reports Herald Sun chief football writer Jay Clark<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\nCollingwood premiership mentor Craig McRae revealed he\u2019d met with the Blues\u2019 forward-turned-defender, with the Western Bulldogs also thought to be interested \u2014 and now the Bombers are in the conversation. <\/p>\n
Clark reports Scott met with Silvagni at his eastern suburbs home last week as the third-generation Blue continues to contemplate his playing future, but he adds that the Bombers are \u2018yet to fully commit\u2019 to a contract offer. <\/p>\n
Both Carlton and Collingwood are believed to be offering four-year deals at around $650,000 a season, thus Silvagni\u2019s decision is clearly coming down to his environment. <\/p>\n
Defensive depth is evidently on Essendon\u2019s shopping list, with crucial backmen Jordan Ridley, Zach Reid and Ben McKay having each struggled with staying injury-free recently. <\/p>\n
Silvagni himself has been shelved with injury but before that had been showing promise as an intercept defender, with the capability also to go forward. <\/p>\n
The Magpies are still considered frontrunners to secure Silvagni\u2019s services, with the 27-year-old having a close relationship with 2024 Pies acquisition Dan Houston. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday night, Seven\u2019s Mitch Cleary reported the Bulldogs are expected to soon schedule a meeting of their own with Silvagni. <\/p>\n
Under-fire Blues coach Michael Voss recently said of retaining the father-son gun: \u201cI want to be really clear; he\u2019s a very important player for us. We\u2019re certainly hoping he plays out the rest of his career with us … Jack\u2019s had a really important role shift this year. It\u2019s been a real win for us to see where he\u2019s gone from forward to back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given he holds unrestricted free agent status, Silvagni can walk from the Blues without resistance at the end of the season and sign elsewhere. <\/p>\n
Horse the “target for any club” | 05:27<\/p>\n
THREE-CLUB RACE FOR LION<\/p>\n
North Melbourne is believed to be one of multiple clubs \u201ccircling\u201d free agent Brisbane defender Brandon Starcevich, who continues to weigh his playing future. <\/p>\n
The Kangaroos, understandably in search of defensive reinforcement amid another campaign in which they\u2019ve struggled stemming opposition attacks, join Essendon \u2014 which reportedly has \u201cstrong\u201d interest \u2014 and West Coast, with Starcevich hailing from Western Australia. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been assessing his options after returning to Brisbane\u2019s side in recent weeks … the Lions would like to retain him; they\u2019ve tabled a deal for him to stay, but he has interest from clubs around the country,\u201d said journalist Riley Beveridge on AFL Media\u2019s Gettable. <\/p>\n
\u201cNotably in Victoria, Essendon has strong interest, as does North Melbourne; another club that has circled Brandon Starcevich … West Coast also has some interest in Starcevich.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old has had his struggles with concussion but is back in Brisbane\u2019s side \u2014 having played in its past seven games \u2014 as it shapes another tilt at a premiership. <\/p>\n
Starcevich remains an integral cog in the Lions\u2019 back half alongside Harris Andrews and Darcy Gardiner, with Jack Payne struck down for the year and former Crow Tom Doedee still yet to make his club debut. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Silvagni has reportedly met with another Victorian rival senior coach as the pursuit for his services continues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,684,29651,696,20781,651,3239,40739,34709,10133,12015,10143,40737,40734,653,40742,30394,6179,19125,647,7804,3257,677,40733,1137,17286,40738,40736,40741,701,1141,10402,40735,22401,8014,85,40740,40743,11236,12920,660,3439,698,29649],"class_list":["post-47748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-cotton","tag-ben-mckay","tag-brad-scott","tag-brandon-starcevich","tag-brisbane","tag-carlton-blues","tag-chief-football-writer","tag-club-debut","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-contract-offer","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-darcy-gardiner","tag-eastern-suburbs-home","tag-fox-sports-news","tag-harris-andrews","tag-intercept-defender","tag-jack-silvagni","tag-jay-clark","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-michael-voss","tag-oceania","tag-opposition-attacks","tag-player-movement-developments","tag-premiership-defender","tag-premiership-mentor","tag-premiership-star","tag-premiership-winning-coach","tag-queensland","tag-riley-beveridge","tag-rival-coach","tag-rival-senior-coach","tag-senior-coach","tag-simon-goodwin","tag-sports","tag-three-club-pursuit","tag-three-club-race","tag-trade-news","tag-trade-whispers","tag-victoria","tag-western-australia","tag-western-bulldogs","tag-zach-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47748","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=47748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}