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Better that Aker be talking about goal kicking in public than other issues I reckon. Best thing to do though is just ignore him.
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Better that Aker be talking about goal kicking in public than other issues I reckon. Best thing to do though is just ignore him.
Almost entirely mental imo. No way professional footballers kick as poorly as what we saw on the weekend, or have seen previously unless they're freezing up brain-wise. Now, maybe it might take a technique tweak to get the confidence back and if it works then hallelujah. Wish Haso was around to back me up.
That is as obvious as dogs testicles Mr Rip, well said.
Elixuh
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Reminds me of the start of COVID when everyone was in a panic and North Korea started to do their missile testing and the collective world turned and said not now North Korea.
Not now Aker, pls.
I like this theory - to break a mental tick you just give someone a small change that they think makes the difference - like Dumbo with his magic feather I suppose. If we see Lions players tugging their left ear lobe gently before running in to kick for goal we'll know it's their magic feather solution!
7 News Brisbane segment on Greg Swann's presser today:
Lions powerbrokers have backed in Chris Fagan, insisting he's the man to lead them to the promised land ahead of their sixth straight finals assault.
Lions powerbrokers have backed in Chris Fagan, insisting he's the man to lead them to the promised land ahead of their sixth straight finals assault.
On the sell out crowds and positive impact that’ll have to the bottom line…. I haven’t been able to locate the financial statements for the prior year. I’m a voting member but can’t recall seeing an email with them. Can any shed light on it for me?
Courier Mail: Brisbane forward Logan Morris on the club’s inaccurate goal kicking and his debut game [Callum Dick]
Behind a paywall unfortunately
His senior teammates have borne the brunt of criticism for the inaccurate goal kicking that cost Brisbane a place in the top four, but young Lion Logan Morris says he is just as much to blame.
The Lions locked in a home elimination final with the win over Essendon on Saturday, however coach Chris Fagan lamented the previous two defeats to Collingwood and GWS as games they could and should have won if not for wayward shots at goal.
A candid Morris told this masthead he was disappointed in his goal kicking after the win over Essendon, which featured two set shot misses that skewed wildly off the boot.
On each occasion Morris was visibly frustrated with himself and that disappointment remained after the match.
“Obviously at the start of the year that was definitely a problem and probably for about two months we had a real emphasis on trying to nail that, so we did a lot of extra craft before training and after training,” Morris said.
“The last couple of weeks we have slipped away a bit – especially myself. I’m definitely disappointed with the way I’m kicking my set shots because I know I’m a pretty good set shot.
“I just have to keep backing myself in and move on. That was the big focus for this week, was that we were going to make mistakes – it’s normal – it’s how we move on and focus on the next moment (that is important).”
Clearly his own harshest critic, Morris conceded the mental side of set shots was a factor – but he was confident both he and his teammates could remedy the issue.
“Yeah definitely a bit of that creeps in,” he said.
“You try your best to go back to your routine and nail the set shot. Obviously (against Essendon) I was pretty poor, but we’ll get to work, have a week off, refresh and go again.”
Morris is one of the feel-good stories of the season.
Certainly the means in which he made his AFL debut against Gold Coast in round 8 will go down in Brisbane folklore.
With a belly full of Maccas and spicy soup from the club doctor, Morris settled into his usual pre-match routine as an emergency – only to be pulled into the team moments before the first bounce after Brandon Starcevich injured his calf in the warm-up.
With Will Ashcroft’s boots on his feet and his pre-match meal churning away, Morris marked a memorable debut with a goal in the 34-point win.
Luckily his family, who had travelled up from Melbourne to watch him play VFL earlier that day, were in the stands to watch their son make the most unlikely of AFL starts.
“That debut game was something I’ll remember forever,” Morris said.
“My Nan is probably the one that brings it up the most. She loves it.
“People still come up to me today and talk to me about that day. It’s unbelievable how that happened – and to now find myself in the team and hopefully playing in my first final, it’s pretty crazy how far I have come this year. I’m super grateful and can’t wait.”
Morris has missed just one game since then and, all going well, will run out for his first AFL final next Saturday against Carlton at the Gabba.
“I never thought I’d be playing a final in my first year, so I’m super stoked,” he said.
“I can’t wait to come into finals and see how far this group can go.
“Obviously I came into this year trying to learn off the experienced players, trying to get as much knowledge as I could.
“I still sit down with the coaches each week. I have a lot of growth to go and I think that’s the most exciting thing, is that I’m still young. I’m in a hurry to get better each week and see where my footy can take me.”
7 News: Two Lions are swapping their playing boots for their coaches hats in the lead up to the finals. Jarryd Lyons and Oscar McInerney are joining forces with Brisbane's women's team, who know a thing or two about winning premierships.
