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Chris Fagan insisted the crisis his men found themselves in earlier in the season because of injury and poor form had emboldened them and helped them to a breakthrough premiership.
Who soared,and who flopped,on the AFL’s biggest stage? In a lopsided grand final,the influential players were far easier to spot for the triumphant Brisbane Lions.
The rampant Brisbane Lions have destroyed the Sydney Swans by 60 points,who lost their fourth consecutive AFL grand final on Saturday in an absolute horror show at the MCG.
Perhaps no other coach before Chris Fagan has listened to the MCG crowd chanting his name in the last quarter of a grand final.
Sure,grand final victories by narrow margins are exhilarating,but the Lions’ win over the Swans was the kind that dreams are made of. Seldom can 23 footballers live out the best day of their football lives and know it at the time.
Will Ashcroft became the second-youngest winner of the Norm Smith Medal when he had 30 touches in a grand final at the age of just 20 years and 145 days.
Isaac Heeney was carrying a stress fracture in his ankle throughout the Swans’ AFL finals campaign,and it flared up at the worst possible moment on grand final day.
The Brisbane Lions turned the decider into a rout through a second-quarter blitz,condemning the Swans to a fourth grand final defeat in 11 years,despite their minor premiership.
Key Swans stars admitted Saturday’s AFL grand final loss to the Brisbane Lions feels worse than their 2022 thumping at the hands of Geelong. But Dane Rampe vows they will fight back.
Joe Daniher made an instant beeline behind the netted area in the bowels of the MCG to escape the same reporters all keen to ask him the same question:“Did you just play your last game?”
A fortnight ago,Darcy Fort was playing in the hail against Werribee. On Saturday afternoon at the MCG,he was showered in confetti,beer and plaudits.
The party is underway as the Lions celebrate their win in the AFL grand final today. Follow along for the post game celebrations and the reactions from the Swans to another heartbreaking loss.