{"id":192787,"date":"2025-10-06T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:47:08","slug":"jack-steele-trade-rumours-tom-mcguane-collingwood-father-son-essendon-trade-update-whispers-rumours-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192787\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Steele trade rumours, Tom McGuane Collingwood father-son, Essendon trade update, whispers, rumours, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While St Kilda midfielder Jack Steele is keen to remain a Saint, one Victorian powerhouse has emerged as a contender for his services.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Collingwood have informed a talented father-son prospect that they won\u2019t be committing to him in the national draft.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with the latest player movement developments in AFL Trade Whispers!<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of the 2025 NAB AFL Women\u2019s Season LIVE ad-break free during play. 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For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>SAINTS MIDFIELDER KEEN TO STAY<\/p>\n<p>St Kilda midfielder Jack Steele remains \u201csteadfast\u201d on staying at the Saints, despite the club saying he was free to explore other opportunities if he desired.<\/p>\n<p>Steele stepped down from St Kilda captaincy last week but still has two years remaining on his current contract. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1436976\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to AFL Media\u2019s Cal Twomey<\/a>, Steele isn\u2019t keen to pursue a move himself, but if another club pursues him he\u2019d be more likely to consider it. <\/p>\n<p>Twomey has labelled Essendon a \u201cwatch\u201d in Steele discussions, as the Dons look to add some experience to their list given they\u2019re set to lose a wealth of experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Dons are also in the hunt for Gold Coast\u2019s Brayden Fiorini and currently have a bumper draft hand with five selections in the top 30.<\/p>\n<p>Twomey reports that West Coast and Adelaide are not expected to pursue Steele, while the Giants are more focussed on Clayton Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>Draper leaves Essendon for Lions | 00:20<\/p>\n<p>PIES OPT AGAINST FATHER-SON<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood has told father-son prospect Tom McGuane it won\u2019t be committing to him in the national draft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1436976\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AFL Media\u2019s Cal Twomey reports<\/a> that the Pies have kept the door ajar for a rookie spot, but have made no promises to the talented prospect.<\/p>\n<p>McGuane is the son of former Pie Mick and is now available in the open draft pool to the rest of the competition. <\/p>\n<p>The Western Jets product spent some time playing with Collingwood\u2019s VFL side in the back half of 2025 after averaging 28 disposals with the Jets in the Coates Talent League.<\/p>\n<p>He also performed well in the Combine testing over the weekend, where he ran a 6:20 min 2km time trial and a 2.93 second 20m sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While St Kilda midfielder Jack Steele is keen to remain a Saint, one Victorian powerhouse has emerged as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[121806,64,63,689,1135,7803,3416,121805,2526,2485,9130,12112,33348,677,1137,701,11244,85,1122,121807,121808,2535,660,3520],"class_list":["post-192787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aberdeen-football-club","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-cal-twomey","tag-clayton-oliver","tag-coates-talent-league","tag-father-son-draft-call","tag-father-son-prospect","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-jack-steele","tag-national-draft","tag-oceania","tag-player-movement-developments","tag-queensland","tag-sam-draper","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-talented-father-son-prospect","tag-tom-mcguane-collingwood","tag-trade-rumours","tag-victoria","tag-western-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192787","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=192787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}