List Mgmt. 2021 List Management: Academy, Contracts, Trading & Draft

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Some more trade and draft resources. Courtesy of Lore.

Key Off-Season Dates
This is a comprehensive list including dates for draft combines, list lodgements, delisted free agency windows and return to train dates. I had to collate these from three different club websites because the AFL is lazy af and doesn't have it on their website, so thought it might be helpful to share:

AFL TRADE, DRAFT AND FREE AGENCY DATES 2021

AFL TRADE, DRAFT AND FREE AGENCY DATES 2021

Grand Final
Saturday September 25

Draft Combine – Vic Country
Friday October 1

Restricted and Unrestricted Free Agency Window
Friday October 1 – Friday October 8

Delisted Free Agency Window 1
Wednesday October 3 - Friday October 15

Trade Period (picks and players)
Monday October 4 (9am) – Wednesday October 13 (7.30pm)

Draft Combines (States and Regions)
VM: Saturday October 9 (tbc)
Qld: Sunday October 10
Tas: Monday October 11
SA: Saturday October 16
WA: Sunday October 17
NSW & ACT: tbc
NT: will join SA or Qld

Trade Period (picks only)
Monday October 18 – Monday November 15

List Lodgement 1
Friday October 29

Delisted Free Agency Window 2
Wednesday November 3 – Tuesday November 9

List Lodgement 2 (Final date for primary list delistings)
Wednesday November 10

Delisted Free Agency Window 3
Thursday November 11 – Monday November 15

AFL Pre-Season Commences (First to fourth year players)
Monday November 22

National Draft
Round 1: Wednesday November 24 (7pm)
Round 2–end: Thursday November 25 (7pm)

Preseason and Rookie Drafts
Friday November 26 (3.20pm)

Final List Lodgement
Monday November 29

Pre-Season Commences (All other players)
Monday December 6

Pre-Season Supplemental Selection Period (SSP)
December - March (tbc)

Pre-Season Christmas Break
Sunday December 19 - Sunday January 9

Draft Order & Future Pick Tracker



FAQs & Resources Thread

It has an index at the top with threadmarks so it's easy to find what you're looking for – or easier than scrolling through 250 pages of AFL Rules, Regulations and CBA pdfs anyway.

These sorts of questions are all answered along with a bunch of other resources made by posters from across BigFooty (feel free to add to it!):
www.bigfooty.com

Resource - FAQs: Rules, Regulations and Resources for Player Movements in the AFL

List sizes Club age and height profiles Salary cap information Trading rules including salary dumps Father/son & academy draft bids Free agency compensation formula & more
www.bigfooty.com www.bigfooty.com

GWS List Summary

Senior List

33: 36 less delisted Shipley & Hutchesson, delisted Wehr (to be reselected in rookie draft), traded Finlayson, plus DFA signing of Brander. 3 to 5 spots available at ND.

1 Phil Davis - 2022
2 Jacob Hopper - 2023
3 Stephen Coniglio - 2026
4 Toby Greene - 2026
5 Tanner Bruhn - 2022
6 Lachie Whitfield - 2027
7 Lachlan Ash - 2023
8 Callan Ward - 2022
9 Ryan Angwin - 2022
10 Jacob Wehr - 2022 [delisted with an agreement to select in the rookie draft]
11 Brayden Preuss - 2023
12 Tom Green - 2023
13 Isaac Cumming - 2022
14 Tim Taranto - 2022
15 Sam Taylor - 2025
16 Brent Daniels - 2025
18 Conor Stone - 2024
19 Nick Haynes - 2024
22 Josh Kelly - 2029
23 Jesse Hogan - 2022
24 Matthew De Boer - 2022
25 Lachlan Keeffe - 2022
26 Jake Riccardi - 2023
27 Harry Himmelberg - 2023
29 Cam Fleeton - 2022
30 Matt Flynn - 2023
32 Kieran Briggs - 2022
33 Xavier O'Halloran - 2022
36 Harry Perryman - 2022
37 Ian Hill - 2022
39 Connor Idun - 2022
40 Adam Kennedy - 2022
44 Jack Buckley - 2022

+ Jarrod Brander - 2022 (selected in first DFA window)

Rookie List - A

4: 7 less delisted Reid & Buntine, retired Shane Mumford. 0 to 2 spots available for rookie draft.

