Well done to the boys 
. Beating the Lions up there is no easy thing especially when they are in finals contention.
Couldn't believe the umps, some more absolutely atrocious decisions especially later on in the game with Fev's mark ? and the two Lions dropping the ball cold. Couldn't take a trick out there tonight.
The Lions are a slow slow side, players like Nason, White and Lids etc made them look silly at times.
At the game, the umpiring didn't seem nearly as bad as recent weeks Chuck but there were still the few obligatory howlers (that always seem to go against us).
And you are so right about them being slow, we ran them off their legs. White, Nason, Deledio, Edwards, Farmer, Collins, Connors and Tambling all ran rings around their opponents with varying degrees of success at different times. Some of my thoughts of the game:
Deledio will win his 3rd Jack Dyer medal by a big margin. He is now starting to lead from the front and play very very well over 4 quarters. He was tremendous last night.
Graham and Edwards have both made me eat humble pie this year. Their improvement in the first 11 rounds has been terrific and shows how important the right development is for young players.
White is an underrated player who plays a very important role for the team, another who is showing the benefit of 'real' development.
Farmer is improving slowly and making it harder to mount a case for dropping him by the week.
Tambling was nowhere near as bad as many have said. You really do have to see the game live to appreciate a lot of the little things - the gut running, the blocks and shepherds - that he now brings to his game. I think some people might be making the mistake of judging him as the running midfielder we think he should be but his value to the team in a 'team' sense is underrated.
Nason - see Tambling re: gut running. To play the type of game he is in his first year is quite outstanding.
Riewoldt is going to prove so many of his knockers wrong over his career.
Cousins is not done just yet. Not saying he will or should get a gig next year but his output and value to the team last night was very good and very important.
Tuck is the poster boy for footballers doing whatever it takes to keep their career flame burning. He has reinvented himself in such a way that it will be now very hard to consider anything else except a new deal come year's end. He was fantastic last night.
Our backline are now starting to play as a real team. The difference in the player's knowledge of the game plan and their efforts to stick to it, between the first game and last night is huge. We are now winning games because our players have almost entirely obliterated the ingrained nightmare of the Wallace/Frawley eras characterised by the 'stop, prop, run backwards' ethos that saw us susceptible to every slight bit of pressure from the opposition. We now take the opposition on with an increasing level of confidence in our team mates efforts to support us and when the opposition have the ball we now get in their faces, pressuring at every opportunity. The difference between now and then is quite staggering, and all this on the back of very young and inexperienced kids.
I read some media reports of a "comical" game last night riddled with mistakes but that pays our team a great disservice by ignoring the effect of the pressure our tackling and hard running put on them at every opportunity. We were much more committed, much more polished and nowhere near as "error-ridden" as our opposition. The game was played on our terms and some inexperience is all that prevented a much greater winning margin.
And finally, to the Brisbane supporters - we would have to be the noisiest interstate group of supporters going around. My guess would be that about 5k of last night's 28k would have been Richmond supporters and the noise they made, made it appear that the figures were around 50/50. Fair dinkum, our players would have thought it their own home game at times and the sound of the song reverberating throughout the Gabba after the game was just fantastic. The roars you could hear on TV were not mistaken - our support at the game was huge for an interstate team sitting on the bottom of the ladder.
