Charlie Curnow, a Gold Coast Solar?
Shock reviews have claimed the star Carlton ahead, who has 4 extra years to run on his Blues contract, has explored the opportunity of a commerce to the rising Suns, who’re getting ready to their first ever finals look in 2025.
Curnow has endured a turbulent season, with the two-time Coleman Medallist mustering simply 30 objectives in 17 matches for the struggling Blues, together with a four-week goalless stretch that ended along with his essential three-major haul of their win over Melbourne on Saturday.
In accordance with 9’s Tom Morris, Curnow himself is keenest on the transfer.
“This [the move to Gold Coast] relies round way of life, residing in Melbourne and the soccer bubble, and getting out of the highlight right here in Melbourne,” Morris informed 9 Information Melbourne.
“Crucially, Carlton is aware of this. They’ve informed him within the final couple of weeks that he’s not on the market … it was made clear that Curnow is a required participant and contracted till 2029.
“Curnow’s not sad, I’ve acquired to make that very clear, with the Blues. Neither is he kicking the door down, like [Christian] Petracca at Melbourne final 12 months. However he’s clearly been pondering what life in Queensland would appear to be.”
In accordance with Morris, a number of different Victorian golf equipment have used Curnow’s keenness on the Suns to discover their very own risk of luring him out of Ikon Park.
Nonetheless, the transfer is nearly solely initiated by Curnow and his administration, with the Suns, in response to The Age, not even having spoken on to Curnow.
Additional complicating issues, the membership’s newest crop of Academy expertise is ready to make use of up nearly all of their draft picks this season, whereas their wage cap would have little room for a participant of Curnow’s stature or for his hefty present contract.
As well as, the Suns already boast a three-tall ahead line, with spearhead Ben King supported by promising Academy children Jed Walter and Ethan Learn, who had been taken with picks 3 and 9 respectively within the 2023 nationwide draft.
‘Showpiece for the AFL’: Port nice requires prime time Showdown
Port Adelaide veteran Travis Boak has renewed requires the Showdown to be given prime billing, because the Energy put together for Ken Hinkley’s ultimate match with Adelaide as coach.
Arguably the AFL’s most passionate rivalry, matches between the Crows and Energy are steadily extremely entertaining affairs, with the town of Adelaide divided all through the lead-up.
Nonetheless, the match’s 8:10pm (AEST) begin time on Saturday clashes with North Melbourne vs Geelong, whereas will probably be broadcast solely on Fox Footy because of the AFL’s settlement with the community to place all Saturday matches this season behind a paywall.
Talking on Fox Footy’s AFL 360, Boak, who will likely be showing in his thirty third Showdown, has known as for the marquee match to be given the respect it deserves.
“We’ve been making an attempt for an extended time frame to get a stand-alone Friday evening or Thursday evening sport, as a result of it has been a showpiece for the AFL for an extended time frame now,” he stated.
“There’s positively been quite a lot of push from each golf equipment to actually get it up within the lights as a result of it does present quite a lot of leisure – not solely South Australia, however … quite a lot of footy followers usually love to look at it.”
Thursday evening scheduling has turn out to be some extent of competition within the AFL all through 2025, with a considerably elevated variety of matches within the prime TV slot seeing it turn out to be infamous for low-quality matches.
Spherical 13’s conflict between the Western Bulldogs and Hawthorn was the latest match on the evening the place the successful margin didn’t exceed 40 factors.
