Brisbane Discussion

[BB67th]

At least one more for Brown. He wants to get the club to another finals campaign at least.

[Ringo]

Just a few comments on last nights game. Actually attended this game after missing the last 2 due to birth of 4th grand child in Townsville.

The big issue coming out of the game (apart from Brownies injury) is we were again on the wrong end of the free kick count 19 - 7. We did not get a free kick at all in the 3rd quarter. I was paying very strict attention to the free kicks last night when and how often they are being given given our record.  In my opinion only one team was being umpired last night with 4 St Kilda Goals being the result of free kicks. (I was interested to read the comment that Lions fans were boing Saad and whilst there was a small element that did throughout the game the one that was highlighted was the result of Saad being paid a dubious free kick and of course you boo when that happens regardless of who it is),Frustrations were boiling over and no doubt this contributed to the flare ups that occurred, The one real umpiring inconsistency that upset me was St Kilda invariably receiving a free kick for over the shoulder in tackles and not holding the ball but in Brisbanes case when the same thing occurred we were pinged for holding the ball. This was really illustrated by Rich when he spun around in 2 tackles with both appearing to be above the shoulders and gets pinged for holding the ball. Umpiring rant over.

The positives for Brisbane on the night - For the whole of the second half our back 6 were Patful, Adcock, Clarke, Docherty, Yeo and Harwood so this all goes well for the future,
Hanley despite the hand being well protected showed no inconvenience,
Rockliff undoubtedly was best on ground and again showed why he should be given time in the midfield.
Rich is finally starting to break tags - was tagged by Clint Jones - but broke the tag on quite a few occasions to set play up and kick 3 60 metre goals himself.
Merrett showed he will capably fill in for Brown for the rest of the season.
Despite his goal Goose is not a forward with his second kick being OOB on the full.

If we are to be a finals chance and beat Richmond next week we need to improve 100%.  We tended to over use the handball quite a bit last night turning the ball over a number of times and a stronger team would have taken advantage as quite often it was turned back over by St Kilda.

I think Brownie will play on for one more year in an endeavour to play finals again.

[Rusty00]

Rockliff's playing well lately in his new role in the midfield  :P

[Nails]

Rockliff plays well whenever he's near his best mate on the field as you can see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6ieop9wKg

Seriously I don't think two players have made more passes to each other than anyone in the entire AFL.

[Ringo]

Luv it Nails

[nrich102]

Golby out for a week:

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-08-05/mrp-full-statement-round-19

Mitch Golby, Brisbane Lions, has been charged with a level one striking offence (225 demerit points, two-match sanction) for striking Tom Curren, St Kilda, during the second quarter of the Round 19 match between the Brisbane Lions and St Kilda, played at the Gabba on Saturday August 3, 2013.

In summary, he can accept a one-match sanction with an early plea.

Based on the video evidence available and a medical report from the St Kilda Football Club, the incident was assessed as intentional conduct (one points), low impact (one point) and high contact (two points). This is a total of six activation points, resulting in a classification of a level one offence, drawing 225 demerit points and a two-match sanction. He has no existing good or bad record. An early plea reduces the penalty by 25 per cent to 168.75 points and a one-match sanction.

[Ringo]

All I will say with this is there were a lot worse incidents than this one in the match and was surprised when I seen this report although I suspected may be the case as he threw a punch which landed softly. Golby retaliated to some niggle from Curren and fair enough lashed and needs to control and live with this as a young player, Needs to learn from Rich who was tagged by Jones all night and some of the tactics Jones used were incredible but to Rich's credit did not retaliate.

[Ringo]

We need to win this week against Richmond - If Essendon are stripped of points as may be likely we can still make the 8 by sneaking into 9th position.

[nrich102]

Bewick Omitted :'( :o Why?

[kilbluff1985]

better give Lester a full game Voss

[Ringo]

Think Lester will be the sub this week and dropped next week - That seems to Voss's selection policies.

Bewick was the sub last week and did not get a lot of opportunities and now dropped.

[kilbluff1985]

Hmm really want to name Lester over B Reid vs Sydney in BXV

[strikes91]

Bewick Omitted :'( :o Why?

voss was praising him for giving the team run the other night. he really confuses me this bloke

[Ringo]

Bewick Omitted :'( :o Why?

voss was praising him for giving the team run the other night. he really confuses me this bloke

+20

[Ziplock]

it's punishment for 2 behinds and not 2 goals. Not good enough.