Where and when: the Gabba, Saturday August 17, 2.10pm AEST
What it means for Brisbane: A chance to rubber-stamp its credentials as a premiership contender. The Lions would love to win – obviously – to strengthen their grip on a top-two spot, but more importantly they’d like to play a brand of footy that proves to themselves and others they’ll be real players in September.
What it means for Geelong: Since the bye the Cats have been patchy, following a win with a loss four straight times. This match marks not only a chance to string together successive wins, but remind the competition why they’ve been table-toppers since round one.
The stat: Let’s go with two stats. Since Ash McGrath’s after-the-siren “Miracle on Grass” win in 2013, Brisbane has lost eight straight matches to Geelong. The average margin has been 50 points. This match also pits the team that has scored the most points (Brisbane) against the team that has conceded the least (Geelong).
The match-up: Tom Hawkins has more success against the Lions than any other club, kicking 50 goals from 15 matches. When the teams met last year, Tomahawk bagged seven against Harris Andrews, who was playing his first game back from a month out with concussion. Watch for in-form Marcus Adams to start on Hawkins and Andrews to take the springy Esava Ratugolea.
It’s a big week for: One of the feel-good stories of the season for Brisbane is the form of Lincoln McCarthy. After seven injury-interrupted seasons with Geelong, the explosive half-forward has played all 20 games this year and will mark the 50th of his career against his former club.
Big call: Lions to be the first team to score 100 points against Geelong this season.
Prediction: Geelong by 15 points.
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Brisbane: Allen Christensen, Alex Witherden, Zac Bailey, Oscar McInerney
Geelong: Brandan Parfitt, Quinton Narkle, Gryan Miers, Mark O’Connor
ant love for danger for the C? has scores of 160+ twice against the lions in his last two of three games.. or brissy a far greater side now so do we ignore them scores?
Neale hav’n a stinker
Yep i hope his stinker doesn’t ruin my game
Not really a stinker. This is about his average output for the last 6 weeks. Been horrible
Why did I not take Heeney 78? Hawkins is on 15 at HT.
1/2 time
J. Lyons 74
P. Dangerfield 73
D. Zorko 66
M. Duncan 57
S. Martin 62
L. Dahlhaus 54
H. McCluggage 58
T. Stewart 54
M. Adams 53
T. Atkins 52
D. Rich 51
T. Kelly 50
J. Berry 49
G. Miers 50
M. Robinson 48
M. Blicavs 49
H. Andrews 43
B. Parfitt 40
D. Gardiner 41
G. Ablett 37
C. Cameron 39
Q. Narkle 37
N. Answerth 38
Z. Tuohy 36
A. Witherden 32
L. Henderson 34
L. Neale 32
M. O’Connor 33
L. Hodge 27
J. Bews 30
O. McInerney 27
J. Selwood 27
E. Hipwood 21
H. Taylor 22
Z. Bailey 20
C. Guthrie 20
L. McCarthy 17
J. Kolodjashnij 20
A. Christensen 13
E. Ratugolea 19
D. McStay 12
J. Henry 16
C. Rayner 2
T. Hawkins 13
If I’m lucky enough to progress Neale can f§€k right out of my team in all formats!!!!!
yeh everyone thought the tag would go to Zork
but Neale was just too good when allowed to run free early on
rest of the lions aren’t protecting him like the more experienced teams would
Neale isn’t being tagged – he took a heavy head clash in the first quarter lost a lot of blood and was off for a fair while …
oh , that’s not good ,
i missed the 1st Q .
they might put him on ice if the cats put the foot down
cats just too big for the young lions @ the moment
Christensen hammy
done for the day
my players on the field are scoring lower than my bench…..
3/4 time
D. Zorko 94
P. Dangerfield 83
J. Lyons 86
G. Miers 80
C. Cameron 82
L. Dahlhaus 79
S. Martin 80
M. O’Connor 68
H. McCluggage 79
T. Kelly 68
N. Answerth 75
M. Blicavs 65
M. Robinson 72
T. Atkins 64
M. Adams 66
M. Duncan 64
J. Berry 65
T. Stewart 63
H. Andrews 62
Q. Narkle 59
D. Rich 62
G. Ablett 53
Z. Bailey 58
B. Parfitt 52
D. Gardiner 55
C. Guthrie 45
L. Neale 51
Z. Tuohy 44
L. McCarthy 44
J. Bews 44
L. Hodge 42
J. Selwood 44
A. Witherden 36
H. Taylor 42
E. Hipwood 35
L. Henderson 40
O. McInerney 31
J. Kolodjashnij 31
D. McStay 28
E. Ratugolea 31
C. Rayner 16
T. Hawkins 30
A. Christensen 13
J. Henry 17
Ainsworth doing a great job for my team @ D6
Dangerfield is doing good for me
great win Brizzy
yeah 1 point! that was intense good job to fagan Brisbane improve alot im hoping they win the premiership cup
final
J. Lyons 134
P. Dangerfield 131
S. Martin 126
M. Blicavs 101
H. McCluggage 111
T. Kelly 98
D. Rich 102
L. Dahlhaus 97
D. Zorko 101
T. Atkins 92
M. Robinson 98
G. Ablett 83
L. Neale 98
T. Stewart 79
M. Adams 96
G. Miers 78
C. Cameron 95
J. Selwood 76
H. Andrews 92
M. Duncan 75
N. Answerth 92
H. Taylor 70
D. Gardiner 82
M. O’Connor 64
J. Berry 73
B. Parfitt 64
A. Witherden 62
J. Henry 58
L. McCarthy 61
Z. Tuohy 57
Z. Bailey 59
Q. Narkle 57
O. McInerney 58
C. Guthrie 54
L. Hodge 55
L. Henderson 51
E. Hipwood 42
E. Ratugolea 50
D. McStay 29
J. Bews 45
C. Rayner 20
T. Hawkins 43
A. Christensen 12
J. Kolodjashnij 42