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Well how about that?
I blinked… and it was round 21.
Seven wins in a row, and the high-flying Lions have well and truly roared into “Anything is Possible” territory. We are back at the Gabba on Saturday afternoon for our second of three straight home games. We take on a wilted Gold Coast Suns outfit in the latest installment of the greatest rivalry of all time:
The Q Clash
Zorko* Vs Miller.
It has been a sad state of affairs in recent times at Carrara - a state of affairs rubbed in by (state of) affairs legend Garry Lyon this week when he suggested as many as eight veterans of the league should consider making themselves available to help the struggling club build culcha. At the same time, I was watching the real Garry Lyon spin our men to a memorable victory at Edgbaston.
The situation down the road is one we are familiar with, and with the culcha curse and Victorian pillaging seemingly broken for the time being in Brisbane, my empathy is real. I hope the boys in red, gold and blue find a couple more wins for the long-suffering Gold Coast supporters this season, starting in round 22 against the Hawks.
It’s doomy and it’s gloomy at the moment down the highway, but the Suns youngsters have shown some optimistic signs at times. They’ve scrapped hard when they’ve turned up to play and taken each of their 3 wins this year by under a goal. They’ve also stretched 4 games to within 10 points. When they’re on they have a good solid crack. Most notably, a close loss to the Bombers two weeks ago lacked the finishing polish required to put down a side rampaging towards September.
For us, we’ve seen the goal posts shift many times in 2019 - they even seem to dance around when Dan McStay lines up from 25. But our horizons have opened so much this season that there is a case for each of our seven post-bye matches to have been the most important for the year at the time it was played. Round 21 is a rarity. It’s not the most important game for the season - given there will remain an opportunity to take two contending scalps with us into September regardless of this result. But a good win makes a lot of scenarios easier to achieve. To do the unlikely and steal a top 2 spot we probably need to win all three of our remaining matches. But 2 wins will secure a double chance, and a win on Saturday gives us two cracks at that cherry.
Our best efforts this week will deliver an important percentage boost and place destiny fairly and squarely into our own hands with the challenge of successive bouts against Geelong and Richmond looming. But if we rest on our laurels and give a young and inexperienced team a chance to belt out the song, we open ourselves up to undoing one hell of a lot of hard work. The Lions of old would lose this game. But I am highly confident we are no longer that ramshackle.
Lions to win big – 70 points.
Suns to do the Hawks next week.
*pending test
I blinked… and it was round 21.
Seven wins in a row, and the high-flying Lions have well and truly roared into “Anything is Possible” territory. We are back at the Gabba on Saturday afternoon for our second of three straight home games. We take on a wilted Gold Coast Suns outfit in the latest installment of the greatest rivalry of all time:
Zorko* Vs Miller.
It has been a sad state of affairs in recent times at Carrara - a state of affairs rubbed in by (state of) affairs legend Garry Lyon this week when he suggested as many as eight veterans of the league should consider making themselves available to help the struggling club build culcha. At the same time, I was watching the real Garry Lyon spin our men to a memorable victory at Edgbaston.
The situation down the road is one we are familiar with, and with the culcha curse and Victorian pillaging seemingly broken for the time being in Brisbane, my empathy is real. I hope the boys in red, gold and blue find a couple more wins for the long-suffering Gold Coast supporters this season, starting in round 22 against the Hawks.
It’s doomy and it’s gloomy at the moment down the highway, but the Suns youngsters have shown some optimistic signs at times. They’ve scrapped hard when they’ve turned up to play and taken each of their 3 wins this year by under a goal. They’ve also stretched 4 games to within 10 points. When they’re on they have a good solid crack. Most notably, a close loss to the Bombers two weeks ago lacked the finishing polish required to put down a side rampaging towards September.
For us, we’ve seen the goal posts shift many times in 2019 - they even seem to dance around when Dan McStay lines up from 25. But our horizons have opened so much this season that there is a case for each of our seven post-bye matches to have been the most important for the year at the time it was played. Round 21 is a rarity. It’s not the most important game for the season - given there will remain an opportunity to take two contending scalps with us into September regardless of this result. But a good win makes a lot of scenarios easier to achieve. To do the unlikely and steal a top 2 spot we probably need to win all three of our remaining matches. But 2 wins will secure a double chance, and a win on Saturday gives us two cracks at that cherry.
Our best efforts this week will deliver an important percentage boost and place destiny fairly and squarely into our own hands with the challenge of successive bouts against Geelong and Richmond looming. But if we rest on our laurels and give a young and inexperienced team a chance to belt out the song, we open ourselves up to undoing one hell of a lot of hard work. The Lions of old would lose this game. But I am highly confident we are no longer that ramshackle.
Lions to win big – 70 points.
Suns to do the Hawks next week.
*pending test
