Stubborn Blues reject pick 19 for YarranHerald-Sun
October 21, 2015CARLTON has rejected Richmond’s offer of pick 19 for Chris Yarran as frustrations over a deal for the Blues playmaker reached boiling point.
Despite snaring the late first-round pick in a three-club trade involving Gold Coast and Port Adelaide, the Tigers were told it was not enough to satisfy the Blues.
A Carlton official told the Herald Sun on Tuesday night: “Richmond have still got pick 12 and that’s what we want”.
Yarran is growing increasingly frustrated by Carlton’s stubbornness and has not ruled out sitting out season 2016.
“It’s a possible option,” a source close to the standoff said.
Yarran, 24, is contracted for next season and has no intention of wearing the navy blue jumper again.
He has not been contacted by any Carlton official throughout the trade period, which expires at 2pm on Thursday.
Carlton is adamant Yarran is worth a first-round pick and technically Richmond’s selection falls outside the first round.
It is likely to become pick 24 once academy selections are fed into the draft order under a new AFL bidding system.
A rival club boss on Tuesday night said Carlton, under new list and recruiting boss Stephen Silvagni, had drawn level with Essendon as footy’s most difficult negotiators.
It emerged Carlton would also have rejected pick 17, which the Tigers attempted to secure from Brisbane in a trade involving defender David Astbury.
The three-club deal involving pick 19 lodged on Tuesday granted Suns forward Charlie Dixon his wish of joining Port Adelaide.
The Power also gets pick 49 in this year’s draft from the Suns.
Gold Coast gets pick 10 from Port plus pick 31 from the Tigers and two second-round picks in next year’s draft — one from the Power and the other from Richmond.
Richmond effectively gives away two second-round selections for one first-round pick — selection 19, which it had believed would appease Carlton’s demands for Yarran.
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