The star Magpies were told on Tuesday morning that they would not play again this season after Collingwood officials decided on punishments for Didak, Shaw and brother Rhyce Shaw.
Collingwood’s player leadership group helped decide their teammates’ fate, along with senior coach Mick Malthouse and president Eddie McGuire.
But it was club chief executive Gary Pert, who faced the media for almost 45 minutes flanked by football manager Geoff Walsh, whose comments would have made Heath Shaw but, more particularly serial offender Didak, sit up and take note.
“Could those players be traded? Yes,” Pert said at the Lexus Centre on Tuesday afternoon.
“We will review that at the end of the year.”
Didak recently re-signed with the club for a further two years, tying him to the Magpies until at least the end of the 2010 season.
His new contract did not include behavioral conditions relating to alcohol and a curfew that had been imposed following previous indiscretions.
However Didak’s immediate future in the black and white now appears less certain.
Asked what the punished Pies could do to convince their club they were worth persisting with during their enforced suspension, Pert replied: “I would say, one, we’re going to need to see them commit to all the components of being a part of the club over that period of time,” Pert said.
The chief executive added that football decisions regarding list management wouldn’t be made until later in the season.
