Port keen to re-sign emerging forward
PORT Adelaide is confident it will re-sign emerging forward Mitch Georgiades on a lucrative deal despite massive interest from Victorian clubs and cross-town rival Adelaide.
Georgiades is considered one of the rising key position stars in football and has already been the subject of a trade raid from West Coast last year.
They tried to involve the West Australian product in the Junior Rioli trade, but with a contract for 2023 Port Adelaide immediately shut the Eagles down.
He has no interest in a return to Perth and while he was not satisfied with a 2022 season that saw him dropped and battling multiple injury concerns he is happy and settled with the Power.
But Victorian clubs with massive cap space including Essendon, St Kilda, Hawthorn and North Melbourne would all move heaven and earth to secure a player of his calibre.
He kicked 32.17 in his second season as a versatile midsized marking forward.
As a 191cm athletic beast he has massive appeal because he can so easily complement an established power forward like Max King, Mitch Lewis, Nick Larkey or Peter Wright.
That quartet of clubs are set to shape the trade period given cap space and an immediate desire to add significant talent to under-performing lists.
Georgiades’ manager Tom Seccull, of Hemisphere Management, will meet with Port Adelaide list boss Jason Cripps in coming weeks.
But at this stage Georgiades, who signed his first contract extension in November after his debut season, is likely to wait until later in the season.
His father John Georgiades played 15 games in the VFL for Footscray.