{"id":466,"date":"2026-04-28T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/466\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:55:15","slug":"afl-gallop-confident-backline-stint-will-improve-his-forward-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/466\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL: Gallop confident backline stint will improve his forward play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brisbane has lost prized off-season recruit Oscar Allen for at least 12 weeks, with scans revealing the former West Coast Eagles co-captain has a broken foot.<\/p>\n

Allen experienced soreness in his right foot after Brisbane\u2019s 52-point win over Adelaide at the Gabba on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The subsequent scans revealed there was a fracture. Allen will have surgery this week and is set to be sidelined for 12 to 14 weeks.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s long-term absence means Ty Gallop could make a quicker-than-expected return to Brisbane\u2019s forward line after being switched to defence in recent weeks due to the Lions\u2019 casualty list.<\/p>\n

Gallop has embraced his new role as a member of Brisbane\u2019s backline, believing it will make him a better forward when he rejoins the Lions\u2019 attacking arsenal.<\/p>\n

He was particularly impressive in the Lions\u2019 weekend win over the Crows.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good to learn a different role.\u201d said the 20-year-old Sunshine Coast product, who is only 13 games into his AFL career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m only in my second year. Just to be playing (in the) AFL is still amazing to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever they need me. I\u2019m happy to do whatever. When \u2018Fages\u2019 (Lions coach Chris Fagan) gave me the call and said \u2018you might be down back this week\u2019, I was just pumped to still be having a run.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to be able to get as much experience under my belt as I can. Whether that\u2019s up forward or down back, I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallop was grateful to Lions co-captain and star backman Harris Andrews and Brisbane assistant coach Dale Morris for helping him improve his defensive qualities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played one game down back in the QAFL when I was coming through and that\u2019s it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to Harris, sat down with him, (and) watched a lot of tape with him. (Andrews) and Dale Morris, the backline coach, are two great roles models and people to work with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sat with them, worked out how we\u2019re going to do it, and I had to go out there and give it a crack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith positioning, I\u2019m still obviously pretty raw to it all, so he (Andrews) has helped me where to stand and hopefully, I haven\u2019t put too much on his plate in terms of having to carry the load a little bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re working well together, and we\u2019ll just keep building down back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got so many talented forwards that if my spot\u2019s down back for now, I\u2019m more than happy to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallop doesn\u2019t know how long he will remain in Brisbane\u2019s backline but was confident that having responsibilities to nullify some of the competition\u2019s top forwards would help him when he returned to the other end of the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cA good way to pick up a few tips and tricks from the best forwards in the league is just by playing on them and learning how they go about it and what they do,\u201d he said ahead of the back-to-back premiers\u2019 battle with Essendon on Saturday at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n

Lions veteran Dayne Zorko is set to be available for selection this weekend after recovering from a calf injury, however fellow defender Noah Answerth is set to be given another week off as he continues his recovery from concussion.<\/p>\n

\"Marco<\/a>Marco Monteverde<\/a>Sports reporter<\/p>\n

Marco Monteverde is a Brisbane-based sports reporter for NCA Newswire. He worked in a similar role for The Courier-Mail from 2007 to 2020. During a journalism career of more than 25 years, he has also worked for The Queensland Times, The Sunshine Coast Daily, The Fraser Coast Chronicle and The North West Star. He has covered three FIFA World Cups and the 2000 Sydney Olympics, as well as a host of other major sporting events in Australia and around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane has lost prized off-season recruit Oscar Allen for at least 12 weeks, with scans revealing the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[404,23,133,1075,1081,99,408,1074,1086,1084,414,1077,1083,368,1073,1080,120,212,1085,1076,1079,1078,1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brisbane","8":"tag-adelaide-crows","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","11":"tag-backline-coach","12":"tag-backline-role","13":"tag-brisbane","14":"tag-brisbane-lions","15":"tag-chris-fagan","16":"tag-confident-backline-stint","17":"tag-dale-morris","18":"tag-daniel-pockett","19":"tag-gallop-confident-backline","20":"tag-gallop-embraces","21":"tag-getty-images-inc","22":"tag-injury-crisis","23":"tag-newswire-sport","24":"tag-oceania","25":"tag-queensland","26":"tag-roles-models","27":"tag-sunshine-coast","28":"tag-the-gabba","29":"tag-ty-gallop","30":"tag-weekend-thrashing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}