Rowan Marshall has remained coy on his footy future amid St Kilda\u2019s strong links to Tom De Koning.<\/p>\n
Plus why Jack Silvagni\u2019s stint at Carlton could be coming to a close.<\/p>\n
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FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every match of every round in the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE in 4K, with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019M EMPLOYED BY ST KILDA\u2019: STAR RESPONDS TO TRADE CHATTER<\/p>\n Star ruck Rowan Marshall insists his \u201csole focus\u201d is on St Kilda\u2019s final four games of the home and away season, not his footy future.<\/p>\n Marshall is contracted to the Saints until at least the end of the 2027 season after signing a five-year extension in June, 2022.<\/p>\n But it was reported earlier this month that rival clubs believe Marshall would be open to a trade away<\/a> from St Kilda should free agent Tom De Koning land at Moorabbin. St Kilda has long been linked to Carlton free agent De Koning<\/a> and has a lucrative deal worth around $1.7 million per season on the table for him.<\/p>\n Multiple reports have suggested St Kilda would only entertain a trade for Marshall if a rival club was prepared to part with a mid to late first-round pick.<\/p>\n ‘Ross tried to get me on his shoulders!’ | 00:46<\/p>\n Quizzed about his footy future on Monday, Marshall told reporters: \u201cThis is going to sound so cliche, but I haven\u2019t really given it too much thought.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s four games left and I\u2019m employed by the St Kilda Football Club to rock up each week and perform. That\u2019s just my sole focus at the minute.<\/p>\n \u201cMy last two or three weeks, I\u2019ve been pretty disappointing individually, so I just want to finish this season well with a strong patch of form and go into next year.\u201d<\/p>\n On the Saints\u2019 pursuit of De Koning, Marshall said: \u201cObviously he\u2019s a great player. Whatever is going to make us better, that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do. He\u2019ll make us a better team.<\/p>\n Marshall also suggested he didn\u2019t mind if he shared ruck duties with another recognised big man.<\/p>\n \u201cAs long as we\u2019re winning games, I don\u2019t really care,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n \u2018SURPRISED IF HE\u2019S PLAYING IN A CARLTON JUMPER\u2019<\/p>\n Jack Silvagni\u2019s future at Carlton remains unclear, with Collingwood moving close to securing the gun defender\u2019s signature, according to Nine reporter Sam McClure.<\/p>\n Carlton has reportedly had a four-year extension in front of Silvagni \u2013 who remains unsigned for next year amid unrestricted free agency rights \u2013 since Round 14.<\/p>\n But chief Herald Sun football writer Jay Clark last week reported Collingwood had emerged as a shock suitor for Silvagni<\/a>, before Jon Ralph reported on Friday night the Magpies had also put forward a four-year offer<\/a> that was slightly more \u201cfinancially lucrative\u201d.<\/p>\n Speaking on Channel 9 on Monday night, McClure said he\u2019d be \u201cvery surprised\u201d if Silvagni was still on Carlton\u2019s list next year.<\/p>\n TDK’s efforts slammed as ‘unacceptable’ | 01:14<\/p>\n \u201cThe interesting thing here, though, is that if he was to leave Carlton and play for Collingwood next year, it wouldn\u2019t be about the money. It paints a reasonably dark picture about, I guess, the frustrations in the playing group at Carlton right now,\u201d he told Footy Classified.<\/p>\n \u201cI will say I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if another club came late after seeing how this is transpiring, because finding solid key defenders at that sort of market rate is quite rare. So maybe a Sydney or a Western Bulldogs or someone that needs a key defender.<\/p>\n \u201cA few weeks for this one to play out. Not certain he\u2019ll be playing in a Collingwood jumper Round 1 next year, but I\u2019d be very surprised if he\u2019s playing in a Carlton jumper, so it seems like he is on the way out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rowan Marshall has remained coy on his footy future amid St Kilda\u2019s strong links to Tom De Koning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,17993,64,63,689,55,639,3423,27239,27234,27246,27244,27237,27236,19125,681,27240,27235,7672,27243,677,12922,26888,27238,27242,27245,25571,27241,85,1122,26889,1117,11236,660,698],"class_list":["post-28398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-agency-rights","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-curious-response","tag-dark-picture","tag-football-writer","tag-gun-defender","tag-herald-sun","tag-jack-silvagni-collingwood","tag-jay-clark","tag-jon-ralph","tag-lucrative-deal-worth","tag-market-rate","tag-match-winner","tag-multiple-reports","tag-oceania","tag-player-movement-news","tag-rowan-marshall","tag-ruck-duties","tag-saints-offer","tag-saints-star","tag-sam-mcclure","tag-sole-focus","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-tom-de-koning","tag-trade-news","tag-victoria","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398","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=28398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}