BLOGGER Craig McKay gives us his top five players from the Power's clash against the Hawks at Adelaide Oval.

Macca's Top Five
Alipate Carlile
Is in some sort of form right now. Roughead is a player that has caused the club issues in recent years. He had kicked 11 goals in his previous 2 matches against Port coming into tonights match. He kicked 7 goals last week. Bobby kept him to 4 kicks and 1 behind tonight. Almost all Roughead's disposals came when he was moved onto the ball. It was a masterful defensive display by Bobby. One of the best games of his career. Best on Ground and a magnificent start to the season.

Travis Boak
With Wines and Gray out of the side, we needed our Captain to stand up tonight and take it on himself to provide the onfield leadership and motivation to get us over the line. He did this in spades tonight. We mentioned last week that his last quarter against the Roos could have been the kick start his season needed and tonight he rightly won the Peter Badcoe Medal and put in a great display. His inside work was exactly what we needed without the bash and crash of Wines and Gray and he used the ball exceptionally well. A pure captain’s performance. One to remember.

Paddy Ryder
Tonight we got to see our first glimpse of life with two genuine first class ruckmen and oh what a sight it was! Ryder was a star tonight in my opinion. Some great grabs up forward and two early goals really set the scene. Thought his ruckwork was fantastic and whilst not a heap of hitouts statistically, once again he seemed to know where to find our players with his taps. I look forward to seeing how this ruck duo continue to develop throughout the year and as we saw tonight, Ryder playing up forward can really stretch the opposition defence.

Aaron Young
Thought he played a ripper of a match. Kenny told him it was his time to stand up and make a name for himself last week and he delivered tonight as a pure inside midfielder. He is so strong over the ball, keeps his feet in the tackle and has the great ability to keep his arms free and dish off a handball. Snuck forward to kick a nice goal as well. This is the making of Aaron Young right here.

Jasper Pittard
Just continues to be a nightmare for opposition teams now. Has probably the most improved kick across the entire league and is now an absolutely rock solid, reliable player with or without the ball. He defends strongly, attacks hard and can hit targets with the ball. Thought he played a great defensive role on Rioli and his run across half back was super important. Just isn't putting a foot wrong at the moment.