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Rioli is contracted for another three years and Richmond will seek a premium for the 27-year-old.
The Suns will be active players in the trade period, given that contracted forward Jack Lukosius, who was dropped from the senior team late in the year, will be the subject of trade offers, with Adelaide interested in the South Australian. The Crows hold pick four in the national draft.
The Magpies are also waiting on a decision from out-of-contract small forward Joe Richards, the 23-year-old former teacher from Wangaratta, whom Channel Seven recently reported had been offered a four-year contract offer from Port Adelaide.
The small forward has only played nine games for Collingwood and also has a contract offer from the Magpies. At Collingwood he has competition for a small forward spot in the team with Bobby Hill, Schultz and Beau McCreery, while another young small forward, Harvey Harrison, will miss most of next year after a knee reconstruction.
Noble was the heartbreak story of last year’s premiership win, after playing all 23 home and away games for the year before he lost his place in the Magpies’ team for the finals to Oleg Markov. Noble recovered his place in the team this year, playing 20 matches.
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“Look, I think missing was really tough,” Noble told Fox Footy earlier this year.
“Last year I felt like I contributed a fair bit to our success, and I was certainly along the journey. Yeah, it was hard to miss out.”
The 27-year-old was taken by Collingwood with pick 14 in the 2019 mid-season draft and became the first mid-season draftee to play 100 games, a milestone he reached in round 11 this year.
On Tuesday, West Coast confirmed that star defender and 2018 premiership player Tom Barrass had requested a trade to Hawthorn.
The club said the 28-year-old made the request in his exit interview before his off-season break.
Barrass, the Eagles’ vice captain, has played 150 games for the club since making his debut in 2015 and is contracted for another three seasons.
“We will endeavour to meet Tom’s request while protecting the best interests of the West Coast Eagles,” West Coast’s general manager of football Gavin Bell said in a club statement.
The 2024 trade period commences on October 7.
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