The Lions are currently on a 10-match winning run across two seasons and can extend their unbeaten start to their premiership defence to six games with victory over Collingwood at the Gabba on Thursday night. Brisbane’s latest comeback was last Saturday against the Western Bulldogs at Norwood Oval where Fagan’s men trailed by 39 points early in the third-quarter before storming home to win by 21 points. The Lions have also become the first team in VFL/AFL history since Carlton in 1909-10 to win eight successive matches after trailing at half-time, with six of those wins having occurred in their current unbeaten run, which started in August last year. As happy as Fagan is about his side’s winning run and fighting qualities, he’s hoping for a four-quarter performance against the Magpies, who were the most recent team to beat Brisbane with a one-point win in round 23 last season. “I think we’ve got a healthy belief in ourselves, but we also know that we can’t keep doing that (being forced to fight back from losing positions) – that’s not possible in this competition,” the Lions coach said on Wednesday. “We’d like to snap out of that We have that in our back pocket but if we’re relying on that all year, that’s going to test us. “We’ve just to try to find that four-quarter consistency, and hopefully that’s something that we can get (on Thursday) night.” Fagan said second-quarters had become a problem for his team. “It hasn’t always been slow starts. It has been second-quarters, and I don’t call second-quarters the start,” he said. “Suddenly the first-halves have become an issue because we’ve been behind at half-time. “We’ve talked about it, but not much. We know, and I don’t have to tell (the players) because everybody else tells them. “Our second-halves are pretty good though, so keep the second-halves good and try to get a little bit better in the first-halves. “Maybe it’s our readiness to play, maybe it’s what the opposition throw at us early. The opposition are coming at us a lot harder than they have in the past. “Our contested ball has probably been down in the first-half of games, and our workrate. We’ve got to get that better.” Fagan predicted the Magpies, who are chasing a fifth successive win on Thursday night, would provide the Lions with their “biggest challenge” so far this season. Collingwood has beaten Brisbane the past three times the teams have met. “We’ve been in those games. It’s not like they’ve dominated us. It’s just been that they’ve been able to do the moments a little bit better than us in those closer games,” he said. “We’ll take some learnings from that, (but) it’s a different year this year. We’ll have an opportunity to change that trend, so we’ll try to take it.” Fagan was unsure whether he would assign a tagger on star Magpies midfielder Nick Daicos. “We’ll try some things to quell his influence. Whether that’s with a tag or not, I’m not 100 per cent sure on that yet, but whatever you do, you’ve got to go in with a plan to try to minimise the effect and influence that we can have on the game,” Fagan said. “They’ve got a lot of other good players too, so you can’t caught up just in that.”