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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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GWS Goose said:
Who'd want the likes of Kelly, Toby and Whitfield locked into their club long term.
We also secured the hot young talent too.
You seem like a pretty bitter guy.
They're hard to win, we didn't get one.
We have a great list, with a good age spread and with every excuse in the world we're in the finals having another crack it this year.
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Good luck with longterm deal, got to pay them.....you are paying of course.

You have a great list, sure, a great list is uselss when the window isn't openeing anytime soon.

You missed your window in the 2016 - 2019, that's it. I'm afraid to tell you that your next window would be a while away.

If port hadn't won in 2004, they would not be contending for a long time as history has shown.
 

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Chairman Zia said:
Good luck with longterm deal, got to pay them.....you are paying of course.

You have a great list, sure, a great list is uselss when the window isn't openeing anytime soon.

You missed your window in the 2016 - 2019, it. I'm afraid to tell you that your next window would be a while away.

If port hadn't won in 2004, they would not be contending for a long time as history has shown.
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Being in the window is having a great list.
Geelong, Sydney and WCE have been in the window for 15 years.
We've bought in more top picks than any other side over the last 3 years and are continuing to rejuvenate the list that is already contending.
We're in the finals and could even fluke it this year.
 
Chairman Zia - you're trolling now, time to leave gracefully (well, somewhat) while you can.

Basically, you're talking out of your arse. You have no claim on knowing what will happen in the future, but the facts are: Norf just claimed the wooden spoon, whereas GWS was in a GF 2 years ago & is in the 8 this year, and has a stack of talent (Kelly, Greene, Whitfield, Taylor, Cumming, Idun, Hopper) that your lot covet. We all know whose shoes most AFL fans would rather be in.
 
Chairman Zia said:
Good luck with longterm deal, got to pay them.....you are paying of course.

You have a great list, sure, a great list is uselss when the window isn't openeing anytime soon.

You missed your window in the 2016 - 2019, that's it. I'm afraid to tell you that your next window would be a while away.

If port hadn't won in 2004, they would not be contending for a long time as history has shown.
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I’m not that sure I’d be that chippy if I was a North Melbourne supporter, you’re just about to win the spoon and are a long way off the pace.

Im not sure which other teams would swap lists with us.

We are very likely to make finals and secure Pick 2 this year, we have all our key A graders secured long term and have more depth than just about any other team in the comp.

We also aren’t about to be relocated to Tasmania. Maybe focus on your own back yard son.
 
Chairman Zia said:
yeah, errr we won most of our grand final and not lose close to 100, actually richmond let go off the accelerator, otherwise it would have been 130 point.
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Andre the Giant said:
I’m not that sure I’d be that chippy if I was a North Melbourne supporter, you’re just about to win the spoon and are a long way off the pace.

Im not sure which other teams would swap lists with us.

We are very likely to make finals and secure Pick 2 this year, we have all our key A graders secured long term and have more depth than just about any other team in the comp.

We also aren’t about to be relocated to Tasmania. Maybe focus on your own back yard son.
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I think mugging someone off with a "son" call is underrated as an insult.

cudos
 

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With you guys having a plethora of inside midfielders, plus Hopper still to pay, what do you reckon it would take to get XOH down to the Tigers? I think he's an inside bull that is being played out of position due to Green, Hopper and Taranto playing inside along with Kelly and Coniglio. Not sure how he fits into the playing structure or the pay structure but is he gettable? He is exactly what the Tigers need and at the right age.
 
Pomsta said:
With you guys having a plethora of inside midfielders, plus Hopper still to pay, what do you reckon it would take to get XOH down to the Tigers? I think he's an inside bull that is being played out of position due to Green, Hopper and Taranto playing inside along with Kelly and Coniglio. Not sure how he fits into the playing structure or the pay structure but is he gettable? He is exactly what the Tigers need and at the right age.
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He was gettable last year and couldn’t get a game. This year he is playing regular footy and it’s actually his outside game we like about him

Of course if you offer him money he might go but he is playing regular footy and we love him
 
Danny88 said:
He was gettable last year and couldn’t get a game. This year he is playing regular footy and it’s actually his outside game we like about him

Of course if you offer him money he might go but he is playing regular footy and we love him
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He was one of my faves from his draft year; reckoned he had in him exactly what he's shown us this year. We do want he, Ash & Bruhn doing what they've been doing recently - busting out of the middle with speed!
 
Pomsta said:
With you guys having a plethora of inside midfielders, plus Hopper still to pay, what do you reckon it would take to get XOH down to the Tigers? I think he's an inside bull that is being played out of position due to Green, Hopper and Taranto playing inside along with Kelly and Coniglio. Not sure how he fits into the playing structure or the pay structure but is he gettable? He is exactly what the Tigers need and at the right age.
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Id reckon he'd be hard to get now, but everyone has a price.
If you offered him enough cash once off contract, he might go. The enough cash these days would probably require you to pay him a decent amount, otherwise I reckon he just stays.
 

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GWS Goose said:
Id reckon he'd be hard to get now, but everyone has a price.
If you offered him enough cash once off contract, he might go. The enough cash these days would probably require you to pay him a decent amount, otherwise I reckon he just stays.
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Fair enough. Thought he may be a possibility of being squeezed out with your stars being resigned recently.
 
General Giant said:
the cap is going to go up 500k next year supposedly(read it somewhere).
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was that pre-covid or post?

with no crowds and hubbing in hotels, the money is rapidly disappearing from the game. I would think the cap will stay the same or even reduce slightly in the face of changing circumstances.
 
Ichabod Noodle said:
was that pre-covid or post?

with no crowds and hubbing in hotels, the money is rapidly disappearing from the game. I would think the cap will stay the same or even reduce slightly in the face of changing circumstances.
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I agree mate, read it recently. Trying to find where I did.
 
I still think we would have planned a lot of $ to have at least 1 and probably 2 of those departed Williams/Corr/Jezza on the books, and we would have presumed Caldwell stayed too, so I reckon even with Kelly remaining and Hopper presumably getting a $ bump, that we can retain everyone with a small $ boost. Presuming that XOH is happy enough with the contract put in front of him and the environment in the club.
 

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