Respectful Port Adelaide won't be coasting, says coach Ken Hinkley Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley applauds his players after their Showdown victory. POWER coach Ken Hinkley does not fear his unbeaten Port Adelaide unit is about to trip over growing expectations of a quick return to AFL finals. As Port prepares to beat West Coast at AAMI Stadium tonight for an unprecedented 5-0 start to an AFL season, Hinkley says the scars of the Power's failures since the 2007 Grand Final are keeping his young group well grounded at Alberton. "We've been - let's say - lucky that we know where we're coming from," said Hinkley, who arrived at Port this season to take charge of a group that had won just 18 of 66 games in the previous three years. We're not going to get ahead of ourselves in any hurry. We won't be a club that gets ahead of itself. We're a club that doesn't deserve to think anything other than respecting the competition, the game and every team we come again we should give 100 per cent effort. We're going to be a side that respects the competition and we have total respect for West Coast who are a potential top-four side. Port's dramatic turnaround - from a team that ranked in the AFL's bottom four to a genuine competitor - has had the Power players inundated this week with new external expectation. They are regarded as possible finalists again. They are rated a 50-50 challenger to the Eagles who almost doubled Port's score in their last meeting at West Lakes in round 21 last season. Hinkley's "no limits" theme has the Port players embracing the challenge of returning to September action for the first time in six years. But they are also being reminded they have put down no more than a foundation stone. "Expectation is something we like to talk about," said Hinkley. If we're expected to do certain things, we should not shy away from that. But the important part for us is how we go about (meeting that expectation). And expectation will take care of itself from there. We still have a lot of improvement (to show). Defensively, we're OK. In attack, we've been able to score but we've also had games where we have struggled. Last week against Gold Coast, we spent too much time in their half. We have a lot to work on. Hinkley has made just one change to his winning line-up by recalling the versatile Paul Stewart, who has recovered from a minor knee injury. This has cost West Coast recruit Lewis Stevenson the chance to face his former teammates. "He is incredibly unlucky," said Hinkley of Stevenson. Someone had to be. We're in good form, we have a healthy list with just two injuries among 44 players and Paul Stewart deserves to come back. We had one too many defenders in the side. Challenging Hinkley in his game planning today is how to use specialist forward and possible midfielder Robbie Gray, who gets his second start after losing 12 months of AFL action to a serious knee injury. Hinkley concedes Gray is not ready to play a full AFL game. He needs to decide if Gray starts tonight and is subbed out of the game or remains the substitute. "If you're 100 per cent honest, you would say Robbie is probably not (ready for a full AFL game)," said Hinkley. So we have to make sure we find the best way to get the game time into Robbie. We're mindful we have to get him ready to play four quarters. Hinkley's other key decision with Gray is when he can return to Port's midfield options. "I think he can go in the midfield now in bursts," said Hinkley. But it is the amount of time he can spend there. Midfield is so hard with the amount of running up and back you have to do. Conditioning-wise, that is Robbie's challenge.