Rnd 6 Match Day Thread. Brisbane Lions V Sydney Swans. 1.10pm at The Gabba

[barry]

i thought macca had the ball and player covered down in our 50m and only 1m from the side line

Brisbane player had ball carowled and just as whistle blew another brisbane player ran past.

We will loose or moral high ground if we try to argue the stretcher wasnt poor form. Saying that it did look like hed done a knee. Maybe poor form by umps to stop play though.

[Mug Punter]

Sometimes you just need the four points and we got that today against a team that I thought played pretty well.

Aliir Aliir looked OK and certainly not totally out of his depth and I can see him becoming a rebounding half back flanker. Buddy was the difference in my books as well as Parker, JOK and Hanners showing their class.

If the Lions play like that every week until the end of the season they'll have more than a few wins on their ledger.

[undy]

Storm in an egg cup. Guy goes down when his knee packs in, is in obvious distress. Looking after his health has to be the priority of the Swans medical staff, not the game situation. Similarly the umpires can't let play go on if they think. A stretcher is required. In either case think of how bad the headlines would be in the bad case scenario if the professionals involved hadn't done the right thing.

[Faunac8]

i thought macca had the ball and player covered down in our 50m and only 1m from the side line

It happened just in front of us and that was a pretty accurate assessment
In my opinion the ball was headed for the boundary line .
The injury looked pretty bad at first view on the big screen and I was genuinely surprised to see Sinclair walk off.

[Luke Shannon]

The Lions were great. They will win games this year with that effort. We take the four points.

Laidler was brilliant and Rampe won some key one on one battles. AA was solid and has all the athletic tools to be an effective player.

I liked Robinson's game and the tenacious way he hits the contest.

I don't know how long Papley has with his run in the seniors. As a small forward, I don't think he is efficient enough. Although he won the rising star last week, he wasted a lot of possessions. He needs to become more efficient like a Zorko. If Zorko had as many touches as Papley did last week, he would have kicked 6 goals. He was not clean today and needs to be impacting the scoreboard more.

[liz]

I don't know how long Papley has with his run in the seniors. As a small forward, I don't think he is efficient enough. Although he won the rising star last week, he wasted a lot of possessions. He needs to become more efficient like a Zorko. If Zorko had as many touches as Papley did last week, he would have kicked 6 goals. He was not clean today and needs to be impacting the scoreboard more.

Zorko is 27 and into his 5th season at senior AFL level. Papley is 19 or 20 and has now played a grand total of 6 AFL games. Not sure you are really comparing like with like.

[johnno]

Umpire Schmidt was doing my head in during the second half. So was Allen 'the bobblehead' Christiansen. I'm not sure if I've seen anyone try to milk as many high contact frees?
Actually wasn't a bad game live, though the overpowering never quite came.

Yep that umpire Schmidt was doing my head in too. He literally gifted Brisbane 3 goals from 15m out, 2 crap decisions to Christensen and another to some other Brisbane player for a very ordinary decision against Hanners.

But he didnt stop there...he also paid countless free kicks to Brisbane around the ground for some VERY soft decisions.

It got to the point where I literally yelled at the TV...."ANY CHANCE YOU MIGHT PAY A FREE KICK OUR WAY?!?!?!".

[Mug Punter]

The Lions were great. They will win games this year with that effort. We take the four points.

Laidler was brilliant and Rampe won some key one on one battles. AA was solid and has all the athletic tools to be an effective player.

I liked Robinson's game and the tenacious way he hits the contest.

I don't know how long Papley has with his run in the seniors. As a small forward, I don't think he is efficient enough. Although he won the rising star last week, he wasted a lot of possessions. He needs to become more efficient like a Zorko. If Zorko had as many touches as Papley did last week, he would have kicked 6 goals. He was not clean today and needs to be impacting the scoreboard more.

I thought Rampe was BOG for mine today. Agree re Robbo's development, he is coming along nicely.

AA did well, he did not look out of place. Two or three games then back to the NEAFL to work some more on the basics, I can really see him being that rebounding flanker we need, his athleticism is amazing and in football terms he is still learning a lot due to his late start in the game. Definitely work staying with.

I think they'll stick with Papley as he just gives us something a bit different up front in what was quite a predictable forward line. His disposal is a concern though but overall I think he has done well.

