Gold Coast star Gary Ablett was the only player missing from Saturday’s training, a day out from the historic AFL match in Shanghai.

But Suns assistant coach Matthew Primus said there is nothing wrong with Ablett, adding the midfield ace was having treatment back at the team hotel.

Gold Coast had a light run at Jiangwang Stadium after Friday’s longer training session.

“You just don’t back him up the next day, like a good horse,” Primus said.

Suns player Aaron Hall had plenty of strapping on a leg and was put through extra work, but is also expected to play against Port Adelaide.

The big question remains whether Port star Robbie Gray will play with the Power to train later on Saturday.

There is on going speculation about his fitness and it is known he is carrying a niggling injury.

“I do know Robbie cannot look great… after games of footy, having known him for a few years,” said Primus, the former Port coach.

“Where expecting him to probably play a bit more as a forward than what he has the couple of weeks, but time will tell.”

This will be the first AFL match for premiership points outside of Australia and NZ.

The two teams have raved about the playing surface and there is a feeling that so far the risky venture has gone better than expected.

“It’s as good as anyone’s surface going around,” Primus said, noting the ground had drained well after Friday’s heavy rain.

“It (the grass) is nice and short, it’s going to be really `quick’, so that will suit us well.”

Apart from the obvious significance of the match, it is an important assignment for the two teams.

Port are 4-3 and ruing last week’s home loss to West Coast, where the Power were on top in most important statistics.

Gold Coast are 3-4 after an impressive win over Geelong, but they need more consistency.

The two teams have the bye next weekend, so this represents the end of a block of games in their season planning.

“It is an important one – last week they probably thought they let a game slip,” Primus said.

“We need to get some games back.

“We played really well last week and you have heard a lot of players, they talk about our consistency.

“We want to play the style of footy we played last week, regardless of whether we’re in China, or at Metricon or the MCG.”