Port have all sorts of cap issues don't they? they'd be looking to trade out a player
Hamish Hartlett again perhaps
The supposed Port salary cap issues are inaccurate. The desperate attempts to trade players last year was about getting as many draft picks as possible to bring in kids rather than being about cap pressure. My understanding is the club has a fair bit of salary cap room now with Trengove gone and the new CBA deal kicking in (all of Port's long-term signings occurred under the old CBA).
Re Hartlett, there is actually a bit more to that story. In a nutshell, a trade was actually agreed to with a Victorian club last year (which involved Port paying some of his salary), but it was renegged on late by a certain very senior member of Port's footy department.
There are players on the list that Port are willing to trade. After the debacle with Hartlett last year, he won't be shopped around again. A few names that I expect are on the trade table are:
Impey
Young
Broadbent
Ah Chee
Lobbe
Clearly none of those blokes on their own would get a trade done for Jack. So it's a mystery to me how Port could satisfy the Dees in this deal, unless they were willing to swap him for Impey + pick 29. Can't see us trading a pick in next year's super-mega draft. My gut feel (with zero inside info on this matter) is that he was in Adelaide to scope out the Crows, and he/his management took the oppo to tour Alberton.