Twin All-Australian defender Dan Houston says he is staying at Port Adelaide and rejecting overtures to hitch rival golf equipment in Melbourne.
The Victorian-born Houston had been rumoured to be in search of a commerce regardless of being contracted at Port till the top of the 2028 season.
A number of Melbourne-based golf equipment had been pitching to signal the 27-year-old, who on Thursday evening earnt his second All Australian blazer.
However Houston, whose season has been ended by a five-game suspension which guidelines him out of Port’s finals marketing campaign, says he is not leaving Alberton.
“I’m contracted and I completely love the footy membership, I really like being in Adelaide,” Houston advised Adelaide radio station 5AA on Friday.
“My focus particularly within the subsequent 5 weeks helps this staff push for finals and get them in the very best situation and do no matter I must across the membership to assist them.
“I’m not leaving subsequent yr.
“I’m contracted, I would not have signed the contract if I wasn’t eager on Adelaide and eager on Port Adelaide and I really like the place, I really like the footy membership and the footy membership have been good to me.”
Houston was banned for 5 matches for a bump which knocked out Adelaide’s Izak Rankine two weeks in the past.
After he was suspended, Port went to the AFL appeals board however didn’t have the size of his ban decreased.
Houston mentioned the help from the Energy “reaffirmed” his dedication to the membership.
“They’ve at all times acquired my again and so they have at all times been actually supportive of me,” he mentioned.
“They did all the things that they might to try to assist me throughout that interval whether or not it was interesting or whether or not it was simply even on the membership getting round me, the boys have been magnificent and I can not complain in any respect.”
AAP
