Review Round 13, 2022 - Brisbane Lions vs. St. Kilda

[Warwick]

Didn’t we kick the first 4 against the Hawks ?

Honestly the last time I thought we truly came out of the blocks with any intent was when we put 6-7 on Port in Adelaide ? 2 years ago.

We continually play down to whoever we’re playing.

 

[bain22]

Any win after a 6 day break and a trip from Perth will do me. I'm still baffled how there was enough evidence to overturn Cam's goal. The umpiring tonight was very ordinary.

 

[spotthedog1]

Is this where we talk about the 2 incorrect goal reviews? Neither could conclusively overturn the on-field call.

 

[BRAB]

Can’t bury our heads in the sand and ignore the last month and we definitely benefited from the saints injuries, but huge positive that the midfield dominated and the defence was really solid with good tackling pressure.

Biggest problem tonight were dumb turnovers, forward connection and conversion - if our problem is in the forward half, I have confidence it is fixable.

Berry Coleman and Rayner my main positives of the season so far. All having career years.

I am so excited to see Berry playing good football. I was very concerned about him at the start of the year.

Rayner looking spooky.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

You take these wins. Was another awful night and the skills were well below par. Think we wormed burned 20+ uncontested kicks tonight. Team structure needs a big think over the 2 weeks. Feel as we 100% need 2 rucks.

 

[MacMum]

It was an ugly frustrating win but it was a win. We know they can play better so all good imo.

I'm zonked so goodnight all.

 

[Tom14]

Is this where we talk about the 2 incorrect goal reviews? Neither could conclusively overturn the on-field call.

Think the Rayner one was definitely touched - but don’t know why it took them 2 minutes to show the side on angle. No clue how they overturned clug’s goal - was textbook inconclusive.

 

[StevoJenkins]

Well played Andrews - played noticeably tighter on King and the tactic of Coleman/ Starcevich doing the brave thing and getting in front of the pack to intercept worked well. Both played really solid games. Well thought through. Rich was his usual high quality self. Adams kicking is still a disaster. Come finals I am really worried he is going to hurt us. Ball in hand he is just terrible. I did like his spoiling though. Showed how to do it. We really need an additional skilled ball user with some football smarts in defence. I would be playing Lester ASAP. Midfield were back - Neale, McCluggage and Lyons got lots of the ball. Berry was great again. Answerth was serviceable. Just one of those nights for our forwards. Charlie’s pressure was really amazing tonight. McCarthy was dangerous. Rayner was big tonight. I don’t think McStay’s price went up tonight, but he did the brave work in the ruck, which was a big ask. Nice to beat a Top 8 team. Oscar McInerney was fabulous tonight.

If you watched the team intro in the stadium, Lester was playing. So I guess that counts right?

 

[bato]

Finishing wasn’t great but we didn’t leak any goals from centre bounces. That’s the big win of the week.

 

[Hirsty23]

Also massive props to Harris Andrews

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Harris Andrews

Age

28

Ht

202cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.8

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.6

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

151.7

2star

D

17.0

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

8.0

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.0

3star

D

9.8

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

4.8

4star

M

3.4

4star

T

1.6

4star

MG

94.0

2star

tonight, after King kicked the first two it would have been easy to drop his head but thought King had zero impact after that. A good, accountable night from Harris. He won that match up.

 

[bato]

Also massive props to Harris Andrews tonight, after King kicked the first two it would have been easy to drop his head but thought King had zero impact after that. A good, accountable night from Harris. He won that match up.

Tbh I think it was more a team effort with King. Double and triple teamed at nearly every contest.

But Andrews did what he had to do for sure.

 

[3KZ is Football]

If you watched the team intro in the stadium, Lester was playing. So I guess that counts right?

Missed that.

 

[Mooch]

What was that umpiring? It’s like you look at a Saints player and they get a free kick.

The umpiring in the 1st half was absolutely diabolical. They kicked 4.1 of their first half score directly from terrible umpiring decisions. And in the same time they chalked one off for us which - at least from the big screen at the Gabba - in no way conclusively showed it was touched. The umps gave plenty of soft ones to us later on, though not so many gimme goals they gave the Saints early.

