Lions unfazed by away matches

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Brisbane has rediscovered the art of winning away from home and will have no fears about playing Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Saturday.

The Lions have been successful on three of their past four road trips this season, already surpassing their two away wins for season 2008.

Coach Michael Voss says a more philosophical approach to the home and away season may have played a part in the improvement.

"We've probably given it less of a focus, we've probably made a bit of a flippant joke about it but your performance shouldn't suffer just because your pillow changes and for us that's pretty much all that happens," he said.

"Your preparation and what you do on game day should be exactly the same as what it is when you are at home. The only difference is you've got a different pillow and that shouldn't be the reason why you can't at least compete when you are away from the Gabba."

Voss said the Lions have also found the change in weather conditions - from the balmy surrounds in Brisbane to wintry conditions of Melbourne, Launceston and Adelaide - can work in their favour.

"I think if anything, because we come off the humidity, it almost like your lungs grow, not shrink," he said.

"Where we train, we've got 20-21 degrees when we are training in the day, to come here is almost a reprieve for the lungs, you are not heaving as much and you get a bit of an ease other than the genuine work you've got to do."

"Ultimately you can't treat it any different."

Despite this new found travelling confidence, Voss said the Lions were wary of a Power line-up which is desperate to break a two-game losing streak and lift for their recently re-signed coach Mark Williams.

Voss said it was 'unknown' how much of an impact Williams' new contract would have on the playing group.

"We plan well, we try and get our kicking structures right, we try and get our stoppages right, we try and get our ball movement right but there is this innate thing that we just don't know what's going to happen and that's how they respond psychologically to the game," he said.

"All I know is that Port wants to get their season back on track. They've had a couple of weeks they've been done and they'll see this as a genuine opportunity to get on the winners' ledger again so whenever you face any side like that, they are dangerous. "

"You've only got to look at the last quarter (against Geelong) to see exactly how dangerous they are. They can score quickly when they get the game on their terms they are hard to stop."

Meanwhile Lions midfielder Albert Proud, who's been sick for most of the week, trained with his team-mates at AAMI Stadium on Friday and Voss expects him to be available to tackle the Power.