AFL trade period, deadline day live updates: Brisbane playing hardball on Keidean Coleman, Jayden Short in limbo

Brady Rawlings is in the building 24 hours after swinging one of the biggest trades in North Melbourne’s history.

The Kangaroos brass is followed by Collingwood’s cohort, with the Pies recruitment manager Shane O’Bree in tow.

We’ll have a few of the other teams rolling in over the next few minutes you’d think.

It doesn’t seem like they will, JM.

All we know at this stage is that Essendon will place a bid on Dougie Cochrane at No.1, with Port telling us that at the start of the trade period.

It remains unclear whether the Dons would follow that up with an immediate bid on Walker.

I’d say the more likely scenario is that Richmond bids on them with their first pick.

The Bombers will be mindful of catching any rivals offside because they’ve got their own gun father-son prospect coming through in next year’s draft.

Sorry, Katie.

I promise our fans will stop bothering you after 7:30pm this evening.

Hello everyone!

I’ve settled in at Docklands and I’ve got an eye on all of the entrances and exits as we get set for the trade embargo.

I’ll keep you guys posted on who arrives, who departs, who talks to who and everything else in between.

I’m your eyes on the ground this afternoon/evening.

Let’s get things cracking shall we?

We’ve made it! The final few hours of the 2026 AFL trade period, in which everything must get done, everything MUST go before the window slams shut at 7.30pm AEDT.

There are still players anxiously hanging by their phones waiting to find out where they will be playing next year and beyond. Clubs are fighting and haggling over every last detail of these moves. List managers will converge on Docklands Stadium so they can go head-to-head in person… and we’ve got Chris De Silva in the building ready to get involved, or at the very least keep his eye on all the goings on.

Going to be a big afternoon! Hit up the comments with your thoughts and questions, let’s do it.