This time last year Chris Fagan reflected on walking into a broken club at the start of his journey as senior coach and the long and arduous, yet ultimately rewarding, climb up the AFL mountain.

The Brisbane Lions' breakthrough flag felt like a natural climax to the Fagan-led fairytale.

It was the crowning moment in one of the greatest coaching performances and rebuilds of an entire club from rock bottom in football history.

Then came the sequel: a bigger and better season, against greater adversity than the previous year, which has laid the platform for another Brisbane dynasty.

The question now is whether Fagan and his Lions juggernaut can produce a third instalment of the series to match Leigh Matthews' famous premiership trilogy.

The director is optimistic, having fielded eight pl

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