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

 

[Cuzz09]

Geez Assumed Tylar Young was Young but guess its just his name. obviously been around a bit but never heard of him before this trade period.

All the best Tylar

 

[TerryFilk]

How did we make it harder?

We ended up with more points.

It's irrelevant now anyway, because it appears Melbourne will hold GC's top 10 picks, courtesy of Petracca.

Points won't matter in that instance.

No we didn’t? We lost points, not a significant amount considering we traded the equivalent of 23 for Starcevich, but we still lost points.

Again, not saying that deal was bad, it was fine, but I’m not going to sit here and pretend like we haven’t come out second best in every other deal.

It’s not that I don’t think Young will be worth 38, it’s that we had all the leverage and once again didn’t utilise it.

I also find it funny how this board goes from “Starcevich shouldn’t cost more than the Hawks 2nd”, “Young shouldn’t cost more than a pick in the 50’s”, “Ryan is a contracted player, we’re better of keeping him than a F2” to we’ve done awesome in every deal, it’s pure copium.

Can you imagine what we’d give up if a star requested to come here?

 

[Bender_]

Geez Assumed Tylar Young was Young but guess its just his name. obviously been around a bit but never heard of him before this trade period.

All the best Tylar

He hasn't been around a bit, debuted in the AFL as a mature rookie and has only been on Richmond's list a few years and missed a big chunk with an ACL.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Can you imagine what we’d give up if a star requested to come here?

We already know. The Tim Kelly trade.

 

[Proeagle]

Geez Assumed Tylar Young was Young but guess its just his name. obviously been around a bit but never heard of him before this trade period.

All the best Tylar

He was a late starter. 24 I believe when he started in the AFL. And then missed time with a knee injury.

 

[Obeanie1]

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

If we need the pick as insurance to cover a bid in the mid 30s then no harm no foul.

Matching with 38 versus matching with 41 there is zero difference to us. We would lose the pick on the bid anyway.

Now if we use that pick in the draft and so do Richmond with 38 then it's a tad silly.

Richmond likely lose that 38 on a bid for Kellaway.

Time will tell.

I'm sure sheets are being changed and put in the wash at this point already.....but that's someone else's problem.

 

[TY24]

Meters gonna Melt I suppose

 

[wirra44]

Gonna be funny when Clarke finds out he’s 27 and not 22.

 

[Cuzz09]

He hasn't been around a bit, debuted in the AFL as a mature rookie and has only been on Richmond's list a few years and missed a big chunk with an ACL.

ok well hopefully he can endure our surfaces

 

[eaglevision]

Two points:

1. Ah Chee PSD possible
2. This is what list managers that understand the game do with OOC players

 

[Couchpotato]

I'm fine with the trade and it returns a balance to our KPD stocks, age wise:

Brock - 21
Hedwards - 25
Young - 27

We probably want to pick one up this year or next year as cover for Young when he approaches 30+. Young may not be here for our next flag, but is needed as cover for Hedwards and Brock while they're 'learning' through 70+ I50s a game.

Swapping Barrass for a younger KPD and a first round pick is good business at this stage of our build.

 

[bzparkes]

No we didn’t? We lost points, not a significant amount considering we traded the equivalent of 23 for Starcevich, but we still lost points.

Again, not saying that deal was bad, it was fine, but I’m not going to sit here and pretend like we haven’t come out second best in every other deal.

It’s not that I don’t think Young will be worth 38, it’s that we had all the leverage and once again didn’t utilise it.

I also find it funny how this board goes from “Starcevich shouldn’t cost more than the Hawks 2nd”, “Young shouldn’t cost more than a pick in the 50’s”, “Ryan is a contracted player, we’re better of keeping him than a F2” to we’ve done awesome in every deal, it’s pure copium.

Can you imagine what we’d give up if a star requested to come here?

The job isn't to win trade week, it's to improve the side moving forward. That's happened and we still have the opportunity to improve further on draft night if Essendon or Melbourne get desperate for pick 2.

People like to question where this apparent 'goodwill' comes from for easily facilitating trades but it's not just the clubs WCE are trying to work with, there's the player managers also.

We also won't be using pick 38 anyway, so I don't see any point getting nitpicky over using that or 41.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Meters gonna Melt I suppose

People in reality gonna notice reality

 

[Ruben Grubarb]

The Mole.

 

[Jootube]

Richmond could make a great argument that Young is worth more on talent.
Eagles could make a great argument he's worth less due to our bargaining position.

