{"id":197135,"date":"2025-10-08T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197135\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:55:10","slug":"gold-coast-guns-cheeky-post-amid-ongoing-rumours-afl-trade-news-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197135\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coast gun’s cheeky post amid ongoing rumours: AFL trade news – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gold Coast young gun Bailey Humphrey’s social media activity has done little to settle the ongoing rumours that link the Gippsland product to a move back to his home state of Victoria.<\/p>\n

The third-year Suns sensation flew into Melbourne last week before meeting with multiple clubs, one of which being the Demons, who are in conversations with Gold Coast over a deal that sees Christian Petracca<\/a> head north.<\/p>\n

Humphrey was pictured in discussions with new Melbourne coach Steven King<\/a> and club icon turned assistant Nathan Jones<\/a> just hours after his manager denied his client meeting with clubs.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old, who is under contract at Carrara until the end of 2028, posted on Instagram on Wednesday with the oh-so subtle John Denver tune\u00a0Take Me Home, Country Roads\u00a0attached.<\/p>\n

Humphrey, who hails from Moe in Victoria’s central-east, captioned the post, which included an array of images with Suns teammates, “I’M FROM MOE”, a reference to an iconic Street Talk\u00a0segment from\u00a0The Footy Show,\u00a0which ceased in 2019.<\/p>\n

While Humphrey’s management and the Suns have denied the concept of a trade, the powerful midfield-forward post is sure to spark further speculation.<\/p>\n

\"Gold<\/p>\n

Suns list lead Craig Cameron stood firm when quizzed on the future of the former Pick 6 selection on Monday.<\/p>\n

“It’s unusual [the situation], but we won’t be trading\u00a0Bailey Humphrey<\/a>,” Cameron said.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t matter how many clubs he meets; we won’t be trading him. He understands he’s contracted for three more years.”<\/p>\n

Negotiations between the Suns and Demons over Petracca’s future are likely to involve one or both of Gold Coast’s two top 10 picks.<\/p>\n

A trade that saw Sam Flanders<\/a> join St Kilda on Wednesday saw Pick 7 head the other way, adding to Gold Coast’s selections of Picks 8, 15, 18, 36, 52, 70 and 74.<\/p>\n

The trade period deadline is set for 7:30pm (AEDT) on Wednesday, October 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast young gun Bailey Humphrey’s social media activity has done little to settle the ongoing rumours that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-197135","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\/197135","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=197135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}