With four wins from their past five games, senior coach Ross Lyon will take an in form Fremantle into Sunday’s clash with Richmond at the MCG.

The form has been built with a significantly younger side with Fremantle making significant changes after starting the season 0-2.

Speaking at Wednesday’s media conference, Lyon acknowledged that the younger Freo outfit was still a long way from playing at their best - especially early in the contest.

Fremantle has been the slowest starting team in the AFL in 2017, averaging just 29.7 points to half time.

In the second half, Fremantle has fared significantly better, averaging 51.6 points per game. 

All four of Fremantle’s wins have come via a come from behind fashion, including last week’s 37-point victory over Essendon at Domain Stadium after trailing by 13-points at half time. 

“We’re looking to improve, we’ve identified areas from the first half where we could have been better,” Lyon said.

“We need to keep working and improving on our footy because clearly there’s some dominant teams in the competition.

“The Cats have been super (as well as) GWS and Adelaide.

“We’re in the group (behind) and we’ve got to work really hard and improve our footy. There’s plenty of improvement in us, I think that’s what I’m really enthusiastic about.”

Lyon highlighted that turnovers has been an area of focus.

Fremantle has rarely given away the ball in 2017, sitting 14th in the competition for turnovers, but Lyon highlighted that these turnovers were still proving costly.

“We identified some key principles that have been holding us back that we’ve delivered this to the players,” Lyon said.

“They’re just subtle things at times such as working together defensively. We got scored against a bit too easily on turnover even through we didn’t turnover a lot, there was a couple of clangers (against Essendon).

“The best teams work together really sharply and consistently to cover up those errors and we’ve experienced really high standards of that, so we’ve spoken about things that we can do to organise ourselves better.

“Sometimes it’s just as simple as ball watching after an error - don’t worry about it and get on and help us get organised.

“It’s often really simple but it can get overlooked. That’s the exciting bit out of the weekend.”