List Mgmt. 2025 List Management Discussion - Part IV

[Hubnester]

2025 List Management Discussion - Part 4

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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[Captain Paddy]

His interview with Twomey he said Ross was restricted with personnel and list holes.

Restrictions based on talent available - forward paying multiple contracts juuuuuuust to get to the minimal spend that we had to get to as per salary cap rules

 

[_Maximus_12]

The voices in Ben Cousins head after a 10 day bender make more sense than Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson

Age

49

Ht

182cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.7

5star

K

14.1

5star

HB

5.6

4star

M

5.9

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

1.5

5star

No current season stats available

D

12.8

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

2.6

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

1.2

3star

G

0.6

3star

, Damo Barrett & Josh Jenkins

11

Josh Jenkins

Age

36

Ht

200cm

Wt

108kg

Pos.

F/R

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.9

3star

K

9.1

4star

HB

3.8

3star

M

5.1

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

2.1

5star

No current season stats available

D

11.0

3star

K

7.6

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

1.2

3star

G

1.6

5star

.

 

[Captain Paddy]

Will Purple's head explode on live TV if we actually won another flag. He seems to hate us with a passion.

I reckon they've opened their trade radio slot up talking about the saints most days and purple is the only one that is negative on it lol

 

[St Neil]

I don't want this to be true, but could Hastie be involved in a Marshall trade?

No.

Hastie loves the Saints. Wants to be part of the club going forward.

Also highly rated by Enright.

 

[Southeastsainter]

Barrett & Jenkins… couldn’t find two blokes who hate us more. Barrett is a gutter dickhead journo, Jenkins was nothing but a hack footballer. Kicked majority of his goals out the back from the goal square, as nobody thought to man him up!

 

[dudeintheswamp]

If there are no more "little surprises" by the end of all this, Gubby will have some questions to answer

 

[Tommy Wigs]

The voices in Ben Cousins head after a 10 day bender make more sense than Brad Johnson, Damo Barrett & Josh Jenkins.

Can’t believe you’d tune in. Please lift a little bit

 

[projectv]

Talk now on the Carlton and Cats boards about Marshall + F1 for SDK and 18. So a slight downgrade on 1st rounder. I don't love it, I don't hate it either.

 

[saintmike65]

Jones has been too uneven. His best was great but he went missing too often. He’s been frustrating to watch. He could have been an excellent player but stalled.

Agreed...we also need the #3 for young Ned..

 

[Sainter62]

Just my opinion but I think Curnow will go to the Swans for Haywood and picks. Marshall will go to the Cats for picks. The Cats need a ruckman more than a forward. Opposite for the Swans. We'll use the Marshall picks for whatever other trades we have in store or take them to the draft.
Personally I'd prefer Steele to stay if he wants to. I think we owe him that much. I just hope he doesn't end up at Essendon of all clubs.
Roma is a different case. Obviously he doesn't want to play second fiddle to TDK. And he'll be no.1 ruck at the Cats with almost guaranteed finals next year and possibly a GF. No one should begrudge him that choice.
Sounds like the Flanders trade is as good as done with the Suns expecting it to be finalized before the weeks out.
We've been mediocre for too long. It's going to be sad to see some of our stalwarts playing elsewhere but we know the ceiling on a lot of our older players and clearly the days of inaction are over.
That's a good thing which I support.

" No one should begrudge him that choice" .... so we should feel obliged to get him to the cats even though he signed a 4 year deal with us and we have paid him in part already for services he is contracted to deliver over the next 2 years???

 

[saintmike65]

Talk now on the Carlton and Cats boards about Marshall + F1 for SDK and 18. So a slight downgrade on 1st rounder. I don't love it, I don't hate it either.

I really rate SDK ...he's almost become superfluous to Geelong's needs & been thrown around a lot in recent times

 

[Sully111]

I haven't seen that much of SDK but what I have seen hasn't blown me away. Yes, he's tall, but how good is he really?

 

[projectv]

I really rate SDK ...he's almost become superfluous to Geelong's needs & been thrown around a lot in recent times

SDK would tick many boxes for us. Tauru could play forward every game.

I want to believe.

 

[chris_h_11]

Talk now on the Carlton and Cats boards about Marshall + F1 for SDK and 18. So a slight downgrade on 1st rounder. I don't love it, I don't hate it either.

Make it F2 instead of F1 and I'd be interested.

According to Gubby, our spending spree will continue next year, so we need to keep our F1

 

[saintmike65]

Yeah, he did re: Higgins. Not sure if it’s a throwaway type line and isn’t something that comes straight to my mind. But the little bugger is very clever.

High footy IQ Higgo!

 

[snails13]

st kilda are the only team to ever get stooged in a trade by Gold Coast

When did the trade get done?

Barrett & Jenkins… couldn’t find two blokes who hate us more. Barrett is a gutter dickhead journo, Jenkins was nothing but a hack footballer. Kicked majority of his goals out the back from the goal square, as nobody thought to man him up!

My Trade Radio daily fix ends end at 2.59pm.
All 3 of them are dickheads

 

[bakes10]

I really rate SDK ...he's almost become superfluous to Geelong's needs & been thrown around a lot in recent times

That would be a brilliant trade. Would love that.

 

[PoppedCorn]

I haven't seen that much of SDK but what I have seen hasn't blown me away. Yes, he's tall, but how good is he really?

Id swap for roma
But would not include yhe F1 for pick 18 bit

 

[RWB4life]

Make it F2 instead of F1 and I'd be interested.

According to Gubby, our spending spree will continue next year, so we need to keep our F1

Better draft too apparently

 

[saintmike65]

Will Windy play full time mid next year then? Ended up roughly 50% mid this year, but a lot of his high disposal games came from wing and half back.

His versatility probably hurts him in this regard as he can play outside better than Macrae, Steele and Garcia

I'd like to see Windhager & Wilson on the wings plus rotating through the middle as well

 

[Geezington]

Best surprise of this trade period is this random ITK arc from Chooms.

Man is batting 4/4 for news out of GC Geezington

BUILD THE MAN A STATUE

 

[projectv]

If moving on Ainsworth is essentially a salary dump to afford Petracca surely GC wouldn't want much in terms of picks for him. Package him up with Flanders for pick 7?

 

[Sainter62]

Damo has no idea lol. Flanders worth late 20s

would be great if purple could be right this time, which would also be the first ever time

 

[TheJackal]

Talk now on the Carlton and Cats boards about Marshall + F1 for SDK and 18. So a slight downgrade on 1st rounder. I don't love it, I don't hate it either.

Prefer the straight swap. 18 would only be palatable if it was used in a trade - even still I'd rather just keep F1.

 

[St Neil]

Damo has no idea lol. Flanders worth late 20s

Barrett was slagging the club this morning about the quality of the players we have targeted.

He’s a troll.

Ignore.