I think Basti will get the call up this week. I'm a fan of his. Hopefully he can have a second half of the season that mirror's last year when he hit a nice run of form.
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I would love to know what it is exactly that they have identified as his "needs to grow" areas and the feedback he is getting. It does seem curious now that North let him go when even many North supporters rated him highly as an inside mid.
I’d like to see him get played in the guts. It’s his natural position and he’ll either make the most of his opportunity or he’ll show us he doesn’t belong.
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I think that's where to lack of 2 way running becomes a real issue.
I’d argue majority of our midfielders are like this as it stands. Perhaps split him and Beams 50/50 between mid/forward? As they are both generally poor defensive runners.
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Three tackles would suggest it's a work in progress.
They talk about Rhys Mathieson taking over next season. Is that a hint Basti is on the way out?
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The Brisbane Lions have made two further changes to their list ahead of the second list lodgement deadline with the removal of Ryan Bastinac and Jacob Allison from their primary list.
The Club has committed to reselecting both players at November’s rookie draft.
http://www.lions.com.au/news/2018-11-09/two-list-changes
The Club has committed to reselecting both players at November’s rookie draft.
http://www.lions.com.au/news/2018-11-09/two-list-changes
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Gotta be a big year for Basti, I hope he finds consistent form again.
The Stat Files: Ryan Bastinac
Ryan Bastinac is 27 and has played 162 games over 10 seasons in the AFL, but he could be excused for feeling a little like a teenage debutant on Sunday afternoon. In his fourth season with the Lions after six seasons at North Melbourne, Bastinac will play against his former club in Melbourne for the first time.
With family and friends in the Marvel Stadium crowd to balance out any North fans with long memories keen to give him a hard time, he’ll also be looking to remove a statistical oddity from his career record. Bastinac has had a win against every AFL club except North after having finished on the losing side in each of his three games for Brisbane against North at the Gabba.
In 2016, in just his second game in Lions colors, the free-running midfielder copped a 34-point loss to North before a 51-point loss in 2017 and a three-point loss in Round 20 last year, when Cam Rayner missed a late chance to win the game. Bastinac, who enjoyed a 6-2 record against Brisbane as a North player and has played 75 AFL games at Marvel Stadium, will head ‘home’ to play this weekend a revitalised figure after a standout off-season.
Having managed only two AFL games last year in Round 5 and Round 20 he set himself for a massive summer campaign to win back his spot, and after two eye-catching performances in the JLT Series has been rewarded at selection by coach Chris Fagan. He had 14 disposals in the Round 1 win over West Coast last weekend, which was one of the club’s best wins of the past decade.
But it’s been a mixed time at the Gabba for Bastinac after a stellar career at Arden Street. He played 121 of a possible 139 games at North, including 83 in a row from mid-2011, and had three top 10 finishes in the North B&F – equal 9th in 2020, 8th in 2012 and 6th in 2013. It was considered a coup when he was lured to Brisbane on a four-year contract starting in 2016. He played all 22 games in 2016 under Justin Leppitsch and finished 7th in the Merrett/Murray Medal just 10 votes behind 2nd-placed Mitch Robinson.
He started 2017 in the seniors, playing Rounds 1-2, but was dropped in Round 3. Recalled in Round 5, he was dropped again in Round 6 and spent four weeks in the NEAFL. He won back his spot in Round 10 and held it for the rest of the season, but he spent most of the 2018 season on the outer.
A product of the Dandenong Stingrays in the Victorian U18 competition, Bastinac was drafted by North Melbourne at #21 in 2009. Among those chosen after him were Geelong mid-field ace Mitch Duncan (#28), gun Hawthorn forward Jack Gunston (#29), Melbourne All-Australian ruckman Max Gawn (#34), Sydney’s Sam Reid (#38) and current Brisbane teammate Allen Christensen (#40).
It was the year in which Brisbane invested heavily at the trade table, bringing in Brendon Fevola, Andrews Raines, Xavier Clarke, Amon Buchanan and Brent Staker from opposition clubs before drafting Callum Bartlett (#27), Ryan Harwood (#47), Jesse O’Brien (#73), Bryce Retzlaff (#84), Matt Maguire (#91) and Tom Rockliff (Pre-Season Draft).
Bastinac will find himself opposed to as many as 15 former North teammates on Sunday, including four players who played with him in his first game in Round 1 2012 – captain Jack Ziebell, Scott Thompson, Todd Goldstein and Sam Wright.
