Luke Beveridge will come up against his old side on Friday night, but he says that he doesn’t expect that his time spent under Hawks coach Alistair Clarkson will give the Dogs any tangible advantage.

Beveridge was Hawthorn’s defensive coach from 2012 until the end of the 2014 season, but Clarkson has been a ‘master of adapting and evolving’ in the time since and he say the Hawks are a very different side today than they were two years ago.

“They have changed significantly… The way we see them set up, the way we see them play is very different to when I was there two years ago,” Beveridge said on Channel Seven's Talking Footy on Monday night.

“I know sometimes the way he thinks about the opposition – you think about your own team and the conversations that might be taking place in their match committee, and I know they’d be treating us with respect, and working out and trying to devise ways to get under our skin.

“But I don’t think it helps a great deal, because they have changed so much.”

The Bulldogs are aiming to win back to back finals for the first time since 1961 and against a side that the Club hasn’t beaten since round 3, 2010. 

But Beveridge would have been buoyed by the Bulldogs' blistering performance in Perth on Friday night and is confident they have a bit of footy left in them yet.

“Having achieved a great thing together in winning our first final in a little while…  I think we all feel that we’ve got a bit of juice left.”