List Mgmt. Draft thread - 2025 (remaining picks: 29, 34)

[Keys]

Live draft hand
R1: 1 (Duursma), 4 (CDT), 19 (Lindsay)
R2: 29, 34
RD: 1

Draft picks pre-draft
R1: 1, 2, 13
R2: 34, 41
RD: 1

List spots available
Main list: 2 (includes Duursma, CDT, Lindsay)
Cat A Rookie list: 1 (expecting Robertson, Macrae and Schoenberg to join as SSP signings)
Cat B Rookie list: 1

Draft order

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Draft prospect video highlights (thanks to noobermensch)

Rookie Me Central 2025 Draft Guide

2025 AFL Draft Guide

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Matthew Clarke on Gettable 17/11

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Cal Twomey’s Phantom Draft

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[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

What's the starting midfield?

EDIT : Whoops I meant 2025 not 2024

I think Duursma perhaps is on a wing in some eyes but I think he more or less plays the year at HB with McCarthy getting the same midfield minutes he got in the last 2 rounds.

I think its

C: Maric, Kelly, Allan
R: Williams, Reid, Hewett

Rotations of Grahan, McCarthy, Davis, Yeo, Brockman

Basically the same group we already had at the end of the season

 

[archiemoses]

And we really thought moving up one place at the cost of a F2 was going to change the outcome either way?

Please accept my info as truth. We didn't expect them to match.

 

[Coasters7]

I just struggle with this logic.

"We've wasted most of our recent 2nd rounders so we should do it again!"
"We've made lots of mistakes lately so we shouldnt be upset by another one!"

I want our club to be professional again, not reliant on handouts that we piss against the wall.

garlic munchers said it best, we can't be playing these silly games when we're one of the worst teams in history

F2s get handed around like this all the time just outside the top 10 though. GWS just did the same. Port gave us one for a small upgrade as well. It’s the price to pay to get who you want.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Our starting midfield in Round 1 2024 was

Gaff, Yeo, Hunt
B. Williams, Kelly, Reid.

I'll pay to permaban your account if that's how we line up in 2026.

Sorry I meant 2025.

 

[plays tall 1]

It's not praise, it's just boring seeing the serial whiners piss and moan in every thread about a relatively minor stuff up in the scheme of things.

Or maybe GC just hid their intentions well, considering is was all but accepted publicly that they wouldn't match?

You defend everything the club does, always. I find your naivety and constant apologism boring.

If you dislike what the “serial whiners” write just put them on ignore.

 

[oak79]

Very amateur. What’s more, during the coverage, at no point did I see what picks teams gave up when matching bids - no attempt to keep viewers informed whatsoever

This is super annoying - I still can't find which picks have been used for bids.
It should be listed against each pick on the draft page.

 

[Obeanie1]

I forgot Cody Curtin. He's one tall I'd look at

Pick 1 rookie draft or use a main draft pick and risk losing an nga kid is the call.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Why would Gold Coast make those pick trades before the draft if they weren't to match first round bids? Especially when it became clear in the days leading up to the draft what our strategy was. It played out exactly how Twomey (?) predicted.

Crazy to think they did those trades and then would be all like "nah, Eagles can have him".

Our strategy should have changed as soon as Gold Coast made those pre-draft trades.

 

[Obeanie1]

F2s get handed around like this all the time just outside the top 10 though. GWS just did the same. Port gave us one for a small upgrade as well. It’s the price to pay to get who you want.

Did we get who we wanted?

 

[TY24]

And we really thought moving up one place at the cost of a F2 was going to change the outcome either way?

Seems like it was the difference between getting Lindsay or not.

I'm at peace with it personally.

 

[Obeanie1]

F2s get handed around like this all the time just outside the top 10 though. GWS just did the same. Port gave us one for a small upgrade as well. It’s the price to pay to get who you want.

Did we get who we wa

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Why would Gold Coast make those pick trades before the draft if they weren't to match first round bids? Especially when it became clear in the days leading up to the draft what our strategy was. It played out exactly how Twomey (?) predicted.

Crazy to think they did those trades and then would be all like "nah, Eagles can have him".

I honestly believe the WCE team didnt know Gold Coast made those trades....

