Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
It's unreal how the Lions put this list together and they're a great example of of getting the balance of the draft, trading and father son picks right and they're very likely to be better again next season.

They've got two great picks coming in with Levi Ashcroft and Sam Marshall and will have McInerney, Doedee and Coleman available.

If they can manage complacency, they'll be the ones to beat again next season.
They are a good lesson for us - they started contending for finals in 2019 and have saluted 6 years later. At the end of 2021 they were 1-5 in finals (most of them at home) and are now 9-6 in finals, their only loss being under a kick in last year's GF.

Good teams don't panic and know exactly where they are on the premiership clock, and also what they need to do to keep adapting and adjusting to get even better - both game plan and personnel. We have work to do on the list but we should consider ourselves a contender next year and for the next few years to be honest. Our game plan profile this year was competition best (and very similar to Brisbane), so we are finally heading down the right path game plan wise. We wasted the 2 years after 2021 but we didn't waste this year IMO (very poor final aside).

Ripping it all up and starting again is not the way IMO.