Geelong great Jimmy Bartel spotted touring Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide’s search for a new head of football boss is well underway with a triple premiership Geelong great Jimmy Bartel spotted at Alberton Oval.

Bartel was been given a tour of Port Adelaide HQ when he was recently in Adelaide.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Jimmy Bartel spotted at Port Adelaide.

7NEWS sports presenter Andrew Hayes said Bartel (a Hall of Famer and a Brownlow medallist) caught up with the club’s decision-makers as the Power cast their “net far and wide” in search of Chris Davies’ replacement.

Carlton is overhauling their football department and at the start of September it was revealed that Davies had joined the Blues as their new general manager of football.

Hayes said the Bartel “meeting was informal and 7NEWS understands that the Power is in no hurry to lock away a new footy GM”.

“Bartel, the AFL Hall of Famer, spent five years as GWS football director before departing at the end of 2024,” Hayes said.

“Hawthorn development coach and former Westies (West Adelaide) boss Andy Collins has also held discussions with the club about a new role but that won’t progress any further while the Hawks are still in the finals.”

Meanwhile, new assistant coach Luke Webster arrived from Perth confident the Power can immediately bounce back after an underwhelming season.

Webster was an assistant coach at West Coast and a former teammate of Port’s new coach Josh Carr.

Webster said he was excited about the challenge ahead and called Port Adelaide’s midfield group “one of the best in the comp”.

“It’s probably been a work in progress for a couple of years, but what really excited me is every time that I’ve coached against Port Adelaide, they’ve been a really tough challenge,” he said.

“And then the excitement of a new coach, the playing list starting to turn over, some young talent coming through, plus the guys that are already here is something that really drew me to come here.

He said he decided to move to Port after 10 years at the Eagles, which included their 2018 premiership season.

“It probably just didn’t work out last year. The opportunities that were presented to me at some other clubs, and then obviously, what you guys were working through here at Port Adelaide, it just probably didn’t quite work last year.

“I kept in contact with Chris (Davies) over the last year, and then obviously met up with Carry (Josh Carr) as well too, which was really good, and it was the right fit for me.

“I’d been at West Coast for 10 years and it was my turn to try and look at something different and get something new for myself and my career.”

Webster will take charge of Part Adelaide’s backline with no announcement yet on the club’s midfield coach.