Podcast UPDATE: Praise the lord, the Trade Period is over. BF Lions Podcast - all episodes

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New episode is live!

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Ollie and Keags talk about Daniel McStay-ing in Brisbane, Rhys Mathieson's breakout game, Alex Witherden's assured debut, Hugh McCluggage's Rising Star nomination and more. We also discus Mumford's hit on Beams; was it thuggish or fair play?

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Recording tonight and we've organised Berry for a chat. Happy to pass on any Qs you guys may have.

Thanks again for the support guys

 

[Nunez]

Recording tonight and we've organised Berry for a chat. Happy to pass on any Qs you guys may have.

Thanks again for the support guys

Awesome to hear! Looking forward to listening.

 

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Episode with Jarrod Berry

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Jarrod joins us to talk about the win over the Bombers, his own development this season, playing in the guts, settling into Brisbane life and his peers from the 2016 draft class. We then talk about a memorable win, Witherden, Hipwood, McStay. Andrews v Daniher, Smith and more.

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[Nunez]

Great work guys.

 

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Luke Hodge the Lion? New episode with Mike Whiting

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Do you want Hodge at the Lions? AFL.com.au's Mike Whiting joins us to talk about his piece on reuniting Hodge with Fagan as a playing-assistant coach. Mike also chats about his interview with Tom Rockliff. We discuss the vice captain's future and also Lewy Taylor's impressive 2017 form.

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New episode!

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We celebrate Alex Witherden's Rising Star nomination and look at the remarkable start he has made to his career. Other topics on this week's podcast include Nick Robertson's aggression - does it need to change? and Josh Schache's return to senior football. We also look at our under-performing midfield, what can be done to fix it and preview a very winnable game against the Blues!

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Dancing to the Blues!

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Who is Lewis Pelican? Not even Berry missing out on a well-deserved RS nomination could dampen our spirits after the first half blitz against Carlton. We talk about a game of three parts, our 3,2,1s, reinventing Rocky, Lester stepping up and look ahead to West Coast this weekend. We also discuss Zorko's sanctions, whether they were fair and if we should challenge.

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Which Lion would kick for your life?

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Who would you want kicking for your life? We nominate the past & present players we'd back in. Also on the agenda is the loss to West Coast, first games for Allison and Skinner and impressive outings from Beams, Rich & Bastinac. We also put the selector's cap on ahead of a big week at match committee.

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The most memorable individual performance by a Lion?

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We talk about the club's all-time great individual performances and review the loss to the Bulldogs - was it one that got away or an honourable loss? We also discuss recent media speculation surrounding potential recruits Charlie Cameron & Jarrad McVeigh.

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Who's the king of the Q-Clash?

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Dayne Beams claimed his second Marcus Ashcroft medal of the season so Ollie & Keags talk about the best Q-Clash performances of all time. They dissect the big win over the Suns, nominate their 3, 2, 1s and discuss some interesting statistics that emphasise the club's improvement this year. Ollie also delves into Rocky's emotional night.

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Why the hell would we tank?

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While North fans seem pretty happy to tank we're hellbent on downing the Roos this weekend. On this week's podcast we discuss the 13-point loss to the Demons, another Dayne Beams masterclass, what went well, what didn't go so well and our 3, 2, 1s.

We also preview the spoon showdown against North Melbourne and talk about recent comments made by Chris Fagan and Don Pyke.

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[RWFFFPT]

Just listened to your recent episode, and I want to say thanks for releasing these every week. Always gets me a bit excited, particularly on a Monday!

Keep up the good work fellas


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[Fatcat08]

Yes much appreciated for all the hard work lads. Has added a lot to the board and I have enjoyed listening to them on my drive home once a week. We hope to see you back again next year and possibly with a bit of a draft/trade wrap perhaps if thats up your ally.

 

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It's report card time!

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The season didn't end in the manner we would've liked but overall you'd have to say it was still a step in the right direction - not something you'd normally say about a team that's just won the spoon!

On this week's podcast we discuss what went wrong against North and wrap-up our 2017 campaign. We then run our eye over EVERY player, grading their season from A+ to D. Did we get it right? Who would you give an A or higher?

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Thanks all for the support throughout the season. We really appreciate the feedback we received and hopefully we added something to the forum and provided entertainment! Thanks also to the players and Mike W for being guests during the year.

We'll take a break for a few weeks but we're both keen on doing something post trade period and maybe for the draft too.

 

[Voss the boss]

Well done lads, I really appreciate the work you both put in and always enjoyed listening to the podcasts when I was driving home from Melbourne after a days work. Look forward to next year and coming on as a guest!

