List Mgmt. 2025 List Management

[serial_thrilla]

 

[malpaso]

Riddle is the development ruck/forward. We need a veteran/solid big man not a thin inexperienced one.

It is 100% to cover for Darcy's role in the side.

 

[pK75]

Which leaves us with the players that we NEED to step up to the next level for us to improve on our 25 result:
Young, Jackson, Darcy, Reid, Voss, Treacy, Bolton, McVee, Chapman,Switkowski

Question I have for you all - if this last group of players each improve by say 10%… is that enpugh for us to win a premiership?

Bolton, Darcy, Switta, Young and even Jackson are pretty much at their ceiling. Improvement will come from availability and continuity with playing together.
Treacy, Voss, Reid, Chapman, Johnson, Erasmus, Amiss and McVee are where the real improvement will come from. That’s a 3rd of our team

 

[Paracleet]

We have 3 on the list already...

No we don't.

 

[go_the_dockers]

Riddle is the development ruck/forward. We need a veteran/solid big man not a thin inexperienced one.

It is 100% to cover for Darcy's role in the side.

If Darcy gets injured, does the back up ruck play or does Jackson play ruck?

In my opinion Jackson plays ruck, which means the chance of both of them being out is reduced.

 

[malpaso]

If Darcy gets injured, does the back up ruck play or does Jackson play ruck?

In my opinion Jackson plays ruck, which means the chance of both of them being out is reduced.

Most likely but matchups will decide that.

 

[freo_leo29]

No we don't.

Darcy, Jackson, Riddle

 

[Ge3ks]

Caleb Poulter delisted by the Dogs. Apart from the magnifcent mullet what other attributes does he have?

 

[Piggy Smalls]

So 4 goals in 7 games is awesome.

Yeah you're right. It would have been better if he kicked 18 goals and but went 1-6.
Stupid coach. Is this where we typically say the line?

 

[pK75]

Darcy, Jackson, Riddle

Riddle is a 20yo second year undersized ruck, he is NOT a viable replacement for either Darcy or Jackson in 2026, maybe back end of the year, but not before the bye.

 

[ignoramus]

That's where it's tricky because the final list lodgement before the end of the year is before the SSP signing closes.

It’s an interesting hypothetical, though I think the situation in play (or imagined as being in play) is that GC would re-rookie, meaning that we’d be looking at picking him up in the rookie draft one pick before the Suns.

If Suns straight delist, it does open up an unprecedented (?) scenario. With AFL having sign-off on list lodgements, I can’t see him getting paid twice. You’d imagine something like Freo directing salary payments to GC. I don’t think there would be cap implications, unless his salary exceeds the standard rookie rate?

 

[Taylor]

It’s an interesting hypothetical, though I think the situation in play (or imagined as being in play) is that GC would re-rookie, meaning that we’d be looking at picking him up in the rookie draft one pick before the Suns.

If Suns straight delist, it does open up an unprecedented (?) scenario. With AFL having sign-off on list lodgements, I can’t see him getting paid twice. You’d imagine something like Freo directing salary payments to GC. I don’t think there would be cap implications, unless his salary exceeds the standard rookie rate?

The player is the one who nominates for the rookie draft and I'm not sure there has been a situation yet where someone was contracted, with the club delisting them to re select as a rookie again for an extra list spot (purely for more picks at the draft), and then the player saying "no thanks, won't nominate for the rookie draft, you fired me, you wear it... waiting a month and then signing with another team"

Would be a problem for the AFL, whether the club intended to pick the player up again or not might be irrelevant.

 

[Eski3]

Caleb Poulter delisted by the Dogs. Apart from the magnifcent mullet what other attributes does he have?

Was decent on the wing for them this year. There'd be worse options for a SSP spot

 

[FreoGirl]

Can we add Johannisen as a water boy?

 

[Paracleet]

Darcy, Jackson, Riddle

Riddle hasn't played a WAFL game as a lead ruck let alone an AFL game. An AFL list needs 3 people capable of primary rucking. They don't have to be pure rucks; they could be forward rucks, but they need to be able to compete in the ruck the majority of a game. Riddle is not that.

