Lachie Neale and Charlie Cameron have joined the elite of AFL finals players as Will Ashcroft, Kai Lohmann and Logan Morris earned a big gold star on finals debut.

Among an all-time AFL playing list of 13,172, Neale and Cameron became the 149^th and 150^th to play 20 finals as the Lions beat Carlton in Saturday night’s qualifying final.

It’s a group that represents just 1.1% of the football ‘family’.

And after important contributions to the 28-point win, Neale with 27 possessions and Cameron with two goals, the pair have entrenched themselves even further in the record books.

Neale, now with 20 finals and 503 finals possessions, is one of just 28 players in history to complete the 20/500 double. And Cameron, with 20 finals and 42 finals goals, is among only 16 in the 20/40 club.

Neale and Cameron each played their 13^th Brisbane final against the Blues after seven at Fremantle and Adelaide respectively.

It is a career-total only three short of the Brisbane finals record shared by Nigel Lappin (23) and Justin Leppitsch (23) from Jason Akermanis (22), Shaun Hart (22), Darryl White (21), Simon Black (20) and Alastair Lynch (20).

Lappin heads the all-time Brisbane finals possession list at 530 and is the only Brisbane player beyond 500. Black is next best with 463 possessions in 20 finals.

But Neale, already with 347, is in a position to blow that mark away. Headed by a club finals record 46 against Melbourne at Adelaide Oval in 2021, Neale has gone 37-17-19-24-46-28-39-27-20-19-23-21-27 in finals at his second club.

Ex-Geelong captain Joel Selwood holds the AFL finals record at 40 and is far-and-away the all-time leader in finals possessions with 923. Next best are Collingwood’s Scott Pendlebury, with 743 possessions in 31 finals, and now Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell, who had 742 possessions in 26 finals with Hawthorn and West Coast.

The AFL record for most finals goals is 111, held by Gordon Coventry, AFL Hall of Fame legend and five-time Collingwood premiership full forward from the 1920s-30s. Leigh Matthews (72) is among four players with more than 70 finals goals, while Alastair Lynch (65) is one of seven on the next level at 60-plus.

Lynch heads the Lions finals goals list across our Club's combined history from Fitzroy's Jim Freake (42), Akermanis (34), Jonathan Brown (32), Cameron (31), Bernie Quinlan (29) and Daniel Bradshaw (25).

But if there was anything that pleased coach Chris Fagan more it was the first final of Ashcroft, Lohmann and Morris. All three were outstanding.

Ashcroft had 20 possessions, two goal assists and a game-high nine score involvements. Lohmann had 11 possessions, two goals and seven score involvements, and Morris two goals and seven score involvements – and would have had three goals had he not cannoned a shot from the goalsquare into the goal post.

In a statistic that underlined the level of the contribution of the three finals debutants, only Dayne Zorko and Cam Rayner, with eight score involvements, had more than Lohmann and Morris, while Neale, Josh Dunkley, Joe Daniher and Zac Bailey also had seven.

Only eight other Brisbane players have matched or bettered Ashcroft’s 20 possessions in his first final. And most were significantly more experienced.

Craig Lambert had 34 possessions in the club’s first final in 1995 – in his 152^nd game.

Simon Black had 25 possessions in his first final in his 29^th game, and Craig McRae 25 possessions and two goals in what was a 23^rd game to remember.

Hugh McCluggage’s 23 possessions in his 62^nd game is next on the list, from Michael Voss’ 22 in his 55^th game, Craig Bolton 22 in his 14^th game, Dayne Zorko 21 in his 167^th game, and Jarrod Berry 21 in his 56^th game.

The two-goal finals debut of Lohmann and Morris is similarly prominent in club history.

Alastair Lynch holds the club record in his first September outing with four goals – in his 150^th game - while four players kicked three goals in their first final – Jaspa Fletcher did so in just his 12^th game last year, Daniel Bradshaw in his 19^th game, Steven Lawrence in his 22^nd game and Dion Scott in his 53^rd.

Morris, playing just his 16^th game, also became the 10^th-youngest finals player in club history at 19 years 20 days, and the youngest since Daniel Rich in 2009.

Youngest overall is Damien Cupido at 18 years 161 days in 2000, from Jason Akermanis (18 years 198 days), and Darcy Wilmot (18 years 244 days).

Dayne Zorko aged 35 years 211 days on Saturday, became the Lions’ third-oldest finals player behind only Roger Merrett (36/155) and Alastair Lynch (36/98).