The 2021 trade action will soon begin to heat up with the trade period just weeks away.
SEN’s Sam Edmund provided the latest on a number of players including Sydney pair Luke Parker and George Hewett and Geelong duo Quinton Narkle and Jordan Clark, while responding to listener questions regarding a number of others.
Luke Parker (Sydney)
“We spoke about him wanting that multi-year deal worth around $700,000 a season.
“He is at the centre of a contract stand-off with the Swans, at the moment people tell you that the Swans just can’t move, and Parker’s camp have been frustrated by the inability to get something done at this point.
“There have been plenty of calls to other clubs asking if they’d be interested in Parker as this drags on and the Swans salary cap squeeze bites.
“He’s 28, he’s the pillar of that side, clubs still think it gets done (with the Swans) but the longer it goes the more real it gets of the possibility he could leave.
“It’s just about finding a deal that they agree upon.
“The player wants to stay, and the club wants to keep the player.”
George Hewett (Sydney)
“He’s the one that’s almost certain to leave, we say that because the Swans have showed no inclination to start talks on a new contract with him.
“He’s a restricted free agent, they briefly explored a trade for him last year before that was aborted, he’s pretty well paid up there, so I think of the group that’s out of contact, he’s the most likely to leave.
“I don’t know of a home for Hewett at this point in time, only that he’d prefer to stay at Sydney. That deal not happening and doesn’t sound like it will happen.”
Callum Coleman-Jones (Richmond)
(Regarding a text suggesting he is a certainty to join North Melbourne).
“All I can say is what we hear now is, ‘We’re monitoring him’. That’s the phrase that gets thrown around from a lot of clubs.
“No cards played yet, to my knowledge, but I’m writing that down.”
Jack Lukosius (Gold Coast)
“At the moment all things point to him staying there. The Suns have been given no reason to believe that he’ll be packing his bags and going back to Adelaide.”
Ben King (Gold Coast)
(Regarding Essendon's need for a key forward).
“Ben King might be the one, they might play the long game on him I reckon.”
Tom Green (GWS)
(Regarding a text suggesting Green to Richmond).
“He’s contracted for another few years (until 2023), he signed an extension (in 2020).
“That would be an almighty pickup and one from left-field for the Tigers.”
Daniel Talia (Adelaide - delisted)
“I wonder if Richmond will make an official offer to Daniel Talia, it does make a lot of sense given the retirements of David Astbury and Bachar Houli to a lesser extent and it would take some pressure off Noah Balta.”
Quinton Narkle (Geelong)
“It’s been the whisper for some time, he’s got the same manager as Shai Bolton, the two are pretty tight.
“I’m not sure if there’s a lot of interest in Quinton Narkle elsewhere... there’s concerns over the knee and his ability to spread but he’s clearly good enough at the level and he hasn’t had a clean run at it at Geelong, so Richmond have long been rightly or wrongly put up there as the new home for him.”
Jordan Clark (Geelong)
“Jordan Clark is the other one.
“Rival clubs tell you he’s been played out of position, he’s playing mainly off a wing in the VFL, he made his name as a running defender in the National Championships before he went pick 15 in the 2018 draft.
“The defensive coach down there (Matthew Scarlett), I’m not sure how solid that relationship is between player and coach and whether Scarlett sees him in the best 22 not just this year but going forward.
“He still has another year on the contract, WA clubs have been knocking, he did meet with rival clubs last year and decided to stay, he’s one to watch.”