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[MSB ROYS]

Channel 7 early news has got people at Springfield waiting for the team to arrive.

 

[Gadzorks]

I don't watch a lot of the footy shows but want them all this week..

Can a very kind person please let me know what that all is? Fox (kayo right?) Plus the free to air sites. Plus anything else worth watching.

Such a busy week coming up.

 

[Perrip]

I funny watch a lot of the footy shows but want them all this week..

Can a very kind person please let me know what that all is? Fox (kayo right?) Plus the free to air sites. Plus anything else worth watching.

Such a busy week coming up.

Most footy shows have finished their run with the GF yesterday I think. Otherwise programs today had a lot of footy content
The Sunday Footy Show aired today for the last time which discussed the GF. Footy Furnace is also on tonight discussing the GF.
The news tonight/last night on various networks had a lot of footy content.
Offsiders [ABC] this morning was mostly dedicated to the GF

 

[BRAB]

I’m so ready for a version of this for the grand final. Will there be a 360 episode for the grand final recap or is it all over for the year?



I hope there’s a documentary/video/movie made about the 8 year journey with Fagan as well one day. If it’s not the best footy story ever, it’s certainly my personal favourite.

 

[Squizz89]

I’m so ready for a version of this for the grand final. Will there be a 360 episode for the grand final recap or is it all over for the year?



I hope there’s a documentary/video/movie made about the 8 year journey with Fagan as well one day. If it’s not the best footy story ever, it’s certainly my personal favourite.

They always do one final episode on the Monday (tomorrow) night mate. Think they do a final Couch episode too and generally have one of the boys on there.

 

[Tom14]

Final episodes of 360 and Couch tomorrow and then that’s it plus Footy Furnace on now

Don't forget, 12 hours of TRAID RADIO a day starting tomorrow morning for 3 weeks. Bet everyone can't wait for that!

 

[Tom14]

I hope we also get a Lips from Lethal type GF replay of Fages mic’d. In addition, whilst I didn’t watch it and not sure if it was Fox who made it but they did a doco of Collingwood and of 6-8 players talking through the replay and the lead up and post GF stuff.

Fingers crossed we get all of the above.

I'm reasonably confident the lions coaching box would have been mic'd up.

Not sure we'll see a similar thing to what they just released for the 2023 grand final with both coaches being mic'd up. Someone told me that the Swans recording equipment was mysteriously malfunctioning/never turned on, lol.

 

[briztoon]

Don't forget, 12 hours of TRAID RADIO a day starting tomorrow morning for 3 weeks. Bet everyone can't wait for that!

 

[Tom14]

Does the trade period start tomorrow; when does it go to this year?

Don’t think it even starts until next week? Maybe free agency starts next weekend or something?

I dunno, haven’t paid much attention to it.

 

[JasRulz63]

Does the trade period start tomorrow; when does it go to this year?

Trade period is Monday 7th to Wednesday 16th October.

Free agency period is Friday 4th to Friday 11th October.

 

[Paul Mac]

Watched Sunday Footy Show a short time ago at the hotel. Can you believe some of the dumb arses said ten Victorian clubs should make enquiries with Joe now that he’s finishing up at Brisbane. It took one person to say um, doesn’t he live in Byron and perhaps he might not move?

You can’t make up how out of touch some of these people are and yet they’re being paid and yet they are just so ignorant.

It was almost up there with saying Hugh should have been fined for being tackled by Dangerfield last week.

What about where Matty Lloyd on the Sunday Footy Show had to give his highlight of grand final day and his reply was Katy Perry. What a F*****G Flog. Could not find one highlight of Brisbane that he could put in front of her.

 

[haystark]

It was a surreal moment for Beth Fagan to stand on the MCG on Saturday after son Chris had coached Brisbane to the AFL flag

No need for words - for Chris Fagan’s mum Beth, a hug said it all when they met on the MCG on Saturday after Brisbane won the AFL premiership

 

[Caesarr]

Kingy on 1116 alludes to the luck factor vs GWS. He said Daniher nailed a tough shot and what if Hogan got another one.

Is he forgetting the Lions kicked 4.12 before their surge where they missed a lot of gettable goals?

 

[Gadzorks]

Kingy on 1116 alludes to the luck factor vs GWS. He said Daniher nailed a tough shot and what if Hogan got another one.

Is he forgetting the Lions kicked 4.12 before their surge where they missed a lot of gettable goals?

Fair points really. With the Joe show those shots were more likely than not. But Joe. Always random.

 

[Caesarr]

Fair points really. With the Joe show those shots were more likely than not. But Joe. Always random.

