39 minutes ago, monoccular said:

You presumably are meaning the Downlow.

No, I was meaning the "Norm", I know it's not voted by the umpires by the way but just making a point.

...after all the whinging in the media, when they get their chance they still vote a mid.

I thought Andrews deserved more votes and probably should have won it.

At least Kate McCarthy thought so too. Interesting to see just reading now that there was a lot of negative comment on her being on the panel. Well I think she stood up well & didn't just go with the flow. Well done Kate..

Without looking at the stats I don't know how Luke Hodge gave McLuggage a vote...I just looked at the stats and see why.

He looked at the stats. In the first half when it was on the line he did a couple of nice things but was quiet.

I'm a big fan of McLuggage by the way but I think a lot of his stats were from when the game was broken open.

1 hour ago, layzie said:

There will be more good field kicks in their reserves than our seniors.

Yep. They look like they’re doing a rerun of the early 00’s of having guns in every position and a deep list. Coleman alone is a deadset weapon.

Oh boy.

2 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Academies should not have any ties to the clubs. Period.

Let the AFL run them and then those players enter the open draft market.

Agree or allow every club to have its own academies to develop talent, as the northern clubs are getting access to good talent and undermines the draft, quite possibly lions could have access to a top 10 pick after winning the back to back flags … equalisation hey

Brisbane won the last two flags from unlikely positions. Brisbane played a lot of ordinary football this season as well as last season but they seem to have managed to unlock the elusive finals footy formula when it matters most two seasons in a row even when decimated by injuries.

One could also say they underachieved prior to 2024 before finding success in contrast to us underachieving after being successful in 2021 followed by two low energy finals campaigns from strong positions.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by John Crow Batty

I really liked a quote from Chris Fagan:

‘One of the things I tried to teach the boys about when I first got to the club was the concept of having a growth mindset and the fact that if you want to be any good, you’re going to fail a fair bit, til you get there, and I always talked about the idea of failing our way to the top’

12 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

Brisbane won the last two flags from unlikely positions. Brisbane played a lot of ordinary football this season as well as last season but they seem to have managed to unlock the elusive finals footy formula when it matters most two seasons in a row even when decimated by injuries.

One could also say they underachieved prior to 2024 before finding success in contrast to us underachieving after being successful in 2021 followed by two low energy finals campaigns from strong positions.

Our list mgt to improve our list .. fail

We couldn’t define our purpose after 21..

I think a few players (Brisbane) today went into the FGF category of players.

Dangerfield was not as dangerous today but is still a FGF.

McLuggage and the Ashcrofts have now joined Andrews in the category.

Somehow Smith went missing when the heat was on . I think he must submit his own stats. Actually his "performance" today throws the concept of judging the Brownlow with Stats to "Help" the umpires to make judgement RIGHT OUT THE WINDOW !!!

ANother [censored] isa WHY DO We HAVE A F#### AMERICAN ENTERTAINER At OUR NATIONAL GAME's MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE YEAR. [censored] !!!!

If he ever plays another GF, I'd sub Bailey Smith off with 4 mins to go in the 3rd quarter. He's currently 38 to 145 from that point.

I loved seeing all the auskick kids after the game lying on the ground playing with all that paper confetti. They were having a ball.

I feel for the cleaners that have to clean that up

Chris Scott alluded to some extenuating circumstances as to why they couldn’t run out the game, but would not expand on it in his presser.

Anyone know what the circumstances were? I know a former recruit from the GWS at the end of 2022 was missing from their best line up but aside from that they seemed like a settled unit on field.

1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Chris Scott alluded to some extenuating circumstances as to why they couldn’t run out the game, but would not expand on it

Yes, he always has an excuse for when losing games.

He never accepts defeat graciously. It’s called being a sore loser

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Demon Disciple

13 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Chris Scott alluded to some extenuating circumstances as to why they couldn’t run out the game, but would not expand on it in his presser.

Anyone know what the circumstances were? I know a former recruit from the GWS at the end of 2022 was missing from their best line up but aside from that they seemed like a settled unit on field.

A severe case of being out coached by Fagan.

46 minutes ago, DubDee said:

A severe case of being out coached by Fagan.