Geelong and the Brisbane Lions have each won eight of their past 10 matches, but the premiership race will end for one of them on Saturday evening.

Fagan’s metaphor of dancing on thin ice has become the unintentional motto for Brisbane’s finals campaign. But it was on a tightrope that Brandon Starcevich and Jarrod Berry walked in an unwinnable 2 versus 4 on the boundary line that somehow, someway, resulted in a Rayner goal.

Brisbane’s Dayne Zorko will be the most relieved man in football on Sunday night when he escapes suspension for his high contact with Geelong’s Ollie Henry.