We haven't beaten Brisbane in Brisbane often in recent times, s I'll have plenty of angst!
In case this is our final final, thanks for your efforts crash. It's been one heck of a ride.
Ollie the umpire helper
Fellow Bluebagger with the opener 👌
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Well done H 👏🏼
Boyd has been really good in the first ten minutes.
Martin so important
Doc steady as a rock
Dream start. Absolutely dominating every facet. Super performance so far.
Great start.
We looked settled from the first bounce. Now to keep up the pressure and take our chances. Absorb their run.
Great start.
We looked settled from the first bounce. Now to keep up the pressure and take our chances. Absorb their run.
Nothing more to add…
Wow.
Did not expect that strong a start. Absolutely blown out of my socks with pride - now, let’s keep it going 💪🏼
Lions quality i50's
Coleman setting them up
Captain Crippa 👏🏼
Lions bought the heat and the results show.
Need to get back to our game.
Go Blues
Getting smashed in the clearances. Might gave to pull the trigger on Kennedy.
Beaten up badly around the ball. The boys have battled hard so far, but I can’t see them getting back into this one.
Coleman, Dunkley wrestled that back. Smart coaching unfortunately
Mckenna and Coleman are getting a lot of easy ball and firing it back into our defensive 50, they need picking up by their respective forward opponent, momentum has turned but we need a big effort next quarter to swing it back our way.
Still well in the game and if we keep our cool we can win, plaudits to Boyd who was an iffy selection for mine but he has done the job on Bailey and the MC got it right.
Indeed. Boyd has been reliable.
Blacres has had his touched goal moment. He just finds new ways 😂
Too fast and skilful on the outside, we can't mayvh they're running game. Need to apply extreme heat like the first qtr but we may be cooked?
Worst possible start
Gotta stop bombing into the 50
Training run for them now
Cripps off, Kennedy on
Coleman has no opponent
Rainer hits mcgovern in front of the umpire, nothing
Better pressure last 5mins
Ladder position and % telling the story now 😪
Geez. Ackermanis predicted 40+ pt win. Looking about right at present
Cez 😬
Seriously Cerra needed to kick that ffs
It comes down to the next 30min.
Do we have what it takes?
Go Blues
It comes down to the next 30min.
Do we have what it takes?
Go Blues
Nah LN. We are cooked mate. Too many sore players imo. Would be a miracle above all others for us to win from here.
Needed massive games from Charlie and Cripps and both been well down.
Nah LN. We are cooked mate. Too many sore players imo. Would be a miracle above all others for us to win from here.
Needed massive games from Charlie and Cripps and both been well down.
I think you're right.
Kemp and Owies would be handy
Fogarty off is stupid
Lions have been relentless, at the footy, at the man. If we take off the Navy glasses, the game has gone according to script.
Harry is a DUMB footballer
H 🫣
Lions have been relentless, at the footy, at the man. If we take off the Navy glasses, the game has gone according to script.
Sadly
H 👏🏼
It was great while it lasted. We sure did squeeze the very best we could out of this season. Couldn't be prouder of the boys and the club.
Few deficiencies to address in the off season.
It was great while it lasted. We sure did squeeze the very best we could out of this season. Couldn't be prouder of the boys and the club.
Few deficiencies to address in the off season.
Yep.
Certainly, didn't give up without a fight but once Brisbane settled down you could see we were cooked after a hard year and banged up.
Great season.
Why didn't we feed it to Martin instead of the other two tall timbers
A game to digest. A season to celebrate.
Fought as hard as I've seen a Carlton side since the 90s.
We got the wrong end of the finals draw. If we finished 6th and got GWS's run we'd be playing next week in my opinion. We have to go through 2 of the hardest contested sides imaginable with our bodies falling apart and still missed by just 16pts. The other part of the draw was way easier work.
We held BrisVegas to a losing score but our inability to kick big scores for the past few weeks came back to haunt us. Our defensive game, and our defensive group is top notch. Our offensive game and mids to forwards connection, and forward line group, need work. We need more reward for effort.
As silly as it might seem, I'd rather lose a preliminary final than a grand final.
The boys will have learned so much from the back end of this season and especially our finals exposure.
I said a few weeks ago that this might be our 1978 before our 1979. Similar situation where we had to turn a nasty looking season around.