"ALWAYS give more than anyone else ..."

BOB Quinn's words will be carried between the shoulders of every Port Adelaide player on Saturday when they are charged with honouring the Anzacs - and today's defence personnel - at Adelaide Oval.

Quinn's modern-day successor as Port Adelaide Football Club captain, Tom Jonas, accepts the legacy left by the Military Medallist and dual Magarey Medallist is to be taken on both in life and football.

"I am very proud to wear the same colours as Bob Quinn and strive every day to do just a portion of what he did when he represented the club and the country," Jonas said on Tuesday in the lead-up to Port Adelaide's 18th AFL Anzac Round commemoration match, this time against West Coast at Adelaide Oval on Saturday.

"It is particularly pertinent this week that we have those words from Bob Quinn printed in the collar of our jumpers. It is going to require us to go above and beyond. As a playing group, I feel we are striving to do that day to day.

"It is not a burden. It is a privilege.

"We have campaigned hard to have this (Anzac Round) game every year because it means such a great deal to our club, to our supporters and members. It is never right to compare a game of football with sacrifice that (130) members of our club (as players and officials) have made (in war service since 1915). But it is a great celebration of their service - and we have to do it justice.

"(The meaning of Anzac) will narrow the focus this weekend," added Jonas while his team feels the challenge of ending a six-game losing streak and the 0-5 start to the AFL season. "It is quite fitting that it is Anzac Round - and we get to put it all on show from a self-less and sacrificial point of view rather than by skill and talent."

Port Adelaide's Creed demands 100 per commitment from its players who this weekend will be asked to "give more" in a match that is a pivotal part of the club's commitment to the memory of the Anzacs and to today's Australian Defence Forces.

"When you talk about 100 per cent, it is about how that manifests in selfless and team acts or individual actions," Jonas said. "The Anzac Round makes it quite clear that it is about what you can sacrifice for the people around you."

Port Adelaide presented its Anzac Round guernsey - that modifies the home black jumper with Quinn's words on the back collar, the Anzac badge on the right breast and the solemn image of a soldier in deep reflection at the apex of the white V line - at the Largs Bay RSL on Tuesday morning. This is where the memorial of one of Port Adelaide's "Invincibles" - William Roy Sharpe Drummond, a Military Medallist like Quinn - stands.

Drummond left Adelaide on June 6, 1916 to serve during World War I, joining his 1914 Invincible team-mates William Boon, Joseph Watson and Albert Chaplin in action on the Western Front in France.

Lance-Corporal Drummond was awarded the Military Medal for taking command of his battered 50th Battalion at the French town of Hamel in 1918.

RSL South Australia State president Cheryl Cates made an emotional assessment of the commemorative guernsey saying: "It grabs at your heart."

There is no appropriate comparison of Drummond's action at Hamel, where he reorganised his comrades to fulfil the mission assigned to his battalion, to the task Jonas has this week in keeping his battered team focused on scoring a much-needed win in a football game.

But the spirit of Drummond and the words of Quinn become a beacon for a Port Adelaide team needing to work through the confusion of their three-point loss to Carlton on Sunday at the MCG where the first half captured the worst and the second-half fightback delivered the best.

"While we were somewhat satisfied with the second half, we appreciate the first half was absolutely unacceptable," Jonas said of the 50-point deficit that preceded the nine-goal response. "Now, it is about being committed to working harder than the opposition; doing things for your team-mates rather than for yourself.

"The foundation we have built in the past couple of years (to be a top-four side in 2020 and last season) does not disappear overnight. We will go back to the well on that.

"The (second half against Carlton) showed how certain individuals stepped up. We threw young blood into the midfield - Zak Butters, Connor Rozee - Ryan Burton in his 100th game really stood up. Dan Houston was another one. We showed that resilience to not roll over.

"I am still confident in this group. We still have great belief in our group and in one another; the connection is strong and our goal remains the same. The environment we are creating around the club is one of sticking together and working together.

"What has happened during the past month is gone. All we can do is take on the challenge to deliver selfless acts and make sacrifices. It is just the focus we need for Saturday."

Port Adelaide's hefty injury count - that has cost the team key players with All-Australian status - becomes the ultimate test of the "squad mentality" they club has sought to build. It also is the ultimate challenge to the players in the 21-24 age group who are being asked to take command of their team - a theme that resonates while the war-time sacrifices of Drummond and Quinn are retold at Alberton.

"That is on all of us," responded Jonas. "It is on all 22 who are picked this week to wear that special guernsey and put their best foot forward."

First-game player Sam Hayes will again carry the challenge of leading the Port Adelaide rucks while premiership winner Scott Lycett misses a rematch with his former West Coast team-mates by the shoulder surgery that will keep him on the sidelines for three months.

Hayes' long-awaited debut carries the tick of approval from Jonas who was impressed with the 205-centimetre ruckman's tap work against Carlton ruckman Marc Pittonet.

"It has been a long while coming for Hayes," Jonas said. "He has played some great footy in the SANFL to win the club's (AR McLean) SANFL club champion award. It was great to see him get his opportunity in the AFL. He is going to have some challenges rising to the level of an AFL ruckman, but on the weekend he showed a great competitiveness and he really showed his skill as a tap ruckman.

"His challenge is to do that week in, week out against the best ruckmen in the competition."

Port Adelaide carries the extra incentive to end West Coast's record of having won every game between the clubs at Adelaide Oval since the move from Football Park in 2014.

Asked how that 0-5 record at home against West Coast rattles the Port Adelaide players, Jonas firmly responded: "We will win."  

Port Adelaide's 0-5 start is testing the club both on and off the field where chief executive Matthew Richardson continues to maintain faith in the football department led by Chris Davies and senior coach Ken Hinkley.

"We are really well led - and we have great confidence in our captain Tom Jonas, in our coach Ken Hinkley," Richardson said. "We understand (the frustration and disappointed from a 0-5 start). But we have great faith in our people - we have great people and we are going to back them in to turn this around.

"I see a group that is heavily invested in being connected, focussed and supporting each other. It is a positive environment. And it has to be. The weekend, as Tom said, was unacceptable for the first half, but the way that they turned things around in the second half says the group is really connected and that should give us confidence this week."

The club will auction the game-worn Anzac Round guernseys with proceeds to the RSL’s Anzac appeal to support current and former service men and women, and their families.