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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[Joffaboy]

I've only ever been to one other side's board and that was enough. Read a Port supporter's reenactment of a scene from Mad Max eating a tin of dog food sitting on a mine hillock outside Broken Hill watching the sunset. They made you campaigners seem normal.

Is on the Trade and Draft board but is worse because it is open to all supporters. Greatest concentration of football ignorance on earth.

 

[Tommy Wigs]

I didn't know North had a forum? Don't the majority of them lack opposable thumbs?

Not sure about that. But their defenders do.

 

[Tommy Wigs]

2018 Jade Gresham is exactly what our forwardline is missing! People forget his first 70 odd games were bloody good

Post achillies Gresham been stealing a living from 2 clubs. Would not even take him for our VFL side

Reminds me of this

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Which is why I’m staggered at the possible deals out there for Draper.

 

[jwikked]

Why? Played 18 games out of a possible 88. No due diligence in his recruitment. A total waste of a list spot. Richo et al take a bow. A total flop. And this has been done to death so not gonna go on about it.

Won us a final in 2020. Best on ground in that game, worth every cent.

The trade clearly didn't work out, but it had merit. We lacked an experienced leader. We got one, just a shame we could barely get him on the field.

 

[dougiemac]

Yep exactly. West Coast drugged themselves to a flag.

Not the only ones.

 

[Leap of Faith]

Not the only ones.

Would that be Paul Chapman and his mates you're referring to.?

 

[jwikked]

Post achillies Gresham been stealing a living from 2 clubs. Would not even take him for our VFL side

Some people out there might call him an oxygen thief. Not me. I'd just suggest that he's a tape and deep heat thief

 

[Joffaboy]

Can't see Steele getting us more than a third rounder. Late Second at best. I think Ryan would cost similar.

Flanders for our future first plus a third rounder back
Aleer for future second
Ryan for third rounder
McKenzie for this year's first plus second rounder back

Leave us with a second and third plus whatever we get for Steele and /or Marshall (but prefer to keep)

Steele is contracted so we might as well keep him then. Third rounder, lol.

 

[akaifu]

Please don't keep this info under lock and key when us hungry birdies need our feed

If ur hungry I can give u some news BUT take with grain of salt cos I need to follow up with a few ppl

But

Apparently JSOS is confirmed

 

[hangdog]

I was happy at the thought of landing JSOS and renegging on Aleer but according to Edmund we will probably get both.

Throw in a fit Howard and the defence will look a lot different next year.

Edmund doesn't know his testicles from his uvula

 

[Leap of Faith]

Won us a final in 2020. Best on ground in that game, worth every cent.

The trade clearly didn't work out, but it had merit. We lacked an experienced leader. We got one, just a shame we could barely get him on the field.

Okay I'll bite one more time. One game winning a final was worth 4 years of being one of the highest paid players at the club who played 17% of the games possible? Leadership is great if it's on the park. I think he was a total bust. Embarrassingly so due to the nature of his acquisition. Sydney couldn't believe their luck. Lethlean's Old Xav mate and no due diligence on his fitness. Classic Richo years. Got we had some spuds in that time. Wonder how Dean Kent is going these days. Am sure he's a lovely fella. You can have the last word if you like.

 

[Leap of Faith]

If ur hungry I can give u some news BUT take with grain of salt cos I need to follow up with a few ppl

But

Apparently JSOS is confirmed

Well if that's true then I hope Mr. Aleer is off to Port.

 

[Banger9798]

Steele is contracted so we might as well keep him then. Third rounder, lol.

Where would he go and who would take him ?

 

[hangdog]

Geez how the mighty have fallen--Port board go from talking Nas to debating whether to take JUH

GWS board was pretty underwhelming

 

[gubby88]

Okay I'll bite one more time. One game winning a final was worth 4 years of being one of the highest paid players at the club who played 17% of the games possible? Leadership is great if it's on the park. I think he was a total bust. Embarrassingly so due to the nature of his acquisition. Sydney couldn't believe their luck. Lethlean's Old Xav mate and no due diligence on his fitness. Classic Richo years. Got we had some spuds in that time. Wonder how Dean Kent is going these days. Am sure he's a lovely fella. You can have the last word if you like.

should ask bulldogs about Tom Boyd

 

[billings2paddy]

Where would he go and who would take him ?

Eagles saying the same thing about Ryan
3 months ago

 

[hangdog]

I know a lot of Blues supporters including family. Most are just beaten by it all. They still have a big club fan base but not many are arrogant any more. Even when they were winning they were waiting to fall back down.

Man, i can't imagine what that must be like...

 

[billings2paddy]

Geez how the mighty have fallen--Port board go from talking Nas to debating whether to take JUH

You were pretty popular there mate

 

[BrutThough]

Okay I'll bite one more time. One game winning a final was worth 4 years of being one of the highest paid players at the club who played 17% of the games possible? Leadership is great if it's on the park. I think he was a total bust. Embarrassingly so due to the nature of his acquisition. Sydney couldn't believe their luck. Lethlean's Old Xav mate and no due diligence on his fitness. Classic Richo years. Got we had some spuds in that time. Wonder how Dean Kent is going these days. Am sure he's a lovely fella. You can have the last word if you like.

Yes, it was worth it.

I'd rather be embarrassed that we paid Hanners way too much for too long to win us a game then be embarrassed because a twitter account counts how many days since we've won a final (7,649 for those wondering how long it's been for Essendon).

 

[sammm]

https://archive.md/wF959]

I cannot access this.

 

[SainterinSydney]

You were pretty popular there mate

I had a complicated love/hate relationship with them, but so it's clear, my hatred for Port the club is as pure as ever.

 

[Ekomaira]

I cannot access this.

delete the ] at the end of the link

 

[hangdog]

i do agree on that he could be something special but just by looking at vfl numbers heath blows him out the water and both looked good at afl

What? No he doesn't?

 

[Sir Owens]

Saw a post on Twitter that was absolutely adamant that Gresham had played his last game for the bombers. Please, for the love of god, not gresham

Essendon Facebook page did a happy birthday post for him. The comments were brutal.

 

[SainterinSydney]

Each day I ring my dad to give him all the Bigfooty scuttlebutt and the general news on trade rumours in case he misses it. He said if I ever ring him without a new player linked to St Kilda, he will immediately hang up . No hang ups thus far!