Review Preliminary Final, 2024 - Geelong vs. Brisbane Lions

[knaf]

In more BREAKING NEWS - Llordo “confirms” the Cats threw the game.



All jokes aside is there a bigger pelican in the game? Would like his opinion on how we carried our ruckman for 2 quarters with one arm and whether that cost us.

Not being able to make a decision on replacing an injured player, when they had Duncan, a quality winger, on the bench was terrible and possibly game changing mistake. I have to wonder if King, the assistant coach is the brains in the Cats coaching box. Almost amateur hour.

 

[braddsey]

Goes to show how important the entire off field team and also why there needed to be a cap on spending. No doubt the big clubs would’ve benefited hugely from being able to employ guys like Cotchin while the Lions were struggling to get anyone to the club

I think getting in Cotchin shows how mature the club is, and going to the end to improve on last year. We clearly have the talent, the fitness, the coaching. Now it’s the final 1%.

 

[SSwans2011]

So rapt for you guys. Herculean effort over the last two weeks, and it's great that the Grand Final is the two best and IMO most deserving teams in it. It was an amazing game, and the way the Lions played in the second half was a thing of beauty. Some of the most scintillating football I can recall.

As a proud Queenslander that only follows the Swans because my old man does, the Swans vs Lions has always been my dream Grand Final, to the extent that you guys winning effectively turned yesterday into my Grand Final.

I'll be a happy man however next week goes. All the best for the week and the game.

Also, Cal Ah Chee is a champion. One of my favourite players.

 

[Monkey Daniel]

Here: https://www.boomarang.com.sg/

I think the one at Robertson Quay is better from memory. Food isn't too bad either, for what it is.

Can vouch for this, watched Collingwood v Melbourne in the final round. naturally had chicken parma

 

[braddsey]

Every week there's a blow up of whatever the umps missed and how we've been dudded.

Honestly I think I'm one of the worst at having a crack at the umps but in this finals series the umpiring's been for the most part fine. There were decisions missed for both teams yesterday. That's really the nature of it. You just don't want howlers at crucial moments.

on the replay 2 that were a little in our favour… Charlie’s mark on the boundary. Very hard to call, would have needed the ARC to overturn on the replay. Rub of the green on that one.

The “unduly rough play” or whatever it was on Kai, I think it was Stanley. Hodgey called it wrong, and that’s tough prelim football. I think it was correct, but maybe a correction in the right direction from the AFL to protect exposed players jumping for the ball. Plenty of players have broken ribs and worse in those kind of incidents, and i feel it’s right to protect them. Perhaps it’s one more step to the bump disappearing, but if Lohmann had been injured and taken from the ground, that is not right. Correct call for me.

 

[Nunez]

on the replay 2 that were a little in our favour… Charlie’s mark on the boundary. Very hard to call, would have needed the ARC to overturn on the replay. Rub of the green on that one.

The “unduly rough play” or whatever it was on Kai, I think it was Stanley. Hodgey called it wrong, and that’s tough prelim football. I think it was correct, but maybe a correction in the right direction from the AFL to protect exposed players jumping for the ball. Plenty of players have broken ribs and worse in those kind of incidents, and i feel it’s right to protect them. Perhaps it’s one more step to the bump disappearing, but if Lohmann had been injured and taken from the ground, that is not right. Correct call for me.

The impression I got with the Kai one was Stanley had no eye on the ball and took Kai front on. Borderline but think it was a 5050 call at worst.

 

[braddsey]

As an old Fitzroy family, i’m loving having my family around and fully invested in the Lions again. They were heartbroken in 1996 and went their separate ways (Hawthorn, Carlton).
Dad came to the 2002 GF with me, but everyone else skipped the 3-peat.
This 2nd coming of the Lions under Fagan has drawn them back. Perhaps enough water has gone under the bridge, but they are genuinely supporting 2 teams right now, wearing Lions guernsey’s to the match last night. Dad (80) and 2 brothers will be there next week, having queued from 5am for seats in the MCC. Sure, they didn’t live through the dark years pre-Fagan, but there’s enough dark years in our past. The brother in the attached photo is flying down from Sydney next weekend for the match.

 

[T Rick]

If we lost, would Lloyd be asking the same question about Oscar?

Fages would have somehow been targeted for a lack of "tactical nous"...

 

[notliondown]

I thought Channel 7’s fly on the wall documentary “Tomahawk and Tuohy Watch a Game of Footy” was really good last night. The occasional brief glimpses of the actual football match really brought it to life.

You forgot the "how to massage Holmes" segment that lasted 45 minutes...

