{"id":198993,"date":"2025-10-08T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198993\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:57:08","slug":"craig-cameron-interview-on-bailey-humphrey-melbourne-christian-petracca-deal-jamarra-ugle-hagan-medical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198993\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Cameron interview on Bailey Humphrey Melbourne, Christian Petracca deal, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan medical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold Coast list boss Craig Cameron has reiterated his club\u2019s firm stance that Bailey Humphrey won\u2019t be traded, despite an \u201cunusual\u201d and \u201cdisappointing\u201d recent series of events.<\/p>\n

The Suns, who\u2019ve already struck deals that have seen Sam Flanders land at St Kilda and Malcolm Rosas Jnr at Sydney, are clearly the most active club this trade period<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As well as opening up on the Humphrey situation during a wide-ranging interview on AFL Trade Radio, Cameron also revealed:<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u201cPreliminary discussions\u201d with Melbourne over a Christian Petracca trade<\/p>\n

\u2014 Bulldog Jamarra Ugle-Hagan would undergo a medical at the Suns on Thursday<\/p>\n

\u2014 Insisted \u201cno one has rung us\u201d about Jed Walter and that fellow Academy graduate Jake Rogers wasn\u2019t for trade, and<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Suns were \u201ccomfortable\u201d for Ben Ainsworth to either consider his options or remain at the club<\/p>\n

Reidy, Rosas Jnr join rivals | 01:47<\/p>\n

But Humphrey, the Pick 6 from the 2022 draft, has been arguably the biggest curveball of the trade period yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old has reportedly met with several rival clubs as he weighs up his footy future, despite being contracted at the Suns until the end of 2028.<\/p>\n

But asked if either Humphrey or his management had indicated the explosive forward wanted to be traded, Cameron told AFL Trade Radio: \u201cNot in so many words, but we\u2019re not naive enough to think there\u2019s a number of clubs (interested) and that\u2019s not on your mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe eyebrow-raising side of things, I\u2019ll leave for you guys to comment on, but as I said on Monday I find it a head-scratcher.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re really clear: We\u2019re not trading Bailey Humphrey. It\u2019s just not something we\u2019re going to entertain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the thing we\u2019ve all got to understand now is that the landscape has changed \u2013 and is still evolving \u2013 around players that are contracted looking to change clubs and that, as an industry, we have to accept that\u2019s what the landscape now is. But the flipside of that is players and managers have to accept that they can ask the question, but when players are contracted and the club says \u2018no\u2019, that\u2019s the answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a two-way street on this. If they want to explore, as much as we don\u2019t like it, we\u2019re going to have to accept it\u2019s a new world. But once a club is definitive with its answer, that\u2019s what has got to be accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘You Do Not FUMBLE Petracca!’ | 02:25<\/p>\n

Asked if Humphrey had been \u201cpoorly advised\u201d by his camp across recent weeks, Cameron said: \u201cI don\u2019t know what he\u2019s been told directly, so whether he\u2019s been poorly advised I\u2019ll leave it to what you guys see and think of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would prefer that this hasn\u2019t played out the way it\u2019s played out so publicly, absolutely \u2013 and not just I, but the whole club. It\u2019s unusual. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen it before. I\u2019ve been around for a while and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen anything like this play out the way it has, so it\u2019s been disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron said Humphrey and Sun coach Damien Hardwick had spoken \u201ca number of times\u201d in recent days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message is pretty clear: That we love him and that he\u2019s still in a development phase to become a really good footballer for this footy club, \u2018you\u2019ve got three years to go on a contract, Bailey, and we\u2019re not trading you\u2019,\u201d said Cameron, who insisted Humphrey would be \u201cfine\u201d to walk back into the club for pre-season training should he indeed remain at Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

Cameron said the Suns have had \u201cpreliminary discussions\u201d with Melbourne list boss Tim Lamb on a possible Petracca deal, but suggested it would \u201ctake a little bit of time to work through\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added the Suns would keep all options open at the negotiation table, but stressed rival clubs were aware of which Gold Coast players weren\u2019t up for trade \u2013 particularly Humphrey.<\/p>\n

Jamarra on Gold Coast Suns’ radar! | 03:37<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Melbourne and us can sit down and work something out in the long run,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cameron also revealed Ugle-Hagan would undergo a medical at the Suns on Thursday<\/a> and the fact the club was based outside the \u201cfootball bubble\u201d meant it was in \u201ca good place to start to rebuild his football career\u201d.<\/p>\n

Asked what the Suns were keen to see from Ugle-Hagan when they met with him last week, Cameron said: \u201cWe were looking to see someone who was looking to make a commitment to getting himself back to a position where he can play consistent football \u2013 and I\u2019m talking about actually being able to get on the park and play consistent football<\/p>\n

\u201cHe met with our leadership group, he met with our Indigenous liaison officer in Jarrod Harbrow and obviously had a chat to the coach and myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve still got to run through some things with him \u2026 But we are progressing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron insisted \u201cno one has rung us\u201d about Walter and that Rogers wasn\u2019t for trade, declaring: \u201cWe think Jake is one of those players who can take us forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Cameron said the club was \u201ccomfortable\u201d for Ben Ainsworth to either consider his options or remain at the club after having \u201copen dialogue\u201d with his management, who\u2019d indicated to the Suns that Carlton had interest.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the best way to describe why we\u2019re comfortable with that is we made finals this year and making finals is not the ultimate aim of this footy club,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cWe need to look at ways to get better. We got taught a lesson in the second week of the finals by eventual premiers Brisbane and I\u2019ve always thought footy can teach you lessons if you\u2019re prepared to listen and observe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get better and we need to bring a group of younger players through because of where we need to go to. We believe we can improve from inside the list with players like Leo Lombard and Jake Rogers, as well as some players we\u2019re looking to bring in during this trade period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast list boss Craig Cameron has reiterated his club\u2019s firm stance that Bailey Humphrey won\u2019t be traded,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,25877,3423,124626,651,19120,124628,100481,14385,11238,124625,124630,84913,667,2105,2485,9130,49807,124629,3255,29963,26596,7804,677,124627,701,2528,49776,85,1122,114577,11236,1133,124592,57548,124624,660,117835],"class_list":["post-198993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-ainsworth","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-blunt-trade-stance","tag-brisbane","tag-christian-petracca","tag-consistent-football","tag-craig-cameron","tag-damien-hardwick","tag-draft-pick","tag-fellow-academy-graduate","tag-firm-stance","tag-football-career","tag-footy-club","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-jake-rogers","tag-jnr-join-rivalsafl","tag-leadership-group","tag-list-boss","tag-matt-roberts","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-oceania","tag-preliminary-discussions","tag-queensland","tag-rival-clubs","tag-sam-flanders","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-tim-lamb","tag-trade-news","tag-trade-period","tag-trade-peroid","tag-trade-target","tag-two-way-street","tag-victoria","tag-wide-ranging-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198993","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=198993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}