Game Day 2024 Grand Final - Sydney Swans v Brisbane Lions

[Keys]

Unlike what’s become the norm in recent years, Brisbane won with a precise/controlled kick mark game rather than the chaotic contested ground ball game of Collingwood and Richmond

Hawthorn are also starting to emerge with a more precise kicking game

Are we about to see another shift in game style?

Need to prioritise ball users in the draft

 

[FKASC]

Unlike what’s become the norm in recent years, Brisbane won with a precise/controlled kick mark game rather than the chaotic contested ground ball game of Collingwood and Richmond

Hawthorn are also starting to emerge with a more precise kicking game

Are we about to see another shift in game style?

Need to prioritise ball users in the draft

Nah Sydney just shat the bed. Made the kick mark game look more prominent than it needed to be.

 

[Monocle]

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Need to prioritise ball users in the draft

Keys we have been needing to do that for the past five drafts, but its hasn't seemed a priority.

Footskills and leg speed, they are our two achilles heals.

Under O'Briens reign they were not seen as a priority, he valued big tanks ( By God he did love his middle distance runners like Luke Foley - Brayden Ainsworth ) and being good overhead as his two main priorities.

Now don't get me wrong both of which are valuable attributes, but not at the exclusion of footskills and pace.

Hopefully with a new Coach, with a more contemporary game plan, he can request we prioritise footskills and leg speed

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Eric Hipwood

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Eric Hipwood

Age

27

Ht

203cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.0

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

2.6

2star

M

3.9

4star

T

1.3

3star

G

1.5

5star

D

11.1

3star

K

8.4

3star

HB

2.7

2star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.1

2star

G

1.1

5star

D

10.6

3star

K

8.4

4star

HB

2.2

2star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.6

4star

G

2.4

5star

 

[DorothyG]

Nah Sydney just shat the bed. Made the kick mark game look more prominent than it needed to be.

This, you cannot let your oppo team run amuck and take 150+ marks, the vast majority uncontested.
That's lack of intent/work rate from the swans

 

[KERRPOW]

Never really been a fan of sydney. Kinda happy they bottled it (again)

Theres something about Sydney that irks me.

Coach always seems a bit smug.
The plethora of academy players
An abundance of blondes
Cox turning down the coaching role

**** em

 

[Seadog]

Eric Hipwood

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You are quite a strange person.

 

[Westend]

Theres something about Sydney that irks me.

Coach always seems a bit smug.
The plethora of academy players
An abundance of blondes
Cox turning down the coaching role

**** em

Frontrunners

Home and away heeney over rated by so much .come finals he is crap 4 gfs 4 crap performances

 

[KERRPOW]

Sydneys last 6 weeks were bottom 8 quality too.

They had a soft prelim also (thanks again port)

 

[Keys]

Frontrunners

Home and away heeney over rated by so much .come finals he is crap 4 gfs 4 crap performances

Heeney had an outstanding finals series

Until today of course

 

[Westend]

Heeney had an outstanding finals series

Until today of course

Means nothing he consistently chokes comes grand finals

if you want to be a champion got to do it on the big stage

nobody remembers finals leading up to the big one..its what you do in the gf which defines you in this game

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Means nothing he consistently chokes comes grand finals

if you want to be a champion got to do it on the big stage

nobody remembers finals leading up to the big one..its what you do in the gf which defines you in this game

I think saying Heeney choked is unfair. Dunkley simply played a magnificent game on him. Didn't help that the rest of the midfield was fairly shafted as well.

 

[Keys]

I think saying Heeney choked is unfair. Dunkley simply played a magnificent game on him. Didn't help that the rest of the midfield was fairly shafted as well.

Apparently he played through the finals series with a stress fracture in his foot

 

[kempy]

I have to say I do enjoy a Bloodsbath.


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[Westend]

I think saying Heeney choked is unfair. Dunkley simply played a magnificent game on him. Didn't help that the rest of the midfield was fairly shafted as well.

Perhaps but you had Neale with a dodgy ankle ...rack it up all day

You had a 20 year old dance weave keep his feet wins the normie

You have Heeney who we have been told is the best player in the afl...well thats debatable but come grand finals it's simple ....he chokes evidence is there for me

Lets get Warner out of there and get him with Harley

 

[CursoryMercenary]

Well done Brisbane! delighted for them. Awesome systematic destruction of Sydney in that second quarter. They'll only get better as well.

Won $120 on both the First Goal Kicker & Norm Smith as well.

 

[ausbacker]

Unlike what’s become the norm in recent years, Brisbane won with a precise/controlled kick mark game rather than the chaotic contested ground ball game of Collingwood and Richmond

Hawthorn are also starting to emerge with a more precise kicking game

Are we about to see another shift in game style?

Need to prioritise ball users in the draft

Brisbane mauled Sydney at the coalface then got them on the outside. The more footy changes, the more it stays the same.

It was shocking watching Longmire persist with midfield match ups that were clearly, being belted in the second quarter.

 

[tigger_ferret]

Sydneys last 6 weeks were bottom 8 quality too.

They had a soft prelim also (thanks again port)

That increased training load, when they were several games clear, really worked a treat for them.

 

[ausbacker]

So many of the blokes who didn't get a vote played outstanding games: Dunkley, Starcevich, Andrews, Berry, Wilmot. Shut the Swans right out of it.

Starcevich erasing Papley was terrific viewing. In today's fantasy sports age, the art of defending can be beautiful.

 

[eaglevision]

Am I right in saying Lachie Neale

9

Lachie Neale

Age

31

Ht

178cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

27.0

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

15.5

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.7

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

28.3

5star

K

13.9

5star

HB

14.4

5star

M

4.6

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

12.0

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

7.4

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

1.0

3star

CL

0.4

3star

is the first Fremantle player to have gone on to win a flag?

 

[happy_eagle]

 

[happy_eagle]

Am I right in saying Lachie Neale is the first Fremantle player to have gone on to win a flag?

Peter Bell

 

[eaglevision]

Peter Bell

No he won a flag then went to Freo. Same as Luke Jackson and Dessy.

 

[ioppolo]

Jess Sinclair

Jess Sinclair

Age

46

Ht

183cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.9

4star

K

11.5

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

4.4

4star

T

2.3

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.8

3star

K

6.4

3star

HB

2.4

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

0.8

3star

?

 

[KERRPOW]

Am I right in saying Lachie Neale is the first Fremantle player to have gone on to win a flag?

I think there is a few