List Mgmt. 2025 List Management discussion

[DGontheQT]

How in the hell did someone in control think up the Max King

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contract , and now the TDK offer ? I believe we may have also upped the Josh Battle

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Josh Battle

Age

27

Ht

193cm

Wt

93kg

Pos.

Def

Career

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Last 5

D

12.9

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.9

3star

M

5.0

5star

T

2.4

4star

MG

196.8

3star

D

11.0

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

3.8

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.8

3star

MG

142.8

3star

D

10.8

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

4.6

4star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

175.6

3star

offer at the last minute too , like absolute amateurs. Withdraw the irresponsible TDK offer , find a Meek , Sweet type “cheap as chips” ruckman. Offer NWM 200,000 more than the others , and go get a youngish gun midfielder with our splash cash.

 

[jumperfan]

How in the hell did someone in control think up the Max King contract , and now the TDK offer ? I believe we may have also upped the Josh Battle offer at the last minute too , like absolute amateurs. Withdraw the irresponsible TDK offer , find a Meek , Sweet type “cheap as chips” ruckman. Offer NWM 200,000 more than the others , and go get a youngish gun midfielder with our splash cash.

Which youngish mid that actually wants to come here that we haven’t already spoken to do you want us to go for?

 

[Pardon me]

If any player wants to go home, they can go home any time they like.

If they want to make squillions out of being a professional AFL footballer then perhaps they should accept the rules they willingly sign onto.

Its about time the clubs actually became professional and apply the rules the players have agreed to in the CBA.

Otherwise - why bother with rules?

This is similar to all those kids that sign up for a draft in a national competition and then say they dont want to leave their home state.
Play state football then.
If players arent mature enough to leave the family and friends network for a career then the AFL needs to raise the draft age or support players better.
Demanding to only be selected or tanking interviews with interstate suitors should immediately be ineligible for selection imo.

 

[mad-saint-guy]

Stays

How do you figure? What's the reasoning? Why has he not re-signed already if he's planning on staying?

 

[mad-saint-guy]

How in the hell did someone in control think up the Max King contract , and now the TDK offer ? I believe we may have also upped the Josh Battle offer at the last minute too , like absolute amateurs. Withdraw the irresponsible TDK offer , find a Meek , Sweet type “cheap as chips” ruckman. Offer NWM 200,000 more than the others , and go get a youngish gun midfielder with our splash cash.

We don't even need a cheap as chips ruckman. We already have a very good one and an outstanding prospect who should be ready when our current ruck is winding down.

But yes, we should absolutely be offering Nas (a generational talent) overs instead of a surplus ruck.

And yep, I'd be throwing money at a Flanders type who is a true mid being denied midfield time. Find the next Jack Steele

 

[Joffaboy]

How in the hell did someone in control think up the Max King contract , and now the TDK offer ? I believe we may have also upped the Josh Battle offer at the last minute too , like absolute amateurs. Withdraw the irresponsible TDK offer , find a Meek , Sweet type “cheap as chips” ruckman. Offer NWM 200,000 more than the others , and go get a youngish gun midfielder with our splash cash.

What are you on about? King was contracted before his injuries, the club isn't Nostradamus.
While I have reservations about TDK, the logical reasons have been discussed a million times.
Which young mid gun midfielder have we not gone for that won't cost us draft capital.
Your post is all grievance with no solutions.

 

[Sir Owens]

How in the hell did someone in control think up the Max King contract , and now the TDK offer ? I believe we may have also upped the Josh Battle offer at the last minute too , like absolute amateurs. Withdraw the irresponsible TDK offer , find a Meek , Sweet type “cheap as chips” ruckman. Offer NWM 200,000 more than the others , and go get a youngish gun midfielder with our splash cash.

Their hand was forced with the Max King deal. I think Brisbane offered a monster contract and we had to pony up the cash. Would have been the perfect time to trade him to be fair.

 

[Sir Owens]

No matter how bad we are, let's all remember that lolnorth traded pick 2 for pick 27.

