The footy world is raving about Fremantle, bookmakers have them as premiership favourites and opposition teams have made it clear they are the best team in the AFL after 11 wins in a row, but Dockers coach Justin Longmuir is still trying to play down what his team is achieving.

Last week Longmuir said that breaking the club record for the most wins in a row meant nothing, and he followed comment that by talking down the achievement of beating Brisbane at the Gabba.

The Dockers hadn’t beaten the Lions in Queensland since 2016 and Brisbane have won the last two premierships. But Longmuir said beating the reigning champions wouldn’t change anything about how he’s feeling.

“Not really, because they haven’t been playing as well as they could, so we knew there were a few chinks in their armour,” he said.

“We know there’s been periods over the last couple of years where they’ve probably had down periods and bounced. But they were on a six day break, and with the last probably 10 quarters that they’ve played, there was some opportunity there.”

But while Longmuir wasn’t keen to talk up the impact of the win, he is fully aware that the run of victories wouldn’t be possible if he didn’t have depth. Caleb Serong, Hayden Young, Sean Darcy and Jaeger O’Meara are all missing from the team at the moment, while Brennan Cox and Matthew Johnson suffered injuries during the match.

With an away game against North Melbourne in Bunbury this week, the Dockers won’t board a plane again until July.

That all bodes well for the future and Longmuir said it was clear his team could still get better.

“I’m really proud of the group, and really proud of where we sit in the season, and the type of footy we’re playing. So I’m really proud. I just feel like we’ve got more in us,” he said.

“But what we’ve done over the last couple of weeks with couple of key midfielders missing - we got Alex back today, but he was missing last week - and feel like it’s asking others, especially through the middle of the ground, to step up and take on some more responsibility or some more game time.

“I’m really proud of how those players are contributing to the team performance.”

Fremantle’s ability to tear games apart in a short period of time was again on show. The Dockers kicked four goals in five minutes to create a 46-point lead.

They have produced similar bursts in nearly every game this season and Longmuir said those moments have followed some clear trends.

“I think our contest work really stood up, mostly through that third quarter, but especially through that period,” he said.

“When we win the contest, we’re able to take the ball forward, and use our numbers. We’ve just become more efficient in the front half because of the talls and our smalls. We’ve got a more mature forward line, so they’re able to cash in on those moments.”