FREMANTLE again will have to cope with the disappointment of having been overrun by a top-four side, but coach Mark Harvey is confident that one area letting his side down can be rectified.

After dominating against Geelong but losing by a point and falling short against Adelaide, Fremantle looked the likely winner against the Western Bulldogs until late in the final quarter, when the Dogs kicked the last three goals to win by three points.

"The way that we've conducted ourselves against the top sides is to be commended, but we haven’t won and that's the issue," Harvey said after the match.

"It seems to be a common trend with us in the last quarters. We only had four inside 50s and they had 17, so that would suggest we were under siege.

"We are in the forefront of the games and that's a credit to the way they play the game. They just don’t show enough composure in the last quarter. Trying to stabilise the team is something that will hopefully help stop that."

Harvey will look to make minimal changes this week against Carlton, with Antoni Grover ready to return and Marcus Drum possibly out with a hamstring injury, and he hopes that stability can change the side’s fortunes.

"Whilst we keep making four, five or six changes, some of the guys coming in are struggling with the full load of the game. We will only make one or two changes this week," he said.

"The guys that bring high intensity are the ones we will look at from here on in. That will mean they have to run at the same intensity in the last quarter as they do in the first."

Kepler Bradley came in for his first game for Fremantle and was terrific with 21 possessions as a fill-in ruckman and part-time forward. Harvey was also pleased with Sandilands' continued good work in the ruck.

"Kepler was really damaging around the ground, but didn’t do a lot of rucking himself,” Harvey said.

“It was a pretty good game from a guy in his 50th game and first for Fremantle. He's not a genuine ruckman, but we had 40 hit-outs to 20 again, so we again were well on top there.

"Aaron has learned to deal with what he means to the team and how to go about his rucking, and with his second efforts. He is growing in leadership too.”

Chris Tarrant enjoyed a return to form, except for a bad miss on what could have been his fifth goal.

“Chris kicked four and should have kicked the other one where he ran into an open goal,” Harvey said. “He's now kicked seven goals in the last two games, so he's starting to show the form that we have been looking for."