Power fit and full of belief, says Voss
PORT Adelaide senior assistant coach Michael Voss says the Power have “genuine confidence” about their chances of premiership glory in 2021.
The Power have embarked on “camp week” at Alberton, in lieu of their regular trips to Queensland, as its pre-season heats up. Nearly every player is on the track, and Voss said this week would be the hardest for them in terms of training loads.
“Come Friday, they will be pretty worn out,” he said.
“Our workloads will go up a bit, and with that we will also be able to throw in some other things to have a bit of fun on the way, and build some of the connections we have been able to build over the last couple of years.
“The campaign is going to get larger this year … being able to get this body of work in for us is really important and the good thing is that we have large numbers on the training track.”
On previous pre-season camps, the Power have done significant work on connection — getting the renowned Hugh van Cuylenburg of the Resilience Project to talk to players. Voss said this year the club would not do as much of that because of time constraints.
“We are fortunate … we are sitting here not trying to change things, we are not spending pre-season trying to overhaul our game style or … trying to reconnect the group,” he said. “We are working on the marginal things that we hope will make the difference for us and having a lot of people out on the track, they can get into the game style really quickly and build that connection on the field.”
Voss said the Power would go into the vital part of their pre-season in a much more confident space than previous years, after going down by just a goal to premier Richmond in the preliminary final. “That belief has built,” Voss said.