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DESPITE the club's fiery response to Geelong's 'enemy territory' meeting with midfielder Travis Boak, Port Adelaide coach Matthew Primus says he had no fundamental problems with it.

While Primus said Cats coach Chris Scott and star players Joel Selwood and Jimmy Bartel could have shown more discretion in their approach to the meeting, he conceded it was simply a sign of things to come.

The Power reacted angrily to last Sunday's meeting, with chief executive Keith Thomas claiming in a statement that if the roles were reversed Geelong "would feel more than a little disrespected".

[ Related: Club statement ]

But Primus said players, clubs, administrators and supporters alike would need to become accustomed to soon-to-be out-of-contract players dealing with rival clubs.

"It goes on, every club is talking to players and all those sorts of things," Primus said.

"The way it was done and the way they came into town…could have been a bit more discreet.

"As Chris (Scott) said also, this is the nature of the business where it's going and we're all sooner or later going to have to get used to [it].

"Clubs are certainly going to well aware that you're going to be talking to certain players, especially with the free agency coming in."

Talk of Boak's future has reached saturation point over the last few weeks, with Port's players and coaches remaining publically confident he'll stay at Alberton.

Primus maintained he thought Boak would stay, but said that if Boak decided to leave, the club would be well placed to find a suitable replacement.

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"It'd leave us in a pretty good bargaining place, I would have thought," Primus said.

"We can deal with a lot of clubs where Travis can end up and make sure we get very, very well compensated." 

The Power face Melbourne in Darwin on Saturday night on the back of four successive losses.

The club looked to have turned the corner after consecutive wins over North Melbourne, Carlton and Gold Coast earlier in the season, but haven't been able to string four quarters together since.

Skill errors continue to hurt the side as they undo good work by turning the ball over and gifting their opposition with quick, easy goals on the rebound.

Primus maintained there was no quick fix to the disappointing skill level his side had shown over the past month and admitted it wouldn't get much better in Darwin.

Slippery conditions would mean both sides would struggle to handle the ball, he said, with selection to play an important role in deciding the result.

"It's not as humid as it is up there earlier in the year, so the slipperiness and the greasy conditions aren't as bad…but definitely the conditions play a factor in who we're looking to pick," he said.

"History tells us over the last two or three years up there that the ball spends a lot of time on the ground or over the back of packs and that sort of thing."

Harry Thring covers Port Adelaide news for AFL.com.au. Follow him on Twitter: @AFL_Harry.