JACKSON Trengove counts himself as a fully paid-up member of the Dustin Martin fan club.

After a contract crisis that almost saw him leave the Tigers last year, Martin has pieced together his most dominant season to date, 

The 23-year-old has averaged more than 25 disposals a game this year and has also booted 27 goals to win selection in the All Australian squad of 40.

Match preview: Port Adelaide v Richmond

It's been two years since Trengove last got the chance to watch Martin up close, when Port and Richmond drew in round 23, 2012.

The tall defender has missed the last two clashes between the sides with injury.

"He (Martin) is a freak. He’d be one of the players that you'd want at your club," Trengove said.

"He's just so powerful up forward and he's very hard to beat one-on-one. It's not one-on-one with speed, it's actual one-on-one battles where he's pushing blokes around and out-manoeuvering them.

"Once he goes into the midfield, everyone knows how powerful he is at getting that ball out and getting it forward for them.

Praising the star Tiger is the easy part for Trengove, the complicated bit will be to shut him down in Sunday’s elimination final.

Trengove predicted Richmond would to try and isolate Martin in attack, but warned Power coach Ken Hinkley against trying to shut down the talented Tiger with the best matched defender.

Trengove said that tactic didn't work well last week against Fremantle, when the Power were too worried about the likes of Matthew Pavlich and Michael Walters rather than taking an holistic approach.

"Last week we probably focused a little too much on our individual matchups and not as a team, as a back six," he said. 

"We've put a fair bit of focus into what they (Richmond) can do; they can bring Cotchin forward, they can bring Martin forward obviously, they like playing Martin one-on-one out of the square because he's so good at that. 

"This week we're going to try and go back to playing as a group where you just rotate and mix and match.

"That's when we think we're playing the best footy - when we're really versatile with who we play on."