Lions up for shark attack
Charlie can doo, doo, doo it
YOU’LL have Brisbane goal machine Charlie Cameron to blame if viral hit Baby Shark gets stuck in your head next month.
The popular children’s tune has racked up more than five billion YouTube hits since its 2017 release and will get another lease on life from June 13, when it is set to be boomed around the empty Gabba against Fremantle as the Lions star’s peculiar choice of song if he kicks a goal.
The initiative of captain Dayne Zorko, the personalised music selections could help fill the void left the absence of the full stadiums that were so important as the Lions rose from 15th to second last season.
All-Australian forward Cameron (pictured) admitted he thrived off crowd interaction last year, with his motorbike handlebar celebration becoming a trademark of a 57-goal season.
“It was pretty tough in Round 1 at the MCG with no crowds there,” he said.
“We’ve just got to bring that energy ourselves as a team – it will be tough, but I’m looking forward to it.”
He thinks the shorter 16minute quarters – brought in for Round 1 as the coronavirus pandemic loomed, and set to remain this season – will help him though, vowing to embrace what he expects will be a high-octane return.
“I’m happy with it,” he said. “It’ll be short and sharp but I don’t mind it. (It’ll increase) the speed of play. A lot of highenergy players will be ready to go, so it’ll be short but sharp when you’re out there.
“Teams will want to score quicker, you don’t want to be behind chasing ... and I’ve just got to try and make an impact as soon as I can.”
It’s been more than two months since the Lions’ first-round loss to Hawthorn but Cameron says the club’s dissection of the result is fresh.
“Overuse of handball was a big thing – we look good when we go forward and just get it into our forward line,” he said.
“We looked dangerous, but if we just messed with the ball it put us under pressure.”
Sydney star Lance Franklin, meanwhile, is looking at possibly more than two months on the sidelines after a scan on his latest hamstring injury.
The veteran Swans forward suffered the injury at training this week.