How has Brisbane and Leppitsch escaped scruitny?

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Lets see another club lose a level of young talent including Polec, Yeo, Docerty, Aish, Longer (all in that important 21-24 age bracket) and see how they fare.

Given the injuries to key players (and leaders) in Beams and Rocky, i think they have been doing ok.

I have higher hopes for Brisbane than i do for Richmond at this point in time.
 

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HowYouDoin said:
**** off. If anything, we are playing under our talent level. We have Beams (top 20 in the league), Rockliff (All Australian), Stephan Martin (All Australian), Hanley (arguably an elite player) Rich (Elite on a good day) and yet we have only won 5 games in the past 28 or so games.
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Beams hasnt played this season. Our midfield hasnt played much together at all. We have the youngest list in the comp.

Leppas game plan is getting there. We almost knocked over a premiership favourite yesterday FFS.

If we are 1 and 21 at the end of season then yes leppa should be moved on. I seriously beleive we could be something like 4 and 7 half way through the season.

A pass mark for us is tidying up contested ball and shots on goal. Fix or improve these areas and it will go a long way to solving our win loss.

OP is a clown. Coming off one of our best games of the year to come within 3 points of a premiership fancy isnt anything to be sneezed at and this clown posts this.
 
Because they've been bad for so long that the Melbourne media can't make a story out of them being bad. Unfortunate reality. Played well yesterday, but still look structureless. Plenty of talented youth, but they need the right coach to develop them. They'd look great under Bevo, for instance.
 
MisterMarcus said:
Brisbane OTOH has had:
West Coast (away), North Melbourne (home), Geelong (away), Suns (home), Doggies (away), Sydney (home). Any honest footy fan wouldn't have expected more than 1-5 from that, and they were very close to being 2-4.
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Has any other club had a harder draw to start the season? That includes clubs sitting 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. Gold Coast are the other team, who've won 3 games, sitting in 10th.
 

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Because people expected them to be bottom three with Essendon and Carlton and they've looked half decent at times. I think the Lions would have to be one of the memorably bad teams in recent history for Leppitsch to be sacked this year and with three games remaining against Essendon and Carlton, I can't see them being that bad (I think they should win 6+ games). By 2017 though, Leppitsch will be on the hot seat, if Brisbane isn't challenging for finals.
 
pazza said:
Brisbane's performances, yesterday notwithstanding, haven't exactly set the world on fire with Leppa at the helm. In fact, I would hazard a guess that his winning percentage would be incredibly low.
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How has Brisbane and Leppitsch escaped scrutiny?

Why do you think?

1. Youngest list in the competition in 2016
2. Difficult draw in the first half of the season. So far have played West Coast (currently 6th, but runner up last season), North Melbourne (currently 1st), Geelong (currently 2nd), Suns (currently 10th), Western Bulldogs (currently 4th), Sydney (currently 3rd). West Coast, Sydney, North Melbourne and Western Bulldogs were finalists last year.
3. Rebuild over 2014 and 2015. Brisbane have made 34 changes to the playing list since the end of 2013. A few have been forced, the majority deliberate.

Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about our list and the events of the last two years would know the answer to the above question already.
 
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Barry_Badrinath said:
2013: 10 wins, 12 losses
2014: 10 wins, 12 losses

Leppitsch takes over

2014: 7 wins, 15 losses
2015: 4 wins, 18 losses
2016: 1 win, 5 losses

He's like Buckley but not starting from the high base.
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We had deceptive mediocrity for several years where we'd win late pointless games to list us from 16th to 12th or thereabouts. The win/loss looks better but we were never improving.

Also 2014 adds up to 17 wins, 17 losses so I think that works out as an ok year. :D
 
Most of the reasons were covered.

- Other stories are better. The collapse of Fremantle, Collingwood, Richmond and Port makes us a footnote unless we started the year 4-2 somehow.
- Even if there wasn't the collapses, the expectations were low. If we looked like going for another four win season the media would start the death ride about halfway through the year, but get one or two wins early and it would buy Leppa enough breathing space to last the year.
- Even with the expectations low, who gives a shit about the Lions? :p Writing stories about continued mediocrity is only of interest if you can get a coach sacked. It seems like most of the club is behind Leppa still, so there's no real cracks in the off-field staff to attack and the re-signings so far have killed the exodus narrative so yeah... nothing really to talk about.
 
Gravity said:
Because we're not a particularly good team and we're playing slightly better than expected.
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HowYouDoin said:
**** off. If anything, we are playing under our talent level. We have Beams (top 20 in the league), Rockliff (All Australian), Stephan Martin (All Australian), Hanley (arguably an elite player) Rich (Elite on a good day) and yet we have only won 5 games in the past 28 or so games.
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Gravity said:
Compared to what? You **** off
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If this is what conversations are like between Brisbane supporters, I'm going to start spending a lot more time on their board.
 
I don't think he'll be coaching Brisbane next year tbh.
 
dlanod said:
Most of the reasons were covered.

- Other stories are better. The collapse of Fremantle, Collingwood, Richmond and Port makes us a footnote unless we started the year 4-2 somehow.
- Even if there wasn't the collapses, the expectations were low. If we looked like going for another four win season the media would start the death ride about halfway through the year, but get one or two wins early and it would buy Leppa enough breathing space to last the year.
- Even with the expectations low, who gives a shit about the Lions? :p Writing stories about continued mediocrity is only of interest if you can get a coach sacked. It seems like most of the club is behind Leppa still, so there's no real cracks in the off-field staff to attack and the re-signings so far have killed the exodus narrative so yeah... nothing really to talk about.
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Should expectations be low for a coach coming into his 3rd year at the helm after taking over a mid ladder side?
 

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