Last Night,

The Brisbane Lions and the Essendon Bombers clashed at Telstra dome for the NAB Cup Rnd 2 match at 7:40 PM.

It was a tough first quarter for the Lions scoring one Super Goal and four behinds with Essendon on a roll kicking three goals and two behinds.

The second quarter had the Lions with a small comeback with good defence and trying to copy Essendon's game running it through the midfield. With Essendon scoring one goal and five behinds due to poor goalkicking, the Lions kicked a goal and a behind.

The third quarter remained even more closer as the Lions kicked four goals back at struggling Essendon only kicking one goal and three behinds in the quarter.

The Final quarter was estatic with another three goals from essendon and another two from Brisbane. It was all up to Jared Brennan in the final seconds to kick a 9-point Super Goal with Essendon ahead by just 3 points. Unfortunately for Brisbane, He missed and Essendon had won by 2 Points

Essendon        0.3.2 0.4.7 0.6.10 0.9.13 (67)
Brisbane Lions    1.0.4 1.1.5 1.5.6 1.7.14 (65)
 
GOALS
Essendon: Nine-point goals: Nil Goals: Lovett 2, Neagle, Hocking, Monfries, Skipworth, Jetta, Myers, Hille
Brisbane Lions: Nine-point goals: Harding Goals: Bradshaw 3, Clark 2, Sherman, McGrath

BEST
Essendon: Skipworth, Hille, Lovett, Winderlich, Watson, Lloyd, Lonergan
Brisbane Lions: Drummond, Dalziell, Bradshaw, McGrath, McDonald, Adcock

INJURIES
Essendon: McVeigh (ankle)
Brisbane Lions: Leuenberger (knee)

Reports: Nil

Umpires: McBurney, Jeffery, Findlay

Crowd: 12,260 at Telstra Dome

Last night, The Brisbane lions and The Saints had a thrilling and aggressive match. Everone expected St. Kilda to win but Brisbane managed to get a good lead ahead at half-time. The third quarter remained the lions way by 4 or 5 goals, But the 4th quarter became close.

Margin: Brisbane by 9 points (Drummond's 9-Pointer)

Goal Kickers:

Brisbane: Drummond (9-Pointer), Harding 3, Notting, Sherman, Cornelius, Hooper, Clark

St. Kilda: Milne 2, Goddard 2, Geary, Clark, Steven, McEvoy

Umps: Stevic, Ryan, Panell, Ryan

On September 27th,                                                                                                               

Hawthorn played Geelong in the Toyota AFL Grand Final televised LIVE on Channel Seven.

The First three quarters were an in-depth battle between the top teams but in the last quarter Hawthorn finally got away with a lead and had a FANTASTIC WIN.

Everyone expected Lance 'Buddy' Franklin to kick a ton of goals but to the 100,012 crowd saw him only kick two goals that uplifted the side.

It was a battle between Luke Hodge and Gary Ablett to win the Norm Smith medal but to the Hawthorn supporter's delight, 'Hodgie' won the prestigious medal even though he was suffering an injury to his ribs. Anyway, Geelong's Gary Ablett still got to show off his midfielding skills.

The pre-match highlight was Shane Crawfords remark 'That's what im talking about!!'

Brisbane Lionout upset after thriller 6 point loss at Brisbane Last night. The Lions are now out of the finals race.

Brisbane Lions       3.4       7.9       16.12 16.13 (109)
Carlton                    7.2       11.3    12.4    18.7 (115)

GOALS
Brisbane Lions: Bradshaw 6, Brown 4, Corrie 2, Power 2, Hooper, Rischitelli
Carlton: Cloke 4, Fisher 3, Houlihan 3, Fevola 2, Murphy 2, Waite 2, Stevens, Walker

BEST
Brisbane Lions:  Brennan, Black, Dalziell, Brown, Bradshaw
Carlton: Stevens, Judd, Cloke, Murphy, Houlihan

INJURIES
Brisbane Lions: Adcock (head), Charman (head)
Carlton: None

Reports: Nil

Umpires: Stewart, Meredith, Ryan

Official crowd: 34,327 at the Gabba

eagles nice 10 point win over the dons,

The Lions struggled to give Hawthorn a challenge on Saturday at Tassi with very low scores for the first 3 quarters but the hawks eventually breaking away from brisbane in the 4th term.

Hawthorn          1.3   3.7   7.11    16.14  (110)
Brisbane Lions   1.2   1.5   2.10   5.11  (41)

GOALS
Hawthorn: Franklin 6, Rioli 3, Stokes 2, Lewis 2, Roughead, Crawford, Dew.
Brisbane Lions: Bradshaw 2, Brown, Sherman, Brennan.

BEST
Hawthorn: Franklin, Hodge, Crawford, Rioli, Mitchell, Lewis, Ellis.
Brisbane Lions: Rischitelli, Power, Johnstone, Black, Brennan.

INJURIES
Hawthorn: None
Brisbane Lions: Charman (cut head), Drummond (quad).

