Chris Fagan

When it did, nothing we tried worked.

We got smashed everywhere, like at the contest, ball movement.

To be truthful, our third quarters have been a problem to us for the last three weeks.

for some reason or other, these quirky things sort of pop up.

Need to have a talk to the group and work out what's happening there.

When you can't win the footy and you can't get possession of it, this game's pretty hard to play.

And that's been the pattern for the last three weeks in third quarters.

We've just been beaten in the contest and in the clearance.

I take a little bit of heart from the fact that

A couple of years ago, the Giants beat us up in a similar fashion in Canberra.

And we got written off.

Fair enough.

We should get written off tonight too.

But we were able to respond to that and make finals and go on and win a premiership.

So this is one moment in time.

It's not a great moment.

It's not the highlight of my coaching career here at the Brisbane Lions, I can assure you of that.

But it is a moment that we can sort of choose whether we get better from it or we continue to go backwards.

Because at the moment, we're going backwards.

And we're nowhere near a premiership fancy at all.