BRISBANE Lions coach Michael Voss says he has a quick fix for the lamentably low inside-50 count his side delivered in the loss to Fremantle on Saturday.

The Lions got the ball inside their forward 50m arc just 20 times against Fremantle, the lowest on record.

The Lions chip-sideways game style gave returning skipper Jonathan Brown no chance of influencing the match up forward and resulted in a paltry team return of just 5.5 (35) for the match.

Brown’s contribution was just three marks and three disposals, all coming in the first 15 minutes of the match.

"I thought we were trying to be too perfect in the way we tried to move the footy," Voss said.

"We didn't give our forward line chances at all  … we wanted to control the footy a little bit too much and we took the pace massively off the game and didn’t want to put it on at different times.

"That slowed the game down so dried up their scoring also, which was the one good thing, but we just couldn’t activate what we wanted to activate in our play.

"We erred on the really conservative side."

But Voss has high hopes they can get back some of the attacking flair they showed in the round-one win over Melbourne next weekend against the Gold Coast Suns.

"I think it (lack of inside 50s) is quite easy to fix actually," Voss said.

"It is not something that at this point in time is a worry, its just more (doing) what we practice.

"We had a very good pre-season working on our ball movement and defensive structures which should be innate for us but for some reason (today) we’ve gone really conservative.

"I think it’s quite easy to fix."

Voss said he was hopeful that ruckman Matthew Leuenberger, subbed off injured in the second term, would not be out of action for too long.

"It's just his calf, it's more partial so it's about getting scans done. It's not major but we've got to get scans and confirm what it is," Voss said.

The injury threw 18-year-old Billy Longer to the wolves against the League's premier ruckman Aaron Sandilands.

"We were comfortable coming into the game that he (Longer) was ready for it. But he (Sandilands) is the best ruckman in the comp and he is that for a reason. He just, pardon the pun, kept standing tall the longer the game went," Voss said.

Sandilands finished with 54 hit-outs to the Lions' combined 24.

Brown said the players were disappointed with the way they played the game.

"It was frustrating, we came in with a plan to take the game on more than that," Brown said.

"We were hard to score against but couldn’t score ourselves.

"It was a frustrating day down there, I certainly struggled for touch. It was one of those days when I wasn't in a hell of a lot of contests."