HE described his side's performance against Brisbane as “brutal” and “comprehensive” and Ken Hinkley is already looking towards the club’s huge challenge against West Coast next week.

But he refuses to look beyond that Easter Saturday encounter to a challenging fixture that includes home games against Geelong and Fremantle.

Talking points

“It’s clearly a trap when you start to look ahead too far,” said Hinkley after the game.

“We’ll go to West Coast next week ... and we’ll see how hard we have to work this week so we can give an account of ourselves that we can be proud of."

Hard work is the name of Hinkley's game during the week, with the Power coach crediting the club's 113-point effort over the Lions to the effort produced by his determined playing group at training during the week.

It's that same hard work which would be required to compete with Adam Simpson’s Eagles at Patersons Stadium next weekend.

“They're prepared to do whatever it takes, prepared to work hard for each other and they do everything we ask them to do and more - they demand performance and want to keep improving,” Hinkley said.

“The Lions had a young side out there, there’s no doubt about that [but] we were able to make the most out of our opportunities and then turn them into what we wanted to play.

“[The players] know they still have a lot of work to do, but they know if they do that work that eventually they’ll get some results that they’re really happy with."

Vote for your best

The Power’s senior coach now presides over a 3-1 record and a football club putting pressure on the top sides of the competition on and off the field, following a bumper crowd of over 36,000 at the ground on Saturday.

Loathe to take his foot of the pedal, Hinkley confirmed he wouldn’t rest players mid-game even when holding a sizeable lead.
 
Jack Hombsch’s substitution from the game was the only precautionary measure taken on the afternoon.

Allowing his team to produce its pressure game consistently is important to developing the right on-field mentality according to Hinkley.

“You just don’t do it [rest players] out there, not that we’d want to,” Hinkley said.

“The pressure just stays at you and if you drop off, you either you get hurt, put in a poor performance or end up doing the stuff you don’t want to do and put yourself in jeopardy.”

With no injuries reported from Port Adelaide’s win, an unchanged lineup looks likely, with only Chad Wingard looking to press for selection in Round 5 after missing Saturday’s match with an ankle injury.

But with a number of the club's players pushing for form in the SANFL - with debutant Sam Gray and substitute a testament to the quality being cultivated by Garry Hocking in the Magpies League team -  Hinkley may have a number of candidates to consider at the selection table during the week.

Hinkley will get to look at the form of the rest of his playing in the club's first SANFL home game against Glenelg at Alberton Oval tomorrow, with the League match starting at 2:10pm.