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Cam Rayner and Darcy Wilmot have played more games than any other player in the past four years. Michael Whiting discovers how they did it
SINCE the beginning of 2023, two Brisbane players have laced the boots up for every one of the club's 106 games.
Cam Rayner and Darcy Wilmot are the Lions' 'iron men', playing more games in a four-year span than anyone in the history of the competition.
While the knockabout duo admit to luck playing a role in their remarkable consistency, both have put strategies in place to give themselves the best chance each week as Brisbane prepares for a fourth consecutive Grand Final.
Chris Fagan and his Brisbane Lions head into Saturday’s Grand Final with an opportunity to make history rhyme all over again.
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Their quest for a third successive premiership, and with it a place in the annals of Australian Rules history, leaves them one win away from matching a different Lions team’s own ultimate glory, under club icons Leigh Matthews and Michael Voss, from 2001-2003.
These are the “hard luck” stories that have ensured the Brisbane Lions have never lost their hunger for sustained success, and transformed them from hapless cellar dwellers to premiership juggernauts throughout the past decade.
For all the plateaus this outfit have scaled en route to a fourth-straight grand final against Fremantle this Saturday, injuries have prevented many key members from featuring at this stage of the season.
Last year, Eric Hipwood (ACL) and Jarrod Berry (shoulder) were among those names, having hoisted the trophy in 2024.
“I wouldn’t say I ever feared it was going to be my last chance because I have so much faith and belief in this group. But it definitely drove me throughout the off season,” Berry admitted.
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