 

[lynbrooklion]

Listened to the podcast twice. No mention in the ratings of Frost from Collingwood. Did Collingwood let us have him as revenge for James Aishe? Can we send him back.


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Listened to the podcast twice. No mention in the ratings of Frost from Collingwood. Did Collingwood let us have him as revenge for James Aishe? Can we send him back.


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Well spotted! Not surprised one or two slipped under the radar...

For the record I'd probably grade Frost a D. Although he came off a limited preseason playing just the two games isn't enough. My expectation was for an accountable fullback that would take the opposition's gorilla, enabling Harris to cut across. Hopefully he recovers from his concussion and has a career resurgence next year like Walker and Bastinac this year.

 

[fanackapan]

Thanks for the episode. It would be great to have your list of grades summarised here, if only so I can remember which ones I found myself agreeing with (most) or disagreeing with (only a few).

FWIW, just scanning through them quickly, relative to expectations, I'd score them:
A: DBeams, Rich, Berry, Zorko, Robertson, Taylor, Witherden, Hipwood, Andrews, Allison, McInerney
B: Bastinac, McCluggage, Hanley, Martin, Walker, Cox, Skinner, McStay, Gardiner, Mayes, Lester, Rockliff, Lyons, Hammelmann, Eagles, Barrett, Smith
C: Keays, Robinson, CBeams, Clayton, Mathieson, Hinge, Grewar
D: Harwood, Bell, Bewick, Jansen, Paparone, Schache, Dawson, Cutler, Close, Freeman, Frost, William
No grade: Christensen

(These aren't judgements on overall quality of the players, just on how their seasons went relative to what I reckon we wanted from them)

 

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Thanks for the episode. It would be great to have your list of grades summarised here, if only so I can remember which ones I found myself agreeing with (most) or disagreeing with (only a few).

FWIW, just scanning through them quickly, relative to expectations, I'd score them:
A: DBeams, Rich, Berry, Zorko, Robertson, Taylor, Witherden, Hipwood, Andrews, Allison, McInerney
B: Bastinac, McCluggage, Hanley, Martin, Walker, Cox, Skinner, McStay, Gardiner, Mayes, Lester, Rockliff, Lyons, Hammelmann, Eagles, Barrett, Smith
C: Keays, Robinson, CBeams, Clayton, Mathieson, Hinge, Grewar
D: Harwood, Bell, Bewick, Jansen, Paparone, Schache, Dawson, Cutler, Close, Freeman, Frost, William
No grade: Christensen

(These aren't judgements on overall quality of the players, just on how their seasons went relative to what I reckon we wanted from them)

Of course. These are only mine (I started writing Ollie's while recording but it became too hard).

For those that didn't listen to the pod - our grades were relative to the expectations we held for each player prior to the season. We only graded players that played senior football.

Witherden A
Smith B-/C+
Keays C
Cox B-
C. Beams D
McStay B+
Rich A-
Gardiner B
D. Beams A
Zorko A+
Hipwood A/A-
Andrews A
McCluggage B+
Allison B+
Barrett B+
Jansen D
Berry A-
Schache C-/C
Walker B-/B
Taylor A+/A
Dawson D
Paparone D
Hammelmann C
Close C-
Robinson/Christensen N/A
Robertson B+/A-
Mathieson B
Bewick D+
Bastinac B+/B
Harwood D
Lester A-/B+
Mayes A-
Skinner C+
Martin B+/B
Bell D
Cutler D+/C-
Rockliff B+

 

[lynbrooklion]

Thanks for the reply. I had no idea Frost had problems through the season. There seemed very little mention of him from the club so I assumed he was on the outer. He very much flew under the radar all year especially as he was one of our few trades and we seemed to be lacking experience down back early in the season.


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We're back, baby!

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We've both aged 10 years over the last 10 days but we're back to chat about our Trade Period dealings. Did we pay too much for Charlie? Did we let Schache walk too easily? Should we have paid Rocky? Will Luke Hodge teach our kids to drink and drive?

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Luke Hodge the Lion? New episode with Mike Whiting

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Do you want Hodge at the Lions? AFL.com.au's Mike Whiting joins us to talk about his piece on reuniting Hodge with Fagan as a playing-assistant coach. Mike also chats about his interview with Tom Rockliff. We discuss the vice captain's future and also Lewy Taylor's impressive 2017 form.

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Funny to look back at this too! Personally I think Mike doesn't get enough credit for starting this chatter in May

 

[briztoon]

Funny to look back at this too! Personally I think Mike doesn't get enough credit for starting this chatter in May

Not to nit pick, but it was discussed on this board before that episode. I remember listening to that episode and thinking Mike must have read the discussion on BF.