The Roar Deal

We sit down for an emergency podcast reacting to the news that the Chris Fagan era has come to its end.

With four minutes and eighteen seconds left, as Wharfie Time rang around the MCG, the script seemed written: The threepeat had proven to be just a bridge too far.

Fremantle Premiership merch was already on sale, the Auskickers had their Dockers guernseys on ready for the medal presentation, and Freo fans everywhere were hugging and crying as the enormity of the moment they had waited so long for started to hit them.

And of course all this was happening. Because it was over. We just don’t see comebacks in Grand Finals - certainly not like that, certainly not that late.

In the one hundred and thirty years of the competition’s history, it’s never happened before.

This Lions group, though, don’t seem all that bothered by history - at least, not unless they’re the ones making it.

And in four minutes of glory at the MCG, our Lions did exactly that.

Under the highest possible stress, with stakes that do not come any greater and a clock rapidly ticking down, the 2026 premiership was won.

Charlie Cameron started it, Zac Bailey continued it, Logan Morris finished it off, and Will Ashcroft tied it all together, officially launching this group into footy folklore for the rest of time.

2024 made these Lions a great side, 2025 made them brilliant, but the hat trick cements things - this Lions group is unquestionably now one of the greatest teams to ever play the game.

This is the rare air of a dynasty.

Enjoy our 2026 Premiership special thanks to Kartable!

For the fourth consecutive year, we gather at Fitzroy's iconic Royal Derby pub to preview the Grand Final clash against Fremantle.

This year's special guests are Michael Voss and Oscar McInerney!

These are the days you live for as a footy fan.

3 points down with less than a minute left in a prelim, in front of more than 95, 000 people in the MCG - it’s the stuff of fan fiction, of kids playing in the backyard and making up the most epic scenarios they can imagine.

And what better man to step up to the plate than Hugh McCluggage.

The first one drafted under Chris Fagan, the first top pick who stayed, the quietly spoken boy who’s become a man at the club, the one who’s career has gone from strength to strength…

Until this year, where the curveballs have hit, the form has dropped, and things have been tough most of the way through.

All of that is ancient history now, though, with two late Hugh goals sending the Lions into their fourth straight Grand Final, equalling the extraordinary run of Leigh Matthew’s Lions and providing the most remarkable opportunity: the threepeat is only one more win away.

This week on the podcast:

-The blow-by-blow account of a prelim we’ll never forget

-Who could come in for Lachie Neale?

-Our Grand Final week plans

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Another Tuesday, another bombshell!

Never doubt the Brisbane bounce back!

Yet again, a shocking defeat has been followed by a stunning victory, as the Lions rediscover their ‘on’ mode once more to end Adelaide’s season.

More importantly, Saturday night’s win has remarkably put us through to our fifth straight prelim, making it six of the last seven years that Brisbane have made it at least as far as the final four.

It’s a remarkable achievement, but it won’t be enough for this Lions group, with the legacy-defining shot at a threepeat now only two wins away.

Saturday twilight prelims at the MCG have been a happy hunting ground over the last two seasons.

The two clubs who have played the most prelim finals there since 2000 are Geelong and Collingwood. We’ve already taken care of them, and now we get a crack at the third side on the list, as we prepare to play what is remarkably our first ever final against the Hawks since the merger.

This week on the show:

-Our perspectives on the 5-goal blitz  

-Chris Fagan’s an emotional management genius

-How do we tame the Wizard again?  

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The emergency podcast we've waited all year for is here!

Our Lions certainly don’t like doing things the easy way!

We also apparently don’t like travelling to New South Wales, with Saturday’s Qualifying Final loss at the SCG making it three losses in the Harbour City this year, coming in at an average losing margin of 58 points.

The good news is that we don’t have to go back to Sydney this year.

The bad news is that it’s sudden death from this point onwards.

The even worse news is that we might get knocked out by the worst club in the comp - the stain on the AFL that is the Adelaide Crows.

This week on the podcast:

-Has a path opened for Linc’s premiership fairytale to come true?

-Ty Gallop vs Darcy Gardiner - Take #2

-Dom officially makes his 2026 Premiership bet

And much more!

The Roar Deal is sponsored by Kartable. Planning for later or needing now? Streamlined pricing and procurement for all of your trade materials, supporting services & site deliveries. Go Lions!

Here we go again.

After a long, barren nine-year finals drought from 2010 to 2018, we now remarkably enter our eighth consecutive finals series.

And as September begins, the most extraordinary possibility sits ahead of us.

Our Lions stand on the precipice of one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of Australian sport: Two hat trick dynasties two decades apart.

As we enter the month where legends are made and history is written, we've got a massive episode of the podcast.

This week:

-The club's GM of Football Danny Daly joins us

-Will Ashcroft's All Australian snub

-The perfect Premiership merch idea (courtesy of Aaron)

And much more!

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On the 30th of May, the Lions lost their sixth game for the season against Fremantle at the Gabba, sinking to a 6 and 6 record with wildcard finals looking our best hope.

It led to all of us just about ruling out a top four finish, realising that we could probably only afford to lose one more game for the entire season for that to be possible.

Who would’ve known that that would be exactly what we’d do.

10 wins and 1 loss later, and the Lions have finished the home & away season in the top four for the sixth time in Chris Fagan’s era.

And now, as a hint of spring returns to the air, we know the bit that comes next very well.  

September is nearly here, and finals anxiety is about to go off the charts once again.

Three more wins from here, and the Brisbane Lions, once more, will have gone back to back to back.

This week on the podcast:

-The Lions have 6 players in the All Australian Squad

-Who’s more likely to get a Grand Final fairytale - Kiddy or Linc?

-Our thoughts on the wildcard matchups

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