Beware the wounded Lions.

That’s the message from Fremantle forward Josh Treacy as the Dockers take a 10-game winning streak to the Gabba to take on the two-time reigning premiers who are coming off an embarrassing drubbing.

The Dockers sit on top of the AFL ladder, while the Lions have slipped to eighth off a 6-5 record.

Brisbane’s 78-point loss to GWS came after the Giants produced an AFL record 14.-goal third term.

“The way we approach every week is everyone’s gettable, (but) you can’t hide the fact that they’ve won the last two grand finals,” Treacy said after training on Tuesday.

“Everyone in this industry is quite quick to jump off the ship when a couple of things go wrong.

“Clearly they’re still a great outfit and we’ll be preparing for their best on Saturday.

“There is a great feeling around the club at the moment. The way we’ve embraced everything, it almost doesn’t feel like we have won 10 in a row and what we’ve achieved so far.

“(But) understanding that it doesn’t give us any credits going into this week. A good chance to train again later in the week, and then get on the plane, go to Brisbane, and give them four quarters of our best footy.”

The key forward said their top of the table had not been a focus but it was a “quite a unique situation”.

“Because we haven’t been there since I’ve been here,” he said.

“The positions we’ve been getting put in during games, we lost those games the last few years, and I think that’s something you can’t train.

“You need to be put in those positions to be able to learn, so I think that’s what’s held us in a really good spot this year in those games.

“We’re conscious of it, but understanding what it is, and we know where we get our feedback from and what we take out of that.

“We are clearly really driven on what comes from inside these four walls, and the narrative is going to change every week externally, so you know, continuing to value what we do inside these four walls.”

Treacy is in career best form midway through his sixth season.

He has more contested marks (26) than any other player in the competition and only Port Adelaide sharpshooter Mitch Georgiades has more grabs inside 50 (44 to Treacy’s 38).

He is up on most metrics, only falling behind in shot-at-goal accuracy, which currently sits at 52.1 per cent compared to 61.6 last season.

He is averaging 7.2 marks per game this season, compared to 4.8 in 2025.

“It’s something I’ve always chipped away at. I’ve just got great confidence in that at the moment. Do a lot of work on it throughout the week and just playing with total freedom at the moment, which is allowed me to run and jump the ball,” he said.

Brisbane trounced Fremantle by 57 points at Optus Stadium in round 23 in their only encounter last season

The Lions played keepings off in that game, taking 147 uncontested marks and kicked 10 goals to two in the second half.

“We are a much better team than what we were at the back end of last year and in that position,” Treacy said.

“We’ll certainly be better prepared this week.”

Defenders Harris Andrews and Ryan Lester were outstanding, although Treacy was among the Dockers’ best.

He expects to be matched up again on Andrews and says he will embrace the challenge.

“It’s clearly gonna be a tough match up, great match up. They’re the match-ups you want to play on to really test where your game’s at,” Treacy said.

“He’s done it so well for so long. I’ll do what I need to do throughout the rest of the week to prepare myself.”