 

[Taylor]

Riddle hasn't played a WAFL game as a lead ruck let alone an AFL game. An AFL list needs 3 people capable of primary rucking. They don't have to be pure rucks; they could be forward rucks, but they need to be able to compete in the ruck the majority of a game. Riddle is not that.

Reidy barely was.

 

[eastfreo75]

Yeah you're right. It would have been better if he kicked 18 goals and but went 1-6.
Stupid coach. Is this where we typically say the line?

You think McDonald was the difference?

 

[freo_leo29]

Riddle is a 20yo second year undersized ruck, he is NOT a viable replacement for either Darcy or Jackson in 2026, maybe back end of the year, but not before the bye.

He is fine to play a few games

I'd rather get the games into riddle than have Reidy Mk 2 waiting to come in


Riddle actually has talent, I rate him

 

[freo_leo29]

Riddle hasn't played a WAFL game as a lead ruck let alone an AFL game. An AFL list needs 3 people capable of primary rucking. They don't have to be pure rucks; they could be forward rucks, but they need to be able to compete in the ruck the majority of a game. Riddle is not that.

Would rather get riddle into the team than a list clogger


He would be supported by Treacy and Voss anyway

It's completely fine


There is no point having another Reidy on the list

Take a swing at a raw small forward instead


My thoughts haven't changed since last year btw, I wanted knobel to stay over Reidy, Riddle is in the same position as knobel was last year


Its just pointless having another Reidy, I'd have played all 6 of our other ruck/forwards before playing him

 

[Ge3ks]

 

[Piggy Smalls]

You think McDonald was the difference?

I think the fact we went 6-1 with him forward (as reported on face value, i havent checked) backs the call to stick to the structure over bringing in a smaller, potentially better player. He's the definition of a depth player so you can't expect to see him kick bags.

 

[Superkoops]

If Darcy gets injured, does the back up ruck play or does Jackson play ruck?

In my opinion Jackson plays ruck, which means the chance of both of them being out is reduced.

Jackson definitely slots into main ruck with Darcy out.

Against the bigger ruck units having a second bigger, taller and more mature ruck may be the way to go. On other occasions having McDonald or Voss pinch might be fine.

If LJ is out injured then definitely Voss or McDonald as support is fine.

It will be case by case. It won’t be for many games (potentially none) but then at worst we have a very good ruck team at Peel. I don’t think letting young Riddle go at it solo is way to go.

We are talking about a rookie list spot here so really don’t see list clogger applied. Might even be injury replacement for Sturt.

What is the situation say we put Sturt on LTI and select for example Brynn Teakle as injury replacement via SSP. When Sturt is fit and ready to play for Peel what happens to Teakle? Does he have to stop playing and find another club?

 

[Superkoops]

I think the fact we went 6-1 with him forward (as reported on face value, i havent checked) backs the call to stick to the structure over bringing in a smaller, potentially better player. He's the definition of a depth player so you can't expect to see him kick bags.

McDonald played at least 4 of those games as replacement for APearce in the backline.

 

[eastfreo75]

I think the fact we went 6-1 with him forward (as reported on face value, i havent checked) backs the call to stick to the structure over bringing in a smaller, potentially better player. He's the definition of a depth player so you can't expect to see him kick bags.

Ask you a question? In that 6-1 do you agree with every team selection in that time?

Do you think that every coaching decision was a winner and no errors was made?

Do you think that one forward structure with no counters is a great idea?

 

[Piggy Smalls]

Ask you a question? In that 6-1 do you agree with every team selection in that time?

Do you think that every coaching decision was a winner and no errors was made?

Do you think that one forward structure with no counters is a great idea?

I dunno I'd have to go back and see who was available, but if we were playing Omac I'm assuming we weren't rife with options. Reidy being exposed as a complete bust in round 1 certainly didn't help, for example.

I regards to your second question, I think it would be a pretty naive person to think any coach got everything right in any sporting competition, anywhere. I think 16 wins suggests JL got more right than wrong.

JL is hardly the first coach to have a preferred forward mix of talls and smaller players. It is what it is. Again, 16 wins speaks for itself IMO.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

McDonald played at least 4 of those games as replacement for APearce in the backline.

4 goals looks pretty good then tbh