{"id":116785,"date":"2025-09-03T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116785\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:00:07","slug":"dean-cox-asked-about-charlie-curnow-meeting-and-tom-papley-comments-amid-swans-interest-in-blues-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116785\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Cox asked about Charlie Curnow meeting and Tom Papley comments amid Swans interest in Blues star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney coach Dean Cox has refused to confirm he met with wantaway Carlton star Charlie Curnow, but insists his club won\u2019t stop at anything to improve its list.<\/p>\n

The Swans loom as a potential central figure of this year\u2019s AFL exchange period, with the club heavily linked to Curnow, who\u2019s reportedly determined to get out of Carlton, despite being contracted to the Blues until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n

Reports last week stated Curnow requested a trade at his exit interview, two months after speculation emerged he was considering his future.<\/p>\n

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Blues coach Michael Voss on Monday declared Curnow will \u201cbe at Carlton in 2026\u201d<\/a>, but hours later it was suggested Curnow was willing to take a pay cut to leave and didn\u2019t have a great relationship with Voss.<\/p>\n

7News Melbourne reported earlier this week Curnow had met with Swans coach Cox about a potential trade prior to flying out to the USA for holidays.<\/p>\n

Asked directly on SEN Breakfast on Thursday morning whether he\u2019d met with Curnow, Cox said: \u201cI think you know I won\u2019t talk about anything that does or doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one thing that I\u2019ve always thought \u2026 if you do have meetings, or if you don\u2019t even have them, everything is done behind closed doors and that\u2019s the way we\u2019ll keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s expected the Swans will look to bolster their forward stocks in the coming months.<\/p>\n

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Asked if Curnow was a player he would like to recruit to Sydney, Cox said: \u201cI think any player where they\u2019re out of contract or they\u2019re open to a trade \u2026 we have to improve our list.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re 12-11, we\u2019re not playing football this weekend, which is our ultimate goal. No matter who it is, we need to make sure we scour around the competition for players we think will benefit our football club.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom there, the logistics that happen \u2026 is it attainable through trade, draft and what we have to do through that process? There\u2019s a lot of work but a lot of hypotheticals as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swans star Tom Papley this week said he would \u201clove for it (a Curnow-Swans move) to happen\u201d, but rejected the idea of being part of a trade with Carlton for him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Papley, contracted until 2028, requested a move to the Blues in the 2019 trade period but the Swans held him to his contract, instead enjoying the small forward\u2019s growth into a three-time club leading goalkicker and 2021 All-Australian.<\/p>\n

His interest in a return to Victoria has seen him floated in trade conversations since, with Papley confirming on his podcast, The Early Crow, he\u2019d spoken to his manager after Curnow\u2019s management approached Papley\u2019s people around his interest in being part of a trade.<\/p>\n

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Cox said he was pleased Papley wanted a big name to come to his club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think players want as many great players as they can at football clubs to play alongside,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey understand that and the ramifications that come with that and that someone just doesn\u2019t come knocking and walk in your door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cox said any trade play for a big-name rival player would be driven by the club\u2019s list management department, but suggested player leaders would be brought in later in the process if needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe players \u2014 and they\u2019ll be the same at every club \u2014 they here a little bit of the whispers and ask: \u2018Is there any truth in this rumour? What\u2019s happening here?\u2019 They want to know as much as they possibly can as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the further you go through any process, you might speak to some of the leaders. But before that, we\u2019ve got to make sure it\u2019s the right thing for our footy club what we do with the list demographic, but also what it costs to get players in as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney coach Dean Cox has refused to confirm he met with wantaway Carlton star Charlie Curnow, but insists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,2095,64,63,689,55,639,3423,82688,1129,82683,12148,81333,1119,667,681,82686,82685,82687,3257,2041,2067,677,25172,85,82684,7200,82689,11236,1133,2614,660],"class_list":["post-116785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-big-name-rival-player","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-closed-doors","tag-dean-cox","tag-exchange-period","tag-football-club","tag-footy-club","tag-jon-ralph","tag-list-demographic","tag-list-management-department","tag-meeting-rumour","tag-michael-voss","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-pay-cut","tag-sports","tag-suggested-player-leaders","tag-sydney-swans","tag-trade-conversations","tag-trade-news","tag-trade-period","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}