PORT Adelaide caretaker coach Matthew Primus has denied veteran Chad Cornes' career is over, despite the premiership player being sent back to the SANFL for a second week.
Cornes, who was dropped for the Power's trip to Darwin last weekend, was hopeful of being recalled for good friend Josh Carr's farewell game but will instead line up for Glenelg in the local league.
The two-time All-Australian is contracted until the end of next season and Primus said he would be given every opportunity to regain form.
"Chad's form [for Glenelg] was OK on the weekend, but we want to see a little bit more from him. It made it a little bit difficult with him playing onball because we wanted to see him down back … but he held himself well, went back with the right attitude and gave a pretty good effort," Primus said on Friday.
"Chad does have to get back into some form, but by no means has he already been stamped away from this club. He's too good a player and has too much pride to let that happen."
Forward Daniel Motlop can also expect to resume in the SANFL once he's served a two-match ban for rough conduct against Western Bulldog Shaun Higgins.
Motlop has struggled with on and off-field issues this season and Primus revealed he was on the verge of being dropped before he was cited by the match review panel.
"We tried to play him up the ground a little bit more so he could find a bit more of the ball and I couldn't question his effort," Primus said.
"He's just in a bad run of form at the moment. Unfortunately, he's now got two weeks out to work on his fitness levels and then go back to North and take it from there."
The Power have made six changes to the team that lost to the Dogs, with Travis Boak, Robbie Gray, Daniel Stewart, Matt Thomas, Alipate Carlile and first-year player Andrew Moore all set to face the Crows.
They made four changes last week and Primus said he would continue to tinker with the team until he found the right balance.
"We're all about trying to find a level of consistency and that's why we're on the losing streak we're on, because we haven't had players that have been able to consistently play at a high intensity for four quarters," he said.
"We'll make as many changes as we need until we get the right 22 to compete for us and eventually get us over the line for a win. Whether that's the changes we make this week, next week or the week after, we'll soon find out."
The Power started well in their last two games against Collingwood and the Dogs, but faded after half time on both occasions.
Primus was hopeful the injection of class provided by Boak and Gray would help his side put together a better four-quarter performance.
"If you bring in some quality it doesn’t mean that the intensity is going to be maintained, but it gives you a greater chance of doing it," Primus said.
"We think we're a bit more settled down back and we've got a bit more depth through the midfield and that's probably the main area where we haven't been able to keep out intensity up."
