List Mgmt. 2025 Draft/Trade/FA Thread – everything must go!

[Scythe]

Just pinning this, as per previous years. Thanks as always to Lore.

Final trade/FA period results
Out:

• Charlie Spargo
• Judd McVee
• Christian Petracca
• Clayton Oliver
• Picks 28, 42 and 61
• Melbourne Second-Rounder (2026)
• Melbourne Third-Rounder (2026)
• Melbourne Fourth-Rounder (2026)
• Melbourne Fourth-Rounder (2027)

In:

• Jack Steele
• Changkuoth Jiath
• Brody Mihocek
• Max Heath
• Oscar Berry (Rookie)
• Picks 7, 8, 37 and 71 (2025)
• GC First-Rounder (2026)
• GWS Third-Rounder (2026)
• GC Third-Rounder (2027)

 

[new to this]

Wonder if Lamb will pull out his golden play of our F1, 23,27,42,60 for pick 13 in this year draft

Don’t put things in his head he’s a bigfooty lover

 

[I Love Lamb]

lol @ started chats, so much for make us an offer to turn our heads.

Looks like Lamb has gone into “We are a club who gets deals done (by taking unders)” mode.

 

[MarcMaverick]

At then of this Tom Lamb

Tom Lamb

Age

29

Ht

193cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

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10.0

3star

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5.0

2star

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5.0

4star

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4.0

4star

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2.0

4star

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1.0

4star

No current season stats available

D

10.0

3star

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5.0

2star

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5.0

4star

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4.0

4star

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2.0

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1.0

4star

needs to go. Tim Lamb too.

 

[Young Redleg]

Good evening.

If you want a evening entertainment, jump on the clarry thread on demonland

It's amazing how it's only now that people on that site are realising what an immature twat he is

 

[MarcMaverick]

Like people have said, lucky Claz is a sportsman.

 

[danster168]

Fair trade tbh. Also more currency to try and work our way towards either Humphrey or top 10 picks. Nothing between 10 and 40 pls.

Horrible deal. History suggests that there's an 80% chance that pick 23 turns out to be vfl calibre. Add in the fact that it's. a poor draft and it'll become closer to 28, that's gonna be closer to a 90% chance that we lost McVee for nothing.

10 years of pick 23's

2014 Pat McKenna
2015 David Cuningham
2016 Alex Witherden
2017 Will Walker
2018 Jez Mclennan
2019 Dylan Williams
2020 Reef Mcinnes
2021 Sam Butler
2022 Harry Barnett
2023 Riley Hardeman

 

[Lord Nev]

Horrible deal. History suggests that there's an 80% chance that pick 23 turns out to be vfl calibre. Add in the fact that it's. a poor draft and it'll become closer to 28, that's gonna be closer to a 90% chance that we lost McVee for nothing.

10 years of pick 23's

2014 Pat McKenna
2015 David Cuningham
2016 Alex Witherden
2017 Will Walker
2018 Jez Mclennan
2019 Dylan Williams
2020 Reef Mcinnes
2021 Sam Butler
2022 Harry Barnett
2023 Riley Hardeman

Did you read my post properly?

 

[I Love Lamb]

Lamb: Trac is a required player who we need a deal to turn our head to look at

Also Lamb: Enters chats with GC on day 2

Danster on the money with his body language reading.

 

[PerfectFooty]

Did you read my post properly?

Maybe you should communicate through body language

 

[I Love Lamb]

 

[MarcMaverick]

Maybe you should communicate through body language

Through the medium of dance..

 

[schmuttt]

Good thing that contract makes it impossible for him to move anytime soon.

 

[danster168]

Did you read my post properly?

yeah. I just disagreed with it.

- Humphrey isn't going anywhere.

- Tim Lamb literally ruined us by compiling picks which is what you want us to do. Just like instead of taking Logan Morris, he kissed picks away to get Tholstrup.

-I think the only think I'd be content with is moving all the picks to next year. There's no way to come out winners at this point. McVee would've gone top 3 in this draft. So it's another massive net loss for Lamb. He had one chance and that was to win Windhager and he couldn't get that done either. And now he's struggling to get rid of May.

 

[Lord Nev]

You didn't watch it all did you.

Ralph talks about how the settlement could work with JUH being paid half of what he is owed for his last year as a payout.

You can keep going in circles if you like, but I reckon I've explained this enough now.

“Gold Coast will be able to pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan up on a significantly reduced deal,” Clark began.

“We know that Jamarra is on $800,000 or thereabouts at the Kennel, but that contract is almost certainly going to be ripped up, torn up, and there will be a fresh one at Gold Coast. That could be potentially half, maybe even less than half.

“Gold Coast, while they’re circling Christian Petracca, will have to pay the bulk of his $1.3m deal, they can get Jamarra Ugle-Hagan on peanuts (for) $300-400k. Let’s be honest, this is a bit of a throw at the stumps ... they’re not paying big money for Jamarra, this is going to be a ‘cheap as chips’ deal.

