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It's official, the paddle pop lion will be no more come 2015. Last night at the Brisbane Lions AGM a majority vote favored the return to the historic Fitzroy lion of old. The original lion is associated with the significant milestones achieved by the club post merger, including the triple premierships. Notably this season it featured on the three-peat commemorative guernsey (featured above), worn during the stunning upset victory over Essendon.

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Draft Summary

Pick No.7 – James Aish (Norwood)

Pick No.22 – Darcy Gardiner (Geelong Falcons)

Pick No.25 – Daniel McStay (Eastern Ranges)

Pick No.28 – Lewis Taylor (Geelong Falcons)

Pick No.33 – Tom Cutler (Oakleigh Chargers)

Pick No.34 – Nick Robertson (West Perth)

Pick No.63 – Jonathan Freeman (Academy Nomination)

Pick No.75 – Justin Clarke (Rookie Elevation)

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A brew with Goose: Arizona edition. Goose catches up with a few of the first year lads during pre-season in Arizona.

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Arizona update week one

As most of you know the Brisbane Lions this year, under new coach Justin Leppitsch, sourced funding to send the entire team to Flagstaff Arizona to complete two weeks of pre-season training at altitude. Leppa believes that one of the most important elements of this new beginning at the club is forming a united front, creating a strong bond between players and staff alike and ensuring the club builds a culture that will enhance player retention, given 80% of the group consists of players of interstate origin. The Arizona trip last year which number of the senior group participated in also showed to be a great asset to pre-season training. It has often been said that our ability to run out some of those tough come from behind wins this year could be put down to the fitness of our boys, something that high altitude training definitely benefits.

The boys have just completed their first week of the trip (give or take 24 hours with time difference) so this post is a little snippet into some of the things we have learned from the Arizona trip. A little mix of the serious and the lighter side from the boys so far. Training: The first week consisted primarily of running and skills early, with some light weight sessions, followed by the first attempt at reaching the summit of Mt Humphreys (the aim of doing this early was to get the EPO spike and speed up their acclimatisation). The weather proved much kinder than last year and the guys reached the summit at 12,633 ft on the first attempt. The boys were then given a full day off for recovery before beginning the next few sessions of higher intensity running, strongman and some water based recovery activities. The boys will be attempting to reach the summit at Mt Humphreys again during the second week of training.

Highlights and insights from the boys:

Sammy Mayes was a victim of air travel sickness during the flight over, he's not particularly fond of flying

Joely Pat got the grey team lost on their first attempt at reaching the summit

Rocky can answer the call of Movember, with an albeit concerning looking Mo

Pearce is very particular about his food

Closey isn't fond of rooming with Weardo

Stakes is filthy he's missing the Victoria Secret Fashion show

A few of the boys are very impressed by their acquisition of a 24 hour golf channel

Sauce is almost ready to be back running after the ankle injury, but is primarily working on the upper body at this stage but shouldn't miss any games next season, likewise Sammy Mayes has had his first run back from his achilles issue

A few of the boys took on some of the American's at basketball and put on a bit of a clinic

Everything in America is BIG (nice assessment courtesy of Weardo)

The boys are adjusting well to the new game plan under Leppa

Closey, Patfull, Peppers, Reddo, Dadsy and Beamsy have been stand outs in the first week

Everyone has been impressed with how well Beamsy has been doing back from his knee reco this year (GREAT NEWS)

It's cold

Greeny has had a spiritual epiphany during his first climb and found something new about himself

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So I've asked one of the craziest Lions fans I know to help me run this blog since I've been super crap at it the past year (sorry guys!)

I'll mostly be doing edits & gifs but Sami I'm sure will do a rad job of keeping you updated on what's happening with our boys!

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@rbewick8 Jase Clarke about to take down some poor kid in chess in the uni cafeteria | [x]

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Simon Black has been announced as the Lions new forward coach for the next two seasons! Glad to have this legend stay with the club

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#first footy player to tweet about it even before our own boys #pendles is so great #brisbane lions #simon black #scott pendlebury

Congratulations on a prestigious career Blacky! One of the greatest men to represent on our club.

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322 games. Triple premiership player. Brownlow medalist. Norm Smith medalist. Genuinely one of the nicest human beings you could ever meet. Really going to miss this man. Dead set legend. "Since start of 1999, Simon Black has had 340 more disposals, 574 more handballs, 444 more contested possessions & won 317 more clearances than any other player." If that little exert doesn’t go a small way to show the caliber of talent this man possesses then clearly you don’t know a thing about AFL. Thank you for everything Blacky.

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i am really feeling everything you just said, i am seriously going mental over here with all the trade shit going on. I feel like the club has worked really hard to develop these younger players, also the fact that Yeo has pretty much played in every senior game this season really ticks me off as he has completely disregarded everything the club has done. this wedding is horse shit

what are your thoughts on the trade going on atm with sam docherty, patty karnezis, billy longer, jared polec, elliot yeo and possibly jimmy polks?

I'm disappointed to be completely honest. I completely understand missing your family and wanting to be closer to them but these boys need to understand that part of playing at the highest level of AFL means that they are likely to move away from their family. I mean, is this 'home sickness' claim actually true? Or are they just annoyed they don't have starting spots (bar Yeo) and running to a team that promises they will get more games.

I completely adored all of those players who want to leave and have a fair bit of respect for their abilities but it's frustrating when a club puts so much energy into developing players, and then they just turn around and try find a new club. It's like they don't appreciate the club and what they've done for them. I wish them all the best with whatever happens though.