First gamers Majak Daw and Taylor Hine sing the song after beating the Brisbane Lions. Picture: George Salpigtidis Source: Herald Sun
FOR 13 minutes this game was alive. That was when Majak Daw was on the field.
It's not often the build-up and hype matches the actual event but it certainly did for the much-anticipated Daw debut.
He took a hanger in North's first forward thrust, kicked the goal and then was mobbed by every one of his teammates.
That alone was worth the price of admission.
Unfortunately the rest probably wasn't.
Thoughts of a Daw bag and an ESPN SportsCentre-type highlight reel were dashed when at the 18-minute mark - he'd just come back onto the ground after a few minutes on the bench - the head of teammate Ben Cunnington knocked him out.
The Sudanese wonder had been swung around in a tackle into his mate and the result was him being carried off by two trainers, taken into the rooms and then subbed out of the game.
Majak Daw celebrates his first AFL goal. Picture: George Salpigtidis Source: Herald Sun
Talk about sucking the air out of an event.
While everyone had been watching Daw, the Roos had done what we'd expected for a 0-3 team who have much grander visions than that.
They'd bounced out of the gates and if they'd kicked straight would have been 62 up and not 32 at quarter-time.
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Former Lions skipper Jonathan Brown summed up his team's efforts given he didn't touch the ball in the opening 30 minutes.
Although, to be fair, Brisbane's second inside 50m for the quarter came 17 minutes in.
Lachlan Hansen celebrates a goal against the Lions. Picture: George Salpigtidis Source: Herald Sun
Adding to his misery Brown's opponent Scott Thompson was the leading possession winner on the ground at half-time with 17 which included a thumping 55m goal.
It was another North defender who set the tone for the second half with Shaun Atley's pace creating the opening two goals inside eight minutes which ended any hopes of Brisbane making a game of it.By the 16-minute mark the lead was out past 10 goals after Jack Ziebell again imposed himself on the contest with his third big contested mark of the evening.
He was one of numerous North midfielders who started to feed on the Lions carcass although no-one was enjoying it as much as Lindsay Thomas.
The Roos goalsneak seems to have taken a leaf out of the Hayden Ballantyne school of getting under the nose of opponents.
Several times he was caught in the middle of scraps or lying on the deck courtesy of an undiscplined act by a Brisbane player.
Lindsay Thomas celebrates a goal in the third quarter with Sam Wright. Picture: George Salpigtidis Source: Herald Sun
It's certainly working given the men in green yesterday gave him six free-kicks with his four goals taking him to the top of the goal-kicking table, tied with Collingwood's Travis Cloke on 16.
Drew Petrie chimed in with four goals but the load was spread with 12 goalkickers.
One of the best came from young defender Aaron Mullett who took four bounces before drilling the shot from 30m early in the final term.
Brisbane's performance isn't a good advertisement for the NAB Cup.
A month ago they danced around Etihad Stadium with vigour and purpose winning the pre-season competition over Carlton by 40 points.
Lions coach Michael Voss address the players after a poor first quarter Picture: Salpigtidis George Source: Herald Sun
Since then the Blues took until their fourth outing to win a game while the Lions fell over the line against Gold Coast and have lost their two visits to the scene of the great triumph by a combined total of 131 points.
They were never in this game and while some kids such as Dayne Zorko, Sam Mayes, Mitch Golby and debutant Marco Paparone (three goals) showed flashes the senior core struggled badly.
Brent Moloney struggled for impact while another ex-Demon Stefan Martin was ordinary. Daniel Merrett had a horror at full-back, Andrew Raines struggled to contain Daniel Wells and Daniel Rich, who was the best player on the ground in the NAB Cup GF, had minimal impact.
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