Review Preliminary Final, 2020 - Brisbane Lions vs. Geelong

[ZoBlitz]

Anxiety.

 

[dlanod]

Time to break out the threepeat DVDs.

 

[PhatBoy]

Guys just want to say bad luck. You’re a very very good side and have built on what you started last year. And in 12 months you’ll be there again.

Takes a lot of little steps to take the big step to winning flags and the Lions have taken another one this year. You’ve got a great team, great coach, hopefully you will go a step further again next year

 

[bato]

Cats just faaaaar too good.

 

[dlanod]

Have the umps paid more than one throw out of the 32 that were dished out tonight ?

I'm pretty sure you mean "quick hands".

Actually, credit to BT actually calling that BS instead of just letting it slide like Bruce would.

 

[pulpdriver]

Switching from beer to whiskey.

 

[PTizzle]

Not great. Feel very bleh. Week off didn't help at all - looked flat and lethargic. Goalkicking sucked, mids (apart from Neale) got well and truly shown up. Credit to Geelong, they smashed us.

On the plus side, list is in great shape. We'll be back.

 

[Harris Specter]

Cats are so professional and an excellent team. Wish we put in more of a fight but oh well. We will learn from the experience.

Well played Geelong, outplayed us from the start.

 

[jackess]

Need more midfield depth.

Rucks - were dominated
Neale - solid
Lyons - woeful
Zorko - poor
Clug - average
Robbo - horrible
CEY - gave nothing
Berry and Bailey - offered little.

While all of Geelongs midfielders were quite solid

 

[haystark]

I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.

 

[Dalions]

They were just better than us in every facet of the game

 

[Nunez]

Bloody proud of this club and how far we've come. Crushed this ride had to end but we're a bloody young team only just starting our journey. I back in Fagan and co 100%.

 

[3KZ is Football]

 

[dlanod]

Only giving votes to defenders and Brownlow medalists tonight. Would be quite willing to take votes off about 14 players.

 

[Sausages]

As I said in the matchday thread, we lost a Prelim in 99 - so let's chalk up tonight as just a bump in the road, not the end of an era. We've come a long way, year on year and there's plenty of good days ahead.

Let's see how we go in the trade period, enjoy our off-season and come back fresh and hungry in 2021.

Now I'm off to watch the Merseyside derby

 

[Sanchez365]

******* livid. But the cats won every quarter.

Not sure if it was worse to be the better team and get knocked out. Or just to have been soundly beaten in a prelim.

I feel like we lost it in the ruck and the forward line tonight. Barely locked it in our forward half all game.

 

[PhatBoy]

Cats are so professional and an excellent team. Wish we put in more of a fight but oh well. We will learn from the experience.

Well played Geelong, outplayed us from the start.

Plenty of good things to come for Brisbane later down the track

 

[pulpdriver]

I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.

Ahh, flashbacks from dad.

 

[dlanod]

Need more midfield depth.

Rucks - were dominated
Neale - solid
Lyons - woeful
Zorko - poor
Clug - average
Robbo - horrible
CEY - gave nothing
Berry and Bailey - offered little.

While all of Geelongs midfielders were quite solid

Still improvement in several of those and hopefully improvement in others outside the 22 forcing out the older underperformers.

 

[ZoBlitz]

On the positive side, if Payne gets enough votes we'll have a best rookie winner in the Player of the Year competition.

 

[topend]

Cats a class above us. Certainly no point pointing the fingers at individuals saying “ they need to go”. We had our chances.

 

[iBeng]

Another year of experience, we should still play finals again next year, a few retirements (Birch, Martin, Robinson?) and a belief that we at least CAN win in finals.

Still damn proud of the club. Just not our night, Dangerfield and Ablett wanted it more.

Also, Stanley made our rucks look like under 9s.

 

[FLVanLandingham]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK


Not tired, just not ...there

Special mentions to Payne who was solid, McCarthy who tried to lift us on his back in the third.

Other players played well (Neale, Andrews, Charles).. but other than that there was SO many players where I had to really think about their contribution. A massive shame.

I'm not smart enough to state whether the 2 changes led to some moments of ineptitude. Defensively I think it was more individual skill errors that led to goals, not breakdown of structures (other than once or twice.....) In the forwardline... Charles and Linc fired their shots, Hippy leapt a bit.. but other than that it was a cold dark night of... nothing much

Midfield came back after some bad first quarter, but the synergy was just not all that there.

Also we were out-coached (or their players played to their plan better)



* it, ONTO NEXT YEAR

proud of the boys regardless. THIS WAS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE REMEMBER

edit: and I'll go to my grave saying illegal disposal is a broken ******* rule, 'chaos ball', 'quick hands', and whatever the hell stupid inept commentators jerking off their favourite team call it.. Throws go uncalled every week. So many other rules/calls I am fine with the grey areas, but there is no grey area with a THROW compared to a handball. I may need my eye-sight checked and maybe their hands really are that quick. But I don't care if I'm wrong or irrational, throws are putrid.

 

[ZoBlitz]

Think Rayner will eventually end up playing more midfield time.

I'm sure Zorks has been playing injured for much of the year which hasn't helped.

 

[Nuggo]

Great year, disappointing finish.
Lot of players below their best tonight.