ALLEN Christensen says Brisbane's heavy Geelong influence could help the Lions overcome the intricacies of GMHBA Stadium when the teams meet on Saturday.
Brisbane could field as many as seven players from the Geelong region when it attempts to take another finals-bound scalp at the weekend.
Christensen and resurgent key defender Josh Walker both played for the Cats, while Luke Hodge, Darcy Gardiner, Lewis Taylor, Rhys Mathieson and Alex Witherden all played for the Falcons as juniors.
Hodge will have to overcome a calf niggle to be available, while Harris Andrews' possible return could put the squeeze on Walker's spot.
Christensen says local knowledge could be pivotal.
"The more you familiarise yourself with a ground, the better off you'll be when you get there," he said.
"That ground is very long and really skinny, 114m wide or something, they defend it really well, they tailor their defence to it.
"If we can try and pick that apart and hopefully there's a bit of knowledge there with our ball movement that can help.
"Hopefully we can go down there and give them a fright. The way we're playing we're pretty confident playing any team."
Christensen said he hadn't felt "that sort of disappointment" from a Lions team after it lost to Adelaide by five points last Saturday.
With four wins for the season and four losses by seven points or less, Christensen said he felt the Lions' game could now travel to any venue.
"The maturity of the group, we adjust," he said.
"We can play different modes, we can slow the ball down, we can go fast, we can go through the middle, we can go wide.
"Any ground we go to we can adjust, I think we did that when new went to Adelaide Oval against Port Adelaide, we go over to Perth (against Fremantle), a bigger ground and we got the job done there.
"I think the group's well-adjusted to tailor our ball movement to different size grounds."