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

 

[Mop]

Carlton and WC are a bit of a way apart but expect it’ll come good re Chesser.

Playing slight hard ball with Liam Ryan

31

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

, clearly whatever has been or hasn’t been offered isn’t up to spec. Happy to keep Liam. Good.

Nonplussed on trading up.

Haven’t committed to who we’d take but are happy to bid on anyone we rate.

 

[eaglevision]

Bonnie with the drive by! “There’s some contracted guys at other clubs and if we need to bid we will”. Best thing he’s ever said.

 

[nameless]

Clarke seems to have recruited a backbone in the offseason

 

[Wedgetailed Westerner]

Much better from Clarke this year on Trade Radio

 

[TerryFilk]

Thought Clark done well, threatened bids etc. which was nice to see and ruled out pick 16 for Starcevich.

Am a bit worried at how he said we are happy to help Brisbane get their boys though, lol.

 

[Farang83150]

Don't mind Clarkes shot across the bows at brissy re players connected to them

 

[Elite Pete]

Fumbled over the pick 16 and 23 for Starcevich.

Loved the talk about bidding on the academy kids.

‘No ratings’ done yet to see if we even need to bundle up.

 

[ghostbat12]

Bonnie with the drive by! “There’s some contracted guys at other clubs and if we need to bid we will”. Best thing he’s ever said.

he still looks nervous. consider it a shot across the bow to GC and Brisbane.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

Bonnie with the drive by! “There’s some contracted guys at other clubs and if we need to bid we will”. Best thing he’s ever said.

Loved it.

 

[txbyhull]

didn’t actually hate anything I heard from Clarke there

 

[archiemoses]

Let's hope he walks the walk

 

[eaglevision]

he still looks nervous. consider it a shot across the bow to GC and Brisbane.

He looked like he was about to be asked to sit on a casting couch for the first time.

 

[Yippy Yi Yeo]

Is there a world where we try to trade 1 or 2 to Melbourne for their future first? They get a guaranteed shot at CDT. We get a likely top 3 pick to go with our own likely top 3 pick next year. It would be kicking the can down the road but the 2026 draft appears to be rated higher than the 2025 class.

Why would we push a pick back a year just to downgrade it as well? They'd need to come to us with an offer and we'd need something else back as well.

 

[kane249]

Is he worth 7?

Broke out in 2023 and went on with it in 2024


Fell out of favour this year due to a back injury which slowed him down to start the year. Rioli and Noble took his spot as rebounder in the backline and struggled to find a spot in the midfield.

tl;dr

Yes he's worth it, and will help them free up NWM and Sinclair to play further up the ground potentially IMO

 

[Coasters7]

didn’t actually hate anything I heard from Clarke there

Best thing to do in that sort of interview is rule out the extremes straight away, don’t overcommit on anything and send out a few backhanders. Feel like he did most of that

 

[TOA.]

Clarke seems to have recruited a backbone in the offseason

Good chance he was told or he'd be looking for a new job very soon - I feel like the club felt the heat big time last year. Hopefully he backs it up.

 

[Barrybran]

Why would we push a pick back a year just to downgrade it as well? They'd need to come to us with an offer and we'd need something else back as well.

The downgrade is a risk. I think Melbourne are a bottom 3-4 side next year. I'm just asking the question as it is not something I've seen discussed as Melbourne haven't really been relevant.

FWIW, while this is a hypothetical, I still think we could generate two top 10 picks and potentially even two top 5 picks alongside such a move.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

 

[Yippy Yi Yeo]

The downgrade is a risk. I think Melbourne are a bottom 3-4 side next year. I'm just asking the question as it is not something I've seen discussed as Melbourne haven't really been relevant.

FWIW, while this is a hypothetical, I still think we could generate two top 10 picks and potentially even two top 5 picks alongside such a move.

We can't afford to be kicking top 5 picks down the road in our position, we'd need to be getting something else reasonable back to use this year as well but I don't think melbourne have anything else of use.

 

[Farang83150]

Hopefully Mat Clarke doesn't walk into the interview backwards and bent over, would send the wrong signals to other clubs IMO.

Happy to report I was wrong, he strutted up to Cal sporting a 12" multi-coloured strap-on.

 

[ThePuma #9]

Reminded the QLD clubs we can always bid on their players if they don't want to be nice to us.

Love it.

 

[sey666]

What's the worst that could happen to the Lions if we bid on their player? Going to next season with a points deficit? They get their player regardless.

Should be a club can't draft the player if they can't match the points of a bid.

 

[eaglevision]

Fumbled over the pick 16 and 23 for Starcevich.

Loved the talk about bidding on the academy kids.

‘No ratings’ done yet to see if we even need to bundle up.

That’s rubbish, there’s a rolling order all year. The finalised order will obviously be done a day or two before the draft.

 

[ghostbat12]

Reminded the QLD clubs we can always bid on their players if they don't want to be nice to us.

Love it.

they won't have any picks left.

 

[Elite Pete]

That’s rubbish, there’s a rolling order all year. The finalised order will obviously be done a day or two before the draft.

Yeah, more so it would we prefer two of these players or this player. Also intel of what other clubs are expected to do would weigh into it