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

 

[Elite Pete]

Load up on Sportsbet for the Eagles flag in the WAFL.

 

[TY24]

Can you imagine if we bring in Elijah Hollands and Clayton Oliver

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Clayton Oliver

Age

28

Ht

189cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

27.8

5star

K

9.5

4star

HB

18.4

5star

M

3.2

3star

T

6.3

5star

CL

6.3

5star

D

25.1

5star

K

11.1

4star

HB

14.0

5star

M

3.6

4star

T

5.6

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

19.2

5star

K

4.6

2star

HB

14.6

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

4.4

5star

CL

3.8

5star

in the same off season? All we'd need then is for Harley to start hanging out with John Kizon upstairs at Metro City and we'd be odds on for the next 7 premierships

 

[Goroyals22]

Steven King at Melbourne

Part of me is now sad he didn’t get the role at our club to see how many under contract under performers he would have shipped out last year.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

 

[pantskyle]

Oliver would do wonders for our midfield, I say go for it, I've said it once and I'll say it again, we were great when we were the West Coke Eagles.

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

Goddamn. Seriously have to think about Oliver. I know Geelong is much more likely but damn, he could be a good player again.

One of those "play Neale three weeks after a popped calf" decisions. You're an obvious idiot if it fails but a genius savant if it succeeds. Key would be keeping a real ****ing clamp on the off field stuff.

 

[eaglevision]

What is the role change? He doesn't strike me as a guy who has a whole lot of utility if he's not playing inside mid. Certainly not someone who's going to be worth anything close to his contract value if you're trying to stick him at half forward or on the wing.

Inside midfielder for Casey Demons.

 

[eaglevision]

Said future pick most likely

F2 for Campbell I’m absolutely fine with, likely to be pick 25ish on draft night.

 

[Citizen Erazed]

Wow, I know Clarry is not the same Clarry, but Melbourne have obviously not observed much of our midfield performance recently to suggest that he can't even get a game.

 

[Farang83150]

Hawks to save a packet and grab Oliver rather than the essendon FW or petraca

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Goddamn. Seriously have to think about Oliver. I know Geelong is much more likely but damn, he could be a good player again.

One of those "play Neale three weeks after a popped calf" decisions. You're an obvious idiot if it fails but a genius savant if it succeeds. Key would be keeping a real ****ing clamp on the off field stuff.

The other advantage is that as long as you aren't sending too much to Melbourne to acquire him, the risk is pretty minimal. Say he goes off the rails with the nose beers, the Dees are still paying half his salary. Given that we aren't remotely close to being under pressure from a salary standpoint, wasting $700k on an unproductive or in-rehab Clarry wouldn't be a big deal, especially since we're paying Yeo a lot more than that to not play (and that contract will be off the books before we're good enough to have any sort of salary cap pressure).

 

[ACT_EAGLE]

F2 for Campbell I’m absolutely fine with, likely to be pick 25ish on draft night.

With the new bidding system for father sons and NGA players using up to two picks and paying fairer price i wonder if this will mean 2nd rounder will hold much more value. For instance if use for instance a 10 and 14 (aware these aren't the picks) for a Cody Walker. Higher picks being absorbed earlier.

 

[TheBudgies]

With the new bidding system for father sons and NGA players using up to two picks and paying fairer price i wonder if this will mean 2nd rounder will hold much more value. For instance if use for instance a 10 and 14 (aware these aren't the picks) for a Cody Walker. Higher picks being absorbed earlier.

Absolutely will. Less picks in the 30-50 range being used means more picks higher up with better value.

 

[Ishmael_]

Dev coming to WCE years after he should have is quite sad really. Still get him, whatever why not, but gee.

Much more enthused by the prospect of telling Melbourne we’ll eat Oliver’s entire salary if they make it worth our while.

Hell, if we can pull a Jack Bowes it would be worth it even if he never plays a game for us.

We have two years until Warner is available. Pay Oliver $2-3M in each of those years and then minimum chips for the remainder.

Worst case scenario is that he's judged to be a culture killer upon arrival, and we put him on gardening leave or pay him out in full. Best case, he has a resurgence and he's a gun again in an area of need.

As long as we get the pick with him I don't see any real downside for a club in our position.

 

[eaglevision]

Who is captain next year? Dev or Baker?

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Hawks to save a packet and grab Oliver rather than the essendon FW or petraca

Yeah grim reality is he'd likely take up Hawks or Geelong's offer rather than ours. His contract's getting paid, he won't care who's footing the bill.

 

[oak79]

So if Lions send us Starcevich, Robertson and Neale, we should pretty much rebrand to the West Coast Brisbane Tigers/ Richmond Lions

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Dev to play the Atkins role in our midfield, absolutely ideal and should be essentially free.

 

[TerryFilk]

Oliver in terms of what is available for inside midfielders this trade period Eagles have to be looking at this. He is a senior body and gets away from Melbourne and his training and performance was better last year. I think if he is a 2nd or 3rd round pick that eagles have to look at this. Premiership success.

He’s definitely the guy with the most upside that we’re even a tiny chance to get, however if his own club is willing to pay $700,000 a year for 4-5 years to get him out, what does that tell you?

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Who is captain next year? Dev or Baker?

Oliver

 

[Mop]

You'd probably be negligent to not ask the question re Oliver, but I suppose we have both McQualter and Radford who'll know what's what.

 

[evans1863]

F2 for Campbell I’m absolutely fine with, likely to be pick 25ish on draft night.

Massive win if next years draft is as strong as early projections suggest, considering we got Shanahan with 30 last year.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

Dev to play the Atkins role in our midfield, absolutely ideal and should be essentially free.

And that's the kicker isn't it. F4th max.

 

[Mop]

Hawks to save a packet and grab Oliver rather than the essendon FW or petraca

Pay a different type of packet.



A baggie, if you will

 

[shooshka]

The other advantage is that as long as you aren't sending too much to Melbourne to acquire him, the risk is pretty minimal. Say he goes off the rails with the nose beers, the Dees are still paying half his salary. Given that we aren't remotely close to being under pressure from a salary standpoint, wasting $700k on an unproductive or in-rehab Clarry wouldn't be a big deal, especially since we're paying Yeo a lot more than that to not play (and that contract will be off the books before we're good enough to have any sort of salary cap pressure).

It’s the cultural issue that will scare clubs.

But I’d love us to at least have a look and chat.

Played 22 games, averaged 25 disposals, 5.5 clearances, 5.5 tackles, 4 I50’s and had a close to even split CP vs UCP.