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

 

[Chris_6678]

Correction

Ainsworth is off to the blues. What did they pay and how's that affecting Chesser trade./?

Might be a 3 way trade with Corey Durdin wanting to head home according to Trade Radio. ( Only heard a small snippit so exact details might be wrong)

 

[larrikin]

Tim Watson getting schooled on Pick 2 compensation ..

Even Lyon doesn't understand it properly in that clip. There's after pick then end of round etc.

How do these guys who are paid to be experts on this stuff know less than the average nuffy on BigFooty?

 

[Chris_6678]

AFL Trade Radio

@traderadio
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"Corey Durdin might be in the mix with this Ben Ainsworth

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3.5

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2.7

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0.7

4star

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12.8

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8.3

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4.5

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4.0

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2.3

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deal. This one is being thrashed out." - Riley Beveridge

 

[6285sutto]

3 way trade:

WCE Give: 2, 34, 38
WCE Get: 5, 7

Ess Give: 5, 21, 30
Ess Get: 2

GCS Give: 7
GCS Get: 21, 30, 34, 38

WCE Draft:
1. Duursma
5. Sharp
7. Farrow
13. Dovaston
53. Williams
58. Banfield

Can somebody please send this to WCE management to make this happen. Looks fair on all accounts.

 

[whatis]

Could picks 1, 2 could solve all GC's problems? For Curnow/Petracca, and/or getting ahead of academy bids.

Jed Walter for a handful of downgrades potentially.

 

[Monocle]

I am almost certain we where tracking Stumpf in the MSD when McCarthy appeared.
He is more the athletic CHB type at 197cm, had elite 20m sprint and vertical jump in last years combine but went undrafted.
A later developing prospect who you would stack away and develop.

Stumpf has come on nicely this year in the CTL.

Ainsworth is 200cm ruck/fwd who had a good championships playing mostly in the ruck and rotating forward, played a lot of juniors as a KPD and is very versatile on any line.

Sam Ainsworth started this season gone as Norwoods U /18 CHB, as he grew in height he was used as a ruck and further up the ground, but he has a grounding playing KPD.

With a late pick if we held one I would see him as an ideal prospect to add to our list once the mids are sorted.

In order for me : Ainsworth then Stumph.

 

[Sammy J]

Would love to get Walter from GCS, but it seems a long shot at this point.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

Might be a 3 way trade with Corey Durdin wanting to head home according to Trade Radio. ( Only heard a small snippit so exact details might be wrong)

Or its Durden to port for pick 29 and onsold to us for Chesser.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Tim Watson getting schooled on Pick 2 compensation ..

A lot of these guys spend about 5 minutes a week doing research on the sport that they're paid handsomely to talk about.

 

[darksquare]

Stumpf has come on nicely this year in the CTL.



Sam Ainsworth started this season gone as Norwoods U /18 CHB, as he grew in height he was used as a ruck and further up the ground, but he has a grounding playing KPD.

With a late pick if we held one I would see him as an ideal prospect to add to our list once the mids are sorted.

In order for me : Ainsworth then Stumph.

If Ainsworth gets to the rookie draft, he'll be a bargain pickup. I'm not expecting him to, although there was more noise about him a month ago than there seems to be now.

 

[Cuzz09]

Guy's played 23 games in two years and only really played 2 good games that entire time. The 5 goals against North where we stole that win in Tassie and the 4 goals against Geelong this year. I would've stormed the f*cking place if we gave this guy over 900k for 6 years with his degenerative knee and broken body.

If Brisbane can get his body right then fair play, but he's been busted here for two years and didn't even look to be getting any better.

yeah my thoughts too. Good on him for getting that kind of coin at his career point

 

[amazingjoshy]

Tim Watson getting schooled on Pick 2 compensation ..

Jesus

How can you be paid to talk about the sport and not know this stuff

Afl supporters should really demand more from their media. Its utterly embarrassing

 

[Wooshaaaa]

A lot of these guys spend about 5 minutes a week doing research on the sport that they're paid handsomely to talk about.

