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GUN TIPPED FOR 2027 EXIT AS EAGLES HIT LIST REVEALED<\/p>\n
Former Port Adelaide assistant coach Chad Cornes is confident Mitch Georgiades will leave the Power at the cessation of his contract next year. <\/p>\n
The West Australian Georgiades, 24, is set for restricted free agency in 2027, and shapes as a hot name for rivals \u2014 particularly the Eagles \u2014 to target. <\/p>\n
Cornes, who was at Port Adelaide as recently as last year and worked closely with Georgiades, is \u201cvery confident\u201d the emerging spearhead won\u2019t be in the black and teal come the 2028 season. <\/p>\n
\u201cI hope he stays \u2026 but I would be very surprised if he doesn\u2019t go back to Perth \u2014 I\u2019m thinking West Coast \u2014 at the end of next year,\u201d Cornes told SEN SA radio. <\/p>\n
\u201cThen, if you think deeper about it \u2026 if and when Butters leaves, is it best for Port to work out a deal for Mitch this year? You lose your two best players \u2026 but is it the time to get five or six first-round draft picks before Tassie comes in?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be very confident that he wouldn\u2019t be there in two years\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n
And AFL Media\u2019s Cal Twomey reports on Wednesday that the Eagles are in fact eyeing next year\u2019s offseason to target three native Sandgropers, including Georgiades. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think their strategy is looking at 2027 as being their huge hit at the trade and free agency space,\u201d Twomey said on AFL Media\u2019s Gettable. <\/p>\n
\u201cDo another year of drafting this year, potentially try and keep a pick for next year, and then you\u2019ve got Chad Warner, Mitch Georgiades and Trent Rivers, all West Australians that I think they\u2019ll be targeting in a very big and significant way. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll have underspent on their salary cap in recent years and this year as well \u2026 and they are going to be the Eagles\u2019 big three targets heading into next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
It comes as West Coast has made a head-turning winning start to the season, already eclipsing its one-win 2025 total as the club\u2019s young core of premium talent surges early. <\/p>\n
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SWAN SET TO ATTRACT \u2018BIG OFFERS\u2019<\/p>\n
All eyes are on Ben King as far as big-name key forward free agency targets are concerned, but a fledgling Swan is set to be another. <\/p>\n
Restricted free agent Joel Amartey is set to be a hot name for rivals to pursue \u2014 particularly in Victoria \u2014 and set to attract \u201cbig offers\u201d, according to AFL Media\u2019s Riley Beveridge. <\/p>\n
Amartey has been a mercurial prospect across 64 AFL games, kicking 43 goals from 25 games in 2024 before managing just eight appearances last year amid injury. <\/p>\n
But in a crowded key forward line led by Charlie Curnow and Logan McDonald, with Hayden McLean pushing for a spot, rivals will hope Amartey could thrive on a fresh start. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs an unrestricted free agent, that\u2019s the one I\u2019d be going after. I think there are going to be a lot of clubs, particularly in Victoria, who are assessing that tall forward pool,\u201d Beveridge said on Gettable. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe likes of Collingwood and North Melbourne I expect to be in that mix. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s going to get big offers, and whether or not the offers are going to be big enough for Sydney to potentially convince him to stay are going to be another question altogether. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe key-position stocks in this free agency pool are starting to grow, with Jordon Butts and Buku Khamis and how they\u2019ve started the season \u2014 I think Joel Amartey fronts that pack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gun key forward has been tipped for an exit next year, as a club from his home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[283679,283678,283682,64,63,689,11295,93661,283677,240684,1129,50272,51244,10145,13659,2105,49665,5096,122344,29652,25890,677,81372,46,6082,283684,23508,1124,85,283681,283680,11236,12920,660,283683,7067,3439],"class_list":["post-578278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agency-pool","tag-agency-space","tag-agency-targets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-king","tag-brain-injury","tag-burgeoning-key","tag-chad-cornes","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-coast-eagles","tag-first-round-draft-picks","tag-garry-lyon","tag-geelong-cats","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-hayden-mclean","tag-head-knock","tag-hit-list","tag-logan-mcdonald","tag-mitch-georgiades","tag-oceania","tag-pay-rise","tag-perth","tag-port-adelaide","tag-premium-talent-surges","tag-sarah","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-swan-set","tag-targets-heading","tag-trade-news","tag-trade-whispers","tag-victoria","tag-victorian-interest","tag-west-coast-eagles","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578278","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=578278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}