While players and coaches are gearing up for another campaign after a long pre-season, list managers have also been pulling strings before a ball has bounced almost a year out from the 2025 trade period.
While not a common occurrence, pre-season trade news has been a feature this year as star players Luke Davies-Uniacke, Matt Rowell, Oscar Allen and Tom De Koning have calls to make.
Reports have gone as far as to suggest Allen and Rowell have spoken to other clubs over the off-season, with club list managers getting their interest in early.
With this year's crop of off-contract names still home to a plethora of quality players, we've looked at who could be up for grabs and which clubs are positioned as potential landing spots.
With this list, we name the one player your club should be keeping a close eye on in 2025.
4. Collingwood
Matt Rowell
The imminent retirements of club legends Scott Pendlebury and Steele Sidebottom will no doubt leave a gaping hole on the field, while the salary cap pressures may also ease.
Enter Victorian and Gold Coast onballer Matt Rowell.
The Suns' Pick 1 in the 2019 draft has already been flagged as a player of interest to multiple clubs.
Collingwood, despite luring Dan Houston and Harry Perryman, will need to bolster their on-ball stocks to assist with budding star Nick Daicos.
The seduction of playing for arguably the biggest club in the AFL could sway Rowell's thinking while the potential of teaming up with former schoolmate Daicos, like the Houston acquisition, could help put the Pies in the box seat.
