List Mgmt. 2025 List Management Discussion - Part 3

[Hubnester]

2025 List Management Discussion - Part 3

Now that our season is over, and news is starting to break - it's time for a fresh thread.

This thread is to discuss all things list management - trades, draft, free agency, delistings and more.
As we are now officially in our off-season, we'll be wanting to keep this thread more strictly on-topic than the previous iterations.
Be respectful. You are allowed to disagree with someone - but play the ball, not the man. Repeat offenders will have their posting rights revoked.

Thanks to Lore once again for this incredibly useful spreadsheet.

2025 KEY DATES
Free Agency Period: Friday, October 3rd - Friday, October 10th
Trade Period: Monday, October 6th - Wednesday, October 15th
AFL Draft: Wednesday, November 19th - Thursday, November 20th

See Also:
2025 Year in Review Rumours & Confirmed Movements 2025 Draft Discussion
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[billings2paddy]

Destination Club

 

[Falchoon]

why not Carlton

 

[Hayes4PM]

Ahhhhh... A tony day, a good day.

 

[jwikked]

It’s nice, but unless all teams are involved - opening round should be scrapped. This year showed what a farce it was.

 

[stfan]

So we are getting Gout Gout as well?

Gout Gout wants to be like Tony 74 when he grows up.

 

[stavro#4]

Our leadership right now is on point.

 

[stavro#4]

It’s nice, but unless all teams are involved - opening round should be scrapped. This year showed what a farce it was.

Why does it matter?

If we open the season in Melbourne in round 0 against the pies - as a spuds game. It will be an unbelievable event and if it’s annual. It will be mammoth

 

[SainterinSydney]

Our leadership right now is on point.

I'm @#$%ing pumped!

 

[jwikked]

Why does it matter?

If we open the season in Melbourne in round 0 against the pies - as a spuds game. It will be an unbelievable event and if it’s annual. It will be mammoth

Sure, but it doesn’t change my stance on opening round. Having only half the teams compete is farcical. You end up with clubs getting an extra bye to make up for it, and this year showed it makes rescheduling games a nightmare that ruins the ladder for the whole year.

Even if the GC/Essendon game is a once in 50 year event, having teams with early byes and extra games leaves the ladder a mess until the mid year byes are finished.

I’d hoped the AFL learned their lesson from this years disastrous Opening Round. I guess not.

 

[stavro#4]

Sure, but it doesn’t change my stance on opening round. Having only half the teams compete is farcical. You end up with clubs getting an extra bye to make up for it, and this year showed it makes rescheduling games a nightmare that ruins the ladder for the whole year.

Even if the GC/Essendon game is a once in 50 year event, having teams with early byes and extra games leaves the ladder a mess until the mid year byes are finished.

I’d hoped the AFL learned their lesson from this years disastrous Opening Round. I guess not.

Yeah I’m not really seeing the problem and if it’s the trade off required to ensure we get a marquee game that we deserve - I’ll sign us up yesterday.

 

[Mav3rick]

Saints

Our leadership right now is on point.

The documentary is very interesting. God I hope we can stay healthy next year

 

[CursingFijian]

Be even better if we could get our new look ressies to run on in a curtain raiser!

 

[Train12]

Wonder what the club has planned for a 60th anniversary celebration of our flag

They would want to play the pies surely?

It was mentioned in that video / celebrate spuds game, also 60th anniversary

 

[Remboy]

I'm @#$%ing pumped!

Me too, rip roaring pumped!

 

[Ads734]

It’s nice, but unless all teams are involved - opening round should be scrapped. This year showed what a farce it was.

AFL is a joke why would they ever scrap bad decisions. It was laughable how they announced all Australian squad before last game had been played.

 

[malevu]

I wish you'd said it was Barrett, I could have avoided donating my click to that dick

It's beyond Purple to write anything positive about us. I'm sure if you checked his "If..then" BS he writes on Fridays I'd be surprised if you could find one decent comment about us all year.
We are his reliable go-to whipping boy when he wants to bag anyone. I'm sure he'll be watching and hoping we fall on our faces next year so he can say how much money we've wasted. I bet the articles are already written in anticipation.
The best thing about RTB coming back to us was that Lyon was Purple's man crush when he was at Freo. He probably had a wank poster of him on his bedroom wall. It must've really cut him when Lyon returned to the Saints.

 

[St Neil]

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1416186

This is genuinely spiteful, just like the Jake Neill article. I am genuinely confused as to why it pisses people off so much that we are just trying to improve. I can’t get my head around it.

Barrett is spiteful and his tone is unprofessional.

His sarcasm in wishing us good luck at the end of the article is vituperative.

Ignore his mendacious scribbling.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

So we are getting Gout Gout as well?

Just Gout.

 

[saintderby]

Nothing to celebrate. 60 years without a flag is an embarrassment, not a celebration.

Agree nothing to celebrate until we win another one.

 

[Sir Owens]

 

[St Neil]

Just don’t see the appeal for Steele to move too WCE. Unless they chuck a heap of cash at him

West Coast haven’t got much to spend their salary cap on.

 

[Sarcoidevo]

Sure, but it doesn’t change my stance on opening round. Having only half the teams compete is farcical. You end up with clubs getting an extra bye to make up for it, and this year showed it makes rescheduling games a nightmare that ruins the ladder for the whole year.

Even if the GC/Essendon game is a once in 50 year event, having teams with early byes and extra games leaves the ladder a mess until the mid year byes are finished.

I’d hoped the AFL learned their lesson from this years disastrous Opening Round. I guess not.

I am not a huge fan of Round 0 but the "ladder being a mess" excuse is laughable .... this happens across a myriad of sports across the world where tables/ladders can be out of whack ..... in the end it doesnt matter ..... winning is all that matters

As for winning ... if the AFL are deadset on keeping Round 0 then we may as well try and cash in and a Saints v Pies MCG clash (our home game) would be enormous for the club ..... absolutely huge!!

 

[littlecreatures]

You’re being selective with those stats, in 2023 Flanders averaged about the same as Windhager and this year it’s less.

Yes I like TDK and yes he’s younger but this is his best year, we’re projecting big things and hoping he delivers. I stand by what I said it’s marginal the payoff is in the Windhager pick and we have zero idea what that will be and what we’ll do with it, that’s if he actually leaves.

Also we’re talking a big game but Geelong will need to pay up. What happens in that pick turns into Ryan and change ?

There is so much to play out if we trade out Marshall and Windhager and yes it’s risky. I’d be happy if we can’t get what we want in picks or players to just sit on what we’ve done and take 7 to the draft then pick up Flicher.

We would be a very good team if everyone is fit with Marshall, Windhager and Steele all still in the team. As much of that is having a fit King, poo, Howard and Henry.

I’m try to be positive about what we’re doing but the rainbow and lollipops are a bit much. We’re taking risks and it looks like costing us some favourites. That will take some time to digest plus I want to see all the pieces on the board before I pop any champagne corks.

Stav being selective with stats?! No way

 

[saintkildaman]

Geelong’s first round pick sucks ass, if they want Roma coming into the lean years on his contract they will have to pay up and pick 20 something isn’t it. Wonder if SDK would be keen to play alongside his brother, we’d have to throw in a decent pick to get it done but fk I hope SOS + co play hard ball and try it. Much prefer to keep a leader like Marshall and try the 2 ruck combo unless we’re getting absolute overs.

 

[beside the seaside]

So according to Barrett if we don't make a prelim next year our plan is a fail...

How does this guy have a job in the AFL media? For the AFL website no less. He's a dead set joke.