Review Round 4 = Brisbane Lions 116-83 Collingwood

[Dead Eye Didak]

So the Gabba is getting demolished in a couple of years, because it's a shite hole. What happens to our traditional clash with Brisbane. Surely they aren't going to get us to play this game at Carrara, and this will have to be played at the G for a few years until the new stadium is completed, if they wish to continue the traditional Easter Thursday clash....

 

[anshell]

So the Gabba is getting demolished in a couple of years, because it's a shite hole. What happens to our traditional clash with Brisbane. Surely they aren't going to get us to play this game at Carrara, and this will have to be played at the G for a few years until the new stadium is completed, if they wish to continue the traditional Easter Thursday clash....

Knowing what the AFL is like they’ll probably put the matches on at some suburban ground in Brisbane in front of about 6000 people rather than at the MCG.The AFL doesn’t seem to like us playing the Lions at the MCG for some reason.Even on the rare occasions that the Lions come down to Melbourne to play us,the games are usually at Marvel stadium,so no big home ground advantage for us.

 

[legendstatus]

Love some of the media articles on our loss

“Have the Lions found the blueprint to beat the Pies”

“Pies aren’t bulletproof”

“Hollywood Pies big issue exposed by the Lion”

A week is a long time in footy

Not all word for word but gee!!!


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[danielnajdek]

Yep they found the blue print.

Play us when we have no ruckman and release a video of Crisp a day before the game……

 

[TheBaron]

Huh.

"by his standard" - he hit the post instead of drilling it through the middle, gave away a free as we were breaking into the forward line and at least once failed to handle the ball cleanly. He'll think about those before 35 odd posessions.

 

[frizzle]

The goal kicking yips was even evident during the warm up out on the ground last night.
‘Johnson‘s set shots lacked consistency & were going a different direction each kick.
McReery missed to the right every set shot & did not correct it By the end of his last set shot.
specialist coaching is needed for addressing poor technique. Otherwise the players are just practicing bad habits without addressing their poor technique.
‘This can’t generally be fixed by the player themselves. It has to be coached.

 

[sr36]

We failed because we weren’t able to keep the ball deep enough and for long enough in our forward lines. Why?

Because our tall forwards for the past 3 weeks were busy having to do the ruck work and not doing the things that made us play good footy. Like taking marks deep or bringing the ball to ground and locking it in the forward 50 so that we can reset out defensive zones. Instead it was a trampoline.

We either took long shots or had to have the mids running too deep to enact scores. That left us vulnerable when the ball came out quickly. As they just had to get it past 1 maybe two lines of defensive set ups. Not the 3 we’ve been used to. And most of the time it’s been the third line that’s squeezed the crap out of the opposition in the past. Our structure failed and they were able to waltz out with ease and get out the back.

The kid would have been tall enough to at least contest. McStay is 193cm. At least Johnson jump over them. But he doesn’t have the body to wrastle….

The kid would have lost the battle. But I think we would have won the war last night.

Well we can’t keep doing this as this is the outcome. The Saints can run and will get out the back just as the Brions did.


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I wouldn't have played Steene, but think we robbed from the wrong end of the ground. I don't get the theory that having two 200 cm Kpds is a must, or that Frampton was irreplaceable to our defence after 2 games.

And even though they chose against it, they should have had a back up plan - Ruscoe as sub, so they could divert to it if the lesser forward line wasn't working. I don't think the coaches box played it well.

 

[thebaldfacts]

Shame we didn't convert those first 2 opportunities in the second, when we had the lead. Blew a chance to get a decent lead to put scoreboard pressure on them. Ash missed the first, then Jamie missed the lot. Both were set shots and normally you would expect at least 1 to go through.

 

[Wearmouth]

195 cm actually


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Not a chance. That’s not correct.


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[Dead Eye Didak]

Love some of the media articles on our loss

“Have the Lions found the blueprint to beat the Pies”

“Pies aren’t bulletproof”

“Hollywood Pies big issue exposed by the Lion”

A week is a long time in footy

Not all word for word but gee!!!


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I'd rather the media stop building us up as premiership favourites. I prefer to see us kept low-key without the tag of the team to beat. Let Melbourne, Sydney or even Carlton have those tags....

 

[Bianconeri]

I think last night shows how much we are missing Jeremy Howe in the backline.

I think Jeremy Howe would have been one of the main culprits of leaving his man out the back whilst not impacting the contest.

 

[TradeDraft]

The ruck really effected us. I rate McInerny and he gave them too much of the first ball around the ground for us to compete with.
Should be less of a task Marshall next week.

Was like watching us from 2nd Half of Last Season

 

[TradeDraft]

For me things to ponder ... .

