BRISBANE Lions coach Michael Voss says his players' courage and persistence in Saturday night's remarkable win over Port Adelaide made it their best result of the season.

The Lions fell 47 points behind in the first quarter but kept grinding away, snatching the lead midway through the final term to eventually win by 15.

While Voss could not rate the comeback when considering both his time as a player and now coach, he said it was a magnificent effort to fight back from such a deficit.

"I wouldn't necessarily say it's the best we’ve played this year but in terms of the best win, yeah, I'd say it has to be our best win," he said.

"It always takes something quite special to be able to find something when things aren't going well for you because it's very easy to pack it in.

"Quite clearly there's more of a want in this team [and] there's more of a desire in this team to want to get more for themselves."

The Lions played half the match without full-back Daniel Merrett, who sustained a minor hamstring injury, while Cheynee Stiller was also stretchered off after taking a heavy hit from Brett Ebert in the second quarter. He later returned.

With Mitch Clark also suffering dizzy spells and missing half of the third term, Voss lauded his team's determination in the face of adversity.

"I take my hat off to them because that was just a remarkable effort to come back," he said.

"This group has an amazing ability to be able to never throw it in.

"You could just sort of feel like the momentum of the game was shifting. It wasn't a specific incident or a specific thing that changed that around but you could slowly start to see that we were arresting the ascendancy of the game."

Slow starts have dogged the Lions for most of the season and it threatened to do so again.

The Power slammed on 10 goals straight in the first quarter and Voss said it was a just a matter of being able to lock down and stop the flow, which also included a move of Daniel Bradshaw into the backline for parts of the first half.

He said there was no indication the players were not ready to fire from the first bounce.

"Looking at the players before the game I thought, 'Geez, the guys are on. I think this is the game we're really going to bounce out of the blocks'. I can read body language good can't I?" he joked.

"The players should come out of that game feeling really good about themselves, they've earned that. They had to find something in the belly to get them over the line."