Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams' admiration for Power premiership midfielder Josh Carr is as strong as ever.

But Williams will wait for Carr to make first contact before actively pursuing the signature of a player who seemingly wants out of his current Fremantle home.

Talk has been rife for weeks that Carr may be looking to exchange the unsettled lifestyle of the Dockers for his spiritual home at Alberton, where he became one of the league's best ball winners and tagging agitators in a five-year spell that ended with the 2004 AFL flag.

Carr's return to the Power for the final stages of his career would fill a toughness gap that has remained at Port more or less ever since he, Roger James and Damien Hardwick all went their separate ways following that premiership success.

Clearly still a fan, Williams said he would seriously consider a bid for Carr's services provided the West Australian left-footer made the first move.

"Yes I'll entertain the thought of it, he was an exceptional player for us, a premiership player, a great leader for us and we'll seriously talk about Josh and if he's ringing me up wanting to come back I'll certainly see what we can do," Williams said.

"We're not exactly sure (if he fits with our list) and you can run the story to say he's definitely coming back well you'd be wrong and you might get your fingers burned if that's the case, but I like the way he plays.

"I like what he was at our club, if that's something from yesterday maybe it is and we'll consider that, but I can honestly say we've never talked about him as a collective group once so that's where it is."

Williams guided his players through a light skills session at the Distinctive Homes Dome, Adelaide's major basketball venue commandeered for the day due to hefty rain outdoors.

He said the searching mid-season review conducted last week had brought a number of changes to the Power's training and player feedback patterns for the remainder of the year, while also fostering a major attitude transformation.

For several years Williams and his coaching staff have stood by the record forged from 2001 to 2004 which ranked the Power as the team that knew best how to win games week in week out.

Now however they have accepted it is time to challenge and change a lot of what has become second nature at Port.

"It's quite easy as coaches to say over the past 10 years we have the best record of any team of winning games, so if it's not broken you don't change it too much," Williams said.

"I would think 80-90 per cent of what everyone's doing is pretty well right, we've been in most games for three quarters, but we challenge ourselves and personally or collectively I don't divorce myself or the coaches don't divorce ourselves out of any of the changes, it's all of us and we're all involved.

"We had four or five hours just with the leaders and then the rest of the playing group on some things we might do better."

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