List Mgmt. 2025 Draft/Trade/FA Thread – everything must go!

[Scythe]

Just pinning this, as per previous years. Thanks as always to Lore.

Final trade/FA period results
Out:

• Charlie Spargo
• Judd McVee
• Christian Petracca
• Clayton Oliver
• Picks 28, 42 and 61
• Melbourne Second-Rounder (2026)
• Melbourne Third-Rounder (2026)
• Melbourne Fourth-Rounder (2026)
• Melbourne Fourth-Rounder (2027)

In:

• Jack Steele
• Changkuoth Jiath
• Brody Mihocek
• Max Heath
• Oscar Berry (Rookie)
• Picks 7, 8, 37 and 71 (2025)
• GC First-Rounder (2026)
• GWS Third-Rounder (2026)
• GC Third-Rounder (2027)

 

[SugarHealey]

Feels like we have already given up on Hendo and he is just biding his time for a delist like half of our list are. 16 blokes out of contract and that’s not including the contracted players we want to trade either.

He doesn't have a lot of weapons to his game.

 

[SugarHealey]

Get out the cek book...

Silvagni should be on Our shopping list.

Not the Piss list.

lol @ Mihocek, could our list management be any further from where it needs to be.

Let’s bring in a bloke to block all these young NQR tall forwards we have from getting experience just so we can finish 16th next year.

If we chase anyone other than Silagni and/or sDraper... then Lamb can get the chop as well.!

 

[SugarHealey]

As bad as Fritsch can be at times, imagine how awful Mihocek would look with our delivery into the forward line.

Also he's 32 years old and it's not 2022. We should not be making "win now" list decisions

We don't need mihocek. We have TMc.

 

[SugarHealey]

Daniher and Mihocek F50. GET EXCITED.

What would you think about sDraper and Silvagni. Free Agents.

 

[SugarHealey]

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Look... no hands.!

'Absolutely Sinema' at Village or Hoyts.

 

[SugarHealey]

Think you're forgetting about a superstar named Wade Derksen

You know what will happen, we'll go from no tall-forwards, to all clicking at the same time.

JvR.
Kentfield.
Petty.
Turner.

 

[SugarHealey]

Depends what kitchen sink though…

Maybe Oliver for JUH?
One off-field problems for the other??

Get them back for giving us the Hunter.

 

[The Dr]

Ooooh boy

 

[MarcMaverick]

Ooooh boy

What happened this time?

 

[Lord Nev]

Petracca’s new manager, Anna Scullie, has denied this but four clubs contacted by this masthead firmly believe the contracted star remains open to leaving Melbourne at the end of the season. West Australian Judd McVee looks likely to depart, and the contracted Bayley Fritsch

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Bayley Fritsch

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29

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15.6

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1.8

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5.0

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11.8

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4.4

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2.4

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1.4

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is no certainty to remain.

Richardson, who like coach Simon Goodwin

Simon Goodwin

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48

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185cm

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86kg

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20.9

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12.1

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4.0

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9.4

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7.2

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2.2

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M

3.0

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2.2

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is contracted until the end of next season, looks unlikely to be in that role next year given the club’s struggling football performance.

The fractured football club behind Melbourne’s eight seconds of madness

Three star players could leave and the future of many off-field leaders is unclear. Inside the leadership vacuum at the Demons.

www.theage.com.au

 

[The Dr]

What happened this time?

Sugar

 

[schmuttt]

I would like to keep Trac but if he wants out just accommodate it please. Thank him and Oliver for their contribution, move on and start a fresh with a new coach.

 

[Charlie_s123]

Sugar

200 threads, nothing but Sugar

 

[Lord Nev]

It's Hawthorn he's suggesting.

 

[schmuttt]

It's Hawthorn he's suggesting.

Happy to let him go if he requests a move, I'd be willing to do Carltons first this year in a straight swap (Not sure if we'd get that though). I love Trac but if he wants to go I'd be facilitating it (Obviously moving Oliver as well, if we moved Trac but kept Clarry I'd scream).

 

[Proper Gander]

Happy to let him go if he requests a move, I'd be willing to do Carltons first this year in a straight swap (Not sure if we'd get that though). I love Trac but if he wants to go I'd be facilitating it (Obviously moving Oliver as well, if we moved Trac but kept Clarry I'd scream).

I don’t see how Oliver can be moved though. He would have to have interest from somewhere and it’s been left too late

 

[schmuttt]

I don’t see how Oliver can be moved though. He would have to have interest from somewhere and it’s been left too late

If he wants to go he'll take a paycut then it'll be easier.

I am refusing to believe we keep him because if we do it'd be one of the worst pieces of list management we've done in my lifetime.

 

[Lord Nev]

Happy to let him go if he requests a move, I'd be willing to do Carltons first this year in a straight swap (Not sure if we'd get that though). I love Trac but if he wants to go I'd be facilitating it (Obviously moving Oliver as well, if we moved Trac but kept Clarry I'd scream).

Pretty sure the Hawks have the Blues first pick this year...

 

[schmuttt]

Pretty sure the Hawks have the Blues first pick this year...

Thats why I said Carltons first

 

[Lord Nev]

If he wants to go he'll take a paycut then it'll be easier.

I can't see Clarry taking a pay cut tbh. His post-footy options would be VERY limited IMO, so he would want to maximise his earning while in the game.

 

[Proper Gander]

If he wants to go he'll take a paycut then it'll be easier.

I am refusing to believe we keep him because if we do it'd be one of the worst pieces of list management we've done in my lifetime.

I can’t tell if he wants to go or not. I’m not sure he can. Apparently the Geelong thing came about because he got wind of his being shopped around, so decided to take some agency once he felt he wasn’t wanted.

In reality, the kind of pay cut he would need to take to get some interest would be vast and improbable. Nobody is going to leave those kinds of millions on the table.

 

[Fork n Hell]

i can see it now, Trac for the Blues first and James Worpel

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James Worpel

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26

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186cm

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86kg

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23.5

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12.2

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11.3

5star

M

2.9

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4.5

5star

CL

5.1

5star

No current season stats available

D

15.6

4star

K

6.2

3star

HB

9.4

5star

M

1.0

1star

T

3.2

5star

CL

1.8

4star

.

 

[Proper Gander]

i can see it now, Trac for the Blues first and James Worpel.

We all thought it and shuddered.

You just had to say it though…

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

I wouldnt take a pay cut if I was Oliver either, we are the dumbasses that signed him to it and if he tore up this contract to sign a new one with a new club you just know there would be some sort of out in it where if he ****ed up the club can get rid of him. I cant see any world where he's moved. We were dumbasses for not moving him when teams were interested.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Happy to let him go if he requests a move, I'd be willing to do Carltons first this year in a straight swap (Not sure if we'd get that though). I love Trac but if he wants to go I'd be facilitating it (Obviously moving Oliver as well, if we moved Trac but kept Clarry I'd scream).

If we only got one first for Trac id be pretty annoyed given what other players have gone for recently. Sure he hasn't been great this year but **** me thats selling low.

Ideally id want to see what a new coach can do with him first if we are only getting one first back.