With free agencybeginning on Monday October 1 essendonfc.com.au explains all that you need toknow about the upcoming free agency period.

Under the rules agreedbetween the AFL and AFL players association restricted and unrestricted freeagents may consider offers from rival clubs during the post season period fromOctober 1 to 5pm on October 19.

Any unrestricted freeagent may automatically move to the club of his choice.

Any restricted freeagent may have an offer to them matched by his club, which has the right offirst refusal of his services.

In the case that anunrestricted free agent does not want to remain at his original club, he mustenter the draft or seek a trade.

Any club with a net loss of free agentswill receive compensation from the league in the form of allocated draft picks.

Find below a list of all players in theleague eligible for free agency.

Restricted Free Agents

AngusMonfries (Essendon); Brent Moloney (Melbourne); Troy Chaplin, Danyle Pearce(Port Adelaide); Luke McGuane (Richmond); Brendon Goddard (St Kilda).

Unrestricted Free Agents

ChrisKnights (Adel Crows); Jordan Russell, Bret Thornton (Carlton); Ben Johnson(Collingwood); Ricky Dyson, Dustin Fletcher, David Hille, Nathan Lovett-Murray,Henry Slattery (Essendon); Luke McPharlin (Fremantle); Shannon Byrnes, JoshHunt (Geelong Cats); Thomas Murphy, Michael Osborne, Clinton Young (Hawthorn);Matthew Bate, Lynden Dunn, Jared Rivers(Melbourne); Brett Ebert, StevenSalopek, Jacob Surjan (Port Adelaide); Jason Blake, Raphael Clarke (St Kilda);Jude Bolton, Jarred Moore(Sydney Swans); Quinten Lynch, Mark Nicoski(West Coast); Will Minson (Western Bulldogs).