Brisbane are a bloody well-oiled unit and now they've shown a form of resilience and grit that they've never really had to before, after losing to the Saints in Melbourne and then beating the Demons comfortably in the last round of the season, to beating ladder leaders Adelaide on their home deck in the first week of the finals.
They had some mid-season mishap with 2 players being dropped for disciplinary reasons and were somewhat written off after round 1 when the Tigers beat then in Brisbane in round 1.
Like the other top 3 teams, they have superstars everywhere but also a nice blend of youngsters who have come in and picked right up where the experienced players now not at the club, left, and that's a testament to Craig Starcevich and his coaching staff.
Adelaide will be back though and they also just keep turning up and making preliminary finals at will but hopefully at the expense of my Sydney Swans this weekend!
The 4 clips from this game looks at:
Brisbane's overall game intelligence and just recognising simple formation cues that will result in an outnumber advantage.
A missed opportunity by Brisbane to come forward and press defensively at the kicker instead of getting caught in the middle and not impacting at all, allowing the kicker the time and space to get enough purchase on the kick to goal from long range.
Adelaide's 2 deepest forwards taking marks in the defensive half of the ground and slowing the down the game down but also knowing that there's no point looking forward of the ball because the deepest forwards are already in play, instead looking corridor for delayed run from behind options, which does open up and in 2 kicks they're on the opposite boundary 100m away from the original kick simply from looking and then kicking off the line.
Adelaide missing an opportunity to string at least 2 uncontested possessions together in their own forward half, more than likely resulting in a deep inside 50 to the fat side into space with only 4mins to go and down by just 4 points - it's decision making under pressure that wins finals games in those situations!
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