PUTTING the nail in Adelaide's season is of little concern to Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley heading into Showdown 45 at Adelaide Oval.
The Crows' already slim finals hopes – needing to win all four remaining games while hoping other results fall their way – will be extinguished if they lose to their cross-town rivals in Saturday's sold-out encounter.
More pressing to the fourth-placed Power (12-6) is the opportunity to keep themselves in the top four and avoid sliding down a congested ladder, with ninth-placed Sydney just four points in arrears.
"Not one little bit (of extra motivation)," Hinkley said of ending Adelaide's finals chances.
"For us, we need to win. It's a massive game, let's not make any bones.
"We could be fourth, or we could be ninth or 10th. It could all turn on its head in one game."
Both sides will go in as selected after getting through their respective captain's run training sessions on Friday morning.
The Power trained indoors at Alberton Oval to avoid the wet and windy conditions, which are also expected come game time, but still a vast improvement on the arctic chill emanating from last Sunday's 44-point win against the Western Bulldogs in Ballarat.
"Nothing will prepare us for what Ballarat prepared us for," Hinkley said.
"It was quite different, not so much the wind, but the temperature was the biggest factor for us.
"At times it was minus-one, minus-two in the last quarter."
The overall Showdown ledger is 22-all after the Power's thrilling five-point win in round eight ended a streak of five straight Crows victories.
The Power go in as favourites, but Hinkley said that doesn't change his team's mindset.
"Don and I both know that Showdowns, more often than not, are tight and tough and they're a toss of the coin regardless of ladder position," Hinkley said.
"We don't expect it to be any different, whether we won the last Showdown or lost the previous five."
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