Actually with Steven, Acres and Bruce also leaving, 9 senior players (Bruce, Steven, Acres, White, Young, Rice, Longer, Pierce, Armitage, Row is a rookie) have come off the senior list. 5 coming in.. That leaves 4 spots, upgrading Wilkie then draft 3.
Pierce was on the rookie list. But it does appear we have 36 players under contract on the senior list at the moment and we can have 40. So one of Brown or Newnes can stay, and it would appear the current thinking is Newnes comes back if he cannot find a better offer, and if he does, we keep Brown or sign another delisted free agent, or have an extra rookie (we currently have five, with Alabakis a non-Category A rookie IIRC).