COACH Mark Williams has reaffirmed the need for patience with his young and developing squad.

The Power has won six of its opening eight games and sits comfortably in second place on the AFL ladder.

But Williams believed the loss to the Swans last week was a better indication of where his side is at.

"It reaffirmed that we're not as good as people think we are," Williams said.

"Our intention the whole time has been to build towards our next premiership. There's always going to be bumps in the road on the way there and that game (against Sydney) was probably one of them.

“From a coaching group and a playing group we hope to get a better result this week."

The Power are confident they can write last week's wrongs with a strong performance against Geelong.

"I suppose the best thing on Monday was the determination to get there (to the top) and that's the exciting part,” he said.“You lose one game in seven, or whatever it was, but you get up and on with it. If our record can maintain at that rate it will be a nice progression wherever we finish."

Port Adelaide is likely to be without influential ruckman Dean Brogan for the twilight clash with the Cats.

Brogan made his return from an ankle injury last week, but failed to complete the Power's Friday training session.

"I doubt that he'll play," Williams said.

"His ankle hasn't recovered as well as we'd hoped and playing on the Sydney pitch last week was a bit hard."

Sturt ruckman Fabian Deluca was named as an emergency and looks set to add to his three-game tally.

No. 1 big man Brendon Lade has often shouldered the ruckload alone, but against a taller Cats line-up, Deluca's input appears essential.

"It's been a while (since Deluca's last AFL game) and he's been in really good form. Actually, I watched his video with him during the week and I thought he played really well," Williams said.

"I think the first couple of games Broges caused us to win because of his ability and it's always difficult to replace that. At the same time we're happy to give Fabian some game and some game time, which is really important for our future."

Geelong will be trying to break its dismal interstate record and win its third-straight game when it suits up at AAMI on Sunday.

The Cats are adamant they want to beat the Power at their own game - a style that suits Port Adelaide just fine."Geelong are playing well and we got a bit of a kick in the bum last week so we're looking forward to bouncing back from that," Williams said.

"Geelong will bring whatever they think will beat us and apart from that, we're worrying about playing ourselves and regardless of what they bring, we'll have to negate some and certainly attack others."

Indigenous players from the APY Lands and Maralinga kept a close eye on the Power's final training session for the week, even showing the players a thing or two with a kick-to-kick.

The two teams will play the curtain raiser to Port Adelaide's clash with Geelong as both clubs recognise the contribution indigenous players have made to the game.

"It's fantastic that they can come down and celebrate with our guys," Williams said.

"Obviously we have such a wonderful tradition at Port Adelaide with the Aboriginal boys. It works both ways, whatever we've done for the indigenous guys, they've done for us and it's a great alliance and one we will certainly continue forever."