- Tyrone’s Conor McKenna is still out as the Brisbane Lions perform poorly without him Tyrone’s Conor McKenna is still out as the Brisbane Lions perform poorly without him
Conor’s McKenna’s winless Brisbane Lions are in crisis mode having lost all three of their matches this season as the fallout from a post-season trip to the United States engulfs the club.
The Lions are today threatening a media boycott over the reporting of an accidental upload of WhatsApp messages to a player’s iCloud, which was seen by his partner, left other teammates’ partners livid, and is believed to have already ended one relationship.
Tyrone Sam Maguire winner Conor McKenna, who has signed for the Lions until the end of season 2025, was not in any of the WhatsApp photos and there are no suggestions of his involvement.
Brisbane footy boss Danny Daly insisted there were “no crisis meetings over the weekend” but confirmed he spoke with co-captains Lachie Neale and Harris Andrews to ascertain if there was a fallout among the beleaguered playing group.
“There are some issues which we don’t need to be aware of,” Daly said
“It’s an end of season trip for our players – they’re on leave – and whatever happened on that trip wasn’t to the extent that the football club needed to know about it.
“There’s no policies or anything they went outside of that we need to address.
“The issues are of a personal nature and that’s where it’ll be left.”
Brisbane Lions chief executive Greg Swann vehemently denied that the November trip to America was affecting the club’s disappointing start to the season. The Lions gave up leads of 46 points (at home to Carlton) and 25 points (away to Fremantle) in their first two defeats this year.
“If the question is, ‘Is there a split in a group?’ Well, no, there isn’t,” Swan Said.
“It’s just bulls***. There’s no split in the group. This was in November, by the way. It’s not the reason we’re going no good.
“We’re not horrible, by the way. It’s just that a few of our good blokes are out of form.
“We asked all the leaders again today and they said, ‘No, there’s nothing in it at all’ in terms of a split in the group.
Eglish man McKenna suffered a hamstring strain during a pre-season intraclub game in the first week of February but after regaining his fitness ahead of schedule, the Lions erred on the side of caution by omitting him from the matchday squad for the opening round defeat at home to Carlton at the Gabba on Friday March 8.
McKenna returned to the Lions starting side for the away defeat to the Fremantle Dockers a fortnight ago but went off in the fourth quarter with a recurrence of the same troublesome hamstring injury.
He is expected to miss another three matches with the Lions round 6 game at home to Geelong pencilled in for his possible comeback.
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