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\u2018ABSOLUTELY OUT THE DOOR\u2019: SAINT\u2019S BIG BACKFLIP<\/p>\n
St Kilda is set to have another trade period win, with Nine\u2019s Sam McClure reporting in-demand midfielder Marcus Windhager has changed his mind and will stay at the club.<\/p>\n
Windhager has been strongly linked to an exit with GWS, North Melbourne and Melbourne among those making a play for the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n
But an improved offer to the out-of-contract young gun is set to see him reject the Kangaroos, who he was going to join on a five-year deal, according to McClure on the Tradies Podcast.<\/p>\n
Windhager is instead expected to sign an improved deal at St Kilda, who were offering him a four-year contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cWindhager\u2019s staying,\u201d McClure said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you\u2019ll find that Marcus Windhager will agree to new terms with St Kilda.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last couple of weeks he\u2019s done the full 180. He was absolutely out the door and going to North.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Melbourne had a good look. And I think you\u2019ll find that Ross and SOS have turned him back.\u201d<\/p>\n
His co-host, Seven\u2019s Mitch Cleary, claimed Melbourne were still in the race for the midfielder.<\/p>\n
The Saints are by far the busiest team this trade period with Tom De Koning and Jack Silvagni to join as free agents, and Liam Ryan and Leek Aleer requesting trades to Moorabbin.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve also been linked to Gold Coast midfielder Sam Flanders while star ruckman Rowan Marshall has spoken with Geelong about a move due to De Koning\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n
Dal Santo rules out Lions premiership | 00:48<\/p>\n
TOP 2026 FREE AGENT\u2019S CONTRACT CALL<\/p>\n
One of next year\u2019s top free agents is off the market with Jack Buckley re-signing with the GWS Giants.<\/p>\n
The gun key defender has signed a four-year extension, taking him through to the end of 2030, with the club confirming the news to members this evening.<\/p>\n
Buckley would\u2019ve received multimillion-dollar offers to leave next year given the dearth of key defenders on the market but chose to recommit to the Giants.<\/p>\n
He has battled serious injuries across his time in the AFL, playing 17 games across his first five seasons due to knee issues, but has played 68 games since the start of 2023 as part of arguably the league\u2019s best key defensive partnership with Sam Taylor.<\/p>\n
However despite having Taylor and Buckley the Giants conceded the most points of any top-eight team this year, and were exploited defensively in their elimination final loss to Hawthorn, when Buckley didn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n
The Giants will be looking for more defensive depth this trade period with Leek Aleer requesting a move to St Kilda and Lachie Keeffe retiring.<\/p>\n
Buckley joins the likes of Connor Idun (2032), Aaron Cadman (2030), Finn Callaghan (2029) and Toby Bedford (2029) on long-term deals in orange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda is set for another big trade period win, with claims a gun midfielder has backflipped amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-129736","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\/129736","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=129736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}