What better way to start AFLW season 7 than with a belter of a match-up at the Gabba!

Who: Brisbane Lions vs Fremantle
Where: The Gabba
When: Sunday 28 August at 2:10pm
Gates Open: 1:30pm 
Milestone: Shannon Campbell's 50th game

FINAL TEAM ANNOUNCED: Lily Returns

PLAN YOUR TRIP
The Gabba is a public transport destination! For any event public transport will get you the closest to your gate.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Public transport is the best way to get to The Gabba.

Travel for FREE within the Brisbane City Council shire by showing your pre-purchased event ticket on Queensland Rail City Network trains (excluding Airtrain), Brisbane City Council buses or a special event shuttle service from 4 hours prior to the event.

Keep your eyes peeled here for updates on all the fun things you can get up to at our home games this year.

LIONS SHOP

Lions Shop Main Store will be open from 10:00am.

Lion Park Pop-Up Marquee will be open from 1:30pm  selling all the latest merch.

LION PARK - Open outside Gate 2 from 1pm

Gettin' Jiggy With It > DJ Diggler will be in the park on the 1s and 2s spinng fresh tracks to get you pumped for Game Day

Face Painting > Thanks to Hyundai, you can bring the little ones down and get their faces painted by our roar-some artists.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Who's In Your Top 22? >> Time to put your coaching hat on and select who you think will be in our first team of the season to take on Fremantle this weekend. One lucky person who gets closes will win a signed guernsey. ENTER HERE.

Audeara Mystery Sound >> Listen out during the breaks for the Audeara Mystery Sound, thanks to our Healthy Hearing Partner. If selected and you can guess the sound, you could be taking home a pair of Audeara A-01 headphones valued at $349.

Watch: Live on Seven and stream on Kayo.

It's been over a year since our last clash with Fremantle. Last time on their deck, this weekend on ours.
Last time Courtney Hodder opened the scoring with an epic check-side banana, and the game ended with a Lions win 

Free-wheeling Brisbane has again announced itself as a premiership contender with an emphatic 49-point victory over an inexperienced Fremantle at the Gabba on Sunday.

After an early armwrestle that had the scores locked at quarter-time, the Lions kicked the next six goals to open a match-winning lead and run out 11.10 (76) to 4.3 (27) victors.

Last season's league best and fairest Emily Bates picked up where she left off, gathering 19 disposals, six clearances and seven tackles, while fellow All-Australian Orla O'Dwyer was also highly influential with her 20 disposals and two smart goals.

Jesse Wardlaw (two goals) was too tall for a shorter Dockers backline, while Courtney Hodder and Greta Bodey also bobbed up for two goals apiece as part of the Lions' potent forward line.

They had plenty of chances, winning the inside 50 count 45-17.

With five new faces in its team following an off-season of turnover through expansion and injury, the Dockers battled hard but were outgunned.

A head clash between teammates Jessica Low (concussion) and Janelle Cuthbertson (nose) in the second quarter that left both unable to return summed up Fremantle's afternoon.

After Brisbane stormed to a 38-point lead during the third quarter, the Dockers fought back with quick goals to Aine Tighe, Megan Kauffman and Hayley Miller, but tired in the last term.

Brisbane was too good all over the ground as Belle Dawes (18) and Ally Anderson (23) offered fantastic midfield support for Bates.

Did you see that?

Greta Bodey was one of Brisbane's best players last season, and it didn't take the clever half-forward long to leave her mark on this game. After getting out the back to kick a second-quarter goal, Bodey produced an absolute show-stopper late in the third when she played on from a mark and uncorked a perfect checkside kick from deep in the right forward pocket for a Goal of the Week contender.

Nervous wait for Postlethwaite

After 553 days between AFLW games to recover from a ruptured ACL, the return of Lily Postlethwaite was meant to be one of Brisbane's feel-good stories ahead of round one. However, in the first quarter, it quickly soured. Postlethwaite crumpled to the turf as she attempted to gather a ground ball and was assisted from the field in clear pain. She'll have scans early in the week.

Up next
Brisbane will try to make it two from two next Sunday when it travels to the nation's capital to face Greater Western Sydney at Manuka Oval at 3.10pm AEST. Fremantle heads home and has just six days to prepare for Geelong at Fremantle Community Bank Oval next Saturday at 11.40am AWST.

BRISBANE                1.1       4.3       8.7       11.10 (76)

FREMANTLE             1.1       1.2       4.2         4.3 (27)

GOALS
Brisbane: Bodey 2, Hodder 2, O'Dwyer 2, Wardlaw 2, Conway, Smith, C.Svarc

Fremantle: Mulholland, Tighe, Kauffman, Miller

BEST 
Brisbane: O'Dwyer, Bates, Dawes, Hodder, Anderson, Pullar, Wardlaw

Fremantle: Bowers, Miller, O'Driscoll, Tighe

INJURIES 
Brisbane: Postlethwaite (knee)

Fremantle: Low (concussion), Cuthbertson (nose)

Reports: Nil

Crowd: 3,421 at the Gabba