Review Preliminary Final, 2024 - Geelong vs. Brisbane Lions

[T Rick]

If we lost, would Lloyd be asking the same question about Oscar?

Fages would have somehow been targeted for a lack of "tactical nous"...

 

[notliondown]

I thought Channel 7’s fly on the wall documentary “Tomahawk and Tuohy Watch a Game of Footy” was really good last night. The occasional brief glimpses of the actual football match really brought it to life.

You forgot the "how to massage Holmes" segment that lasted 45 minutes...

Edit.... Clearly I need to scroll before I post

 

[3KZ is Football]

High and absolutely justified praise for Ryan Lester

35

Ryan Lester

Age

32

Ht

192cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.9

4star

K

7.9

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.7

4star

MG

170.4

3star

D

10.3

3star

K

5.8

2star

HB

4.5

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

1.5

2star

MG

140.7

3star

D

12.6

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

5.8

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

0.6

3star

from Dayne Zorko

15

Dayne Zorko

Age

35

Ht

175cm

Wt

77kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.4

5star

K

13.2

5star

HB

8.2

5star

M

3.6

4star

T

6.0

5star

CL

3.6

5star

D

14.0

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

5.0

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

5.0

5star

CL

2.0

4star

D

16.4

4star

K

9.8

4star

HB

6.6

4star

M

5.2

5star

T

6.6

5star

CL

1.2

4star

.

 

[dlanod]

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High and absolutely justified praise for Ryan Lester from Dayne Zorko.

Ryan is Dayne's nepobaby

 

[3KZ is Football]

Ryan is Dayne's nepobaby

only reason he gets a game!

 

[Lions Flag 2020]

My 13 year old son yelled at the TV - who is this man when Lester burst out of defence again!

He was best player on park last night.

 

[Elixuh]

Brisbane Lions champion Luke Hodge can barely watch.

 

[FeastOrFamine]

I'm so proud of this team. The grit and determination they've shown in this finals series has been unreal. Fagan and the coaching staff have got this group humming. They're playing for each other and they have that belief about them that'll be incredibly hard to quell.

The best part for me imo is that the point of difference in our last 2 games has come from the young brigade stepping up. I can't heap enough praise onto all of them. Ashcroft has proven he's built for finals. Wilmot, Fletcher, Lohmann and Morris have all shown their mettle too in important moments.

 

[BuntonRules]

Joes time in the ruck was interesting. Did well halving ruck contests but then played very selflessly and defensively around the ground following around the Geelong ruck and playing behind the ball

IMO he attacked the ruck contest with a lot more vigor than when he was just relieving O.

 

[dlanod]

Ashcroft has proven he's built for finals.

Will just plays at a different speed to everyone else a lot of the time. It's uncanny to watch.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

I'm so proud of this team. The grit and determination they've shown in this finals series has been unreal. Fagan and the coaching staff have got this group humming. They're playing for each other and they have that belief about them that'll be incredibly hard to quell.

The best part for me imo is that the point of difference in our last 2 games has come from the young brigade stepping up. I can't heap enough praise onto all of them. Ashcroft has proven he's built for finals. Wilmot, Fletcher, Lohmann and Morris have all shown their mettle too in important moments.

Yeah. I'm barracking for the Lions next week for sure.

 

[Rosscoe_666]

Welfare check on David King anyone? I’m not sure he’s coping right now!!!

He didn't cope at all. He actually stated that Fages coached better than Scott in the final two and a half minutes, despite having no answer to Tom Stewart's dominance

 

[beatnik]

The amount of front on contact frees they were ignoring was infuriating.

‘Cept one

 

[FLVanLandingham]

Will just plays at a different speed to everyone else a lot of the time. It's uncanny to watch.

I may be misremembering, but I think a few really important goals in our last 3 matches have come from a Ashcroft handball intercept

he reads it so well

 

[Nathan Barley]

How the **** does Hipwood get a fine and Henry gets off for the Charlie hit?

 

[morsie]

I can see why the last free to Stanley was paid because it appeared Andrews had interfered with him front on with no interest in the ball. But the replay showed that Andrews barely touched him and Stanley was never going to mark it with his hands together as they were,

Could've been an interesting one if they were under a goal behind.

Disagree I reckon he shoved him in head or neck.I thought at the time no free but on subsequent viewings I reckon its correct and was unecessaru

 

[Rosscoe_666]

LESTER SHOWED THE WAY. REBOUND, SPEED AND COURAGE!

HE IS THE BACKLINE GENERAL!

No he didn't, no he's not, and speed and Lester are two words which do not belong in the same sentence. That being said, I nearly gave him a vote.

Ryan could well become the first player at any level of Australian Rules football to win both a "best clubman" award and a senior premiership!

 

[buttermuffs]

7 minutes left in the 3rd the ump missed the most obvious ruck infringement free in our forward pocket. Dunks and Stanley were the nominated rucks, some other Geelong player engaged Dunks, Stanley took it out of the ruck and cleared the defensive 50

How do the umps miss this?

Brain fade is the only obvious answer. Dunkley isn’t a typical ruck, and they had a lapse in concentration and forgot Dunkley was the ruck.

It would have 100% been picked up as an incorrect call, and one was paid in the last for Joe.

Not sure which ump missed it but that’s a missed call that rules you out of a grand final like Hosking’s incorrect throw in call last year.

 

[3KZ is Football]

No he didn't, no he's not, and speed and Lester are two words which do not belong in the same sentence. That being said, I nearly gave him a vote.

Ryan could well become the first player at any level of Australian Rules football to win both a "best clubman" award and a senior premiership!