Fair trade. Move on

 

[Farmer Lister]

Two points:

1. Ah Chee PSD possible
2. This is what list managers that understand the game do with OOC players

Lol they have the 18th pick in the PSD. Why wouldn't the other 17 teams pick him up first?

 

[MerryHell]

...

I also find it funny how this board goes from “Starcevich shouldn’t cost more than the Hawks 2nd”, “Young shouldn’t cost more than a pick in the 50’s”, “Ryan is a contracted player, we’re better of keeping him than a F2” to we’ve done awesome in every deal, it’s pure copium.

...

Sounds like the views of a few individual posters, not everyone.

Going into this trade period, I thought Starc for the assistance pick and hoped Young for Chesser. Sad for Ryan leaving but not about the trade. This isn't the trade period (so far!) to be upset. Unless you wanted to WIN the trade period, that's going to end in upset more often than not.

 

[CountryLad]

We were involved in a bigger deal for Starcevich where we came out with the best result of the 3 clubs involved just last week.

Have you not seen his melts on twitter. I follow him just so i can laugh. He actually has some good points at times in his defence.

 

[Smotie2]

Lol they have the 18th pick in the PSD. Why wouldn't the other 17 teams pick him up first?

He's talking about us picking him up in the psd.

 

[Proeagle]

No we didn’t? We lost points, not a significant amount considering we traded the equivalent of 23 for Starcevich, but we still lost points.

Again, not saying that deal was bad, it was fine, but I’m not going to sit here and pretend like we haven’t come out second best in every other deal.

It’s not that I don’t think Young will be worth 38, it’s that we had all the leverage and once again didn’t utilise it.

I also find it funny how this board goes from “Starcevich shouldn’t cost more than the Hawks 2nd”, “Young shouldn’t cost more than a pick in the 50’s”, “Ryan is a contracted player, we’re better of keeping him than a F2” to we’ve done awesome in every deal, it’s pure copium.

Can you imagine what we’d give up if a star requested to come here?

I havnt seen anyone say we've done awesome. I think we all agree we got slight unders for the deals.
We didn't get bent over though. And no other teams supporters are dancing around about our deals with them.

 

[TerryFilk]

The job isn't to win trade week, it's to improve the side moving forward. That's happened and we still have the opportunity to improve further on draft night if Essendon or Melbourne get desperate for pick 2.

People like to question where this apparent 'goodwill' comes from for easily facilitating trades but it's not just the clubs WCE are trying to work with, there's the player managers also.

We also won't be using pick 38 anyway, so I don't see any point getting nitpicky over using that or 41.

So we’ve once again gone from moving up the board to splitting a top 2 pick, proving my point that we made it harder for ourselves.

No one said the goal is to win trade week, but constantly being involved deals where the other team clearly ends up being the happier party is frustrating.

 

[eaglevision]

Lol they have the 18th pick in the PSD. Why wouldn't the other 17 teams pick him up first?

Paul Connors was calling the clubs with PSD picks before the dogs to tell them not to pick smith or else last year.

We’d really need to put something to him that he’d accept. We should keep quiet and IF a trade isn’t done then we offer far greater money with no draft capital cost.

If we says no to us we won’t take him. Won’t be like Nick Stevens and Carlton.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Sounds like the views of a few individual posters, not everyone.

Going into this trade period, I thought Starc for the assistance pick and hoped Young for Chesser. Sad for Ryan leaving but not about the trade. This isn't the trade period (so far!) to be upset. Unless you wanted to WIN the trade period, that's going to end in upset more often than not.

Its a case of being in the power position and still finding a way to lose that annoys me the most. Both Starcevich/Young overpays have cost us the chance of moving that Hawk 1st rounder into the top 10 when its all said and done

 

[Obeanie1]

Brock you’d imagine, as much as I like him, using your SSP defender in something like 18 games is never the sign of a healthy squad

And McGovern was a fat rookie pick up.

 

[Farmer Lister]

Paul Connors was calling the clubs with PSD picks before the dogs to tell them not to pick smith or else last year.

We’d really need to put something to him that he’d accept. We should keep quiet and IF a trade isn’t done then we offer far greater money with no draft capital cost.

If we says no to us we won’t take him. Won’t be like Nick Stevens and Carlton.

Having a player agent mad at you vs getting Ah Chee for free. I know which one I'd pick. Screw those guys, surely that's some sort of illegal draft tampering.