he opted to halt his own contract negotiations<\/a>, with a view to seek clarity on whether he could play a more attacking key defensive role in 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\nIt came amid suggestions McVee was attracting interest from the WA-based clubs.<\/p>\n
But Ralph said the more likely outcome now is that McVee re-signs at Melbourne.<\/p>\n
\u201cSteven King has got a busy week ahead \u2013 the new Melbourne coach is the Geelong assistant \u2013 but he has met with McVee,\u201d Ralph told Midweek Tackle.<\/p>\n
Dillon admits Brownlow ‘progress’ needed | 02:09<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s trending more towards his management coming across in coming days and potentially getting a deal done on a deal that\u2019s been sitting there for the whole season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that meeting (with King) went really positively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ralph also reported Fremantle was set to re-sign forward duo Patrick Voss and Sam Switkowski, who are both contracted until 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe club will try to get both of those done and believes they\u2019ll do so with minimum fuss,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course the \u2018Prancing Pony\u2019 (Voss) with his great season has some cache, some leverage. But they were the club that backed him in.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a Perth girlfriend, he\u2019s very much entrenched. Expect to see that one done in coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prospect of losing big-name players has rival clubs pondering making a play for a young Gold Coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12259,64,63,689,3423,108310,1129,16686,91124,31212,106613,108316,77602,27292,13659,2485,25532,108315,681,40511,108311,37340,673,677,42263,12156,12922,108314,701,108312,108313,71141,85,79260,670,11236,1133,86126,28457,12920,108317],"class_list":["post-164493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andrew-dillon","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-big-name-players","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-contract-calls","tag-contract-decisions","tag-contract-negotiations","tag-day-coverage","tag-deal-means","tag-draft-hand","tag-four-year-contract-extension","tag-geelong-cats","tag-gold-coast","tag-graham-wright","tag-home-sickness","tag-jon-ralph","tag-judd-mcvee","tag-key-defensive-role","tag-maiden-finals-berth","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-out-of-contract-player","tag-patrick-voss","tag-player-movement-news","tag-promising-progress","tag-queensland","tag-real-reservations","tag-rival-club-interest","tag-sam-switkowski","tag-sports","tag-steven-king","tag-sydney","tag-trade-news","tag-trade-period","tag-trade-preference","tag-trade-update","tag-trade-whispers","tag-tricky-cats-prospect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164493","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=164493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}