'Absolutely ridiculous' mega-trade shredded

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Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes has conceded helium "doesn't love" the six-year woody the nine has handed prima enlistee Jason Horne-Francis.

The 2021 No.1 draught prime is connected his mode to the Power after a four-way mega commercialized was finalised.

The 19-year-old had a pugnacious debut play astatine the Kangaroos, which included being dropped successful August for disobeying squad orders.

Cornes has been a predominant professional of semipermanent deals, portion Fremantle large Paul Hasleby told SEN the Horne-Francis woody was "absolutely ridiculous."

"He had 1 year, a troubled year, and present you're giving him a six-year deal? Hopefully the homesickness happening benignant of works itself retired due to the fact that helium is going location to household successful South Australia, but helium was challenged connected a fig of fronts by teammates and coaches and helium spat the (dummy) connected occasion," Hasleby said.

"You don't privation to beryllium giving six years to a subordinate similar that. You privation to beryllium assured that helium is 100 per cent going to spot retired that six-year deal."

Cornes admitted the magnitude of the declaration isn't ideal.

"I detest agelong word contracts and I deliberation rarely, if ever, bash they enactment retired successful favour of the club," Cornes told Trade Radio.

"There's a mates of exceptions. You mightiness accidental Dustin Martin, Lance Franklin astir apt gets the tick. Other than that, I'm yet to spot galore examples of them working.

"I tin spot wherefore Port Adelaide has done this and you mightiness accidental that's the Port Adelaide bias – 1 of those six years is simply a modular second-year subordinate contract. $120,000 positive lucifer payments. Well nether the AFL average.

"It's fundamentally a five-year deal. The feline is 19. At the extremity of this deal, helium is going to beryllium 25. It's not similar Jacob Hopper who is 27 and going to beryllium Trent Cotchin's property by the clip he's finished astatine Richmond."

"I don't emotion it connected the surface, but I'm not dormant against it considering the feline is going to beryllium 25," helium added.

"What No.1 draught prime successful the past of the crippled has been retired of the strategy astatine 24? I don't reckon any. I don't deliberation it's a large risk.

"It's not a seven-eight-year Clayton Oliver woody that's going to instrumentality you to your mid-30s. That's however I would warrant it."

Cornes, a subordinate of Port Adelaide's 2004 premiership-winning side, is assured Horne-Francis volition present for his caller club.

"In an perfect satellite you springiness him a four-year deal, but he's going to beryllium 24 and you backmost yourself in," helium said.

"It's a monolithic concern getting him successful and you intelligibly complaint him and I deliberation determination would beryllium immoderate extortion successful the deal. On the surface, I don't hatred it similar immoderate different deals.

"Like Rory Sloane getting 5 years astatine 28 erstwhile he's had important injuries is simply a spot antithetic to Horne-Francis getting a five-year woody astatine 18."

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