Former Bomber Brent Prismall training with the Power. Picture: Sarah Reed. Source: adelaidenow
PORT Adelaide has denied offering former Bomber Brent Prismall a long-term contract.
Coach Ken Hinkley said Prismall was in the same boat as the other eight hopefuls the Power has invited to summer training in the lead-up to to the pre-season and rookie drafts on December 11.
This is despite Essendon coach James Hird - who delisted Prismall this month with a view to reclaiming the midfielder on a one-year contract - saying the Power had offered him a multi-year deal.
"That would be foolish (guaranteeing contracts)," Hinkley said.
"I'm not sure where James is getting his information from but we certainly haven't got that going on at the moment.
"We've got eight-to-10 blokes coming out here to train. We'll make some decisions as quickly as we possibly can because that's the way the system works but there are no guarantees.
"They've all got the opportunity to show what they can do, albeit in the short period of time that they've got, to show our coaching team and recruiters what their talent is and what their workrate is like."
Apart from Prismall, former Demon Liam Jurrah, Norwood's 2012 premiership star Jarryd Cachia, Central District's All-Australian under-18 half-back Sam Colquhoun and Port Magpies' quintet Kory Beard, Justin Hoskin, Aseri Raikiwasa, Sam Gray and Sean Lemmens are in the Power's train-on squad.
Hinkley admitted he was a big fan of Prismall, who he coached as an assistant at Geelong prior to the 26-year-old moving to Essendon at the end of the 2008 season.
After 25 games in three seasons with the Cats, Prismall played 36 with the Dons before being delisted prior to the national draft.
He did not play one AFL game this year as he recovered from a knee reconstruction suffered at the end of 2011.
"I rate his football really highly and I rate him the person really high," Hinkley said of Prismall, who tacked onto another former Bomber, Angus Monfries, at training yesterday.
"Brent's got an amazing character about him and the way he conducts himself. If you watch him train you see how hard he trains and how he goes about all his football.
"He's just a really good quality person and he also can play good football, which is pretty important too."
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