WESTERN Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade is confident his side can perform well in its second trip to Perth in two weeks but believes night football is the answer to Perth's early-season heat.

Temperatures hit 34 degrees as Fremantle started its match against Adelaide last week and it could be similarly warm when the Bulldogs face West Coast at Subiaco Oval on Sunday.

The conditions, not the travel, are providing Eade with some concern – but not necessarily for his own players.

"It's six days since we played, so that's fine and the blokes have recovered well," he said from Perth on Saturday afternoon.

"We trained well back in Melbourne and that's not an issue.

"Playing in the heat isn’t an issue either. While we are happy with the travel and will deal with it, you probably need to play night football in Perth and Brisbane early in the year to be fair.

"That will affect the West Australian teams more than anyone because playing in hot weather is really taxing."

The Bulldogs beat Fremantle by 63 points in round one at Subiaco and have kept an unchanged schedule ahead of the encounter with the Eagles.

Eade is keen for his side to quieten the home supporters early.

"We've kept our preparation the same as when we came over last time but we play okay at Subi," he said.

"It's a terrific ground to play on, but having said that the Eagles have a home ground advantage and two weeks ago they played exceptional footy. That's the sort of thing we are looking at.

"From our point of view, we don’t mind playing at Subi and tend to play well here. It's more a home crowd advantage than the ground and when you have 40,000 fans screaming for you it gives the players a lift.

"We've played three games and won two first quarters but we did start poorly last week (against Richmond). There's no doubt about that. Playing away from home you need to try to take the crowd factor out so your intensity needs to be right up."

With West Coast coming off a 97-point loss to St Kilda, Eade is wary of the host's prospects of revisiting the effort that saw it belt Port Adelaide a fortnight ago.

"History and experience tells you that any team that gets belted will respond the next week," he said. "That has happened in our situation as well and elite AFL players have character and will fight back.

"The Eagles two weeks ago were very good against Port, who are now 3-1, so that was a good win and they have some very good players in their team."

The Bulldogs received some good news on Saturday with forward Robert Murphy getting through VFL affiliate Williamstown's 62-point win over Collingwood, while Brownlow Medallist Adam Cooney has recovered well from minor knee surgery.

"Adam did some work today back home and has recovered quite well from that," he said.

"Robert Murphy played for Williamstown and got through that well, and we have to see how they pull up.

"But both are likely at this stage to play next week."