Karl Amon in action during the SANFL preliminary final. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia
SECOND-YEAR midfielder Karl Amon has emerged as a big winner from Port Adelaide's torturous pre-season training camp in Dubai.
The 19-year-old was the Power's most impressive young player in the Middle East and even challenged veteran running machine Kane Cornes in the running drills, highlighting his supreme fitness and strong mindset.
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Spoken about in glowing terms by his teammates before the squad departed for Dubai after he returned to pre-season training in superb condition, Amon took the next step in his development on tour to make an early case for an AFL call-up early next year.
"Karl grabbed a hold of Boaky (captain Travis Boak) and went past Kane Cornes in one run, so it's a credit to him that he's come back with a great mindset,'' Port coaching director Shaun Hart said.
"In my experience, many second-year players don't take big steps forward in their pre-season.
"But he's just jumped in a big way and looks like he could push to play some quality senior football in 2015."
Karl Amon (left) gets his skin folds tested in Dubai. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia
The lightly-build but speedy Amon was recruited from Sandringham under-18s with pick 68 at the 2013 national draft.
He spent last season refining his game with the Port Magpies in the SANFL and won the team's best first-year player award.
Amon, 181cm and 71kg, is a superb left-foot kick who, while ideally suited to a wing, can play anywhere from half-back to half-forward, adding to coach Ken Hinkley's flexibility with his team.
"His fluid running style is something to see and he knows how to push through the pain barrier,'' teammate Tom Jonas noted while watching Amon lap up everything head fitness coach Darren Burgess could throw at the players in Dubai.
The Port squad arrived home in Adelaide last night and were immediately granted 19 days off to rest their weary bodies.
The players are due back at training on Saturday, January 3.
"We're going to send them straight on a break,'' Hinkley said.
"After the tough trip and the long hours on the plane you need to give them three or four days of down time.
"That takes you to December 19, which is break time, so we're going to let them go on break on the back of Dubai.
"The results that they brought back from our off season with their skinnies (skinfolds) and their 3km time trials have shown they are a really good group, they know where they want to go and that they are prepared to do the work, so we trust them.
"We'll get them back really early in the new year and have some fun then.''
Veteran forward Jay Schulz said while the Dubai camp had pushed the players to new physical limits they "ate it up like usual''.
"I think Burgo might be out of ideas on how to break this group,'' Schulz said in a strong sign the Power will head into the 2015 season believing it can deal with anything that is thrown at it.
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