Lachie Neale’s ‘fresh ink’ takes the AFL by surprise

The Brisbane Lions continued their sturdy begin to the AFL season with a 12.15 (87) to six.9 (45) over Essendon at The Gabba on Saturday night time.

It was a low scoring contest and it wasn’t till the third quarter that the Lions pulled away from the Bombers and opened up a helpful lead.

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Five targets from Joe Daniher proved the distinction as Brisbane notched up their seventh win of the season to maneuver to second on the ladder halfway by Round 9.

The Lions have now gained their final six video games.

Neale was the highest disposal getter on the bottom with 34 touches, however followers couldn’t assist however discover he was sporting some new tattoos on his left shoulder.

It appeared the Brownlow medallist had acquired two tattoos of what seemed to be birds on his shoulder.

It was a brand new search for the Neale and let’s simply say the critiques had been…blended.

Neale was requested about his recent ink after the sport and joked he was simply doing his bit to extend the variety of tattoos on the Lions.

“I thought we didn’t have enough boys at the club with tattoos and it’s about time we got a couple on the board,” he instructed Channel 7.

“Little bit of fresh ink. I’ve got a few little ones around the place but that’s probably my biggest to date.”

Despite the ultimate margin, it took practically 12 minutes for the Lions to hit the scoreboard by Daniher.

The Lions had been closely concerned within the second time period, however couldn’t put their laborious work to make use of, with Daniher, Eric Hipwood and Dayne Zorko all lacking straight set pictures, leaving the Bombers to attain back-to-back targets that put them forward by 10 factors at half time.

But, the premiership contenders had been in a position to put out a large third time period efficiency that rapidly wiped the reminiscence of the earlier stanza from the followers’ minds to set them up for an enormous third quarter, kicking 5 targets to Essendon’s one.

— With NCA NewsWire