List Mgmt. 2025 List Management

[serial_thrilla]

 

[Alfonz]

Is a deal with the swans for Chad Warner still out of the reality of happening.
I think Freo might have cooled their heals on him hoping for Pickett and then missed out on both.
The Swans really need Curnow in their front half and will be going after him pretty hard.
Does that mean they will need to lose a player to get some capital for him?

I will be very surprised if we can land another big fish without losing good players. We already have our share of top liners, and it's hard to fit more into the salary cap and maintain a good bottom end of the best 22.

Salaries have gone crazy, and we will be hard pressed to pay market rates for the players we have, let alone splashing the cash on a big name signing.

We could have been thinking Serong upgraded contract on 1 million, Pickett on 800-900k. Let's round it up to $2 million. All of a sudden the market has made that $3 million, maybe more.

Clubs will come hard for Voss. We're going to need to pay him good money to keep him.

 

[2big2strom]

These are mutually exclusive. If he’s Ben Allan’s son then he’s not Ed Allan’s brother. If he’s Ed Allan’s brother then he’s not Ben Allan’s son.

Luke, I am your father

 

[bigfoopy]

I'd be disappointed if Warner is traded to Freo and Dean Cox is still named coach of WA when none of his players are in the side and JL has to watch six to eight of his side run around coached by someone who oversaw his side go from GF to missing finals.

Coaches should be former legends or former coaches I reckon, keep clubland out of it, it’s not like they’re playing to a game plan or anything. Would be pretty cool to see buddy revving up the WA boys or something

 

[guidodp15]

Simpkin moving complicates the Logue and Fremantle trade reunion.

Wallsy thinks Logue can become a distributor from half back for our slow play. It's risky since Logue is objectively terrible at everything, but I'll trust Wallsy's judgement here.

Logue mad his bed and he can lay in it

Is a deal with the swans for Chad Warner still out of the reality of happening.
I think Freo might have cooled their heals on him hoping for Pickett and then missed out on both.
The Swans really need Curnow in their front half and will be going after him pretty hard.
Does that mean they will need to lose a player to get some capital for him?

honestly im off Warner after the average year he had, he will cost too much $ and pick wise. We need a big bodied midfield 190cm+

 

[Freo Big Fella]

Joel Corey: "Wait, who's that guy?"
Walls: "That's Cripps, he's an old guy who hangs around Princes Park."
Joel Corey: "And he wants a trade? His knees look around 90 years old."
Walls: "Alex Silvagni and Robert Warnock say old man river won't shut up about it."

 

[kp junior]

Sydney have to trade for Curnow right?
Does our first pick and one of our key forwards (sorry Jye) get us Worner in a 3 way with Sydney and Carlton?
Sydney get the pick and Curnow, Carlton get Jye and we get the Chad. Maybe Blues need a 2nd rounder from Sydney or something

 

[freo_leo29]

Sydney have to trade for Curnow right?
Does our first pick and one of our key forwards (sorry Jye) get us Worner in a 3 way with Sydney and Carlton?
Sydney get the pick and Curnow, Carlton get Jye and we get the Chad. Maybe Blues need a 2nd rounder from Sydney or something

Why would Sydney get Curnow if we were giving them Amiss and a first lol, they'd simply take that option


Jye is an untouchable

 

[jakefooty23]

Sydney have to trade for Curnow right?
Does our first pick and one of our key forwards (sorry Jye) get us Worner in a 3 way with Sydney and Carlton?
Sydney get the pick and Curnow, Carlton get Jye and we get the Chad. Maybe Blues need a 2nd rounder from Sydney or something

We already have a Worner

 

[jakefooty23]

Who do we all want from this draft? Assuming Whan gets a bid around that pick 35-50 range (fingers crossed) we can potentially get 2 picks in before he gets a bid. It seems we will go best available Talent

 

[Sewell21]

Personally think they should expand the main list by 5.
Those 5 can be paid first year wages if necessary.
Rookies list should be 5 extra, with an emphasis on academy players.

Would be a way for us to develop players within the system

Totally agree. The AFL is has shot itself in the foot by reducing list spots. Clubs cant invest in project players, draftees need to be close to AFL ready when drafted, quality players in the State leagues cant break in because they are seen as too old when they are ‘AFL ready’ and with injuries young players have to get played before they are ready. Essendons injury list and mid season draft needs is a classic example.

Lists should be back to 45, no rookies, fixed max 4 Cat Bs, no mid season draft.

Even better would be a full AFL Reserves comp supporting the above.

 

[CaseySibosadoHOF]

Who do we all want from this draft? Assuming Whan gets a bid around that pick 35-50 range (fingers crossed) we can potentially get 2 picks in before he gets a bid. It seems we will go best available Talent

Assuming nobody worth trading our 1st for comes to us: my preference would be to upgrade our 1st by bundling up points and then just take best available. Whoever's best available probably won't be a pure inside mid, key position or ruck, so as long as they're not any of those things they can fit well enough. Obviously if best available coincides with needs that's ideal.

