BRISBANE LIONS coach Michael Voss said he would like to make nine changes to his side to take on Geelong at Skilled Stadium on Saturday.

While declaring it unlikely he would actually make sweeping changes, Voss said nearly half of the Lions team was at risk of being dropped after Saturday's demoralising 75-point loss to Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium.

“You can’t have eight or nine that don’t give that minimum standard,” Voss said.

“If you do have that number, then I don’t know how you’ve got a hope in hell of winning.

“The capability is quite clearly there - it’s not that we can’t do it - and maybe that is where the frustration lies.”

Voss named five reserves players who had played well enough to warrant a call up, including Aaron Cornelius, Albert Proud, Xavier Clarke, Cheynee Stiller and Ryan Harwood.

While Clarke will need two to three more weeks in the reserves to gain match fitness, Cornelius, who booted seven goals in the QAFL, is certain to win a recall.

“There were some good results in the reserves. Aaron Cornelius went back and had a very good game,” Voss said.

“We have to find a position for him, because you often encourage guys to go back and make their performance do the talking.”

After a 4-0 start to the season, the Lions have plummeted 13th on the ladder with just one win from their last 12 games.

That win was against Collingwood in round 10, which Voss earmarked as a pivotal moment, and the team’s big chance to kick-start a form revival.

“We probably could have put the foot down the following week and we didn’t, and then you lose traction again,” Voss said.

“Now we’ve got to try and find that moment again to give us a catalyst to be able to go forward, and we sure hope that’s this week against Geelong.”

Voss said he had no thoughts about losing his job despite the club’s dismal recent record after playing in two finals last season.

“If that moment does dreadfully come, then so be it,” Voss said.

“But certainly from my end I don’t have an absolute ounce of thought about that whatsoever.

“It’s about our club and about what we are trying to achieve, and this now in this last six weeks is bigger than any certain person in our organisation.”

Voss said he still had a strong belief in the playing group, but they had to get back to basics if they were to start winning games again.

“It is the simple things like winning your one on ones, making it physical, being able to make those tackles, being able to drive your legs through a contest and free your arms,” Voss said.

“They are the simplest basics in football.”

Voss said he expected a hard, physical game against the Cats, but the Lions players had to learn to cope better with the pressure of big matches.

“When it is game day and the pressure is on, we have got to survive that and at the moment we are not doing that,” Voss said.

“How we stand up through this, not just individually but also as a club, says a lot about our club.”