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i think JL has traits that a lot of the better modern coaches do... limited player who plugged away and carved a real niche for himself based on his strengths. managed to become an AA squad player based largely on his footy iq. seems to lead well in the vfl and has spoken in the past that hes happy to go down to that level and be a contributor.
im generally opposed to recruiting from inhouse but i wouldnt be opposed to JL transitioning to that skills / development role rich had for 5 minutes with the mens whilst maintaining involvement with the womens + vfl program.
How far five Lions rookies have come to avenge finals heartache
Cobra Kai, Fletcher, Ashcroft, Morris, & Wilmot.
Cobra Kai, Fletcher, Ashcroft, Morris, & Wilmot.
Good article and covers some fresh ground rather than the usual rehashed stuff.
All you need in life these days if you're in any way a public figure is your name out there week by week.
Doesn't matter if what you have to say is nonsense the world is so polarised in the way it views things and most people just want an opinion they can agree or disagree with in their own braindead world and you create a profile.
The more controversial you can be the better it is career wise in these sorts of industries.
How Brisbane Lions captains Harris Andrews and Lachie Neale kept finals dream alive amid US trip storm
In their first year as Brisbane Lions co-captains, Lachie Neale and Harris Andrews went within moments of winning a premiership.
If they thought dealing with the days and weeks post-grand final heartbreak were tough, nothing could have prepared them for what followed a few months later.
When the club was at its lowest ebb earlier this year after a winless start and drama surrounding an off-season trip to the United States, it was the Lions’ leaders who provided the necessary guidance to help drag the team out of deep water.
If not for their presence both on and off the field, Brisbane would not be hosting an elimination final on Saturday night.
WEATHERING THE STORM
Four days after a 20-point Easter Thursday loss to Collingwood that saw the Lions slump to 0-3, Andrews fronted media to address reports there was a fracture within the playing group dating back to an off-season trip to the US that a number of players had attended.It could not have come at a worse time for the club.
By his own admission the skipper “didn’t really know” what had happened on the trip, given he was in Europe with his partner Emily at the time, but after debriefing with his teammates and the coaching staff he was adamant there was no fracture.
“It was definitely challenging. To be 0-3 and then all the media-driven stuff comes out about the US trip. We spent a lot of time together myself, Lachie, the other leaders and the club, Fages and Danny (Daly) trying to just bunker down,” Andrews told this masthead on the eve of finals.
"In our eyes the media was viewing it as an opportunity to jump on us because things weren’t going so well on the field."
“So for us it was like, OK … we can’t control the headlines that are coming out, but what we can control is our attitude towards our performance and that clearly needed to improve.”
From his viewpoint, the football world was eager to sink the boot into his club. But Andrews saw it as an opportunity for growth.
“It’s easy to be a leader when you’re playing in a prelim and going off to a grand final – it’s easy to do the showcase there,” he said at the time.
"But as a leader … we have some challenges at the moment with our own performance and our ability to drag ourselves out of that will be a great challenge and I know I’m really excited for it."
“I still have plenty of confidence in this group.”
That confidence was put under the ultimate stress test three weeks later when the Lions fell to 2-5 after being trounced by the Giants in Canberra.
At that point many people were ready to write their finals hopes off. But not the leaders.
“We were looking down the barrel and it could have probably gone one of two ways: turn our toes up, or keep rallying the troops and try to keep the place enjoyable,” Andrews said.
“At that stage we knew we would have to make some drastic improvements to potentially play finals. But mine and Lachie’s role was about keeping guys’ belief up and about. For us that was the one thing we would always come back to.”
THE TURNING POINT
The following week the Lions returned home to host a fired-up Gold Coast Suns in a blockbuster QClash.Under new coach Damien Hardwick the Suns were playing some impressive football and fancied their chances of travelling up the M1 and returning with a rare Gabba victory.
Just about anything that could have gone wrong did go wrong for the Lions in the first 20 minutes.
Brandon Starcevich injured his calf in the warm-up and was forced to withdraw, which meant dragging debutant Logan Morris from the stands – with a belly full of McDonalds – to pull on the substitute vest.
Then Lincoln McCarthy went down with a knee injury inside the opening 10 minutes and in the blink of an eye, Morris was into the game. Minutes later, Darcy Gardiner also went down clutching at his knee.
The club would later learn the two veterans had suffered season-ending ACL injuries.
If Andrews ever feels himself second-guessing what the Lions are capable of, he thinks back to that night in early May when they overcame overwhelming odds to post a stirring 34-point victory.
It was a season-defining – perhaps season-saving – line in the sand game, where the team said enough was enough.
