Sydney Swans ruck/forward Jesse White is continuing his dalliance with Adelaide with the Herald Sun reporting he is on his way to the City of Churches to meet with Crows coach Brenton Sanderson for discussions over a move to the club in 2013.

Sanderson will be arriving back home today after a sport nut's dream holiday on the west coast of the US, where he had a sideline pass for the San Francisco 49ers-New York Giants NFL game at Candlestick Park last Sunday and good seats for the San Francisco Giants-St Louis Cardinals baseball playoff game the next day.

But the affairs of the Crows will be foremost in his mind once he touches down on Thursday and if the conversations go well with White, then the Kurt Tippett deal will likely get done.

Tippett will be reunited with the family in Sydney that we only recently discovered he had, while in return, Adelaide will receive Sydney's first-round draft selection, expected to be about pick 21 or 22 and White, the 24-year-old, 196cm key forward who played just three games for the Swans in 2012 and was not close to selection during the finals.

Sydney Swans CEO Andrew Ireland said a move that would bring Tippett to the Swans was edging closer.

"We think it's getting closer and hope there is some news by the end of the week," Ireland told the Herald Sun.

"David Noble (Adelaide list manager) and Kinnear Beatson have been working through the issues and there are some things that need to be ticked off.

"Brenton Sanderson arrives back in Adelaide (today) and that will allow some of the things that need to be finalised to be done."

Barring something unforeseen, the Tippett deal is the biggest still yet to go down in Gillette AFL Trade Period, which finishes at the end of next week.

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