Hanley brave but Lions still fall to Hawthorn

MAYO’S Pearce Hanley was amongst Brisbane’s best again as the injury-plagued Lions put up a stout resistance against Hawthorn before falling away in the final quarter to lose 105-63 in round 16 of the AFL season on Saturday.

The former county starlet clocked up 20 possessions that included four marks, while also clocking up five rebound 50s (the statistic for the number of times a player finds a teammate with a disposal out of defence).

Niall McKeever was used almost exclusively in defence and got on the football more often than in any of his previous two outings. Most impressive was his accuracy of disposal, finding a teammate 92% of the time from his 12 disposals, although he tended to keep it simple with nine of those passes coming from hand-balls.