THE MANAGER of utility Jared Brennan says his client is yet to make a decision on which club he wants to play for in 2011, but it won't be the Brisbane Lions.
Brennan, the No.3 selection in the 2002 national draft, will leave the club for whom he has played 119 games.
Gold Coast and Carlton have emerged as his two main suitors, and Brennan's manager Tom Petroro said the 26-year-old had to work through his options.
"I'm not in a position to say where Jared will be playing next year," Petroro told afl.com.au.
Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna, who has already claimed the uncontracted Michael Rischitelli from the Lions, said his club would be prepared to trade for Brennan.
"[If] Jared, technically speaking, is up for trade and he wants out of Brisbane, well naturally we'd be a player in that," he said.
"He's a quality player… he's probably in the same boat as Campbell (Brown) and his best football is probably ahead of him."
McKenna said he was unconcerned by the prospect of spending some of the club's valuable first-round draft picks to secure Brennan.
"It's all about our list build. Are we going to have the perfect list in 2011? Probably not, but come 2012, '13, '14 and beyond, of course we would," he said.
"They're decisions we have to make and sit down with [recruiter] Scott (Clayton) and address."
McKenna also said the Suns would seek a mature-bodied ruckman to lead the way while youngsters Zac Smith, Rory Thompson and Tom Nicholls continued to develop.
But he declined to confirm whether out-of-favour Collingwood tall Josh Fraser was in the club's sights.
"If you had a start to the season where you come up against against (Aaron) Sandilands, (David) Hille, (Ben) Hudson and those types, I guarantee you your [young] ruckman wouldn't be playing much more after round five or round six," he said.
"We're going to need a big strong body to go in there and take some time off some of those rucks to allow time for us to put into some of those big young kids on our list.
"We're certainly in the market but like our uncontracted players, I'm not going to go into the names and the clubs."
Under the concessions granted by the AFL, the Suns are entitled to claim one uncontracted player from each club, making 16 in total.
However, Suns CEO Travis Auld said the club had not wavered from its intention to limit its raids to "somewhere between six and eight" players, to ensure Gold Coast's youngsters were given sufficient opportunities at senior level.
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