Jordan Lewis is certain Hawthorn won't be daunted by Fremantle's hostile home crowd in Friday night's Preliminary Final, despite admitting the Hawks were "intimidated" by West Coast's parochial supporters.
The Hawks are flying west for the second time in as many weeks to play a final at Domain Stadium.
Lewis said the back-to-back premiers had learnt from their qualifying final defeat to the Eagles and believed the Hawks' big-game experience would give them an edge.
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"I've got no doubt that playing over there two weeks ago in front of a really loud home crowd that will hold is in good stead going over there this time," Lewis said at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday.
"It's pretty vivid in our memories. We were intimidated a little bit by the crowd, but I think we've learnt our lessons from that game and hopefully we prepare ourselves a little bit differently for the crowd this time.
"We've played in big games a lot in recent years. But probably the two games leading into the finals, it wasn't as big and it wasn't as vocal, so it shouldn't have come as a shock but we probably weren’t ready for it.
"We got overawed by it a little bit."
An advance party of six Hawks boarded the plane to Perth on Wednesday, although star forward Jack Gunston (ankle) wasn't among them.
