Daniel Talia agrees to three-year contract extension with the Adeliade Crows Footballer Daniel Talia has agreed to a three-year contract extension with the Crows. RISING Star winner and young Crows defender Daniel Talia has signed a three-year contract extension to stay at the Adelaide Football Club until the end of the 2016 AFL season. The Victorian-born centre half-back joins lead ruckman Sam Jacobs in making a lönger commitment to the Crows this month. Talia's signature to a long-term deal was a priority of Adelaide's list-management team that has spent the summer assessing how the Crows list must be kept together to counter the hits the club has taken at the draft in the wake of the Kurt Tippett scandal. Adelaide chairman Rob Chapman announced Talia's signing at the Crows' season launch at West Lakes this evening. Talia emerged as a consistent key defender last season when the Crows were forced to play him at centre half-back after losing Nathan Bock and Phil Davis to expansion franchises Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney respectively. Adelaide tonight also honoured inaugural Crows coach Graham Cornes with life membership despite his tenure at the club being for just four years (1991-1994) rather than the regulation 10 required for club life membership. Chapman recognised Cornes' work as the club's first coach was equal to a decade's work and his continued support of the Crows as an ambassador gave merit to his selection as a life member under exceptional circumstances. Cornes stunned the 750 guests at the launch by saying it was a good decision by the Crows' board to sack him at the end of the 1994 season because had he stayed he would have blocked the trade Adelaide made with Fremantle to secure Andrew McLeod for forward Chris Groom. While Groom never made his mark at the Dockers, McLeod became a club hero at Adelaide with two Norm Smith Medals from the 1997 and 1998 grand finals.