{"id":174491,"date":"2025-09-28T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174491\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:39:07","slug":"melbourne-defender-judd-mcvee-requests-trade-to-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174491\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne defender Judd McVee requests trade to WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/melbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> defender Judd McVee has finally made a decision on his future, requesting a trade back to Western Australia, according to\u00a0AFL.com.au&#8217;s Cal Twomey.<\/p>\n<p>McVee has nominated Fremantle as his preferred destination, knocking back the Demons&#8217; interest in extending his contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old had been waiting to make a decision on his future until after Melbourne appointed a new senior coach, following the sacking of Simon Goodwin in August.<\/p>\n<p>A fortnight ago, the Dees gave the position to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/geelong-cats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geelong<\/a> assistant Steven King.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/news\/trade-could-facilitate-christian-petracca-out-melbourne-gold-coast\/4ccfabe7f03432b3133583b5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The trade that could facilitate Christian Petracca out of Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As reported by Twomey, the Dockers have picks 11, 29,\u00a038, 47 and 65 in this year&#8217;s draft, on top of the ability to part with their picks in the next two drafts as well.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne had reportedly been looking to lure Fremantle star Luke Jackson back to Melbourne, who he helped to a drought-breaking premiership in 2021, after he arrived at the Dockers at the start of 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But despite Jackson supposedly been weighing up a move back to Victoria, he is poised to stay put at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/fremantle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McVee struggled in an injury-interrupted season, managing just 17 games after being a noticeable out for the Demons early in the year.<\/p>\n<p>But he has shown lots of potential during his time at Melbourne, earning 16 coaches votes in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne defender Judd McVee has finally made a decision on his future, requesting a trade back to Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-174491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174491","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=174491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}