Game Day Round 9, 2020 - Brisbane Lions vs. Essendon

[bato]

Witho <3

 

[jackess]

Witherden with 8 contested possessions

Essendon with 7 of the 8 players with 2 or less possessions

 

[Harris Specter]

Missing McStay with his link up marking and forward pressure.

Skinner is moving around like a 2014 J Brown.

 

[luthor]

1.5 from set shots.

If we could ever kick straight we would have games won by half time.

Hipwood is having a horror and Skinner is almost invisible.

Our errors are only being outdone by Essendon's incompetence,

If we have our customary doze in the third quarter, we could be toast

 

[EurekaKid]

Any idea why the kick was reversed when Ballenden had it ready to kick inside 50?

 

[Saucery]

Has Hippy had two falcons to date?

 

[TheZork]

I fully expect the Bombers to get the rub of the green in the second half and cannot complain about it.

Think they'll run us down from here if we don't start strong in the 3rd and put it to bed before 3QT.

I'm just not sure whether they have the scoring capability with all their outs. Their whole forward line other than AMT are missing.

 

[Macca225]

Very noticeable at the ground how many free players the bombers have around stoppages... We need to lift our pressure big time.

 

[jackess]

Seems like Lyons is playing a defensive role on Shiel but it's leaving McGrath free and he's racked up 6 clearances. He hasn't used it well but we need to shut him down

 

[MacMum]

We've seemed all over the shop tonight. Seem out of sorts, the lot of them.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Very noticeable at the ground how many free players the bombers have around stoppages... We need to lift our pressure big time.

Very concerning, they are all peeling off into the middle after a stoppage and we are ball watching, just lucky they suck

 

[Brizzys Squizzy]

1.5 from set shots.

If we could ever kick straight we would have games won by half time.

Hipwood is having a horror and Skinner is almost invisible.

Our errors are only being outdone by Essendon's incompetence,

If we have our customary doze in the third quarter, we could be toast

100% agree and I'm over it.Another goaless quarter is just disgusting. Doesn't seem we've worked on any of our deficiencies at all last month or so, so frustrating

 

[Macca225]

Very concerning, they are all peeling off into the middle after a stoppage and we are ball watching, just lucky they suck

Yeah their forward 50 entries are costing them big time

 

[mpal6]

Well that's our customary leaving the door open quarter. Hope we are up for Q3 as bombers will start hitting targets soon.

 

[LionsMaw]

I haven't read the thread but here's wishing Mitchie Robinson a good 200th game. Ideally we'd win this game against the druggie bomber shitbags by 200 points but, umm, since that probably won't happen Mitchie will have to make do with my mere congrats.

 

[jackess]

Very concerning, they are all peeling off into the middle after a stoppage and we are ball watching, just lucky they suck

Sounds like we're playing Ah Chee loose behind the ball

 

[LIONS08]

100% agree and I'm over it.Another goaless quarter is just disgusting. Doesn't seem we've worked on any of our deficiencies at all last month or so, so frustrating

The videos I see from training during the week they seem to do a heap of goal kicking practice and it all looks great! Not sure as to why they can’t continue that in games!

 

[Brizzys Squizzy]

What's the go with us pushing and shoving once we win a free kick, childish stupid footy, any chance we just play footy.

 

[luthor]

Yeah their forward 50 entries are costing them big time

Yet inside 50's are 22-17 our way.

I have counted at least 3 marks that we have dropped cold that would have been easy shots on goal.

Then again, the way we kick for goal from set shots...............

 

[CarterS]

We've been leaving them a fair bit of space in the middle

 

[bato]

What's the go with us pushing and shoving once we win a free kick, childish stupid footy, any chance we just play footy.

You have no idea how many times I’ve yelled “DON’T TOUCH HIM!” when we get a free kick. Always seems to be one moron threatening to overturn it haha.

 

[royboys4eva]

We continue to make it hard for ourselves by missing easy shot shots. We never bury teams we keep them in the contest. Need to go for the throat this qtr. Oscar playing a great game in the ruck and around the ground.

 

[Macca225]

Ballenden getting out muscled big time in the ruck, gone to ground at least 5 times. Needs to get angry

 

[jackess]

AMT in the middle is interesting given they've been on top in the middle

 

[PTizzle]

Not looking forward to the inevitable umpiring square up this term. Need to put some goals on the board quickly.