SA-BORN Gold Coast ruckman-forward Daniel Gorringe is unlikely to deal with Port Adelaide again declaring the Power failed him — “lied to me” — during the AFL trade talks.

Gorringe, 22, was left compelled to return to the Suns to fulfil the last year on his contract on Thursday when the 11-day trade period closed without a homecoming trade to SA, in particular the Power.

“They let me down,” Gorringe told The Advertiser yesterday.

“Port Adelaide did promise things to me — and I don’t like being lied to.

“I’m disgusted — and embarrassed — particularly when I fulfilled my end of the bargain, 100 per cent.”

Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas told The Advertiser his club never misled Gorringe during a complicated trade period.

“We understand that Dan is disappointed but let’s get one thing straight, we do not lie; that is not the way our club does business,” Thomas said.

“We did make it clear to his manager during the trade period that we were keen to get him here to Port Adelaide and we don’t shy away from that.

“We tried to do everything we could to get the deal done. Right up until the absolute deadline we were fighting tooth and nail to try to make it happen.

“Unfortunately the nature of trade period is unpredictable and erratic and we were simply unable to get the deal done in the end.

“Despite the uncertainty we kept Dan’s management team well informed through the entire process and share Dan’s disappointment that he won’t be at Port Adelaide next season.”

The Power focused on one trade — the best in the club’s 17-year AFL history — securing contracted Essendon ruckman-forward Paddy Ryder. But the price of dealing with the Bombers — both in time and in Port Adelaide’s top-two draft picks 17 and 37 — left the Power without time nor bargaining chips to secure Gorringe.

Gold Coast needed a draft pick inside the first 29 calls of next month’s AFL national draft to release Gorringe, a first-round draftee in 2010, to the Power.

Port Adelaide list manager Jason Cripps emphasised the Power was handcuffed by the Ryder deal.

He also highlighted how Gorringe had backed out of a deal with the Power at the end of last season.

“We did everything we could to bring Dan (Gorringe) in, but it made it very difficult that he was contracted,” he said.

“We spoke to Dan this time last year when he was out of contract and we progressed a fair way, but he changed his mind.

“We were looking at other clubs to get the deal done, but it just didn’t work out in the end.”

Gorringe told The Advertiser he had spoken to Power officials on Wednesday and was left to believe Port Adelaide could work a trade for him, regardless of the Ryder talks with Essendon.

The former Norwood SANFL league player wanted a homecoming trade for family reasons. His other AFL option in Adelaide — the Crows — did not open up despite Phil Walsh’s need to replace delisted ruckmen Shaun McKernan and Angus Graham.

“I had a brief chat to them (the Crows), but they were going in a different direction,” Gorringe said.

The Power has declared an interest in chasing 20-game Gorringe as an uncontracted player in next year’s trade period. But that task is difficult now.

“It is hard for me to see myself in Port Adelaide colours now,” Gorringe said.

“The trust with the club is broken. It is going to be very hard to rebuild that. I’m disgusted — so is my manager.”

Gorringe’s disgust also is with Gold Coast fans who have targeted him on social media.

“They have described me as a brat and say I don’t like the Gold Coast,” Gorringe said.

“That is wrong. I wanted to come home for family reasons - not because I’m a brat or I don’t work hard or I have problems with the Gold Coast.

“I love the Gold Coast. I enjoy being with the Suns — and am in Melbourne with my Suns teammates for the Caulfield Cup. I also work hard, so I wanted to clear my side.”

In a tweet posted on Thursday, Gorringe says: “Let’s get this very clear. I am more than happy to be a member of the Suns in 2015 and I look forward to continued success and growth.

“For family reasons I requested to go home ... People tweeting, don’t you dare question my work rate, personality or anything else. You don’t know me or anything regarding my personal life.”