{"id":129001,"date":"2025-09-09T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129001\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:05:10","slug":"brisbane-lions-forward-charlie-cameron-called-out-for-poor-efforts-by-matthew-lloyd-and-jimmy-bartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129001\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions forward Charlie Cameron called out for poor efforts by Matthew Lloyd and Jimmy Bartel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon great Matthew Lloyd<\/a> has called out Charlie Cameron for his “poor efforts” during the qualifying final loss to Geelong.<\/p>\n

The Brisbane<\/a> forward kicked the first goal of the match, but proceeded to touch the ball just one more time for the game. <\/p>\n

Speaking on Nine’s Footy Classified, Lloyd pointed out multiple moments in the game where Cameron either failed to apply pressure, lay a tackle or attack the contest sufficiently.<\/p>\n

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The 31-year-old has been in a form slump, having kicked just seven goals since round round 19 and just 27 for the season.<\/p>\n

\"Charlie<\/p>\n

Charlie Cameron of the Lions.\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“The vision of Charlie Cameron from the weekend is damning. He kicked the first goal of the game and then has one touch after,” Lloyd said.<\/p>\n

“If you’re not getting the ball, you’ve got to bring something else to the table with your pressure and he’s not doing either.”<\/p>\n

The Lions will be without star midfielder Lachie Neale for their semi final clash with Gold Coast after the co-captain suffered a calf injury.<\/p>\n

Brownlow Medallist Jimmy Bartel wonders whether Brisbane needs to get creative with Cameron and potentially play him through the midfield to bolster the position in Neale’s absence and get the livewire into the game early.<\/p>\n

“Lachie Neale goes out, I wonder whether they would consider having him be part of that midfield rotation. Get him to start at the first bounce and then have him charge forward. Get him involved in the game early and get him a couple of touches to build confidence,” Bartel said.<\/p>\n

“It might be with a tackle or some contact, but it’ll get him into the game and it might supercharge him to get back close to the touch we would expect.”<\/p>\n

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Lloyd isn’t sure whether that would be effective, particularly against the powerful Gold Coast midfield group of Matt Rowell, Noah Anderson, Touk Miller and Bailey Humphrey.<\/p>\n

\"Lachie<\/p>\n

Lachie Neale nurses that calf injury.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I’d say (Giants forward) Jake Stringer and (Melbourne’s) Kysaiah Pickett are good at (rotating through the midfield), but they’re bigger. That would be my only worry for Charlie Cameron who could get monstered.”<\/p>\n

Brisbane will need Cameron to fire against the Suns, given their forward line struggled greatly against Geelong.<\/p>\n

Take away the double-goal free kicks Cam Rayner received<\/a> and only Kai Lohmann managed multiple goals.<\/p>\n

Logan Morris has had a fantastic season, but is still young and is taking on the opposition’s best key defender.<\/p>\n

Sam Day and Ty Gallop are a far cry from last year’s premiership key forward combination of Joe Daniher and Eric Hipwood.<\/p>\n

This is likely why the Lions have targeted free agents Oscar Allen and Sam Draper, who have both reportedly agreed to join the club next year.<\/p>\n

The pair will give Brisbane some size both in the ruck and inside 50, though neither can help them get through this finals series.<\/p>\n

Gold Coast pummelled Brisbane the last time the two teams met in round 20, winning the Q-Clash 130-64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon great Matthew Lloyd has called out Charlie Cameron for his “poor efforts” during the qualifying final loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-129001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}