effectively said farewell in his post-match address<\/a> after the Blues\u2019 34-point win over Essendon on Thursday night, and according to Herald Sun and Fox Footy reporter Jon Ralph: \u201cThe Carlton expectation, now, is that Jack Silvagni will, too. <\/p>\n\u201cNothing is official there, he hasn\u2019t told them that, but their feeling is that you give a bloke a four-year deal on nearly $700,000 (A$2.8m total) in Round 12, he hasn\u2019t come back to them, yet, so I think we know where those free agency deals go.\u201d<\/p>\n
The in-demand Silvagni, an unrestricted free agent, has drawn interest from Collingwood, the Western Bulldogs and Essendon. <\/p>\n
There are currently 11 Carlton players out of contract, and Ralph confirmed a trio would certainly be offered fresh deals, but he added some others would be in limbo for the next while as the movement period nears. <\/p>\n
\u201cBrodie Kemp, Nick Haynes, Jesse Motlop will all get new deals,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then there\u2019s players like Will White, Fantasia and Francis Evans; they\u2019ll probably have to wait until exit interviews, and maybe some of them until the trade period.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Evans\u2019 future at Princes Park, AFL legend Jason Dunstall said: \u201cGiven what I saw over the last month, I\u2019d be tempted to keep (him), purely because he doesn\u2019t waste the footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cDoes he get enough of it? Well, he has in recent weeks. Have they been junk games? Probably, but at least he doesn\u2019t turn it over. He kicks goals when he gets the opportunity, and he hits teammates and delivers the ball well inside 50.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ralph said the situation of Mitch McGovern was \u201cfascinating\u201d, with the veteran swingman\u2019s future now uncertain after missing out on a games trigger. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey have told him over the last week or two \u2018the reason we\u2019re not playing you, it\u2019s not because you\u2019ve got that contract trigger … it\u2019s because we\u2019re playing the kids, we want to see players like Ashton Moir, Flynn Young and Hudson O\u2019Keeffe\u2019,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly, if he gets a contract now, it saves them a lot of money, and they\u2019ll have about $2 million of salary cap space.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for contracted spearhead Charlie Curnow, Ralph said of persistent trade speculation: \u201cThey\u2019re just a \u2018no\u2019 … I think the feeling is \u2018you give us Gulden, or you give us Heeney, we\u2019ll think about it. But anyone short of that, we don\u2019t want your half-back flankers, we don\u2019t want your Ollie Florent types; we want your stars. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd even then, we don\u2019t want to give up Curnow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Which Blues players are on the way out? | 02:55<\/p>\n
NAMES \u2018IN TROUBLE\u2019 AS DONS TO AXE EIGHT <\/p>\n
A whopping 15 Essendon players remain unsigned beyond this season, and the club will soon need to make brutal calls on eight of them before navigating the nitty gritty of this off-season. <\/p>\n
Amid this year\u2019s horror injury crisis, the Bombers took four players at the mid-season draft and have played all but one \u2014 Kayle Gerreyn \u2014 of the AFL-listed players at their disposal in 2025. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey effectively need to dump eight players from their list just to get back to the 43 that every club can have,\u201d he said on Fox Footy post-game on Thursday night. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey brought in those four mid-season picks, they\u2019ve got two first-rounders and two second-rounders, and then they might even look at players like (Brandon) Starcevich, (Marcus) Windhager and Liam Ryan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ralph then reeled off the names he believed were \u201cin trouble\u201d this off-season as numerous Bombers face a nervous wait for new deals. <\/p>\n
\u201cI would say out of those out-of-contract players right now, I think Alwyn Davey, Dylan Shiel, Jye Menzie, Will Setterfield are in trouble,\u201d he said. \u201cSetterfield is not old, but he\u2019s got that Lisfranc issue, we might not see him until June or July. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then there\u2019s players who are on the borderline who are in trouble. I think Ben Hobbs, who was dropped and not even in the emergencies, he\u2019s a Pick 13. I think they\u2019ll keep one of Blakiston or Goldstein on their list. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think Oskar Smartt\u2019s probably in trouble, (and) Jye Menzie … and then of the other players who are uncontracted, would you go with a Jaxon Prior \u2014 who\u2019s played nearly every game, Luamon Lual, Liam McMahon?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou feel like they\u2019ve exposed a lot of the list, there\u2019s some quality there, but there\u2019s not A-graders on this list.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dunstall questioned how much genuine talent was among the bevy of names Essendon has had to trot out at senior level this year. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how much decent talent has been exposed, they\u2019ve at least had the opportunity to look at everyone, so they should be well-placed to make decisions,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cexpectation\u201d is Jack Silvagni will depart Carlton, while a host of other uncontracted names remain in limbo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65067,65070,14413,3239,1129,51248,54405,65071,25839,62862,13213,9125,65069,43,65065,6179,12149,681,1811,25556,65072,44,25574,1137,65068,1117,41,39,42,40,11236,1133,28462,65066,698,39219],"class_list":["post-87148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-agency-deals","tag-alwyn-davey","tag-ben-hobbs","tag-carlton-blues","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-contract-players","tag-contract-trigger","tag-cuts-loom","tag-dylan-shiel","tag-exit-interviews","tag-finals-series","tag-francis-evans","tag-games-trigger","tag-headlines","tag-horror-injury-crisis","tag-jack-silvagni","tag-jason-dunstall","tag-jon-ralph","tag-liam-mcmahon","tag-mitch-mcgovern","tag-movement-period-nears","tag-news","tag-nick-haynes","tag-player-movement-developments","tag-salary-cap-space","tag-tom-de-koning","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trade-news","tag-trade-period","tag-trade-speculation","tag-unsigned-names","tag-western-bulldogs","tag-will-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87148","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=87148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}