{"id":222382,"date":"2025-10-18T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222382\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:25:17","slug":"afl-giants-in-all-sorts-of-trouble-after-disappointing-trade-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222382\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL giants &#8216;in all sorts of trouble&#8217; after disappointing trade period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL&#8217;s trade period has come and gone for another year and a number of teams will have very different looks when the 2026 season rolls around.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Curnow, Oscar Allen, Jack Silvagni and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/melbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> duo Christian Petracca and Clayton Oliver were just some of the names finding new homes this month.<\/p>\n<p>One club that was conspicuously quiet, however, was AFL giants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/collingwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collingwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pies have been firmly in the &#8220;premiership window&#8221; in recent times, winning a flag in 2023 and falling short in a preliminary final against eventual premiers Brisbane this season.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/news\/tom-petroro-zach-merrett-trade-hawthorn-essendon-gorringe\/25663569ad39dd52edfa1d52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Petroro slammed over his handling of Zach Merrett&#8217;s trade debacle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But they were one of the least active teams in the trade period, sending Brody Mihocek to the Demons and bringing in former Swan Jack Buller.<\/p>\n<p>With so many clubs making significant statements in a wild trade period, Kane Cornes voiced his concerns for the Pies in a chat with AFL Trade Radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some clubs that didn\u2019t do a whole lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some clubs that got no better and in a competition that is so even, if you haven\u2019t got better, look out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollingwood have gotten worse. There is no doubt about that, because they are a year older, they lose Mihocek, they haven\u2019t bolstered the midfield at all \u2013 they had a crack at getting (Jy) Simpkin in, but that was never going to happen with what they offered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully Buller can play, but we don\u2019t know, we\u2019ve only seen him a handful of times. Look at their picks; they\u2019ve got nothing coming in from a youth point of view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sold the farm for\u00a0(Dan) Houston\u00a0which hasn\u2019t worked and\u00a0(Harry) Perryman\u00a0is the same from a contract point of view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/port-adelaide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port Adelaide<\/a> premiership player Cornes also singled out Collingwood&#8217;s midfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is their midfield going to look like?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you going to wind it back with\u00a0(Nick) Daicos\u00a0and\u00a0Ned Long &#8211; who I\u2019m not certain about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game has moved past that type of midfielder and we\u2019ve seen that with the likes of (Jack) Steele and (Clayton) Oliver falling out of favour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is their forward line going to look like with no Mihocek? And their backline is vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are in all sorts of trouble, Collingwood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL&#8217;s trade period has come and gone for another year and a number of teams will have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-222382","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\/222382","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=222382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}