List Mgmt. Contracts/Trade/Draft Thread - 2025 Edition

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Players out of Contract 2025 (12)

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• Oscar Allen (19/3/99) - Signed a 3 year extension (2023-25) on an existing contract due to expire 2022 in May 2021
• Campbell Chesser (27/4/03) - Signed a 2 year extension (2024-25) on an existing contract due to expire 2023 in May 2022
• Tom Cole (28/5/97) - Signed a 3 year extension (2023-25) in May 2022
• Rhett Bazzo (17/10/03) - Signed a 2 year extension (2024-25) on an existing contract due to expire 2023 in September 2022
• Jayden Hunt (3/4/95) - Signed a 3 year contract (2023-25) in October 2022
• Callum Jamieson (31/7/00) - Signed a 2 year extension (2024-25) in March 2023
• Jamie Cripps (23/4/92) - Signed a 2 year extension (2024-25) in August 2023
• Jack Petruccelle (12/4/99) - Signed a 2 year extension (2024-25) in August 2023
• (R) Loch Rawlinson (1/6/05) - Signed a 1 year extension (2025) in September 2024
• (R-B) Coen Livingstone (25/5/05) - Signed a 1 year extension (2025) in September 2024
• (R-B) Malakai Champion (17/5/06) - Automatic 1 year contract (2025) when added as a Cat B Rookie in November 2024
• (R) Jacob Newton (20/3/06/) - Automatic 6 month contract (2025) when drafted in May 2025

Provisional 2025 Draft order

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[Elite Pete]

Cripps sounds keen to play again next year. Can’t see the club retiring him

 

[jdisc]

I never quite got the obsession with moving senior listed players onto the rookie list. How many of them turn around and actually improve with the additional year on a rookie contract?

We're better off using these rookie spots on genuine rookies. It's a cheap 1 year contract, we should be cycling players through as much as possible and seeing what sticks.

 

[Elite Pete]

I'd propose the following:



Clears 5 senior list spots, 1 rookie spot.

Hunt, Kelly, and Cripps on reduced salaries, clears cap space. We should use this to chase another FA signing (list here: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1300294/2025-afl-restricted-and-unrestricted-free-agent-list)

Won’t be chasing a FA signing that is worth much as it effects the Compo pick for Oscar (unless we traded them in which is unlikely)

 

[jdisc]

Won’t be chasing a FA signing that is worth much as it effects the Compo pick for Oscar (unless we traded them in which is unlikely)

Not a big signing, but I wouldn't mind see the club supplement our ruck/key defender stocks

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

I'd propose the following:



Clears 5 senior list spots, 1 rookie spot.

Hunt, Kelly, and Cripps on reduced salaries, clears cap space. We should use this to chase another FA signing (list here: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1300294/2025-afl-restricted-and-unrestricted-free-agent-list)

Barnett would have to be odds on to be either rookie listed or just paid out.

 

[Elite Pete]

Not a big signing, but I wouldn't mind see the club supplement our ruck/key defender stocks

Yeah not a FA but I think Blight (Richmond) will be an option and he’s OOC and WA lad. Misses plays for our AFLW team I believe. He’s also not playing week in and out at Richmond. Im not sure he’s an upgrade either on what we have.

The money will have to play with, we could blow anyone out of the water. Convincing them to come to a spooner is a different story atm.

 

[Cuzz09]

Cripps will make the call himself. He's still performing decently(yeah he stuffs up now n then but don't we all)

He's kicked 13.7 this year on track for close to 30 which you'd take

 

[jdisc]

Barnett would have to be odds on to be either rookie listed or just paid out.

Missed him but he's firmly on my delist pile

 

[Cuzz09]

I know the ship has probably sailed but I thought the one time Petch and Chess were put right in the heat of the contest they got amongst it pretty well

Petch especially.

Feel like they're the type that need to be involved or charge in on instinct rather than work out what to do out by yourself

 

[mattyc75]

Yeah I reckon when it comes down to it we'll get screwed for the Oscar compo thing and end up with pick 47 or something

To be honest oscar isn't worth pick 2 as much as we all want it and have seen other clubs get out of proportion compensation
He's not really even in our best 23 at this stage is he. He's a shell of a player
Still hope we get pick 2 for him

 

[Lia]

Cripps is playing reasonably well in general and played very well on the weekend, but I'd consider retirement if I were him, he has clearly lost a yard this year and while experience helps cover that, it won't forever.

 

[Elite Pete]

To be honest oscar isn't worth pick 2 as much as we all want it and have seen other clubs get out of proportion compensation
He's not really even in our best 23 at this stage is he. He's a shell of a player
Still hope we get pick 2 for him

He was worth band 1 compo at the start of the year. When did Hawks and Brissy present a contract offer?