Imo, the only 18 year olds we should look to bring in are our highest pick (singular) and our NGAs. I'd want the rest of the list to be filled by trade, mature age draftees, SSPs, etc.

 

[Constantgin]

Who do we all want from this draft? Assuming Whan gets a bid around that pick 35-50 range (fingers crossed) we can potentially get 2 picks in before he gets a bid. It seems we will go best available Talent

I'd be really happy if our draft went like this.
1st round - Farrow or Dovaston.
2nd round - Fred Rodriguez
Then Match on Whan

 

[thistimeforsure]

Coaches should be former legends or former coaches I reckon, keep clubland out of it, it’s not like they’re playing to a game plan or anything. Would be pretty cool to see buddy revving up the WA boys or something

Only problem there is Buddy giving it the old “ do it for the West “ when he couldn’t wait to get out of here and never looked back

Maybe Dani Laidley and really lean into 2025 vibes , her player ratings articles were pretty good I thought

 

[ImperialPurple]

They are both Ben Allan's Sons

Linc works with Clubby Sports on Tradies and FAF and its a running joke about his brother being in the AFL and his dad being an ex-AFL player

I stand corrected!! I actually knew this but made a dumb-dumb… I was thinking of Bo Allan when I wrote that. Doh

 

[Purple Suit]

Totally agree. The AFL is has shot itself in the foot by reducing list spots. Clubs cant invest in project players, draftees need to be close to AFL ready when drafted, quality players in the State leagues cant break in because they are seen as too old when they are ‘AFL ready’ and with injuries young players have to get played before they are ready. Essendons injury list and mid season draft needs is a classic example.

Lists should be back to 45, no rookies, fixed max 4 Cat Bs, no mid season draft.

Even better would be a full AFL Reserves comp supporting the above.

I’m not sure a full AFL reserves will be good for us. Maybe it would have fast tracked Ras but the extra travel load will affect kids not even in the side and shorten careers further.

WC is desperate for this though since they have stuffed their development so bad with their own WAFL side.

 

[go_the_dockers]

I’m not sure a full AFL reserves will be good for us. Maybe it would have fast tracked Ras but the extra travel load will affect kids not even in the side and shorten careers further.

WC is desperate for this though since they have stuffed their development so bad with their own WAFL side.

It will help us a bit, if the travelling emergencies actually get to play a game (curtain raiser to main game)

 

[Docker82]

Totally agree. The AFL is has shot itself in the foot by reducing list spots. Clubs cant invest in project players, draftees need to be close to AFL ready when drafted, quality players in the State leagues cant break in because they are seen as too old when they are ‘AFL ready’ and with injuries young players have to get played before they are ready. Essendons injury list and mid season draft needs is a classic example.

Lists should be back to 45, no rookies, fixed max 4 Cat Bs, no mid season draft.

Even better would be a full AFL Reserves comp supporting the above.

Tom McCarthy is evidence of why the AFL won't get rid of the Mid Season Draft.

It was intended IMO so the Luke Ryan, Tim Kelly or Isaac Smith of that year goes to worst handful of clubs. Essentially a priority pick in disguise.

Topping up lists for injuries is simply a secondary goal I reckon but it does let the AFL keep lists smaller so it's slightly less funding to clubs like GWS, Gold Coast and North that probably couldn't pay half their list without AFL assistance.

 

[Docker82]

It will help us a bit, if the travelling emergencies actually get to play a game (curtain raiser to main game)

Think you'll always need to hold one over just in case there's an injury in the warm up etc.

It'd only really help in that regard if the reserves game is played after the AFL game. That'd be a money drain though.

 

[jakefooty23]

I'd be really happy if our draft went like this.
1st round - Farrow or Dovaston.
2nd round - Fred Rodriguez
Then Match on Whan

Looking at the first round prospects looks like we could get another great talent. Seems like there are a heap of players that could go anywhere from 8-16

 

[DragoDelph]

May told by Dee’s to GAGF.

 

[guidodp15]

Can we stop suggesting to trade Amiss, never seen such stupidity

 

[s_wd6]

May told by Dee’s to GAGF.

I’d take him

Would be cheap from a trade perspective

 

[DragoDelph]

I’d take him

Would be cheap from a trade perspective

For boxing practice?

As a tackle bag?

 

[BStaff17]

I’d take him

Would be cheap from a trade perspective

He fits the Collingwood/Geelong Age bracket

 

[Paracleet]

For boxing practice?

As a tackle bag?

Dual assistant playing role? (Peel though because he's cooked). He can go round to all the players that don't respond to modern coaching techniques and tell them how shit they are in aggressive detail.