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

[Keys]

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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

 

[Cuzz09]

Oh well at least its official now.

Welcome Tylar

 

[bzparkes]

3 picks probably isn’t worth melts but it’s becoming form of taking under….

Not worthy of melts? Surely you've been around here long enough by now...

 

[ThePuma #9]

Wasn’t the pick swap with the Giants not the Suns?

Yeah. I saw a picture of Budarick and thought it was the Suns.

Should have read a little further.

 

[timeforanother22]

Hope we’ve got a game plan if both these picks do find their way to the Demons. Patterson may well be in the table but we have to bid on Uwland at 1.

That goes through and the Suns either concede on Patterson or they have to trade someone else out of value.
Walter and Davis for 2 and 13 or 1 Duursma and 2 Patterson.

 

[ghostbat12]

Evidence:
Friejah/Roberts + Boxhall >> Hall
In fact, any one of those players > Hall

We paid a F3 to jump 2 spots from 40 to 38 to take Hall (a one-dimensional prospect with multiple obvious flaws) while Freijah, Archie Roberts, Joe Fonti, and Humphries (who in fairness we'd likely not have taken) were all available.

With that F3 would likely would have gotten Boxhall, or simply one of Gross/Grego without compromising our future draft hand.

And this is not hindsight. It was predicted by many on this board on draft night.

The only way the trade made any sense was if they expected us to rocket up the ladder in 2024, which would have been delusional.

Stop making stuff up. I searched clay hall thread and there was no talk of freijah or boxhall.

We already had a F3. So how was draft compromised. You are talking about a handful of spots at about pick 40.

Still no evidence on how 12 months earlier it was known that this player would be a god available at pick 45. What you are giving is hindsight analysis and everyone is an expert like that.

It’s like saying I drove down Reid hwy and ended up in an accident. It was therefore a poor decision by me and my fault.

 

[ThePuma #9]

Welcome to West Coast Dylan Patterson.

 

[Spooky17]

We have paid slight overs/received slight unders in all our trades so far… not ideal. I still hope we can trade up somehow, without giving up pick 1 and 2.

 

[ghostbat12]

3 picks probably isn’t worth melts but it’s becoming form of taking under….

Eaglevisin can now give us a list of 15 players available at that pick and if one turns out alright, he can tell us how genius he is.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Young for 38, good grief.

Get ready for

"It's a tick for Clarke because he just got the trade done, that's very important, now we can focus on other things..."

 

[PremiershipNo4]

Hamish Davis role for now and the next 10 years

No idea why people sleep on him so much. He showed the most promise besides Shanahan out of last years draftees

1st decent post you’ve made out of the last 200

 

[Byron_Clanger]

Not worthy of melts? Surely you've been around here long enough by now...

We still have 41, is there even really that big of a difference between 38 and 41?

Like points value wise for bids or whatever?

 

[FatPizza]

3 picks probably isn’t worth melts but it’s becoming form of taking under….

At least I'm still in bed. Don't have to go anywhere to wet it.

Still I'm wondering what the play is here? I'm concerned that we won't be equipped to match for our NGAs..

 

[ThePuma #9]

We have paid slight overs in all our trades so far… not ideal. I still hope we can trade up somehow, without giving up pick 1 and 2.

I think we’ve gotten mail that GC are trading 7 & 8 so it doesn’t really matter if there is 50 points difference between 38 & 41.

We’ll bid on the GC boys now, hopefully loosen Patterson from their grip, keep 13 and now have the picks to match Tylar.

It is what it is.

 

[Goroyals22]

Young for 38, good grief.

Get ready for

"It's a tick for Clarke because he just got the trade done, that's very important, now we can focus on other things..."

it’s going to end up in the 40s and is a pick we won’t use.. it’s has no relevance to us so it’s no loss

 

[Elite Pete]

Not worthy of melts? Surely you've been around here long enough by now...

Im here for it because maybe our last offical action until Draft night in 6 weeks so it’s going to be analysed to the next level…. Seemed an easy trade but here we are.

 

[illegaleagle]

Clarke looking after his old club Richmond again

 

[bzparkes]

We still have 41, is there even really that big of a difference between 38 and 41?

Like points value wise for bids or whatever?

Not really and with GC trading out their picks for Petracca(presumably) the points no longer matter.

 

[bzparkes]

At least I'm still in bed. Don't have to go anywhere to wet it.

Still I'm wondering what the play is here? I'm concerned that we won't be equipped to match for our NGAs..

We've only got Williams possibly to be id on early, which pick 34 should cover on its own, if not we add 41. Can't see any bids on players before then.

 

[Coasters7]

We still have 41, is there even really that big of a difference between 38 and 41?

Like points value wise for bids or whatever?

It’s the principle of always conceding, even moreso when we don’t need to.

 

[Keys]

Pick 38 better than using 34 but a slight overpay when we had 41 sitting there. Points difference between the picks is 57 (equivalent to pick 51) so negligible but still mildly annoying depending on what our bigger picture plans are

Draft hand now sits at 1,2,13,34,41,53,58

If we’re bundling up 13,34,38 to move up does 57 points make a material difference?

Or are we anticipating at that point of the draft we might be needing to match a bid on Tylah Williams so probably doesn’t impact our ability to match

Difference between who’s available at 38 to 41 not much and every possibility that we’d be able to get the same player

Does continue the trend of Clarke appearing to concede ground in deals that was unnecessary looking on from outside

Welcome to West Coast Tylar Young - if he can play 4-5 seasons as a dependable CHB I don’t think we’ll worry too much about 3 spots in a draft

 

[eaglevision]

That goes through and the Suns either concede on Patterson or they have to trade someone else out of value.
Walter and Davis for 2 and 13 or 1 Duursma and 2 Patterson.

Would be good if we could have gone to them at the start of trade period with something like this but obviously didn’t have the Oscar compo.

Very unlikely those boys get moved on this late in the piece despite a little bit of smoke throughout the year but this is exactly how we should be thinking

 

[Wooshaaaa]

it’s going to end up in the 40s and is a pick we won’t use.. it’s has no relevance to us so it’s no loss

An early pick 23 bid on Williams is covered with 34 41.
Still leaves us picks 53 58, which should come in a bit for Banfield bid.

 

[Mop]

I’m happy with 38. Good stuff.

Welcome Young.

 

[Cuzz09]

So Ginbey released from backline?

or brock/hedwards replacement?

 

[eaglevision]

Pick 38 better than using 34 but a slight overpay when we had 41 sitting there. Points difference between the picks is 57 (equivalent to pick 51) so negligible but still mildly annoying depending on what our bigger picture plans are

Draft hand now sits at 1,2,13,34,41,53,58

If we’re bundling up 13,34,38 to move up does 57 points make a material difference?

Or are we anticipating at that point of the draft we might be needing to match a bid on Tyler Williams so probably doesn’t impact our ability to match

Difference between who’s available at 38 to 41 not much and every possibility that we’d be able to get the same player

Does continue the trend of Clarke appearing to concede ground in deals that was unnecessary looking on from outside

Welcome to West Coast Tylar Young - if he can play 4-5 seasons as a dependable CHB I don’t think we’ll worry too much about 3 spots in a draft

I haven’t been too critical of Clarke’s performance this trade period but this is yet another overpay to his former employers only this time when we held all the cards with a low value player and pick 1 in the PSD.