List Manager Peter Schwab effectively ruled out the prospect of Richmond's David Astbury joining the Lions on SEN yesterday.

“We were in discussions and Justin knows him well.

“We’ve also got the other factor of making sure we’ve got enough points in the system for our Academy boys”, Schwab said.

“We’ve got two very good players this year that we think will get bid on reasonably high, so we wanted to make sure we had enough in the tank and the Aishy deal hasn’t quite gone anywhere so there weren’t enough there.

“In the end we made a call as a football club to hold fire, after a number of the deals we did (yesterday) and just wait and see.”

The 2015 Trade Period ends 5pm Thursday.