Queanbeyan Tigers coach Dave Corcoran has praised AFL Canberra for introducing an "equalisation strategy" mid-season to avoid lopsided scorelines.

The league has scaled back quarters from 32 to 25 minutes after several one-sided results in the opening seven rounds, with Tuggeranong and Gungahlin losing games by up to 200 points.

Queanbeyan lost 12.18 (90) to 5.6 (36) against the Ainslie Tricolours on Sunday and Corcoran admitted it would have worse without the new measures in place.

"It's good for footy in Canberra. We lost by 50 points but with an extra 28 minutes of play we probably lose by 70," Corcoran said.

"If you multiply that by the Tuggeranong and Gungahlin losing margins this season then it's going to make scorelines a lot closer and we'll have higher quality games which can only be a good thing.

"It's kind of like the country footy models, and to be honest the standard of Canberra footy has dropped to the point that we can adopt these flexible measure to improve the standard of the game.

"It should have happened at the start of the year but it's good the league has taken some action and there's still going to be massive defeats, but 100 points is better than 150."

Despite a strong start from the Tigers on Sunday, Ainslie proved too good after creating almost three times as many scoring shots in coach Chris Rourke's 200th game in charge.

"We were up three goals to one at quarter time but wheels fell off. We let up in the midfield and their mature bodies just played smart hard footy and outclassed us," Corcoran said.

"The right end was the scoring end and they capitalised in the second quarter with five unanswered goals, we had enough of the footy but we just didn't use it that well.

"The message after the game was don't give up on this season, we've come up against some good opposition but we're a really young team so we need to stick together and fight our way out of this."

Corcoran found praise for Rourke in his milestone match.

"He likes to paint himself as this disliked figure in Canberra footy because he's the head of Ainslie but he's actually really well respected within his club and at other clubs. It's great to see someone like Rourkey coach 200 games," Corcoran said.