Review Round 5, 2026 - North Melbourne vs. Brisbane Lions

[Section 5]

I have not watched the replay yet.
Watching live on Kayo (stuck with till R10) with screen slight wobble/slight blur was annoying as usual.

Will Ashcroft copped the hard tag and can expect more from the lower teams anyhow.
That left Neale 88% TOG, McCluggage 56% TOG and Bailey 90% TOG mostly free.
Bailey interesting as he has previously only had 2 games since 2022 over 90%. More of McCluggage time i suppose.
That was last year with a 90% & 91% TOG

Lately i have been looking at Supercoach stats (a guide only) that i can view quickly at a glance.
Just the player standouts for each quarter. It looks like 40 points is the number they use as a standout
Berry 1st quarter
Neale 2nd quarter
Bailey 3rd quarter
Draper 3rd and 4th Quarter

Both Allen and Draper improving with the team gameplan and McCarthy & Coleman solid again after a long layoff.
Dunkley and Reville down a bit on previous games.
Morris could not kick straight and way down on his usual output.
Andrews blew out the cobwebs and will be back to normal very quickly

Gallop a work in progress. McStay kicked 4 on him and young Trembath was good yesterday.
Zorko injury to calf but we just don't know for how long. When Fagan mentions weeks i think 4.

We got the 4 points in a SA away game and travel back to the MCG this week v Demons
It's a Sunday game so i don't have to watch on Kayo.

 

[Nathan Barley]

How lovely to hear Matty Lloyd previewing our game and all he was interested in was saying a premiership team should not be able to access a guy like Oscar Allen to bring into their team.
Geez people are really getting hung up on us being successful.
Come up with something new velvet sledge hammer.

Forgetting weve recently lost Daniher, Starcevich and Ah Chee conveniently

 

[braddsey]

From Fox website:

1. LION’S ‘CRUDE’ ACT TO COME UNDER MRO SCRUTINY

A theoretical grading of careless conduct, medium impact and high contact would result in a one-match suspension. Alternatively, an intentional, low and high grading would still see a one-game ban dealt Berry’s way.

Or the more appropriate grading of careless - low impact - high contact. One fine… interesting that Fox didn’t offer up this possibility.

 

[Viceregal]

Geez people are really getting hung up on us being successful.
Come up with something new velvet sledge hammer.

Are we getting close to home games scheduled on Venus territory or do we still have a way to go?

 

[Leuy LongerCombo]

In the post review show after the Hawks game last night with Riewoldt, King and Cath and one other; Riewoldt again embarrassed himself with blatant lies. They showed that Zorko whack to Curtis from about 3-4 angles and whilst it clearly showed Zorko whacks him around the upper right hip / pelvis side, Riewoldt is still adamant he should get a week because he flushes him. Now unless Curtis has the biggest schlong going around and wasn’t acting to suck the ump in then I’m not here.

It still boggles the mind in life that people are happy to blatantly lie like Riewoldt clearly has to push an agenda that simply isn’t there to suit a narrative.

Everytime I see Curtis play he flops at every opportunity, done it multiple times during the game. Was definitely playing for the 50 and deserved it from Zorkos stupid brain fade.
Don’t think it deserved weeks, even though that won’t intimately matter with his Calf injury

 

[paulige]

He banged in about it on the Sunday Footy Show and highlighted Sam Draper too.

You will notice that there was ZERO mention that we lost Starcevich and Ah Chee to free agency.

Again, doesn't suit their agenda and BS narrative.

Wonder whether he was also complaining about:

• Frawley to the Hawks in 2014 (off 2 flags)
• Lynch to Richmond in 2018 (off a flag and PF)
• Smith to the Cats in 2020 (off a GF)

I think it’s a bit like Father-Son; it’s only a problem when we’re the ones doing it.

 

[paulige]

From Fox website:

1. LION’S ‘CRUDE’ ACT TO COME UNDER MRO SCRUTINY

A theoretical grading of careless conduct, medium impact and high contact would result in a one-match suspension. Alternatively, an intentional, low and high grading would still see a one-game ban dealt Berry’s way.

Weird…they left off:

“And of course, the most realistic and appropriate grading of careless, low, and high, which would result in no suspension.”


It would take an extra special effort for the MRP to grade that as either intentional, or medium.

 

[Section 5]

Weird…they left off:

“And of course, the most realistic and appropriate grading of careless, low, and high, which would result in no suspension.”


It would take an extra special effort for the MRP to grade that as either intentional, or medium.

Agree that's all it was.
A free kick every time
It was not late either so no 50-meter penalty.

I think it is the swinging arm part is what they have noticed.
But there is no law about swinging your arm.

 

[braddsey]

Weird…they left off:

“And of course, the most realistic and appropriate grading of careless, low, and high, which would result in no suspension.”


It would take an extra special effort for the MRP to grade that as either intentional, or medium.

Having said that - Darcy Gardner’s was graded as medium impact.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

It's so made up and contrived it'll be whatever the clowns want it to be.

'But we're making the game Soft'
...oh, we meant 'Safe'

 

[Perrip]

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1496785

Terrific news there's no suspensions for us going into next week

 

[Bucking Beads]

Thought Zorko made contact with the groin area but not intentionally. Curtis acted on reflex because it was close impact to his junk

 

[Hollow Knight]

Bez

 

[bato]

A huge F Off to the media with those two decisions.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Thought Zorko made contact with the groin area but not intentionally. Curtis acted on reflex because it was close impact to his junk

Nowhere near the groin when viewed from the non-blindsided angle.



AFL clearly agreed, or it would have got weeks.

Pretty embarrassing by Curtis.

 

[Tom14]

A huge F Off to the media with those two decisions.

Lewis should get some actual lenses put into his clear frames imo.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Nowhere near the groin when viewed from the non-blindsided angle.



AFL clearly agreed, or it would have got weeks.

Pretty embarrassing by Curtis.

Ha id never seen that view. Curtis certainly put some mayo on it

 

[MSB ROYS]

On Bez, AFL must have checked the fixture and decided that it was Melbourne, so too much hassle for no-one caring..

 

[T Rick]

Nowhere near the groin when viewed from the non-blindsided angle.



AFL clearly agreed, or it would have got weeks.

Pretty embarrassing by Curtis.

How on earth can that slap on the hip be a $1500 fixed financial sanction...still trying to get my head around what happened to Berry when he was hit behind play against the Saints and crickets. The MRO is an absolute B grade comedy show.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Curtis dresses to the right.

 

[martinson]

What's the fine actually for ? He barely touched him . Ump sucked right in as well.

 

[Viceregal]

How much does Curtis get for the staging?

 

[martinson]

Zorko is the most maligned player in the game.

Did Christian actually look at the vision?

Where is the media ? They should be pillorying the AFL for this.

Oh I forgot . The media is the AFL.

 

[Elixuh]

Had we been playing the Pies next week, Bez would be being executed at noon.

 

[twhowler]

Nowhere near the groin when viewed from the non-blindsided angle.



AFL clearly agreed, or it would have got weeks.

Pretty embarrassing by Curtis.

100% this.

what kill's me about footy coverage is group think. One of them says something; they all agree. It's like they don't even watch the vision after that.

One exception is Buckley. Absolutely torched Riewoldt on the couch over his hot take on Harley Reid. It was glorious.

Bez I thought was fine worthy. But then based on the ridiculous Gardiner suspension I was worried

We were pretty hard done by in OR and it cost us any chance of winning against the swans so we were due a break