Port Adelaide veteran Travis Boak believes whichever team best adapts to dealing with the unknown will win the flag in 2020.
With the fixture being released in small blocks and the remainder of the 2020 season up in the air, the star midfielder feels teams need to fully embrace one of footy’s greatest clichés – taking it one week at a time.
“We haven’t spoken too much about anything other than what’s ahead of us right now and that’s the next sort of four weeks,” Boak told SEN Breakfast.
“What that looks like (beyond the first block) we don’t know, there’s too much changing right now, but with that we’ve just got to be really flexible and be able to adapt.
“We’ve spoken about it a little bit and I think a few guys have spoken about it, the side that adapts the best and changes and accepts what’s going on during this situation during this year is going to win the flag.
“That for us, we can’t prepare for what’s happening in rounds 15 or 16 or whatever it is, so much has been changing and for us it’s about this next four weeks.
“We’ve got the Showdown coming up, then we’re going into a hub for three weeks, what does that look like? Let’s prepare for that and then we’ll adjust to what happens next.
“If you get too far ahead and start worrying about things that might not happen, then you take your focus away from what’s happening right now in this next little block of games.”
The Power will head to the Gold Coast to hub for three rounds following the Showdown in Round 2.
Boak says the club only has four players who have young families and they’re hopeful they won’t have to spend too long in Queensland.
“We’ll have about four guys, so Rob (Robbie Gray), Rocky (Tom Rockliff), Westy (Justin Westhoff), Brad Ebert, these guys with small families and that’s going to be the challenge for them and everyone is in a different situation,” he said.
“Speaking to Rob and Rocky, it’s been a real challenge for them, I think seven weeks would’ve been extremely challenging for those guys with their families and I don’t know what they would’ve done during that period.
“I think it makes it easier only going in for a couple of weeks and hopefully that’s it and then we go back to boarders are open and a little more normality.”