 

[mitchzz]

NHH/Greeves/Poo
Williams

This is my hope for day 2

 

[Jootube]

Because your understanding of my 'logic' is wrong.

Not great to throw it away but like I said in an earlier post, we've burned 2nd rounders on shit picks for the better part of a decade now, at least we tried to do something meaningful with it this time.

I'm just saying I don't really give a shit that it happened because of all the mistakes the club's made recently, this isn't a particularly massive one.

I am literally quoting things you posted in the past 30 minutes.

Stop justifying stupid moves from our club.

 

[archiemoses]

NHH/Greeves/Poo
Williams

This is my hope for day 2

Impossible. They would have to have all the live picks flashing across their screens every second.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

The 2026 vintage Jamie Cripps

15

Jamie Cripps

Age

33

Ht

184cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.7

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

4.8

3star

M

3.6

4star

T

3.9

5star

G

1.3

5star

D

10.3

3star

K

6.3

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.4

3star

G

0.4

3star

D

6.4

2star

K

4.2

2star

HB

2.2

2star

M

1.0

1star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.4

5star

is better than everyone still left on the board.

 

[Westend]

Overall happy so far but I still think we should of done more with the 13th pick ..somehow move up spots on the board

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Seems like it was the difference between getting Lindsay or not.

I'm at peace with it personally.

Says who? It seems a coping mechanism more then anything.

 

[bzparkes]

I think Duursma perhaps is on a wing in some eyes but I think he more or less plays the year at HB with McCarthy getting the same midfield minutes he got in the last 2 rounds.

I think its

C: Maric, Kelly, Allan
R: Williams, Reid, Hewett

Rotations of Grahan, McCarthy, Davis, Yeo, Brockman

We're bringing in Robertson, Macrae and Shoenberg. Of those 3, I expect Dev to get a starting centre square role as the inside mid.

Kelly won't play FT mid, that boat sailed last year. Will start HFF and rotate with Hewett. If he doesn't pull his finger out, he probably gets dropped to WAFL like Gaff did.

IMO, something along the lines of:
C: Maric/Duursma, Dev/Graham, Allan/Davis
R: Reid/Flynn, Reid, McCarthy/Hewett

That's 3 new additions to the starting midfield from this year, 4 if Yeo gets over his injury issues.

Add Yeo in either Dev or Harley's spot(with Harley moving to C if Yeo's on ball).

I don't think any kid we bring in this year would have much of a meaningful impact to our midfield setup, as that's what the 3 rookies are being brought in to achieve. I don't think any of the 3 will be starters, or on the list, when we make finals again(maybe Dev) but they don't need to be. They just need to come in and out while the more talented kids develop and take over those roles.

Clearly there's still a ways to go to bring in talent but a lot of what we have on our list we haven't properly seen what they're capable of either. This year, we basically had no mids, next year we at least have some options for various.

Edit: Forgot to mention Clay Hall also in the midfield.

 

[TY24]

I honestly believe the WCE team didnt know Gold Coast made those trades....

Even you can't be that daft

 

[plays tall 1]

Please accept my info as truth. We didn't expect them to match.

Thanks.

Do you know if we received any formal offers for pick 1 or 2?

Was the club interested in Sharp?

Who was the attempt to get pick 9 targeting?

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

The AFL website showed the picks that a matching team lost and gained back last year, this year it seems they decided to be lazy. Seems like they might just be piggy backing on whatever Foxtel provided though.

 

[ashstores]

It's not praise, it's just boring seeing the serial whiners piss and moan in every thread about a relatively minor stuff up in the scheme of things.

Or maybe GC just hid their intentions well, considering is was all but accepted publicly that they wouldn't match?

What I think is boring is they way people get called melters when they disagree about what the club is doing, by posters who think that we are going ok. You people are stargazers.

 

[TY24]

I am literally quoting things you posted in the past 30 minutes.

Stop justifying stupid moves from our club.

Not one of those posts is justifying anything

 

[bzparkes]

You defend everything the club does, always. I find your naivety and constant apologism boring.

If you dislike what the “serial whiners” write just put them on ignore.

I don't defend everything they do whatsoever.

I'm just not someone who over-reacts at the drop of a hat without all the available information like some on here.

I also find crying and bitching over the same thing for months on end incredibly ****ing boring but it happens all the time on here.