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<\/a><\/p>\nGeelong would give up 2025, 2026 and 2027 round-one picks for Curnow.<\/p>\n
It was a busy day for key forwards, as Jamarra Ugle-Hagan had a medical examination in a step towards the troubled star reviving his stalled career at Gold Coast.<\/p>\n
But the Suns are standing firm on rejecting Bailey Humphrey’s desire for a trade, while St Kilda stunned on Thursday by abandoning their bid to recruit GWS defender Leek Aleer.<\/p>\n
Sydney and Geelong seem the most keen to land the star forward.\u00a0Photo by James Wiltshire\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Saints also went ahead with a trade for West Coast forward Liam Ryan and farewelled Max Heath to Melbourne, while extending Callum Wilkie’s contract by two years.<\/p>\n
Ugle-Hagan did not play a game with the Western Bulldogs this year because of personal issues, and the No.1 draft selection is seeking a fresh start.<\/p>\n
“We were looking at someone who was committed to getting himself back to playing football,” Suns list boss Craig Cameron told Trade Radio.<\/p>\n
“He met with our leadership group. He will do a medical with us today, and we need to get the AFL to clear it as well, but we are progressing that.”<\/p>\n
Gold Coast believe they can provide the top pick of the 2020 draft with a strong environment to get back to his best on and off the field.<\/p>\n
“I think the fact we are not in Victoria and not in the football bubble, I think that helps us,” Cameron said.<\/p>\n
“It might help in rebuilding his football career being outside of the Victorian football bubble.”<\/p>\n
Humphrey has met with multiple Victorian clubs and appears determined to secure a move to his home state.<\/p>\n
But the Suns have been adamant they will not trade the midfielder-forward, who is contracted for a further three seasons.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old added another layer to the saga on Wednesday night, posting a photo on social media with the caption “I’m from Moe” and the music track “Take Me Home, Country Roads”.<\/p>\n
“It’s just not going to happen,” Cameron said of Humphrey’s proposed move.<\/p>\n
It comes with the Suns and Melbourne opening talks over contracted midfield star Christian Petracca, who wants a move north.<\/p>\n
“Really preliminary discussions at this stage,” Demons list boss Tim Lamb told Trade Radio.<\/p>\n
Petracca and 2021 premiership teammate Clayton Oliver are set to exit Melbourne, with the latter seemingly headed for GWS.<\/p>\n
“From the media speculation, it appears he wants to get to the Giants, but we haven’t spoken with them,” Lamb said.<\/p>\n
Lamb said he believes Steven May will remain at Melbourne next season, and that Collingwood forward Brody Mihocek will likely join the Demons as a free agent rather than through a trade.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, St Kilda are eager to retain contracted ruckman Rowan Marshall, who is keen to get to Geelong after Tom De Koning joined the Saints from Carlton as a free agent.<\/p>\n
Saints CEO Carl Dilena said it is coach Ross Lyon’s “strong preference” that Marshall stays with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bailey Smith and Geelong are all-in on recruiting Charlie Curnow, with Carlton to consider a massive AFL trade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-200757","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\/200757","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=200757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}