Crimson-hot Brisbane racked up a sixth straight AFLW win and a scoring document, roaring to second on the ladder after a 55-point thumping of Carlton at Ikon Park.
The Lions set an AFLW document by kicking a minimum of one purpose in 22 successive quarters as they charged to a 9.14 (68) to 1.7 (13) win on Saturday evening.
Brisbane kicked the primary six targets of the sport earlier than Breann Moody booted the Blues’ first midway via the third quarter, after a paltry first-half return of 5 behinds.
Again on the bottom the place they received final season’s grand ultimate, Brisbane had been way more opportunistic than a Carlton group that fought laborious however lacked polish Within the ahead half.
The 14th-placed Blues suffered a fourth straight loss, all of them by a minimum of 33 factors, and kicking simply 5 targets throughout these video games.
Carlton had good durations in every of the primary three quarters, however let themselves down with inaccurate area and purpose kicking.
It was Brisbane’s greatest win of the season and their fourth by a minimum of 45 factors.
The Lions had eight completely different goalkickers, with Ellie Hampson the one participant besides two, after notching the ultimate main of a one-sided contest performed in slippery situations.
Brisbane’s Taylor Smith pulled 4 clear on the prime of the competitors’s goalkicking chart regardless of spending a lot of the third quarter off the sphere.
She booted her 14th purpose of the season from a 40-metre set shot within the second quarter, however left the sphere early within the third to have an ankle taped, earlier than returning later.
“I will be OK, we have one other week now so a little bit little bit of restoration and it must be all good,” Smith informed Fox Footy.
“Moist-weather footy isn’t as fairly as you’d prefer it to be, however I believe contemplating the situations we had been in a position to put collectively some good passages of play all through the sport.”
Carlton had a territorial edge within the opening minutes of the match however may solely muster two behinds Within the first quarter, trailing by eight on the first break.
As the primary quarter progressed Brisbane moved the ball ahead extra commonly and Isabel Dawes pounced on a free ball from.a stoppage and ran clear to kick the one purpose of the time period.
Brisbane kicked 4.4 to 0.3 within the second quarter to steer 38-5 at half-time.
They solely received the third quarter by three factors, with each side kicking only a single purpose, however pulled away within the fourth, booting all three targets of the time period.
“They gave us a great lesson tonight for certain, they’re a relentless aspect across the contest,” Carlton coach Mathew Buck stated.
“We have some learnings to remove. We had some moments within the sport that we’d have preferred to have capitalised on, however they had been wonderful.”
