Port Adelaide vice-captain Zak Butters, troubled by sore ribs, is confident he can again push through pain in the preliminary final against Sydney.
Port Adelaide 's Zak Butters says he will be ready for Sydney Swans tag as he prepares to play through pain in preliminary final Port Adelaide 's Zak Butters says he will be ready for Sydney Swans tag as he prepares to play through pain in preliminary final Port Adelaide vice-captain Zak Butters says he will again crash through the pain barrier while warning Sydney he is well placed to cope with a hard tag in their preliminary final .
The dual All Australian was kept out of contact drills at Port's training on Tuesday at Alberton Oval but downplayed his injury. "I was able to get through and definitely tick some more boxes and get some more confidence in my body."If you look across the league at this time of the year … a few players we have on modified training a bit.
"As a team we … have looked at that already and that's something that we'll be expecting so if they choose to do that, we'll be ready."
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