PORT Adelaide midfielder Kane Cornes has confirmed he won't be retaining his vice-captaincy in 2010.

The Power's off-field leadership structure was overhauled post-season with the appointment of former women's national basketball coach Jan Stirling and Jenny Williams, the sister of senior coach Mark.

The side had finished 2009 with Domenic Cassisi, Shaun Burgoyne, Brendon Lade, Dean Brogan, Josh Carr, Daniel Motlop, Steven Salopek and Chad and Kane Cornes in the leadership group, but a much smaller contingent will have those roles next year.

Cassisi is expected to remain captain, however, the Cornes brothers and Motlop have been excluded.

Carr and Salopek are also unlikely to hold their spots after struggling for form and fitness this year.

Lade has retired while Burgoyne was traded to Hawthorn.

Cornes, 26, said he expected promising emerging players Travis Boak, Alipate Carlile, Robbie Gray and Jacob Surjan to have greater responsibility next season.

"I had five or six great years in the leadership group and really enjoyed my time, but probably with the stage the footy club is at and how young the group is it's time to give someone else a go," Cornes said.

"We need to develop these guys as quick as we can because that's going to be the best thing for the footy club going forward. It's pretty exciting with the new leadership structure.

"The players have really bought into it and I'm looking forward to leading by example like I think I always try to and my role won’t change a great deal."

All of Port Adelaide's players, including new recruits Cameron Cloke and Scott Harding, visited Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital on Thursday afternoon.

Cornes, who has spent a number of nights in the hospital with his son Eddy, organised for each player to donate $50 towards a television for the kids on the fourth floor.

"The facilities here aren't that fantastic and the funding for these sorts of things doesn't come around that often," he said.

"I just thought it would be great for the kids in here to get a 50-inch TV in their play area.

"Hopefully it gives them some joy on Christmas Day."

Injured onballer David Rodan, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament at training on Wednesday, was the only player excused from the hospital visit.

The Power are currently looking into whether Rodan is a suitable candidate for the LARS procedure, which was successful for Sydney Swan Nick Malceski.

The procedure, which uses synthetic fibres to reconstruct the knee, could cut Rodan's recovery time to as little as 12 weeks.

A traditional reconstruction would put a line through his season.

Cornes said he backed Rodan to make a successful comeback, regardless of which procedure he had.

"D-Rod (Rodan) is one of our better players and one of the real shining lights at our footy club in terms of his personality because he just gets everyone up. To have him go down was pretty shattering," Cornes said.

"You try and be as optimistic as you can and he's done it all before, so he knows what he has to go through.

"The way he came back from the first one was brilliant and if he can do that again it will be a credit to him."