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Leemas said:
It was tongue in cheek mate geesh, some of you lot are so cranky. At least a few of you got it.
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What does it say about your posting that when you make a joke, people think it's serious.
 

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Haso said:
I mean, your name is right there on the screen.
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Who looks at names? I just look at the little pictures at the left & if I like the little pictures at the left I may say something. I like your little picture. I like Mr. Rippers too!
 
Crimso said:
Who looks at names? I just look at the little pictures at the left & if I like the little pictures at the left I may say something. I like your little picture. I like Mr. Rippers too!
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You prevert!

I never look at the pictures.

I only come here to read the articles.
 
kylegee28 said:
This boards gone to shit. I love it :p
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One small bite of Leemas bread is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man and one small Lembas post is enough to set a whole board of adults arguing.
 

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Crimso said:
Who looks at names? I just look at the little pictures at the left & if I like the little pictures at the left I may say something. I like your little picture. I like Mr. Rippers too!
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No wonder you never respond to me:(
 
I must admit watching leppas interviews on fridays is getting harder and harder. The amount of questions that he answers with "i dont know" or " i guess we will find out" is pritty disturbing. Hope he starts learning so he can actually answer some questions better.
 
In the Dogs Tigers pre-game show on 7 they had a prelude to a breaking story on the Lions. Club in crisis, AFL intervention, Mark Evans flew up on Friday to interview everyone at the organisation bla bla bla. Think they're covering it further at half time. Intimated that there will be a player exodus at the end of the year to surpass the go home 5. I did have a chuckle when one of the points they raised is that player managers are getting frustrated not being able to get deals done.
 
BangyBangy said:
In the Dogs Tigers pre-game show on 7 they had a prelude to a breaking story on the Lions. Club in crisis, AFL intervention, Mark Evans flew up on Friday to interview everyone at the organisation bla bla bla. Think they're covering it further at half time. Intimated that there will be a player exodus at the end of the year to surpass the go home 5. I did have a chuckle when one of the points they raised is that player managers are getting frustrated not being able to get deals done.
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Most of our players are contracted. They stay if we want them to. The one's hanging out for better deals are struggling to play AFL standard at the moment. Like to see what value they might actually have on the open market.
 
Gold Coast & Brisbane are guilty of accepting mediocrity, writes Andrew Hamilton
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ANDREW HAMILTON, COMMENT, The Courier-Mail
32 minutes ago

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IF you accept mediocrity, that’s what you’ll get.

Gold Coast’s players are guilty of it and so are Brisbane’s board and administration.

Wins have been so scarce for Queensland’s teams for the past two years we should celebrate every one of them.

So we can’t be too critical of the Suns’ coaching panel in accepting what the players delivered in Saturday’s 26-point QClash win.

And credit where it is due, the Suns’ ball movement is really coming together.

However, the players shouldn’t be popping the bubbly. That should have been a slaughter. But they lack killer instinct.

Their pressure fell away and they let the worst side in the competition kick five unanswered goals and instead of a 51 point-lead turning into 70 or 80, it was whittled away.

But that doesn’t really say much about the Lions.

They prove every week they can kick junk-time goals, unfortunately junk time usually lasts for the entire second half.

They are the worst defensive side I have seen.

The accuracy rates of Brisbane’s opponents are staggering, on Saturday the Suns’ booted 22.7, because they get their shots in the high-conversion zone because of the Lions’ complete lack of pressure.

Senior Brisbane figures say they are accepting the club’s poor performances because “they are playing the kids.’’

Yet first-year players Rhys Mathieson and Eric Hipwood were their best in the QClash.

On the flip side, they insist they are on the right track because of the quality of their kids.

The kids have undoubted talent, but are not being taught the proper way to play footy. They are not being taught to respect league footy.

Because their coach doesn’t and neither do their senior players.

Prioritising kicking 100 points a week is flawed. It is roulette that might pay off occasionally but will not set up the club for success. Instead it has produced a side full of rockstars whose midfielders cheat and half-forwards are a liability.

If Justin Leppitsch can’t see that his coaching philosophy needs to change, his bosses should spell it out.

I keep hearing results, in particular the Round 18 game against Essendon, will decide the coach’s fate.

I fully understand the club’s patience running out if they lose that one but Brisbane’s administrators are accepting mediocrity if beating a side gutted by suspensions and staffed by journeyman and retired guns for hire counts as a pass mark.

On another note, if scans clear Gary Ablett of any serious damage to his shoulder I expect him to do everything in his power to play this week. You couldn’t say that about Gaz a year ago but he has learnt to play through pain and injury this year and has done it most weeks.

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"Gold Coast and Brisbane" in the title. That article had about 5% Gold Coast content and 95% 'Shit on the Lions' content.
So it's business as usual with another stellar article from Andrew Hamilton.
 
