List Mgmt. Contracts/Trade Thread - 2025 Edition Vol 3

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List Changes - 2025

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In:

• Brandon Starcevich arrives at West Coast in a three team deal
• Tylar Young (Richmond) arrived at West Coast in exchange for Pick 38.
• Deven Robertson (Brisbane) has agreed to join West Coast and will be signed on to the rookie list after being delisted by Brisbane

Out:

• Oscar Allen joins Brisbane as a FA - West Coast receive Pick 2 as compensation
• Liam Ryan and a 2027 R3 pick has been traded to St Kilda for a 2026 R2 pick
• Campbell Chesser has been traded to Carlton for Pick 41
• Jayden Hunt announces retirement
• Jack Petruccelle, Callum Jamieson and Loch Rawlinson not offered new contracts
• Coen Livingstone joins the list of players not offered a new contract

Players Out of Contract - 2025 (0)

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• Jamie Cripps and Malakai Champion seem to have been offered new contracts despite there being no official announcement. Means that all players out of contract for 2025 have been given new contracts despite or removed from the playing list

2025 Draft Order

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Current Draft Picks:
Round 1: 1, 2, 13
Round 2: 34, 41
Round 3: 53, 58 (These picks are in excess of available list spots so will be forfeited if we don’t consolidate our 2025 picks up the order or trade some for future picks)

List Spots Available (39 of 48):
• Main list (33 of 38) - 5* (in: Starcevich, Young out: Allen, Ryan, Chesser, Hunt, Petruccelle, Jamieson)
• Cat A rookie list (5 of 8) - 3* (in: Robertson (pending), out: Rawlinson)
• Cat B rookie list (1 of 2) - 2 (out: Livingstone)

* Based on Dewar being upgraded after the maximum 3 years on the rookie list. Hutchinson may also have been upgraded but this isn’t confirmed - if it is we will have 4 main and 4 rookie list spots open

* Matthew Clarke has stated we have 5 main list spots

Matt Clarke wraps up the trade period - 6PR

 

[PremiershipNo4]

Not a terrible deal, glad it’s done.
Brisbane the big winners, but still we are going to get pick 2, for our player that wanted to leave the club.
Should still turn out to be a fantastic Draft/trade period for us.
2 more picks to come in for Chesser and Ryan, much to play out yet.

 

[Ochre]

Lot of the bedwetters haven't considered that if pick 16 ends up medically retired, this is an all time trade win for us. People need to look at the big picture.

 

[kranky al]

Yeah, lets all be little children and pretend that if we ignore problems and make believe that we can't see them they will just magically go away.

People complain that we don’t use our money as a rich club to get one up on the comp. This is a perfect example of exactly how to do so.

Starc gets a concussion and is medically retired. Whatever we have to pay him out isn’t part of the salary cap as he is medically retired. So all he’s gonna cost us is money.

Money which we have plenty of.

The upside is he could play for a couple years and be just as good as he was at Brisbane - we desperately need experienced players.

 

[Bender_]

I reckon Starcevich is a great get for us. We will not be using this guy as a back pocket lock down player.

Oh I'm happy with his recruitment, just had enough of the repetitive concussion stuff - we're all aware of it.

 

[Obeanie1]

Right.

We basically give 22 to Brisbane for Starcevich, which is what was more or less agreed at the time the priority pick was issued.

Then we trade 16 and 23 for 12, 33 and 50. This is almost exactly equal on points, but we end up with a higher pick, plus handy lower picks for Young, matching FS/NGA bids, or trading up further.

I am neither happy nor unhappy with this result.

Well that means its a decent result.

 

[ThePuma #9]

Pick 16 & 23 = 1,577 points or after Allen compo (17 & 24 ..1500 points)

Pick 12, 33 & 52 = 1,564 points. (13, 34 & 53... 1468 points)

I think we just waved goodbye to pick 6-7 boys and girls.

 

[RustyShacklefordFalcon]

 

[Bender_]

I think we can all agree that whoever we would've picked with pick 19 would've been a bust anyway.

 

[SumaGodCoach]

Pick 16 & 23 = 1,577 points.

Pick 12, 33 & 52 = 1,564 points.

I think we just waved goodbye to pick 6-7 boys and girls.

We also have pick 38.

 

[lmach]

I get wanting to move up the order, but for a team holding picks 1, 2* and 12 (which we literally just traded up for), it’s pretty funny seeing people lose their minds over "not being able to trade up".

 

[Wce17]

How’s it a good deal? We now don’t have the points to move up the order, we just gave 16,22 and 23 away for a bloke who’ll be medically retired if he gets concussed again and for pick 12.

Trying to see the light here but I can’t, the deal in itself isn’t horrific but factoring in we now can’t trade up is what makes it horrible to me.

Why trade up when we can just trade down from Pick 2 & gain an extra pick somewhere.

 

[unty11]

 

[Shueygod]

Eagles lose 22 and send 16 + 23 + something minor for 7.

Eagles lost 16, 23, 22 and gained 12 + 33.

We’ve essentially traded 7 for 12 + 33 with this trade.

 

[bzparkes]

We also have pick 38.

As well as pick 1 to trade to Essendon.

 

[Astro7]

Bed neither wet nor not wet, just a passing whiff of dampness in the air, is all...
Welcome Starcevich!

 

[Corkintheocean]

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Wins as often as Trump...ie never.

 

[darksquare]

How’s it a good deal? We now don’t have the points to move up the order, we just gave 16,22 and 23 away for a bloke who’ll be medically retired if he gets concussed again and for pick 12.

Trying to see the light here but I can’t, the deal in itself isn’t horrific but factoring in we now can’t trade up is what makes it horrible to me.

12 + some combination of 33, Chesser trade, Ryan trade could get us a GC top-10 pick.

 

[Scotland]

Those having a go at Clarke for this one need to let go of the past. This deal in isolation is fair for all parties. We certainly haven't come out losers on this trade alone.

Well we just locked in a trade on Tuesday that could've been done any time between now and next Wednesday. For what benefit exactly?

 

[Bestbird]

Will The pick 20s may drop further

 

[bzparkes]

Well we just locked in a trade on Tuesday that could've been done any time between now and next Wednesday. For what benefit exactly?

Because, just like you said yourself, trade week ends next Wednesday.

Unless you think this is the only trade WCE will be involved in, for some reason?

 

[Hasselhough]

Its annoying because freos pick is in bo allen territory really needed to be 8 - 10 range

 

[greatwhiteshark]

He missed three months just this year with concussion.

Three ****ing months.

And again I am asking why are we drafting him then? Surely the club knows more than us yes? With all we have been through the last few years not even our club could be so silly to have a bloke who is teetering on collapse if he touches anyone sign on for 5-6 years without some protection?

 

[SAweagle]

He missed three months just this year with concussion.

Three ****ing months.

Any player in the league could have missed 3 months

 

[mattyc75]

Hopefully the chesser and Ryan trades are both for future picks.

 

[ThePuma #9]

We also have pick 38.

We do but you'd imagine either that or 33 (34) is going to be used for Young.

I guess it will turn out to be Chesser for Young ultimately.