FREMANTLE coach Michelle Cowan believes the NAB AFL Women's competition will see higher scoring and more exciting football this season, but is calling for patience while players' skills continue to improve.

Amid concerns about defensive tactics from coaches and a lack of goals in the opening round, Cowan confirmed on Wednesday she had spoken to the League about the look of the game.

"We had a really good conversation with the AFL around that, I guess just getting our feedback on how we saw round one, and just a two-way conversation," Cowan said.

"I think it's important we can't compare the men's game to the women's.

"We're a lot shorter game time and that way you don't have as much scoring opportunity.

"But I do believe as the rounds go on the competition will continue to take a step up and I think we'll see an exciting brand of footy in round two and round three moving forward."

While Cowan is mindful of encouraging an attractive brand of football, she is also in the business of winning games.

The Dockers, who only won one match in the AFLW's inaugural season, lost by 26 points to the Western Bulldogs in this year's opening round.

"I'm certainly a winning and competitive coach and measured on performance at the end of the day, and understand that," Cowan said.

"But at the same time, we're at the infancy of a brand-new competition in this country.

"It's our right and our responsibility as well to put out a product that is an exciting one for fans."

The Dockers failed to score before half-time against the Bulldogs on Sunday, but improved their ball movement in the second half and booted three majors.

Cowan said hitting targets by hand and foot was Freo's No.1 training focus, and believed that scoring in the competition would increase as skills improved.

"I think it might be a skill thing, but I've seen that improve over the last 12 months, which has been great," she said.

"As that continues to improve girls will be able to move the footy a lot cleaner and easier and hitting up their targets, which will all contribute to higher scoring as well.

"It's been something that we worked on hard. Our number one focus throughout our season was our skills and making sure we can hit our targets by hand and by foot.

"Certainly, from our club we've seen a massive increase in that."

Cowan declared the conversation around scoring and tactics wouldn't affect Freo's planning for a historic clash against Collingwood at Optus Stadium on Saturday.

The Dockers' women will host the first ever football match at the new venue and on Wednesday released an extra 2500-3000 tickets for the clash.

Entry is $2 with proceeds donated to the Starlight Children's Foundation and Fremantle Dockers Foundation.

With a near-capacity crowd expected, it will shatter the previous record attendance for an AFLW game, and Cowan said her players could lean on Freo's men's side for advice about what to expect.

"We'll touch on the atmosphere. While it's another game it's slightly different with the amount of crowd and everything like that," Cowan said.

"We've got some incredible people around the footy club that the guys can bounce off and have some conversations with if there's any anxiety or anything."