Josh Gabelich

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although others that can be thrown forward and, uh, be very, very dangerous, uh, slipping in behind and around the big key forwards, Josh Gabelich reporting that Zach Williams, who was a A, a, a reported to be of interest for Sydney has met with Essendon this morning.

Right.

Bomber's exploring a move under the new additional Cat B rookie spot, um, for indigenous players after the 32-year-old was delisted by Carlton, so-

Geelong, as always, was a major player in the 2026 trade period.

Uh, Andrew Mackie, who oversees operations, uh, at the Cats, is with Josh Gabelich.

Thanks, Damo.

Mack, we'll get to the three players that you've brought in this trade period, but I wanna get to two of your players.

Yeah.

Um, which, which seemed to give North Melbourne more than enough runway times- time-wise anyway, to get the Nick Murray deal done, but they weren't able to in the end.

And as, uh, as per Cal and Riley's reporting and also Josh Gabelich's reporting, that there, there's not one more thing they could have done in terms of the, the draft picks they had available to transact.

Yeah, no, I, I think they put basically all of their avenue, all of their eggs in that avenue, so they couldn't actually get it done.

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Josh Gabelich in the chair for Tom Morris, who right now, Tom Mitchell, is on his way to South Africa.

He missed the first test, but he's South Africa bound as we speak.

He's business class.

Geelong, as always, was a major player in the 2026 trade period.

Uh, Andrew Mackie, who oversees operations, uh, at the Cats, is with Josh Gabelich.

Thanks, Damo.

Mack, we'll get to the three players that you've brought in this trade period, but I wanna get to two of your players.

That didn't go through on deadline day.

He eventually got to Brisbane, and so did Josh Dunkley a couple of years later.

We talk about sliding doors, but sliding doors in a dynasty.

I mean, those two have been crucial parts of Brisbane's build under Chris Fagan.

So, um, that little bit extra time, uh, meant that Brisbane could come in and swoop, and they n- notified their intentions 12 months out.

And probably the goings on for the next 12 months was trying to convince them to move more north than necessarily, uh, where they originally intended.

Just on Josh Dunkley, is, is he almost the most integral part of this three-peat?

I think there's-

Ooh, yeah, I'm not sure about that.

Which is silly, we did this, I've referenced the podcast series a few times, the one I did with Josh Gabelich, Return of the Pride, at the start of the year.

We had a chapter on the appointment of Chris Fagan, so Greg Swan, us, Greg Swan spoke about that extensively.

And I remember-