Michael Voss

[tribey]

But seriously, good luck this year - can't help but be fond of the way you guys have turned yourselves around so quickly, I remember our scrappy affair in the pouring rain at AAMI in front of 13,953 in 2012, massive job well done.

Where for the 4,572nd time a Brisbane Lions team steamrolled a Port Adelaide outfit that seemingly had the game well in-hand.

Seriously, it's happened like 15 times. Even in games we won (R1/2001; R22/2002; R2/2005).

 

[raman]

Where for the 4,572nd time a Brisbane Lions team steamrolled a Port Adelaide outfit that seemingly had the game well in-hand.

Seriously, it's happened like 15 times. Even in games we won (R1/2001; R22/2002; R2/2005).

LOL @ R1/2001 one week after we thrashed them in the ol' Ansett Cup final.

 

[finbarr]

Where for the 4,572nd time a Brisbane Lions team steamrolled a Port Adelaide outfit that seemingly had the game well in-hand.

Seriously, it's happened like 15 times. Even in games we won (R1/2001; R22/2002; R2/2005).

From memory they were streaming toward goal as the siren went too.

 

[tribey]

From memory they were streaming toward goal as the siren went too.

Is my memory correct in saying Aaron Shattock was visibly lol'ing as he lined up to shank a tight shot for goal out of bounds at 5-odd goals up in Q4 rather than after?

As far as symbolic catalysts go, that was one of the better ones that sparked one of our vintage Williams-era collapses.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I hate you all for making this pop up on my feed and reminding me that Vossy isn't a Lion anymore.



But seriously, good luck this year - can't help but be fond of the way you guys have turned yourselves around so quickly, I remember our scrappy affair in the pouring rain at AAMI in front of 13,953 in 2012, massive job well done.

God I hated that game. I hope Matt Thomas got Best and Fairest votes for you guys that round.

And yet the one I remember most was 2008 (I think) when it started absolutely pissing down at 3/4 time and you guys came back to win from like 40 points down.

My favourite (non-GF, obviously) Brisbane game was that time where Josh Carr got Jared Brennan to headbutt him. Such a great meltdown.

You guys are next on the meteoric rise from the depths list, could be this year!

Yep, agree with this. Just need one or two of McStay/Close/Freeman/Staker/McGuane/Paine to step up and have an impact, and they'll make finals this year IMO.

I do remember Peter "The Flame" Walsh standing out, probably due to his hair more than anything.

Peter Walsh is my favourite obscure Port player, he was quality. Just a pity we went to shit as soon as he got old enough to be shunted out for rebuilding purposes. Probably would've played in a Grand Final if he'd gotten another contract in 2007 when we were actually playing to win rather than playing to rebuild (admittedly not the best Grand Final to play in, but still).

 

[Janey]

If you are correct - they have never said that to the media - then you have heard it around the club. I have heard Voss about 10 times since he got the gig and the story is always the same Hart rang him in October they talked about it for a few days and then he and his family discussed for 3 days before he said yes.

I knew I'd heard it somewhere but couldn't remember exactly when, but there are a few posts earlier in this thread, round the #555 mark, about an interview Vossy did on 5aa where he mentioned it. It seemed to fit with the appointment being made so soon after Phil to the crows was announced.

 

[TeeKray]

The trick is to basically be uncopyable.

Hawthorn did this by drafting and trading in only elite kicks for 15 years. They now play a skillful style that simply can't be replicated by trying to play the same way. You have to overhaul your entire list. Hawthorn don't miss targets. They aren't invincible but they are very hard to beat.

I'm hoping Burgo's training methods are our uncopyable factor. While I don't want to see any player get injured, i'm hoping other teams struggle for various reasons when they try to emulate the sort of running our guys are doing. Either way, we should have a few years head start on anyone else trying the same style.

You can't just wake up one day and decide to become an elite running team. We've recruited for our game style and we've trained for our game style. I hope clubs like the Crows try to copy our game because they'll just be doing the same thing but be two years behind us. The teams we have to watch out for are the ones trying something new and different to combat our strengths.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

You can't just wake up one day and decide to become an elite running team. We've recruited for our game style and we've trained for our game style. I hope clubs like the Crows try to copy our game because they'll just be doing the same thing but be two years behind us. The teams we have to watch out for are the ones trying something new and different to combat our strengths.

