After searching for two months, Adelaide coach Neil Craig finally celebrated a gritty 12-point win over Brisbane on Sunday.

Craig says Adelaide's second win of the season, 13.15 (95) to Brisbane's 11.15 (81), is easily categorised.

"Competition," he said, after watching young gun Taylor Walker produce a game breaking cameo at AAMI Stadium.

"What we saw today was just a fierce competitive attitude, it drives everything.

"Supporters have probably been waiting the whole year to see that."

Craig lauded his players for a committed response in a week when the Crows leadership group suspended three teammates for slack discipline.

With a one-point lead at three-quarter time, and a breeze at their back, Adelaide outscored Brisbane four goals to one in the last term to prevail in a windswept, rainy encounter.

Walker, the precociously talented 20-year-old, was the match-turner: two superb goals in the initial six minutes of the last quarter laid the foundation for victory.

The 20-gamer launched an accurate 60-metre bomb some 15 seconds into the last term, followed by a classy 45m left-foot finish on the turn.

Walker's heroics nullified a remarkable five-goal performance at the other end of the ground by Brisbane spearhead Brendan Fevola.

He had been in doubt for the match with a groin injury but kicked four of Brisbane's initial five goals to keep the visitors in the contest amid a threatening Adelaide start.

The Crows began with attacking intent despite kicking into the breeze and, with evergreen Andrew McLeod providing two team-lifting goals, took a 19-point advantage into quarter time.

But the Lions, sparked by forward Todd Banfield and sweeping defender Ashley McGrath, dragged themselves back into the contest with persistence rather than panache.

Brisbane ultimately had more entries into their attacking 50m arc than the Crows; they had more possessions, more marks, more tackles, more hit outs.

But with captain Jonathon Brown ailing with his groin injury and held scoreless by Nathan Bock, the Lions had only one real scoring trick: Fevola.

Brisbane coach Michael Voss lamented his players' inability to finish ice their hard work.

"Statistics don't mean much unless you get the win on the scoreboard," Voss said after his side's fifth consecutive defeat.

The outlook doesn't get brighter for Voss and his Lions: they host Collingwood next weekend.

"It's not good for us right now in terms of win-loss ratio," Voss said.

"I can't help but feel we have made some ground on the last month, I think we made some significant ground.

"(But) we have still got six or seven players that aren't quite contributing to the level that we need them to."

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