{"id":196222,"date":"2025-10-07T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:44:10","slug":"rumours-whispers-day-two-brandon-starcevich-judd-mcvee-move-in-four-team-trade-zach-merrett-jordan-de-goey-and-bailey-humphrey-trade-situations-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196222\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumours, whispers, day two; Brandon Starcevich, Judd McVee move in four-team trade; Zach Merrett, Jordan De Goey and Bailey Humphrey trade situations alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kane Cornes has likened Zach Merrett potentially joining Hawthorn to Kevin Durant’s move to the Golden State Warriors, saying he wouldn’t have earned the premiership, should they win it.<\/p>\n

The Essendon captain’s public reasoning for wanting to move to the Hawks is a desire to chase individual success.<\/p>\n

But would a premiership with the Hawks in 2026 scratch that itch? Cornes certainly doesn’t think so<\/p>\n

\"Zach<\/p>\n

Zach Merrett of the Bombers is congratulated on his 250th game.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“Would you look at it as a hard earned title? I wouldn’t,” Cornes told AFL Trade Radio. <\/p>\n

“I would look at Dylan Moore and James Sicily and say geez they did the hard yards.<\/p>\n

“He wants it … I’m calling it cheap success. Success he hasn’t earned. <\/p>\n

“Kevin Durant style success. Joining Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green for a cheap ring.”<\/p>\n

The Hawks were premiership favourites at stages throughout the 2025 season and if they add Merrett, could start 2026 as premiership favourites. <\/p>\n

\"Kevin<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant on the Warriors.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kane Cornes has likened Zach Merrett potentially joining Hawthorn to Kevin Durant’s move to the Golden State Warriors,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-196222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196222","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=196222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}