Cornes: The five teams you don't want to be for the next five years

SEN • May 19th, 2025 2:21 pm

SEN's Kane Cornes has listed the five teams he would least like to be over the next five years.

After 10 rounds of football this season, the competition's best sides and strongest groups of youngsters have established form, marking a strong indication as to where the present and future of each club lies.

Coming in from fifth to first, Cornes identified the sides he believes will struggle to compete over the next five seasons, primarily judging the lists and potential top-quality players that could come through at the respective clubs.

See Cornes' ranking below:

5 – GWS Giants

“I don’t know if I’d love to be the Giants," Cornes said on SEN's Fireball.

“What’s coming through for the Giants? What does the future look like? What are their prospects of recruiting players to the club to go and play at GWS.

“Where they are situated, with their travel arrangements and with their first eight or nine rounds of the season. Who wants to be a player with a family that is looking to go and play somewhere, that’s not just to save your career.

“How are they going to attract players or talent, and what’s coming through? Is Cadman going to be the number one pick? I don’t know, he’s probably going to be a good player.

“But what have they got? (Finn) Callaghan and (Tom) Green, (Lachie) Ash, good half-back. He’s had a really good start to this year but he’s not yet a star of the game.

“It’s going to be hard for the Giants. They’re at number five.”

4 - Carlton

“I love their top six, I love it.

“But if (Tom) De Koning leaves, (Charlie) Curnow gets a year older, (Patrick) Cripps gets a year older, (Sam) Walsh is already pretty banged up at his age.

“What is underneath at the Blues that has them driving this club forward?

“Jagga Smith, I really like what I saw from him in the pre-season, but I don’t know if the Blues have got a whole lot of capital coming through.”

3 – St Kilda

“I don’t see anything with the Saints.

“The Saints aren’t good. I don’t see a whole lot.

“I haven’t waivered once on the Saints and where I see them.”

2 – Port Adelaide

“They are in all sorts of trouble.

“We’ve discussed their list for a long time, and that’s the reason I’ve always been complementary of Ken, for coaching with not a whole lot.

“He’s performed pretty well to get them reasonably close.

“Since 2020, this is what they’ve drafted in: Lachie Jones, not sure if he’s a 200-gamer, Ollie Lord, not sure if he’s a 200-gamer. Josh Sinn at 12 in 2021, definitely not a 200-gamer, and then there isn’t a first-round draft pick until (Joe) Berry at (Pick) 15 last year.

“The list management of this team has set them up for the biggest failure in the next five years that is going to shock the Port Adelaide fans.

“The next five years for Port Adelaide is going to be very depressing. For Zak (Butters), if success is what he’s after, I would suggest to him that it’s not going to be at Port Adelaide.”

1 – West Coast

“West Coast is at one.

“I said the same thing about Hawthorn a few years ago, I said the Hawks would be the team I’d least like to be.

“They were able to turn things around pretty quickly so that’s not set in stone.”