Lessons learned in Fremantle’s round eight thumping at the hands of St Kilda are behind the five-game winning run propelling them towards the finals, according to coach Justin Longmuir.

The Dockers are shooting for a sixth straight win for just the fifth time in the club’s history in their clash with the Saints at Optus Stadium on Sunday.

Longmuir’s hot side are overwhelming favourites, just eight weeks after they were embarrassed by the Saints in a primetime Friday night clash.

“A lot went wrong that night,” the Dockers coach said of that 61-point defeat in an interview on 7NEWS.

“It started at contest, it started at clearance, but a lot of other things went wrong that night.

“The beauty about having those performances is you learn from them and you put things in place so hopefully they don’t happen again.

“Some of the things we learnt that night have contributed to our good run of form and we will look to continue that this week.”

Beyond Sunday’s clash with the Saints is a tough run of fixtures that include a trip to Sydney to face the Swans and meetings with Hawthorn and Collingwood in the next month.

But the Dockers sit sixth after 14 matches, with wins against Essendon, North Melbourne, Gold Coast, Port Adelaide and Greater Western Sydney on their strong run of form.

Longmuir said he was preparing for both Caleb Serong and Andrew Brayshaw — who both sit in the top 11 players in the competition, according to the coaches — to cop tags from former Dockers coach Ross Lyon.

St Kilda stopper Marcus Windhager has been in the spotlight this week for his nagging tactics in a battle with Collingwood’s Nick Daicos during their defeat on Saturday night.

Brayshaw was held to 18 touches and Serong had just 15 in round eight. But Longmuir backed the pair to work through it this time.

“Last time we played they ran two or three tags and tried to lock down our better players,” he said.

“I’d suggest maybe Caleb or Andy will get that task. It won’t be the first or the last time either of those get tagged this year.

“They have confronted it over the last five weeks and embraced that role and embraced the tag really well. I would expect them to do the same on Sunday.”