BRISBANE Lions captain Jonathan Brown has defended his playing style, saying he is not reckless or careless and will continue playing in the same manner.

Using his weekly News Limited column to speak for the first time since Sunday's season-ending injury against Geelong, Brown said he had been "surprised and disappointed by the hysteria" during the week.

Premiership coaches Leigh Matthews and Paul Roos, North Melbourne champion Wayne Carey, and former teammate and Kangaroos coach Brad Scott have been among those expressing concern over his playing style.

But Brown said it was a freak accident and would not alter his ways next season and beyond.

"It's the first time in my life I've been carried from the ground with concussion and suddenly I'm meant to be reckless, crazy, dangerous and irresponsible for letting my team down," he said.

"I try to keep a pretty thick skin about this sort of thing but I reckon this is a bit much."

Brown said he wondered whether people would be saying the same thing if he hadn't received facial fractures in round one for a "freak" accident against Fremantle.

He said on Sunday he made a split second decision to run back with the flight of the ball, before crashing into the elbow of teammate Mitch Clark.

"If I'd arrived one step earlier I would have got more elevation into my jump and I would have got over the top of the pack and the oncoming trouble. Unfortunately, it didn't work out," he said.

"My recollection is hazy but looking at the video I don't see anything I've not seen plenty of times before.

"For as long as I've been playing senior footy I've lived by the creed of competing as hard as possible.

"Sure, there have been some heavy collisions, but I've never hurt myself anything like this before."

Brown said his primary objective was to ensure he created a contest and brought the ball to ground.

"On Sunday, I made a decision to go for the ball. And when you go, you go.
I was going from 20m and when you get 5m away there's no pulling back," he said.

"In hindsight that was an error of judgment, but that's all it was. I was a step short. It's easy to make decisions with the benefit of hindsight. But to say I had no awareness or was stupid is a bit rich.

"I can't wait to get stuck back into it next year, and I'll do the same thing next time this type of situation arises... Not reckless. Not crazy. Just footy the way it's meant to be played."