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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[akaifu]

 

[akaifu]

 

[gubby88]

Marshall not going anywhere according to trade radio.....he must be devastated, livid even. Cats have courted him for 2 years! now they've walked away

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Wonder what the doggies are thinking...

JSoS
Wilkie
Leeky Weeky?

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Marshall not going anywhere according to trade radio.....he must be devastated, livid even. Cats have courted him for 2 years! now they've walked away

Its a disgrace I tell ya!

 

[BrutThough]

Not sure I completely believe Edmund given his report of the Aleer situation was clearly not coming from anyone inside St Kilda so this Marshall news is unlikely coming from inside the club.

But I hope it is true. I will happily piss off every club if it means keeping our list as strong as possible next year.

 

[puppy_dog7]

Didn't Geelong walk Jack Martin to the PSD as a delisted free agent after not wanting to pay for him? Was there drama then?

Remember them courting Jack Steven for 3 years only to offer a pick in the 50’s or they’d take him for nothing?

Yeah exactly. **** Geelong.

 

[beside the seaside]

If that's true about Marshall then we are really ****ing with the trade week norms this week. Went back on a nominated guy, pretty much denied a request and got all our deals done before Friday

 

[CaptainRisky]

According to Sam Edmund

Saints offered a 2026 2nd and 2027 3rd for Aleer and 2027 2nd Back

GWS said no

Saints walked away

Apparently there was a level of board intervention to prevent trading of more future picks

If True i think that's poor form on our behalf , seems to me we decided we just didn't want him

 

[bakes10]

I'm looking forward to Marshall in the FWD line next year. He'll be tough to outmark, so at the very least he should halve contests against the likes of Harris Andrews

31

Harris Andrews

Age

28

Ht

200cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.8

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.6

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

151.7

2star

D

17.0

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

8.0

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.0

3star

D

9.8

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

4.8

4star

M

3.4

4star

T

1.6

4star

MG

94.0

2star

types. Ball spills to ground, Ryan goal, Higgins goal, Collard goal. This should be significantly pleasing saints fans.

 

[Munga]

Another one staying? Wow, Saints totally rewriting the Book of Exodus.

I'll see myself out.

 

[Saints TV]

I mean did people think we'd play nice after Bassat said...

"There's a big queue of people lining up to take cracks if we fail. That's fine, because we're not here to make friends."

 

[CHBench]

 

[Imtellingya]

Some points:

Always thought Aleer was a strange choice for us to target and to declare our hand so far out.

Only positives I was hearing was that he was athletic and could take a mark.

Comparison with Matthew Allison as to footy IQ was alarming

Relieved we walked away.

Aleer still has a 3 year deal on the table from the Giants so a soft landing for him.

Media have been waiting to take a swing at us because of our aggressive trading
Take the PR damage hit now, there’s still 4 days of trading to go and some big names involved. This will all be forgotten by Wednesday afternoon.

 

[mighty_sainters]

Firstly, tony74 was right again.

Secondly, a future second and third for an out of contract Aleer is mad. I’m sorry, but I’m glad we didn’t pursue him for the cost there.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

SK_MD_#7

 

[CHBench]

Geelong will come back, Marshall is exactly what they need and they know it

 

[bird_man]

I can't believe there are people suggesting we have handled this well. Some even saying Aleer and the manager are the bad guys.

It's proof some fans will just back the club in no matter what. It's been really poorly handled and makes us look very unprofessional.

 

[BrutThough]

Kane is now claiming we should have traded Marshall and sent that pick for Aleer.

 

[Saints TV]

Kane is now claiming we should have traded Marshall and sent that pick for Aleer.

He also said we should have ditched TDK instead of Aleer

 

[Significant]

If True i think that's poor form on our behalf , seems to me we decided we just didn't want him

Not that we didn't want him.

Repeat after me.

LIST SPOTS!

 

[BrutThough]

He also said we should have ditched TDK instead of Aleer

Amazing how much Aleer improved as a player by us rejecting him.

 

[bird_man]

Not that we didn't want him.

Repeat after me.

LIST SPOTS!

Which is just as embarrassing if that's the case. Surely you factor that in for months.

Why in the world was Paddy Dow given a contract so early in the peice?

 

[stavro#4]

If True i think that's poor form on our behalf , seems to me we decided we just didn't want him

Why?

Geelong haven’t wanted to pony up what we wanted for Marshall. That seems to be okay for them.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

I still think Curnow goes to Sydney and Marshall goes to Geelong