List Mgmt. 2025 Trade/FA Thread

[Pistol Night]

I have some great contacts at redneck park (Geelong), the comment I received was they are 95% sure they have him.

**** sake I can see myself bombing that shithole at this rate

 

[PiesHateU2]

I will say though that the Naicos dilemma is a reasonable take. It handcuffs us from a throw money at it perspective in the pursuit of King or Rowell if others are offering $1.5m at them unless it’s not about money or Nick himself plays a leading hand.

Not if we up Nick to 1.5m a year and old mate Butters can take the same. They'd collectively still be a million cheaper per year than NWM and TDK!

 

[sr36]

FA as an equalisation method has failed miserably.

The money is too good even at strong teams and losing sucks too much.

Just makes the strong teams stronger.

It's not designed to be an equalisation measure. Only the compensation component is.

 

[Peters_Nuts]

Not if we up Nick to 1.5m a year and old mate Butters can take the same. They'd collectively still be a million cheaper per year than NWM and TDK!

This really puts into perspective how absurd those St Kilda contracts are

 

[Scodog10]

Not if we up Nick to 1.5m a year and old mate Butters can take the same. They'd collectively still be a million cheaper per year than NWM and TDK!

That’s potentially what we’ll need to do because even as an optimist I don’t see the other two options working. Once you do that though our culture of taking unders to keep the band together blows up…

 

[Dtennent94]

It's not designed to be an equalisation measure. Only the compensation component is.

Sure, it was definitely argued for by the AFLPA as a benefit to the players.

But it’s been spruiked as good for equalisation.

The idea was crap teams have more money, so they’d be able to poach players from good teams who can’t pay them as much. It simply doesn’t work like that.

 

[gouki88]

Are Pies interested?

Young looked pretty solid in his last few Tigers games. Started to intercept the ball a fair bit.

 

[MooreDaicos]

Are Pies interested?

In Blight apparently.

 

[BEEG]

Did anyone mention Ford? I swear he had a bit of a following on here when he was drafted and if we lost Elliott I wouldn’t be a no.

He had couple meetings last season at the whatever centre we call it now.

 

[Go Woods]

So Ralphy is AGAIN pushing the Gold Coast/Bobby Hill thing today!

What a FWT

 

[BillyElliott]

So Ralphy is AGAIN pushing the Gold Coast/Bobby Hill thing today!

Can the club get a restraining order against Ralph? He's seriously obsessed.

 

[PiesHateU2]

That’s potentially what we’ll need to do because even as an optimist I don’t see the other two options working. Once you do that though our culture of taking unders to keep the band together blows up…

The only team that I hear has maintained this culture successfully is Geelong, but they probably have the surf coast lifestyle proposition (plus whatever goes into the brown paper bags) that enables it. They also have been rumoured to have seasoned veterans willingly take under-par money so they can offer more for trade targets. I'm hearing Pendles, Howey etc. are doing the same for us so we should be able to stump up more for the bonafide superstars like Nick and Zac

 

[tmpies01]

Clubs renewing interest in Zach Merrett per Jay Clark.

I still believe he was the player Bucks talked about wanting to come to Collingwood 5 or 6 years ago…

 

[gtrain23]

I have some great contacts at redneck park (Geelong), the comment I received was they are 95% sure they have him.

Il riot

 

[Exambolor]

Clubs renewing interest in Zach Merrett per Jay Clark.

I still believe he was the player Bucks talked about wanting to come to Collingwood 5 or 6 years ago…

Big fan of the guy, would love if he played for us.

Maybe he doesn’t make the same mistake as Crippa and waste his prime in a mediocre team, but like Crippa, I think Merrett has too much pride to leave

 

[Antz]

Clubs renewing interest in Zach Merrett per Jay Clark.

I still believe he was the player Bucks talked about wanting to come to Collingwood 5 or 6 years ago…

From HS.

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

And Code Sports can reveal the Bombers met with superstar captain Zach Merrett a fortnight ago amid renewed interest from rivals.

Essendon senior figures met with Merrett to present a detailed plan about the club’s vision and list build after a poor season winning only six games.

St Kilda, Hawthorn and Collingwood have all been linked to Merrett who has not played in a winning final in 12 seasons and 251 matches.

Bombers’ senior figures explained to Merrett their plan to rise up the ladder after loading up on more young talent from this year’s draft to partner Nate Caddy, Archie Roberts and Isaac Kako.

But clubs have not completely ruled out making a last-minute play for Merrett, along with Melbourne’s Christian Petracca

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Christian Petracca

Age

29

Ht

187cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.4

5star

K

9.5

4star

HB

9.8

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

3.0

5star

CL

2.5

4star

D

24.4

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

14.0

5star

M

3.5

3star

T

3.6

4star

CL

3.4

4star

D

19.0

5star

K

7.8

3star

HB

11.2

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.0

4star

and Carlton’s Charlie Curnow

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Charlie Curnow

Age

28

Ht

194cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.3

3star

K

9.7

4star

HB

3.6

3star

M

5.3

5star

T

2.2

4star

G

1.3

5star

No current season stats available

D

10.8

3star

K

6.4

3star

HB

4.4

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.8

4star

.

Essendon has not entertained any prospect of trading Merrett and he has not asked the club for a move.

But rivals are closely monitoring his situation after a challenging season for the Bombers.

 

[Peters_Nuts]

This is just second hand information but thought it was worth sharing.

A close mate of mine’s brother is really good mates with Langford. He’s seriously considering moving to North Melbourne. This has already been reported on that senior players are unhappy with the fitness stuff and the club at the moment.

The kicker? He let slip that Merrett met with Collingwood about a month ago. We probably can’t afford him and I don’t think he’ll leave, but it sounds like Essendon players are there for the taking.

Just quoting myself amid this latest news.

 

[Dtennent94]

Just quoting myself amid this latest news.

Here’s to the streak continuing for the foreseeable future

 

[BEEG]

Clubs renewing interest in Zach Merrett per Jay Clark.

I still believe he was the player Bucks talked about wanting to come to Collingwood 5 or 6 years ago…

Laverde the last of Merretts best mates to go.

 

[gouki88]

Just quoting myself amid this latest news.

Earned the horn toot. It would be nice… if somewhat hard to envision

 

[Peters_Nuts]

Laverde the last of Merretts best mates to go.

Plus if it's true that Ridley is wanting to leave, who is in their top 5 more important players, then it's more hurt on the cards for the Bombers.

Shame.

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

Sam Edmund tweeting that Curnow is "happy to take a pay cut" to get to Geelong, you can't make this shit up.

 

[BillyElliott]

Sam Edmund tweeting that Curnow is "happy to take a pay cut" to get to Geelong, you can't make this shit up.

Waited until he left the country before sticking the knife in.

 

[gouki88]

Sam Edmund tweeting that Curnow is "happy to take a pay cut" to get to Geelong, you can't make this shit up.

Caro said he’s happy to take a pay cut to leave in general - hopefully not just specific to Geelong