{"id":186957,"date":"2025-10-03T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:03:10","slug":"blues-now-hold-top-10-selection-two-first-round-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186957\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues now hold top 10 selection, two first round picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Carlton Football Club has acquired two first round selections as part of the free agency compensation it has received for the departures of Tom De Koning and Jack Silvagni.\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Carlton Football Club has acquired two first round selections as part of the free agency compensation it has received for the departures of Tom De Koning and Jack Silvagni.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carltonfc.com.au\/news\/1908790\/blues-acquire-first-round-selection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After receiving pick No.19 earlier today<\/a> for unrestricted free agent Jack Silvagni, the Club has also acquired a top 10 selection in this year\u2019s draft, currently pick No.9, for the departure of Tom De Koning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a restricted free agent, the Club was not prepared to match the terms of De Koning\u2019s contract offer and as a result has acquired the high-end selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Club now currently holds selections 9 and 20 in the first round of this year\u2019s draft, as well as picks No. 39, 47 and 65.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carlton Head of List Management Nick Austin said obtaining multiple first round selections will play a key role in the Club\u2019s list management strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReceiving picks 9\u00a0and 19 obviously strengthens our draft hand considerably,\u201d Austin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple first round selections is a great position for us to be in ahead of November\u2019s draft and we will look to maximise these assets accordingly in line with our overall list management strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carlton Football Club has acquired two first round selections as part of the free agency compensation it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-186957","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186957","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=186957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}