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Wayne Milera has kicked a classy goal which gives him something to take away from tonight.
Milera has enjoyed a career-season and made the All-Australian team but Conor McKenna has kept him in check tonight.
Rayner has responded with a running goal, just to keep the Lions ticking over.
Lions 117, Lions 58 with 16 mins to go.
Kai Lohmann started the third term as he began the first – kicking his second goal within 40 seconds – but this was a much more measured and composed quarter from the Lions.
Further majors from Logan Morris (two), Zac Bailey and Conor McKenna kept the scoreboard ticking over, while Dayne Zorko’s strike from outside 50 perhaps garnered the loudest cheer of the night thus far to celebrate his one-year contract extension.
The Lions showed great control of the contest’s speed, and timed their moments when they sensed the chance beckoned to put the foot down.
Lions fans should (touch wood) begin booking their flights to Melbourne for a preliminary final showdown.
The Lions are kicking away with this game and the Crows, despite a late goal from Ben Keays, will just be playing for pride in the last term.
Zac Bailey kicked his third goal and then shared a pass with Morris.
It will be all about rotating players for the Lions as they have a date with the Hawks at the MCG to look forward to.
Darcy Gardiner seemed to take a knock to his knee during the third term. I wonder if the Lions will use him much in the last term, or simply put him on ice.
The Crows haven’t got much from their forwards tonight, and they haven’t done much for them, either, given how much footy the Lions have had.
Darcy Fogarty’s two goals have been one bright spot, but Taylor Walker has barely touched the ball and, until he kicked a goal a few minutes ago, Riley Thilthorpe has struggled as well.
“The Crows need to be marking the ball at their forward line,” Matthews told Kayo Sports at half-time.
“Fogarty’s been pretty good, but Thilthorpe and Walker have hardly touched it.
Dayne Zorko sent the ball into attack and then followed the ball down, taking a handball from his teammate and booting a thumping, running goal from 50 metres out.
Gee, he loved that goal.
The Crows might want to run with Zorko when he’s exiting defence.
Riley Thilthorpe has snapped a goal back for the Crows, but they’ve got a long way to go to get back into this one.
Lions 92, Crows 41 with 11 mins to go in the third.
The Lions are bolting away here – the Crows desperately trying to find a way back into it.
But it is hard to do that when Logan Morris is snapping goals from the boundary line, as he just did.
Lions 85, Crows 35 with 14 mins to go in Q3.
Kai Lohmann kicked the first goal of the match, and now he’s kicked the first goal of the second half, too.
This time Lohmann snapped truly after some good work from Eric Hipwood to knock the ball to him.
Crows coach Matthew Nicks looks very unhappy after his side conceded first to start this second half.
Lions 79, Crows 34 with 19 mins to go in Q3.
Spare a thought for Zac Bailey after his brain snap to top all brain snaps when he found himself in front of goal at close range, completely unmarked, only for his shot to hit the side of his boot and for the ball to cannon into the posts.
It would have been three goals to Bailey, and his second in quick succession, against the club that had so actively hunted his signature until he recommitted to the Lions this week.
Fortunately for Bailey, despite an Adelaide fightback in the second term in which they kicked the opening three majors and cut the margin to less than two goals, his teammates rediscovered their mojo – Charlie Cameron taking his own goal tally to four as Take Me Home, Country Roads gets a proper workout throughout the Gabba.
