"I don't think they have enough match winners."| First Thoughts - Brisbane vs Adelaide (14.09.26)
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All right, our first thoughts. Brisbane through to is it their fifth prelim final in a row? Did I read that? Wow. Fifth prelim final in a row. This is uh and Chris Fagan is gonna join us very, very shortly. Remarkable, Kingy, your first thoughts with the game. I was there and it felt like the game was over in four minutes. Is that accurate? Four minutes.
Yeah, a hundred percent. And We talk a l a lot of different things throughout the course of of the season and one thing that just keeps coming home to roost in finals is being able to score in bursts. Powerful teams can put five on your nose in five minutes. And th it always rings true that those teams that gap games against the All So Rands s seem to find a way to carry that into a final series and and w whether that's off the absolute start of the you know the first siren like they did on the weekend or at a point in the game like Geelong getting back into the game. We'll get to that later. But you know getting back into the game or actually gapping the game is is a massive asset. And that they just they still have these half forwards and and spark forwards that
Just rip the heart out again. Rip your heart out. Yeah. Rip your heart out. Like they they had that look in your eye, and I I I this is I want to ask Chris Fagan this. When when Cam Rayner has that look in his eye, and he there's one moment which I thought broke Adelaide's hearts. He picked the ball up out of the centre bounce, which he went to, doesn't go there often. He was about, I'm gonna say, six meters away from Alex Neil Bullen with his ball under his arm. He looked at Neil Bullen, he said, This is rugby now. Yeah. For the next two seconds this is rugby.
Yeah.
Good luck if you want to tackle me. And he just steamrolled him. I thought Where's this Cam Rayner every week? And it's not going to be every week that he's in that mood and has that sort of sharpness about him. But it'd be nice if it was not once every seven weeks for Cam Rayner. And he's now I don't know, he's now in the prime of his career. So I thought he was symbolic of their attitude. I would love for him to be able to do that more consistently. When he plays like that, he's he's amazing. Uh what Zach Bailey did against the team that had just r rejected the contract. contract, what Charlie Cameron did early, uh nearly kick five before half time, what Lohman was able to do. Yeah, when they're when they're in that mood, good luck.
I thought the high half forwards engaged in in defense for the for the early part of the game at least. And there's a there's a bit of vision first quarter. Zach Bailey and Will Ashcroft tackling Dawson at the same time. It forced the turnover, went back for I think a McCluggage goal early. And I thought, you know what, when you're getting those two involved defensively, you're on y you talk of Rayner, Rayner rolls right up the field high and and that that's the one that enables um the leapfrog effect. I th I think it might have been a Lowman goal uh early. So they pushed right up the ground and got involved defensively and it allows Rayner to have twenty-two touches. Now he doesn't normally get that sort of volume.
The one thing I'm looking forward to asking Chris Fagan later on. I I wanna know if there's been a shift with their centre bounce crew. Lockie Neal starting on the bench and prioritising uh Bailey in there over and above Lockie Neal, I think's a shift. Nothing happens by accident at AFL level. I think they've gone away and this is just outside looking in. I think they've that they know they can't have Will Ashcroft and Lockie Neal in at the same centre bounce as a as part of that um that combination which has been I I think a mainstay for their year it's been Dunkley, Ashcroft, Neal, pretty much as as often as they could get them there. I think there's a shift away from that because they know defensively they leak too heavily.
So I I look forward to asking Chris whether that's yeah, i how much is he prepared to tell us. Um we all know that Lockheed's probably leaving. But what it did do, when he'd come on at the seven minute mark of the first quarter.
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