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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[sauce_head]

In what world did he have a better year than Wilkie

The world of preconceptions. It’s a wonderful world full of All Australian selectors taking about how good they were in their day and how they knew who would be in the team before the season even started.

 

[sauce_head]

What I would like to see - if Marshall stays, which I want as well - is him to slim down just a little to improve agility and then really have a crack at being that 30% ruck, 70% forward.

What's clear to me is that he is a better forward than TDK - let's tailor him in that fashion.

I think the only thing stopping Marshall from kicking 30-40 goals would be his lack of agility. While it's not poor, improving it will really make him a dangerous weapon.

Are you fat shaming Marshall?

 

[Leap of Faith]

Playing group are definitely not happy

Poor Carlton. It's so upsetting if they're in turmoil.

 

[John2010362340]

Ross insinuated that if Nas didn’t sign that TDK wasn’t happening.

What makes you think we won’t walk away from Aleer if we rate JSOS higher?

I genuinely can’t work out how they would all fit if we grabbed them all and a 25 year old Aleer and 27 year old JSOS are only coming to play AFL football.

I can't remember him ever saying that Nas not resigning we would've walked away from TDK. Ross said a lot of things that night he probably didn't mean, like approaching players in contract is actually illegal. I don't think that would've happened. I think these things a agreed to months out. Saints are building a list not a 23 so if they join and have to play VFL if there form isn't up to the level that's just the life of an AFL player.

 

[Sully111]

Playing group are definitely not happy

Their coach is hopeless.

 

[stavro#4]

I can't remember him ever saying that Nas not resigning we would've walked away from TDK. Ross said a lot of things that night he probably didn't mean, like approaching players in contract is actually illegal. I don't think that would've happened. I think these things a agreed to months out. Saints are building a list not a 23 so if they join and have to play VFL if there form isn't up to the level that's just the life of an AFL player.

He didn’t specifically say TDK.

He touched on bringing players into the club and what it would have looked like and the list strategy etc and then spoke about how many drafts we would need to replace Nas.

 

[billings2paddy]

Their coach is hopeless.

I think that's a key reason
Was a shock he wasn't sacked

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Mavefromdelburn thoughts on acquiring Sniffy Hollands?

 

[billings2paddy]

Mavefromdelburn thoughts on acquiring Sniffy Hollands?

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Why not
We are the destination club

 

[Joffaboy]

Apparently Curnow just unfollowed Carlton on insta! - from a Carlton mate nuffy

Deadset, it’s all over for them

Someone check to see if he started following Saints FC on insta

 

[heynow85]

 

[Klaatu]

So what time is Windy getting announced, I've got a work meeting between 11-12 today so hold off until 12:15 for me.

 

[ScrappyDo]

Why are you completely against? trading our pick 7

Coz there's some very good players in that range. This draft is criticised because of a poor top 5 and it doesn’t bat very deep, but our pick 7 is as good as a pick 7 in most years. If we can pull our trades off with futures in comprised drafts then we should do that since we are youth heavy now and most of them look to have a future as league players. It's always a gamble either way but especially since priority access looks to be getting dumped for the first round next year, but again looking at the pool that's likely available to us this year they are players you'd want to have. Bird in the hand and all..

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Why not
We are the destination club

Because he’s a degenerate

 

[akaifu]

 

[UnfinishedBusiness]

Nothing newsworthy. A nice anecdote about reaching the decision to stay and having the feeling of unfinished business at the saints

That’s right, the feeling of unfinished business got him to sign

 

[Joffaboy]

Because he’s a degenerate

So if that's the standard, you should not be allowed to post here?

 

[CaptainRisky]

Because he’s a degenerate

Because he takes drugs or other reasons ?

 

[billings2paddy]

I think he got that information from here lol

 

[CaptainRisky]

An ex saints player wants to come back to play or coach?

Who is out there? Billings, Acres, Gresham, Cripps, Long, Battle, Membrey...

Only ones we'd consider would be Long o Battle but they're not coming back lol.

The field is 20 _ _ _ _ _

 

[Gavinmitchell11]

Personal issues aside, we don’t need Hollands anyway.

I’d trade multiple future firsts for Curnow but Carlton will want a Tauru/Wilson/Pou as well and I wouldn’t do that.

Edit: although if we got Curnow and King miraculously comes good. We could win the flag as soon as next year.

 

[gringo2011]

Still out of finals under Rossy after another ordinary season- needn't have wasted all the effort on getting rid of Ratts after all...but that's history. Carlton live in a world of their own (apologies to The Seekers)

Lyon hasn't proven anything on field but he's structured us to be in the race at least. The footy department under the last lot was like a backyard operation trying to race in the GP. Lyon has built a platform to work off. It might not work out but it has a lot more chance of working out than how we were set up before.

Ratts and Richo were both happy to have a job and not rock the boat demanding money for the back of house stuff and were hamstrung by it. At least when Lyon hands over he will be handing over a properly funded and structured football department. It's the absolute basics of a footy club and without it you can't compete.

 

[heynow85]

Someone check to see if he started following Saints FC on insta

I checked he definitely doesn’t follow Carlton, I checked a few other clubs (Saints, Cats, Swans etc) and nothing

 

[Joffaboy]

On the Windy contract. If Windy signs for significantly less than the North offer, that will be two Saints resigning when rivals have offered significantly more.

Will the brain dead footy media see the corelation between offering significantly more to get a player out of their club ( TDK for example) or will they continue their idiot trope that the Saints are reckless and overpaying players to come to the Saints?

 

[Moquo]

Apparently Curnow just unfollowed Carlton on insta! - from a Carlton mate nuffy

Deadset, it’s all over for them

I'm expecting that Graeme Wright will watch all their talent leave, sack Voss, quit, then return to a heroes welcome at collingwood.