Brisbane still have room for improvement

I'd like to see Coach Chris get a bit tougher and send one or two of our continual offenders to Magoo's for a bit, would be step 1.

I fear it's back to the trade table or the draft to fix the issues for both our clubs. Not sure poor kicking for goal is actually fixable.

I'll say it again, we are a very ordinary "2nd Best team"....... We are making up the numbers. Have very much benefited from 'COVID' fixturing. Lions would need a significant turn around to be holding the cup end of the year.

I was reading somewhere, the side with the worst conversion rate has only ever got to a Prelim final. So Brisbane up against History. No disrespect to either the Kanga's or Saints, but they ain't no Richmond, Geelong & West Coast.

The fantastically useful website "Useless AFL stats" noted that Brissie are the first team since South Melbourne in 1936, to win two weeks in a row by kicking less goals than their opponents. Inaccuracy is not necessarily an impediment to making a GF or winning it. South made the GF but kicked 10 18. Just for fun though the Colliewobbles won by kicking even more abysmally with 11 23. I'm guessing it was windy. North kicked 9 22 to Collingwood's 10 16 in 1977. In the replay they blazed away with 21 25 to Collies respectable 19 10. both games were played in near perfect conditions Just to prove the North 70s were amateurs, the 90s North kicked 8 22 with an impressive 2 11 in the second and 0 7 to the last to help Adelaide go back to back. The winner though is Essendon. They kicked an insane 7 27 to Melb's 10 9. And then went on to lose the replay comfortably. I must say though, that while inaccuracy is an indicator of dominance, it does not follow that you would get that many shots at goal, as the ball goes back to the middle if it's a goal instead of a behind.

They are dominant at home, but we'll see how the West Coast Whingles go when they hub in Queensland again.

Skills issue for mine. But there is a mental issue there. The ball drop technique for Hipwood is poor. McStay basically does the opposite of the handbook. Charlie Cameron prefers to snap the ball rather than drop punt it - precisely because his technique is just god awful when lining up a regulation drop punt. you’ve just got to recruit accurate players to begin with I think, there’s no fixing it when it becomes the norm. Could not disagree more. Fundamentally disagree. Accuracy can be taught. It's called practice.

I think as far as lists go, WC are the best club in the league, then Geelong, then Richmond and then Brisbane. Brissie just don't have a full forward, or even a decent second big man up front, they're two huge holes to fill.

I'm not sure it's a skills issue, in fact I'm pretty positive it's a mental issue, every single one of these players know how to kick a football. The real question is how to get them to relax and not tighten up when kicking the footy, and that's probably impossible, you've just got to recruit accurate players to begin with I think, there's no fixing it when it becomes the norm.

Sack the skills coach. Someone needs to be held to account. These players are not uncoachable. You can be trained into kicking better than what they are presently doing. If the current skills coach can't do it, then bring someone in who can.

Actually, they are significantly better than their stats suggest. If they could only kick straight, they'd have teams dead to rights by half time, and 4 points in the bag by 3/4 time, every time. They have only been comprehensively outplayed once this year - against Hawthorn in Round 1. There other two losses were precisely because they squandered their chances early and didn't weren't able to put scoreboard pressure on the opposition. v Geelong, were 4.8 at half time and geelong were 3.4. That was after a 1.6 first quarter effort. They dominated the first half and were 4 goals up. Kick straighter and that could (and should) have been 7 goals up and Geelong out of the game. v Richmond, they absolutely owned the second quarter but kicked behinds. They should have been 3 goals up but were 4 goals behind. I think they are the best team in the comp but just can't reflect that on the scoreboard, and it will cost them a flag. What's sad is that they don't seem to care enough to make the calls to do something about it.

We won't win a final while we're kicking like we are. End of story.

Great debut from Tom Fullarton. Displayed some tremendous talent. Should be groomed to replace McStay or Hipwell, either or either. Brissy won't win a flag with those two as their key forwards.

I wonder what Brisbane can do to improve their accuracy in front of goal. I think they’re a little too reliant on their smaller forwards who tend to be very inaccurate.bi think they should ban mcclugage from kicking the ball from inside 50 haha

I'm as frustrated as you are with goal kicking accuracy, different team obviously. It's such a momentum killing, confidence sapping thing, it makes great teams average, imagine they nail the first three shots of the game, then it's a completely different footy team to the one that misses those chances. I'm beginning to think that if I were recruiting, the first think I'd look for in a forward is their set shot kicking, it's just so, so important to nail those shots.

There not premiership material yet! Even if they play at the GABBA for the finals series!