COACH Mark Williams said Port Adelaide would be ready for anything when they take on cellar-dwellers Richmond on Saturday at AAMI Stadium.

The Tigers will be desperate for their first win of the season after enduring a 157-point thumping at the hands of Geelong last week.

There’s a good chance the undermanned Richmond will resort to flooding in an attempt to quash the Power’s speed and carry.

“It could be one-on-one, it could be a big flood or it could be a very slow tempo game,” Williams said.

“We have to be prepared for those sorts of things but as always, we’ll spend 80 per cent worrying about us and only 20 per cent worrying about them.”

Despite sitting 14 places above Richmond on the ladder, Williams said Port Adelaide had no reason to be complacent.

With last week’s calamity aside, Richmond has pushed some of the best teams in the competition including reigning premiers West Coast.

The Power went down by 38 points when the Tigers last came to town in round 14, 2006.

“I think everyone is reading too much into it (the Tigers' big loss) and we’re certainly gearing up to play a side that’s capable of winning and a side that beat us last time,” Williams said.

“I’m sure the Tigers would’ve just rolled out last year’s tape and showed that pretty similar sides are playing and they beat us. I’m not sure we’ll need too much motivation.”

Kane Cornes completed the Power’s short session and looked fit to resume after being concussed against Melbourne last week. Emergency Travis Boak trained with the group but Williams was adamant Cornes would take his place.

“It’s no decision at all - Kane will be playing,” Williams said.

“On Friday Kane always laps it up, gets a whole lot of kicks and shows a bit of enthusiasm. He showed that again today so there’s no problem. Travis is an emergency and there’s every chance that if Kane wasn’t available, he would play. That’s how close he is.”

The Power’s only addition to the side, Dean Brogan, will resume his damaging partnership with All-Australian ruckman Brendon Lade.

Port Adelaide will attempt to exploit Richmond’s depleted ruck stocks, with Tigers forward Matthew Richardson expected to shoulder the majority of the load in tandem with youngster Adam Pattison.

“I thought Pattison played pretty well against us last time so we won’t be underestimating him. Richo (Richardson) will provide something different in the ruck and Polak can play there too, so we’ll have two and they might even have three,” Williams said.

The Power will be looking for an improvement at the stoppages after being beaten in close by the Demons last week.

The Port Adelaide coach said winning the stoppages against Richmond would be a huge step toward winning the game.

“Melbourne beat us at the stoppages, they beat us last year at the stoppages as well, so we’ll look more carefully at that and we’ve worked hard on improving,” Williams said.

“Richmond will be a hard, scragging team that’s going to work the numbers around the ball and make it difficult to break free, so we’ll have to work at opening it up.”