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We keep you up to date with the latest offers, moves and rumours doing the rounds in the AFL trade period.
The AFL free agency period runs from 9am October 1 to 5pm, October 19.
The AFL trade period runs from 9am October 8 to 2pm, October 26.
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POWER SAY NO TO RUSSELL
Port Adelaide has confirmed it won't try to lure Carlton free agent Jordan Russell to the club, according to the AFL website.
Russell, an unrestricted free agent, is set to be delisted by the Blues, but is reported to have up to four clubs chasing his services.
The 25-year-old is reportedly out of favour with the Power's new director of coaching and strategy Alan Richardson, who was previously an assistant coach at Carlton.
Despite meeting with Power officals and being put through a medial last week, the club's football manager Peter Rohde said Russell, who finished runner-up in Carlton's best and fairest in 2010, wasn't on the club's radar.
COOK TO PROVE DEMONS WRONG
A fitter, bigger and stronger Lucas Cook is desperate to prove Melbourne wrong and transform into an AFL player at a second club.
Cook, the under-18 All-Australian centre half-forward, is set to be delisted by the Demons after just two years on their list.
The Dees used the No. 12 pick in the 2010 draft to snag Cook but never handed him an AFL debut.
The Ballarat product has been training every second day since the season finished in a bid to earn a second chance and, with a trade unlikely to eventuate, is set to become a delisted free agent on November 1.
That means Cook, 20, can sign at the club of his choice. The delisted free agency period spans until November 13, before the second official list lodgement.
"It's safe to say he's not going to be at Melbourne next year. The signs aren't good that good that they want to keep him," Cook's manager Marty Pask told The Herald Sun.
DEMONS DESIRE DAWES
Melbourne coach Mark Neeld says he can fit both Collingwood's Chris Dawes and Essendon's Scott Gumbleton in the Demons' attack if they can be persuaded to join the AFL club.
The Demons, along with the Western Bulldogs and Carlton, are waiting on Magpies premiership key forward Dawes to choose his preferred club, a decision expected this weekend.
Neeld has also spoken to Gumbleton and said he would be happy to have both play alongside fellow tall forward Mitch Clark.
"That would be alright, I reckon, Clark, Gumbleton, Dawes, they'd all get a game," Neeld told reporters on Thursday.
He said ideally the Demons, who have already picked up Geelong dual premiership player Shannon Byrnes, would gain four to six experienced players during the trade period.
"Leigh Brown (Dawes' former teammate and now Melbourne assistant) and I rolled around to see Dawesy straight away," Neeld said.
"That's really important, so we know what type of player Chris is.
"We'd really like to have him at the Melbourne footy club and we'll wait until the end of the weekend, he may or may not be."
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CADDY'S HEART NOT AT SUNS
Geelong recruit Josh Caddy says Gold Coast had his body but not his heart during his two years with the AFL expansion club.
The Cats this week won a bidding war to recruit the 20-year-old midfielder, who was chased by several Victorian clubs after revealing his desire to return to his home state.
While he has shown little yet in his 24-game AFL career to justify the fierce interest, averaging just 15 touches per match with the Suns, Caddy said it was tough playing while longing to be elsewhere.
"Playing AFL footy is hard enough as it is, so I think your heart's got to be completely in it," he said.
"To be completely honest, my heart wasn't completely in playing footy for the Gold Coast, just because I'd rather be living in Victoria."
YOUNG WEIGHING UP FUTURE
Unrestricted Hawthorn free agent Clinton Young is still weighing up his future, deciding on whether to accept a contract from the Hawks or move to Collingwood.
It is understood Young toured the Magpies' facilities earlier in the week.
The dashing wingman would be an ideal replacement for Sharrod Wellingham, who was traded to West Coast on Tuesday.
Young was one of the Hawks best on ground in their 2008 premiership but after suffering injuries in 2012 struggled to make an impact against Sydney last month.
JACOBS GIVEN ULTIMATUM
Port Adelaide is becoming frustrated with defender Ben Jacobs and has demanded that he makes a decision about his future.
Jacobs, 20, has been linked with a return to his home state of Victoria, but football manager Peter Rohde says he is a required player.
"We're getting to the stage where we need to know exactly what Ben wants to do," Rohde told The Advertiser.
"There's been a lot of discussion and speculation about him but the bottom line is that he still hasn't told the club where he wants to play his football next season."
Rohde said Jacobs' indecision had forced the club to put other contract negotiations on hold.
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SALOPEK FORCED TO WAIT
Steven Salopek's AFL future is expected to go to the final hours of free agency.
A unrestricted free agent, Salopek has walked out on Port Adelaide and returned to Melbourne, looking for a new AFL home.
His manager, Bruce Kaider, said "three or four" clubs had shown interest in 27-year-old Salopek but were waiting on other deals before making contract offers for him.
"We think it might take until the end of free agency (on October 19) before Steven knows whether an opportunity will open up for him," said Kaider.
"Given Sal is an unrestricted free agent who already has cut ties with Port means there is no urgency to secure him."
GRUNDY STAYING IN SYDNEY
Adelaide's hopes of landing Heath Grundy, a Swan from South Australia, in exchange for Kurt Tippett have been quashed.
But progress was made in trade talks between the Crows and Sydney on Thursday.
While Grundy's manager, Marty Pask, said the Croweater would not be involved in any Tippett move to Sydney, Swans chief executive Andrew Ireland said the two clubs were finally getting somewhere in their bid to strike a deal. He said Swans recruitment manager Kinnear Beatson and Crows counterpart David Noble had held a constructive meeting.
"We might well now be on the road to completing something," Ireland told the AFL website.
Ireland said it was possible a third club might get involved but talks will no longer involve Grundy.
The 26-year-old premiership defender was viewed as an ideal fit for the Crows who are seeking to bolster their backline with experience.
"There's 100 per cent no chance," Pask said.
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DAWES TO DOGS ON HOLD
Weekend talks are expected to decide the future of Collingwood forward Chris Dawes.
Rumours were rife on Wednesday that Dawes had agreed to a Western Bulldogs deal, but his management hosed that down on Wednesday night.
Dawes's manager Ben Niall met the Dogs on Tuesday, but said he was gathering information so that his client could make the best call on where to play. Melbourne was also among the interested parties.
"No decision has been made," Niall said.
DEMONS ZERO IN ON GUMBY
Melbourne has zeroed in on Essendon forward Scott Gumbleton, but could face a fight from Fremantle for the luckless goalkicker.
In another aggressive trade move, Demons coach Mark Neeld met Gumbleton in Perth on Wednesday, along with family members of recruit Jesse Hogan, 17.
The Dees are keen to land another tall to partner Mitch Clark in a forward line that last season scored the fourth-fewest points in the AFL.
It might have to hold off Fremantle, which confirmed on Wednesday it had completed a medical check on Gumbleton and is interested in luring the out-of-contract Bomber back to his home state of Western Australia.
GEELONG SAY CADDY WILL BE A CAT
Geelong have confirmed they've secured the services of Josh Caddy, trumping a range of clubs including St Kilda and North Melbourne to nab the rising Gold Coast Suns star.
The Cats will give up their Gary Ablett compensation and shuffle early draft picks with the Suns to secure the inside midfielder.
The deal has not been lodged with the AFL but both Geelong and Gold Coast have confirmed they had agreed to the trade.
"We are really pleased we will secure a first round compensation pick, tied to Geelong's finishing position to be used in either the 2013 or 2014 drafts as well as draft selections to be finalised in exchange for relocating Josh Caddy back to Victoria," Suns football manager Marcus Ashcroft said in a statement on the club's website.
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