AFL Trading Week Starts Now
The AFL has a small window for player movement, 10:30am today until 2:00pm Friday. With players on holidays in other countries, a team without a coach and player managers trying to get their money it is hard for trades to be made. But this year could have a lot of trades, especially for Brisbane.
Every year there is a player or two who hold up the entire process, every team is waiting until the end in case a better offer comes along. That is why a lot of the trades are made official in the last hour on Friday. Tarrant and Everitt seem to have a narrow list so they may get traded earlier in the week. But players like Polak, Bradshaw and Notting could have 10 teams going after them. With teams wanting to keep their first rounders this year it will take a while for trades to happen, and some won't get done in time too.
Every evening of trade week I will have a review of the day's news, which will often just be clubs saying "he's a required player" and the player manager's annual line of "it's a meat market". Every official trade will have a huge analysis, and after trade week concludes a big list of the winners and losers of the week will be posted.
Here are some notes about players reportedly saying where they want to go:
Bret Thornton (Carlton): Hawthorn
Peter Everitt (Hawthorn): Sydney, Adelaide
Jason Akermanis (Brisbane): Western Bulldogs
Andrew McDougall (West Coast): Western Bulldogs
Ashley McGrath (Brisbane): Fremantle
Matthew Moody (Brisbane): Fremantle
Chris Tarrant (Collingwood): West Coast, Fremantle
Graham Polak (Fremantle): out of Perth
Jason Johnson (Essendon): Fremantle, Melbourne
Every year there is a player or two who hold up the entire process, every team is waiting until the end in case a better offer comes along. That is why a lot of the trades are made official in the last hour on Friday. Tarrant and Everitt seem to have a narrow list so they may get traded earlier in the week. But players like Polak, Bradshaw and Notting could have 10 teams going after them. With teams wanting to keep their first rounders this year it will take a while for trades to happen, and some won't get done in time too.
Every evening of trade week I will have a review of the day's news, which will often just be clubs saying "he's a required player" and the player manager's annual line of "it's a meat market". Every official trade will have a huge analysis, and after trade week concludes a big list of the winners and losers of the week will be posted.
Here are some notes about players reportedly saying where they want to go:
Bret Thornton (Carlton): Hawthorn
Peter Everitt (Hawthorn): Sydney, Adelaide
Jason Akermanis (Brisbane): Western Bulldogs
Andrew McDougall (West Coast): Western Bulldogs
Ashley McGrath (Brisbane): Fremantle
Matthew Moody (Brisbane): Fremantle
Chris Tarrant (Collingwood): West Coast, Fremantle
Graham Polak (Fremantle): out of Perth
Jason Johnson (Essendon): Fremantle, Melbourne
