The Western Bulldogs will welcome back captain Easton Wood for Sunday’s clash with Carlton if he gets through Thursday’s main training session according to coach Luke Beveridge.

Wood has missed the last two months of football since damaging his hamstring against Port Adelaide in round 13, but looks set to bolster the Bulldogs back six this weekend, as the Club searches for it’s third win in a row.

“Easton should play,” Beveridge told media at VU Whitten Oval on Thursday morning.  “We'll train today and if he gets through then we'll select him.”

The young Dogs are full confidence after successive wins over St.Kilda and North Melbourne, and a win over Carlton would mark the first time since rounds 6-8, that they’d won three straight.

Prior to the round 20 win over the Saints, the Dogs had lost four in a row, but according to the Beveridge, they stuck to their plans, and with the right mix of personnel on the team sheet, things have begun to click.

“Sometimes your personnel mix comes together and gives you a chance to play more in a manner and a style that you like to play and that may have happened over the last couple of weeks,” he said.

“We've never deviated from the way we want to play, you chart a course and as long as your players understand the journey they're on and what they expect of each other, at some point your personnel will all gel and they'll come to a point where they're seeing some good signs.”

As for what the final couple of weeks of the season holds, Beveridge is optimistic.

“It'd be great to beat the Blues and then front up against the premiership favourites and beat them as well, that would be terrific,” he said. 

“If we continue to play in the manner and the vein that we have, and obviously linked to that is a real endeavour, and I think the defensive elements, and the source side of things... I think our midfield with some great strength and contribution from Jackson Trengove and some contributions from Roughy in there as a ruck, our mids have really fed off that.

“They as a group have looked quite formidable and so if we can continue to gel in there and get our back end and our run out of there, we'll give our forward line plenty of opportunities and be a lot harder to play against.”

The Dogs take on Carlton from 1:10pm Sunday at Etihad Stadium.