{"id":188683,"date":"2025-10-04T01:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188683\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T01:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:46:17","slug":"the-swan-central-to-unlocking-a-charlie-curnow-move-afl-trade-news-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188683\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swan central to unlocking a Charlie Curnow move: AFL trade news – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sydney looks the most likely to broker a trade for Carlton forward Charlie Curnow<\/a>, and Will Hayward<\/a> appears central to negotiations.<\/p>\n

Gold Coast is seemingly out of the Curnow race, given their heavy interest in successfully trading for Christian Petracca<\/a>, as well as their preliminary interest in Jamarra Ugle-Hagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Geelong, despite their uncanny ability to get difficult deals done, do not have the draft picks or willing players to send back up the highway to Ikon Park.<\/p>\n

This leaves the Swans.<\/p>\n

Hayward signed a five-year extension last year, but prior to his recommitment, he was fielding heavy interest from the Blues, as well as South Australia.<\/p>\n

He remains linked to Carlton, given the previous interest, and could help unlock a trade for Curnow.<\/p>\n

“You don’t want to be somewhere where you’re not wanted,” Hayward told\u00a0CodeSports.<\/p>\n

“There are not many other clubs that I’d want to play for. I obviously spoke with Carlton last year. I really like Vossy.<\/p>\n

“But the club hasn’t asked me, so as far as I’m concerned, I’ll still be here next year, hopefully playing with Charlie.”<\/p>\n

\"SecondPERTH, AUSTRALIA – MAY 10: Will Hayward and Sam Wicks of the Swans celebrates a goal during the 2024 AFL Round 09 match between the Fremantle Dockers and the Sydney Swans at Optus Stadium on May 10, 2024 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Carson\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Sydney is hoping to find a suitable Lance Franklin<\/a> replacement, after the legendary goalkicker retired at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n

Joel Amartey<\/a> and Hayden McLean<\/a> have been holding down the fort, but through injury and form troubles, have failed to take meaningful strides towards stardom.<\/p>\n

Former Pick 6 Logan McDonald<\/a> sat out the entire 2025 season with a grumbly ankle, and once loomed as an exciting prospect, although he has yet to reach the heights of his potential.<\/p>\n

Peter Ladhams<\/a> and Aaron Francis<\/a> have also been used up forward to fill the voids, as has Joel Hamling<\/a> in defensive roles.<\/p>\n

Promising youngster Jack Buller<\/a> played nine games in 2025, but is poised to request a trade to Collingwood.<\/p>\n

The 2025 free agency period opened on Friday, October 3, while the trade period opens on Monday, October 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney looks the most likely to broker a trade for Carlton forward Charlie Curnow, and Will Hayward appears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-188683","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\/188683","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=188683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}