Port Adelaide legend Kane Cornes does not believe St Kilda star Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera will leave the Saints to join the Power for 2026.
The 22-year-old is currently tossing up between staying at St Kilda or returning home to South Australia with either Port Adelaide or Adelaide.
Wanganeen-Milera has become one of the league's best players in 2025, and he almost single-handedly won St Kilda the game against Melbourne on Sunday with two goals in the last nine seconds.
After that match, the St Kilda star was seen celebrating the win while sitting a top of Saints coach Ross Lyon's shoulders at a function at the Brighton Hotel.
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— Tom Morris (@tommorris32) July 28, 2025
Cornes feels that everything he is seeing from Wanganeen-Milera and his team-mates suggests the player is going to stay at St Kilda.
"That just doesn't look like a player who is leaving to me," Cornes said on the Agenda Setters.
"It is completely different to [the behaviour] of De Koning at Carlton, who looks like on the field he has checked out and then emotionally checked out.
"I just cannot for the life of me see him leaving this footy club - the love from his team-mates, how invested he is on game day.
"Off the field, they got to sell that to him. It's not just a blank cheque, the money, you got to sell the emotion and the vision of where this footy club is going and what he can be for this club."
St Kilda are believed to favourite to secure Wanganeen-Milera on a two-year-deal with journalist Caroline Wilson suggesting the Saints contract offer has grown since she last reported on it.
"They have already upped the ante from the $1.4 million (a season contract) I reported last week which was accurate at the time," Wilson said on the Agenda Setters.