{"id":771406,"date":"2026-07-01T05:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771406\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:04:27","slug":"trade-secrets-with-nick-austin-afl-list-management-unpacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771406\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Secrets with Nick Austin: AFL list management unpacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body_first_par\">Welcome to Trade Secrets, Code Sports\u2019 latest vodcast with former Carlton list manager Nick Austin.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks to Jon Ralph about all the issues and talking points across recruiting, drafting and trading in the AFL. <\/p>\n<p>See every episode and all the feature reads below. <\/p>\n<p>EPISODE 1<\/p>\n<p>Former Blues list manager Nick Austin lifts the lid on the big calls which shaped his time at Carlton. <\/p>\n<p>He reveals the reasons Charlie Curnow left, the hunt for Jagga Smith, the direction the club is heading and more. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode below. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cb83e9d6f71d8509a784a420556953a3.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Trade Secrets Ep 1 | Behind the scenes of Carlton's list calls with Nick Austin\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>FEATURE READ <\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst-content\">From 2020 to the day Michael Voss left the Blues, Nick Austin shaped Carlton\u2019s list. The 20-year AFL recruiting and list expert takes you behind-the-scenes of their recent blockbuster moves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst-content\"><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/sport\/afl\/news\/trade-secrets-episode-1-nick-austin-lifts-the-lid-on-carltons-key-draft-and-trade-decisions-at-the-end-of-the-michael-voss-era\/news-story\/e4c26e494d2d8f57550ee2c8a949030d\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"e4c26e494d2d8f57550ee2c8a949030d\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full feature here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img_img inline-image\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"a a a a a\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4ecb0234b05eab19a2703ff4d0745a3c.jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/>a a a a a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Trade Secrets, Code Sports\u2019 latest vodcast with former Carlton list manager Nick Austin. He speaks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[366458,638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-771406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-teamid20003","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771406","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=771406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}