It evens out. Hipwood missed a shot directly in front from 15 in the 3rd

 

[Gadzorks]

So just listened to the quarter by quarter analysis with king. Don't hate me for it. I was sacrificing myself in big o style.

Firstly he did say he gave fagan a hard time this year. Not an apology though.

Said he has struggled all year to identify a fagan game plan/style. But now after the gf he sees it as a half back probe. So we stay the ball at half back and use the short kicks as way to test which opposition players are committed to defending. Once we identify which one is not working hard we exploit that pathway forward.

In going to remwatch the game and look for that pattern.

 

[MSB ROYS]

So just listened to the quarter by quarter analysis with king. Don't hate me for it. I was sacrificing myself in big o style.

Firstly he did say he gave fagan a hard time this year. Not an apology though.

Said he has struggled all year to identify a fagan game plan/style. But now after the gf he sees it as a half back probe. So we stay the ball at half back and use the short kicks as way to test which opposition players are committed to defending. Once we identify which one is not working hard we exploit that pathway forward.

In going to remwatch the game and look for that pattern.

Thanks for the sacrifice!

 

[Fluke]

So just listened to the quarter by quarter analysis with king. Don't hate me for it. I was sacrificing myself in big o style.

Firstly he did say he gave fagan a hard time this year. Not an apology though.

Said he has struggled all year to identify a fagan game plan/style. But now after the gf he sees it as a half back probe. So we stay the ball at half back and use the short kicks as way to test which opposition players are committed to defending. Once we identify which one is not working hard we exploit that pathway forward.

In going to remwatch the game and look for that pattern.

Came to share this one as well haha. I'm a third of the way through, but I reckon King's analysis so far is pretty decent.

I noticed that pattern he mentioned as well tbh. I don't think it's every play, but when we slow it down, we don't go all the way back to full back like some teams would. But yeah, I'm due a re-watch tonight as well haha.

I cringed a bit at the luck comment as well, but if it were anyone else you probably wouldn't think twice about it tbh.

I reckon he feels called out from a couple of weeks ago, and now that Fages actually won, he can't hide from it anymore. "Bad coaches can win" doesn't really stack up to "premiership coach", so he has to start giving the credit.

 

[buttermuffs]

So just listened to the quarter by quarter analysis with king. Don't hate me for it. I was sacrificing myself in big o style.

Firstly he did say he gave fagan a hard time this year. Not an apology though.

Said he has struggled all year to identify a fagan game plan/style. But now after the gf he sees it as a half back probe. So we stay the ball at half back and use the short kicks as way to test which opposition players are committed to defending. Once we identify which one is not working hard we exploit that pathway forward.

In going to remwatch the game and look for that pattern.

He’s not wrong but jeez I’d say anyone could have said just as much if they watched our games. Short kicks to stretch and pick apart the holes that show up in the defence. Zorko won AA because he was the main catalyst of it being so successful. He’s a super quick decision maker especially when it comes to riskier short kicks.

I like King but it’s clear he has not done his homework, which was obvious from saying we should have kept Smith in the side over Hipwood after the Saints win.

 

[MSB ROYS]

Greg Swann will be on TripleM Brisbane at 8.15 am or so this morning .

 

[haystark]

Lachie Neale's Dad on his premiership son and 'father figure' relationship with coach Fagan

 

[Perrip]

Anyone who has access to the above two articles able to share them?

A secret meeting, deadline trade and a crack medical team: How Brisbane transformed from perennial strugglers into AFL premiers - Marc McGowan

