{"id":920285,"date":"2026-10-08T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:56:14","slug":"afl-trade-period-all-the-news-developments-and-deals-from-day-4-of-trading-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920285\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL trade period: All the news, developments and deals from Day 4 of trading action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">It\u2019s looking increasingly likely that Blakey won\u2019t be at the Swans next season after meeting with Gold Coast this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">However, North Melbourne have reportedly put a big offer on the table for the son-of-a-gun ahead of their meeting with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Blakey\u2019s father John played more than 200 games with the Roos, including both 1996 and 1999 premierships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Essendon are also interested in the star half-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe have discussed it internally. There\u2019s a really strong relationship there with Spike [new coach Mark McVeigh] and John [Longmire],\u201d Matt Rosa said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThose discussions will continue. We haven\u2019t had an indication from Nick\u2019s management yet that he\u2019s looking to leave. We haven\u2019t met with him, and we haven\u2019t got a time teed up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s looking increasingly likely that Blakey won\u2019t be at the Swans next season after meeting with Gold Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,53746,64,63,55,639,10124,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-920285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-afl-trades","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920285","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=920285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}