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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[nikkig98]

I am a bit curious as to why we are traing into what is goiung to be the most compromised draft in 15 years

Idk, maybe we're stockpiling picks to trade with Tassie for one of theirs?
Remember that 50% of their picks have to be traded

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Farewell young Moose!

Guess now I have to buy a new hat

 

[SaintersUnite]

Oh boy

Hopefully this doesn’t end up like the Xerri trade a few years back where we fought over a 2nd or 3rd, didn’t get him, then he turned into a gun lmao

 

[No77778]

This what I'll be doing when I watch flying Ryan pull down some speccies with my West Coast loving in-laws! Can't wait!

 

[pebblesofsand]

Farewell young Moose!

Now I have to buy a new frickin hat

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C'mon on down Ivan Soldo or Mason Cox - woo hooo!!!

 

[Hayes4PM]

I’ve got a feeling we are just gonna go bag bang with GC out of nowhere and bring in Humphrey B Bear.

I feel like we'll just be loitering and sniffing around to see if we can't weasel into a 3 way trade to help facilitate a Curnow, Petracca, Merrett or sort a favourable trade independently to help one of the clubs get the capital for those trades.

That and waiting for Geelong to come to the party for Marshall, otherwise we must be keeping something else very well under wraps.

I did see Paddy Dow was on holidays with Sam Walsh yesterday...

 

[stavro#4]

 

[MrFoster]

Struggling to see how when we really dont have the picks?

Marshall is leaving (for F1), we also have our own 2026 F1 and 2027 F1. So that's 3 F1 picks to play with, more if Steele leaves. So we should have enough ammo for 1 more big fish.

Regarding Aleer, even at $600k is an overpay, understandable if we didn't get JSOS. But now we do, it's too much financially and trade capital wise to pay for potential only. We move on.

Next we wait for how things play out with others and go for 1 more trade if things go in our favour.

 

[Mystifly]

Struggling to see how when we really dont have the picks?

What do you mean? Haven't you seen our cache of 2027 picks??

 

[MrFoster]

He can stay at the giants. They already offered him 2 years at $400k. Yes, Aleer would be disappointed at not making 600k+, but he is still in the system, don't see any other team banging his door down.

 

[Captain Paddy]

Aka we’ll still take ya but we’re not matching what the giants are demanding

 

[Palantine]

Moose and Aleer both out of contract

Both got better offers from other clubs than their original clubs

One club allowed their player to leave for a token pick

The other tried to extract gold from a stone

Does anyone have details what GWS wanted?

 

[bird_man]

can’t see SDK happening.

Marshall straight swap isn’t enough and we have absolutely f*** all after that lol.

What I’d like to see:
Marshall for SDK
or
Marshall (Geelongs 1st) & F1 for Humphrie

It's not happening

But we do have the asserts to make the trade if it were

 

[heynow85]

If we really wanted all of them I could see a situation where we niggled and didn’t get 7 for Flanders straight up etc and it all happened at 7.25pm next Wednesday.

 

[heynow85]

Does anyone have details what GWS wanted?

Future 2nd

 

[austinnn]

"Imagine life in the AFL now without St Kilda"

Maher

First thing of sense he's ever said.

Typical Carlton mentality. Their leaders proposed the same for years

 

[sauce_head]

Aka we’ll still take ya but we’re not matching what the giants are demanding

Exactly. May as well have just said go to the PSD young lad, with $700k on your head and if somebody gets you first then well done to you.

 

[ESDR]

Somebody should remind Josh Jenkins

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that we did the exact same thing with big Ivan Soldo

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last year. Think TDK, JSOS, Flyin' Ryan and Ned, and their respective managers, must have missed that.

St Kilda backs out of negotiations for wantaway ruck: AFL trade news.

The Port Adelaide ruckman has been left in limbo after requesting a trade to Victoria.

www.zerohanger.com

 

[saint66au]

Marshall is leaving (for F1), we also have our own 2026 F1 and 2027 F1. So that's 3 F1 picks to play with, more if Steele leaves. So we should have enough ammo for 1 more big fish.

Regarding Aleer, even at $600k is an overpay, understandable if we didn't get JSOS. But now we do, it's too much financially and trade capital wise to pay for potential only. We move on.

Next we wait for how things play out with others and go for 1 more trade if things go in our favour.

Geelong have seemingly offered a 1st, and we are still talking that hes staying, so I very much doubt that will get done, and correctly so. If were gonna be left with just 2 rucks on our list (Keeler is not a ruckman) , I want a Godfather offer thanks

 

[St Muir]

I am a bit curious as to why we are traing into what is goiung to be the most compromised draft in 15 years

Because 2026 is the last draft before Tassie.

 

[malevu]

To quote the Pres - "We're not here to make friends."

Time for people to listen up.

 

[MrFoster]

Maybe SDK is happening now that we moved away from Aleer? Marshall for SDK + a 2nd rounder sounds fair to me.

 

[projectv]

Somebody should remind Josh Jenkins that we did the exact same thing with big Ivan Soldo last year. Think TDK, JSOS, Flyin' Ryan and Ned, and their respective managers, must have missed that.

St Kilda backs out of negotiations for wantaway ruck: AFL trade news.

The Port Adelaide ruckman has been left in limbo after requesting a trade to Victoria.

www.zerohanger.com

Soldo was a bit different, he failed a medical. That's a clear red flag that no one would dispute as grounds to walk away.

 

[saintmike65]

That was short lived sentence. But I missed the why we backed out of the Aleer deal. Does anyone know?

I honestly thought GWS would play fair but i guess i was naive

 

[beside the seaside]

I just don't really buy this idea that we didn't want to pay an F2 so we pulled out. Why not explore walking him to the PSD? Fact is once we signed Silvagni he didn't make a lot of sense.