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

 

[Sammy J]

I don't begrudge Oscar leaving. In fact, I think it's pretty clear we gave him the nudge to look around and move on, given it was going to be in our better interest to secure pick 2. If we wanted to bid the same contract as Brisbane, he probably wouldn't be leaving.

Bottom line is, he hasn't been able to get his body right, and his time as Captain of the club coincides with the lowest ebb in our history. Now that's not all on him, but as a leader, he probably has to look himself in the mirror and figure out how he can do better in Brisbane. He won't be in the spotlight anywhere near like he was here, and he'll be scrutinised for his performance but it won't matter if Brisbane are winning.

He missed out on a Premiership with us, so I wish him success in his next role. He's not a bad person, and he was a good soldier for us, but the time is right for both parties to move on. We need fresh blood in the leadership group, and for the young blokes to take a stand now and take ownership of this team and where it is going.

 

[xLeCrAs2x]

Pick 2 for Allen is legendary, with his current form and injury history we made out like bandits

 

[Altum Volantes]

Wait, wtf? We get pick 2 for Allen? But I was told it wasn't going to happen?

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That guy has been tireless in his hate boner over this one.

I tbknk just below the surface is a scared little boy, still upset about what Reuben Ginbey did to Sam Lalor in the pre-season.

He won't be happy when that Pick 2 is locked in.

 

[eaglevision]

Wait, wtf? We get pick 2 for Allen? But I was told it wasn't going to happen?

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Apparently a mate of the Big Dipper

 

[Mr Q]

Maybe I am dumb, but if Richmond bid on the Suns kids that's 4,140 points (or 3,726 after the 10% discount).
Suns pick 6 is now shuffled back to pick 8 (Oscar compo plus the bid moves them down).

It only moves back after the bid is matched, so yes it goes back one for Allen, but will stick there unless there's an earlier bid on Annable. But that bid on Annable would come before the Tigers picks and thus reduce the points the Suns would need to find to match Tigger bids.

 

[CountryLad]

Wait, wtf? We get pick 2 for Allen? But I was told it wasn't going to happen?

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Keep those receipts

 

[leighmo]

Wait, wtf? We get pick 2 for Allen? But I was told it wasn't going to happen?

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That guy doesn’t have a clue.

 

[Yeahnahmate]

Pick 2 for Allen although I knew it was going to happen is quite delicious I must say

 

[RustyShacklefordFalcon]

I know Clarke is incompetent

 

[Deepthroat]

I just don't see Duursma as a solid gold No 1 lock like a Harley.

Surely No. 1 is tradeable this year more than others.

The term "Utility" gives me the shivers too. How many non-Key Position kids labelled "utility" in their draft year go on to do good things?

 

[Altum Volantes]

Wait, wtf? We get pick 2 for Allen? But I was told it wasn't going to happen?

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He deserves a dated Luke Darcy meme for that last line too.

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Ok thanks for pick 2 I guess Oscar, now hand back the captaincy and **** off to chase success elsewhere you gutless campaigner.

The petty bitch in me unreasonably hopes:

• Like WCE post-2018, after two flags the Lions lose all hunger and desire to win flags. Groundhog day soz Oz.
• WCE bounce back and jump ahead of Lions before OA retires.
• The oppressive Brisbane humidity means OA suffers perpetual sweatiness & never quite feels dry

 

[Shifty1]

Does anyone want me to ask Mini anything? He's right next to me at the Herdsman.

 

[Broken_Chairs]

He deserves a dated Luke Darcy meme for that last line too.

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Dated? More like timeless

... sAy ThAt AgAiN

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Does anyone want me to ask Mini anything? He's right next to me at the Herdsman.

Carrots: peeled or unpeeled?

 

[Jootube]

It only moves back after the bid is matched, so yes it goes back one for Allen, but will stick there unless there's an earlier bid on Annable. But that bid on Annable would come before the Tigers picks and thus reduce the points the Suns would need to find to match Tigger bids.

The perk of an Annable bid is that even tho the matching bids get worse, the bid on Suns boys slides too.

Regardless, if I change the value of pick 8 to pick 7 they are still in a significant deficit for points required.

 

[twce13]

Does anyone want me to ask Mini anything? He's right next to me at the Herdsman.

What photos does owies have

 

[EdCurnowRules]

Carrots: peeled or unpeeled?

This is ridiculous. Peeled, obviously

 

[Altum Volantes]

I just don't see Duursma as a solid gold No 1 lock like a Harley.

Surely No. 1 is tradeable this year more than others.

The term "Utility" gives me the shivers too. How many non-Key Position kids labelled "utility" in their draft year go on to do good things?

There isn't always a dead cert #1 Pick even last year Lalor was projecting outside the top 5 in the lead up to the draft, it wasn't until Richmond made it clear he was their man that it was a sure thing.

Same goes for Aaron Cadman - widely seen as a bit of a reach by GWS.

Harley is more of the exception really.

 

[Ishmael_]

Apparently... Could be a rumour.

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Masterstroke from Brisbane to send him for a bit of of R&R in Turkey before making the move over.

And while the rich keep getting richer, the Woke Coast Eagles bring in Baldilocks Brandon. So much for the VFL's equalisation - the follicle gap has never been bigger!

 

[Yeahnahmate]

Happy picks 1+2 day everybody

 

[Broken_Chairs]

This is ridiculous. Peeled, obviously

My ADHD and general laziness says otherwise

 

[Elite Pete]

Does anyone want me to ask Mini anything? He's right next to me at the Herdsman.

Now we have pick 2, when does Jed Walter nominate?

 

[TwoStriders]

Maybe I am dumb, but if Richmond bid on the Suns kids that's 4,140 points (or 3,726 after the 10% discount).
Suns pick 6 is now shuffled back to pick 8 (Oscar compo plus the bid moves them down).
Eagles pick 12 will be pick 14 when the bid comes (at best).
We can assume pick 33 will stay at 33 after bids/matches.

Pick 8 = 1,443
Pick 14 = 1,024
Pick 33 = 382
Total = 2,849 points.

This is a mile off matching the required 3,726 points if the Tigers bid on both Suns boys.

Happy for someone to rebut my workings but people are overestimating the Suns position on points IMO.

I think Obeanie was proposing trading 12 (now 13) and 33 for 6.

That would leave Gold Coast with 13, 15, 18 in the first round. Along with 33 and 35 in the second. Leaving aside pick 8 for Petracca.

That's 3,609 points.

Still short and not factoring in the bids pushing those picks further back (it's kind of hurting my brain trying to factor that in), but pretty close.

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

Is that last paragraph actually what they wrote?

That's an all-time backhander haha

from the paper itself