List Mgmt. Contracts/Trade/Draft Thread - 2025 Edition Vol 2

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• Player contract status
• Draft prospect video highlights (thanks to noobermensch)

Harley Reid extends to 2028

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List Changes - 2025

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• Oscar Allen advises intention to explore Free Agency
• Jayden Hunt announces retirement
• Jack Petruccelle
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  Jack Petruccelle

  Age

  26

  Ht

  188cm

  Wt

  83kg

  Pos.

  Fwd

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  9.2

  2star

  K

  6.2

  2star

  HB

  3.0

  3star

  M

  3.0

  3star

  T

  1.8

  4star

  G

  1.0

  4star

  D

  6.7

  1star

  K

  4.0

  1star

  HB

  2.7

  2star

  M

  1.7

  2star

  T

  1.3

  2star

  G

  0.7

  4star

  D

  7.8

  2star

  K

  4.6

  2star

  HB

  3.2

  3star

  M

  2.8

  3star

  T

  1.6

  4star

  G

  0.6

  3star

  , Callum Jamieson and Loch Rawlinson not offered new contracts
• Liam Ryan has requested a trade to St Kilda but is contracted for 2026
• Campbell Chesser (uncontracted) has requested a trade to Carlton
• List would be 37 (31 main, 4 rookie, 2 Cat B)

Players out of Contract 2025 (5)

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• Oscar Allen (19/3/99) - Signed a 3 year extension (2023-25) on an existing contract due to expire 2022 in May 2021
• Campbell Chesser (27/4/03) - Signed a 2 year extension (2024-25) on an existing contract due to expire 2023 in May 2022
• Jamie Cripps (23/4/92) - Signed a 2 year extension (2024-25) in August 2023
• (R-B) Coen Livingstone (25/5/05) - Signed a 1 year extension (2025) in September 2024
• (R-B) Malakai Champion (17/5/06) - Automatic 1 year contract (2025) when added as a Cat B Rookie in November 2024

Provisional 2025 Draft order

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Key Offseason Dates

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Fri Oct 3 - Fri Oct 10: 2025 Free Agency Period
Mon Oct 6 - Wed Oct 15: 2025 AFL Trade Period
Wed Nov 19 - Thu Nov 20: 2025 AFL Draft

 

[shooshka]

Watch Petch do well with Carlton. I'm sad we didnt give him one more year under McQualter. I know most disagree with me and thats fine but I think we didnt use him well enough when he was not injured. We didnt settle him in the fwd pocket and we never tried him off HB, where he couldve been a damaging running HB.

Petch would never get a game for us at Hb. We have a lot of players vying for that position.

Small forward, yeah probably could have got some games this year but was never the future for us in that position.

I wish him well, but he was no longer a good fit for our list (age, position, skill set).

Chesser - the opposite. We need to recontract asap

 

[GoldenEagle]

If other clubs are offering him more than the club they are at, then the club is lowballing them. You're paying for future performance not past.

You're paying more a lot of the time because other clubs pay more to drag players out of clubs. The manager uses it as leverage to the current club.

 

[TerryFilk]

Looks like we’ll need another new staff addition

 

[Spooky17]

Looks like we’ll need another new staff addition

That would be a massive loss - Done a fantastic job this year all things considered.

 

[suntagonal]

That would be a massive loss - Done a fantastic job this year all things considered.

Hopefully its the system that has in place that will stay as IP with the Eagles... rather that completely the individual.

 

[Shifty1]

Watch Petch blow a hammy running out of half back in round one.

Watch him kick 5 goals in a 100 pt loss

 

[Tugga27]

I’d prefer one year over two, but we’d probably have to offer him two if we want to keep him.

My problems with it are: (a) he does represent an age bracket we’re desperately short on, and (b) we’d be selling low.

Fox Footy reporting we've offered 2 years.

Guess it's up to him now.

 

[Deplorable trumpster]

We can't expect Chesser to sign for one year if a club in his home state is offering two years. We will have to make it a two year offer. But maybe he just wants to go home anyway. If he does i would be pretty hard nosed with Carlton. We have invested a fair bit into Chesser and gotten not much return at this point. They will have to give us something of value in return, not a token late draft pick which is probably what they are planning to offer. I am prepared to take the risk of losing him for nothing to the PSD if it backfires.

 

[Tugga27]

We can't expect Chesser to sign for one year if a club in his home state is offering two years. We will have to make it a two year offer. But maybe he just wants to go home anyway. If he does i would be pretty hard nosed with Carlton. We have invested a fair bit into Chesser and gotten not much return at this point. They will have to give us something of value in return, not a token late draft pick which is probably what they are planning to offer. I am prepared to take the risk of losing him for nothing to the PSD if it backfires.

Mitch Cleary reported we have offered 2 years.