Again, today made me realise how important Ben McGlynn is to us, he just makes the big plays and he is always so hard at the footy

[barry]

Some of the shine is coming off or early season form. Is it because of the return of mid level experienced players is making us more like the 2015 team again?

[Nico]

Thought Lloyd had a poor game. He had 10 x 10 at 50%. Was very tentative at the close in stuff.
Thought Mills was again consistent across 4 quarters and had some deft spoils in the close in contests. He was wearing his player like glue.
Still not convinced of Robinson, who had a similar game to Lloyd.
Those hard contests need everyone hard at it. Brisbane seemed to have more players in and under and running to contests. KJ probably should put that down as one to forget.
Tippett, you star, from the first bounce.

[Go Swannies]

Sinclair was near to me. When he went down he stayed down in a foetal position. He didn't move at all. It looked really bad - and I presumed it had something to do with him falling over when he just had to stay on his feet to win the game for us. I saw the Swans staff with him, went back to watch the play and was amazed to see him limping off. I don't know who made the stretcher call but it didn't look like an over-reach when it first happened.

[Meg]

Rnd 6 Match Day Thread. Brisbane Lions V Sydney Swans. 1.10pm at The Gabba

It seemed to me that initially Sinclair fell over (possibly because of cramp) while leading the chase for the ball in front of two Brisbane players, running into an open goal. Then as he was trying to get to his feet one of the two Lions players bumped him causing him to again fall, this time awkwardly. And it was that second fall that resulted in him twisting and hurting his knee.

Can anyone confirm if that is what happened?

He certainly looked to be in considerable pain, clutching his knee and grimacing. I feared an ACL or other long-term injury. And given he was lying on the ground right in front of the goals I can understand that the Swans staff wanted to get him off the ground ASAP before a stampede of players came charging back.

The truncated video coverage of this incident starts about 5mins. 10 sec. into the highlights package.

Highlights: Brisbane Lions v Sydney Swans - AFL.com.au

[Hotpotato]

Like Buddy said, the Lions played some good footy . It was impressive how they stayed right in the game all day.
They took so many more overhead marks than us with the greasy ball. Christensen was terrific .
Tippo played his guts out , but gee his timing was off in the ruck for a long time.
What a chookfest scramble when ten players arse up head down trying to find the ball on the deck and get it into space .
Buddy is amazing in all conditions and he stays cool if something doesn't work out, doesn't do his block like the boundary rider used to .

[dejavoodoo44]

Yep that umpire Schmidt was doing my head in too. He literally gifted Brisbane 3 goals from 15m out, 2 crap decisions to Christensen and another to some other Brisbane player for a very ordinary decision against Hanners.

But he didnt stop there...he also paid countless free kicks to Brisbane around the ground for some VERY soft decisions.

It got to the point where I literally yelled at the TV...."ANY CHANCE YOU MIGHT PAY A FREE KICK OUR WAY?!?!?!".

Yes, my throat is still a bit sore from yelling similar things at the ground.
And Christensen really is a shocker. It's probably about time that the Tribunal has a look at his constant staging and starts to issue some appropriate fines. One of his goals came from a decision where our player's contact was so low his arm was actually scraping the ground. While if there was any contact with Christensen's head, it may have come from clipping his team mate's knee. But of course, he was already throwing his head back before that contact.

[ScottH]

Well i can never remember a game where we have not had a banner to run through.... with the small crowd here it feels more like a reserves game.

Apparently Security were concerned the Wet Crepe Paper would ruin the ground in the rain.

I should attend more I/S matches. Since I started attending matches away from Melbourne in 2009, I haven't seen us lose. We've been damn close a couple of times.
Yesterday was shocking.
Moments of brilliance, and a few moments of hard work and pressure.
But most of the time we were slack.
Brisbane nearly always ran in packs. On turn overs they seemed to have many numbers running hard and free.
We were also very wasteful with disposals just missing targets far too often, even from close range under very little pressure.
Also trying to mark like dry weather rather than wet weather.
We were just lucky that their long range goal kicking was off.
Took 2 free kicks, a "Stretcher" break, Parker, and a couple of great marks from Laidler in defence to get us across the line.

Sinclair is a very average player. Mike Pyke was far superior to this bloke.
Rampe was pretty average yesterday as well. For all his good work his turnovers are far too costly.
Poor Allir. Not the best of debuts. At least his first few touches were alright.

No Smith or Ted left huge holes in our back line.

Glad to get the 4 points, but we have a long way to go to match the top teams on that effort.