Nah. All they do is talk in silos. Sen Melbourne am show with the two of them, 95% of talk is Melbourne club talk. Gary talk dees all year. Watson the bombers all year. It's nauseating

 

[Bacchus]

I'd be looking at only rookie spots at this stage.
We lack running players so much i couldn't justify a high pick for a kpd.
If we take a 4th pick in the ND sure, I'd like Curtin as a developing kpf but with what we've got on the list and with young coming in it should only be a rookie pick

Young’s recruitment buys some time on the need for a developing kpd in this draft.

Midfield is the top priority.

 

[amazingjoshy]

3 way trade:

WCE Give: 2, 34, 38
WCE Get: 5, 7

Ess Give: 5, 21, 30
Ess Get: 2

GCS Give: 7
GCS Get: 21, 30, 34, 38

WCE Draft:
1. Duursma
5. Sharp
7. Farrow
13. Dovaston
53. Williams
58. Banfield

We probably have a fair idea of who Richmond's taking with their 2 picks. If we can get who we want at 2 still at 5 this would be brilliant

 

[Broken_Chairs]

AFL Trade Radio
@traderadio
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"Corey Durdin might be in the mix with this Ben Ainsworth deal. This one is being thrashed out." - Riley Beveridge

Back to SA apparently - PA in the mix

 

[Monocle]

Even Lyon doesn't understand it properly in that clip. There's after pick then end of round etc.

How do these guys who are paid to be experts on this stuff know less than the average nuffy on BigFooty?

It's why the AFL are so worried and concerned out head knocks ..... case in point, the cumulative effect can have latter life repercussions with mental capacity, or lack there of.

 

[kanekingswood]

First time poster here, how would the feel be if west coast held 1 and 2 and took Duursma and Robey? Both high potential mids I feel. Robey may be a bit too similar to Harley and Hewett though

 

[mattyc75]

Tim Watson getting schooled on Pick 2 compensation ..

Hard to believe that some of these experts get paid to do this for a living

 

[mattyc75]

Young’s recruitment buys some time on the need for a developing kpd in this draft.

Midfield is the top priority.

I agree and later picks/rookie picks should be used on best available. If a kpd is the best option then go for it. If its a mid then go for it.
We do have a few mids from later picks already tho who look promising

 

[Coasters7]

I'm all for taking 1 and 2 to the draft.

If we think CDT is our guy use #2 on him. If we think Sharp is our guy use #2 on him. Ditto is we have a different name on our board. Just get the kids that we want.

I'd only be splitting picks if we get a very favourable deal and we still bank our first 2 preferred players.

Depending on what promises we have made we should be bidding on academy products too. Hoover up picks out of the draft and who knows what opportunities might shake out as the draft progresses.

Agree with this.

Keep pick 1 and 2 and just run down our draft board (including academy bids) and hopefully get 7 to use on a mid (Cumming/Sharp). Wrap it up with the NGAs and some rookie picks.

Should really be that simple from here.

 

[BG__]

Tim Watson getting schooled on Pick 2 compensation ..

When I heard it on Spotify I was surprised they actually posted the audio and thought surely they won’t post the video for it on socials.

Embarrassing stuff for paid ‘experts’, I would have buried that audio and vision and hoped no one dug it up.

 

[FatPizza]

Hard to believe that some of these experts get paid to do this for a living

It's like Shaq covering the NBA, except it's everyone.

 

[lusheslewis]

First time poster here, how would the feel be if west coast held 1 and 2 and took Duursma and Robey? Both high potential mids I feel. Robey may be a bit too similar to Harley and Hewett though

Robey didn't post great times at the combine, I wonder if that will affect his ranking.

 

[woosha24]

First time poster here, how would the feel be if west coast held 1 and 2 and took Duursma and Robey? Both high potential mids I feel. Robey may be a bit too similar to Harley and Hewett though

Duursma's not a pure mid. He's a HBF/ winger. A lot of people dont want us using pick 1/2 on him because we dont need players in these positions as much as we need inside bulls.

Sharp should be our man. If he's half as much a contested beast as his draft profile suggests then he and Harley will be tearing the comp a new arseh*le in 5 years time.