NEW Port Adelaide assistant coach Josh Carr is excited by some of the talent he’ll have at his disposal when he gets to work in November.

Carr was announced last week as the club’s new midfield coach, after three years in a similar role at Fremantle.

The 2004 Premiership player was also an assistant coach at Alberton between 2011 and 2015, and says he felt drawn back when the opportunity arose.

“It’s really exciting,” Carr said of returning to Adelaide. “There’s just something about Port Adelaide that you always want to get back involved.

“I feel like I’ve gone away and learned a lot and I’m ready to bring the knowledge that I’ve learned over the last seven years to get back to the club again.

“For me, the opportunity was now to get back to Adelaide and get the family back where they want to be comfortable, but at the same time I felt like it was a great opportunity and the club has still got some good talent that I can work with.”

Carr is used to jumping the border having played for Port Adelaide between 2000 and 2004, then heading to his home state of Western Australia to play 83 games for Fremantle between 2005 and 2008, before returning to Alberton for two finals seasons to finish his career.

His coaching career followed a similar path, having joined the Dockers after five seasons in Port’s coaching ranks and four with North Adelaide in the SANFL, where he led the Roosters to the 2018 premiership.

Despite living in Perth in recent years, he admits admiring the work being done by Port Adelaide under Ken Hinkley and he is looking forward to having his input.

“If you look at the years before this one, they’ve been up there and playing Prelim finals,” Carr said of his observations from afar.

“They’re a team that when you come up against them you just know what you’re going to get with the speed and pressure around the ball. And then this year, we had our troubles also in that game where Charlie (Dixon) kicked a couple of goals in the last quarter and they came really close.

“Connor (Rozee) is going well in the midfield and there’s still some weapons there and some really good talent so I can’t wait.”

He suggested he would be looking to bring some new faces into the midfield from other areas of the ground, but wanted to get to know the group better before making too many changes.

While he is still only 42, Carr has a strong coaching CV and has made it clear he hopes to be a senior coach in the AFL one day.

“Everything that I’m doing and putting in place has been about being the best that I can be and I think in the end if you’re good enough then you’ll get a senior coaching gig one day,” he explained.

“But I’m in no rush. It doesn’t bother me if it happens in two years, three years or four or five years.”

Carr will officially get to work at Alberton in the first week of November, a few weeks before players return for pre-season training.