‘Better than half price’: Troubled Dog’s deal to be ‘torn up’ with plan for bargain player swap

‘Better than half price’: Troubled Dog’s deal to be ‘torn up’ with plan for bargain player swap

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Lord Nev]

yeah. I just disagreed with it.

But you didn't... I said we don't want anything between pics 10 and 40, then you went on a rant at me about how useless pick 23 is for some reason.

 

[Lord Nev]

Tim Lamb literally ruined us by compiling picks which is what you want us to do. Just like instead of taking Logan Morris, he kissed picks away to get Tholstrup.

So bascially, pick 23 is useless, especially in a crap draft, but we should defs hold on to pick 31.

Makes complete sense.

 

[I Love Lamb]

But you didn't... I said we don't want anything between pics 10 and 40, then you went on a rant at me about how useless pick 23 is for some reason.

Doubt we take these trash picks to the draft tbh. Doesn’t make sense with White, Sinnema and pick 7 also coming in.

 

[TheBoss]

What did you guys do to the lad?

The club badly mishandled the Clayton Oliver situation from the start, in 2023. What should have been a delicate, internal welfare matter turned into a years-long public circus that has damaged his and the club's reputation.

Instead of working with a clearly struggling player behind closed doors, the club chose to leak stories questioning his professionalism, commitment and character. Everything started to spiral.

The "will they, won't they" trade saga we have had every year is farcical. In 2023 & 2024, the club allowed speculation that we were open to trading him - and then act shocked when the media pounced. The club could not decide whether to piss or get off the pot. Either you're standing by him or you're not. Floating him for trade every year is reckless and destabilising.

Looking at the media communication, it is clear that club is unsure of its own stance. One week it was "Clayton is part of our future", and the next is "we encourage him to seek opportunities elsewhere. The club lost control of the narrative as we had our skipper and senior players fielding questions about him since mid last year.

Whatever issues Clarry was going through, (whether it be physical, mental or otherwise) needed care and discretion. Instead the club seemed more interested in pushing a 'tough love' culture than in supporting him. Tough love can work when trust exists. In this case, it clearly didn't.

If it were just Oliver, you could write it off as an isolated case. But then you look at how the club mishandled the Petracca situation - another complete mess of mixed messaging, lack of transparency and tone-deaf public statements. First they tried to downplay it, then fumbled the communications when the full story came out. It showed the same instincts: protect the brand at all costs, even if it means misleading the supporters and leaving the players twisting in the wind. The parallels are hard to miss. A leadership more focused on optics than empathy, and a football department that seems reactive rather the proactive.

At the end of the day, you can't "culture your way" out of a welfare problem. The club tried to exert control instead of offering support, and in doing so, they fractured one of the most talented player-club relationships in the game.

It is a textbook example of how not to handle a high-maintenance but elite player. And the truth is, this probably won't change until there's a genuine reset at the top. Hopefully the new leadership in the boardroom, CEO's office and coach's box leads to a fresh approach with empathy and transparency instead of spin and control to rebuilt trust and stability inside the club.

 

[Blackas87]

Did Kozzy ring Sam up and tell him he’s surprised?

I’m pretty Koz was aware of what happened last trade period with Trac and Clarry which was before he signed his big deal.

 

[Bluelegs]

Do you reckon he signed that deal thinking nothing would change for ten years?

 

[I Love Lamb]

Where the **** are the “Tom Sparrow

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Tom Sparrow

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25

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183cm

Wt

85kg

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15.0

4star

K

6.0

2star

HB

9.0

5star

M

1.0

1star

T

2.0

4star

CL

3.0

4star

D

15.0

4star

K

6.0

2star

HB

9.0

4star

M

1.0

1star

T

2.0

3star

CL

3.0

4star

D

15.0

4star

K

6.0

3star

HB

9.0

5star

M

1.0

1star

T

2.0

4star

CL

3.0

5star

is suprised” twitter posts?

 

[Deemanding]

West Coast look like they've wiped the floor with that Starcevich trade.

On points value they get him for basically free.

 

[I Love Lamb]

Good to hear Montagna “needs to be more involved than pick 7”.

Why the **** is no one talking about pick 6? It feels like this pick has been spoken for and not reported.

 

[Crusty Demon]

Did Kozzy ring Sam up and tell him he’s surprised?

I’m pretty Koz was aware of what happened last trade period with Trac and Clarry which was before he signed his big deal.

It's everything i hate in these modern media f*wits. Making up stories and giving opinions based on nothing. I can't stand pretty much everyone in the AFL media. Twomey is about the only one I'd be remotely interested in following.

 

[The Dr]

yeah. I just disagreed with it.

- Humphrey isn't going anywhere.

- Tim Lamb literally ruined us by compiling picks which is what you want us to do. Just like instead of taking Logan Morris, he kissed picks away to get Tholstrup.

-I think the only think I'd be content with is moving all the picks to next year. There's no way to come out winners at this point. McVee would've gone top 3 in this draft. So it's another massive net loss for Lamb. He had one chance and that was to win Windhager and he couldn't get that done either. And now he's struggling to get rid of May.

“McVee would’ve gone top 3 in this draft”

That’s just about better than the body language post

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