List Mgmt. 2025 Trade & List Management Thread

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Official FA Moves/Trades​

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Player/Picks	Original Team	Receiving Team​	FA /Trade?
Tom De Koning	Carlton	St Kilda	RFA
Jack Silvagni	Carlton	St Kilda	UFA
Jacob Wehr	GWS	Port Adelaide	UFA
Sam Draper	Essendon	Brisbane	UFA
Oscar Allen	West Coast	Brisbane	RFA
Charlie Spargo	Melbourne	North Melbourne	UFA

Buku Khamis - requests a trade to Carlton
Wade Derksen - requests a trade to Melbourne
Liam Ryan

1

Liam Ryan

Age

29

Ht

181cm

Wt

76kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

8.6

3star

HB

2.7

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

4star

G

1.3

5star

D

9.9

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.3

3star

T

1.6

3star

G

1.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

2.4

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.8

4star

G

1.6

5star

- requests a trade to St Kilda
Leek Aleer - requests a trade to St Kilda
Campbell Chesser - requests a trade to Carlton
Will Brodie

17

Will Brodie

Age

27

Ht

190cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.0

5star

K

8.2

3star

HB

10.8

5star

M

3.1

3star

T

4.9

5star

CL

4.1

5star

D

14.0

3star

K

4.0

1star

HB

10.0

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.0

2star

CL

3.0

4star

D

13.8

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

6.4

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

5.4

5star

CL

2.8

5star

- requests a trade to Port Adelaide
Liam Reidy - requests a trade to Carlton
Sam Flanders - has requested a trade/explore options

 

[Frank Thring]

He's perfect for us. Looks quick on the lead and brick slow chasing.

 

[chubbspeterson]

He's perfect for us. Looks quick on the lead and brick slow chasing.

Lol. Unfortunately 18 year old key forwards are far from complete players.
They all have different strengths and areas they need to work on.

 

[ToxicMegaPunts]

 

[Moti]

Yuk, yuk, yuk

 

[giantroo]

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Long-term trigger clauses relying on good faith to secure millions of dollars in deals

Some of the AFL’s biggest deals are containing clauses which would trigger monster, long-term deals. Jon Ralph unpacks why players like them – and the huge risk which comes with them.

Jon Ralph

@RalphyHeraldSun

2 min read
July 29, 2025 - 5:56PM
News Sport Network


The AFL has prevented clubs from officially inserting long-term trigger clauses in contracts in a move that means footy’s megastars are relying on good faith to secure millions in promised deals.

Many of footy’s stars are deciding upon complex deals that have a two year-initial contract that gives them the player option to take up lucrative long-term extensions if they remain happy at their clubs.

It gives them the guarantee of long-term money with an opt-in element but the flexibility of an escape clause if they decide they want out at a specified time in the contract.

Harley Reid could be running a risk of agreeing to an in-principal deal with the Eagles, relying on the club’s good faith. Picture: Janelle St Pierre/AFL Photos/via Getty Images)

But player agents have been told by the AFL the opt-in deals which have allowed players including Andrew Gaff

3

Andrew Gaff

Age

33

Ht

184cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

26.6

5star

K

15.9

5star

HB

10.7

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

2.0

4star

CL

2.5

4star

D

24.5

5star

K

15.6

5star

HB

8.9

4star

M

5.4

5star

T

2.0

3star

CL

2.5

4star

D

11.2

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

3.2

4star

T

0.6

3star

CL

0.6

3star

and Josh Kelly to trigger secondary contracts are not officially permitted under the collective bargaining agreement.

Clubs have to submit a letter of intent as part of those deals which means there is effectively a good faith agreement or handshake deal instead of a locked-in contract to secure them the second half of that deal.

Melbourne star Kysaiah Pickett

36

Kysaiah Pickett

Age

24

Ht

171cm

Wt

73kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.0

2star

K

4.7

2star

HB

3.3

3star

M

0.7

1star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.7

3star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.7

2star

HB

3.3

2star

M

0.7

1star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.7

3star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.8

2star

HB

3.2

3star

M

0.8

1star

T

2.4

4star

CL

0.8

3star

was considering a deal with a four or five-year trigger of that sort until it was made clear they are not guaranteed under the standard playing contract.

His manager Anthony Van Der Wielen spent weeks consulting AFL experts including AFLPA legal counsel Steve Slimming before it was made clear any secondary trigger clause was not legally binding.

As a result Pickett signed a fully guaranteed contract for nine years at $1.4 million a season instead of a deal with a clause.

West Coast star Harley Reid could soon sign a deal with a two-year extension to 2027 then a nine-year trigger.

Gold Coast’s Mac Andrew has a five-year deal with a four-year but his trigger is a games-based trigger instead of an opt-in deal.

Clubs are able to put games-based triggers into contracts to allow a player to meet a games total over the initial years of a contract to then lock in a subsequent contract at a specified price.

The AFL reasons that those players are being rewarded on objective measures that can also include best-and-fairest finishes so allows those types of contracts.

No club has ever contested the second part of an opt-in deal or tried to extricate itself from that contract.

But in an era when the AFL can medically retire players with concussion clubs could yet be caught out on trigger deals that are not officially in player contracts.

When club hierarchies can change within 12 months there is also a degree of nervousness among player managers about signing those deals when there is so much at stake.

