A broken leg is set to exacerbate Port Adelaide’s proverbial Achilles heel – kicking goals.

With key forward Charlie Dixon to miss the rest of the AFL season because of a broken leg, the Power have little option but to recast their misfiring attack.

“It means that we’re forced to go mobile,” Power assistant coach Michael Voss said.

“But I see no reason why there’s not personnel in there to be able to get the job done for us.”

Port have slipped to eighth spot after four losses in five games.

The past two defeats – to West Coast by four points and Adelaide by three points – have come when the Power conceded the last goal of the game.

But the narrow losses mask Port’s continuing problem: of the 18 teams, they have outscored only five this season.

Only three times this year have the Power kicked more than 100 points, the traditional benchmark for a winning total.

And just three Power players have booted more than 20 goals – Robbie Gray (34 goals), Dixon (26) and Chad Wingard (22).

“It’s about completing our plays and finishing,” Voss said.

“We are getting some really good build-up through the middle of the ground but we’re not finishing it off.

“And that has varied a little throughout the year in terms of what that actually is, whether it’s the final kick inside 50 or whether it’s just finishing in front of goal.

“But that is something that hasn’t been consistent enough this year so we have got to keep working at that … it’s clearly not at the level we need it to be.”