There were only 16 minutes until the trade deadline seven years ago when Charlie Cameron’s wish to leave Adelaide and become a Lion was finally granted.
The Brisbane Lions’ rags-to-riches rise – from perennial strugglers and losing the “go-home five” to this year’s AFL premiers – had an earlier origin, but the Cameron deal was a significant turning point.
The cheeky goal sneak, so well known for his Take Me Home, Country Roads goal celebrations that Lions fans sung it as he left the grand final podium, was the first of a conga line of high-profile recruits who transformed them into a destination club under Chris Fagan.
A 33-year-old Luke Hodge, with 305 games and four flags’ experience with Hawthorn, arrived in the same trade period charged with providing leadership, cultural and mentoring gains.
“Me and ‘Hodgey’ came at the same time, and it was pretty tough in 2018 because I didn’t get my first win until round nine,” Cameron told this masthead after the Lions’ grand final win.
“Everyone was like, ‘Why are you going there?’, and I just saw an opportunity to make myself a better player, be closer to family, and be part of something.”
The Recruits
The big names kept rolling in: Lachie Neale (2019) – following a covert mid-season meeting in Darwin after the Fremantle-Melbourne game that year, between the then-Docker, his agent Tim Lawrence and Brisbane list manager Dom Ambrogio – Joe Daniher (2020) and Josh Dunkley (2022).
Ex-Crow Tom Doedee (2023) is yet to play a game for the Lions because of another ACL tear, but looms as an excellent back line addition.
Ambrogio and ex-football boss David Noble – who crossed from Adelaide at the end of 2016 and spent four years in the role at Brisbane – also hit home runs with moves for Callum Ah Chee, Linc McCarthy and Jarryd Lyons.
Only ex-Sun Ah Chee played in Saturday’s grand final, but both McCarthy and Lyons were integral in the climb, while another trade acquisition, Darcy Fort, stepped in admirably for injured ruckman Oscar McInerney.
Former Bomber Conor McKenna also played in the premiership after returning from Ireland to resume his AFL career with the Lions as a pre-season signing in December 2022.
McCarthy played 29 games in seven injury-riddled seasons at Geelong, only to become incredibly durable at Brisbane until his ACL rupture in May this year. He is best mates with Neale, but it was McCarthy whom the Lions approached first, rather than vice versa.
Health and welfare
Brisbane’s much-vaunted medical team helped make Ambrogio’s job easier.
The likes of McCarthy, Daniher, Hodge and Grant Birchall had various physical issues that they largely put behind them in the Sunshine State. Doedee said the medical team’s reputation helped him make his free agency decision, too.
“They have a fantastic track record in that regard,” Daniher said after crossing from Essendon.
“I’ve spoken to guys like ‘Birch’ and other teammates who are fully supportive of the whole structure they’ve got at the Brisbane Lions at the moment. As a footballer, all you want to do is go out and play … I’ve been starved of that in the last few years.”
One AFL player manager, who wished to remain anonymous to speak freely, told this masthead that the Lions also had the competition’s No.1 welfare team, headed by Andrew Crowell, which he said made them appealing for prospective recruits.
Ambrogio, who was appointed as Brisbane’s list boss in February 2017 after recruiting stints at Gold Coast and Western Bulldogs, is also held in high esteem in the industry.
This masthead spoke to three player agents and two rival list managers to gain a greater insight into who Ambrogio is and how he operates.
They all described him as a hard worker who was highly intelligent, calculated and strategic; likeable, and always thinking multiple years ahead. But he is a ruthless negotiator determined to get the best for his club – although not unreasonable.
Ambrogio also drew praise for his targeted recruiting and his style of chasing hard those he really wants rather than casting the net wide.
Another of the back-room heroes is national recruiting manager Steve Conole.
Look to the country
Conole and his team’s shrewd eye for talent, combined with a deliberate retention strategy to target, where possible, Victorian country kids and players with prior relationships worked wonders.
He has nailed his first-round draft selections, including Cam Rayner (No.1), Hugh McCluggage (No.3), Zac Bailey (No.15), Darcy Wilmot (No.16), Jarrod Berry (No.17), Brandon Starcevich (No.18) and Kai Lohmann (No.20).
“We won five games in my first two years, and now we’re here, so it means everything,” McCluggage said.
“Even though we weren’t winning, we were measuring our success in smaller ways, so quarter wins and things like that … then from there, it was the growth of the older guys. The younger guys came in, but they were the guys who showed us how it’s done – Ryan Lester, Dayne Zorko, Harris Andrews.”
The club’s academy program has also been a boon, producing the likes of Eric Hipwood, Andrews, Jaspa Fletcher, Jack Payne and Keidean Coleman.
Two father-son products, Norm Smith medallist Will Ashcroft and Fletcher, played in the grand final, while another Ashcroft, Levi, has also committed and is set to be a top-three pick in November.
Anyone who complains about the Lions’ academy advantages must also concede that Conole, like his Sydney counterparts, has supplemented that with some great selections down the order. They include McInerney (rookie), Noah Answerth (No.55) and Logan Morris (No.31).
Like with any success story, there is no one answer or moment for why it ended up this way. Instead, Brisbane got a lot right, across a long period, that snowballed into a deserved premiership.

