{"id":172722,"date":"2025-09-27T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:08:07","slug":"player-ratings-for-victorious-brisbane-lions-and-vanquished-geelong-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172722\/","title":{"rendered":"Player ratings for victorious Brisbane Lions and vanquished Geelong Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who soared, and who flopped, on the AFL\u2019s biggest stage? In a grand final in which the Brisbane Lions killed off Geelong\u2019s spirit, their influential players were far easier to spot.<\/p>\n<p>AFLW premiership player Libby Birch rates every Brisbane player, while former Western Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney rates every Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Click on each player to reveal their mark out of 10, along with Birch and McCartney\u2019s analysis.<\/p>\n<p>THE COACHES:<\/p>\n<p>Chris Fagan (Brisbane)<\/p>\n<p>Made bold calls in grand final week with Jarrod Berry and Lachie Neale, then the in-game masterstroke to bring Neale on at half-time. Brave and decisive coaching capped off back-to-back glory, after keeping his side alive despite a qualifying final loss. Rating: 10\/10<\/p>\n<p>Chris Scott (Geelong)<br \/>Hampered by injuries to two critical players in Tom Stewart and Jeremy Cameron. He has built a great team doing it his way. Rating: 5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who soared, and who flopped, on the AFL\u2019s biggest stage? In a grand final in which the Brisbane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-172722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172722","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=172722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}