The spotlight has well and truly been on the Blues this week after a 23-point loss to Melbourne handed them a 0-4 start to the season - their worst start since 1989.
Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney said it was an "unusual" build-up to a game.
"The opposition is irrelevant. It's how we play that's critical to us," McCartney said on Thursday morning.
"It's unusual we're probably going into a game where about 0.1 per cent of [the focus] is on us in the build-up.
"We don't mind not being centre stage. We're just going to prepare, there's still four points on offer for us this week and I think we can get them as well."
The Western Bulldogs have won their last two games in tight contests and have shown a growing maturity, which has helped them to a 2-2 start to the season.
McCartney said he was pleased with his side's progression.
"There's still some areas in our game that aren't where we'd like them to be," he said.
"We're working at them at training and we think we need a little more improvement in some of the key areas that we do stand up well in. I think we're just tracking along OK, I don’t think we're doing anything brilliantly well.
"We're becoming a good solid footy team that more often than not turns up to play. The second you get comfortable with that, you get a kick in the backside so it's game on again this week."
The Western Bulldogs are among a long line of clubs queuing up to play on Good Friday in 2015, should the AFL decide to break tradition and schedule a match.
McCartney said the experience of playing a marquee game on the big stage would be fantastic for his young side.
"We'd love to be involved in a game like that. Clubs seem to be queuing up," McCartney told reporters on the eve of Good Friday.
"Probably for a long time I have agreed with no playing on Good Friday.
"As a kid I grew up with the Good Friday Appeal. It was something that was always on in our house.
"It's a Victorian institution.
"But it's time for a game of footy now. We can probably do both."