28 Zach Sproule - 2022
38 Daniel Lloyd - 2022
42 Jake Stein - 2022
45 James Peatling - 2022

Rookie List - B

2: full

35 Will Shaw - 2022
46 Callum M Brown - 2022 (Irish international rookie, extended 1 year under COVID rules)
 
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captainMyCaptain said:
AFL 2021: Greater Western Sydney Giants consider drafting mates to counter the ‘go home’ factor (smh.com.au)
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I feel this article is a bit unfair on Howes as it sort of diminishes him into steak knives when he is a proper player in his own right.

It’s interesting when you watch the video clips, there is so little footage available but some kids just have this presence about them, great balance, agility and are able to keep their feet. He is definitely one of those players.

From a list management point of view his hybrid style is probably not as big a need as a small forward, key forward or key back (our glaring issues) but he is still a nice piece to have.

They act like the two are happily married and are locked in for life, sure it would help early doors but it could also be a hindrance if both don’t settle.

I don’t hate the idea if we aren’t trading up to grab one of the big 3 (Andrew, Rachele, Gibcus) but if a need does present itself we probably need to address that first for list balance.

Howes can really play though and will be fun to watch.
 
Andre the Giant said:
I feel this article is a bit unfair on Howes as it sort of diminishes him into steak knives when he is a proper player in his own right.

It’s interesting when you watch the video clips, there is so little footage available but some kids just have this presence about them, great balance, agility and are able to keep their feet. He is definitely one of those players.

From a list management point of view his hybrid style is probably not as big a need as a small forward, key forward or key back (our glaring issues) but he is still a nice piece to have.

They act like the two are happily married and are locked in for life, sure it would help early doors but it could also be a hindrance if both don’t settle.

I don’t hate the idea if we aren’t trading up to grab one of the big 3 (Andrew, Rachele, Gibcus) but if a need does present itself we probably need to address that first for list balance.

Howes can really play though and will be fun to watch.
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The article is certainly a tad unfair to Howes but if you look at some of guys we have been linked to with pick 13 in Goater. Draper, Erasmus its certainly a particular type of player and Howes certainly fits that mold.
 

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captainMyCaptain said:
The article is certainly a tad unfair to Howes but if you look at some of guys we have been linked to with pick 13 in Goater. Draper, Erasmus its certainly a particular type of player and Howes certainly fits that mold.
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Mid sized forward sees to be a theme with all the guys they're linked to at 13, think it's a good area to target.
 
I reckon Howes could fill a Toby role really well in 3 or 4 years time tbh, high half forward with a the ability to be a target, but more likely ends up a Winger given how good he looked there when given the opportunity. The biggest plus imo is his workrate, anyone running both ways despite doing the bulk of their flashy work in the forward half is a big tick for me

If rumours are to believed, we could go for 3 Sandy boys and Fahey, would back retention of that lot
 
Ichabod Noodle said:
I thought we’d stopped the whole “bring a friend” approach to the draft years ago
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I think the whole 'Go home Factor' is greatly reduced at GWS.
Sure you still get it from WA and SA players every now and again. But it's not the GC (sorry Suns). It's Sydney. Culture at the club is good.
We have mostly lost players due to lack of game time, not home sickness. No professional sporting organisation is using pick 13 in the draft as a 'friendship' pick.
Come on. He's probs a great player....and that 13 pick we will have a lot of options.
 
Ichabod Noodle said:
I thought we’d stopped the whole “bring a friend” approach to the draft years ago
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I would think that it's more a case that the right combination of picks & players rarely presents itself - except in the initial year with lots of picks in the draft, and maybe occasionally afterwards when we had multiple picks.

I'd obviously prefer to select purely for need, but if he's someone we see can have a role at GWS and it's an added benefit being a great mate with an early draft selection who has a slight question on him then so be it.
 

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Orange crush said:
Apparently North have offered him 1.25 million over 3 years
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Obviously we cant match the cash due to the cap, but perhaps we could offer a longer deal to in entice him
 
Giant Strides said:
Extracting the urine just a touch picking his team mate as #1 🎉 ? :D
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Fine, we'll trade up and take 4 Sandy boys in Callaghan, Sinn, Howes and Chesser, you have convinced me
 
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