Port Adelaide Concede Jared Polec Offer Is "Too Big For Him To Pass Up"

"He has got offers from other clubs."


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Port Adelaide expect winger Jared Polec to leave the AFL club but are adamant Chad Wingard won't be traded.

Polec met with Port hierarchy on Tuesday but the 25-year-old didn't announce his intentions.

Port's football manager Chris Davies believes Polec will accept a multi-million dollar offer from a rival club, understood to be North Melbourne.

"He has got offers from other clubs," Davies told reporters on Wednesday.

"I think the longer that this goes, the more likely he is to be leaving.

"But he has also been absolutely categoric in saying that he loves the club, he wants to stay.

"But I think the reality is going to be that the offer elsewhere is going to be too big for him to pass up."

Other clubs are reportedly circling dual All Australian Wingard, who falls off-contract at the end of the 2019 season.

"We're planning for Chad to be here, he's contracted for another year," Davies said.

"There has been no discussions otherwise."

Port are rumoured to be trying to lure ruckman Scott Lycett from West Coast but Davies wouldn't comment on trade targets.

"Right now it's not good for me to get into specific names but we're going to look to improve our list and that is an overall philosophy," he said.

Davies said meetings with Wingard and other players focused on why Port slipped from a win-loss record of 11-4 to finish the season 12-10 and miss the finals.

"We're going through that not just with Chad right now but our whole group in saying 'how can we be better at different moments during the season'," he said.

"In the big moments we weren't able to step up. We thought we positioned ourselves well at 11 and four but when you lose six of your last seven, clearly there is something wrong.

"And maybe that 11-4, there was wallpapering over cracks.

"The situation has to change ... our people deserve better than what we have delivered.

"We have got to make some decisions to take this club forward right now, because sitting 10th is not what Port Adelaide does."

- AAP

29 August 2018




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