Lions coach Chris Fagan has denied errant goalkicking is an issue for Brisbane despite dreadful inaccuracy keeping the door open for Sydney.
The premiership contenders kicked 6-14 after halftime in their 13.19 (97) to 12.9 (81) victory at the Gabba On Friday, dominating the inside 50s but unable to kill off the plucky Swans.
Fagan admitted his frustrations post-match, admitting the 16-point win "should have been more like five or six goals".
"No disrespect to Sydney, I felt like we should have won by a lot more than we did," he said.
"We were quite a dominant team, eight shots in the second, 11 in the third and nine in the last and to kick 3-8 in that third quarter, we were completely in control but couldn't finish off."
The third-term performance brought back memories of their recent round 11 away loss to Adelaide when Brisbane kicked 1-9 and ultimately lost by three goals.
"That happened against Adelaide -- we didn't kick well -- and we lost that game," Fagan said.
"Tonight, we found a way to win but it should have been a little easier."
Brisbane have had their battles with accuracy under him in the past, but the coach felt the poor finishing in recent weeks was more an anomaly than a trend.
"I don't want to make a problem for us, just tonight I felt that. Overall we've been better," he said. "We'll just keep working at that."
While Lachie Neale and Zac Bailey starred, Fagan was well pleased with the contributions of each of his promoted players Dev Robertson, Kai Lohmann, Kidean Coleman, Darcy Forte and debutant Jaspa Fletcher.
Fletcher, the son of former Brisbane midfielder Adrian, looked assured throughout and brought the 28,561-strong crowd to their feet in the second quarter with a scintillating counter-attacking goal that put the Lions in the lead.
Swans coach John Longmire bemoaned his side's lack of discipline which gifted the Lions some soft goals.
"It was the same story of what happened last week," he said. "We've got to get that better than what we've been doing,"
"We have to stick to the process for longer and different times doing the basics better than we did."
But Longmire was well pleased with the effort and isn't giving up on the season despite the 2022 grand finalists dropping well below finals contention at 5-8.
Giving cause for optimism is a Swans cavalry set to return.
Longmire said Isaac Heeney (concussion), Callum Mills (calf), Tom McCartin (concussion) and Logan McDonald (ankle) all trained in Sydney on Friday and were on track for next week's home match against the battling West Coast.
"We'd love to get a few of those players back, maybe (Lance) Franklin next week too, there will be a few handy ones, but we do have to manage that as some have missed a fair bit of footy," he said.
"We have to get the balance right as we still have a lot to play for."
