Ken Hinkley wants his players bigger and stronger. Source: Getty Images
PORT Adelaide is adding bulk ahead of the 2015 season and has smashed the public perception that they will have a leaner side this season.
The Power is heading down the same path as Carlton champion Chris Judd, who has spoken about adding muscle to make him more explosive, rather than turning into a lean greyhound version of a footballer.
Coach Ken Hinkley said the club's figures suggested an average increase in weight had been recorded by the fitness staff — at around 0.6kg — but that figure is pushed down by senior players retiring and being replaced by light-framed rookies.
Hinkley shook his head at the suggestion that Port's players are shedding weight for running purposes and do not have the same muscular power ahead of this season.
"We're not leaner,'' Hinkley said. "It's a myth.
"It's an absolute myth. Across the board, we're actually heavier, by the numbers.
"I've heard the same story that we're leaner because we're training hard or we're running hard but that's not the fact.
"You lose some size at some stage with some players who leave your football club and you replace them with younger players. That happens.
Travis Boak tries to shake off a tackle. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia
"But we're not leaner.''
Hinkley went on to speak of young players losing fat content and replacing it with muscle.
But he said the emphasis had not been on getting players lighter to adapt to the interchange rotation cap.
Hinkley wants his players as strong and explosive as possible and wants them to add weight and muscle.
Midfielder Ollie Wines was the perfect example.
"You want young players, and Ollie is a young player, to lose a bit of the puppy fat and turn it into muscle,'' Hinkley said. ``And that's what most young players do.
"Not just Ollie, but every young player: Jake Neade would have done the same. That's just the way it goes.
"Ideally, every player would have really low `skinnies' (skin fold measurements) and more muscle.
Matt White on the run from Nathan Gordon. Picture: Colleen Petch. Source: News Corp Australia
"All I can tell you is what the numbers tell me and the numbers tell me that we're 0.6 kilos heavier over the squad.
"That's where we're at. We're not lighter.''
Hinkley's comments come as the Power prepares to play the Crows at Football Park today, and it has not been viewed as the ideal programming.
Hinkley can't wait to begin coaching again as he returns to the box against former colleague Phil Walsh.
But in a typically frank assessment, he would prefer not to play against the Crows in the pre-season.
Hinkley's message to the AFL is to protect the value of the Showdowns and keep them for the main season, when they can be built up properly and stir the emotions of football followers in South Australia.
He would rather travel to Melbourne for the final practice match than to face Adelaide during the pre-season.
"I'm not a fan of it (pre-season Showdowns),'' Hinkley said. ``I think it (a regular Showdown) is a great game, a marquee game for the state and we should protect it as much as we possibly can and put it out there when it's significant.
"I'm not sure we need one know. It's a national competition and we travel every second week. No big deal. I said the same thing to (AFL chief executive) Gillon McLachlan: if we travel one week out (from the season), we can do it one year and somebody else could do it the next.
"My view is that the Showdown should be protected.''
Hinkley would also prefer to play at Adelaide Oval, the new home of football in Adelaide, than return to Football Park.
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