Port Adelaide will make drastic changes to starts, says Alan Richardson Port Adelaide stand-in coach Alan Richardson talks to forward Jay Schulz before the match against North Melbourne. PORT Adelaide stand-in coach Alan Richardson has warned the Power will make some drastic changes after the 10-point loss to North Melbourne at Blundstone Arena. Richardson, who coached after Ken Hinkley was struck down with a virus, described the first-quarter collapse as "sloppy" and hinted the club would not stand for any more starts like this. The club came back from a huge deficit against West Coast last week and gave away a 33-point win yesterday and the issue will be looked at closely. "I was really disappointed with the start," Richardson said. It was something the leadership group and the coaches had spoken about during the week and that's happened too often. While they've been impressive results, coming from so far back against the Crows and West Coast, we're not going to beat teams like the Kangaroos giving that sort of start. In terms of being intense as we are later in games - we've been slightly off. You then look at personnel - have we got the right personnel where the action is. We'll certainly change a few things, because what happened today has happened a couple of times this year. And we'll continue to work on that. There were positives to come out of yesterday, not least that the Power fought back, hung in and made enough changes to almost pinch the game. But Richardson said they were soundly beaten on the day and there were several areas that would be scrutinised ahead of the home match against Richmond next Saturday. It was pleasing that we hung in there but that would have been absolutely pinching the game. We got beaten fairly badly across the day in the really critical markers," he said. But it was pleasing - the boys have clearly got a never-say-die attitude, their spirit to want to continue to compete and run is impressive and it was certainly there today again. But overall, we clearly got beaten. Richardson's prediction that the coaching panel wouldn't hear much from Hinkley, who was watching from the couch as he recuperates, was correct. He made a couple of phone calls to football manager Peter Rohde, who passed on Hinkley's observations during the breaks. "He did well to restrain himself, particularly the way we started," Richardson said. But no, there was very little coming our way.