Don't get flag hopes up: Lethal

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Leigh Matthews and Michael Voss hold the 2003 premiership cup aloft. Picture: Craig Borrow Source: Herald Sun

Former Brisbane Lions coach Leigh Matthews. Picture: Grant Parker Source: Herald Sun

FORMER Brisbane coach and AFL legend Leigh Matthews says the Lions may never win another premiership.

Speaking at the club's announcement to launch 10th anniversary celebrations of the 2003 flag, the four-time premiership coach said there were no guarantees that Brisbane would get back to the top of the AFL mountain.

"Maybe never," Matthews said when asked when the club might triumph again on the last Saturday in September.

"There is no certainty in these things."

Triple-premiership captain and current Brisbane senior coach Michael Voss did not flinch when Matthews delivered his sobering reality check.

"We always hope (to win the flag)," Voss said.

"After the first one (2001), quite quickly after the Grand Final we went into the premiership celebration of doing our lap and (I) walked around to the players and said, 'Don't run, walk. We may never be here ever again'.

"You cherish every one ... you just never take them for granted.

"It takes a lot of commitment, a lot has got to be aligned, players doing the right things at the right time and eventually all you do is hopefully get a shot at it."

Matthews said Brisbane's hat-trick of flags from 2001-2003 would stand the test of time and only be more revered as the years rolled on.

"Most premiership windows are five or six years. In the five or six years that this group had ... they got to four Grand Finals and won the three in a row,'' he said.

"The ability to come up and get to the final day and win it in the three consecutive years, whatever you think of this now, you will think more of it in the decades to come because history says it just doesn't happen."

The 2003 flag will be celebrated at a lunch on March 21 next year when the club hopes to reunite all the players from the side that beat Collingwood by 50 points.

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