List Mgmt. Contracts/Trade Thread - 2025 Edition Vol 3

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List Changes - 2025

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In:

• Brandon Starcevich arrives at West Coast in a three team deal
• Tylar Young (Richmond) arrived at West Coast in exchange for Pick 38.
• Deven Robertson (Brisbane) has agreed to join West Coast and will be signed on to the rookie list after being delisted by Brisbane

Out:

• Oscar Allen joins Brisbane as a FA - West Coast receive Pick 2 as compensation
• Liam Ryan and a 2027 R3 pick has been traded to St Kilda for a 2026 R2 pick
• Campbell Chesser has been traded to Carlton for Pick 41
• Jayden Hunt announces retirement
• Jack Petruccelle, Callum Jamieson and Loch Rawlinson not offered new contracts
• Coen Livingstone joins the list of players not offered a new contract

Players Out of Contract - 2025 (0)

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• Jamie Cripps and Malakai Champion seem to have been offered new contracts despite there being no official announcement. Means that all players out of contract for 2025 have been given new contracts despite or removed from the playing list

2025 Draft Order

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Current Draft Picks:
Round 1: 1, 2, 13
Round 2: 34, 41
Round 3: 53, 58 (These picks are in excess of available list spots so will be forfeited if we don’t consolidate our 2025 picks up the order or trade some for future picks)

List Spots Available (39 of 48):
• Main list (33 of 38) - 5* (in: Starcevich, Young out: Allen, Ryan, Chesser, Hunt, Petruccelle, Jamieson)
• Cat A rookie list (5 of 8) - 3* (in: Robertson (pending), out: Rawlinson)
• Cat B rookie list (1 of 2) - 2 (out: Livingstone)

* Based on Dewar being upgraded after the maximum 3 years on the rookie list. Hutchinson may also have been upgraded but this isn’t confirmed - if it is we will have 4 main and 4 rookie list spots open

* Matthew Clarke has stated we have 5 main list spots

Matt Clarke wraps up the trade period - 6PR

 

[Astro7]

Hard to believe that some of these experts get paid to do this for a living

Salty Vics, am over the hypocrisy...they slam WC for being pathetic and embarrassing halfway through the season, then slam them for doing well in the trades.(Hird etc)
Then when we eventually make top 8/finals they'll fawn over us or criticise how we got there. Victoria is a parallel world.

Duursma needs to hit the gym, he's a rangy critter. Whether we get him or not we need a pure mid - Sharp? Banfield looks alright too. Haven't seen highlights of Robey, but if he's similar to Harley and Hewett, isn't that a good thing?

 

[woosha24]

Salty Vics, am over the hypocrisy...they slam WC for being pathetic and embarrassing halfway through the season, then slam them for doing well in the trades.(Hird etc)
Then when we eventually make top 8/finals they'll fawn over us or criticise how we got there. Victoria is a parallel world.

When we eventually win another flag "Pick 2" will be used as the inevitable asterisk against the premiership.

 

[MaxHunt]

Duursma's not a pure mid. He's a HBF/ winger. A lot of people dont want us using pick 1/2 on him because we dont need players in these positions as much as we need inside bulls.

Sharp should be our man. If he's half as much a contested beast as his draft profile suggests then he and Harley will be tearing the comp a new arseh*le in 5 years time.

Not taking the clear number 1 prospect would be crazy

 

[lusheslewis]

Duursma's not a pure mid. He's a HBF/ winger. A lot of people dont want us using pick 1/2 on him because we dont need players in these positions as much as we need inside bulls.

Sharp should be our man. If he's half as much a contested beast as his draft profile suggests then he and Harley will be tearing the comp a new arseh*le in 5 years time.

Duursma is too good to pass up. Hopefully he starts as an intercepting half back and moves into the midfield like Yeo/Hayden Young.

 

[Mr Q]

A lot of these guys spend about 5 minutes a week doing research on the sport that they're paid handsomely to talk about.

Sigh

Compensation isn't based on the player's performance, it's based on the contract offered by the receiving club and the age of the player. Some bands compensation is based on ladder position - including band 1.

The AFL should drop the secrecy around the formula, but it's not "assistance" that any club isn't eligible for if one of their Free Agents walks.

It's a shit system, but not because Allen resulted in pick 2 - it's because the cost isn't paid by the receiving club, which means that powerful clubs can raid weak clubs with impunity (as we're seeing Brisbane do). If Brisbane paid a cost for this, they'd not have been able to get Allen, Draper and then still consider drafting Annable.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

I agree and later picks/rookie picks should be used on best available. If a kpd is the best option then go for it. If its a mid then go for it.
We do have a few mids from later picks already tho who look promising

Still though

Let's look at the best of best key defenders.

Andrews pick 61
Taylor pick 28
Gov rookie
Collins pick 55
Weitering pick 1
Sicily pick 56
Moore pick 9
Vlastun pick 9
Barras pick 43
Henry rookie
Wilkie roo
Conner O'Sullivan pick 10
Cox Pearce

And we have
Edwards ok not rated above anyone on the above list.
Bazzo doubt it
Reid gonna ruck
Shanahan stay forward
Brock developing.

