New Melbourne Demons coach Steven King gets to work on landing a successor to Max Gawn; Essendon captain Zach Merrett wants to get to Hawthorn; Bombers big man Sam Draper requests a trade to Brisbane Lions
A trade will need to be mediating, but the reason Heath wants to leave is the way to be the largest man of Dees on the arrival of Tom de Koning’s free agency on Moorabbin. The contract Saints Ruckman Rowan Marshall also weighs the possibility of joining Geelong.
22-year-old has shown that it could have an effect at the AFL and VFL level, so there is a possibility that he can play with Gawn on the upper side while learning from All-Australia eight times.
Saint has a long -term friendship with Windhager, another demons trading target, from the time he played Junior Football in Beaumaris.
Windhager is expected to return from the New Zealand holiday in the coming days and call for a call from the beginning of the next week. However, Windhager’s choice is to stay in St Kilda, despite the demons and North Melbourne made compelling opponents.
Melbourne again signed Tom Campbell as a Ruck Insurance, but Will Verrall, Tom Fullarton, Josh Schachhe or Kyah Farris-White is still on the list and struggled to reveal other great man options.
A season experiment with Brodie Grundy and Gawn, Wo entered 34 years of age in December, traded to Grundy and Sydney.
Clayton Oliver and Christian Petracca after Demons won Richmond in April.Credit: AFL Photos
On Monday, King’s public attitude towards Petracca and Oliver would be proud to help them return to the peak of their forces.
However, Oliver’s attempt to move to Geelong last year’s trade period was a speaking point where Gawn won the best and largest award in Demons’ club champion’s function last week. Petracca is contracted until 2029, and Oliver depends on red and blue until 2030.
Judd Mcvee, Taj Woewodin and Jack Henderson, Melbourne’s remaining non -contractual players.
Woewodin will have to wait after the trade period to explore its fate, but Henderson will be on the list of Demons next season.
Mcvee, who is an affiliation of opposition, including Western Australia’s own state, will talk to King about his role before making a call for his future.
Victoria clubs are lining up for the sun
The future of the optional Gold Coast midfielder, Advanced Sam Flanders, continues to be a source of admiration as Victoria clubs line it south.
Flanders still have two more seasons to continue in a four -year agreement signed in 2023, but this year he changed his representation of TGI Sport’s Matt Bain, and Suns List, Craig Cameron, said in a statement on Tuesday that he was interested in discovering other opportunities for the next year.
Sam Flanders is a man who is in demand among a series of Melbourne -based clubs. Credit: AFL Photos
St Kilda, Melbourne, Carlton and Essendon are among the clubs that expressed interest in the 24 -year -old child and can almost offer more midfielder minutes.
When asked about Flanders at the Promotion Media Conference on Monday, Demons coach King said: “Sam would be an amazing player in this footy club, this is certain.”
However, Gold Coast coach Damien Hardwick said that Flanders will be taken with the back injury for a large part of the season, and that they said that they were a contracted player at the club’s exit meeting.
“Great players attract attention – so wonderful, Hard Hardwick said after Suns ends in the hands of Lions on Saturday night on Saturday night.
“Sam had a difficult year. He was burning at the beginning of the year. If I was completely honest, he should probably not play half of the games he played, but he is a difficult child and I love him. Sam, one of our best players – and I don’t like to trade our best players.”
Flanders became an elite player under Hardwick, playing 23 games, including both finals in 2025, which destroyed the 12 brownlow game last season.
His teammate Connor Budarick decides to make a decision with West Bulldogs and Brisbane Lions among the 24 -year -old clubs, who are awarded with Suns this season. He played the best football in defense, but Suns’s two rebounds Dan Rioli and John Noble had great seasons in 2025.
Budarick did not demand a trade at the exit meeting that his future was on the table or elsewhere in Suns, which was a contract proposal.
Meanwhile, his teammate Rosas Jnr, Richmond, Sydney, Melbourne and Carlton will show the attention of small forward. Suns said on Tuesday that they will help Rosas Jnr that they will help facilitate a trade in the coming weeks ”.
No IFS and Butts
North Melbourne continues to monitor the contracted Crows defender Jordon Butts as a potential purchase during the next trade period, but Adelaide has a higher probability that the 25 -year -old child signed by the end of 2026 is higher.
Although North Melbourne still has eyes, it is more likely that Jordon Butts will remain crow at this stage. Credit: AFL Photos
Butts, on the 18th round, was in a good form before passing a lung pierced in a challenging victory against the Western Buldogs and did not return to the finals. In 2025, he played 10 games as a lock defender and entered Richmond’s skin for five matches for hit him on the 16th round.
However, Crows’ flat sets output and the need for competition in key positions made it more likely that the butts that will be a free agent will be in the club next season.
Experienced Advanced Taylor Walker’s future remained uncertain, while Crows expanded Hugh Bond, a defender.
Lock defenders, such as Butts, are inadequate, while the former Blue Jack Silvagni accepted a big offer to join St Kilda, while Bulldogs offered to reward the contracted All-Avustralya Callum Wilkie from St Kilda.
Sam Draper played his last match for the bombers.Credit: Getty Images
DRAPER to become a lion
Sam Draper of Essendon will participate in Brisbane Lions as an unlimited free agent during this year’s change. Ruckman, according to competition sources preferred to remain anonymous, decided to go to the north Lions gave information to the weekend.
In 2017, Draper joined Essendon’s rookie list and released in 2020 and finally played 78 games for the bombers. Achilles played only five games this season before the injury.
Captain’s calls
The desire for more midfielder, the northern melbourne captain Jy Simpkin, can see that he has not yet done a trade, and he goes to the trade period and fills with larger names.
Northern Melbourne captain Jy Simpkin wants to spend more time in the midfield.Credit: Getty Images
His name was Essendon’s Zach Merrett, Carlton’s Christian Petracca of Charlie Curnow and Melbourne, the waters (or in the case of Merrett, in the case of a difficult way), especially in the middle of the mid -field in the middle of the bombings showed interest in joining the bombings.
Hawthorn, who chased Merrett, chose the number 8 in this year’s national draft, but did not start thinking about a package for the bombing plane because Essendon declared that he did not want to trade.
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