List Mgmt. 2025 List Management

[serial_thrilla]

 

[Lach72]

Aside from Reidy and Chesser, Who else?

Petroljelly

 

[PrancingPony]

Flagmantle is already whinging that Reidy is going to be another Lloyd Meek situation, this guy genuinely has no clue.

 

[AstonSouffle]

Flagmantle is already whinging that Reidy is going to be another Lloyd Meek situation, this guy genuinely has no clue.

And even if he does, so what?

We've got Darcy and Jackson, what does the bloke want to happen - trade one of them to play Reidy?

 

[Lach72]

I suppose Reidy is younger than Tom Campbell

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Tom Campbell

Age

34

Ht

201cm

Wt

108kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.1

2star

K

4.2

2star

HB

4.8

3star

CL

1.6

4star

HO

17.0

5star

D

5.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

2.0

1star

CL

1.0

3star

HO

2.0

5star

D

7.2

2star

K

4.2

2star

HB

3.0

3star

CL

1.2

4star

HO

13.2

5star

 

[Docker82]

Flagmantle is already whinging that Reidy is going to be another Lloyd Meek situation, this guy genuinely has no clue.

There's about as much chance of Reidy being as good as Meek as there is of Bailey Banfield being as good as prime Fyfe.

And literally everyone on this board was convinced Meek would do very well at Hawthorn. Meek played 15 games for us and I reckon he played two as a ruck/forward with Darcy in the side. Outside of those games he looked AFL standard in every single game he played for Freo.

Reidy has shown nothing. I'd delist him today/tomorrow if he hadn't requested a trade.

 

[PrancingPony]

And even if he does, so what?

We've got Darcy and Jackson, what does the bloke want to happen - trade one of them to play Reidy?

All of them are just whining that "Darcy will break down again just you wait, then we'll be crying we don't have ruck depth"

Joke's on them because I wouldn't be playing Reidy regardless of if Darcy went down.

 

[Docker82]

I suppose Reidy is younger than Tom Campbell

The king of the 'Players you are surprised are still on an AFL list' thread on the main board.

 

[Dockeroo]

Delisting should be announced soon yeah? Or do they wait till peel are finished

 

[Docker82]

Delisting should be announced soon yeah? Or do they wait till peel are finished

Peel didn't make finals so actually finished before Freo did.

 

[freodog]

Delisting should be announced soon yeah? Or do they wait till peel are finished

Peel's season has finished

 

[chaosball32]

Everyone wants to win now and I share that desire, but we are still a young team and it might need a few more years of prelims and the like while Brisbane, Cats, Hawks win the next couple of flags. Would be happy to add McVee and/or Ah Chee, but if we don't it is not the end of the world. It might turn out best if we wait for Rivers and/or Warner as free agents end of 2027. I'm not even sure Cats/Lions will get much better.

People think it is a negative to simply bank on natural progression. But don't forget that most of the teams around us are trying to stave off the natural regression with their older players. We've only really got Pearce to worry about. It's a big worry for me admittedly.

Brisbane might be bringing a few in, but they are only looking for replacements for Daniher/Big O/Starcevich. I don't really see any upgrades there, maybe status quo at best. And then they've got Ah Chee looking to be heading out. Neale is getting old-man injuries (and rumoured to be looking at coming back to Perth). Lester is old and close to retiring. Same for Zorko. Cameron is on the way down. Hipwood's ACL is partially torn (not sure how much he will miss). Clubs are hunting Bailey and he's going to get a monster offer that will be hard to resist. They've got youngsters to keep improving, but so do we.

Could see our biggest competition being Gold Coast, and they also don't seem to be doing much this off-season apart from working out how to rort the system to bring in their academy players. Vague links to Curnow, but I doubt that happens.

We’ve been a “young team” for a long time. Our list hasn’t been in the top 10 mean age wise since 2018. Fyfe, Walters, Brodie and Reidy all gone and no trades on the horizon will probably drop that further.

But when you look at it we really aren’t that young. Next year O’Meara will be 32, Pearce will be 31, Ryan 30, Darcy/Cox/Switta/Wagner/Bolton/Banfield in or approaching their late 20’s. Brayshaw, Serong, Young, Clark, Frederick all hitting prime age 25/26.

