Port Adelaide utility Chad Cornes has forecast some significant changes for the Power's AFL list in the off-season given the club's pathologically inconsistent efforts in 2009.

Though the club is bizarrely still in contention for the finals despite Sunday's humiliating loss to lowly Fremantle, Cornes admitted there would need to be some "tough calls" made on players who had failed to deliver in the week-by-week manner expected of a professional athlete.

Asked to name players who had enhanced their reputations in 2009, Cornes could only think of captain Domenic Cassisi and nuggety back pocket Jacob Surjan.

"I'm sure there will have to be some tough calls made after the up and down form of this year," Cornes said of his side's inability to win two games in a row since April.

"We're really about playing consistent, tough hard footy and it hasn't happened, so the coaches will have to decide what happens come October/November."

Port's coaching staff have tried just about everything this year in their efforts to get the playing group "up" for games, resorting with alarming frequency to old fashioned torture sessions where players have swum countless laps of the Alberton training pool or carried bricks around the oval until their limbs ached.

None were undertaken in Perth after the Dockers loss.

"They're good for shock factor once every couple of months, but I don't think they work every second week," Cornes said on Tuesday.

"In saying that, every time we've done them we've come out and had a win the following week.

"We didn't escape the review. It was two hours of some pretty damning footage and guys really got told off for things they did wrong during the game.

"They were really highlighted and it wasn't just one or two guys, pretty much everyone did something wrong during the game."

This week the Power must focus on the looming threat of Carlton, who are now an outside chance of snagging a top four berth thanks to a string of favourable results on the weekend.

"I like playing Carlton," Cornes said before predicting plenty of niggle between the sides.

"It's fair to say we don't love each other - the two clubs. There are a few players in the Carlton opposition that we'd like to get under their skin.

"They've had a great record against us recently. They beat us twice last year. Once when we were in front by a fair bit and they came back in one of the worst losses I've been involved with, so that's in the back of my mind."

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