PORT Adelaide is keen to move on after a tumultuous trade week that sorely tested relations between the South Australian club and Hawthorn.
The Power's approach to premiership player Campbell Brown as part of the Shaun Burgoyne trade drew howls of protest from Hawks fans and a hasty rebuttal from the club's hierarchy.
Port was painted as the villain in the ensuing public spat, but having seen Burgoyne off to Hawthorn for two first-round draft picks as part of a complex four-club deal, football manager Peter Rohde was happy to let bygones be bygones.
"All I'll say is that we were talking to players that we believed were on the table to be traded and that's the end of it," Rohde said on Friday.
"We can argue about it for as long as we like, but I would say that we wouldn't have been ringing someone up who wasn't available.
"The relationship is fine, we move on, we know what sort of business it is and I think our footy club can hold its head high [in the knowledge] that we did things in the right spirit the whole way through."
But the Power's relationship with prominent player manager Paul Connors is something else altogether.
Connors, who manages Port skipper Dom Cassisi, proclaimed on Melbourne radio that no AFL player wanted to play for a club he claimed was beset by internal issues which was not well-received in Adelaide.
"I think he'll get an opportunity to explain what he said in a little more detail and I'll be the first one to listen to how he explains himself," Rohde said.
"We've spoken about it today and there's no doubt that our club is not very happy about it. He's a manger of a few players and he's entitled to have his say, but we're not taking it too seriously.
"We're very confident of where our club's going and we've got a huge number of players who have re-signed and we're very confident that our club is moving forward."
Despite failing to lure a Hawthorn player to go with the Hawks' ninth overall pick, Rohde was delighted to have emerged from an, at times spiteful, trading period with a fistful of early draft picks.
"Obviously our main focus of the week was to get some recompense for Shaun and we're pretty happy with the outcome in the end," he said.
"We've got three picks in the first round and hopefully we can set the future of our club up from there.
"We think there's some quality players in the first part of the draft and now we need to go away and do some work on who we pick. With three picks in the first 16 we think it's a great chance to set our club up for the future."
Former Tiger Jay Schulz and ex-Bomber Jay Nash also landed at the South Australian club during the week which Rohde said was an excellent result.
"We're very happy with Jay Nash and Jay Shulz, two ex-South Australians we've been following for a few years," he said.
"We've probably had nibbles at them over time and we've eventually got them both home. They're both players who are getting a second opportunity so they'll be hungry to make the most of it.
"All we can promise is that we'll give them a chance."
