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Blues make key off-field signing
By Jake Niall, Jon Pierik and Michael Gleeson
Carlton have secured Collingwood’s premiership-winning ex-football boss Graham Wright to take over as chief executive from Brian Cook in an orderly handover.
An industry source with knowledge of the situation said Wright would join the Blues in a senior role. As reported by this masthead earlier this month, Wright will work under Cook, the game’s longest-serving and most decorated club chief executive, until later next year when Wright will then take over as CEO.
Former Collingwood football general manager Graham Wright.Credit: Penny Stephens
Wright was being courted by Adelaide and had preliminary discussions with the AFL about joining their football operations department.
Cook, Blues president Luke Sayers and the board were all involved in Wright’s appointment.
The Blues will announce the key signature on Wednesday.
Listen: Day two wrap
Michael Gleeson and Peter Ryan answered your questions and discussed the latest in deals and negotiations on the Tuesday edition of the Real Footy podcast.
The draft order
What picks does your club have to play with, and what could be coming your way in a potential trade? Have a look at our interactive draft order.
Good morning
Welcome to our live coverage of day three of trade period. We had a quiet day on Tuesday – what’s in store for today? There are plenty of expected deals that are yet to be completed, such as Bailey Smith to Geelong, John Noble to Gold Coast and Dan Houston to … well, a Victorian club (Collingwood are in the box seat).
Whether or not they get done today remains to be seen – but you’re in the right place if you want to keep on top of all the action.
Stay tuned and feel free to sound off in the comments if you have any questions for our experts. We’ll do our best to get them answered.
