{"id":188839,"date":"2025-10-04T03:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188839\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T03:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:32:20","slug":"collingwood-forward-set-to-join-victorian-rival-afl-trade-news-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188839\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood forward set to join Victorian rival: AFL trade news &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/introducing-myteam-your-club-your-news-your-way-166070\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"327\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"my-team-banner promo-article-banner\" id=\"my-team-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ZH-InArticleMyTeamLink.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collingwood veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/brody-mihocek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brody Mihocek<\/a> is set to join Melbourne this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>An unrestricted free agent, Mihocek can depart the Magpies in favour of a move elsewhere with no restrictions in place from his current club.<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood confirmed Mihocek&#8217;s intentions on Saturday, with list management lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/coaches\/justin-leppitsch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Leppitsch<\/a> thanking the veteran forward for his contribution to the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrody has played a key role within our football program over the past eight years, and we thank him for his contribution to the black and white,\u201d Leppitsch said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe respect Brody&#8217;s decision to pursue his free agency rights and explore opportunities at Melbourne. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish him, his partner Polly and their son Arthur all the best for this next chapter. As a 2023 Premiership player, Brody will always be a Collingwood person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The details of Mihocek&#8217;s contract with the Demons will decide whether the Magpies receive compensation for his departure, and what range the selection will fall into if compensation is triggered.<\/p>\n<p>Mihocek joins Melbourne as a premiership player and five-time leading goalkicker for the Magpies, with the 32-year-old playing 159 games since being recruited as a mature-aged draftee in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Melbourne product has kicked 267 goals in his time in the top flight, booting 34 or more goals in five of his eight seasons with Collingwood.<\/p>\n<p>Mihocek&#8217;s move to the Demons will come in the same period that sees Melbourne attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/charlie-spargo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Spargo<\/a> head to North Melbourne, with any free agency compensation for that change to potentially be diluted by the signing of Mihocek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood veteran Brody Mihocek is set to join Melbourne this off-season. An unrestricted free agent, Mihocek can depart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-188839","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\/188839","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=188839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}