goals for team-mates and took more marks within goal-kicking range than any player in the competition.
He is the reigning Coleman medallist, a two-time club champion, an All-Australian centre half-forward and the competition's best captain as voted by the players' association. Next month, Brown will captain Victoria in the Hall of Fame tribute match.
Since the retirement of Michael Voss and Jason Akermanis's trade at the end of the 2006 season, Brown has also become the public face of his club, senior coach Leigh Matthews notwithstanding.
Clubs have always made exceptions for exceptional players, as the Hird contract, the Koutoufides contract and Brisbane's famous 10-year deal for Alastair Lynch showed. Already this week, Matthews has bent one of his own rules by commenting, albeit very briefly, on contract negotiations with Brown, something Lions officials are normally loath to do.
"What our supporters need to know is that we will be doing our best as a footy club to make sure Brownie plays for us the rest of his career," Matthews said.