Lions Practise Game Score update

[Glenn]

Wouldn't read to much into the result of practice games, would have been nice if we could get the W just for the confidence of the younger players, but most importantly is that Sydney get the tacticsright come rnd 1.
Hopefully the poor passing etc, is not a sign of things to come and just a matter of the combinations not quiet right

[ugg]

Some pictures:

View the gallery

http://img221.exs.cx/gal.php?g=mred8by.jpg

OR

one-by-one:

Mr. Ed (Clarke)

Jolly in the lineout?

Andrew Hayes

Ball beaten by Charman

Barry Hall vs Brad Scott

Jolly gets crunched

Jolly rucking against Cameron Wood

A Swan breaks away from a throw-in

From L to R: Garrubba, Spriggs, Moore, Ball, Potter

Two Lions go down as Ball wins the hitout

Boundary throw-in

[j s]

Originally posted by j s
[B]More pics to come later.....

Ok!! Here is the promised gallery link

Telstra Stadium 26/2/2005

[timthefish]

Re: i'll say it now and I'll say it again, the pre-season doesn't mean anything

Originally posted by mikesmi
Roos will hopefully start to field a stronger team for the final two hitouts before the regular season, I would'nt worry about todays result, there were some shocking decisions made by the umpires (again). let's wait and see when the team is at full strength.

yeah, nothing to be too concerned about. they had voss and aker (two of the best in the comp) out there, while our two best midfielders (jude and kirk) were in the stands.
the performance also suggested that hall actually does need others around him in attack (no micky, nicky or rocky) and that schauble, saddington and leo have still got something to offer our defence this year as we were pretty ordinary without them. goodsey would have been handy also.
what happened today was entirely consistent with roos' pre-match assertion that this hit-out was about game-time for young blokes and fitness for a number of players. he did, however, look a bit cranky at 3/4 time. let's wait until next week and the following one to have a real look at our trajectory.

[BonBon]

Right. I'm not fussed if we win or lose.

[liz]

Re: Re: i'll say it now and I'll say it again, the pre-season doesn't mean anything

Originally posted by timthefish
he did, however, look a bit cranky at 3/4 time.

If he was cranky at 3/4 time I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere near him at full-time. The final quarter was atrocious.

[ScottH]

Originally posted by BonBon
Right. I'm not fussed if we win or lose.

Yep, As long as there are no major injuries, (Poor Heath)

[ScottH]

Lions too strong for Swans

BRISBANE: 3.6, 5.8, 7.15, 12.17 (89)
SYDNEY: 0.2, 3.6, 3.7, 4.9 (33)

GOALS ? Brisbane: Merrett 3, Power 2, Bradshaw, Voss, Corrie, Logan, Selwood, Akermanis, Adcock
Sydney: Hall, Potter, Vogels, Willoughby
BEST ? Brisbane: Hadley, Power, Merrett, Bradshaw
Sydney: Roberts-Thomson, Hall, Maxfield, Vogels
INJURIES ? Brisbane: Merrett (ankle)
Sydney: James (ankle)
CHANGES ? Brisbane: None
Sydney: Schneider (quad) and McVeigh (soreness)
REPORTS - None
UMPIRES - Chamberlain, Pannell, Stevic, Kennedy
CROWD - 5,200 at the Telstra Stadium

[Mike_B]

Not a bad crowd for a practice match!

[Foreign Legion]

Thanks for all your reports, opinions and photos guys and gals - good stuff.

Two thoughts: Nothing to worry about at this stage - we really are giving our rookies a run and all the youngsters are getting a look at the benchmark required.

Vogels sounds like he played well again - he must be pushing hard for a spot. If he plays well again next week it will be interesting. He knows how to present I say that for him.

[ugg]

hmm, didn't seem like there 5200 out there to me.

[ugg]

Added one more pic which I found interesting.

http://img221.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img221&image=swanspre00014lf.jpg

At 1/4 and 3/4 time, the team broke up into the defence, midfield and attack groups after the main address from Roosy. The defensive group is on the left followed by the midfield and the attack. Notice that Josh Willoughby (far left #7) is in the defensive group. I wonder if he could possibly play there in Round 1 with the (likely) absence of Crouch.

[liz]

Originally posted by Foreign Legion

Two thoughts: Nothing to worry about at this stage - we really are giving our rookies a run and all the youngsters are getting a look at the benchmark required.

It is only early in the season but I hope next week Roos puts the heat on the senior players and gets them to switch their brains on. It's not about the result - winning or losing today didn't matter.

It was more the lacksidasical fashion of it that had me depressed. If senior players can't measure their kicks when in space and aiming for a team mate in space during a half-paced practice game, or execute a 2m handball so that it lands in the hands of a team mate running past rather than at his feet or 2m behind him, what chance do they stand when the tempo and intensity increase tenfold in a month's time?

The rookies have been fine - few of them look quite AFL ready yet but they've all had a dip and shown something. It's the attitude of the others I'm more concerned about.

[NMWBloods]

We were missing a number of seniors, but so were they. Why bother having practice matches if you are not going to play properly - pretty crap effort.

[cruiser]

Leigh Matthews quoted in the SMH Online tonight:

Brisbane coach Leigh Matthews was not getting carried away with the big win in front of an estimated crowd of 5200.

"We probably had a three-quarter strength side and the Swans probably had less than half-strength," Matthews said.