GOLD Coast list manager Craig Cameron has taken a swipe at outgoing midfielder Aaron Hall for the way he signalled his intention to get to North Melbourne during this year's NAB AFL Trade Period.
Hall played 103 games in his seven seasons for the Suns but only six this year because of a broken finger and a serious pectoral injury, but also fell out of favour with new coach Stuart Dew.
The 27-year-old was keen to find himself a fresh start at another club next season and Gold Coast seemed unlikely to stand in his way, but he appeared in a video on the Kangaroos' website on Wednesday and spoke of his desire to play at Arden Street in 2019.
It was a move that looks to have upset Suns officials, and Cameron didn't back away from that fact when he spoke on NAB AFL Trade Radio on Thursday.
"He publicly committed himself (to North) on their website which was interesting," he said.
"It's unusual I think prior to a trade being (done).
"Anyway, I don't want to go on about it, it's not that important."
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Cameron said despite the seemingly bad blood between the Suns and Hall, he doesn't see anything that will stop both clubs doing a deal for the speedster.
"We've started conversations, but nothing has been offered (to us) at this point," Cameron said.
"I'm going to keep my powder dry on that until we get to it.
"I think we'll be able to do a deal with North quite comfortably during trade week."
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Another Sun on the hunt for a new start is defender Kade Kolodjashnij, and it looks certain that he'll be at Melbourne next season.
Kolodjashnij missed the final 10 rounds of 2017 with concussion symptoms after copping a head knock at a training session in mid-June, which forced him to wear a helmet when he returned to the field this season.
He missed more games this year because of the problem, before specialists revealed in June that it was a neck issue and not concussion symptoms causing Kolodjashnij's horror run.
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The 23-year-old played four of the last six games, but Cameron said the club had encouraged the half-back to look around for a new home, when they sat down to debrief the season.
"He suffered a bad concussion (in 2017) and he's really battled with that," he said.
"He got it together towards the end of last year and played some footy, (but) his confidence took a hit as you can imagine, dealing with that.
"We just think that it's a good opportunity for him to explore other avenues to continue his footy.
"We've spoken to his management and we've had some preliminary discussions with Melbourne, so I'm pretty confident that we'll do a trade for Kade pretty early next week."
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