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Gisborne: Planned outages Tue-WedState of play: Where the Curnow trade sits
SEN ⢠ October 13th, 2025 10:59 am
Where does the Charlie Curnow deal sit right now?
The star forward remains keen to get out of Carlton with either Geelong or Sydney the most likely landing spots.
Sam Edmund and Kane Cornes gave an oversight of where a potential move is at and how it could still come about in the final few days before Wednesday nightâs deadline.
âThis is how it sits - he wants to join Geelong, he approached them in May,â Edmund said on AFL Trade Radio.
âI was told on the weekend that he is being paid somewhere in the vicinity of $1 million to $1.1 million at the moment.
âHeâs willing to take a haircut to sit between $800,000 and $900,000 over the course of his next four years. So basically shelving a million bucks just to get out of Carlton and get to Geelong.
âThe Cats though, despite murmurings of Gryan Miers, Ollie Henry, Ollie Dempsey, Shannon Neale, etcetera, have only offered picks. We saw that three first-rounder offer last week was as good as they could do.
âEnormous for them. Thatâs a farm sell - three first-round picks.â
So where does it all sit since that Cats offer? Cornes and Edmund broke it all down.
Cornes: âPeople are sort of laughing at this offer that itâs not enough.
âWell, itâs not enough. But itâs still a pretty good start and shows that theyâre genuinely serious to get this done.
âYou canât offer any more in terms of picks.â
Edmund: âThatâs a huge risk when you think about it. Thatâs three first-round picks for three years. Itâs massive for them.
âBy virtue of their excellence it was never going to cut the mustard for Carlton. For them (the Cats) it was a big commitment.â
Edmund floated some of the Swans names that are in the mix for a potential trade with the Blues.
âSydney isnât Curnowâs first choice but heâs open to it. He hasnât toured the facilities yet,â he continued.
âTheyâve got a willingness to offer players. Names donât come up by accident. Will Hayward, James Rowbottom, Tom Papleyâs been discussed, Ollie Florent weâve known about for months and months.
âSydney also have first-rounders this year and next. Theyâve just got the tools and a propensity, it would appear, to involve players which has to have them at the front of the queue.
âHeâs been sold a vision, Iâm told. I donât know Sydney that well but you can get your anonymity, you can get to the beaches.
âThereâs a few of the guys on e-scooters and town bikes and you can get into the club pretty quickly.â
Cornes worries that throwing in loved players such as Rowbottom, Hayward and Florent can start to pick away at the fabric of the club.
âWhether that just starts to chip away at your culture a little bit when youâre forcing these types out who are hard, tough, sacrificial players and great team men.â
Listen to the Curnow chat below:
