{"id":207236,"date":"2025-10-12T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207236\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:34:11","slug":"bulldogs-complete-pick-swap-that-could-unlock-deal-for-trade-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207236\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs complete pick swap that could unlock deal for trade target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Bulldogs and Giants have completed a pick swap which could unlock a trade for Connor Budarick\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Connor Budarick during the round 18 match between Gold Coast and Collingwood at People First Stadium, July 11, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>THE WESTERN Bulldogs and Greater Western Sydney have completed a pick swap that could unlock a trade for Gold Coast&#8217;s Connor Budarick.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed by AFL.com.au on Sunday afternoon, the Bulldogs parted with pick No.12 to secure picks No.14 and 37 from the Giants.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 A pick swap has been agreed over the weekend and is set to be lodged tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Bulldogs will trade pick 12 to Greater Western Sydney for picks 14 &amp; 37.<\/p>\n<p>Pick 37 is separately set to be used by the Dogs to get a deal done for Connor Budarick.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/traderadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TradeRadio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLcomau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AFLcomau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Callum Twomey (@CalTwomey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalTwomey\/status\/1977242375845298473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 12, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The No.37 pick is set to be used by the Bulldogs to secure the Suns academy product.<\/p>\n<p>TRADE HUB\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/trade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-outlook-id=\"1a417535-e123-4358-81f7-aa889707e5d6\">All the latest player movement news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Budarick negotiations had been stalled, with Gold Coast initially asking for the No.33 pick from the Western Bulldogs, though that request was rebuffed.<\/p>\n<p>Budarick managed 19 games in Damien Hardwick&#8217;s team this year, including both finals, playing predominantly as a pressure forward to take his career total to 55 games across six seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Connor Budarick warms up prior to the round 23 match between Gold Coast and GWS at People First Stadium on August 16, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>He has recovered from two knee reconstructions during his career, with the first injury coming in round two, 2021, and the second occurring in round 16, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both the Bulldogs and North Melbourne were interested in the 24-year-old, while Gold Coast had put forward a two-year contract that would have taken him through to his free agency year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs now hold picks 14, 33 and 37 ahead of November&#8217;s Telstra AFL Draft, while the Giants hold picks 12\u00a0and 35.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulldogs and Giants have completed a pick swap which could unlock a trade for Connor Budarick Connor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-207236","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207236","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=207236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}