The Age on Saturday afternoon<\/a>, Barrass spoke to the developing nature of the trade period, and why he believes Merrett is entitled to a move away from Tullamarine.<\/p>\n\u201cThe landscape\u2019s changed a little bit the last few years. Free agency and a bunch of rules around trades has sort of incentivised player movement,\u201d Barrass said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ll see more and more of it like we do in some of the American sports … it\u2019s great. It\u2019s just a part of the game now and it needs to be embraced.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d imagine Zach spent 12 years waking up at 6am every day contributing to the [Essendon] footy club and he\u2019s well within his rights to try and explore his options as a professional.<\/p>\n
Like Sam [Mitchell] has been saying, hopefully that\u2019s at the Hawks … I wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barrass himself departed West Coast after 150 games before being traded to Hawthorn in exchange for a future first-round pick, a future second-round pick and a future third-round pick. The Hawks received a future fourth-round pick in return alongside Barrass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An underrated Swan continues to have his name raised in trade discussions, despite his manager suggesting any move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,689,1129,10143,93779,3028,127952,2485,7492,43,107015,127956,12937,44,677,49673,701,69078,41,39,42,40,121515,11236,1133,127957,18155,127954,660,127955,127953,127951,25581],"class_list":{"0":"post-206662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","10":"tag-charlie-curnow","11":"tag-craig-mcrae","12":"tag-draft-whispers","13":"tag-essendon","14":"tag-fourth-round-pick","15":"tag-gold-coast","16":"tag-hawthorn-hawks","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-james-rowbottom","19":"tag-matt-bain","20":"tag-mitch-cleary","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-oceania","23":"tag-ollie-florent","24":"tag-queensland","25":"tag-tom-barrass","26":"tag-top-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topnews","29":"tag-topstories","30":"tag-trade-discussions","31":"tag-trade-news","32":"tag-trade-period","33":"tag-trade-possibility","34":"tag-trade-talk","35":"tag-underrated-swan","36":"tag-victoria","37":"tag-wantaway-rival","38":"tag-wantaway-rival-captain","39":"tag-wantaway-rival-skipper","40":"tag-zach-merrett"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206662","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=206662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}