MELBOURNE’S 23-point loss to the Brisbane Lions at Etihad Stadium on Sunday continued a disappointing theme, says youngster Jack Viney.

The Demons led by 14 points at the six-minute mark of the final term, before the Lions turned the game on its head and booted six unanswered goals.

Viney said it continued a frustrating trend by the Demons this year, where they were in the position to win the match in the final term, but failed to hang on for the four points.

“It was a very disappointing result in the end,” he told Dee TV.

“We were right in it, but it’s happened a few times to us now, where teams have had a better last quarter than us.

“It’s definitely becoming a theme, which is pretty poor, so we need to work out what’s going on there and change it pretty quickly.”

Viney said he felt confident the Demons could claim their fifth win of the season when teammate Rohan Bail kicked truly in the opening minute of the final term.

“When Ro kicked that goal, we thought we might be able to grind it out and they got a bit of momentum and we went away from what kept us in the game in the first place,” he said.

“It was entirely our effort and a disappointing one, so we’ll recover and look at the tapes and see what we can do better.”

“It’s happening too often, where we get challenged and can’t keep up with it. [Coach Paul Roos] said [post-match] ‘what’s going on?’ Something’s got to change really, so it was a bit of a discussion, as to why we can’t challenge in the last quarter.”

Viney, who had 19 disposals against the Lions, wasn’t entirely happy with his performance, although he worked hard against star Lion Tom Rockliff.

“I had a bit of a role on Rockliff and I ended up getting 31 touches and a lot of them I couldn’t do too much about, but there were still a few I had an influence,” he said.

“I’m not too happy with my performance, but I probably felt like I got a bit more involved in my offence [more] than my tag on [Tom] Liberatore earlier in the year, so I feel like I’m improving in that role.

“But it’s not good enough and I’ll look at the tapes and get better.”

The Demons have a massive challenge next round – taking on Hawthorn next Saturday at the MCG – and Viney said the Dees needed to bounce back hard.

“This happens in footy – you have bad games, so we can’t really dwell on it for too long,” he said.

“We’ll dwell on it for 24 hours and then we go through our tape and watch our vision and get better – that’s the life of a footy player, every week looking to get better.

“The same thing applies and we’ve got to come back next week and be better than today.”