Burgoyne played 157 games for Port Adelaide, including the club’s maiden premiership in 2004, but decided to leave the club at the end of last season, citing a burning desire to play in Melbourne.
The 27-year-old had a slow start to his career as a Hawk because of injury but has played an important role in the club’s form reversal over the past three weeks.
Cornes said Port Adelaide players harboured no ill feeling towards Burgoyne, despite the former vice-captain’s shock decision to leave Alberton.
“We’ve got a lot of respect for Shaun with what he’s done for this footy club and what a great player he was. On the weekend he’ll just be part of a midfield for Hawthorn that’s probably up there with the best midfields in the comp and he really compliments them,” Cornes said on Tuesday.
“We’ll put some time into preparing for their midfield and Shaun’s one of those players that we’ll need to spend a little bit of time on.”
The Port Adelaide players had a light training session at Alberton on Tuesday before being ordered to go home and freshen up after playing in tough conditions in Darwin and in torrential rain at AAMI Stadium in consecutive weeks.
Steve Salopek (shoulder) and Cameron Hitchcock (shoulder) both took part in the short session, but will need to pass fitness tests later in the week before being considered for the clash with Hawthorn.
Ruckman Dean Brogan (back), forward Brett Ebert (concussion) and defender Nathan Krakouer (groin) are also rated as a ‘test’ on the club’s official injury list.
Forwards Daniel Motlop (club suspension) and Jason Davenport (AFL suspension) are eligible for selection, while injury-ravaged midfielder Hamish Hartlett (quad) could also be recalled to the team.
The Power were able to train indoors on their new artificial lawn surface on Tuesday.
The indoor training facility is complete with ground markings and will even boast goalposts when they are installed in the coming weeks.
Cornes said the new facility was the perfect place to train when the players only needed a light run.
“The new facility has been a long time waiting and the way they’ve done it is brilliant … it’s probably up there with the best in the AFL,” he said.
“It’s going to give us a great advantage to be able to train in here on days when it’s wet or just to do extra work and goalkicking. You can probably nearly run normal skills sessions in here if it’s windy or if we’re just having a light session.
“It’s big enough to do lane [work] and a bit of game play as well because there are markings on the oval. It gives us an opportunity to do some tactical stuff, some walk-throughs and some strategic stuff as well.”
Port Adelaide has hit a wall after its promising start to the season, losing three games in succession.
Cornes said it was important the Power rediscovered their consistency across four quarters against the Hawks, who are on a three-game winning streak.
“The last three weeks have been disappointing and we’re trying to figure out how to bring that consistency every week because when we’ve done that we’ve showed that we can beat pretty much any team in the competition.”
