Port Adelaide defender Jack Hombsch has called for patience as Power players try to adopt fresh AFL game plans.
Port have lost their two pre-season games with Hombsch admitting players have so far failed to implement new structures ordered by coach Ken Hinkley.
"It's obviously going to take a little bit of time, as we have seen in the last two practice games," Hombsch told reporters on Thursday.
"We have come in with a pretty new structure this pre-season and it takes games to get used to it.
"You can practise it so much on the training track but you need to play games of footy to really implement it."
Hombsch said players were in no doubt about what is required under Hinkley's new plans .
"We're all over it internally. And as players we know exactly what Kenny wants from us," he said.
"We have just got to transfer that onto the park."
Hombsch said the changes were designed to showcase Port's strengths.
"When we get it going the way we want it to, it's certainly an exciting, free-running type of footy," he said.
"We have just been a bit stuck at the moment at times going down the line. And that is where we have got to get creative as players."
The Power host Hawthorn on Sunday in the last round of pre-season games with backman Matthew Broadbent (hamstring) still unavailable and fellow defender Jasper Pittard (hamsrtring) to miss the month after being injured last weekend.
"It's a good challenge because Jasper and Broady are very good players and very important players for us so it gives us an opportunity for us to test our depth," Hombsch said.
"We have got a lot of young guys coming through ... so it gives those guys an opportunity to play three games of footy in a row and have a real crack at it."
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