Key rivals circle Bombers skipper as ‘disillusionment’ revealed; Blues eye Eagle — Whispers

Key rivals circle Bombers skipper as ‘disillusionment’ revealed; Blues eye Eagle — Whispers

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[GoldenEagle]

Looks like we’ll need another new staff addition

Is this a bad thing? I know we have a lot of young players with none or very few AFL pre seasons under their belt, but we looked unfit against the likes of GWS and Gold Coast during the season. Our last halves this year were horrible.

 

[Big_Birdy]

We can't expect Chesser to sign for one year if a club in his home state is offering two years. We will have to make it a two year offer. But maybe he just wants to go home anyway. If he does i would be pretty hard nosed with Carlton. We have invested a fair bit into Chesser and gotten not much return at this point. They will have to give us something of value in return, not a token late draft pick which is probably what they are planning to offer. I am prepared to take the risk of losing him for nothing to the PSD if it backfires.

He is from NSW. Not sure why he played for Vic Country (maybe all Albury boys do?) but assume he boarded as went to Melbourne Grammar. So that could have something to do with it?

 

[Big_Birdy]

Is this a bad thing? I know we have a lot of young players with none or very few AFL pre seasons under their belt, but we looked unfit against the likes of GWS and Gold Coast during the season. Our last halves this year were horrible.

To be fair Innes main focus should have been getting players on park, not fitness. So in that, the job has been done admirably.

 

[Weshi]

Watch Petch do well with Carlton. I'm sad we didnt give him one more year under McQualter. I know most disagree with me and thats fine but I think we didnt use him well enough when he was not injured. We didnt settle him in the fwd pocket and we never tried him off HB, where he couldve been a damaging running HB.

After about 8 years I think more than glimpses was required!

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

He is from NSW. Not sure why he played for Vic Country (maybe all Albury boys do?) but assume he boarded as went to Melbourne Grammar. So that could have something to do with it?

Victorian clubs seem to benefit from the “go-home factor” from players who come from well across the NSW border.

 

[Deplorable trumpster]

Mitch Cleary reported we have offered 2 years.

Key rivals circle Bombers skipper as ‘disillusionment’ revealed; Blues eye Eagle — Whispers

Key rivals circle Bombers skipper as ‘disillusionment’ revealed; Blues eye Eagle — Whispers

www.foxsports.com.au

Maybe he just wants to go home. Thats what it is starting to sound like. But from our point of view he is a first round pick who we have put 4 years and 40 games into. They will have to offer something decent in return.

Carlton aren't chasing him because he is a star. They are chasing him because he is a handy player they think they can get basically for free.

 

[thebutterflyeffect]

After about 8 years I think more than glimpses was required!

The issue is that it's not like he was an exception. There are a series of players around his age bracket that were drafted and did not develop. Is that because a whole heap of them were no good or was it our environment wasn't conducive to getting the best out of young players.

 

[Big_Birdy]

Victorian clubs seem to benefit from the “go-home factor” from players who come from well across the NSW border.

I am not disagreeing but do you have any examples as none spring to my mind?

Hope Jobe doesn't become one of them.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

I am not disagreeing but do you have any examples as none spring to my mind?

Hope Jobe doesn't become one of them.

Jacob Hopper is the main one I was thinking of.

 

[mitchzz]

Chesser for Moir

Hey, we'll even throw Matt Owies in

 

[WCE777]

Chesser for Moir

Hey, we'll even throw Matt Owies in

I can live with that!!

 

[Proeagle]

Petch would never get a game for us at Hb. We have a lot of players vying for that position.

Small forward, yeah probably could have got some games this year but was never the future for us in that position.

I wish him well, but he was no longer a good fit for our list (age, position, skill set).

Chesser - the opposite. We need to recontract asap

100% agree on Chesser and yeah, Petch's chance at HB are now over. But for years I have been saying to my mate, I wish we would give Petch a chance a HB. That ship has def sailed now. HB is definitely not an issue for us. One of the few postitions we dont have to stress about.

 

[mattyc75]

And this is the problem, it became obvious that he was worth persisting with and we left him hanging (are we short on cash, no).

If we lose Chess that is a YUGE L on our off-field team.
Should have got pen to paper the moment it became clear he had turned a corner (I always thought he had showed glimpses when he played).

West Coast still seem oblivious to how ruthless and switched on the rest of the footy landscape has become, someone was always going to pounce and jump in on a ln unsigned 1st rounder who ha snow been rehabbed and got some games under his belt. They know he will costs little at the trade table.

Bit harsh, chesser hasn't played that well since he was 16. They would've been expecting him to break down again. If he had been extended and gotten injured you would've been up in arms about that

 

[Lia]

Is this a bad thing? I know we have a lot of young players with none or very few AFL pre seasons under their belt, but we looked unfit against the likes of GWS and Gold Coast during the season. Our last halves this year were horrible.

Our soft tissue injury rate seems to have improved significantly since he arrived. Whether part of that is because of the list becoming way younger is an open question.

 

[twce13]

I don’t wanna lose chess, but if Carlton are that keen , then fine.. take care of him..

Ps. He has a new umm hair cut

 

[EdCurnowRules]

any compo pick for Cole would be welcome