Collingwood has also been strongly linked to Neale<\/a>, who\u2019s \u201cvery unlikely to play for a WA-based club,\u201d according to Ralph.<\/p>\nThe veteran midfielder has family ties to South Australia, while Neale\u2019s kids are based in Western Australia with his wife Jules, after their split.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis parents live in South Australia, he would have help with his kids, that is absolutely a live concern (for Brisbane) for him to play for Adelaide,\u201d Ralph added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are very keen on players that will add to them as unrestricted free agents, like Sparrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Adelaide sets out plans for a big trade splash, footy boss Adam Kelly confirmed the club\u2019s first and second-round picks \u2014 both this year\u2019s and next \u2014 are on the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have some capacity in our picks and Total Player Payments. If we have the opportunity to go after some high-end talent, we will very much pursue it,\u201d he told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide\u2019s \u201caggressive\u201d multimillion-dollar trade and free agency plans to lure Zac Bailey and more \u201cstarpower\u201d have been revealed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[263303,9126,258234,64,63,689,651,3237,12923,187773,1127,2105,78137,2522,681,45746,43039,25875,3465,29963,16712,347423,347427,347425,347426,677,6082,37618,668,701,6282,347424,347428,1124,85,5338,11236,347430,69024,16710,347429],"class_list":["post-715950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adam-kelly","tag-adelaide-crows","tag-agency-decision","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-chris-scott","tag-family-ties","tag-fox-footy","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-glaring-issue","tag-james-peatling","tag-jon-ralph","tag-josh-rachele","tag-jules","tag-lachie-neale","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-list-boss","tag-matthew-nicks","tag-mega-multimillion-dollar-trade","tag-multimillion-dollar-trade","tag-multimillion-dollar-trade-splash","tag-multiple-draft-picks","tag-oceania","tag-port-adelaide","tag-premiership-push","tag-press-conference","tag-queensland","tag-russell-freeman","tag-six-year-deal-worth","tag-smith-moment","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-the-gabba","tag-trade-news","tag-trade-splash","tag-trade-targets","tag-west-lakes","tag-wild-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715950","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=715950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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