PORT ADELAIDE’S General Manager - Football Chris Davies is expecting the club to make a selection in tonight’s mid-season draft.

Davies said it was an opportunity to bring in a player to cover some injuries, but was adamant the club wouldn’t make a selection for the sake of it.

“Right now, I would probably suggest we are going to have a pick if the right player is there for us,” Davies said on SEN SA’s Breakfast program.

“We’ve got multiple players in mind.

“Unless the right player is there for us, we won’t have a selection.

“It is not as though we are going to go into tonight thinking that we must take a pick, that’s not the case.

“If the right player is there then we will, but at the end of the day, we want to make sure we have enough bodies - we’ve had a number of injuries.

“We want to make sure we are covered in areas we need to, but we aren’t going to pick just for the sake of picking.”

The football boss said player movement is constantly being discussed by the AFL, and reintroducing the mid-season draft is just another step in that direction.

“It’s going to be a fascinating start to something that is new that was old - a mid-season draft,” Davies said.

“The AFL clearly wants to continue to have players being able to move through AFL lists during the season.

“It’s one step in a cog that I’m sure will increase down the track.

“I imagine there will be a balance of teams picking players that they believe can help them right now, and there will be others who might take a chance on getting a younger player into their club.”

Davies was also confident the club will be able to re-sign last year’s first-round draft crop - Connor Rozee, Zak Butters and Xavier Duursma - to long-term deals this season.

“Our list manager Jason Cripps is in constant dialogue with those guy’s managers,” he said.

“I can’t imagine it being too big of an issue. Those guys have come in, they’re playing and getting an opportunity in a team that has been, up until last week, going pretty well.

“I’d expect those guys are going to be long-term players for the club.

“We certainly didn’t select them in last year’s draft thinking we didn’t want them to be part of our club long-term.

“I’d imagine over the remainder of the year we will be able to get something sorted for those guys.”

The 2019 NAB AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft will be broadcast LIVE on AFL.com.au, the AFL Live Official App and Fox Footy from 6.30pm AEST on Monday 27 May.