Marty Pask joins The Late Trade - Day 4 (28.09.26)

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Brad Johnson 0:04

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Who is Marty Pask, and what will his AFL trade-period role involve?

Brad Johnson 0:11

This is The Late Trade with Damian

Damian Barrett 0:13

Barrett and Brad Johnson. Welcome back to Continental Tires AFL Trade Radio. It is time now, Jono, to introduce the third chair on The Late Trade throughout the 2026 trade period. A man by the name of Marty Pask, who joins us on Trade Radio after 16 years of being a

Brad Johnson 0:34

leading sports agent. Fantastic inclusion. Well known to your good self. It is. We played a little bit of footy together. Or we trained together.

Marty Pask 0:41

We trained together. You played, I

Brad Johnson 0:43

trained.

Marty Pask 0:45

We're

Brad Johnson 0:45

at the same

Marty Pask 0:46

club at the same time. Welcome, Muddy. Well, thanks for having me, guys. It's great. First little foray back into footy for a little bit of a break. So I was very excited to get the call up. And when I was going to be spending it with your good self, Damien, and you, Jono, it's really, really pleased to be here. And we've had

Damian Barrett 1:04

ex-footy club people. We've had coaches. We've had various industry people. But As part of Liam Pukering, I think it's the first time there's a full-on sports agent

Marty Pask 1:15

on the

Damian Barrett 1:15

airwaves of Trade Radio. Like a retired

Marty Pask 1:17

one. Like a retired, like the life member association of player agency. But no, absolutely.

How does an AFL player agent guide career-changing trade decisions?

Marty Pask 1:24

Look, I mean, this is obviously a period that I know very well. You spend a lot of your time gearing up for and preparing players, and no doubt it's a very professional space now, and you really need to understand the economics of footy, the rules behind it. You're dealing with players' careers, their livelihoods. You're moving them interstate. or moving them back home. So it's really important that you get this right because it obviously is career altering decisions for some. I always say it's either you want opportunity, so you're looking for an opportunity to extend your career, or obviously there's a financial and economic component to it nowadays where The money we're talking now, obviously, Jono, you attest to from when you were playing, there's some big money now and there's some big opportunity out there for players.

Marty Pask 2:11

So you can obviously understand the interest in it. And obviously, I'd like to sit here from a standpoint of having been there in the weeds with a lot of players and understanding how it all works and obviously provide some insight into how it and also to how the players make those decisions too, which I think is pretty important.

Damian Barrett 2:27

We like a war story on the late trade, so we'll get a couple of your old trade stories. I'd imagine the Dion Presti one will get a run around at some stage, that being the 2016 transaction that got him from the Gold Coast Suns to Richmond. We'll park that for another day.

What is Marty Pask’s Metrics segment, and how will it assess AFL clubs?

Damian Barrett 2:43

What you're also going to do, which is highly separate to what Jono does with the pure analysis of a club's list, you're going to bring to our listeners this year the segment called Marty's Metrics. And we're not going to start it today. We're not going to launch it today. We'll launch it tomorrow officially. But just give us a little tease as to how this is going to look because it's basically an all-of-industry reflection on how these deals get done as opposed to just the specifics of the two clubs involved.

Marty Pask 3:09

Absolutely. Well, a lot of people will say that a player will just look at the list as an example, but there's a lot more that goes into it nowadays. So what I've looked at is the reasons why a player chooses to play for a particular football club and what some of those key reasons are.

Which factors make an AFL club attractive to players choosing where to play?

Marty Pask 3:25

What I've done is I've created, I guess, what you'd like a little bit of an index with six key components to it. The first being list. Second one, coaching football program and facilities. Next being leadership governance, the commercial brand power. And the ability for that club to then, um, attract talent and obviously the geography and, and you wait that. So 50% of the decision will come down to list coaching and facilities. And then there's more to it. I feel with the other 50% sitting down with the players, obviously you want a stable, um, you want a stable club, you want a stable environment.