{"id":929893,"date":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929893\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","slug":"afl-veteran-griffin-logue-undergoes-full-shoulder-reconstruction-after-non-football-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929893\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL veteran Griffin Logue undergoes full shoulder reconstruction after \u2018non-football incident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Melbourne<\/a> veteran Griffin Logue has been revealed to have undergone a full shoulder reconstruction in the AFL<\/a> off-season.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old defender had a mixed year for the Kangaroos, suffering a hamstring injury early before being dropped to the VFL for a month.<\/p>\n

He earned a recall for the last five weeks of the AFL season and finished with 16 games to his name, but will now enter the pre-season on the back foot.<\/p>\n

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Logue suffered a shoulder injury in a \u201cnon-football incident\u201d and will not take part in contact training until January, reports Channel 7\u2019s Tom Morris.<\/p>\n

The setback comes as Logue enters the final season of a five-year contract signed when he was traded to North from Fremantle at the end of 2022.<\/p>\n

He also stands to remain an important figure under new coach Jaymie Graham following North\u2019s failure to secure contracted key defender Nick Murray from Adelaide at the trade deadline this week.<\/p>\n

The Kangaroos offered picks No.33 and No.49 in this year\u2019s draft as well as 2027 first and third-round picks, with Murray and a future fourth-round pick going the other way.<\/p>\n

But Adelaide list boss Jarryd Roughead was unmoved.<\/p>\n

North counterpart Brady Rawlings said the trade period would have gone down as \u201creally successful\u201d for the club had the trade materialised.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you\u2019re looking at contracted players it can always be difficult,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a crack, Adelaide said no, so yeah, fair enough. We tried our hardest but it wasn\u2019t quite good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murray has only played 78 AFL games since 2021 and managed just 11 this season.<\/p>\n

In fact, over his past three years, he has appeared in only 32 senior games for the Crows.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have thought for Nick Murray, if I can editorialise for one moment, it\u2019s not my role, that probably could have been enough,\u201d TOm Morris said on Channel 7\u2019s The Agenda Setters.<\/p>\n

Brownlow medallist Tom Mitchell added: \u201cFour picks is a fair bit, isn\u2019t it?\u201d with Morris noting that three of them were in the first or second round.<\/p>\n

\"NickNick Murray remains an Adelaide player. Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

Player manager Liam Pickering said Murray\u2019s value had skyrocketed and he was suddenly comparable to a former North Melbourne superstar and Brownlow medallist. <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he\u2019s turned into Ross Glendinning, there\u2019s no doubt about that, over the last few weeks,\u201d Pickering said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, he\u2019s a good player, but he\u2019s not worth four picks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morris said: \u201cNo, he\u2019s not quite Glen Jakovich yet,\u201d referring to West Coast\u2019s champion defender from the 1990s. <\/p>\n

Mitchell said: \u201cI feel like that might be one we look back on in time and say, you know, we could have done with a few more picks.\u201d <\/p>\n

AFL expert Kane Cornes said he failed to understand why Adelaide didn\u2019t do the deal, adding that Murray would not command such value again. <\/p>\n

Adelaide list boss Jarryd Roughead explained the club didn\u2019t want to lose another key defender after Jordon Butts left as a free agent. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a win now phase. So, losing two key defenders as I\u2019ve said is going to be quite hard. That tests our depth. So if we\u2019re in a win-now phase, why would we give away two key defenders?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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