What source is there for confirmation of the pick exchange?
My reason for asking:
PORT Adelaide onballer Shaun Burgoyne will join Hawthorn next season as part of a four-club trade.
The deal also sees Hawk forward Mark Williams move to Essendon, and Bomber Jay Nash move to Port Adelaide.
The Power also receive two first-round draft picks: No.9 (from Hawthorn) and 16 (from Essendon, on-traded by Hawthorn to the Power).
Geelong, the fourth club involved the trade, has parted with pick 33 in exchange for three third-round picks. The Cats took draft selections 40 and 56 from Port Adelaide, and 56 to Essendon.
Relations between the Power and Hawthorn appeared strained on Wednesday after Hawks president Jeff Kennett stymied a potential deal involving defender Campbell Brown.
But on Thursday night, Power football operations manager Peter Rohde confirmed an agreement had been reached.
The complicated arrangement leaves Port Adelaide with three picks in the first round of November’s NAB AFL Draft.
Rohde said he was hopeful the paperwork would be lodged with the AFL on Thursday night.
“There are quite a number of other things tied into the deal but that (picks No.9 and 16 to Port Adelaide] is the basic scenario of it all,” Rohde told Adelaide radio station 5AA.
“We’re in the middle of a mediation, so I’m bound by confidentiality and can’t give any details until the paperwork is all finished.”
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