{"id":122523,"date":"2025-09-06T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122523\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:16:08","slug":"follow-afl-finals-week-1-elimination-final-scores-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-the-engie-stadium-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122523\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow AFL finals week 1 elimination final scores, results, odds, squads and start time from the Engie Stadium in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Coast premiership forward Liam Ryan has nominated St Kilda as his preferred club of choice for season 2026.<\/p>\n

Ryan, 28, completed a successful medical assessment this week with the Saints, and is now keen to move to Melbourne on a three-year deal competition sources estimate to be worth about $600,000 a season.<\/p>\n

\"Collingwood<\/p>\n

Collingwood midfielder Steele Sidebottom tackles Liam Ryan of the Eagles.Credit: Paul Rovere<\/p>\n

A source close to Ryan confirmed to this masthead on Saturday his decision to nominate the Saints ahead of the annual trade period, beginning October 6.<\/p>\n

As he remains contracted to the Eagles until the end of 2026, the two clubs will need to broker a trade. There is also a trigger for a fourth year of the deal.<\/p>\n

Ryan was linked with a move to Moorabbin through the season.<\/p>\n

Should a deal be done, it will add to a major off-season splurge by the Saints, who are poised to secure unrestricted Carlton free agent Jack Silvagni and his teammate Tom De Koning, the latter in an eight-year deal worth about $13 million.<\/p>\n

The Saints are also pursuing Greater Western Sydney defender Leek Aleer, with Ross Lyon in Sydney on Saturday watching the Giants\u2019 elimination final against Hawthorn.<\/p>\n

Leek has been linked with the Saints all season, with the Saints offering a four-year deal worth about $3 million.<\/p>\n

Competition sources have also linked the Saints to Gold Coast defender Sam Flanders, who has two years to run on his contract, and Hawthorn midfielder Cam Mackenzie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast premiership forward Liam Ryan has nominated St Kilda as his preferred club of choice for season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-122523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122523","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=122523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}