Ross Lyon reckons it’s just another opportunity – and another day of stress.

And the Fremantle coach says his past AFL grand final heartbreak is trivial entering Saturday’s premiership decider against Hawthorn.

“My past is irrelevant to be honest,” said Lyon.

“It’s not my day. It’s not my game.”

Lyon coached St Kilda in a 2009 grand final loss to Geelong. The next year, he coached the Saints in two grand finals in seven days – a draw, then a loss, against Collingwood.

So what does it mean for him to steer Fremantle to their first grand final?

“You get another parade. You get another day of stress,” Lyon said.

“It just means another opportunity.

“They’re hard to get to. There are 16 other clubs that would like to be in Hawthorn and Fremantle’s position.

“For me as a coach, I’d like for this club to win a premiership – that is what I’m employed to do, it’s the business.

“And if we don’t win, I won’t be satisfied.”

Lyon said he had nothing special to offer his players about grand finals.

“From my end, there’s no magic,” he said.

“It’s just about action – unrelenting action.

“We see possibility for ourselves and then we get into action, we’re unrelenting with it. We have a strong purpose that drives us.”

Lyon dismissed any significance in having only two players with grand final experience – backman Zac Dawson played in St Kilda’s 2010 sides, and Danyle Pearce was part of Port Adelaide’s 2007 team defeated by Geelong by 119 points, the biggest ever grand final losing margin.

“It’s irrelevant,” he said.

“I tell them it’s another game. The real challenge is to let go of the ultimate distraction, which is the result.

“We don’t need to do anything different. We will prepare them in exactly the same manner.

“People might not believe this, but we’ll prepare exactly in the same manner as what we did for round one, what we did for Melbourne in round 20, so it’s identical.

“There will be nothing new thrown at the players.”