Can't agree. Kemp can stretch the Brisbane backline and is versatile and mobile.
What we need is for Motlop and Durdin to get their hands dirty!!!

Can it be that there's some sort of error?
Hard to stop naming Adam Cerra
Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?

Some strange selections this week
You can’t comment till after the game

It’s like with drafting and trades.

Hindsight is definitely helpful.

Some strange selections this week
You can’t comment till after the game

Yes you can.
I like the team. We need to play with desperation, pressure and our contested way.
Just need to trust the MC.

Forget selection. There's enough talent in the team. The key will be pressure. If we play 4 quarters of high pressure, unrelenting football, we'll be every chance to win. Champion Data put out some info earlier this week that if Brisbanes opponents bring higher than 180 pressure, Brisbane have won 4 from 10 games.
We're the best pressure team when the mindset if correct. That's what it comes down to. Can our selected players bring 4 quarters of the pressure required. No lapses.

(straight kicking in front of goal would be a bonus as well)

lol ... this is nowhere near a 50-50 game, old mate. take the blue blinkers off and take a deep breath. i think if we brought in 3 or 4 at most players and went with a couple of kids that never put a foot wrong in the final rounds, and made ourselves as mobile as humanly possible, we would have been a chance.

don't laugh at st kilda & their form. they had a top 4 profile in the final 4 weeks of the season, and killed the cats and beat the swans. and we took them to within 12 seconds of beating them - and we did it with pressure and turnover. which incidentally has been the lions kryptonite all season long

the dour possession, slow build up to contests, long bombs onto forward's heads doesn't work, and doesn't win games. cats showed what does, hard running both ways, speed and pressure on the ball and clever forward entries into space.

maybe youth was the wrong word for the cats. mannagh, lawson humpheries, max holmes, Gryan Miers, Brad Close etc

no hawkins, guthrie, de koning, tom stewart and rohan.

of them, hawkins, guthrie and sam could have all played, and if it was a prelim or gf they coulda risked tom stewart as well. but they had faith in their system and the players coming in to play their system, run hard both ways and tackle all night long.

... meanwhile at carlton, it's bring in 6 changes of varying underdone players to go with durdin and his dislocated shoulder and cross your fingers and shut your eyes and hope for the best.


pittonet and tdk are all out rucks; and other than the one game Vs the giants where tdk kicked a few (by clunking a few lucky marks that landed on his head) in all the other games he's shown he has little forward craft and isn't a forward.

H and tdk and kemp will apply very little ground ball pressure and turnover, and motlop and durdin aren't that much better in that department. lord have mercy, durdin is one bump from a dislocation and having his night ended.

according to everyone we're making up the numbers, and other than you, i haven't met anyone who thinks we're a show with this selected team. if we lose, i'd have rather gone down swinging with fit players under no injury clouds, applying pressure until the final whistle like we did against the saints.

instead, we're staring down a blowout of hawks magnitude, if one or two go down before HT.

i just wanted us to go into the game with less risk on big names with injury clouds, back our system and swarm & hunt.


a question for you - the cats backed their system and allowed underdone players another week. does voss and Co bringing in the big guns who may or may not finish the game, mean they don't have the same faith in their very own system? bcos that's how these selections read to me.

Sustained pressure requires fit players. So we’re back to selection.

I have no inside word nor have I even read it as a rumour, but I do wonder if this talk about Doc might be because he’s going to pull the pin.

3 knee recos, 2 cancer battles….maybe his body has had enough.

I disagree. It comes down to mindset. Fitness means jack shit if you don't have the hunger. Jaxon Binns could probably outrun any player in our team but he doesn't have the physical intent at the moment. I'd take any of the recent selections over him easily.

You sound confused, you say only mindset is import, then you say even though Binns has the right mindset but you wouldn’t pick him due to physicality?

Did I say Binns has the right mindset in my post? Where exactly?