{"id":301814,"date":"2025-10-15T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301814"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:31:06","slug":"afl-trade-deadline-looms-merretts-hawthorn-move-stalls-curnow-prefers-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301814","title":{"rendered":"AFL Trade Deadline Looms: Merrett&#8217;s Hawthorn Move Stalls, Curnow Prefers Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the AFL trade period deadline approaches on Wednesday night, Essendon has rejected Hawthorn&#8217;s initial offer for captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=zach-merrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Zach Merrett\">Zach Merrett<\/a>, who wants to join the Hawks after 12 years to chase a premiership, prompting Hawthorn to prepare a revised bid with multiple first-round picks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlton&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=charlie-curnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Charlie Curnow\">Charlie Curnow<\/a> has expressed a preference for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=sydney-swans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sydney Swans\">Sydney<\/a>, with the Swans offering picks 11, their 2026 first-rounder, Will Hayward, and Ollie Florent in exchange for Curnow and pick 22. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smaller deals continue, including Gold Coast trading Brayden Fiorini to Essendon for a 2026 third-round pick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smaller deals continue, including Gold Coast trading Brayden Fiorini to Essendon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":301449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10578,35],"tags":[18382,16074,12490,18455],"class_list":["post-301814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl","category-breaking-news","tag-2025-afl-trade-period","tag-carlton-football-club","tag-essendon-football-club","tag-zach-merrett"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301819,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301814\/revisions\/301819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}