Preliminary Finals Preview | The Leadership Portfolio with Luke Hodge (15.09.26)
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What does Luke Hodge think about the Sydney Swans' defensive game plan?
I think for the Sydney Swans and what Coxy's asking from them is what we saw last week, they targeted the Brisbane Lions. So they come out and said, okay, McDonald, I don't care if you get a kick. You're stopping Harris Andrews for his intercept marking. Goes to row bottom. I don't care what you do, but you're going to go and sit on Lockie Neal and and keep him quiet, keep him to two clearances while you go and get the ball yourself. I don't I don't think that that mindset works with Frio because Frio are a lot more balanced team. They don't have those big does look who's McDonald gonna go to you going to go to Pierce. He's he's not the big intercept You're not going to go to Ryan. Um, so he now has to find a role where he's just gonna be a natural forward.
And he kicked six goals last week, so that kind of worked pretty well because Harris Andrews put him into a certain position, and then all he had to do was run back to goal and try and catch him out. It's a different mindset, but I think the way Coxy wants him, it's you just got to bring energy, their ferociousness around the stoppage, their spread from the stoppage, the energy in the forward line when the ball hit the deck. Um, see Papily run around, chirping at blokes, biting at people's heels, like that's that's when they're playing their best football when the energy becomes so I think that's why there wasn't as big a drop off from their top five, because it wasn't about a skill based ball build up with ball transition as we see the Lions or or Hawthorne can do.
Uh the the risk for me is
How should Fremantle adjust their strategy against a balanced side like the Lions?
when they are targeting Fremantle Frio or so balanced. Is it gonna go to Sarong? No problems. Um Brayshaw will will stand up or Young will stand up or Bolton will go on and do his bit. Um I I I feel that Frio it's it's theirs for the taking. I I've said this for a while that I I feel that they're such a balanced outfit that they they learn a lot from the Hawthorne game. They came out and my biggest advice to to Fremantle is don't hesitate. And don't second guess. Um may trying to overthink the situation with Reed in the first game against Hawthorne. He did a couple times last week as well, but they all thought too much about the situation rather than just going to play football. I felt a lot of them relax starting with Bolton early in the game.
But their it's it's theirs for the taking, I feel. I thought their three prong attack, the defence of McCartney, Hamling, and maybe Rampy. Probably may not be as strong if if the ball can can come in as often as what we've seen it in the past. So look, Freo just have to play calm and and play the football that we we know they can and what they were able to do against the cats when when their back was against the wall when the cats hit the front late.
What lessons did Fremantle learn from their loss to Geelong and how can they apply them?
Yeah, did you think they work their way through those the mental hurdles which are very natural for a team experiencing these things for the first time?
I I thought they were in trouble, I'm not gonna lie. When when the cats when the cats came, as we we know the cats were going to because that's just what Geelong do. They just don't know how to lay down. Uh but the response towards the end of the third quarter when they kicked three goals in in two or three minutes, I thought they're not sh they're not scared of that occasion anymore. Um they've they've lived through it over the l over the previous two or three weeks and they didn't take a backward step. They just went and played football, as you should do. Uh and that gave them confidence going into into the last quarter. So hopefully they can take a lot of what they learnt in the third quarter and the fourth quarter against the Cats and and take them into the Swans.
The MCG, your two teams, Hawthorne and the Brisbane Lions. So d do the Hawks first. Th this has been the classic apprenticeship build is make finals, win an elimination final, heartbreak in a semi. Pick your way through to a preliminary final and then disappoint. They disappointed by one quarter of that.
How did the Brisbane Lions’ midfield mindset affect their recent games?
This time take the short way round to a preliminary final.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What does Luke Hodge think about the Sydney Swans' defensive game plan?
0:00–1:15
2
How should Fremantle adjust their strategy against a balanced side like the Lions?
1:15–2:15
3
What lessons did Fremantle learn from their loss to Geelong and how can they apply them?
2:15–3:14
4
How did the Brisbane Lions’ midfield mindset affect their recent games?
3:14–4:24
5
What mental hurdles must teams overcome to succeed in preliminary finals?
4:24–5:31
6
Which team match‑ups look most likely for a Grand Final showdown?
5:31–6:35
7
What personal leadership insights does Luke Hodge share about learning from mistakes?
6:35–7:29
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