Reports: Nil

Umpires: Meredith, McLaren, Chamberlain
Official crowd: 19,929 at Aurora Stadium

The Cats came out beautifully last Friday night beating the Dees by over 100 points

Overall Scores:

Melbourne: 41  -  Geelong: 157

Geelong have already played Melbourne out of the game with quarter time scores Geelong - 8-5-53 Melbourne  0-0-0

Leading Goalkickers:

Brent Prismall, Andrew Mackie - 2 (Geelong)

The Tom Wills round in round 19 is for people to celebrate 150 years australian footy. The 1st game will be played this friday night with 1st and 16th on the ladder playing each other. (thats melbourne and geelong) since they are the 2 oldest clubs.

Picture: Tom Wills statue at MCG (wikipedia)

Sunday 3rd August, Fremantle display a nice win over the West Coast Eagles with the Final Score

West Coast 12.11 - 83  Fremantle 17.14 - 116

Leading Goalkickers:

Fremantle: Kepler Bradley, Josh Carr, David Mundy, - 2, Matthew Pavlich - 4, Luke McPharlin - 5

West Coast: Ashley Hansen, Ben McKinley - 2, Mark Lecras - 4

Best on Ground - Luke McPharlin (Fremantle)

Fremantle lead West Coast 9.2 - 56  to 4.1 - 25

Leading Goalkicker: Tie - Matthew Pavlich and Luke McPharlin (Fremantle - 3 goals)

On Sunday 3rd August,

St. Kilda win exciting game over Port Adelaide at Telstra Dome

Leading Goalkickers:

Jason Gram (st kilda - 2 goals),Nick Riewoldt (saints - 3 goals), James Guilt (saints - 2 goals), Adam Fiorla (saints - 2 goals), Daniel Motlop (port - 2 goals), Nick Salter (power - 2 goals), Justin Westoff (power - 3 goals)

The Brisbane Lions lost to the roos on Saturday mainly because of Brisbane's Bad play in the last 5 minutes where Brisbane were 10 points up at Carrara but the roos followed through to win by firstly getting it out of the lions forward line with ease and then kicking a goal and then soon after Brady Rawlings had made his way onto the field made an unreal mark and then kicked the sealer with seconds left.

Leigh Mathews believes that the lions just haven't been playing well in the last minutes.

Monday - Gold Coast will join the AFL in 2011 and have signed their first three players

Geelong beat Hawthorn

Essendon beat Collingwood

West Coast beat St. Kilda

Richmond beat Brisbane Lions

Sydney lost to Adelaide

Port lost to Fremantle

Melbourne lost to Nth Melbourne

WB lost to Carlton

Western Bulldogs       3.3   10.4   15.6    15.8  (98)
Carlton                       2.4   5.8   12.13   18.18  (126)

GOALS
Western Bulldogs:  Hahn 3, Johnson 3, Harbrow 2, Hill 2, Boyd, Giansiracusa, Gilbee, Minson, Murphy
Carlton: Fevola 6, Wiggins 4, Kreuzer 3, Betts, Judd, Murphy, Stevens, Scotland

BEST
Western Bulldogs:  Cross, Cooney, Gilbee, Boyd, Johnson, Griffen
Carlton: Judd, Stevens, Fevola, Murphy, Wiggins, Carrazzo, Scotland, Waite

INJURIES
Western Bulldogs: Addison (knee),Tom Williams (shoulder) replaced in selected side by Andrejs Everitt
Carlton: Nil

Reports: Nil

Umpires: Kennedy, Meredith, Avon

Official crowd: 37,879 at Telstra Dome

Carlton vs St Kilda

Collingwood vs Adelaide

Geelong vs Freo

Essendon vs Brisbane

Port Adelaide vs North Melbourne

Hawthorn vs Sydney/Sth Melb

Western Bulldogs vs Melbourne

West Coast vs Richmond

On Sunday at the MCG, Brisbane and the demons had a mighty fight. With the Demons only 1 win, and the lions 8 wins, the odds of the match were pretty obvious. The Demons dominated in the 1st quarter  but only to be caught up to at half time with the scores Melbourne 42 and Brisbane nearly there at 39.

The 4th quarter was very long as with 8 minutes left Daniel Bradshaw had nearly saved the lions from defeat with an 11 point lead. Only for the demons to get a for no reason 50 metre penalty and Goal. With 30 secs left of the hard fight the scores were Brisbane in front 81 points and Melbourne 5 points behind with 76 points. At the last few secs Brad Miller took a miracle mark right in front of goal on the siren, leading to the demons win.

The Western Bulldogs struggled to keep up a tough match against the pies last week but in the end they still had some power in them and beat them by 10 points at Telstra Dome.

Adelaide had a fight against the Mighty Lions after a tough game and lost by 3 goals

Collingwood beat Geelong by an odd 80 points at the Telstra Dome on Sunday, Round 9 as payback to ease the pain of their 5-point loss in the preliminary finals 2007.