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

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Can't believe we might not be able to match a bid for Evans...
Please don't f**k this up Eagles.

 

[Priddis Is Done]

In all honesty I don't know why we have a recruitment 'team'.

All we need is Matty Clarke and all he needs is access to our Bigfooty recruitment team think tank that is likely just as qualified as the rest of the Eagles jobs for mates recruitment team to spitball ideas.

During draft and trade period events he can just reward a few of the best posters on here to join him in person.

Well put it this way. Up until recently, our ability to select even an average midfielder, outside of gaff or sheed, is that baren, that the club would have had a better result plucking names from a hat.

 

[Cuzz09]

I'll be disappointed for Livingston

Reckon he's got an AFL career

 

[TerryFilk]

I'll be disappointed for Livingston

Reckon he's got an AFL career

No chance he’s ever an AFL standard player imo. Handy WAFL depth though

 

[WCEswift]

I'll be disappointed for Livingston

Reckon he's got an AFL career

far too immobile

 

[uptheWC]

Ok anyone who mentions cripps to rookie list will be themselves be placed on the rookie list

Was such an obvious move to make especially given the extra four rookie spots. Now we’re further limited in the draft ffs

 

[Yeahnahmate]

I wanted Cockatoo or Laverde over Duggan and Cripps over Sheed. Probably 0-2 for me.

Also SPP was an absolute wish of mine (Venables)

Needs to be inch perfect he’s not

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Ok anyone who mentions cripps to rookie list will be themselves be placed on the rookie list

We got a few extra spots on the rookie list, not sure we got enough to list half this board.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

I'll be disappointed for Livingston

Reckon he's got an AFL career.

He may, but no reason he can't be delisted and still find his way back if good enough. As it is, he'd be our 11th or 12th best tall, and half of them are around his age and shown more.

 

[Cuzz09]

So have they said who is going to be training with us?

 

[The Dodger]

Didn't Carlton just delist a contracted player? Binns?

Well the Carlton team mannger said the selectors left him out over night but nobody collected him.

 

[Barrybran]

Well the Carlton team mannger said the selectors left him out over night but nobody collected him.

They probably got their days mixed up

 

[Mutineer]

We need to avoid those with injury niggles (tbf to Mitchell he had 1 major injury rather than niggles). Senior players who are actually playing is key for us in the next 3 years.

Ideally some super hard workers who are 20-24 and have had some bad luck (an injury, positional challenges where senior players keep them out of the side, being generally played out of position). But aside from that 30-32yo’s with hopefully 2 years on the clock will work.

As much as we lack 24-28yo’s, I don’t think shopping for DFA’s in that age range is wise. There isn’t generally the improvement that is hoped, and the upside is much lower than younger guys (and obviously they don’t have the runs on the board of the older guys).

Wouldn't former 1st rounder Ben Hobbs be worth a shot, hard at it inside mid/extractor that the Bombers have played at half forward this season strangely. Haven't you guys been given a concession of being allowed 4 extra rookies on the list? What's to lose?

 

[txbyhull]

Wouldn't Ben Hobbs be worth a shot, hard at it inside mid/extractor that the Bombers have played at half forward this season strangely. Haven't you guys been given a concession of being allowed 4 extra rookies on the list? What's to lose?

Notorious plodder Ben Hobbs? There’s about 10 other blokes I’d be getting in first

 

[bzparkes]

Wouldn't former 1st rounder Ben Hobbs be worth a shot, hard at it inside mid/extractor that the Bombers have played at half forward this season strangely. Haven't you guys been given a concession of being allowed 4 extra rookies on the list? What's to lose?

We're already adding Dev Robertson and, reportedly, Finn McRae, as well as looking at Will Phillips.

Don't need another of the same type. Would rather take a punt on a ruckman.

 

[Goroyals22]

Well the Carlton team mannger said the selectors left him out over night but nobody collected him.

Have we heard from Carlton’s team manager Madonna cantsingh as yet?

 

[BSD]

Can't believe we might not be able to match a bid for Evans...
Please don't f**k this up Eagles.

Whoever we pick has to be the best player available to us at that point of the draft, regardless whether they are NGA or F/S.

 

[Lia]

Thought it was a given months ago that Cripps has re-signed, announcement from the club or not.

 

[FatPizza]

They probably got their days mixed up

He's a bit rubbish anyway.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Whoever we pick has to be the best player available to us at that point of the draft, regardless whether they are NGA or F/S.

It's not about that lol, we only 5 free spots instead of the 6 required to match 3 bids.
Why not just be prepared rather than leaving it to chance?
Just delist someone like Owies for God's sake.

 

[Tugga27]

It's not about that lol, we only 5 free spots instead of the 6 required to match 3 bids.
Why not just be prepared rather than leaving it to chance?
Just delist someone like Owies for God's sake.

They're not paying out Owies for 2 years.

 

[ziad]

Thought it was a given months ago that Cripps has re-signed, announcement from the club or not.

that was my understanding

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

They're not paying out Owies for 2 years.

We can add him back as a rookie unless someone poaches him.

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

How do payouts work with delisting someone who's contracted then picking them back up? Do we have to pay them their full contract value, then pay them again for the contract they get rookied with? If we delist someone in contract and they get picked up by another team, do we still have to pay them out?

 

[Wedgetailed Westerner]

Well the Carlton team mannger said the selectors left him out over night but nobody collected him.

Yeah but where has he wheelie binn