{"id":30938,"date":"2026-06-14T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/30938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:45:06","slug":"brisbane-fire-in-third-term-to-topple-plucky-richmond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/30938\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane fire in third term to topple plucky Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reigning dual premiers Brisbane have overcome a first-half fright to outclass Richmond by 35 points in Hobart.<\/p>\n

The Lions were ahead by just three at halftime before their stars turned on the jets with a seven-goal-to-three third quarter to set up the 17.13 (115) to 12.8 (80) win on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It gives Chris Fagan’s side back-to-back wins ahead of their bye and two blockbusters against Sydney and Geelong in the fortnight afterwards.<\/p>\n

\"Brisbane's<\/p>\n

Brisbane’s Sam Draper and Richmond’s Noah Balta hit the heights in Hobart. (Linda Higginson\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

Will Ashcroft, who finished with a game-high 38 possessions, came to life early in the third term with two successive goals including a freak six-pointer dribbled in from the boundary line.<\/p>\n

It was the 22-year-old’s best disposal tally of the season to go with two majors and eight clearances.<\/p>\n

Lachie Neale put his stamp on the game early in the third as Richmond failed to keep up after putting the defensive heat on Brisbane in the first half.<\/p>\n

\"Brisbane's<\/p>\n

Brisbane veteran Harris Andrews was made to work hard in his 250th AFL game. (Linda Higginson\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

Logan Morris picked up three goals for the Lions, premiership forward Eric Hipwood booted two in his 200th game, on return from a knee injury suffered in round 23 last year, and defender Harris Andrews took nine marks in his 250th.<\/p>\n

Youngster Jasper Alger was a stand-out for Richmond with four goals, while team mate Tim Taranto was busy with 29 disposals and two goals.<\/p>\n

The Tigers (2-11) remain second-last while the Lions go to eight wins and six losses for the season.<\/p>\n

\"Richmond's<\/p>\n

Richmond’s Maurice Rioli does his best to spoil Noah Ainswerth kick. (Linda Higginson\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

Both teams went tit-for-tat in an engaging opening, with a fairly simple Bruce Reville goal close to the posts giving the Lions a thre-point lead at quarter-time, 4.4 to 4.1.<\/p>\n

Richmond’s Liam Fawcett had two goals for the term, while Brisbane’s Zac Bailey had one for the highlight reel after walking the boundary line and finishing with a banana kick.<\/p>\n

Taranto picked up 13 disposals, two clearances and one goal for the Tigers in a strong first quarter.<\/p>\n

Richmond had the running early in the second term but missed multiple gettable shots, before Alger kicked his second to reduce the margin to two points.<\/p>\n

Taranto put the Tigers ahead but Josh Dunkley kicked a crucial goal moments before halftime to put Brisbane back ahead 42-39.<\/p>\n

From there, the Lions found their groove, kicking 11 of the 17 second half goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning dual premiers Brisbane have overcome a first-half fright to outclass Richmond by 35 points in Hobart. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,1440,9246,28599],"class_list":["post-30938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-brisbane","tag-richmond","tag-the-lions","tag-the-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}