Dayne Zorko won his very first Marcus Ashcroft Medal as best on ground that night, but right behind him in the voting were two familiar faces: Andrews and Neale.
“The fact we were able to rally that night and get the job done against a Suns team that was coming hard and had made a conscious effort to knock us off … for me personally, that gave me a lot of belief,” Andrews said.
“That was a really powerful night from a belief standpoint.”
LEADERS OF MEN
Fostering belief became a season-long focus for Andrews and Neale. It was something that before this year they rarely had to do, given the Lions had become perennial top four finishers under Fagan.On field their actions never wavered. Even during the early season slump, both men were among the few Lions still hitting the high standards of excellence they had set the previous year.
And off the field their partnership blossomed, both by necessity and a unified desire to get the best out of their teammates.
“I think we complement each other really well,” Andrews said.
"I’m very lucky to have Lachie there. We bounce a lot of ideas off each other. We share a lot of the responsibilities."
“I’ve really enjoyed getting to see things from his perspective. Having a difference in position allows us to view the game a bit differently. He gets a good feel for it around the ball and I’m at the other end of the ground, able to see some things that maybe he can’t.”
The two have had to work closer than ever with the staff this season, particularly early on when the arrows were coming from all directions.
Football boss Danny Daly has had a front-row seat on the rollercoaster.
“We’d been pretty lucky over the previous five years in terms of injuries, winning games and no off-field (issues). So when you go through a bit of adversity like we did at the start of the year … to me that shows a bit about the character of people and how they react and deal with it,” Daly said.
“Fages and I have a great relationship with those two. We were able to have some really clear and honest conversations about where we were at on and off the field.
“Harris has been outstanding in his ability to have conversations with the group and individual players, just to make sure everyone stays tight and connected regardless of what was being said on the outside. This has been a great growth period for Harris and his leadership.
“Harris is about being front and square whereas Lachie is really about his actions.
“Lachie was really driven during the first part of the year in making sure he led the way in terms of professionalism and how he performed, making sure he was doing everything right and dragging the players along with him.”
Vice-captain Hugh McCluggage, who is destined to take over the captaincy from Neale when the dual-Brownlow Medallist eventually hangs up the boots, said there were no two players he would rather run out behind.
“They’re different personalities but they work so well together,” he said.
“Lachie’s on-field leadership is No.1. There’s been games where we’ve come off a bad patch of form and he’s the one that has really set the tone for us.
“In the North game (after the US trip saga) his first quarter was one of the best I’ve ever seen – the Port Adelaide game as well he was huge. On-field he’s unreal and off-field he’s a great footy brain and someone I go to when I need someone to bounce ideas off.
“Big Chief (Andrews) is such a calming influence. He has a really good grip on things that are happening around the club and he has this great ability to work with the young boys to make sure they’re getting better.
“He’s able to keep a calm head in any situation. The way he kept everyone together early in the year when things weren’t going well was second to none. I’ve really enjoyed seeing his growth as a leader.”
THE NEXT STEP
Mere minutes after last year’s grand final defeat, a forlorn Andrews fronted the media and was asked to put words to his feelings.Neale, tears in his eyes, sat somewhere on the dressing room floor behind him.
Like their teammates, the two captains were inconsolable.
But alongside Fagan and Daly, the pair vowed to forge ahead and not let the loss define them.
Now the Lions stand at the foot of the mountain once again. For the sixth time in as many seasons they are one of eight teams in the premiership hunt.
“There’s a massive mountain we want to climb to get back to grand final day but if you look too far ahead you can get caught wondering,” Andrews said.
“I reflect back on that whole week as something really special to me. Getting to see my teammates with their kids in the grand final parade was awesome. We would love to be able to do that again, but we know there’s a long way to go.
“This year of all years for me has shown me how important it is to celebrate those little wins and moments, because certainly there were times this year where we didn’t have a lot to celebrate.
“At the end of the day we’re just playing a game of football and we’re all really grateful to be in a position to be able to do that.”
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Top 100 Rich List, some players are robbing their teams with the output they are giving for the money they are receiving.
I put the rest in the spoiler to shorten the league of this post.
I put the rest in the spoiler to shorten the league of this post.
Elixuh
See you on the 9th green at 9
My god Ben McKay
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Wow, Richmond had 3 of the top 5! Surely they must have had a very successful season!
Nice to see we don't have a player in the top 17. With all the relative success we have had it does suggest our players are actually taking unders to help fit everyone in.
Wonder what Andrews and Neale would be on... $900k?
Wonder what Andrews and Neale would be on... $900k?
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Worst value for money player, even when playing.
Yep, would take Jack Payne over Ben McKay every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
