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Brisbane Lions; 2002 season; Coach: Leigh Matthews: Captain(s) Michael Voss: Home ground: The Gabba (Capacity: 37,600) AFL season: 2nd: Finals series: Premiers: Best and fairest: Simon Black: Leading goalkicker: Alastair Lynch (74 goals) Highest home attendance: 35,898 vs. Essendon (13 April 2002) [1] Lowest home attendance: 21,709 vs ...
The Lions finished second on the AFL ladder with a 17–5 record, one game behind Port Adelaide, and overcoming Adelaide and Port Adelaide in their early finals. It was the club's second consecutive grand final, having defeated Essendon in the 2001 Grand Final.
The season featured sixteen clubs, ran from 28 March until 28 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs. The premiership was won by the Brisbane Lions for the second time and second time consecutively, after it defeated Collingwood by nine points in the AFL Grand Final.
The 2001 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Bombers and the Brisbane Lions, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 2001. It was the 105th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), [ 1 ] staged to determine the ...
He was also a member of the Brisbane Lions premiership teams in 2001 and 2002 [8 ... into his second finals series as coach after finishing 6th at the end of the ...
The Brisbane Lions win the 106th AFL premiership (Brisbane Lions 10.15 (75) d Collingwood 9.12 (66)) Brownlow Medal awarded to Simon Black (Brisbane Lions) See also Australian Football League season 2002; Inaugural Australian Football International Cup, the 2002 International Cup won by Ireland
In 2002, the Lions won back-to-back premierships when they again defeated Collingwood 9.12 (66) to 10.15 (75) in the 2002 AFL Grand Final in cold and wet conditions, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Early in the contest the Lions lost both ruckman Beau McDonald and utility player Martin Pike (who had already had nine possessions in the first ...
A fortnight later, he played his 100th club game for the Brisbane Lions, [5] but the Lions suffered an embarrassing six-point loss to eventual premiers Sydney after they had led by 32 points at the final change. [6] In the Round 14, 2006 game against Melbourne, Michael conceded a rushed behind in an unorthodox and notable fashion. He is not the ...