Port Adelaide stalwart Travis Boak is tipped to return from harm for his membership’s highly-anticipated conflict towards Collingwood, coach Ken Hinkley says.
Boak missed Port’s comeback three-point win over Fremantle on Saturday evening at Adelaide Oval due to a again harm.
But Hinkley expects the veteran to be out there for the MCG encounter subsequent Saturday towards the reigning premiers – a recreation which already excites the coach.
“The reigning premiers at the MCG in front of about 70,000 Magpie supporters – it will be good,” Hinkley mentioned after Port’s 9.12 (66) to 9.9 (63) win over the Dockers.
“I sit up for it.
“Playing towards good groups on the MCG, we love the chance to go there and we take the problem on head-first.”
The Power, in second spot with a 4-1 record, meet the Pies with growing confidence after a gritty triumph over Freo by kicking the last two goals to snatch victory.
“You do not add them up by whether or not they’re fairly or ugly – you add them up,” Hinkley mentioned.
“We do our state of affairs coaching by way of the week developing towards Fremantle and we follow the shut end as a result of we all know the shut finishes, as a rule, are going to occur towards Fremantle.
“We didn’t get it perfect. But we got a lot of things right in that last bit.”
The Dockers (seventh, 3-2) depart Adelaide with a pair of slender losses – by 10 factors to Carlton in a Gather Round recreation in Adelaide, and to Port.
Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir had “mixed emotions” about his membership’s Adelaide stint.
“To go home from Adelaide being in front in both games with probably three or four minutes to go, yeah, it’s flattening,” Longmuir mentioned.
“But I think our belief should have built in the last two weeks.
“We performed two actually good sides and blended it with them very well and pushed all of them the best way.
“We just need to make sure we keep learning from it.
“In the back-end of each video games we have now misplaced too many important moments.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