But clubs are also aware it would be reckless or even crazy to renege on a trigger deal with a powerhouse player management stable.

Footy’s salary cap will reach nearly $20 million in two seasons when club marketing agreements are factored in so clubs are increasingly keen to use that space on long-term deals.

 

[sheridan]

when snoz is told to pick a key forward in a draft.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Riley Onley = The Fans.

 

[DuckYeah]

 

[Psicosis]

This Lever news just shows, our club will never allow previous bad decisions get in the way of making future bad decisions.

 

[Daniltchenko You Beauty]

Lever past his best but doing the same thing next year isn’t the answer

 

[Lomas]

This Lever news just shows, our club will never allow previous bad decisions get in the way of making future bad decisions.

Well, the club does need consistency.

 

[Psicosis]

Lever past his best but doing the same thing next year isn’t the answer

A Lever bandaid is more of the same thing with a different player. There seems to be this idea that if we throw enough average senior players at our problem it will go away. Spoiler, it won’t.

Our key defenders for the next 20 years should be Chom & Dawson. Build around them. It ain’t f*kn rocket science.

 

[tales129]

A Lever bandaid is more of the same thing with a different player. There seems to be this idea that if we throw enough average senior players at our problem it will go away. Spoiler, it won’t.

Our key defenders for the next 20 years should be Chom & Dawson. Build around them. It ain’t f*kn rocket science.

There seems to be this feeling from Clarko that we may be throwing these young lads to the wolves by playing them without the safety net of older blokes.

It’s literally the other way round. They are being smothered by mediocrity and not being trusted to go and do a job.

I understand his premise but the execution has been ****ing woeful

 

[Passmore]

So the Lever stuff is legit? Not just one of dozens of "scoops" we'll be subject to from now until October?

 

[Only Forwards]

This Lever news just shows, our club will never allow previous bad decisions get in the way of making future bad decisions.

It is seriously like they sit around in meetings saying can we do this?

And there’s no one in the room saying should we do this?

Don’t want Lever.

Chom Wawson Pink. That’s our KPD. Logue can play VFL and be coverage.

Matlock as break glass in case of emergency as KPD but he can settle forward.

Stop chasing stupid senior players with less than 5 solid years in them.

Will they play 100+ games for us should be the starting question we ask. If the answer is no, let’s just move on.

 

[chubbspeterson]

Pass from me. Lever is 29. Dropped by the Dees. Hasn't really had a good year at all.
I understand how they might want someone who is more of a vocal and directing leader back there compared to a Logue or Corr, but he's not going a very accountable defender and is nearing the end.
I'd rather get a mid 20's player like a Budarich or Starcevich type who could have 5+ years left in them.
If we trade for Lever, we're incredibly stupid. And if we give up 20 or 21, then we're even more incredibly stupid.
It wouldn't bloody surprise me given the moves we've made.

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

Surely the Lever talk is a pisstake - we have to trade for him, it would be a salary dump and we already have an intercept defender.

Then again we have the holy trio of Rawlings, Clarko and Viney - anything could be being considered with these jokers in charge.

 

[jay317]

Got pick 21 for Lever written all over it

 

[King Hansen]

People must be very satisfied with the Logue, Pink, WDawson, Corr, KDawson, Comben KPD combination that's been working so so well for the last 3 years, that we can say no to an All Australian, Premiership key defender.

Yeah that makes totally sense. Sorry Jake, our defence is too good for you bud.

 

[King Hansen]

Got pick 21 for Lever written all over it

Try a future first.....

 

[Luke72]

Tom Morris has just caught up on Big Footy. Hopefully rumour is as far as it goes.

 

[chubbspeterson]

Tom Morris has just caught up on Big Footy. Hopefully rumour is as far as it goes.

Well interesting when Clarko says "we're not going down the same path again" as last year.
But wouldn't surprise me if it was Todd or Brady inquiring.

He's contracted until end of 2028 with the Dees, so probably an easy one to throw out there from the media.
I very much doubt he leaves and not sure if they have young defenders ready to take over either.
Jay Clark even just threw out Lever, May and Ridley as random names we might be interested in.

 

[spicerFanClub]

People must be very satisfied with the Logue, Pink, WDawson, Corr, KDawson, Comben KPD combination that's been working so so well for the last 3 years, that we can say no to an All Australian, Premiership key defender.

Yeah that makes totally sense. Sorry Jake, our defence is too good for you bud.

This. Its delusional to think any ready made KPD in their prime is coming to North. We get the scraps and hope we get lucky. When we're top 4 again maybe we're a chance of a premium player in a trade.

We need a KPD (several) but we should draft one with Pick 21 and wait 4 years to see if they're any good? That doesn't track. Lever is on the down but still has a few years we can squeeze out. You would take Lever over KDawson, Logue, Corr, and even Pink (sorry love him still).

 

[hilly]

People must be very satisfied with the Logue, Pink, WDawson, Corr, KDawson, Comben KPD combination that's been working so so well for the last 3 years, that we can say no to an All Australian, Premiership key defender.

Yeah that makes totally sense. Sorry Jake, our defence is too good for you bud.

Would go well with our other AA, premiership winning defender Caleb Daniel.

 

[hilly]

Got pick 21 for Lever written all over it

Just 21? I reckon we'll throw in 22 and get something like picks 62 and 69 back. Our recruiting team would be terrified at the thought of drafting a player not in Twomey's top five.