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The Advertiser
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Advertiser
Lions forced to 'face the music' before Magpies clash
Lachie Neale reckons it's sometimes best to quickly forget a bad performance. The Brisbane Lions' historic 66-point QClash loss to Gold Coast on Saturday was not one of those times. "We had to face the music," the co-captain and midfield general said on Monday of their match review. "Hard to watch ... embarrassing clips that's not usual for us. "It's good to see some of that … sometimes you can brush over it but, at this time of year, a performance like that wasn't acceptable." Having won 12 of their last 13 encounters, Neale and his midfield group had the tables turned on them by Gold Coast's engine room. Matt Rowell had a career-high 37 touches, only one more than Neale. But the Suns' ball-winner had 15 clearances to Neale's three, a statistic summing up what was the Suns' biggest defeat of the Lions. The two-time Brownlow Medal-winner said "something mentally wasn't quite right" but insisted that wouldn't be the case against Collingwood at the MCG on Saturday. "Hard to put your finger on it; perhaps we got a bit comfortable ... maybe not prepared to go to footy war, roll up your sleeves," Neale said of a loss that snapped a four-game winning streak. "A bit of a kick in the teeth an as a midfield group certainly lowered our colours. "It's a great time for us to play (Collingwood); if we can bounce back and play our best it's going to be a great game. "I wish we were playing Thursday, rather than Saturday." The Lions dipped to third with the loss and have a tricky finish to the regular season with games against the top-placed Magpies, Sydney, Fremantle and Hawthorn. A draw with North Melbourne leaves Brisbane one-and-a-half wins clear of the eighth-placed Dockers in a crowded ladder. "It's very cliche but if you do look at the ladder you can get in your own head and think, we might win this one and lost that one, or win that one," Neale said of his decision not to over-analyse the scenario. "We finished fifth last year and were able to make a run. "We'll try and win out from here. Go into every week with a plan to win. "We'll keep doing that and where we end up we probably deserve and we'll have earned our spot." Lachie Neale reckons it's sometimes best to quickly forget a bad performance. The Brisbane Lions' historic 66-point QClash loss to Gold Coast on Saturday was not one of those times. "We had to face the music," the co-captain and midfield general said on Monday of their match review. "Hard to watch ... embarrassing clips that's not usual for us. "It's good to see some of that … sometimes you can brush over it but, at this time of year, a performance like that wasn't acceptable." Having won 12 of their last 13 encounters, Neale and his midfield group had the tables turned on them by Gold Coast's engine room. Matt Rowell had a career-high 37 touches, only one more than Neale. But the Suns' ball-winner had 15 clearances to Neale's three, a statistic summing up what was the Suns' biggest defeat of the Lions. The two-time Brownlow Medal-winner said "something mentally wasn't quite right" but insisted that wouldn't be the case against Collingwood at the MCG on Saturday. "Hard to put your finger on it; perhaps we got a bit comfortable ... maybe not prepared to go to footy war, roll up your sleeves," Neale said of a loss that snapped a four-game winning streak. "A bit of a kick in the teeth an as a midfield group certainly lowered our colours. "It's a great time for us to play (Collingwood); if we can bounce back and play our best it's going to be a great game. "I wish we were playing Thursday, rather than Saturday." The Lions dipped to third with the loss and have a tricky finish to the regular season with games against the top-placed Magpies, Sydney, Fremantle and Hawthorn. A draw with North Melbourne leaves Brisbane one-and-a-half wins clear of the eighth-placed Dockers in a crowded ladder. "It's very cliche but if you do look at the ladder you can get in your own head and think, we might win this one and lost that one, or win that one," Neale said of his decision not to over-analyse the scenario. "We finished fifth last year and were able to make a run. "We'll try and win out from here. Go into every week with a plan to win. "We'll keep doing that and where we end up we probably deserve and we'll have earned our spot." Lachie Neale reckons it's sometimes best to quickly forget a bad performance. The Brisbane Lions' historic 66-point QClash loss to Gold Coast on Saturday was not one of those times. "We had to face the music," the co-captain and midfield general said on Monday of their match review. "Hard to watch ... embarrassing clips that's not usual for us. "It's good to see some of that … sometimes you can brush over it but, at this time of year, a performance like that wasn't acceptable." Having won 12 of their last 13 encounters, Neale and his midfield group had the tables turned on them by Gold Coast's engine room. Matt Rowell had a career-high 37 touches, only one more than Neale. But the Suns' ball-winner had 15 clearances to Neale's three, a statistic summing up what was the Suns' biggest defeat of the Lions. The two-time Brownlow Medal-winner said "something mentally wasn't quite right" but insisted that wouldn't be the case against Collingwood at the MCG on Saturday. "Hard to put your finger on it; perhaps we got a bit comfortable ... maybe not prepared to go to footy war, roll up your sleeves," Neale said of a loss that snapped a four-game winning streak. "A bit of a kick in the teeth an as a midfield group certainly lowered our colours. "It's a great time for us to play (Collingwood); if we can bounce back and play our best it's going to be a great game. "I wish we were playing Thursday, rather than Saturday." The Lions dipped to third with the loss and have a tricky finish to the regular season with games against the top-placed Magpies, Sydney, Fremantle and Hawthorn. A draw with North Melbourne leaves Brisbane one-and-a-half wins clear of the eighth-placed Dockers in a crowded ladder. "It's very cliche but if you do look at the ladder you can get in your own head and think, we might win this one and lost that one, or win that one," Neale said of his decision not to over-analyse the scenario. "We finished fifth last year and were able to make a run. "We'll try and win out from here. Go into every week with a plan to win. "We'll keep doing that and where we end up we probably deserve and we'll have earned our spot."
