Richmond says it is unlikely to be able to come up with a suitable trade deal to be able to secure West Coast ruckman Mark Seaby.
While the Tigers remain keen on the 24-year-old, Richmond football operations manager Craig Cameron told Sportal on Tuesday night the club was not willing to release one of its early picks in order to secure Seaby.
"I don't think it's going to get done and we haven't really progressed at all today," Cameron said following day two of the AFL's trade week - with no deals yet completed ahead of Friday's 2pm deadline.
"The Eagles have asked for a first round pick in exchange for him but we are pretty keen on keeping our first and second round picks this year and if they want a first round pick for him I wouldn't embarrass them by offering our third round pick for him."
With this year's draft being the last uncompromised draft before the imminent introduction of the new Gold Coast and Western Sydney teams, all clubs are reluctant to give up their first or second round selections given such selections will be much further down the draft selection order in coming years due to the fact the new clubs will get the bulk of the prized early selections after this year.
Cameron said he expects Seaby, who has played 97 games and was a member of the Eagles' 2006 premiership team, will elect to stay with West Coast where he remains under contract.
The 200cm big man, who is also a handy forward, has expressed a desire to move to another club to get more time in the ruck given he only gets limited time on the ball at West Coast which has the league's number one ruckman in Dean Cox.
Cameron said the Tigers would also enquire about the availability of North Melbourne ruckman Hamish McIntosh, who was surprisingly offered up as trade bait by the Kangaroos at the start of trade week despite only recently having signed a new deal to remain at Arden Street.
But again Cameron expects the Roos to ask for a first round pick in exchange for McIntosh, who had an injury-plagued 2008 season but who only narrowly missed out on All-Australian selection in 2007.
"But a first round pick for us means selection eight overall and we want to keep that," Cameron said.
However Cameron was more confident of coming up with a trade deal to secure Port youngster Adam Thomson, who has struggled to get a regular game with the Power having played just 28 games over the past four years.
Cameron said the deal was not yet finalised but was hopeful the Tigers could secure the 22-year-old for their third round selection - pick 42 overall.