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Freo to part with Peake and Drum, not Tarrant

By Luke Holmesby 7:15 AM Fri 02 Oct, 2009

Fremantle midfielder Brett Peake could make a move to St Kilda in next week's exchange period

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FREMANTLE is planning to speak with St Kilda, Geelong and Hawthorn about their potential interest in disgruntled pair Brett Peake and Marcus Drum but has no plans to find a new home for Chris Tarrant.

Though Freo has reiterated that Tarrant will see out the final year of his contract, speculation surrounding the 29-year-old's hopes of returning to his native Victoria has continued ahead of next week's exchange period.

Coach Mark Harvey said his club's trade week activities would focus on Peake and Drum's desire to head to a Victorian club.

"We've got a couple of other players there who are going to move on in Peake and Drum," he told afl.com.au. "We'll probably concentrate on those two guys and see what happens.

"It depends on the fallout of other clubs and what those clubs throw up from a playing aspect that we might be interested in."

Harvey said he was yet to speak in detail with the Saints, Cats or Hawks about possible deals but saw that bigger names such as Brendan Fevola and Shaun Burgoyne would dominate discussions early next week anyway.

"Peake is maybe heading towards St Kilda and Drum has been mentioned with Hawthorn and Geelong," he confirmed. "You never really know until the opening of trade week on Monday.

"There is a lot of talk going on at the moment [and] there are a lot of bigger deals to be done. Fevola has all of a sudden come to the fore as well as Burgoyne. They tend to take up a lot of time at trade week."

And Harvey severed any link between his club and Fevola, who has recently fallen out of favour at the Blues.

"[He's] not for us," he said. "We're more in a building mode.

"He's certainly a great player and I'm sure there will be a few clubs looking at him quite seriously or he'll finish up staying at Carlton."

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