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Lions forced to 'face the music' before Magpies clash
Lachie Neale reckons it's sometimes best to quickly forget a bad performance. The Brisbane Lions' historic 66-point QClash loss to Gold Coast on Saturday was not one of those times. "We had to face the music," the co-captain and midfield general said on Monday of their match review. "Hard to watch ... embarrassing clips that's not usual for us. "It's good to see some of that … sometimes you can brush over it but, at this time of year, a performance like that wasn't acceptable." Having won 12 of their last 13 encounters, Neale and his midfield group had the tables turned on them by Gold Coast's engine room. Matt Rowell had a career-high 37 touches, only one more than Neale. But the Suns' ball-winner had 15 clearances to Neale's three, a statistic summing up what was the Suns' biggest defeat of the Lions. The two-time Brownlow Medal-winner said "something mentally wasn't quite right" but insisted that wouldn't be the case against Collingwood at the MCG on Saturday. "Hard to put your finger on it; perhaps we got a bit comfortable ... maybe not prepared to go to footy war, roll up your sleeves," Neale said of a loss that snapped a four-game winning streak. "A bit of a kick in the teeth an as a midfield group certainly lowered our colours. "It's a great time for us to play (Collingwood); if we can bounce back and play our best it's going to be a great game. "I wish we were playing Thursday, rather than Saturday." The Lions dipped to third with the loss and have a tricky finish to the regular season with games against the top-placed Magpies, Sydney, Fremantle and Hawthorn. A draw with North Melbourne leaves Brisbane one-and-a-half wins clear of the eighth-placed Dockers in a crowded ladder. "It's very cliche but if you do look at the ladder you can get in your own head and think, we might win this one and lost that one, or win that one," Neale said of his decision not to over-analyse the scenario. "We finished fifth last year and were able to make a run. "We'll try and win out from here. Go into every week with a plan to win. "We'll keep doing that and where we end up we probably deserve and we'll have earned our spot."
Perth Now
3 days ago
- Sport
- Perth Now
Lions forced to 'face the music' before Magpies clash
Lachie Neale reckons it's sometimes best to quickly forget a bad performance. The Brisbane Lions' historic 66-point QClash loss to Gold Coast on Saturday was not one of those times. "We had to face the music," the co-captain and midfield general said on Monday of their match review. "Hard to watch ... embarrassing clips that's not usual for us. "It's good to see some of that … sometimes you can brush over it but, at this time of year, a performance like that wasn't acceptable." Having won 12 of their last 13 encounters, Neale and his midfield group had the tables turned on them by Gold Coast's engine room. Matt Rowell had a career-high 37 touches, only one more than Neale. But the Suns' ball-winner had 15 clearances to Neale's three, a statistic summing up what was the Suns' biggest defeat of the Lions. The two-time Brownlow Medal-winner said "something mentally wasn't quite right" but insisted that wouldn't be the case against Collingwood at the MCG on Saturday. "Hard to put your finger on it; perhaps we got a bit comfortable ... maybe not prepared to go to footy war, roll up your sleeves," Neale said of a loss that snapped a four-game winning streak. "A bit of a kick in the teeth an as a midfield group certainly lowered our colours. "It's a great time for us to play (Collingwood); if we can bounce back and play our best it's going to be a great game. "I wish we were playing Thursday, rather than Saturday." The Lions dipped to third with the loss and have a tricky finish to the regular season with games against the top-placed Magpies, Sydney, Fremantle and Hawthorn. A draw with North Melbourne leaves Brisbane one-and-a-half wins clear of the eighth-placed Dockers in a crowded ladder. "It's very cliche but if you do look at the ladder you can get in your own head and think, we might win this one and lost that one, or win that one," Neale said of his decision not to over-analyse the scenario. "We finished fifth last year and were able to make a run. "We'll try and win out from here. Go into every week with a plan to win. "We'll keep doing that and where we end up we probably deserve and we'll have earned our spot."
