Trade Rumours 2025

[chef]

Could be May

Could be both depending on how desperate we get.

[doggies ftw]

Yep I’m on the all in on Butters bandwagon too, just pull out all the stops to get it done this year

[chef]

Let's be honest, Butters will be Dangerfields replacement next off-season.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Let's be honest, Butters will be Dangerfields replacement next off-season.

I have heard Geelong are targeting Walsh. But you're right. It's exactly what will happen. They'll probably end up with both for 1 first rounder.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Not the Aints?!

It's the Aints!

[DOG GOD]

The trade period is still a week away from actually starting. Are you serious with this post?

We threw a big punch at a proper elite defender in his prime, who was not even in the frame to be leaving his club 3 weeks ago. We narowely missed but we didn't die wondering - that's exactly the relentless proactivity want our club to be showing to improve and get better. This is nothing like the Silvagni issue, who was a free agent and whose old man works at his destination club.

I'm quite sure Sam Power has capacity in his brain to be working on more than one thing at once.

Yeah, quite serious.
yeah fair enough, we gave it a shake, but Let’s be honest, it was never gunna happen. We are the bulldogs, not Geelong or Hawthorn.
I’m just hoping it wasn’t Wilkie or bust.
I didn’t want Silvagni, so glad we dodged that bullet.
it’s only Butts now, no one else will make us better.
time will tell.

[DOG GOD]

Let's be honest, Butters will be Dangerfields replacement next off-season.

yep, you can see that a mile away unfortunately

[DOG GOD]

Others to consider splashing cash at;

• Jordon Butts
• Jake Kolodjashnij
• Charlie Ballard
• Daniel Turner
• Charlie Comben
• Ben Miller
• Alix Tauru
• Reuben Ginbey

Tauru is young but a gun, we could put a further squeeze on the Saints. Ginbey is undersized but he's a brute and I'd love him.

Otherwise lesser names to consider might be Will Dawson, Jai Serong and Tylar Young,

Failing all that, there's Frost and May.

butts or no one.

[Axe Man]

Rival clubs believe Collingwood forward is “gettable”

It has been reported that rival clubs in the AFL believe that Collingwood forward and Norm Smith Medallist Bobby Hill is "gettable".

A tumultuous back half of 2025 that was littered with personal issues saw Hill play one half of football (Round 21) in the last 12 weeks. He was also overlooked for the finals.

As a result, sides around the competition are led to believe, according to SEN's Sam Edmund, that the 25-year-old could be prized out of the AIA Centre, despite holding a deal until the end of 2030.

Edmund suggested that three clubs were advised that Hill could be on the trade table, with one saying it was a "fishing expedition".

"This is a real source of intrigue," Edmund said on Channel 7's The Agenda Setters.

"Rival clubs will tell you, that they've been given an indication, a hint, a nudge, that maybe Bobby Hill is gettable.

"It's unclear (as to who is given that indication). But certainly, the industry whispers, for the right price, could be prized out of Collingwood.

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"For the record, Collingwood flatly refutes that. There is no world where Hill will be traded. His management says they have spoken to no one, certainly none of the Perth clubs.

"And Bobby Hill himself is committed to staying at Collingwood, but rival clubs think we think we can get him."

It would be a massive blow to the Pies' 2026 chances, given they could also lose premiership veterans Brody Mihocek and Jamie Elliott.

Collingwood is currently working through a host of contract calls, while Mihocek is weighing up a deal at Melbourne, and Elliott has been courted by Gold Coast.

The 2025 free agency period will begin on Friday, October 3, while the trade period opens on Monday, October 6.

[Aidan7557]

Bobby Hill would be a great get. Clearly has big personal issues and who knows what a trade would cost. He is a gun though and would fit incredibly well with us and really any team.

[Bornadog]

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[Boots]

I keep seeing punters put up potential trades between just two clubs where players go both ways - for example, I've seen people suggest that in addition to a pick swap for Wilkie we might have offered up Ryley Sanders.

Am I crazy, or is that just not how trades work, at all? I had a quick click through the last few years of trades and other than big, multi-club trades where a couple of players move, but never to each others' clubs, I've not seen a trade where two players move. It's always picks from one club for one player and maybe a pick from the other. As far as I can understand it, there are no club-requested trades in the AFL, they're all player-requested.

What is going on here? Am I missing something? Why do people keep suggesting this sort of trade might happen?

[The Adelaide Connection]

Just caught up with the last few pages- it is pretty grim reading.

A few thoughts:

1. Don't believe everything you read. Journalists at trade time (especially the Trade radio/football stations) have ten hours of content to fill with next to nothing happening. Most of what they throw out is speculation they pull from boards like ours and BF etc.

Meanwhile, we are all starved of content so have have nothing better to do than bite and debate the stuff they are saying, which almost turns it into fact.

I think Champion data should spend its offseason tracking success rates % of journalists claims over time. Leading would be a very low bar.

2. With what punters are describing as dire here, just how bad was our setup last year?

8.39 points per game behind the best defence (Collingwood)
8 points per game behind Adelaide (2nd best)
5.6 points per game behind Hawthorn (3rd best)
4.34 points per game behind Gold Coast (4th best)
4.6 points per game behind Geelong (5th best)
0.69 points per game behind Brisbane (6th best)
0.21 points per game behind Fremantle (7th best)

0.6 points per game better than GWS

This is not insignificant, particularly when most of the year we were a kick or two out of it- but what about other key stats?

For example:
We lost the Inside 50 count 8 times for the year- 6 of those resulted in losses to top 8 teams.
The outliers: we beat Geelong 56-51 in I50's and lost and we beat Freo 63-44 in Round 5 and lost, and we lost the count to Carlton and Sydney and won.

3. Our KPD are super young/inexperienced. JOD, Lobb, Buss, Cleary, Sellwood etc. are super green and there is huge upside there. Instead of doom and gloom, should we be optimistic of some growth?

4. Are there margins to be found in coaching/tactical changes? Our defensive coaches should be the hardest working mfers this offseason, but can I also just light the fuse on the "Get Dale Morris back to the Dogs" campaign.

The #1 and #2 best defences this year? Well, they were #13 and #10 last year with the same KPD personnel (and we were 1st!).

So yeah, sure- I would love a 2024 Jones replacement as much as the next Dog. But everyone take a breath.

[Bornadog]

Young has requested a trade to West Coast

[DOG GOD]

Young has requested a trade to West Coast

good