(From left): In late trading, Jordan Clark became a Docker, Jonathon Ceglar a Cat, and Darcy Fort a Lion

Geelong was at the centre of a final-hour flurry as the AFL trade period closed on Wednesday night, gaining a rival’s ruckman but losing two of its own players.

A lack of overall action in previous days was suspected by many to be the calm before the storm, but there were doubts over whether the trade downpour would ever arrive.

After Sydney’s Jordan Dawson has his move to Adelaide approved early in the day, Geelong’s Darcy Fort was the next to go, with the ruckman and pick 41 sent to Brisbane in exchange for pick 50 and a future third-round pick.

The Cats then sent that future pick to Hawthorn, receiving Jonathon Ceglar and a future fourth-round pick in exchange. Ceglar, a 30-year-old ruckman, signed a two-year contract with Geelong after playing 101 games for the Hawks.

The ruck merry-go-round continued when Collingwood’s Max Lynch got his wish, being sent to Hawthorn. Collingwood received two future third-round selections – one tied to Brisbane and one tied to the Hawks – in exchange for Lynch, and two of its future picks: one third-rounder tied to Fremantle and one fourth-rounder tied to Gold Coast.

Jordan Clark joined Fort in leaving Geelong half an hour before the deadline, with the winger getting his desired move to Fremantle. The Dockers also received the Cats’ future fourth-round pick, sending pick 22 and a future third-round pick to Kardinia Park in exchange.

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Peter Ladhams was the last player to make a switch in clubs; the young Port Adelaide ruckman is now a Sydney player after he and pick 16 moved to the harbour city in exchange for a first-round pick and a future third-round selection.

As always though, not all wantaway players got their moves.

GWS forward Bobby Hill’s requested trade to Essendon stalled after the Giants rejected a future second round pick in exchange, and negotiations never restarted.

Hill’s manager Colin Young said Hill was uninterested in returning to the Giants, according to AFL Media.

“[Young] is adamant that Bobby Hill is not wanting to go back to GWS even if a deal can’t be struck,” Callum Twomey told AFL Trade Radio around two hours before the deadline.

The Giants had interest in Hawthorn’s Luke Breust as a small forward replacement for Hill, but Breust, who has two years left on his contract, was unwilling to move.

Hill and his pregnant partner wanted a move to Victoria for family reasons; Hill’s cousin Bradley who plays for St Kilda.

Another contracted player, North Melbourne’s Tristan Xerri, didn’t get his request to be a Saint fulfilled after St Kilda’s offered of a future third-round pick wasn’t deemed enough by the Roos.

The contracted ruckman has played 12 games in his four seasons at Arden Street.

COMPLETED DEALS
1. Jake Kelly (Adelaide) joined Essendon as an unrestricted free agent. Adelaide received pick 42 (AFL) as compensation.
2. Mabior Chol (Richmond) joined Gold Coast as an unrestricted free agent. Richmond received pick 38 (AFL) as compensation.
3. George Hewett (Sydney) joined Carlton as a restricted free agent. Sydney received pick 39 (AFL) as compensation.
4. Collingwood traded a future second-round pick, a future third-round pick and a future fourth-round pick to Gold Coast in exchange for picks 22, 46, 58, 79 and a future fourth-round pick.
5. Nathan Kreuger and pick 55 (Geelong) traded to Collingwood in exchange for pick 41.
6. Jeremy Finlayson (GWS) traded to Port Adelaide in exchange for a future third-round pick.
7. Luke Dunstan (St Kilda) joined Melbourne as an unrestricted free agent.
8. St Kilda received pick 62 (Adelaide), pick 66 (Adelaide) and future fourth-round pick (Adelaide); Adelaide received pick 33 (Melbourne), future first-round pick (Melbourne) and pick 75 (Western Bulldogs); Western Bulldogs received pick 23 (Adelaide), pick 44 (Adelaide) and pick 45 (Melbourne); Melbourne received pick 17 (Western Bulldogs), pick 37 (Adelaide) and pick 49 (St Kilda).
9. Collingwood traded pick 22 to Fremantle in exchange for pick 27 and a future third-round pick.
10. Will Brodie, pick 19, pick 61 and pick 69 (Gold Coast) traded to Fremantle in exchange for a future second-round pick and a future fourth-round pick.
11. Adam Cerra (Fremantle) traded to Carlton in exchange for pick 6 and a future third-round pick.
12. Tim O’Brien (Hawthorn) joined Western Bulldogs as an unrestricted free agent.
13. Sam Petrevski-Seton (Carlton) traded to West Coast; Lewis Young (Western Bulldogs) traded to Carlton; pick 52 (West Coast) traded to Western Bulldogs.
14. Robbie Tarrant, pick 40 and a future second-round pick (North Melbourne) traded to Richmond in exchange for Callum Coleman-Jones, pick 42, pick 47 and a future fourth-round pick.
15. Patrick Lipinski (Western Bulldogs) traded to Collingwood in exchange for pick 43.
16. Jordan Dawson (Sydney) traded to Adelaide in exchange for future first-round selection.
17. Darcy Fort, pick 41 (Geelong) traded to Brisbane in exchange for pick 50 and a future third-round selection
18. Jonathon Ceglar and future fourth-round pick (Hawthorn) traded to Geelong in exchange for a future third-round selection.
19. Jordan Clark and future fourth-round selection (Geelong) traded to Fremantle in exchange for pick 22 and a future third-round selection.
20. Max Lynch, a future third-round and future fourth-round selection (Collingwood) traded to Hawthorn in exchange for two future third-round selections.
21. Peter Ladhams and pick 16 (Port Adelaide) traded to Sydney in exchange for pick 12 and a future third-round selection.