The Australian
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Australian
Neale: Lions midfield display against Suns was 'embarrassing'
Lions co-captain Lachie Neale says an 'embarrassing' midfield display against the Gold Coast Suns was the 'kick in the teeth' Brisbane's on-ballers needed ahead of Saturday night's showdown with Collingwood at the MCG. The Lions are still licking their wounds after their 66-point weekend loss to the Suns, whose midfielders completely dominated their Brisbane counterparts that included two-time Brownlow medallist Neale, Norm Smith medallist Will Ashcroft, Josh Dunkley and Hugh McCluggage. '(It was) certainly hard to watch,' Neale said in reflecting on the Lions' review of their performance at People First Stadium. 'More so the embarrassing clips that is not usual for us as a midfield group … we knew that was coming. 'It was a bit of a kick in the teeth. As a midfield group, they certainly lowered our colours across all four quarters. It's not usually the way we go about it … (but) it was good to see some of that stuff. 'Sometimes you can brush over it and try to forget about it and move on, but I think at this time of year to have a performance like that wasn't acceptable. 'We had to face the music and look at some of that stuff and learn from it and get better. 'You learn more from your losses than your wins, and when you win a few in a row, sometimes you can get a little bit comfortable and happy with how you're going, and some things that might slip through the cracks get shown when you lose.' The Lions had won four successive games before their weekend loss, with Neale suggesting there would be no better way to regain winning form than by beating the first-placed Magpies at the home of football. 'It's a great time for us to play them and test ourselves against the best,' he said. 'If we can bounce back and play our best footy, it's going to be a great game, a cracking contest. 'We look forward to hopefully producing some really good footy, and we know that Collingwood will bring that as well, so it should be a fantastic game for both sets of fans and for both clubs.' The Lions were in second spot before their game against the Suns but are now third, and depending on other results this weekend, could fall to as low as seventh if they lose to the Magpies. However, Neale said the reigning premiers weren't looking at the ladder. 'You just don't know what's going to happen week-to-week in this competition, so it's full focus on Collingwood,' he said. 'We knew going into the season it was going to be tight. It was the same last year. We finished fifth last year, and we're able to make a run, so we'll try to finish as high as we can. 'We're not caught up too much in where that is at the moment. We just want to try to win (every match) from here, and it starts with Collingwood on the weekend. 'We go into every game trying to come up with a plan to win that week, and we'll just keep doing that, and where we end up, we probably deserve.' Marco Monteverde Sports reporter Marco Monteverde is a Brisbane-based sports reporter for NCA Newswire. He worked in a similar role for The Courier-Mail from 2007 to 2020. During a journalism career of more than 25 years, he has also worked for The Queensland Times, The Sunshine Coast Daily, The Fraser Coast Chronicle and The North West Star. He has covered three FIFA World Cups and the 2000 Sydney Olympics, as well as a host of other major sporting events in Australia and around the world. NewsWire A woman has lost her fight against damages she was awarded after she and nearly 700 people were infected on an infamous 'Covid cruise'. Breaking News Embattled former Labor leader Mark Latham has claimed mental health science is 'still uninformed' at an inquiry into proposed workers compensation reforms.
News.com.au
3 days ago
- Sport
- News.com.au
Brisbane's star-studded midfield intent on bouncing back from ‘embarrassing' display
Lions co-captain Lachie Neale says an 'embarrassing' midfield display against the Gold Coast Suns was the 'kick in the teeth' Brisbane's on-ballers needed ahead of Saturday night's showdown with Collingwood at the MCG. The Lions are still licking their wounds after their 66-point weekend loss to the Suns, whose midfielders completely dominated their Brisbane counterparts that included two-time Brownlow medallist Neale, Norm Smith medallist Will Ashcroft, Josh Dunkley and Hugh McCluggage. '(It was) certainly hard to watch,' Neale said in reflecting on the Lions' review of their performance at People First Stadium. 'More so the embarrassing clips that is not usual for us as a midfield group … we knew that was coming. 'It was a bit of a kick in the teeth. As a midfield group, they certainly lowered our colours across all four quarters. It's not usually the way we go about it … (but) it was good to see some of that stuff. 'Sometimes you can brush over it and try to forget about it and move on, but I think at this time of year to have a performance like that wasn't acceptable. 'We had to face the music and look at some of that stuff and learn from it and get better. 'You learn more from your losses than your wins, and when you win a few in a row, sometimes you can get a little bit comfortable and happy with how you're going, and some things that might slip through the cracks get shown when you lose.' The Lions had won four successive games before their weekend loss, with Neale suggesting there would be no better way to regain winning form than by beating the first-placed Magpies at the home of football. 'It's a great time for us to play them and test ourselves against the best,' he said. 'If we can bounce back and play our best footy, it's going to be a great game, a cracking contest. 'We look forward to hopefully producing some really good footy, and we know that Collingwood will bring that as well, so it should be a fantastic game for both sets of fans and for both clubs.' The Lions were in second spot before their game against the Suns but are now third, and depending on other results this weekend, could fall to as low as seventh if they lose to the Magpies. However, Neale said the reigning premiers weren't looking at the ladder. 'You just don't know what's going to happen week-to-week in this competition, so it's full focus on Collingwood,' he said. 'We knew going into the season it was going to be tight. It was the same last year. We finished fifth last year, and we're able to make a run, so we'll try to finish as high as we can. 'We're not caught up too much in where that is at the moment. We just want to try to win (every match) from here, and it starts with Collingwood on the weekend. 'We go into every game trying to come up with a plan to win that week, and we'll just keep doing that, and where we end up, we probably deserve.'
