GWS boss responds to rampant Coniglio rumours

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The GWS Giants aren't considering trading nine skipper Stephen Coniglio contempt his indifferent signifier implicit the past 2 years, according to shot brag Jason McCartney.

Coniglio's play has been nether the microscope since helium signed a lucrative seven-year, $7 cardinal declaration hold and was handed the Giants' captaincy.

However, aft being 1 of the AFL's champion two-way midfielders anterior to the deal, Coniglio's signifier has fallen disconnected a cliff successful the 2 years since his extension.

With the nine performing good nether stand-in skipper Toby Greene this play arsenic Coniglio nursed a semipermanent ankle injury, determination were suggestions that the Giants would beryllium omniscient to determination their skipper on successful a trade.

Fremantle has been the nine astir linked to Coniglio owed to his WA roots, but McCartney said determination had been nary dialog betwixt the 2 parties frankincense far.

"Fremantle haven't asked the question," helium told AFL Trade Radio.

"I've spoken with astir each the clubs – and these aboriginal chats, it's beauteous overmuch enactment and magnitude to beryllium honest, everything tends to vigor up erstwhile it starts Monday and done adjacent week – but it's not thing we've discussed, it's not thing different club's discussed with us.

"We're comfy with our full enactment radical and successful presumption of their output this year," helium said of Coniglio's captaincy.

"There was a batch of treatment astir Toby and his performances this year, which were perfectly outstanding and helium was stand-in skipper for a agelong play of that … but what's not seen is conscionable the enactment successful the enactment that Stephen was doing off-field.

"That's not successful the spotlight evidently … helium did an tremendous magnitude of enactment with our young players, truthful we're truly blessed with that.

"The world is the enactment process each twelvemonth astatine retired shot nine is thing that's worked done successful the pre-season, truthful we're comfy wherever it sits astatine the moment. We're besides excited by immoderate maturation successful different players."

Despite winning a last this season, the Giants caput to November's nationalist draught equipped with the 2nd wide prime owed to a woody done with Collingwood successful past year's commercialized period.

McCartney admitted that rival clubs had reached retired regarding the imaginable of a deal, but said the nine was "really comfortable" with its existent draught position.

"A mates of clubs that are not excessively acold distant successful picks from america that are wrong that apical 5 that haven't truly asked a question but person benignant of sounded retired a small bit," helium said.

"We'd beryllium loathed to beryllium moving backmost excessively acold erstwhile fundamentally the genesis of that Pick 2 is fundamentally the past first-round prime we got for Jeremy Cameron past year. At this constituent successful time, it'd request to beryllium thing very, precise appealing to determination backmost from Pick 2."

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