Why don't we appoint Andrew Hamilton, he's obviously an expert coach.
 
It is far from ideal but for now the reality for now is we have to play the kids. We don't have enough other options available.

WTF is 'respect the league'?

I went back and watched some of our games from before the bye (well, parts of the games. There were some chunks I just couldn't) and I specifically looked at the older players. There were many occasions that I could see the older player hesitating between going to help out the young player or staying in their role. And almost always they got caught out and looked bad. It is not easy for either the kids or older players ATM, and nothing that Andrew Hamilton said will change that.

The ideal is of course, a couple of newbies each year in a well established team but that seems to have only happened for the few teams that were at the top when GWS and Suns came on board. Yes, we really screwed up things ourselves, but the two additional teams meant a lot of extra opportunities available to players that were willing to move and the old model was damaged.

The 100 points was a standard set to try to get our guys to take on the game and have shots at goal. It was a metric aimed at creating a particular behavior. The next metric seemed to be around contests possessions which have improved across this year, and now defensive pressure. Isn't that a progression of tactics that focuses on developing required skill sets?
 
He's right. The only thing missing was the fact that Lions supporters too also accept mediocrity.

Our only win this year was against the suns, yet 10 weeks later we lose to them and are happy that it was only 26 points. Surely it's clear as day we are going backwards and instead of doing anything about it we just hand out jerseys to kids and pretend like that was the plan all along. Embarrassing.
 
BNE23 said:
He's right. The only thing missing was the fact that Lions supporters too also accept mediocrity.

Our only win this year was against the suns, yet 10 weeks later we lose to them and are happy that it was only 26 points. Surely it's clear as day we are going backwards and instead of doing anything about it we just hand out jerseys to kids and pretend like that was the plan all along. Embarrassing.
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It's impossible for someone happy with where we are now to be "accepting mediocrity" because right now we're not even close to being mediocre.

But it is necessary to accept as a fact where we are right now, which is at the bottom of a rebuild. An overdue rebuild. We should have started a rebuild several years before we did, when we'd still have a host of threepeat players around to provide leadership and experience and a core for the new players to build around. We didn't. Had we started a rebuild then, it might have been a less painful rebuild than this one has been, but we didn't.

Had we not started the rebuild eventually, we'd probably have won quite a few more games over the last few years, but we wouldn't have gotten close to a premiership. We'd have won games, but not a flag, but our list would just keep deteriorating and eventually it'd all collapse around us. See: Richmond. To prefer that approach is to truly "accept mediocrity".

There's been a lot of criticism from certain quarters of Reuben William's performance on Saturday, and criticism of those seeing potential in it. It wasn't perfect. He's far from perfect yet, yet we don't have any fit and ready players who could have done better. Claye is slow and Cutlet is injured. But he's got some really nice qualities, and he's clearly making progress in turning those into a complete package, compared to what we had seen of him pre-draft, in the NAB, in the NEAFL. Accepting this isn't "accepting mediocrity" - it's accepting where we are right now and seeing the potential in our future, once our kids have developed a bit more more. Rejecting this and insisting that we could have done better by selecting ??? in that position isn't "rejecting mediocrity", it's denialism.

Earlier this year we beat the Suns, at home, and when they'd lost a lot of their best 22 through injury. It was an upset at the time. On Saturday we lost to them. Again, this was not a surprise outcome. Because we're not a very good side - yet - and have, instead, a host of 18-19 year olds playing in our senior squad. Seeing where we are and yet being excited at the possible potential isn't "accepting mediocrity" but "accepting reality" - without having given up on the future of this club.
 
BNE23 said:
He's right. The only thing missing was the fact that Lions supporters too also accept mediocrity.

Our only win this year was against the suns, yet 10 weeks later we lose to them and are happy that it was only 26 points. Surely it's clear as day we are going backwards and instead of doing anything about it we just hand out jerseys to kids and pretend like that was the plan all along. Embarrassing.
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This ignores that the Suns' form now is streets ahead of what it was a couple of months ago.

Not sure that some supporters or the club are "too accepting" of anything, but am pretty certain that others are very unrealistic with their expectations.
Who should we have played ahead of "the kids" on the weekend? And what result did you really expect, with or without those changes?
I think there is whole big chunk of our supporter base who are somehow living in denial. After 15 rounds and having our status explained week after week after week, to the point that they are sick of hearing it, still don't get where we're at and each week seem surprised that we didn't play very well.

How is this still a shock each week?
How do you believe a few ins & outs will change our fortune?
Should we look to the 'changes' thread, for the weekly suggestions of bringing in some injured and/or out of form mature players?
Really at this stage of the season, do people really expect a meteoric rise in form and personnel for us to start getting wins on the board? Why?
 
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