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The draw should be out this week I believe and players are heading to preseason training. Wish 1: no injuries in preseason, especially the three letters that shall not be uttered together. Surely our men’s team have covered our quota of that particular injury. Wish 2: a decent draw rather than...

Any time a team runs the ball out of the front of the centre after the bounce it is a huge indictment on the midfield defence of their opponents. There is the occasional genuinely unlucky bounce maybe once a game, but really if a team can run the ball in hand straight out of the front of the...

Zorko had a bad day but not through lack of effort which should really be the baseline for anyone at this level. Any player can have an off day but they need to be working hard always.

I think the fact Lohmann is now a much more valuable contributor than Rayner probably says everything. Lohmann knows his involvement is non-negotiable to hold his spot so he gets to contests, makes tackles, finds space. Ah Chee offers more than Rayner, Morris is super young and offers more in...

Henry and Lane both showed enough in their development to think they might have a future. Both seem to be getting more mobile and look to have the potential to keep developing. Both can take a contested mark and if they keep working on endurance, by this time next year, one or both might be...

I think there was some research done at some stage that there is a multiplier effect that means genetic advantage at an early age tends to result in greater opportunity, access to better coaching and facilities sooner, more and earlier experience at higher levels of competition, more positive...

Games like that one are a good opportunity to watch individual players more closely. Bruce Reville has a few attributes that make him more valuable than his brief AFL experience would suggest. He is a solid player with enough height to hold his own in the air. He can take a contested mark and...

Brain, Reville and Morris simply must stay in. Each of them offers something we need. Brain wasn’t overawed at all in some big moments and was a bigger factor in one quarter than Prior was in three. Reville got burned by a few players when he was the right option in space. We will see him at his...

More good may ultimately come out of the injury carnage than bad, despite how unfortunate it is for the injured players. Fagan always said that it takes a squad, not just a team, to be successful and now here we are. Out of this we should get genuine opportunity for some players so that we can...

Earned after multiple seasons of doing the hard slog, as a VFL top up.

Such an important re-signing this one.

Good news that Shadeau is locked in for a couple more years! Sometimes the unheralded signings end up being the important ones further down the road.

What I take away from this is key defenders work really really hard for far less of the glory than mids or forwards. Harris, Payne and Frog all in the top six for TOG.

So Benny Thomas really had four goals from 13 disposals which is a great return for a small forward. And Southport confirms once again the regard, or lack thereof, they have in Qld football.

Reville shows signs of being the sort of ball user that Kiddy is. Actually kicks with an intent rather than kicking in the general direction of a team mate.

Not a well liked or respected entity in Qld football from what I hear. Very full of their own importance.

Defensive running really helps teams to limit opposition scoring - radical but it could be worth a try. Some opposition teams seem to have good success with it. It seems not a huge focus for any Brisbane Lions team (AFLW gets a pass and U16 girls academy team actually excel at it, so they are...

Reville, Morris, Brain and Smith. Brain already seems to provide a bit more than Prior who is playing a similar role but might have to wait for an opportunity. A smart player. Reville just seems to have more X factor than a lot of the hybrid mid/forward options we have. Just up his work rate a...

Harris and Froggy saved us from a hundred point loss and had swarms of orange running toward them all night.Berry tried hard and Linc did his best. Some new blood and some speed please.

Some learnings for the whole VFL team on how to put defensive pressure on. Just too loose when the pressure needed to lift. Very very average pressure and tackling. Reville, Brain, Henry and Sharp looked good. Ben Thomas was solid on debut as a top up.

Ben Thomas played a lot of junior footy as a midfielder and knows his way around a contest.

The opposition wasn’t particularly potent and transitioned quite poorly which made the task easier, however there were some good individual performances. That is probably the best way to judge VFL performances, how did the individual perform in contests and with the opportunities they had. In...

Of the girls we drafted, I think Sophie Peters is going to be the one with real X factor. She has a great instincts defensively and in attack and reads the play better than most her age. Really looking forward to seeing her in the team.

El Niño and La Niña likely developed gradually over a long period of time since the formation of the Pacific Ocean and the establishment of the major ocean currents. We can track them back comfortably and quite accurately to the start of the 20th century. The 1974 floods in Brisbane were tied to...

I have seen live Peters and Amber Swan, another academy girl (nominated nationally I believe). Fairly impressive albeit with weaknesses to work on, but so they should at their age. Many of the academy girls are very comfortable mixing with the AFLW players already so their character and...

BeebMaster - Monty Python Cheese Any one of these. But be warned, the Camambert will tend to be a bit runny during an El Niño event.

As this is something of an area of knowledge, I think you could look at each El Niño/La Nina event as a little like varieties of cheese. They all have some common features but also unique individual characteristics. Some events are sharp and bitey, some are milder and softer. An El Niño event...

Evie Long is our unknown in this draft. If a bid come early for her, will we take her. I certainly think we will take Sophie Peters and Rania Crozier. After that we may try to take Bischa off Gold Coast, who I feel will take McMullen as their first pick. Interesting that Long nominated...

Without making any judgements about the players concerned, I remember a very experienced local footy coach saying that too many players with high skill and not enough sacrificial side to their game really hurts the team over the long haul. He used to say that you can get away with one or two as...

I am pretty sure that a lot of our local girls go back to their QAFL clubs until AFLW preseason training begins. I wonder if the new draftees from WA will be encouraged to make the move early and get settled in well before the preseason begins.