PORT Adelaide premiership hero Chad Cornes says he leaves the Power on good terms after a final-day trade was arranged to send the 32-year-old to Greater Western Sydney, where he will extend his AFL career into a 15th season.

In a deal that leaves Port Adelaide open to future Greater Western Sydney raids on its uncontracted players, Cornes and fellow Power veteran Dean Brogan were packaged with NAB AFL Draft selection No.69 and sent to the Giants on Monday in exchange for pick No.49.

Brogan and Cornes were unlikely to be drafted by the Giants if Port Adelaide refused a trade, as it would have stopped the expansion club from signing uncontracted Power players next year.  

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ADELAIDE made its intent to recruit Brad Crouch known as soon as the club traded into the mini-draft last week, but coach Brenton Sanderson was delighted to be on hand to officially welcome the North Ballarat onballer on Monday.
 
The GWS mini-draft was completed at Etihad Stadium after the conclusion of the AFL player exchange period, with Jaeger O'Meara going to Gold Coast and Crouch officially becoming a Crow.
 
"It's a great day for us because we've been able to gain access to one of the best young talents in Australia," Sanderson told the waiting media shortly after personally welcoming Crouch to his new club.
 
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THE PROVISIONAL draft order for the first five rounds of the 2011 NAB AFL Draft. The order is current to 1pm on the eighth day of the AFL player exchange period (Monday of Trade Week):

Round one
1. Greater Western Sydney
2. Greater Western Sydney
3. Greater Western Sydney
4. Greater Western Sydney
5. Greater Western Sydney
6. Port Adelaide
7. Greater Western Sydney
8. Brisbane Lions
9. Greater Western Sydney
10. Greater Western Sydney
11. Greater Western Sydney
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GREATER Western Sydney list manager Stephen Silvagni has put to bed suggestions the Giants will attempt to trade for Brendon Goddard over the next few days.

Silvagni said the only other business the Giants were keen to complete before Monday's Trade Week deadline was to secure Port Adelaide veterans Chad Cornes and Dean Brogan, and Brisbane Lions midfielder Luke Power.

Silvagni said Goddard was not on the Giants' immediate radar and said the club wanted to keep both the top draft selections it had traded for earlier this week, and the other nine it already had as part of the list establishment rules.

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GOLD Coast has won the race for highly rated youngster Jaeger O'Meara with the Suns making a deal with Greater Western Sydney for the first pick in Monday's mini-draft on Wednesday.

The deal sees the Giants receive selection No. 4 in this year's NAB AFL Draft as well as Gold Coast's mid first-round compensation pick it received from Geelong last year (the Suns received that selection after trading pick No.15 to the Cats in last year's NAB AFL Draft). 

As well as the first pick in the mini-draft, Gold Coast receives the Giants' round two pick (No. 31).

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ADELAIDE has landed highly rated teenagers Luke Brown and Brad Crouch in a trade with GWS on Thursday afternoon.

In return, the Crows will send pick 10 in the 2011 NAB AFL Draft and their round one compensation pick, received for the loss of Phil Davis, to the Giants.

The deal involves Adelaide receiving pick two in Monday's mini-draft, which they have confirmed they'll use to select North Ballarat's Crouch.

The 17-year-old will not be eligible to play AFL until 2013.

A midfielder, he was selected in the All Australian under-18 team in 2011 after excellent performances for Vic Country in the under-18 carnival.

Brown, aged 19, had been pre-listed by the Giants.

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BULLDOG Sam Reid has joined Greater Western Sydney as the club's last uncontracted player.

The Giants had already signed Demon Tom Scully, Crow Phil Davis, Fremantle's Rhys Palmer and Reid's former teammate Callan Ward under the rule that allows them one uncontracted player from each club.

The Giants were permitted to sign Reid as well as his former housemate Ward after the Bulldogs granted them permission.

The AFL will now compensate the Bulldogs according to one of five classifications of players.

They received one first-round pick for losing Ward but will likely receive a lower pick for Reid.

Reid and Ward were both drafted by the Bulldogs in the 2007 NAB AFL Draft and debuted the following year.
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GREATER Western Sydney has continued its strategy of looking ahead to future drafts by trading selection No.20 in this year's NAB AFL Draft for the compensation pick Fremantle received for losing Rhys Palmer to the Giants.

The Giants received pick 20 from St Kilda in a trade earlier on Thursday.

The League's 18th club has already secured Gold Coast's mid-first round Gary Ablett compensation pick (traded by Geelong last year) earlier in the week and is set to receive Adelaide's end of round one Phil Davis compensation pick.

Both of these selections will have come the Giants' way via the bidding system tied to the 17-year-old mini-draft.

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ST KILDA has landed two mature-age players in a deal with Greater Western Sydney.

Terry Milera from SANFL club Port Adelaide and Ahmed Saad from VFL club Northern Bullants will join the Saints after GWS had the rights to them as they had previously nominated for the draft.

In return the Saints have downgraded their draft pick 20 to 25, giving GWS 12 of the first 20 picks at next month's NAB AFL Draft.

23-year-old Milera had a standout year for the Port Adelaide Magpies as a lightly-built small forward.

Saad, 22, only began playing football five years ago after spending much of his childhood living in Egypt.

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GREATER Western Sydney's proposed deal with Adelaide for pick No.2 in next week's 17-year-old mini draft is almost complete - a deal that will hand the Crows the rights to select gun teenager Brad Crouch.

Adelaide has pick No.10 in this year's NAB AFL Draft, and received pick No.24 from Hawthorn on Wednesday in exchange for emerging forward Jack Gunston, with the two clubs also exchanging later draft picks.

That trade paved the way for more discussions between Adelaide and the Giants, and GWS list manager Stephen Silvagni declared his club was now close to completing a deal that would send pick No.2 in next Monday's mini draft to the Crows.  

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