PORT ADELAIDE midfielder Brad Ebert says his teammates have been honest and open in their end of season reviews, each landing on the realisation that the year was unacceptable.

Ebert played every game in 2018, exceeding his career averages for disposals, marks and tackles but not hitting the scoreboard as much.

As much as the Power was just one win and percentage out of the top eight, Ebert said the club knew it was much further away than that.

“The way KT (CEO Keith Thomas), Ken, the players were talking, we understand it wasn’t acceptable,” Ebert told Adelaide radio station Triple M’s Roo & Ditts.

“For a proud club, when you finish the season like that it is unacceptable and we’ve got to make changes to everything – the game plan, the players, the coaches – it’s a holistic thing.

“The way we will adjust from this will be positive.”

The reliable midfielder outlined the disappointment the club had endured from losing six of its last seven games and missing out on the finals.

“The boys are hurting at the moment and the end of season reviews were probably reflective of that with the way that it was all done,” Ebert said.

“It was harsh and fair and I thought the boys handled themselves well in the way that we reviewed the year but it’s too little too late isn’t it.

“Now we’ve got a lot of time to sit around and think about it.”

Ebert said among the things to work on in the off-season was improving the players’ decision making and skill level.

He said the game plan should hold up but players hadn’t been executing it properly.

“Defensively we were really sound but at some stages I felt like out skill level let us down,” Ebert said.

“Therefore, that creates turnovers that really shouldn’t happen going inside forward 50, which then are almost 12-point plays because you are about to kick a goal, you turn it over in a vulnerable position and it goes back down the other end.

“We’ve got a game plan in place that should be able to hold up in those sorts of positions.

“The boys, for one reason or another, have just been falling down in executing it 100% at the right times.

“That’s something that as a group we need to go back and adjust.”

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