Young gun fires fresh jab at former club

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Former No.1 draught pick Jason Horne-Francis has thrown different jibe astatine North Melbourne, describing grooming astatine Port Adelaide arsenic thing helium had "never seen before".

The 19-year-old midfield gun, who sensationally requested a commercialized from North Melbourne aft conscionable 1 season, has joined Port Adelaide's main grooming radical aft undergoing country earlier Christmas.

The South Australian went nether the weapon to person the arteries down his knees decompressed, solving a occupation which caused referred symptom to his calves and feet.

He took a subtle excavation astatine the Kangaroos arsenic helium spoke connected signifier astatine the Power's yearly wide gathering connected Friday night.

"It was a beauteous dense country that needed to beryllium done," Horne-Francis said.

"There's nary issues with them present different than immoderate beauteous dense scars.

"Everything's going truly well.

"I'm backmost successful afloat grooming and conscionable the level that we're grooming astatine present is thing I've ne'er seen before.

"It's a competitory situation and that's thing I love. The grooming modular that we're astatine is awesome and I'm loving being connected the way with the boys.

"Coming to a caller nine and being successful rehab was evidently tough. I wasn't capable to beryllium astir the boys arsenic overmuch arsenic I would person liked to, but decidedly coming backmost grooming present has been awesome."

Horne-Francis' short-lived clip astatine North Melbourne was marred by homesickness, on-field clashes with teammates and being dropped to the VFL for not completing an crystal bath.

Instability successful the coaching ranks was besides a origin successful him increasing progressively disgruntled, with Alastair Clarkson replacing the axed David Noble but being stood down owed to the probe into racism allegations astatine Hawthorn.

Horne-Francis and erstwhile West Coast livewire Willie Rioli landed astatine Port Adelaide done a four-club woody successful October.

"I've lone been backmost present for a bit, but conscionable to person the enactment web I person astir maine present and to beryllium astatine a large nine similar Port Adelaide with the large players and coaching unit and members we person present is conscionable awesome," said Horne-Francis, whose measurement begetter Fabian Francis is simply a erstwhile SANFL footballer with Port Adelaide.

"Dad brought maine up the Port mode and that's each I've ever known from a young age, truthful it's large to beryllium astatine Port and surviving what I'd dreamt.

"To person idiosyncratic similar dada beside maine and helping maine is thing I'll cherish. It's the champion happening … and I emotion him to bits."

Horne-Francis' latest swipe astatine North Melbourne follows a parting changeable helium took successful his archetypal property league astatine Port Adelaide, successful which helium said the Kangaroos were an "unstable" club.

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