The speech that inspired the Lions to a premiership - Peter Ryan

An impromptu speech from Lions’ ruckman Oscar McInerney after their loss to Collingwood in round 23 inspired the Brisbane Lions to a five-game winning streak that secured the club’s first premiership for 21 years.
Lions coach Chris Fagan revealed that McInerney’s words became the theme for the remainder of the season after the 30-year-old told his teammates to “give themselves to the team more” in a speech teammate Jarrod Berry labelled as pivotal to their unbeaten finals run.
McInerney’s speech to the team came in the week after their loss to the Magpies cost them a top-four finish and a double chance.
“He stood up and said: ‘Boys, you have just got to give yourself to the team a bit more than you are doing.’ I had never heard him stand up and speak, and it was just one of those really powerful moments that you occasionally get at a footy club, and there he was, ‘the big O’,” Fagan said.
“We’ve been living on that theme for the past five or six weeks.”
McInerney did not play in the grand final after dislocating his shoulder twice in the club’s preliminary final win over Geelong but was as excited as anyone when the final siren went. The crowd at Brunswick Street Oval on Sunday chanted his name to get him onto the stage with his teammates.
“What he did last week was the ultimate team act because he knew if his shoulder popped out again, there’s no chance of him playing,” Fagan said. “We were able to talk about that during the week and how selfless it was. We wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for him.”
Berry said the room had stopped and took notice when McInerney had delivered the impromptu and unexpected home truth because the ruckman had admitted even he was getting caught up in chasing statistics.
“That was a pivotal moment in our season and our journey,” Berry said. “It was pretty special. Oscar spoke about not worrying about stats, goals, marks, kicks and everything like that, [instead] give yourself to the team.
“He felt like he had gone into that trap and that is just impossible because he is one of the most selfless guys on our list. It was so powerful coming from him. I feel like all the boys just bought into that.”
McInerney was self-effacing when asked about his speech on Sunday. He first wondered “how did that get out?” before saying it was the product of the environment co-captains Harris Andrews and Lachie Neale had created – where any player on the list could express their view.
In the meeting room where the speech was delivered was a picture of club stalwart Nicole Duncan, placed there after she died in January following a short battle with leukemia. Duncan, who had been with the club for 30 years, was on the boundary line during the 2023 grand final as well as a key figure in the club’s three-peat premiership era.
Fagan said she was missed and would have loved to be part of the celebrations after the flag, with Brunswick Street Oval filled with the Fitzroy colours on Sunday morning.
“I wish she could be here now,” he said.
“She would love this and the family as well. [Nicole was] an incredibly hard worker for our footy club for [a] long period of time, someone I really relied on. She was big shoes to fill and a big loss to our club.
“I hope she is looking down on these scenes right at the moment.”
McInerney had focused on the opportunity his injury gave Darcy Fort, called in to take the ruck spot, to be part of the premiership side as his team-first attitude had helped the veteran through the season.
“That’s the thing that gets lost, like what a team man he is,” McInerney said.
“[It’s] heartbreak for him not playing in the Giants game, but he was the first one in the rooms pumping us up, I was so glad given what a selfless teammate he has been this year.
“It’s every kid’s dream to be part of a premiership and if you had told me eight years ago I would be at a footy club that was winning the AFL premiership, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
McInerney’s attitude left Fagan in awe and also with a message for the AFL about whether players other than the 23 who take the field on grand final day should get a premiership medal.
“I wish the AFL would give everyone a medal because that is an example of why they should,” Fagan said.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Good to see Andrew Crowell

Andrew Crowell

Age

47

Ht

189cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.0

2star

K

3.6

1star

HB

4.4

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

1.5

3star

No current season stats available

D

8.6

3star

K

4.0

2star

HB

4.6

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.0

3star

finally get a mention. Man is a star.

 

[notliondown]

Good to see Andrew Crowell

Andrew Crowell

Age

47

Ht

189cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.0

2star

K

3.6

1star

HB

4.4

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

1.5

3star

No current season stats available

D

8.6

3star

K

4.0

2star

HB

4.6

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.0

3star

finally get a mention. Man is a star.

Yep... I don't think you can underestimate the pay off for the work he and his team have done. Literally the glue.

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[dropbear101]

So just listened to the quarter by quarter analysis with king. Don't hate me for it. I was sacrificing myself in big o style.

Firstly he did say he gave fagan a hard time this year. Not an apology though.

Said he has struggled all year to identify a fagan game plan/style. But now after the gf he sees it as a half back probe. So we stay the ball at half back and use the short kicks as way to test which opposition players are committed to defending. Once we identify which one is not working hard we exploit that pathway forward.

In going to remwatch the game and look for that pattern.

so professional football analyst couldn't understand what was going on. then goes on radio with some very strong opinions about the game style.

did something similar to freo. talked a lot about how freo should be playing a much more offensive game style. (freo have a bottom 4 record for scores against in a number of categories and the control game was an attempt to mitigate this). and kinda alluded that we were idiots for not going offensive . freo become offensive, get angry at us for our "defensive method".