Wasteful Dragons slay Tassie Devils with behinds

Travelling to Kingston on Saturday, the Dragons came out breathing fire with two early goals to Ollie Lowe, but squandered chance after chance for the match's remainder before winning 6.20 (56) to 2.6 (18).

Eleven points up at the first change, the Dragons had all the play in the second term and were able to find marks inside 50 with ease.

But goals were harder to come by as eight consecutive behinds sailed through before Eren Soylemez and Lowe's third ended an unwanted streak.

The Devils came out with renewed vigour in the third term and would have hit the scoreboard on several occasions early but for a goal-saving tackle on Darcy Gardner and consecutive posters from Baynen Lowe and Ryley Sanders.

It was a scrubbed roving goal 15 minutes in that finally got the Devils up and running, and Tony Aganas reduced the margin to 21 points early in the last term.

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But the Dragons had the instant reply, and finished out the game strong to deny Mathew Armstrong a win in his first game at the helm.

Under constant fire, Tasmania's defence held up well at times with Baker Smith, Sam Banks and Zach Morris all enjoying some good moments.

Morris raked in a number of intercept marks across the day and was clean with ball in hand while teammate Lowe was increasingly influential through the middle as the day went on.

Clarence young gun Tom McCallum looked the most dangerous Devil up forward.