AFL 2024 round three LIVE updates: Rioli, Marshall fire as Power takes lead over Demons; Dons surge to comeback win

Ben Brown had a kick for goal from the boundary and he was shown receiving a lot of ‘encouragement’ from a rough-looking collection of Power fans.

The encouragement must have helped as Brown kicked it right through the middle of the goals.

Power 68, Dees 58 with a minute to go in Q3.

Ivan Soldo has pushed forward for the Power and earned a free kick in front of goal before going back and kicking the major.

Todd Marshall followed that with a goal in his 100th game. He was crowded by every one of his teammates.

The Power have made their sub as well with Francis Evans off and Jase Burgoyne on.

Power 67, Dees 52 with two mins to go in Q3.

Alex Neal-Bullen has stepped up with the Demons needed a lift taking a mark just inside the 50m arc and booting a goal.

The Demons needed that and he celebrated it happily.

Power 53, Dees 51 with nine mins to go in Q3.

You can’t give Willie Rioli an inch in the Power forward line and he just reminded the Demons of this.

Rioli marked the ball in the pocket and when his man flew over the top of him, he sprinted into goal, even taking a bounce before booting it into the night.

Power 51, Dees 45 with 14 mins to go in Q3.

There are some lovely pictures of Jack Viney from the start of his 200th game at Adelaide Oval today.

Port Adelaide and Melbourne are all square after an engrossing, seesawing first half at Adelaide Oval.

The small but spirited congregation of Demon supporters camped behind the goals at the Cathedral End made plenty of noise when the visitors started the second quarter with a hat-trick of goals, pulling away by 13 points.

Tom Sparrow kickstarted the streak when he converted inside the first 20 seconds from the centre-bounce and Power defender Esava Raugolea finished it with a brain fade in defence, spilling an uncontested mark behind the goal line to gift Kysaiah Pickett an easy one.

Port got their kick-mark game going and defied Maz Gawn’s ruck ascendancy to get on top at the clearances and slot the next three before Jack Viney, in his 200th game, tied it away with his goal on the burst just before the siren.

The Power should be in front at the main break as they dominated the back end of the quarter but Jack Viney’s team-lifting goal has made sure the two clubs are locked together at the main break.

It should be a cracking second half.

Jack Viney has been an emotional leader for much of his career at the Demons and he has just shown why winning the ball in the forward line, beating some defenders and snapping a brilliant goal.

All this in his 200th game. His teammates swarmed around him.

The Dees needed that.

Power 45, Dees 45 with 90 seconds left in Q2.

The Demons have paid dearly for repeatedly turning the ball over as they exit defence with Power star Dan Houston receiving the ball at the 50m arc and booting a goal.

The Power have dominated the last 10 minutes.

Power 45, Dees 39 with three mins to go in Q2.