{"id":238855,"date":"2025-10-25T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238855\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:29:09","slug":"former-power-coach-expects-star-to-join-interstate-rival-afl-trade-news-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238855\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Power coach expects star to join interstate rival: AFL trade news &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/games-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"305\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"play-games-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752988028_499_ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Port Adelaide assistant coach Chad Cornes has discussed the future of superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/zak-butters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zak Butters<\/a>, who looms as the prize fish free agent of the 2026 off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Cornes departed the Power at the conclusion of the 2025 season after the club decided against offering him a contract for 2026. He joined the Power&#8217;s coaching group following three years with GWS, with the former Port Adelaide forward taking on the role of head coach of the club&#8217;s SANFL side. He&#8217;d ultimately move into a role with the senior group, as the forward line coach.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on\u00a0SEN Breakfast on Friday, Cornes alluded that speculation surrounding Butters&#8217; future may be valid, with his experiences with the 25-year-old midfield weapon guiding his prediction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love [Butters] he&#8217;s such a great guy&#8230; but if I had to make a prediction, I think he goes this time next year,&#8221; Cornes said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Port Adelaide assistant coach Chad Cornes has discussed the future of superstar Zak Butters, who looms as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-238855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}