The Giants emerged victorious from a spiteful and pulsating AFL game but they may be missing a certain x-factor next time out
“Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers,” wrote HG Wells in The Sleeper Wakes. It is also a necessity when Brisbane is pounding their forward line in a tight last quarter – 19 inside 50s to just seven for the Greater Western Sydney Giants.
In a game that lacked restraint – certainly from “Razor” Ray Chamberlain – and gave players little time for thought, the Giants’ Phil Davis, Zac Williams and the no longer underrated Nick Haynes were all that stood between the Lions and a preliminary final at the MCG. Between them, they would rebound the ball out of the Lions’ forward line 20 times.
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