Brisbane youngster James Aish is high on the Crows' wish-list. Picture: Darren England Source: News Corp Australia
JAMES Aish is understood to have moved to the top of the Crows' recruiting wishlist after they missed out on Giants star Jeremy Cameron.
Adelaide is poised to continue to be aggressive in its pursuit of a big fish from a rival club, despite it still having to close business deals for two of its own stars – gun midfielders Patrick Dangerfield and Rory Sloane.
And Croweater Aish, whose family is football royalty in SA and who falls out of contract at Brisbane at the end of the season, now sits at the top of the pecking order.
Aish, 20, has so far resisted the Lions' attempts to re-sign him, although they are reportedly set to offer the dual Norwood premiership midfielder – nephew of 1981 Magarey Medallist Michael Aish – a lucrative, new three-year deal worth about $1.2 million at the end of the month.
This is a figure the Crows should be able to blow out of the water.
Adelaide yesterday refused to confirm its interest in Giants key forward Cameron, who has signed a five-year, $4 million deal to stay in Sydney.
A club spokesman said "our club doesn't discuss ongoing contract negotiations about its players or talk about rival players in a public forum. That's not the way we do business''.
But industry sources say the Crows were one of up to a dozen clubs queuing for Cameron's prized signature and first made contact with his management team midway through last season as they look to replace their former gun forward Kurt Tippett, who joined Sydney in 2012.
Reports of Adelaide offering the 21-year-old Cameron a mega seven-year, $7 million deal – such as that handed to former Giants forward Tom Boyd by the Western Bulldogs last season – are wrong.
However they did throw plenty of money at the athletic left-footer, who has kicked 120 goals in 51 games and was an All-Australian in 2013.
Victorian Cameron's decision to re-sign with GWS was the second recruiting blow suffered by the Crows in a week.
On Monday, former Adelaide key defender Phil Davis inked a two-year contract extension with the Giants, where he is co-captain.
The Crows had been hoping to entice him back to the club at the end of the year, despite the fact he walked out on them to join GWS in 2011.
Adelaide head of football David Noble admitted the club's interest in Davis "because of his size, nature and position he plays''.
Noble said the Crows had "100-odd expat SA guys on our books all the time'', including Aish, who played 21 games in his debut season last year after being selected at pick seven at the 2013 national draft.
Adelaide has displayed plenty of aggression in the recruiting market since losing Tippett. It responded by signing brilliant small forward Eddie Betts from Carlton as a free agent at the end of 2013 and he had a standout first year at the Crows, leading the club's goalkicking with 51.
Under new coach Phil Walsh and new chief executive Andrew Fagan, Adelaide has been instructed to be even more aggressive with its recruiting.
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