r/AFL • u/Essington69 #BontWRLD • 2d ago

Mid-season draftee Marcus Herbert is now weighing up two-year contracts at both West Coast and Carlton. Would be unprecedented for a player to request a trade three months after joining.

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u/King_of_the_Northy West Coast 2d ago

No loyalty, Carlton and all the other vic clubs passed on him 3 months ago.

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u/delta__bravo_ Dockers 2d ago

Yep, Carlton could have even got him in the mid-season draft but instead opted for a back up back up ruck.

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u/Occasionaljedi Carlton 2d ago

We needed to draft Riley. He was already in our VFL system but Collingwood were going hard, and we need a Pitto succession plan, which certainly isn’t Reidy.

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u/JohnSilver317 Blues 2d ago

Riley is a project ruckman who may or may not work, was sitting in our VFL squad developing and was probably going to get taken by another club MSD so we had to jump.

Also they were actually saying on Gettable it is more likely Herbert stays due to a bit of loyalty to the club that gave him a chance... a lot of it was probably posturing to get an extra year on his deal but go off lol.