 

[stavro#4]

Their hand was forced with the Max King deal. I think Brisbane offered a monster contract and we had to pony up the cash. Would have been the perfect time to trade him to be fair.

Collingwood

 

[The Jack]

Nas

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Nas

Heard he’s going to Geelong.






Should be back home tonight

 

[jwikked]

If any player wants to go home, they can go home any time they like.

If they want to make squillions out of being a professional AFL footballer then perhaps they should accept the rules they willingly sign onto.

Its about time the clubs actually became professional and apply the rules the players have agreed to in the CBA.

Otherwise - why bother with rules?

I agree with what you’re saying, but it doesn’t apply. It should, but it doesn’t.

 

[jwikked]

What are you on about? King was contracted before his injuries, the club isn't Nostradamus.
While I have reservations about TDK, the logical reasons have been discussed a million times.
Which young mid gun midfielder have we not gone for that won't cost us draft capital.
Your post is all grievance with no solutions.

Kings grotesque contract extension came after he tore his PCL in 2024. Missed the last month and a half of that season, signed the extension in October, and hasn’t played since.

That kind of extension was insane, and not needed.

 

[mad-saint-guy]

What are you on about? King was contracted before his injuries, the club isn't Nostradamus.

Doesn't take Nostradamus to not extend the contract of a player with history of knee injuries shortly after sustaining a bad knee injury.

King and Wilkie were drafted in the same year. Once is about to play his 150th, and who knows when/if the other's 84th will happen.

 

[akaifu]

Bookmarking all these King doubters for 2029 when he kicks 5 to win us the darn thing

 

[ScrappyDo]

No matter how bad we are, let's all remember that lolnorth traded pick 2 for pick 27.

That will get someone fired before the year is out.

 

[jwikked]

Bookmarking all these King doubters for 2029 when he kicks 5 to win us the darn thing

A round 14 game against north Melbourne in his comeback game? I’d love to win that one

 

[jimmytigs]

Bookmarking all these King doubters for 2029 when he kicks 5 to win us the darn thing

i hope youve already bookmarked those of us last year musing about trading him at full value,ala what we didnt do with clark stuv and those other names that come up & what we are now talking about with Roma and Steele

still love to be proven very very wrong,but 2025 has just bitten the dust for him and i was already blase and seeing the obvious pattern with him in 2024

 

[littlecreatures]

Not according to the ex SAFL player lol

Did they discuss IOUs?

 

[Diehard Saint]

How in the hell did someone in control think up the Max King contract , and now the TDK offer ? I believe we may have also upped the Josh Battle offer at the last minute too , like absolute amateurs. Withdraw the irresponsible TDK offer , find a Meek , Sweet type “cheap as chips” ruckman. Offer NWM 200,000 more than the others , and go get a youngish gun midfielder with our splash cash.

Except that it doesn’t appear to be about the money.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Kings grotesque contract extension came after he tore his PCL in 2024. Missed the last month and a half of that season, signed the extension in October, and hasn’t played since.

That kind of extension was insane, and not needed.

The board would have had to sign off on it.

 

[jwikked]

The board would have had to sign off on it.

No doubt. The board has made plenty of errors over the last 10 years.

Why are they never held accountable?

 

[Saintos The ITK]

The one time we needed Naz to do a drive by.

 

[L_W_P]

This is similar to all those kids that sign up for a draft in a national competition and then say they dont want to leave their home state.
Play state football then.
If players arent mature enough to leave the family and friends network for a career then the AFL needs to raise the draft age or support players better.
Demanding to only be selected or tanking interviews with interstate suitors should immediately be ineligible for selection imo.

Or the AFL needs to abolish the draft, allow all uncontracted players to move clubs freely, and then enforce the salary cap and soft cap properly with public salaries and audits.

 

[Mowman]

Their hand was forced with the Max King deal. I think Brisbane offered a monster contract and we had to pony up the cash. Would have been the perfect time to trade him to be fair.

Thats rubbish our hand was forced, Max was still contracted for this year and next without the extension