Skills and decision making were awful for large parts of the game - usually when we tried to slow it down. But somehow we were good enough to win it and should have won it by a bigger margin with a bit of composure. Defensive pressure was so much higher than the last few weeks, though we were cut open by pace which is still a big concern.

The two goals we had ruled out for being touched - what was the verdict from the TV? From the ground, neither looked touched - certainly not "conclusively".

We'll take the win for sure but the bye couldn't come quick enough. We need to be better than that for the Demons at the G.

 

[spotthedog1]

Think the Rayner one was definitely touched - but don’t know why it took them 2 minutes to show the side on angle. No clue how they overturned clug’s goal - was textbook inconclusive.

I think the Rayner one was probably touched. Whether before or after the line I'm unsure. On neither part did I see anything conclusive enough to overturn.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Also massive props to Harris Andrews tonight, after King kicked the first two it would have been easy to drop his head but thought King had zero impact after that. A good, accountable night from Harris. He won that match up.

He closed the space between him and his opponent, which meant he was nearly in every contest that his King was in. Spoiled really effectively. Noticed a lot more fist work tonight. The Over 50’s Clique approves.

 

[Sherrinator]

I really liked how the whole backline fed it to King after the late hit in Adams.

 

[dlanod]

Think the Rayner one was definitely touched - but don’t know why it took them 2 minutes to show the side on angle. No clue how they overturned clug’s goal - was textbook inconclusive.

Got to take Saints players at their word I guess?

 

[dlanod]

The two goals we had ruled out for being touched - what was the verdict from the TV? From the ground, neither looked touched - certainly not "conclusively".

The second yes, though they only showed the conclusive angle after the decision was announced. The first no - I still don't get how that was meant to be conclusive given the footage was all a blur.

 

[SizeMatters]

A bit flabbergasted as to how so many of our teams field passes fell well short, at home, on a perfect pitch???

Oh and what's with the Ruck as a medical sub? Very Malcom Blight to me.

either too short or on top of them.

Just got to kick into the space in front of a player FFS.

Pathetic performance outside last quarter when Saints were cooked with only 1 rotation.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Any win after a 6 day break and a trip from Perth will do me. I'm still baffled how there was enough evidence to overturn Cam's goal. The umpiring tonight was very ordinary.

That skinny dark haired umpire (Number 12) with no chin has it in for us. Small man syndrome much. Some of his calls were so putrid I could smell them through the tellie and I have COVID at the minute so the nose is not what it normally is.

 

[Mooch]

Tennerriffe would not have been my pick for one of the nicest suburbs in Brisbane, Brownie.

Heeeey! My office there is quite nice. And there are a lot of yoga studios around the suburb

Coming off a 6 day break from Perth against a team coming off the bye. Bank em and refresh at the bye.

I've seen some Saints supporters complaining about the umpires after we copped the worst deliberate rushed behind of the season and had two inconclusive goals overturned hahahaha. We played crap tonight and were still probably a u goal better side.

I actually like the Saints but god their supporters have a loser mentality sometimes.

The Saints fans in the ground were incredibly dumb. Calling for a free for every single tackle. And getting plenty of them too it seemed.

Got to take Saints players at their word I guess?

That's how the umps were operating tonight - at least in the first half.

 

[lioninthesand]

All I can say is we could have so easily kicked 18.10 and won by 10 goals.

This is part of the problem though. Our complete panic and lack of composure going forward in those sort of games is an ongoing thing. The amount of times we should have scored and didn’t became comical, time after time, after time.

 

[Elixuh]

I am so excited to see Berry playing good football. I was very concerned about him at the start of the year.

Welcome to the Berry bandwagon brab.

 

[lioninthesand]

Andrew’s was great tonight. Played King really well.

Andrew’s is always better when he plays back shoulder/accountable footy and let’s his game build from there. I’ve said it for years.

He always gets sucked into being an agressive/rance style defender and his form suffers.

He needs to be accountable, he said it himself after the game. He put effort into his 1 on 1 job and the game came to him.

 

[FLVanLandingham]

The 'proof' of the raised pinky was odd seeing as that pinky was flying loose as he was swinging in to smother that.