BRISBANE Lions coach Justin Leppitsch was pleased with the style and flair that his young team showed in the 64-point loss to West Coast on Sunday.
The Lions topped 100 points only four times last season, but managed it against last year's Grand Finalists in an encouraging performance.
"I thought our style of play was much better today," Leppitsch said.
"We are playing with a bit of a better style, a bit of flair, which was good. So we'll continue that."
The Lions also had midfielders Lewis Taylor (three goals), Allen Christensen (three), Tom Rockliff (two), Daniel Rich (two) and Pearce Hanley (one) combine for 11 of their 15 goals against West Coast.
Leppitsch said the AFL's new interchange cap of 90 rotations had forced his side to rotate his midfielders deep forward and he liked what he saw.
"We rotated that position a bit through Daniel and Tom, a few others, and Pearce, and that seemed to work OK," Leppitsch said.
"With the rotation cap at the moment you're going to have to rotate your mids forward. I think the thing that comes out of the game as well is our mids can do that well and provide some stuff down there in the forward line."
Both coaches lamented defensive lapses and said that teams would need to adjust to the new high-scoring trends in order to strike the right balance between attack and defence.
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