AFL trade period: Follow the latest developments on the third-last day of trading action

Fremantle have reportedly offered picks 10, 11 and 18 on the table in exchange for Richmond pair Shai Bolton and Liam Baker.

It comes after Hawthorn did a deal to send pick 14 to Carlton, a selection that was linked to West Coast for Tom Barrass and expected to be on-traded for Baker.

Dockers footy boss Joe Brierty confirmed this morning that bombshell move had “potentially opened the door” for Fremantle to land both Bolton and Baker.

However, Baker’s preference is still to play for the Eagles with fellow Tigers premiership player Jakc Graham already signed with the club.

West Coast are a contender to land out-of-contract Carlton forward Matt Owies as he weighs up his options before the end of the trade period on Wednesday.

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Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has declared AFL players should be able to be traded “without their consent”.

As clubs continue to haggle over getting the best possible deal for players who have declared their desire to move, Buckley said players had the “whip hand”.

“Clubs need to be allowed to trade players without their consent,” Buckley said on SEN.

“At the moment, the players have too much of a whip hand. Clubs are going down these long-term contracts and they’re doing it to prevent their players being poached.

“But it doesn’t stop that when the players choose to leave anyway with multiple years left on their contract or a club wants to move a player on with multiple years left.

“Why don’t we say, ‘If you sign a contract with us for a certain period of time, the AFL industry is going to honour that contract’. That doesn’t mean it has to be with us (the club), it might be with another club.”

West Coast’s Tom Barrass, Richmond’s Shai Bolton and Port Adelaide’s Dan Houston are among the contracted players looking to move clubs this trade period.

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Another nugget from Freo footy boss Joe Brierty’s chat on Trade Radio: The Dockers are looking at external help to get Sean Darcy fit.

“We’re looking at some external support to work with Sean and obviously get some real strength around that knee that he’s had a few issues with.”

Melbourne have wasted no time getting busy on Monday morning, completing their second deal of the day.

The Dees bring in pick nine from Essendon, as well as a future third-round pick, in exchange for picks 28, 40, 46, 54 and 65, and a future first-rounder.

It gives Melbourne two selections inside the top 10 at this year’s draft as it stands: Pick 5 and pick 9.

Here’s the wrap from our reporter Mitchell Woodcock on Joe Brierty’s conversation on Trade Radio, confirming the Dockers are in a position to swoop on Liam Baker if a potential Eagles deal can’t be reached.

Has Friday’s Hawks-Blues pick swap helped the prospect of Liam Baker being in purple next year?

Fremantle’s football boss Joe Brierty has given an update on all things Dockers on Trade Radio:

• Says Freo have been ‘proactive’ in examining the prospect of Liam Baker getting to the club, despite the premiership Tiger having West Coast as his preference for a WA landing spot
• Offer for Shai Bolton is ‘really strong’, with the two Tigers Freo’s priority over the coming days
• Andrew Brayshaw’s long-term extension likely to be finalised in the coming months
• Veteran duo Nat Fyfe and Michael Walters remain a key part of the club’s planning for next year, with Fyfe comfortable with the prospect of being a regular substitute if required

West Coast are obviously keen on getting as much young talent through the door as possible as they lean into their rebuild, so splitting their top draft selection of pick three into two picks lower down the order is a thought worth consideration.

And ICYMI, AFL draft guru Kevin ‘Shifter’ Sheehan has had his say on the merits of executing that move after examining this year’s draft class...

There’s a string of big potential trades waiting in the works.

We’ve taken a look at the 10 largest moves that are still yet to be completed... probability suggests only 7 or 8 of these will get done. Which will go through and which will be left on the cutting room floor?

While the trading action gets set to get rolling, Carlton have locked down a significant piece of their future.

Jacob Weitering will be a Blue for at least the next seven - yes, seven - seasons, after inking a six-year contract extension on top of the year he had remaining on an existing deal.

“Carlton made a significant investment in me in 2015, and I couldn’t imagine playing football anywhere else,” Weitering said.

“I have always wanted to be a one-club player, and I feel like I have grown up alongside my teammates in my nine years here.”

Weitering became an All-Australian for the first time this year after a stellar campaign. He turns 27 next month.