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

 

[Mr Q]

Hearing Essendon are about to offer pick 5,9,22 for pick 1, which them accepting Merrett offer is conditional on.

I’d counter with 5,6,F1 for 1,13. See how much they want Duursma.

Why exactly is this in any way our problem?

 

[ghostbat12]

Hope we do find a way to trade for Walter just so I never have to read another ****ing mock trade where people are clamouring for Walter ever again.

There is a vacuum to fill with Dev finally joining. we need a new target. if we get Walter, not sure who we can move onto next. curtin? Curtin2030.

 

[eaglevision]

Why exactly is this in any way our problem?

It’s not, but it gives us incredible leverage to extract the stupid offer it would take to part with pick 1.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

This clip, as a piece of content, is possibly the worst thing the AFL have produced since AFLX.

 

[FatPizza]

2,34,41,52 for 7,8,F2 (MELB)
1,13 for 5,6, F1 (ESS)

5,6,7,8 and add the F1 and F2 for us.

2 goes to Melbourne for Petracca, GCS get the points that 24 from Melbourne would have got. Dees get CDT.

Then we can't match any of our academy players etc.?

 

[ghostbat12]

Why exactly is this in any way our problem?

promise them yes....then when Merrett goes, tell them only pick 2 will be traded.

After Merrett leaves, Essendon will need a way to appease the crowd. Pick 1 is best. Pick 2 is second best way. We would have them cornered.

This would be in memory of WCE_Phil.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

With the Tazzy thing. Over half the first rounders have to be traded

So. It still means everyone elses first rounders in 2027 are pushed back.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

To me there is something very gross about a player's manager openly agitating to leave the club that he voluntarily signed a long-term contract with, let alone talking to the media and bagging out that player's current club for not accepting a trade offer.

He's advocating for his player and trying to get what his player wants. That's literally his job.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Ultimately that’s the job of a player manager, but it does feel the whole player movement thing is starting to reach a critical point.

I will have a level of respect for Essendon for the first time in my life if they don’t budge here.

I get that it's his job but talking about trade negotiations seems really slimy, especially coming down hard on one side.

Maybe he should start crapping on Hawthorn for not meeting the asking price of Essendon and only being willing to give up the equivalent of spare lint from their couch cushions (Henry Hustwaite) to acquire a 6-time best and fairest and 3-time All Australian.

 

[Patron]

They don't have 8 list spots available for that many picks do they?

I don't think so, but one suspects they will consolidate the picks into that 20-30 range. They will dump the 50's picks, probably late 30's for example when they move back in the teens turning 3 picks into 2 but carrying more points.

 

[eaglevision]

Then we can't match any of our academy players etc.?

Carry the modest deficit into the 2R next year, we’ll have our F2, Saints F2 and Melbourne’s F2. That will cover the deficit and will get higher value than if we had those other picks this year whilst leaving picks to match Kenh etc.

 

[Yippy Yi Yeo]

promise them yes....then when Merrett goes, tell them only pick 2 will be traded.

After Merrett leaves, Essendon will need a way to appease the crowd. Pick 1 is best. Pick 2 is second best way. We would have them cornered.

This would be in memory of WCE_Phil.

Build a statue of Matt Clarke if he does that

 

[Keys]

Cant see any reason for WC to get involved today if its just trading picks.
Recruiters will be pouring over footage between now and draft day and as per natural human behaviour, will become stronger in their views of a certain player.
So if someone has a hard-on for CDT right now that will only increase between now and the draft & so will the offer

There’s a possibility we could improve our hand by getting involved as a third party to help unlock a stalemate

Provided we end up on the proper side of the ledger then it’s worth watching and waiting for any opportunity that might arise

 

[eaglevision]

Build a statue of Matt Clarke if he does that

Bonnie Clarke becomes Ron Clarke in an instant.

 

[Mr Q]

Honestly facilitating Essendon/Merrett/Hawthorn would suck

As it is now, Hawthorn are running around looking like fools
Essendon are likely stuck with a disgruntled former captain on the books
Merrett would appear to be a s**tstain, so him not getting what he wants is good.

Where's the downside? Hawthorn and Essendon self-immolating, and Merrett heading back to Essendon to sulk? Sounds win-win-win to me.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

promise them yes....then when Merrett goes, tell them only pick 2 will be traded.

After Merrett leaves, Essendon will need a way to appease the crowd. Pick 1 is best. Pick 2 is second best way. We would have them cornered.

This would be in memory of WCE_Phil.

So long as someone gets physically thrown out of a room and prevented from doing the job they were hired to do, and a Nisbett is publicly berated, otherwise it's not a true memorial.

 

[Bender_]

Bonnie Clarke becomes Ron Clarke in an instant.

Yeeaaahhh if this is a Ron Jeremy reference you may want to look into what's been happening in his life the past few years.

 

[Deplorable trumpster]

What time does this thing finish?

 

[eaglevision]

Yeeaaahhh if this is a Ron Jeremy reference you may want to look into what's been happening in his life the past few years.

Ron Clarke - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I only see glory?

 

[Farmer Lister]

4.30pm Perth time

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

He's advocating for his player and trying to get what his player wants. That's literally his job.

Sure, but I find this approach really distasteful - basically trying to poison the well so thoroughly that Essendon feel they have no choice but to trade Merrett. I don't want to hear about how great a foot soldier he's been for the club and how much he loved playing for them as he's actively trying to burn the bridge and strong-arm Essendon into accepting a deal that they've deemed to be sub-par.

 

[twce13]

Sure, but I find this approach really distasteful - basically trying to poison the well so thoroughly that Essendon feel they have no choice but to trade Merrett. I don't want to hear about how great a foot soldier he's been for the club and how much he loved playing for them as he's actively trying to burn the bridge and strong-arm Essendon into accepting a deal that they've deemed to be sub-par.

be that as it may he is only doing his job for merett.

 

[Wedgetailed Westerner]

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest he is single.

And doesnt have daughter/s

 

[Godfather32]

Yeeaaahhh if this is a Ron Jeremy reference you may want to look into what's been happening in his life the past few years.

I thought it was a Ron Swanson reference myself

 

[Proeagle]

Merritt's manager going into the Hawks room and getting heated with them. Pretty funny. Hope the Hawks are forced to offer far over what they want.