Having now made six of the AFLW’s eight grand finals, the Brisbane Lions are well-acquainted with the steps demanded of the big dance. If the results aren’t convincing enough, the notebook – sitting on the desk of the club’s head of women’s football, Breeanna Brock – certainly is.
Pink lettering on the cover reads “Finals”, and inside are scrawled the lessons learned by the AFLW’s best club. “We have a little black book of finals: rinse and repeat,” she says in the lead-up to Saturday’s decider. “I just take notes about what worked, what didn’t work, what you have to do, ‘don’t forget to do this’.”
