List Mgmt. 2025 List Management Discussion - Part V

[Hubnester]

2025 List Management Discussion - Part 5

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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[puppy_dog7]

Thank **** Row is staying. Would’ve got fleeced if that was the deal.

 

[Sainter93]

The man is never wrong

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Well done Essendon as well.
Suck on that Hawks.

 

[Plugger35]

Confirmed now that no trade for Marshall has been done, he is staying a Saint, good news for us and bad news for Geelong.

 

[Southeastsainter]

Get stuffed Geelong. Reckon their second offer was decent, but too late to the party. Hope Ro thrives as a forward. Sad to lose Steele but would’ve been more pissed if Ro went to Geelong

 

[foxdog50]

YES. GET ****ED GEELONG YOU DUMB campaignerS! ENJOY 2026 WITHOUT A DECENT RUCKMAN YOU PRICKS.

We still have a Premiership Ruckman that came from St Kilda

 

[triggering bro]

Geelong knew what they needed to give to get Ro and they still refused. It’s on them.

 

[Big 0]

Heartbreaking stuff. Obvious he and Ross just couldn’t get along. Hope he rips the comp a new one next year (but has a downer against us)

 

[PrimalConstruct]

Well, Geelong really stepped on their own collective dick this week.

 

[hangdog]

The perfect trade period. Keep Marshall, pull out of Aleer chase (don't like how it was done, but the correct decision) and Steele gets to extend his career while we open up room in the guts for Box, Hugo, Pou etc.

 

[Hayes4PM]

This feels like a collective bargaining by clubs in a way, Petroro throwing a tantrum, a whole bunch of contracted players not getting traded. The world is healing

 

[Armoooo]

Can we please put the myth of players having too much power to bed.

Well done saints, held firm.

We need Marshall and TDK even with a fully fit list. But if Marhsall went, we would be very vulnerable if any of TDK, King or Sharman were out.

Well done saints.

 

[bird_man]

did i?

worth remembering that no one new steele was on near on 1m a season

did i?

worth remembering that no one new steele was on near on 1m a season

where i did you get macrae was on 700k?

Did you say it was a good deal?

Yes

 

[saintbill]

EAD Cats. Pathetic from Mackie, throwing up a last ditch effort with 5 minutes left.

They try and pull that garbage every year. Get stuffed mate.

 

[JohnoN]

Well done Sainters. Suck a bag of dicks Mackie!!!

 

[Minga]

TDK & Marshall combo gonna be lethal

CONTROL THE AIR

 

[Hayes4PM]

We still have a Premiership Ruckman that came from St Kilda

The one you subbed out of the 2025 Grand Final coz he was that cooked? When you elected to leave a bloke with a broken arm in the team..? Yeah good luck with him

 

[_Maximus_12]

We should have a crack at Ah Cher

 

[SaintersUnite]

Damn, what a failure of a trade period. Didn’t even get Soldo.

 

[gringo2011]

Not arguing, just reminding you that I said he was worth similar to MacRae (a third rounder) and you told me I was wrong and always under valued our players.

Turns out I couldn't have been much closer to the mark.

And I just found it bizarre you were now telling us it was a good deal even though now we are also paying a portion of his salary. A decent 180.

Deals are worth what they are worth. Dogs signed Macrae up to a huge wage on a long contract and then moved past him. They genuinely needed to off load him.

If Steele really was paid most of his wage front loaded it was quite a different situation. Oliver is probably a closer situation minus the off field stuff.

 

[Armoooo]

We still have a Premiership Ruckman that came from St Kilda

Hope he has a great year next year, you're going to need him to.

 

[sauce_head]

We still have a Premiership Ruckman that came from St Kilda

Good to see you aren’t concerned…

 

[foxdog50]

The one you subbed out of the 2025 Grand Final coz he was that cooked? When you elected to leave a bloke with a broken arm in the team..? Yeah good luck with him

Still have a Premiership Ruckman that came from St Kilda...

 

[Saintos The ITK]

We still have a Premiership Ruckman that came from St Kilda

And you’ll need him.
HahahahahahahahHhahahahahaH

 

[jumperfan]

Happy we hold Marshall especially given his front loaded contract, but jeez I wish we got more for Steele… and I think we could have.

We did tell him he was free to leave if he wanted. Not sure we had much leverage in the situation after that.