Hey, given each trade is both between both the new club and the player (more player's agent ) AND new club and old club how does that actually work? Obviously these two arrangements can clash. So looking at now if in the last hour of the trade period there's a standoff between Gold Coast and Melbourne can Tracc agree to reduce his salary with GC as a final enticement for them to agree with Melbourne's terms? And what about if a GC player is thrown into a deal late? Does this player have any say? Could he suddenly be offloaded to Melbourne and minutes after the trades finish all he knows he's a Demon .... but no talk re his new salary? Its fascinating how trades rely on both arrangements of player and club AND club and club.

6 hours ago, Go Ds said:

Does this player have any say? Could he suddenly be offloaded to Melbourne and minutes after the trades finish all he knows he's a Demon .... but no talk re his new salary?

Players can't be traded in the AFL without their consent.

At least they don't need to physically sign their trade papers anymore.

True story.. A player's father told me that a manager did a deal to trade him to Melbourne but as the player was bush camping (early mobile days) he couldn't be contacted to sign and fax the papers. So we missed and the player went on to play in a premiership with his existing club.

4 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

True story.. A player's father told me that a manager did a deal to trade him to Melbourne but as the player was bush camping (early mobile days) he couldn't be contacted to sign and fax the papers. So we missed and the player went on to play in a premiership with his existing club.

Wounder if that was the point of the camping trip all along?

The players' role in trade period is to talk to other clubs under contract, write cryptic twitter/Instagram posts, turn up to the airport in the hope that a camera is there, spend time on opposition players' boats, farms, holiday houses, talk to their manager every two seconds or not talk to them at all and throw the phone in the toilet, but most of all, have fun!

On 07/10/2025 at 18:49, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Wounder if that was the point of the camping trip all along?

He had no idea that MFC were interested. He'd been playing down back in the Reserves and was not starring whereas he had played his junior football up forward. He definitely would have gone because at the time we weren't a bad team. It was circa 2000.

It was a different time. Things were much slower and trade season wasn't a real thing. Now days the manager can sign for the player.

Edited October 8, 2025Oct 8 by Diamond_Jim