Giants go dark on Jeremy Cameron deal, St Kilda weighs in on Adam Treloar situation

The GWS Giants have reportedly given Geelong a cold shoulder over Jeremy Cameron’s high stakes move while rivals threaten to swoop in.

Jeremy Cameron has caused quite a bother.

The GWS Giants have reportedly gone radio silent on Geelong, pushing the high-stakes move of star forward Jeremy Cameron into a volatile position.

Cameron wants to play for the Cats in 2021 but the Giants aren’t letting him go without a fight, becoming the first club in nine years of free agency to ever match a rival club’s offer.

Geelong’s offer to the 2019 Coleman Medallist was reported to be a staggering $4.5 million over five years as they look to add some firepower up forward alongside Tom Hawkins.

The Giants were in line to receive pick 11 or 12 at the draft as compensation for losing Cameron, but their rebuttal means the Cats will now be forced to cough up a more attractive offer when both clubs come together at the trade table.

Either that, or the gamble could leave the Giants with almost nothing.

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It has now emerged that the Giants have refused to speak to the Cats this week — and reportedly won’t return the Cats’ calls until they put an offer on the table.

The Cats are also playing shadow games by reaching out to the Giants without tabling a deal.

SEN reported Sam Edmund told Gerard Whateley the Giants have stopped speaking to the Cats.

Jeremy Cameron is caught in the middle.

“As of yesterday, all calls going through to Geelong are going through to the keeper,” Edmund said.

“The Giants were uncontactable. What the play and the strategy is, I have no idea. But the fact of the matter is Geelong are trying to generate conversation to get Jeremy Cameron in and GWS has put the shutters up.

“They do have to get a move on with free agency ending on Friday, they have matched and we’re going where we haven’t been before with a very high-profile player.

“GWS want to be adamantly compensated, I’d like to hear from them.”

It comes after Channel 7 reporter Tom Browne told Triple M, the Giants’ gambling tactic is already annoying them.

“The Giants aren’t talking to Geelong, which is frustrating the Cats,” Browne said on Triple M.

“The Giants are just holding their ground: ‘we’ve matched the bid, we’ll try and convince Jeremy to stay in the meantime’.”

The high-stakes stand-off leaves both clubs vulnerable with reports emerging several clubs are preparing to swoop in if the deal falls over.

Fox Footy’s Tom Morris reported Essendon, North Melbourne and Adelaide are all considering making a late play for the star forward.

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St Kilda would love to add Adam Treloar to its midfield but admits it’s unlikely the Collingwood outcast will end up at Moorabbin.

Treloar is contracted with the Magpies until the end of 2025 but the club wants him gone before next season and is looking at ways to offload him.

Initial reports suggested Collingwood wants to get rid of the 27-year-old because it doesn’t think he will be able to perform well while separated from his family, as his partner Kim Ravaillion moves to Queensland next year with the couple’s young daughter to resume her professional netball career.

Then came a report suggesting Nathan Buckley had called Treloar and told him senior teammates didn’t want him around in 2021 — something the Collingwood coach slapped down on Twitter.

What’s clear is Treloar isn’t part of Collingwood’s plans next season, with the Pies reportedly prepared to pay some of his 2021 salary if that’s what it takes to move him on.

St Kilda Chief Operating Officer Simon Lethlean said the Saints are keeping an eye on the situation, but don’t have the salary cap space for Treloar at this stage.

“We’re very interested observers,” Lethlean told SEN Breakfast. “Treloar is a sensational player.

“But if you asked me right now if he’d be at the Saints, I’d say it’s very unlikely. We don’t have the cap space or the assets to be getting that deal done. We certainly haven’t spoken to Adam or Collingwood.”

Melbourne is another club that looks unlikely to make a play for Treloar, Demons GM of Football Operations Josh Mahoney telling Trade Radio they’re “unlikely” to be in a position to deal with the Pies star.

Last month there was speculation — which Treloar dismissed — he would move to a Queensland club to be closer to his family, but Brisbane has ruled itself out of the running, leaving only the Gold Coast Suns as a possible option.

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Adam Treloar is the talk of the AFL trade period.

St Kilda emerged as a big winner on the opening day of the trade period on Wednesday, securing Adelaide wantaway Brad Crouch. The Saints reportedly offered the Crows midfielder a four-year deal worth between $600,000-$700,000 a season and while Adelaide claimed it would match the Saints’ offer for Crouch, it never did and he was allowed to walk.

The Crows said publicly they were hoping for a high draft pick as compensation, but instead received only a second-rounder — pick 23 — in return. Despite talking tough about playing hardball on Crouch, the South Australian club allowed the deal to go through.

His arrival at St Kilda is why a Treloar coup is highly unlikely.

“We did say if the Crouch deal fell over, we would potentially have a look at him (Treloar) as that midfielder that we were looking for,” Lethlean told SEN Breakfast.

“Given the Crouch deal has gone ahead, I think our focus and our ability to get that done is pretty minimal.

“I think it’s a difficult one for us to get done with where we’re at, based on having just done the deal with Crouch. You never say never, but I really think it’s unlikely. It would just be too hard for us at the moment.”