They can pull out of that contract clearly as he can’t officially sign until the end of the year.

What sort of player is Oscar to them teams when they get better delivery in and it’s coming in more? Also mentally the contract no longer on his mind.

No chance in the world the Eagles accept
Band 2 for him (pick 19* which could well and truely be in the 30s on draft night) Neither Hawks or Lions would be willing to trade for him so they will make sure it triggers band 1 (if they still want him) Can’t see the Lions not going down this route as they have the mids and most are FS or academy so unlikely to leave. They need a key forward.

 

[Ruben Grubarb]

To be honest oscar isn't worth pick 2 as much as we all want it and have seen other clubs get out of proportion compensation
He's not really even in our best 23 at this stage is he. He's a shell of a player
Still hope we get pick 2 for him

Scarcity.

Flag windows are scarce and limited.
KPF's are scarce. He and Jamarra are about the only ones available.

Band 1 compo, fellows!

 

[Dom sheed pocket]

Scarcity.

Flag windows are scarce and limited.
KPF's are scarce. He and Jamarra are about the only ones available.

Band 1 compo, fellows!

This is the same logic north supporters gsave when the McKay compo pick was announced.

As it has turned out, Oscar is in the same ball park as far a free agency grifting.

FWIW a fairer system would be compo is determined by the contract the original club has on the table.

In that situation, if west coast want to low ball Oscar with a 3 year deal on 600, they can recieve a 3rd round pick.

Would also solve the issue of bottom clubs paying extra for depth players and B graders from top clubs generating first round compensation.

 

[mattyc75]

Yeah with only one MSD pick it’s probably a pass atm, see how we goes over the next 2 weeks.

Maybe a rookie draft if we cut deep again in the off season

Do we only have 1 MSD pick? We have 1 spot and surely sheed creates another 1?

 

[bzparkes]

Do we only have 1 MSD pick? We have 1 spot and surely sheed creates another 1?

Sheed is the spot.

 

[jdisc]

Sheed is the spot.

Didn't we have 2 spots available for SPP and only picked up Brock?

 

[Choogler]

Don't put it past them. Eddie will go on a rant and tweedle dee and tweedle dum will quickly change the 'formula'

Don't you mean Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber?

 

[Choogler]

Couldn't even lure Dev Robbo. That's a burn if I ever saw one.

And I suspect Deven may well be rueing his decision because I'm not sure we would be chasing him now/again and certainly not at the price we were originally prepared to pay.

 

[bzparkes]

Didn't we have 2 spots available for SPP and only picked up Brock?

People were counting Sheed in that, they just didn't put him on the LTI yet.

 

[THE A5]

I'd propose the following:



Clears 5 senior list spots, 1 rookie spot.

Hunt, Kelly, and Cripps on reduced salaries, clears cap space. We should use this to chase another FA signing (list here: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1300294/2025-afl-restricted-and-unrestricted-free-agent-list)

Yuck Tk’s 32 next season and is going as good as Gaff did last year. If TK doesn’t lift he needs to be shown the door

 

[Bacchus]

Yep
Another Jermain Jones.

Every now and then teases you with something really good but the majority of the time was poor.

IF WC chop you, you must be poor IMO.

Not another Jarmaine Jones, had far more skill.

Was a pick 6, not a rookie pick. I know draft positions are far from infallible but they indicate something.

If WC chop you, it means nothing, are you implying the club has made the right decisions over the last decade?
If so, how has this once strong club ended up in this ‘mother of all messes’ ? And with Callum Jamieson and Loch Rawlinson and Harry Barnett and many others on its playing roster?

Saying you must be no good because WC chopped you means absolutely f.a.
They’re like a blind man throwing darts at a dart board.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Didn't we have 2 spots available for SPP and only picked up Brock?

Sheed was the second spot.

 

[Choogler]

Didn't we have 2 spots available for SPP and only picked up Brock?

We have 44 listed players including 6 rookies... Sheed's long term injury spot is the only one we have in the MSD

 

[JackOutback]

Not another Jarmaine Jones, had far more skill.

Was a pick 6, not a rookie pick. I know draft positions are far from infallible but they indicate something.

If WC chop you, it means nothing, are you implying the club has made the right decisions over the last decade?
If so, how has this once strong club ended up in this ‘mother of all messes’ ? And with Callum Jamieson and Loch Rawlinson and Harry Barnett and many others on its playing roster?

Saying you must be no good because WC chopped you means absolutely f.a.
They’re like a blind man throwing darts at a dart board.

Those are some very germane points.