Review Round 1, 2018 - St. Kilda vs. Brisbane Lions

[ZoBlitz]

Fun fact we've only beaten the Saints once at Docklands and that was back in 2000, the first time we played them there (0 from 8).

Or is it now 1 from 9?

 

[Mooch]

He has his detractors, but we have missed Richy after he went off. Really put a dent in our plans.

He's on crutches. Hopefully just a precaution. It looked like one of those you could run off. Hope it's not bad.

We did miss him when he went off but we definitely missed having the extra rotation.

 

[dlanod]

It was a moral victory.

 

[ZoBlitz]

Same old, same old.

 

[SSwans2011]

Thought it was a pretty impressive performance from you guys. Rich going down was pretty big, and the Saints' extra rotation was pretty obvious towards the end.

Walker and Bell go and you'll have a pretty exciting side.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Dal Santo should be benched until he learns not to talk like a chipmunk on speed.

There is no enunciation between words, just a stream of breathless gibberish.

 

[3KZ is Football]

What benefit was derived from playing Walker as a defender and starting McStay as a forward. He needs to be down back for the rest of his career. It simply unsettled everything early. What did Fagan think would happen? Walker named at CHF and he should play there. Did he think McStay would kick a bag? St.Kilda would be rattled by this positional masterstroke? Poorly coached today.

 

[carnthemlions]

Plenty of mistakes, but that's a great effort minus Rich for most of the game, especially so with Zorko (tagged?) and Beams having no influence.
Walker has to go, injured or not. Last season he was a decent marking target up the ground, but he's barely afl standard player and will never be more than that.

If St Kilda's gameplan is to be reactive and prey on the mistakes of lesser sides, good luck to them.

 

[Paulborracho]

Another rubbish finish to a game.
Bell is useless.
Hipwood should go back to Colts footy.
Bundy is the most over rated small forward.

They all quit midway through the last Qtr.

Piss weak Lions. Piss weak

 

[James North]

Turnovers. (C) Brisbane Lions AFC 2005-????

 

[Nunez]

Disappointing to lose but we kept it to a close loss, won some good key indicators and did it with a player down.

While our turnovers and fumbles when marking really cost us the game, we have plenty of signs that we're not that far away from being able to beat the mid table teams.

 

[Rocketman1984]

It was a moral victory.

Hipwood needs to play up the ground his field kicking especially into the 50 is actually very good.

 

[BRAB]

We were our own worst enemies today.

 

[deklares]

Hodge, Robbo, Beams, Berry, Cameron

 

[Hollow Knight]

We were +20 for contested possessions late in the third term, ended up +6. Effort dropped with the energy levels sadly, but that is a big positive.

The more we win the footy, the more confidence we have to not play behind and the more practice we get on moving it effectively.

Can see where the work needs to be done, but there is a lot of potential for improvement this season.

 

[carnthemlions]

Oh and demolish that horrendous cavern. It produces football as soulless and uninteresting as the stadium.

 

[jjami15]

Positives: Berry and Robertson
Negatives: Bell, Zorko, turnovers, Bell, turnovers and oh did I mention Bell

 

[Paulborracho]

Holding and making tackles......... helps to win a game.

 

[Lions Flag 2020]

Berry awesome
Hugh composed
Stef enormous
Cameron threatening
Taylor excellent
Hodge 4 x premiership player

With 4 rotations next week and Beams more match fit (he was gone by 3 quarter time) we will get better.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Hipwood should go back to Colts footy.

Jesus, didn’t have a good game but you want to exile him to Western Australia?

 

[deklares]

Tom "blinkers" Bell blazing away in the 3rd looks like the beginning of the end. Not the only culprit but I struggle to see what he offers us that Matho can't provide.

 

[patfullfankezz]

Oh and demolish that horrendous cavern. It produces football as soulless and uninteresting as the stadium.

As someone who has been to just about every stadium in the country (brag, brag), I can safely say that Etihad is one of my least favourite (the worst in the country by far though is Metricon). The surface just looks horrible right now.

 

[Gadzorks]

Was hoping they could leave this game pumped even with a loss to build on where they left off last year. Unfortunately cheap turn over goals are deflating (just ask dan Merrett).

A few more games like that and it could really set us back.

 

[Lions Flag 2020]

Also
Robertson best game
Mitch committed

 

[3KZ is Football]

Bell worked his way into it in the third quarter and wasn’t the worst. Some of our ‘sacred cows’ in defense had poor games.
People shouldn’t be too harsh on Walker. I would have played him at Full Forward today once it was clear Hipwood wasn’t going to hold a mark. Hipwood to CHF for mine. Get him up the ground a bit.