Dual Brisbane premiership coach Chris Fagan has revealed he had sleepless nights agonising over whether to gamble on gun midfielder Lachie Neale’s calf injury in the grand final.

Neale was named in the team after a remarkable recovery from tearing the muscle in the qualifying final loss to Geelong.

Fagan started Neale as the sub and threw the veteran into battle after half-time with the scores locked.

“I was laying in bed last night and was thinking I am either going to look like a total idiot or a total genius,” Fagan said.

“If we had have lost and he only played a half we would probably be bemoaning the fact that we went about it that way.

“But the bottom line was this – Lachie was fit to play – but how much game time could he play?

“He played one game in eight weeks. One game in 5

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