Finding another one like stumpf or Ainsworth as rookie would be good business. Develop them in the 2s

 

[bzparkes]

Duursma's not a pure mid. He's a HBF/ winger. A lot of people dont want us using pick 1/2 on him because we dont need players in these positions as much as we need inside bulls.

Sharp should be our man. If he's half as much a contested beast as his draft profile suggests then he and Harley will be tearing the comp a new arseh*le in 5 years time.

You do not pick needs at pick 1. You pick the best player.

That's how you end up with Paddy McCartin over Christian Petracca.

 

[Chris_6678]

AFL Trade Radio reposted







Callum Twomey

@CalTwomey
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Campbell Chesser has been traded to Carlton. Pick 41 heading the way of the Eagles.
@AFLcomau

@TradeRadio

 

[Elite Pete]

AFL Trade Radio reposted


Callum Twomey
@CalTwomey
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Campbell Chesser has been traded to Carlton. Pick 41 heading the way of the Eagles.
@AFLcomau

@TradeRadio

Feels like unders but what happens when you let them getting OOC

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Pretty straightforward. Feels slight unders in that I thought a future third might also accompany this pick, but it was always going to mainly be that Blues Pick 41.

Still think most likely is Chesser is out of the league in a few years, but I’d have preferred to keep him and find out for ourselves. Ah well, more points for the trade up mill/Young deal.

 

[Elite Pete]

Feels like GC are starting to get the points they need to trade 7 & 8 for Trac

 

[darksquare]

Send it on for Young. Good deal all round.

 

[Citizen Erazed]

Clarkey on Trade Radio now.

 

[Mop]

we’ll always have that photo, Chess.

 

[woosha24]

Geez a lot of people dont like the take "mids over Duursma", huh? Inbox poppin' off.

Not saying he's not a good prospect, but he isnt head and shoulders above everyone else like Harley was. For our immediate needs a contested inside bull should be who we're looking at in the Top 2, not a winger we might turn into a mid in 3-5 years and a gamble on another young ruck/ forward.

If we pickup both Duursma and CDT because bEsT aVaIlAblE and I have to watch the midfield continue to stagnate with Harley trying his guts out amongst a group of scrubs again in 2026 I will puke.

 

[Boohemian]

we’ll always have that photo, Chess.

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If Carlton had a sense of humor, they'd also get him in a 5XL.

 

[Triggywiggy]

Feels like GC are starting to get the points they need to trade 7 & 8 for Trac

No chance would they have the capital still for Trac + their two draft picks if we bid on them. They need to make some deal with us so we don't just bid on their blokes 1+2

 

[Cuzz09]

When we eventually win another flag "Pick 2" will be used as the inevitable asterisk against the premiership.

hopefully while the no2 pick is Norm Smith

 

[Sammy J]

Disappointing to lose Chesser just as he was showing something. Pick 14 into 41 is an L no matter which way you shake it, but if it means we onsend to move higher up in this draft, or acquire further talent that fits our list, so be it.

 

[Cuzz09]

cya Chess.... we hardly knew ye

 

[bzparkes]

Geez a lot of people dont like the take "mids over Duursma", huh? Inbox poppin' off.

Not saying he's not a good prospect, but he isnt head and shoulders above everyone else like Harley was. For our immediate needs a contested inside bull should be who we're looking at in the Top 2, not a winger we might turn into a mid in 3-5 years and a gamble on another young ruck/ forward.

If we pickup both Duursma and CDT because bEsT aVaIlAblE and I have to watch the midfield continue to stagnate with Harley trying his guts out amongst a group of scrubs again in 2026 I will puke.

Again, you don't reach for 'needs' at pick 1.

Pick 2 we can be a bit more flexible with but Duursma is clearly the #1 pick this draft, so we just pick him and go from there.

Heaps of gun inside mids in juniors fail to adapt to seniors due to size/athleticism, which is the concern some have on Sharp.

You need to do more than just extract the ball at AFL level.

 

[Chris_6678]

AFL Trade Radio

@traderadio
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"It would have to be something pretty good to give up Pick 1. We are pretty excited to have Picks 1 and 2 and want to take them to the draft at this stage." - Matthew Clarke on if they will trade Pick 1.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

Clarke on trade radio.

Aleer not the priority.
Young deal priority.

Dev
Up to Brisbane POST the trade period. So the that's a delist rookie.

Swallow
Age demographic on our list a concern. Didn't sound convinced.

 

[Cuzz09]

AFL Trade Radio

@traderadio
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"It would have to be something pretty good to give up Pick 1. We are pretty excited to have Picks 1 and 2 and want to take them to the draft at this stage." - Matthew Clarke on if they will trade Pick 1.

ooooh

 

[LewyBroome]

And there goes one of the worst chapter's in our drafting history...