PORT ADELAIDE faces a week of hard training and introspection ahead of Sunday's Showdown with a flying Adelaide. Having been kicked around the SCG by Sydney and exposed in many instances as uncomfortable at the contests, the Power's match committee will need to engineer an almighty turnaround to have their side ready to face the similarly competitive Crows.

Coach Mark Williams has commented that much of the play looked like "men against boys", and his still-young team is in danger of developing an unwanted reputation for not liking the hard stuff, a theme writ large across the 2007 grand final capitulation to Geelong.

Midfield ace Shaun Burgoyne, one of precious few Port players to acquit themselves adequately on the day, admitted his teammates were in need of a reminder that toughness was about attitude, not experience.

"It's a mindset thing, the smallest player on the field can tackle and shepherd and do the one percenters," he said today.

"(Players need to) just get your head around it and do it, there's no reason why the tallest player in the team can't do it or the smallest player, experienced or inexperienced.

"I'd say it comes back to discipline. The contested ball you have to tackle, chase, do the one percenters, it all comes back to discipline."

Port's inability to cope with the hard tackling, close-checking Swans will be noted with some relish by Adelaide following their drought-snapping 76-point defeat of West Coast.

If anything, the Crows have it in them to be even more miserly than Sydney, a notion proved by an impressive recent record over both the Swans and the Power.

Under the coaching of Neil Craig, Adelaide have lost only once to the Swans and twice to the Power, and Burgoyne acknowledged the Crows' ability to smother an opponent.

"Adelaide play a similar style to Sydney so we know what we worked on last week for Sydney we're going to have to do the same this week, but we'll be doing more of it," he said.

"Sydney came with their game style, their pressure, hard tackling, never give in attitude and it put us under a lot of pressure and we couldn't deal with it in the end.

"If you play Sydney you know they're going to play contested footy and they showed us up in that area.

"So we'll definitely be training in that area, a lot of one-on-one drills, competitive drills to get better at that and hopefully we'll see some improvement."