Edit.... Clearly I need to scroll before I post [emoji1751][emoji1751][emoji1751]

 

[3KZ is Football]

High and absolutely justified praise for Ryan Lester

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Ryan Lester

Age

33

Ht

190cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.9

4star

K

7.9

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.7

4star

MG

170.4

3star

D

10.3

3star

K

5.8

2star

HB

4.5

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

1.5

2star

MG

140.7

3star

D

12.6

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

5.8

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

0.6

3star

from Dayne Zorko

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Dayne Zorko

Age

36

Ht

175cm

Wt

77kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.4

5star

K

13.2

5star

HB

8.2

5star

M

3.6

4star

T

6.0

5star

MG

440.5

5star

D

14.0

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

5.0

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

5.0

5star

MG

291.0

4star

D

16.4

4star

K

9.8

4star

HB

6.6

4star

M

5.2

5star

T

6.6

5star

.

 

[dlanod]

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High and absolutely justified praise for Ryan Lester from Dayne Zorko.

Ryan is Dayne's nepobaby

 

[3KZ is Football]

Ryan is Dayne's nepobaby

only reason he gets a game!

 

[Lions Flag 2020]

My 13 year old son yelled at the TV - who is this man when Lester burst out of defence again!

He was best player on park last night.

 

[Elixuh]

Brisbane Lions champion Luke Hodge can barely watch.

 

[FeastOrFamine]

I'm so proud of this team. The grit and determination they've shown in this finals series has been unreal. Fagan and the coaching staff have got this group humming. They're playing for each other and they have that belief about them that'll be incredibly hard to quell.

The best part for me imo is that the point of difference in our last 2 games has come from the young brigade stepping up. I can't heap enough praise onto all of them. Ashcroft has proven he's built for finals. Wilmot, Fletcher, Lohmann and Morris have all shown their mettle too in important moments.

 

[BuntonRules]

Joes time in the ruck was interesting. Did well halving ruck contests but then played very selflessly and defensively around the ground following around the Geelong ruck and playing behind the ball

IMO he attacked the ruck contest with a lot more vigor than when he was just relieving O.

 

[dlanod]

Ashcroft has proven he's built for finals.

Will just plays at a different speed to everyone else a lot of the time. It's uncanny to watch.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

I'm so proud of this team. The grit and determination they've shown in this finals series has been unreal. Fagan and the coaching staff have got this group humming. They're playing for each other and they have that belief about them that'll be incredibly hard to quell.

The best part for me imo is that the point of difference in our last 2 games has come from the young brigade stepping up. I can't heap enough praise onto all of them. Ashcroft has proven he's built for finals. Wilmot, Fletcher, Lohmann and Morris have all shown their mettle too in important moments.

Yeah. I'm barracking for the Lions next week for sure.

 

[Rosscoe_666]

Welfare check on David King anyone? I’m not sure he’s coping right now!!!

He didn't cope at all. He actually stated that Fages coached better than Scott in the final two and a half minutes, despite having no answer to Tom Stewart's dominance

 

[beatnik]

The amount of front on contact frees they were ignoring was infuriating.

‘Cept one

 

[FLVanLandingham]

Will just plays at a different speed to everyone else a lot of the time. It's uncanny to watch.

I may be misremembering, but I think a few really important goals in our last 3 matches have come from a Ashcroft handball intercept

he reads it so well

 

[Nathan Barley]

How the **** does Hipwood get a fine and Henry gets off for the Charlie hit?

 

[morsie]

I can see why the last free to Stanley was paid because it appeared Andrews had interfered with him front on with no interest in the ball. But the replay showed that Andrews barely touched him and Stanley was never going to mark it with his hands together as they were,

Could've been an interesting one if they were under a goal behind.

Disagree I reckon he shoved him in head or neck.I thought at the time no free but on subsequent viewings I reckon its correct and was unecessaru

 

[Rosscoe_666]

LESTER SHOWED THE WAY. REBOUND, SPEED AND COURAGE!

HE IS THE BACKLINE GENERAL!

No he didn't, no he's not, and speed and Lester are two words which do not belong in the same sentence. That being said, I nearly gave him a vote.

Ryan could well become the first player at any level of Australian Rules football to win both a "best clubman" award and a senior premiership!

 

[buttermuffs]

7 minutes left in the 3rd the ump missed the most obvious ruck infringement free in our forward pocket. Dunks and Stanley were the nominated rucks, some other Geelong player engaged Dunks, Stanley took it out of the ruck and cleared the defensive 50

How do the umps miss this?

Brain fade is the only obvious answer. Dunkley isn’t a typical ruck, and they had a lapse in concentration and forgot Dunkley was the ruck.

It would have 100% been picked up as an incorrect call, and one was paid in the last for Joe.

Not sure which ump missed it but that’s a missed call that rules you out of a grand final like Hosking’s incorrect throw in call last year.