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The prospect of a Nick Blakey trade suddenly looks very real, with clubs ready to pounce for the suspended Sydney star.

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The clubs chasing Nick Blakey

The talk surrounding Nick Blakey is only getting louder, and Tom Morris on Channel Seven and Trade Radio has been providing the bulk of the updates over the last 12 hours.

Morris has whittled down the list of suitors to five: Geelong, North Melbourne, Gold Coast, St Kilda and Essendon.

By Morris's reckoning, Blakey wants Geelong but Sydney do not want to send him to Geelong. The Suns probably won't go for it, the Saints know they are a long shot, North hold some hope as a sentimental choice and the Bombers have connections and can easily satisfy the Swans in a trade.

The upshot? It looks increasingly likely that Nick Blakey will be leaving Sydney in the next week. The only question is to where.

Welcome back to AFL trade period

By Dean Bilton

Good morning, and welcome back to the 2026 AFL trade period. There is less than a week to go now before the window slams shut and there is plenty of work to do, plenty of twists to come and no doubt plenty of surprises ahead.

I'm back in the blog seat this morning, Chris De Silva is not far away, and we've got a big day ahead of us. Settle in, hit up the comments and let's see what Thursday has in store for us.

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