Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss is under the pump. Picture: Michael Dodge. Source: Getty Images
BRISBANE'S coach, chairman and players are on notice.
Their fed-up fans have used a couriermail.com.au poll to express their loss of faith in the direction the club is headed, and to deliver a damning assessment of Michael Voss' coaching performance.
It is hardly news that Voss is under extreme pressure - the ladder and the uncompetitive nature of the Lions' recent performances told us that.
What the poll screams out is that the fans are demanding accountability from chairman Angus Johnson and his board.
Johnson instigated the review into the Lions' football department that extended Voss' contract until the end of this season, and he produced the strategic vision that promised fans a premiership by 2016.
At some point Johnson has to make a decision on the club's favourite son.
And there are candidates out there.
Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson is coming off contract and there has already been a push for his highly regarded assistant coach Adam Simpson, while Voss' assistant Mark Harvey also has supporters.
No one at Brisbane can honestly claim Voss' status as a champion player has not provided him a buffer during his coaching career.
It has influenced the board and, in the early days, the fans as well.
But no longer.
Johnson acknowledged the results of the poll could not be ignored but said there would be no knee-jerk reaction. "We are going to review his contract at end of year," he said.
"And as I have already said, we will not be providing running commentary on Michael's position.
"But I would say, I suspect if the poll was taken in the week after we won the NAB Cup grand final, the result would have been different."
The Lions hope the dissatisfaction with their recruiting will pass.
Only Brisbane really knows exactly what has happened in recent drafts and trade periods. But claims levelled against the club by industry insiders is that Voss and his football department have developed a habit of overruling the recruiters.
Essendon's gun youngster and 2011 Rising Star Dyson Heppell was the recruiters' choice in the 2010 draft but the Lions went for Jared Polec.
It has been said John Reid, who was heavily involved in the club at the time as the author of the first review into Voss' football department, was influential in that decision.
Polec, currently injured, has yet to make an impact and it has been suggested he will leave the club at the end of the year.
Johnson concedes there have been issues with recruiting but believes they have been sorted out.
"We have a new recruitment structure in place, it is only two years old and I think it is too early to make a judgment," he said.
"Recruitment is a major focus for us. We are always looking to improve, we have the third youngest list in the competition and I think we have played more debutants than any other club going around."
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