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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[St Neil]

If you think Damo and Jenkins are melting now, imagine them when we swap Marshall for SDK.

Barrett and Jenkins are professional dickheads.

They put the amateurs to shame.

 

[nikkig98]

But we still have a week of the trade period to go.

Doesn’t sound as if we tried very hard.

I love the club and will always defend it, but the lad publicly nominated us ages ago. That has to mean something.

We need to ascertain all of the facts, and pre-judging is always fraught, but on the surface it doesn’t look great.

Yeah look fair

 

[SaintsofSteel]

I must say I never rated us chasing Aleer so Im not upset he is not coming, but the way we withdrew our interest mid trade is really odd. The club & SOS must have known they would draw plenty of adverse press, so hopefully they come out at some stage and provide an explanation.

For me they wouldnt pull out of the Aleer deal at the last minute without a very good reason eg there is another player being courted and committed to the club.

 

[AFaiL]

More details revealed: Inside the Leek Aleer story

St Kilda backflipped on their sustained interest.

www.sen.com.au

So, again Giants want F2 and we say no. Play on

 

[dougiemac]

I’m going to embrace the hate for the club right now, I want every opposition poster who’s lurking here to see that we don’t care about their feelings.

The club has a set of balls right now and I love it.

Marcus Aurelius said: "Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair."

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[Steele2King]

"In the fullness of time"

I will wait and see what plays out in the next week before critiquing the club too harshly, as they have been on a heater as of late.

 

[ScrappyDo]

Jeez l wouldn't want some here negotiating anything for me. It's a bad look wah wah wah, players won't trust us wah wah wah, mummy l pooped in my nappy again. FMD

 

[Captain Paddy]

If you actually go cold on a player, you don’t come out and announce it, you string it along all trade period until it falls over and you just blame the other team for valuing them too high.

You announce you’re out on a guy when you still want them but their current team aren’t coming to the table in good faith

 

[akaifu]

Im aroused

 

[Vacuous Space]

More details revealed: Inside the Leek Aleer story

St Kilda backflipped on their sustained interest.

www.sen.com.au

So, again Giants want F2 and we say no. Play on

I like that Purple just casually admits that he has exactly zero St Kilda sources to check with in there.

 

[Coconut_twirl]

Tom Lee was pick 12

Great drafting right there.

 

[stavro#4]

TRADE DESK: Saints' intriguing stance, could Sun unlock path to Curnow?

Cal Twomey and Riley Beveridge bring you the latest trade news

www.afl.com.au

- Ball in Geelongs court to get Marshall done. Twomey less sure it happens now

 

[Hayes4PM]

GWS: We want your 2026 2nd round pick.

Saints: No. How about our future 3rd?

GWS: No deal. Come back when you're serious.

Saints: Understood.

Saints trade F2 to West Coast for Liam Ryan

1

Liam Ryan

Age

29

Ht

181cm

Wt

76kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

8.6

3star

HB

2.7

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

4star

G

1.3

5star

D

9.9

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.3

3star

T

1.6

3star

G

1.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

2.4

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.8

4star

G

1.6

5star

and their F3

Saints: How does two future third round picks sound...?

 

[snails13]

So what would all the sooky journalists have done if we got to close of trade next Wednesday having not agreed with GWS asking price and he stays at his original club,just like many other failed trade attempts from all 18 clubs has happened in the past

 

[Coconut_twirl]

There are judges of this draft who rate it the worst of all time.

Let that sink in.

Would Covid 2020 be ranked up there? The draft with Raphael Clarke was weak by memory.

 

[SainterinSydney]

I like that Purple just casually admits that he has exactly zero St Kilda sources to check with in there.

But ST KILDA CAN'T BE DOING WELL! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

 

[akaifu]

 

[Banger9798]

If you actually go cold on a player, you don’t come out and announce it, you string it along all trade period until it falls over and you just blame the other team for valuing them too high.

You announce you’re out on a guy when you still want them but their current team aren’t coming to the table in good faith

Agreed. It's an F3 or we walk away, is the message

 

[Hydatina Physis]

Been fun watching the saints this trade period. Individually the players you've brought in mightn't have excited me but I'm reminded of when my mob brought in a slew of players that didn't excite me too much and the instant impact they had. Hoping it pays off for you guys.

 

[MrFoster]

If you actually go cold on a player, you don’t come out and announce it, you string it along all trade period until it falls over and you just blame the other team for valuing them too high.

You announce you’re out on a guy when you still want them but their current team aren’t coming to the table in good faith

Agree, that's why I think we have another defender in mind. Let it be SDK and a 2nd round pick. That'll be epic. Instead of one set of King brothers (Max and Ben), we will have the other King brothers (TDK and SDK). De Koning means King in Dutch.

 

[CROUCH #2]

Sorry to intrude...

But Loving the aggressive, bold and courageous off-season the Saints are having.

A good sign of strength for the club

 

[SainterinSydney]

TRADE DESK: Saints' intriguing stance, could Sun unlock path to Curnow?

Cal Twomey and Riley Beveridge bring you the latest trade news

www.afl.com.au

- Ball in Geelongs court to get Marshall done. Twomey less sure it happens now

 

[Vacuous Space]

Saints: How does two future third round picks sound...?

Too high. I'm thinking pick 7 of the PSD.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Good times

 

[Coconut_twirl]

1. Jack Steele (207)
2. Dan Butler (126)
3. Dougal Howard (122)
4. Rowan Marshall (120)
5. Nick Coffield (119)
6. Zak Jones (117)
7. Callum Wilkie (113)
8. Paddy Ryder (107)
9. Hunter Clark (100)
10. Sebastian Ross (92)

Just a reminder of the top 10 for B&F 5 years ago! Look how far we've come!!

Every single one of them either not with us or linked with leaving us at some point. Sorry Wilkes, but youre in that category now too.

Which proves the initial big recruits of 2019 were mostly successful. Even Zak Zones is still kicking around on the list. It’s not like any of them were complete busts.