- Harris Andrews interviewed after run-in with Bailey Smith
Lions star Harris Andrews delivered a cheeky remark about his confrontation with Bailey Smith during Brisbane’s Grand Final victory at the MCG, bluntly declaring that that he enjoyed the game a lot more than his fierce rival.
The Cats were left licking their wounds after suffering a 47-point loss to Brisbane in Saturday’s decider.
It was an afternoon Smith would prefer to forget after being nailed by Lions’ fire-starter Cam Rayner in the final term.
To the delight of many Brisbane supporters, Smith was left sprawling on the grass with his white headband knocked off in the process.
Smith looked furious later in the match as he got into a confrontation with Andrews.
‘Bailey Smith having an argument with Harris Andrews. It’s an argument Smith will never win with the scoreboard the way it is,’ said Gerard Healy said on AFL Nation.
Lions star Harris Andrews had the last laugh after his confrontation with Bailey Smith
The Lions full back was in great form as the Lions blew the Cats off the park to win by 47 points
Andrews added icing on the cake for Lions fans after the match when he was asked about it.
‘It’s all part of the theatre of the game to be honest with you. Bailey’s a great competitor and I really admire the way he goes about the game,’ Andrews told Channel 9’s Sunday Footy Show.
‘I don’t know if that moment got caught on camera, but I was enjoying myself out there. Probably a little bit more than Bailey was.
‘It is what it is. We just got on with the job.’
Brisbane coach Chris Fagan has described the Lions’ stunning grand final blitz of Geelong as even better than their drought-breaking 2024 premiership.
Fagan, who broke his own record from 12 months earlier as the oldest premiership coach in VFL/AFL history, addressed 6000 euphoric Lions supporters at the club’s spiritual Melbourne home of Brunswick St Oval on Sunday.
‘I reckon it feels better than last year because it’s bloody hard to do it two times in a row,’ the 64-year-old said.
‘All the obstacles we had to overcome this year to get to that point (of being in a grand final).
It was an afternoon that Bailey Smith would like to forget
‘Even the fact that Geelong beat us three weeks ago (in the qualifying final) and we’re able to turn the tables around, it was just so exciting.’
Brisbane officially became the first AFL club to five premierships this century after steamrolling the Cats by 47 points during a stunning second-half onslaught on Saturday.
