A “different”-looking Carlton has cruised to a second consecutive scalp, overpowering Port Adelaide 13.14 (92) to 8.10 (58) on Saturday night.

In interim coach Josh Fraser’s second game in charge, the Blues, who booted nine first-half goals to take a 35-point lead into the main break, again looked like an inspired outfit in a four-quarter performance.

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Unlike in past times, the Fraser-led Blues are no longer relying only on their clearance dominance, flexing a multi-dimensional profile at Adelaide Oval.

“It’s just a different Carlton,” former Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley said in the fourth quarter on Fox Footy.

“Port is belting them in clearances, 33-22, but Carlton have scored 6.6 from intercept and 5.3 from stoppage.

“It’s just a different game that Carlton are playing.”

Patrick Cripps led from the front with a team-high 31 disposals, eight clearances and a goal, while young gem Jagga Smith notched a whopping 15 score involvements from 27 possessions.

Not even a scathing half-time spray from coach Josh Carr could shock the Power into gear, with the Blues holding serve in a second half that saw Port Adelaide kick five goals to four.

CARR’S TRUMPCARDS TO SPARK ‘PASSIVE’ PORT BACKFIRE

Josh Carr played two of his big coaching trumpcards.

He delivered a fiery half-time spray then spun the magnets aggressively at three quarter-time.

And the Power were still pummelled.

Despite coming into the match as favourites, Port Adelaide on Saturday night was a shadow of the team that had taken it up to – and beaten some – contenders in recent weeks.

Carr’s side had recorded five losses from its past six games by an average losing margin of nine points. The team’s percentage (105.2%) was actually ranked 10th in the competition.

But the Power instead were humbled and made to look second-rate by a slicker Blues outfit that

Port had just three goals to its name when it trailed by 35 points at half-time.

Sensing his players needed a jolt, Carr unleashed a mighty spray, standing in the middle of the Power rooms with his players spread around him.

“It’s been a bit more normal this year with coaches demanding,” Hinkley said.

“You can see that he’s really forceful in what he’s expecting from his team. And when you look at the scoreboard, he’s got every right to go in and ask some serious questions.

He went up (to the coaches’ box) to change his view, I don’t think it looked much better.

Triple All-Australian Nick Dal Santo added: “They were some of the messages he would’ve loved to have given during the quarter, but because he went upstairs, he had to pass it on at some stage.

“You do that to get a response. They’ve been a little passive and a little pedestrian in this first half, so he wants to see something different.”

The spray, on paper, didn’t work, with Carlton kicking 1.3 to start the third term. It took 20 minutes for the Power to hit the scoreboard.

Then Carr went to the whiteboard to flip the script. He moved superstar midfielder Zak Butters to half-back, young gun Jason Horne-Francis to full-forward and sent Jase Burgoyne and Joe Richards into the centre ball-up.

“It looks like they’ve thrown everything at this when you look at it. There’s a bit going on,” Hinkley said.

Ricciuto added: “I’ve seen Port Adelaide every game since I retired and I don’t think he (Butters) has ever played half-back.”

Todd Marshall goaled within the first 75 seconds of the quarter, but the Blues quickly steadied, kicking the next three majors to secure victory.

‘FAIR SHOVE’: STAR’S ACT COULD ATTRACT MRO SCRUTINY

Port Adelaide star Mitch Georgiades might face a nervous wait for the Match Review Officer’s Saturday findings.

Power defender Kane Farrell late in the second quarter kicked the ball towards a two-on-two contest on the wing. Georgiades and Jack Whitlock were there for the Power, while Harry Dean and Harry McKay were in the contest for Carlton.

Georgiades and Dean were at the back of the pack. And as the ball got closer, Georgiades appeared to push Dean into the Whitlock-McKay match-up before taking the mark.

Fox Footy’s commentators didn’t like the look of the incident.

“That’s the one we’ve seen players get in trouble for, pushing players into the contest,” Fox Footy’s Adam Papalia said.

Mark Ricciuto added: “Absolutely. That was a fair shove by Georgiades.”

Dean was sore post-incident, but more because of a sore ankle.

The comments come after the likes of Richmond’s Rhyan Mansell and retired Bomber Dylan Shiel copped bans respectively last year for pushing players directly into an oncoming marking contest.

Mansell was handed three matches after his push resulted in Saint Liam O’Connell getting concussed, while Shiel was handed one game after a tribunal ruled he showed careless conduct and failed his duty of care by pushing Cat Mark O’Connor into the line of fire.