Champion five-eighth Darren Lockyer is confident he can divorce his emotions playing against his former coach Wayne Bennett at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night.

Lockyer has played all but three of his 300-plus games for Brisbane under Bennett.

The pair have shared premiership, Origin and Test wins together forming one of the game's most successful player-coach partnerships.

But on Friday night, the once dynamic duo for more than a decade will be arch enemies - St George Illawarra's Bennett plotting against one of his all-time favourite players.

"When you take the field, you're not thinking about the opposition's coach. You're thinking more about the players you're up against." Lockyer told AAP before his showdown with Bennett's Dragons.

"There'll be time to catch up after the game."

Brisbane wrapped up preparations for the clash with the Dragons in heavy rain at Red Hill on Thursday morning with bench forward Lagi Setu (sternum) cleared to play against his old club.

With their attack clicking last week against the Warriors, they would have liked a fast track to play an expansive game against the Dragons.

"We're not going to slit our wrists if it's not a dry day but we'd prefer it to be an open game," said a relaxed Henjak.

The Dragons have played their three games tight and in wet conditions, ball control and defence the keys moreso than attack.

"It (wet) will change the way our attack flows but I'd like to think we can play a few different styles of footy which is something we've been working on for a few years," said Henjak.

"The games I've watched them play, they've been pretty relentless and ruthless in the middle and pretty tough.

"I'd like to the think our forwards and players will be up for that type of challenge."

Lockyer said his players had set the benchmark in the first half against the Warriors.

"It's important we don't get complacent and we play like that every week," said Lockyer.

"That first 40 minutes was very clinical. We defended really well and we asked a lot of questions of their defence when we attacked them.

"That set the standard that we want to get to every week.

"That's what we have to strive for. It's not going to happen every week."

The clash of former Brisbane showman Wendell Sailor's with a budding, but far less gregarious Antonio Winterstein, will be interesting.

Sailor's size, experience and sledging will be more of a problem for 19-year-old Winterstein than his speed.

"Wendell carries the football strongly. He's like an extra forward for them," said Henjak.

"But I'm very confident Antonio can handle him. He's done everything asked of him so far.

"This is another challenge for him but I've got all the confidence in his and so have the rest of the players in his ability to do job."

Lockyer said Sailor brought many things to a team, not just on the field.

"He has a lot of confidence. He's back with Benny and has got a bit of a swagger about him like the old Wendell," he said.

Henjak believes moving fullback Darius Boyd into the centres would help the Dragons defensively.

"He's a very good defensive player, he reads defences really well," he said.

"That right side of ours (Hodges and Folau) can be dangerous and they're probably trying to shore up that side of the field."

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