List Mgmt. 2025 List Management Discussion - Part IV

[Hubnester]

2025 List Management Discussion - Part 4

Now that our season is over, and news is starting to break - it's time for a fresh thread.

This thread is to discuss all things list management - trades, draft, free agency, delistings and more.
As we are now officially in our off-season, we'll be wanting to keep this thread more strictly on-topic than the previous iterations.
Be respectful. You are allowed to disagree with someone - but play the ball, not the man. Repeat offenders will have their posting rights revoked.

Thanks to Lore once again for this incredibly useful spreadsheet.

2025 KEY DATES
Free Agency Period: Friday, October 3rd - Friday, October 10th
Trade Period: Monday, October 6th - Wednesday, October 15th
AFL Draft: Wednesday, November 19th - Thursday, November 20th

See Also:
2025 Year in Review Rumours & Confirmed Movements 2025 Draft Discussion
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[TheJackal]

Dodson has more ability in his left foot than Moose. Hes a solid player Moose but Dodson could be elite.

Ive seen Dodson attempt to kick with his left foot at training, you may want to rethink that comment

 

[LeonardHayes87]

Ive seen Dodson attempt to kick with his left foot at training, you may want to rethink that comment

Have you seen Moose’s attempt? Haha

 

[TheJackal]

I'd be more ok with a future first and hope for Geelong to fail next year. Won't be too much different - am always cheering for their downfall. Still, feels like Geelong would be getting yet another gun player in another trade period and yet again cheaply. There is nothing that would get on my nerves more than to get scammed by Geelong FC

Death riding Geelong when they just made the granny could mean for a disappointing year.

Worpel and Marshall address two absolute weaknesses in their line-up. Imagine if they do get Curnow... its a better draft next year but any draft pick associated with Geelong will be late teens next year.

I hope we don't fold. SDK, or a pick to get a player we haven't been linked to please.

 

[malevu]

You can tell how busy we've been this trade period because I'm yet to read the perennial rumour about us getting Heeney. Surely someone can make one up.

 

[SainterinSydney]

If Ro going means Dodson gets a good go of it and we are confident that he can step up next year, then I'm all for Ro leaving. We must retain Dodzilla at all costs!

 

[Remboy]

You can tell how busy we've been this trade period because I'm yet to read the perennial rumour about us getting Heeney. Surely someone can make one up.

He's going to be steak knives in the Rowell deal. Good replacement for Steele.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Cheers to another successful day everyone

 

[True Believer]

Wait...what? No contact by us since 2022. Am I missing something?

Yes - the fever pitch !!!

 

[Teflon]

We need to stop thinking about it being flag or bust 27-29. This needs to be a 10-year sustainable plan. I'm only in favour of trading out firsts in a weak draft like this year (plus we will land another one for Marshall be it this or next year) or for a gun like Butters.

The only way to find the next Nas is via the draft and ideally early picks.

The thing I'm happiest about with our approach this year is that we are likely to land TDK, JSOS, Flanders, Aleer and Ryan for a single first rounder. If you include losing Marshall in that it's only a 10 pick downgrade at worst.

Quality post

 

[gringo2011]

Yep.
We’ve literally been telling anyone who’ll listen what our plan is for the last 4-5 years and still nobody is listening/absorbing.
Can understand it from room-temp Big Footy posters, but not from the media. It’s pathetic.

We have been a badly run club for 15 years. Every club talks big and most fail to deliver on it. We haven’t earned respect or relevance either.

It will take time to make people see us as anything but a novelty until it translates to on field success. Richmond, the Dogs and Melbourne had to win a flag to change perceptions.

We have slapped a few people awake and made the media look up. Now we need to win games to do the next bit.

I don’t mind being underestimated from
Outsiders . It will make it more fun to watch them suffer later.

 

[True Believer]

Kane Cornes said we should be getting a second lol

Canned Corn says a lot of things...........none of them are worth listening to......

 

[austinnn]

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Cheers to another successful day everyone

That photo never ceases to crack me up.

Far out how did we let that spud and Danny F'in Sexton run our footy dept for 6 years?

 

[austinnn]

We have been a badly run club for 15 years. Every club talks big and most fail to deliver on it. We haven’t earned respect or relevance either.

It will take time to make people see us as anything but a novelty until it translates to on field success. Richmond, the Dogs and Melbourne had to win a flag to change perceptions.

We have slapped a few people awake and made the media look up. Now we need to win games to do the next bit.

I don’t mind being underestimated from
Outsiders . It will make it more fun to watch them suffer later.

100% agree

 

[_Maximus_12]

I’ve had a think about it…
We’re winning the flag next year.

 

[True Believer]

For once we did have a cunning plan.

Seems only right. After all, for a fair period we appear to have been worshipping turnips!

 

[Banger9798]

I’ve had a think about it…
We’re winning the flag next year.

Well that's a relief

 

[True Believer]

That photo never ceases to crack me up.

Far out how did we let that spud and Danny F'in Sexton run our footy dept for 6 years?

Sexton was bloody Teflon, how long did he skate around in the shadows at our club and how did he manage it??

I remember coming out of the B&F one year at Crown and I was behind him on the escalator, and all that kept running through my head was "how the hell do you keep your job ?".......

 

[hangdog]

Uncontracted McVee worth 23 but pick 18 is in the same conversation as a contracted Marshall.

Geelong can gagf

And, to make things worse, apparently Ah Chee is worth Adelaide's first rounder.

You don't hate the media enough

 

[gringo2011]

Canned Corn says a lot of things...........none of them are worth listening to......

Footy media is saturated and the only way to make people look is to set off grenades. People need to enjoy it for its creativity and not take it too seriously. It’s 90% fiction designed to set off people’s anxieties. Korn is one of the best at setting nuffy traps. Ross talks about feeding the chooks but Korn is more of a smart arse kid that feeds laxatives to seagulls and sits back to watch the fall out.

 

[CHBench]

Sam Edmund raised Jordan DeGoey on Agenda Setters, although seemed like he was regurgitating information with no intel "could they go there again?" type thing

 

[hangdog]

For once we did have a cunning plan.

A plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel?

 

[Coconut_twirl]

wtf!

Was this ever really a thing? This year?

 

[Murraj1966]

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Cheers to another successful day everyone

S I G N I F I C A N T L Y

 

[Coconut_twirl]

Honestly don’t think he’s too far wrong. Ro will be 30 next year and his body and form has been below his best the last 12 months. If we were offering a first for ruckman with a similar profile I’d be flat. The fact we’re potentially getting a first is great for us.

I agree. This years first is a satisfactory outcome.

 

[Remboy]

Canned Corn says a lot of things...........none of them are worth listening to......

I'd love to see him interview Gubby. Gubby would walk out half way though the second question.