Two years and at least 10 players.

 

[Macca19]

Yep, agree with this. Just need one or two of McStay/Close/Freeman/Staker/McGuane/Paine to step up and have an impact, and they'll make finals this year IMO.

One year too early imo.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

The 2006 Showdown belting where Danyle Pearce kicked a beautiful snap in the wet. Shattock racked up 20+ of the loosest touches I've ever seen. He was literally two kicks behind the play in a role that made Nathan Lonie look like Ollie Wines.

My proudest moment as a closeted Port man was calling shenanigans on his recruitment. If he'd spent his Brisbane career at literally any other club he wouldn't have got a second chance, and yet here he was, 'replacing' Josh Carr.

HA funny you mention that game right as I was thinking about it and was about to post about something that happened in it

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Ollie Wines talks up the influence Michael Voss is having with the Port midfield group, both team and individual tactics. Oh and Voss won the headlock contest.

Voss the Boss

In his three seasons at Alberton, Wines has had three midfield coaches with the latest change forced by Phil Walsh’s move to Adelaide as coach. Voss’ arrival continues to advance the quick and varied education of the Power midfielders.
“They are pretty similar,” Wines said in comparing Voss and Walsh. “ ‘Vossy’ has that more premiership experience being a three-time premiership captain. You can’t get better than that.
“Walsh was awesome in setting us up and now ‘Vossy’ has come in and is taking us to that next level from all his experience.”

Voss the Boss

 

[BornPort]

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Tony Mokbel not bad with the interview

 

[PJ Power]

Stirring stuff from Voss. That's why he is a champ. Sounds like a very similar ethos to the one that Kenny has tried to instill. That's true humility right there - the humility that fires you to keep striving to improve, because you realise that you are always short of being perfect. Take nothing for granted. Stay constantly on edge and hungry. It's the opposite of arrogance, and yet it is the fundamental basis for ruthlessness.

 

[Portress Hill]

liked listening to vossy. he's right. we will always be hunting. win 10 in a row, and we are still hunting for no.11.

 

[Del80659]

everything he said and he has said about the Lions and the way they played is essentially the same as us, selfless and aware of the role every member of the team plays, unique because every player is unique and important to the structure. they had stars across the board as we do but they became superstars as we want to be. he the captain of that team reminds me of Boak so much, they way they play and lead, real leaders. but on top of our leaders getting advice from someone like Vossy it's the younger guys that will learn it straight from a triple premiership captain, guys like Broadbent and Pittard and coming through that would want to be leaders at this club in the years ahead.

 

[tangolikelama]

Uh huh

 

[tribey]

Uh huh

Krak extreme bottom left. Stood up. Couldn't deal. Sat down.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I have no idea what is going on.

Why is, I think it's Hammer, wearing a suit jacket, and why is johnny platten filming in the middle of the throng?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Uh huh

And the Four N Twenty branding has started with the last 5 or so seconds of the ad. Nice set up cameras everywhere.

 

[Smartys Power]

Uh huh

The extreme over the top reaction is what makes this video.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Uh huh

That clipboard folded up like Scott Burns at the sight of Michael Voss.

Do you reckon Vossy gave the board a mouthful?

 

[Kingfish73]

That clipboard folded up like Scott Burns at the sight of Michael Voss.

Do you reckon Vossy gave the board a mouthful?

Awesome stuff

 

[I Dont Care]

That clipboard folded up like Scott Burns at the sight of Michael Voss.

Do you reckon Vossy gave the board a mouthful?

I have a vague memory of an incident way back when Vossy and Choppy both collided and ended up on the ground. Both got straight up as if nothing happened, where lesser mortals would have been stretchered off

 

[OneGreatClub]

I can't pick it yet. Is he changing our game plan? Are the boys any tougher? Is the coaching box evolving differently or a touch dysfunctional or have we just been unlucky in two tough games? Thoughts.