Both Mitchell (back problem?) and Adams only 72% TOG

Time to give Macrae a Game then as been Domianting in the VFL to give at least 1 of these a Rest?

 

[TradeDraft]

Real reason for our loss to Lions....

Also could be a Player or Employee at the Lions

 

[TradeDraft]

Hopefully it's the loss we needed to have

Find out Next Week

 

[Quicky]

They were on. They pressured the handball outlets and we weren't clean enough to get through.

Our ball handling was awful. We failed to handle the humidity. So many dropped or double grabbed handball receives.

 

[Fat Jesus]

We move on. The best teams throughout history have lost games in premiership years.
Most of us had a fair idea we would lose this.
Horrible 2nd Quarter.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

I'd rather the media stop building us up as premiership favourites. I prefer to see us kept low-key without the tag of the team to beat. Let Melbourne, Sydney or even Carlton have those tags....

After last night, your wish may well come true.

 

[TradeDraft]

We move on. The best teams throughout history have lost games in premiership years.
Most of us had a fair idea we would lose this.
Horrible 2nd Quarter.

When we won the Flag in 2010 the Game up in Brisbane was the last Game we lost

 

[Go Woods]

This loss just keeps us grounded imo, as Fly says, we are not a finished product and there is a lot of work to be done by this group still.
Strap in for the ride folks...

 

[Quicky]

More than anything it was our ball handling in slippery conditions and under intense Brisbane pressure, and conversion in front of goal that cost us the game.

If we had successfully navigated our transition and overlap running without turning it over, and then converted our opportunities we'd have been every chance to win.

Brisbane coverted well and consistently applied pressure so credit to them. We fumbled the slippery ball too often under that pressure. It doesn't help not having a ruck and some other players being uncharacteristically poor.

It happens but its nothing to worry about just yet.

 

[Chrispiesssss]

It’s been over 24 hours and I’ve processed the match.

I think we will beat them in the future. My reasons:
- The Lions had no injuries. They essentially played their best team and kicked incredibly well 18.8. That was their “best performance”.

- we had more Howe, Cox, Cameron & possibly Lippa missing from our best team.

- our ruck situation was the equivalent to Lions losing Oscar & Fort. They end up rotating Daniher, Gunston & Payne through their ruck position. That just threw our whole spine off.

- Even with the poor ruck situation, we had more Center clearances and Inside 50’s. We had 3 more inside 50’s-probably should have been closer to 10- once you include the 6-6-6 infringements.

- we had more scoring shots than they did. They converted at 70%. We converted at 40%.

- Sidebottom, Titch, JDG, Adams & Crisp had “okay/good” games. The odds of that happening again is very very unlikely.

- Elliot kicking 3 behinds won’t happen again.

- Naicos missing 2 absolute sitters running into goal.

All of that and I didn’t even mention the Crisp bombshell.

I think we’ll be okay. However, we still need to improve in general.

 

[foreigner]

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[M Malice]

So the Gabba is getting demolished in a couple of years, because it's a shite hole. What happens to our traditional clash with Brisbane. Surely they aren't going to get us to play this game at Carrara, and this will have to be played at the G for a few years until the new stadium is completed, if they wish to continue the traditional Easter Thursday clash....

There have been a few options put up as possible venues for Lions home games during the Gabba demolition and reconstruction(which includes full seasons 2026-29), Metricon would be the worst option as far as most Lions supporters are concerned. The other options are >

A refurbished RNA showgrounds which is in inner Brisbane and will be upgraded for the Olympics anyway... capacity circa 25,000.
A Refurbished QE11/1982 Commonwealth games main stadium... capacity circa 30,000.
Upgraded Brighton Homes Arena which is our new training/admin base... capacity circa 15,000-20,000.

Personally I would be all for playing the Easter Thursday clash at the MCG during that time, we would love to play at the MCG more often.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

There have been a few options put up as possible venues for Lions home games during the Gabba demolition and reconstruction(which includes full seasons 2026-29), Metricon would be the worst option as far as most Lions supporters are concerned. The other options are >

A refurbished RNA showgrounds which is in inner Brisbane and will be upgraded for the Olympics anyway... capacity circa 25,000.
A Refurbished QE11/1982 Commonwealth games main stadium... capacity circa 30,000.
Upgraded Brighton Homes Arena which is our new training/admin base... capacity circa 15,000-20,000.

Personally I would be all for playing the Easter Thursday clash at the MCG during that time, we would love to play at the MCG more often.

Football and sporting grounds have the most dreadful names now, and change so frequently that most of the time I have difficulty knowing the ground from its name. You can't get much worse than ' Brighton Homes Arena', with the feeling that each time you mention the name or that of any other ground, you're assisting the sponsor company with publicity and sales. I hate it.