Injury-hit Port Adelaide are turning to untested ruckman Billy Frampton to try and salvage the club's AFL season.
The Power have slid to eighth spot on the ladder, losing four of their past five matches - the past two when defeated with the last goal of the game - and are dealing with a spate of injuries.
Spearhead Charlie Dixon will miss the rest of the season because of a broken leg and All Australian ruckman Paddy Ryder (hip) is expected to miss Saturday's away game against Collingwood.
In Ryder's absence, the Power are expected to give 21-year-old Frampton a massive task on his AFL debut: counter influential Collingwood ruckman Brodie Grundy.
"Paddy is probably sitting less than 50/50 for this particular game," Port assistant coach Michael Voss told reporters on Monday.
"Clearly on the injury front we have got a couple of people missing. It presents opportunities for other players and Billy will certainly be in that discussion.
"He has been thereabouts for a few weeks now, Bill, his (state league) form as been pretty solid."
Ryder, Dixon and Dan Houston (concussion) were hurt in Saturday's dramatic loss to West Coast, in which Eagle Jeremy McGovern kicked the winning goal after the final siren.
The previous week, Port lost by three points to Adelaide when Crow Josh Jenkins was awarded the match-winning goal despite believing the ball hit a post.
But Voss said the Power couldn't afford to feel sorry for themselves as they prepared for matches against the Magpies and Essendon, which would determine their finals fate.
"We were certainly in a position to be able to win the (Eagles) game ... but in that little moment we didn't get it right and it cost us the game," Voss said.
"That has happened a couple of weeks in a row so we need to make sure that we're tidying that.
"We feel like we have 90 per cent going all right ... but we have got this 10 per cent of some moments that we haven't quite got right in big situations.
"What we can't be dispirited by is that 10 per cent. We have got to be be encouraged by the 90 per cent that is there."