There’s an opportunity to win a premiership with this group in the next few years and we should be in win now/top up mode.

 

[Alfonz]

All of them are just whining that "Darcy will break down again just you wait, then we'll be crying we don't have ruck depth"

Joke's on them because I wouldn't be playing Reidy regardless of if Darcy went down.

I'd have more faith in Draper playing ruck at AFL level than Reidy.

I won't be surprised if he ends up being delisted to facilitate a "trade" as a DFA. Maybe we could trade Reidy+65 for 62, but that seems kinda pointless.

 

[serial_thrilla]

Seems like Brodie was contracted for a year longer than we thought. Through to end of 2027.

 

[chaosball32]

Seems like Brodie was contracted for a year longer than we thought. Through to end of 2027.

Hopefully a typo because that’s astoundingly bad list management if true. He hasn’t played since early 2023!

 

[Minz]

Loved Brodie’s 2022 season, but he just doesn’t fit in the team, good luck to him. Reidy I don’t really see, but of the team can get something good out of Caaaaaarlton… sure.

 

[freo_leo29]

Delisting should be announced soon yeah? Or do they wait till peel are finished

Expect the first round before the end of the week

 

[The Feeder Club]

We don't have many delisting decisions to make do we? We already know about the retirements and trades, extensions for Sharp and MacDonald are more or less locked in etc.
Are Delean and Jones the only ones we can delist from here?

 

[freo_leo29]

Seems like Brodie was contracted for a year longer than we thought. Through to end of 2027.

Looks a typo from the sentence

 

[FreoBraddles]

We don't have many delisting decisions to make do we? We already know about the retirements and trades, extensions for Sharp and MacDonald are more or less locked in etc.
Are Delean and Jones the only ones we can delist from here?

And Aish, unless it's a curveball and someone contracted but unlikely

 

[Docker82]

We don't have many delisting decisions to make do we? We already know about the retirements and trades, extensions for Sharp and MacDonald are more or less locked in etc.
Are Delean and Jones the only ones we can delist from here?

Aish and Jones almost certainly go as soon as the club announces delistings.

Delean might be this year's Emmett that we keep on the list until after trade period. Wouldn't be surprised if he's delisted with Aish and Jones though.

Brodie, Reidy and Narkle are basically delistings given how little they're added to our list the last three years.

 

[The Feeder Club]

I thought Aish had already said he's done? My bad, I was counting him amongst the retirements

 

[CaseySibosadoHOF]

We’ve been a “young team” for a long time. Our list hasn’t been in the top 10 mean age wise since 2018. Fyfe, Walters, Brodie and Reidy all gone and no trades on the horizon will probably drop that further.

But when you look at it we really aren’t that young. Next year O’Meara will be 32, Pearce will be 31, Ryan 30, Darcy/Cox/Switta/Wagner/Bolton/Banfield in or approaching their late 20’s. Brayshaw, Serong, Young, Clark, Frederick all hitting prime age 25/26.

There’s an opportunity to win a premiership with this group in the next few years and we should be in win now/top up mode.

I think it's worth differentiating average squad age/experience from average matchday squad age/experience. We are 11th and 13th for age and experience as a squad, but our matchday squads are 15th and 16th in those metrics (and I think at or near the bye we might've been 18th for both). Most of the drop there would be attributed to older players who played a lot in 2024 getting injured/phased out. For context, 2022 we were 12th for both.

The players we keep are gonna be 1 year older and would've gained experience. Of the players that will leave, only Fyfe played more than 3 games. Obviously you'd hope we add to the existing age/experience (and just the talent pool in general) through trade/draft/SSP. But the matchday squads should be older and more experienced regardless.

 

[BStaff17]

Acres was same weight & height as Fyfe

And a quarter of the footballer Fyfe was

 

[rgauci]

We don't have many delisting decisions to make do we? We already know about the retirements and trades, extensions for Sharp and MacDonald are more or less locked in etc.
Are Delean and Jones the only ones we can delist from here?

Aish?

 

[s_wd6]

Ok so now officially

Retired - Fyfe, Walters, Narkle
Delisted - Jones, Delean
Traded - Reidy, Brodie

So now Aish, OMac, Sharp without any official word