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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[Saintscomemarchingin]

They were dark days

But at least we had moorabbin

Monday nights at the Sandbar, even the coach Tony Jewell joined in

 

[hangdog]

Brad Hill isn’t some messiah who can absolve Jamarra of all his issues, nor is it his responsibility to do so. At some stage Jamarra has to help Jamarra and decide if he actually wants to be an AFL footballer. Wouldn’t be going remotely near it, but that’s just my thoughts

 

[projectv]

Is it wrong of me to want us to land Merrett if only to see the smug Hawthorn pricks in the Merrett trade thread melt?

 

[hangdog]

Yes.

Obviously take this with as much salt as needed but 100% we contacted the Dogs last trade period, did our own investigation and whatever was found we backed off immediately.

This year it’s gotten even worse.

Even now any club can get him for pick 80+ in the draft and the Dogs will pay a decent heft of his salary (as much as their willing to do to pay him out) and still no club is going to touch him.

Fair enough. We can't fit him Tarryn Thomas on the same list anyway.

 

[Spider Eater]

Is it wrong of me to want us to land Merrett if only to see the smug Hawthorn pricks in the Merrett trade thread melt?

I'm not against Geelong getting him for a similar reason.

 

[Remboy]

Fair enough. We can't fit him Tarryn Thomas on the same list anyway.

Just imagine the two of them together. Then add Oliver. You'd need full time minders for each of them.

 

[akaifu]

Other than his first season, Flanders disposal efficiency has been over 70%, which is rated Elite & actually higher than Nas.
So I’d say he’s already an Elite user.
Don’t know where you get your stats!!

I would argue an elite ball user should be measured by how many scores they’re able to create, rather than how many targets they can hit

 

[Linton Street Saint]

I would argue an elite ball user should be measured by how many scores they’re able to create, rather than how many targets they can hit

Not arguing your right to decide on what you think an 'elite ball user' is but using a non standard definition without conveying it before hand is going to making arguing your points quite difficult and lead to easy misunderstandings.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Why does every second caller on Sen come from Frankston

 

[The_Steadier]

Why does every second caller on Sen come from Frankston

Because payphones are now free to use

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Why does every second caller on Sen come from Frankston

Give Centrelink a call, they might know
Lots of time on their hands?

 

[tomjoad]

I would argue an elite ball user should be measured by how many scores they’re able to create, rather than how many targets they can hit

Considering that hitting targets is one of the teams main faults, along with skills in general, i'd say getting a guy able to execute kicks and handballs would be a good thing.

 

[austinnn]

I would have taken the third one.

Great Scott?

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Fair enough. We can't fit him Tarryn Thomas on the same list anyway.

Just imagine the two of them together. Then add Oliver. You'd need full time minders for each of them.

Recruiting mummy’s boys hasn’t worked.

Time to roll the dice

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Recruiting mummy’s boys hasn’t worked.

Time to roll the dice

Clayton looks very swank

 

[Plugger35]

Clayton looks very swank

It looks like they are all on their way to court apart from Benny Cousins who has been there done that and done a stint in jail.

 

[Sully111]

I would argue an elite ball user should be measured by how many scores they’re able to create, rather than how many targets they can hit

Our team has been crying out for players who can consistently hit targets for years.

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Our team has been crying out for players who can consistently hit targets for years.

Is why l think Hall must be played in the midfield full - time

 

[CursingFijian]

Is it wrong of me to want us to land Merrett if only to see the smug Hawthorn pricks in the Merrett trade thread melt?

 

[Hayes4PM]

Merrett well and truly out the door if rumours are to be believed. Apparently he's been told not to come to the B & F night after he was confronted by Essendon's leadership group and gave a spray to Nick Martin referring to him as "chinless".

At this stage he's gone and Essendon are just posturing for trade value.

PS:

Spoiler

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Have we ever been as ****ed as Essendon or Carlton???
If Naz had of left yes definitely.
But in the scheme of things I’d say no.

In modern AFL, no.

Those 2 clubs still have a lot of people from the 70s to 90s having big influence on their clubs and not to mention their cotrie people will stab you in the back as a coach to protect their people.

Our club is always forced to modernise and think differently.

Eddie for better or worse knew this shit in the late 90s, it took richmond til the 2010s to know it, Clarko has said that Hawks rebuild took inspiration from us drafting in the early 2000s.

 

[CursingFijian]

It looks like they are all on their way to court apart from Benny Cousins who has been there done that and done a stint in jail.

It takes a special kind of delinquent to swim away from the crime scene.

 

[TheJackal]

Can we please have a one week respite from any stats relating to Flanders or CMac?

 

[Plugger35]

Is why l think Hall must be played in the midfield full - time

He's one of our best shots for goal too so I'd prefer a 50/50 split between midfield and forward unless he has a twin just as good.

Merrett well and truly out the door if rumours are to be believed. Apparently he's been told not to come to the B & F night after he was confronted by Essendon's leadership group and gave a spray to Nick Martin referring to him as "chinless".

At this stage he's gone and Essendon are just posturing for trade value.

PS:

Spoiler

As funny as it would be to see Merrett walk out on Essendon and screw them I still don't want to see him go to the Hawks.

The Bombers would still be shit if they keep Merrett but the Hawks would be back to premiership contenders if they get him.

 

[Plugger35]

It takes a special kind of delinquent to swim away from the crime scene.

Even when Benny Cuz was on his on his drug benders you couldn't fault his fitness, he still had that elite aerobic capacity.

Not only did he swim across the Swan River to get away from the cops he ran across rooftops to get away from them too.