Review Round 5, 2024 - Melbourne vs. Brisbane Lions

[ZoBlitz]

The good old "avoid doing this on my phone later" trick.

 

[Elixuh]

 

[BRAB]

They called me a madman

 

[Jivlain]

Well, if we're fortressing the MCG rather than the Gabba that could work, just ideally squeeze out a couple home wins along the way too

 

[Nunez]

Our midfield looked exhausted in the last. Lachies ankle was clearly sore.

Bizarrely, we had an inside mid sub and didn't bother using him.

Coaching blunder imo and not fair on Jimmy.

Negative aside, we are BACK BABY!

 

[Lionheart182]

Rayner
Payne
Zorko
Tackling
Strategy

All our whipping areas covered tonight. Good win

 

[BRAB]

Fagan’s pets spud it up again. This is what we get for not dropping 10 players. Season over.

 

[Toffee Lion]

I have a feeling that Cam must not be a fan of Danster. He loves playing the Dees.

Solid performance tonight, season looking to get back on the right track. Proud of the boys.

 

[Elixuh]

Did we not activate our sub?

 

[M Malice]

Everyone played well, we smashed them, no excuses for the Demons.

Fab5- Lachie Neale

9

Lachie Neale

Age

30

Ht

178cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

27.0

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

15.5

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.7

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

28.3

5star

K

13.9

5star

HB

14.4

5star

M

4.6

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

12.0

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

7.4

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

1.0

3star

CL

0.4

3star

, Cam Rayner, Darcy Wilmot, Ryan Lester

35

Ryan Lester

Age

31

Ht

192cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.9

4star

K

7.9

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.7

4star

MG

170.4

3star

D

10.3

3star

K

5.8

2star

HB

4.5

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

1.5

2star

MG

140.7

3star

D

12.6

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

5.8

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

0.6

3star

, Josh Dunkley

5

Josh Dunkley

Age

27

Ht

191cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.8

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

11.3

5star

M

4.3

4star

T

5.8

5star

CL

3.2

5star

D

20.7

5star

K

7.0

3star

HB

13.7

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

5.3

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

14.2

4star

K

7.2

3star

HB

7.0

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

4.0

5star

CL

1.4

4star

.

Please spare a moment to check on danster168 welfare tonight.

 

[Elixuh]

Wholesale fages in the background smiling as they sing

 

[LionCub29]

Rayner and Lester outstanding. Berry loves Melbourne at the G - now to do it week to week. Will be interesting reading posts this week…

 

[PTizzle]

Rayner was incredible. The main board will be on meltdown watch.

Quietly, apart from the obvious suspects I thought Berry was excellent tonight. Made his presence felt and got into great position. I had admittedly been somewhat doubting his importance to the 22 but he really does add a point of difference with his build and stamina.

 

[FLVanLandingham]

Gosh that is a satisfying win. Proactively went about it early on and you could see our mindset was sorted tonight. A lot of players just doing a good job.

 

[Squizz89]

Great game from most really. Eric faded but him and Cam were outstanding in the first to really set up the win.

Lester was great again, really rate him now. Think Dunkley has been better the last couple of weeks and is starting to show that strong marking he offers around the ground.

Biggest positive was Charlie’s second half in particular as well. If we can get him back up and about then we’re a different team.

Oscar and Bailey probably our worst. We know what we’ll get with Oscar, he’s a foot soldier, but I think we need Bailey back to his best to be a legitimate top 4 chance.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Our midfield looked exhausted in the last. Lachies ankle was clearly sore.

Bizarrely, we had an inside mid sub and didn't bother using him.

Coaching blunder imo and not fair on Jimmy.

Negative aside, we are BACK BABY!

A bit disapointing we couldn't find a midfielder to stand up in the last

Completely lost our ball movement and stopped running

 

[Nunez]

A bit disapointing we couldn't find a midfielder to stand up in the last

Completely lost our ball movement and stopped running

All the more reason to get Tunstill on early.

 

[Lionheart182]

Fagan’s pets spud it up again. This is what we get for not dropping 10 players. Season over.

PLAY DA KIDZ

 

[Tom14]

Rayner was incredible. The main board will be on meltdown watch.

Quietly, apart from the obvious suspects I thought Berry was excellent tonight. Made his presence felt and got into great position. I had admittedly been somewhat doubting his importance to the 22 but he really does add a point of difference with his build and stamina.

When he has a clear role (either tagging or on a wing) he's a solid player. Makes him being the defensive cover in the first few weeks even more bizarre.

Will say as well - I was sceptical of zorko playing off half-back, but has to stay there the rest of the season now.

 

[Squizz89]

All the more reason to get Tunstill on early.

I do wonder whether if it wasn’t Lachie’s 250th they would’ve bought him off again with 10 to go. Given it was the milestone game, he probably wanted to see it out but he was clearly struggling.

 

[Lionheart182]

Thought Dunkley was our best along with Rayner, Zorks and Harris

 

[Grasshopper17]

Good night at the footy. Anyone kicking on? I have nowhere to be till my 6am flight tomorrow. I'll be at the Mail Exchange to catch a replay if I don't hear from anyone Powerpoints everywhere to charge my phone haha

 

[M Malice]

A big positive re Rayner is that he looked like he ran the game out pretty well, he has set his standard now he needs consistency.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Charlie 17 disposals. Hasn't had more than that in a game since 2018

 

[MSB ROYS]

Very happy tonight. Love the melts on the main board as well.
Hope our friends at the game enjoyed it.