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Trade live: Latest on Merrett, Petracca and big name moves
SEN • September 24th, 2025 12:26 pm
The 2025 trade period is fast approaching and there is plenty to talk about.
So much so that AFL Trade Radio is hitting your airwaves a few days early and returning bigger than ever in 2025.
Kicking off today (Wednesday, September 24), AFL Trade Radio will feature AFL Media’s Cal Twomey and Riley Beveridge, as well as SEN’s Sam Edmund, Tom Morris and Josh Jenkins for the opening three days (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) from 12-2pm.
To whet the appetite, Morris joined SEN Breakfast to cast his eye on some of the big names being bandied about in trade circles.
Do you think Zach Merrett will be at Essendon next year?
“It’s very strong (what Andrew Welsh said), but I still don’t think he’ll be there next year,” said Morris.
__Retired Hawk Luke Breust to Richmond as a development coach? __
“His desire eventually is to move into list management and be a footy boss.
“But you’ve got to start somewhere and I think being a development coach is a good pathway for him.
“The Tigers are very confident they can get him now. There’s been quite a few clubs that have spoken to him.
“He’s a good pickup no matter where he goes.”
Demons star Christian Petracca linked to both Adelaide and Gold Coast
“He will start to meet with clubs.
“Gold Coast Suns are on his radar. Adelaide is on his radar.
“Last year he was just looking at traditionally big Victorian clubs. This year his gaze has widened.
“If this is going to progress - and I believe it will progress - he’s going to have to meet with these sorts of clubs.
“The Crows are certainly interested and Gold Coast Suns are certainly interested as well. I think that feeling is mutual from Petracca.
“He would have liked Hawthorn but I think that’s highly unlikely, if not impossible now, given the Zach Merrett situation.”
__Geelong target James Worpel has his Hawthorn exit meeting coming up. What will happen? __
“He has a few options on the table. He can go into his exit meeting, has a chat and that’s it, leaving any prospect of his future alone.
“He can go in and say, ‘I’d like to leave as a free agent’, which he’s entitled to do even though he’s restricted.
“The third option is he can go in and say he wants to go to Geelong as a restricted free agent. I don’t know for sure but I sense that given the Cats are playing in a Grand Final this weekend, the third option is the least likely.
“But there’s little doubt now that he’ll be joining the Cats as a free agent next week when the free agency market opens.”
Do the Western Bulldogs still have interest in St Kilda’s Cal Wilkie?
“The Dogs still believe Wilkie is on the table, but it’s going to be hard from a St Kilda perspective to let him go.
“He’ll be their captain next year. The Dogs are having a crack, we know that Luke Beveridge has spoken to him.
“But that’s a long haul that one.”
Big decisions for experienced Collingwood forwards
“Jamie Elliott and Brody Mihocek have big decisions to make.
“There’s a three-year deal from Melbourne for Mihocek.
“Gold Coast hasn’t formally tabled an offer for Elliott yet, but there’s little doubt it will be more than Collingwood has offered in terms of money.
“They’ve got big calls to make in the next couple of weeks.”
