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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[Joffaboy]

Correct me if I’m wrong but pretty sure that leaves us with 3 spots on the senior list?

Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s Fincher plus elevating Hammer & Hall.
Which leaves us 4 rookie spots.

(And sorry if something like this has already been posted)

You have to ask that Significant bloke

 

[Significant]

Significant is ITK God

Hate to say I told you so...

 

[malevu]

We probably thought we owed the Demons a favour after sending them Dunstan and Billings

 

[bird_man]

I thought he came across as incredibly unprofessional. Have your grievances but deal with it behind closed doors.

Could say the same about a few managers. Embarrassing the way they handled themselves.

Tom Prestoro looked like a toddler the way he was carrying on in the Hawks room.

AFL should give them a kick in the arse.

 

[CHBench]

Ross' full press conference is on Trading Day - basically said we need to balance the human side with the organisational objectives re: Steele and Marshall

He danced around Leek Aleer and said he was glad GWS rated him as highly as we did by re-contracting him for 2 more years

Very complimentary of Geelong and Mackie, but said they came to renegotiate "late, very late"

 

[Moquo]

We still have a Premiership Ruckman that came from St Kilda

Yes, and be careful with him, he's 62

 

[hangdog]

Love Keeping Rowan, feel bad at trading Jack (esp to a club controlled by the Cho)

Zones is still here and Jack gone doesn't make sense to me

Happy we didn't get a leek
Flanders and Ryan big ticks

Reckon Zones and Byrnes get delisted and Arie gets held onto

 

[gringo2011]

Reckon we will have Flanders in that a grade bracket early in he season as long as he is fit

Windy could easily be in it too. Nas over shadowed him but Windy was the next most improved youth player. King if fit almost certain to be A grade too. So many kids have a huge amount of growth left in them.

 

[saxond74]

You have to ask that Significant bloke

I’ll just shout out to him!!

SIGNIFICANT!!! DO WE NOW HAVE THREE SENIOR LIST SPOTS OR STILL HAVE TO DELIST SOMEONE?

Hope he heard me!

 

[Mowman]

It should be a much better and more rounded side we put up most weeks next year and we have finally put up a decent pool of high end talent.

Elite- *Nas and I'm calling *Hall to get there.

A grade- Sinclair, Marshall, Macrae, Wilkie

B- *Flanders, *Windy, *Owens, Hill, Wood, Higgins, *King, Sharman, *Phillipou, Ryan, JSOS, *Wilson etc.

Depth- *Dow, Stocker, Clark, *Henry, *Caminiti, Howard, Carroll etc.

Youth- *Tauru, *Travaglia, *Garcia, *Boxshall, *Dodson, *Collard, *Keeler, *Hastie, *Collard, *LOC etc.

Players with an * have potential to substantially improve.

I like our midfield going forward

TDK - Nas - Flanders - Hall
Macrae/Windy/Box/Garcia

And best young group for 15 years

 

[The Boar]

Bit flat with this.
Overstocked with quality Rucks and it would have been shrewd list management to offload Marshall and re-enter the Draft.

On the other hand, stuff the Cats who came for a contracted player and went limp at the trade table.

We are a better team with Marshall in it.
Hope we can get back into Round 1 of the Draft.

 

[my name was taken]

Great, now I want Melbourne to have at least a little success next year. I feel conflicted

 

[triggering bro]

Could say the same about a few managers. Embarrassing the way they handled themselves.

Tom Prestoro looked like an autistic toddler the way he was carrying on in the Hawks room.

AFL should give them a kick in the arse.

Yep that was an epic tantrum. And Leeks manager going publicly nuclear was next level. RTB gave him and the media a subtle clip in his interview.

 

[stavro#4]

Steele’s last 11 games (including 1 sub appearance)

19.18 disposals
9.45 tackles (wow)
0.72 rebound 50s
3 inside 50s
4.45 clearances
0.18 goals per game


Outside of the tackles. His second half of the year had him as a real liability.

 

[SaintJunior]

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

Keep living in the past champ

 

[OxSaint]

Steele gave us great service and wish him well.

This move is best for both parties. We need new blood in our midfield and it has been a number of years since Steele has performed at an A Grade level despite being paid like one.

This will help with retaining or courting players over the next two years.

Bring on the midfield mix of McRae, Flanders, TDK, Pou, Hall, NAS, Boxshall, Windy and Garcia.

 

[my name was taken]

Yep that was an epic tantrum. And Leeks manager going publicly nuclear was next level. RTB gave him and the media a subtle clip in his interview.

Leeks manager was just moronic. His reaction was all about protecting his own image, had nothing to do with leek

 

[gringo2011]

I like our midfield going forward

TDK - Nas - Flanders - Hall
Macrae/Windy/Box/Garcia

And best young group for 15 years

Bats deep and has plenty of high end.

I reckon we will shock a few oppositions next year. Flanders is a very good player. I reckon there is a chance some very good players are playing at Sandy.

 

[nobhead]

I like our midfield going forward

TDK - Nas - Flanders - Hall
Macrae/Windy/Box/Garcia

And best young group for 15 years

Pou says hi

 

[Diehard Saint]

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

Nah. They can just get big Ivan.
I think he’s available now.

 

[Joffaboy]

Zones on 2/10 **** all money and a clear 2s player.

Steele on more coin and has a rep for playing seniors when RTB clearly has him in the ressies going forward.

Good move for all parties IMO and helps our rep as a fair club to deal with.

Still reckon we can delist Jones and have Carroll and Dow as depth.

 

[Tommy Wigs]

I thought he came across as incredibly unprofessional. Have your grievances but deal with it behind closed doors.

Yep, very forthright, “won’t be back”. His client just won a second flag at the club only a couple of weeks ago. Nice legacy.

 

[Parkysp]

Loved Ross "18 other coaches need to come through for an interview...oh wait" haha

In my own head he was clipping Mitchell for selling his club then f'ing off overseas and not getting it done.

In reality he was "oh crap I'm the only coach here because I'm an autocrat"*

* truth is in the important middle

 

[Tommy Wigs]

Still reckon we can delist Jones and have Carroll and Dow as depth.

Yep, absolutely no need to keep Jones again.

 

[Mowman]

Bats deep and has plenty of high end.

I reckon we will shock a few oppositions next year. Flanders is a very good player. I reckon there is a chance some very good players are playing at Sandy.

David King on fox just spoke about our injuries this year, 3rd worst this year with a 134 games

We need King and Pou to play 20 plus games

Agree we can jump and surprise a few next year