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Preview - Round 19, Hawks v Lions
When: Saturday 24th July 2021
Where: TBC
Last time they met:
Round 1 2020, Seems an absolute eternity ago when Gil announced during the half time break of this game, that the season would be put on hold for at least a month due to the World wide Pandemic. That month turned into ten weeks which allowed a knee injury to Stefan Martin suffered during the game to heal in time for round 2. Who would have thought he would’t miss 1 round of footy after a PCL injury?
The result:
Unexpectedly the game was won by the Hawks in a fairly dominant performance that would have rocked the Lions and supporters after making the top 4 the year before. But was ultimately a 'who cares' type scenario after the Pandemic took hold and got too close to home for comfort.
The footy become insignificant!
The lions won the first quarter of the game, but lost all 3 quarters thereafter to lose the game 14.6.90 to 9.8.62. the Lions never really looked like the team of 2019 and Kane Cornes prediction of missing finals looked ever so likely. A Preliminary final later and all forgotten.
To this weeks game:
I have to apologize to all because, I honestly think that I am the curse and not the Metricon surface and Stadium because every time I write a Preview for a game it is after a loss. Which makes it extremely hard to come up with positives when writing a preview, I would dearly love to write a preview after a good win one day.
After the off-season aquisition of Grant Birchall in the 2019 Trade period he is still yet to play his first game against his old club where he won 4 Premierships. After missing his first chance with an untimely injury (Hamstring awareness) before the game mentioned above.
It is looking likely that he will get his chance against his old club this week as I very much doubt he is dropped this week as Fages will know this all too well and will look after his oooold mate.
Speaking of old mates, I miss Hodgey. That was an experiment that was well executed and personally I think, a good reason why we rose so quickly. The Birchall experiment? Well that is another story.
I have no doubt he will rise to the occasion this week though and put in a solid performance.
Last 5:
The Hawks have been in patchy form all year really, currently with 4 wins and a draw and sitting in 17th on the ladder. With a pretty young team who have looked promising at times and poor at others but coming off a big draw against top of the table Melbourne 79 points a piece.
If they are to bring that sort of form and heat to this game they will be hard to beat.
Especially the way the Lions have been playing the last 2 weeks.
Coming off 2 bad losses against teams pushing for the 8.
The boys appear to be very tired after all the travel in the last month and it seems forever since they have played at the Gabba with this game likely to be played in either Tassie or again at Metricon. Yuk!
Not sure I will make the effort to drive down this week if it is there?
I think we have them beat for talent in both the front and back 3rds of the ground so the midfield is where it will be won.
Mitchell is back to his Brownlow year with disposals and along with O’Meara and Sheils, Phillips and Worpel they will rack up possessions and keep our midfield honest, but if our mids can get on top then we should win easily enough.
Harris has a habit of letting the lesser likes kick a bag on him by giving them no respect and playing 10m off them, so…… yeah, there’s that but I can’t see them kicking enough goals to beat a rampant Lions team running out 40 point winners.
Changes:
T. Bez for a tired looking Coleman and
AhChee to come in for Prior.
P.S to finish with a positive spin, I always loved this video of the Lions first win against Hawthorn under the Fagan and Hodge era.
Not sure how to attach the actual video, so click on the link and press play.
Enjoy!
And Go Lions
Video 05:45 Mins Viewed Flashback Friday: Round 9 v Hawks It was only 12 months ago, but still it holds a place in the Brisbane Lions' 33-yea… 16 May 19
When: Saturday 24th July 2021
Where: TBC
Last time they met:
Round 1 2020, Seems an absolute eternity ago when Gil announced during the half time break of this game, that the season would be put on hold for at least a month due to the World wide Pandemic. That month turned into ten weeks which allowed a knee injury to Stefan Martin suffered during the game to heal in time for round 2. Who would have thought he would’t miss 1 round of footy after a PCL injury?
The result:
Unexpectedly the game was won by the Hawks in a fairly dominant performance that would have rocked the Lions and supporters after making the top 4 the year before. But was ultimately a 'who cares' type scenario after the Pandemic took hold and got too close to home for comfort.
The footy become insignificant!
The lions won the first quarter of the game, but lost all 3 quarters thereafter to lose the game 14.6.90 to 9.8.62. the Lions never really looked like the team of 2019 and Kane Cornes prediction of missing finals looked ever so likely. A Preliminary final later and all forgotten.
To this weeks game:
I have to apologize to all because, I honestly think that I am the curse and not the Metricon surface and Stadium because every time I write a Preview for a game it is after a loss. Which makes it extremely hard to come up with positives when writing a preview, I would dearly love to write a preview after a good win one day.
After the off-season aquisition of Grant Birchall in the 2019 Trade period he is still yet to play his first game against his old club where he won 4 Premierships. After missing his first chance with an untimely injury (Hamstring awareness) before the game mentioned above.
It is looking likely that he will get his chance against his old club this week as I very much doubt he is dropped this week as Fages will know this all too well and will look after his oooold mate.
Speaking of old mates, I miss Hodgey. That was an experiment that was well executed and personally I think, a good reason why we rose so quickly. The Birchall experiment? Well that is another story.
I have no doubt he will rise to the occasion this week though and put in a solid performance.
Last 5:
The Hawks have been in patchy form all year really, currently with 4 wins and a draw and sitting in 17th on the ladder. With a pretty young team who have looked promising at times and poor at others but coming off a big draw against top of the table Melbourne 79 points a piece.
If they are to bring that sort of form and heat to this game they will be hard to beat.
Especially the way the Lions have been playing the last 2 weeks.
Coming off 2 bad losses against teams pushing for the 8.
The boys appear to be very tired after all the travel in the last month and it seems forever since they have played at the Gabba with this game likely to be played in either Tassie or again at Metricon. Yuk!
Not sure I will make the effort to drive down this week if it is there?
I think we have them beat for talent in both the front and back 3rds of the ground so the midfield is where it will be won.
Mitchell is back to his Brownlow year with disposals and along with O’Meara and Sheils, Phillips and Worpel they will rack up possessions and keep our midfield honest, but if our mids can get on top then we should win easily enough.
Harris has a habit of letting the lesser likes kick a bag on him by giving them no respect and playing 10m off them, so…… yeah, there’s that but I can’t see them kicking enough goals to beat a rampant Lions team running out 40 point winners.
Changes:
T. Bez for a tired looking Coleman and
AhChee to come in for Prior.
P.S to finish with a positive spin, I always loved this video of the Lions first win against Hawthorn under the Fagan and Hodge era.
Not sure how to attach the actual video, so click on the link and press play.
Enjoy!
And Go Lions
Video 05:45 Mins Viewed Flashback Friday: Round 9 v Hawks It was only 12 months ago, but still it holds a place in the Brisbane Lions' 33-yea… 16 May 19
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