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

 

[Tugga27]

There is a reason Melbourne are willing to pay half his ****ing contract

Word on the street is King asked him what type of role he'd like, and he said "a sausage".

 

[Happy Mastenator]

I wonder if we go with Duursma and Robey instead of Sharp with Dev coming.

Yeah change our entire draft strategy because we’re picking up a 24 year old with 47 career games, a lot of which were sub impacted.

Sounds sensible

 

[eaglevision]

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

I wouldn’t call it strong but it’s definitely looking stronger than this one. There’s a lot of good WA talent from top to bottom too.

Assuming we get F2 for Ryan and F2 for Chesser and same ladder positions all of the following are WA boys apart from
Dougie who we should find out about today

1-Dougie Cochrane
19-Benji Van Rooyen
25-Garrison Kenh (NGA match)
26-Health Mellody
37-Lachlan McGlade (NGA match)
55-Harper Banfield (FS match)

Leo Steed is also a floater that could go in a huge range.

 

[random260]

Royalty has come home!!!! Tears in eyes.

He needs to play a good amount of games in beagles. He needs to earn his jumper. Learn the Eagles culture

A once could be captain coming to our club having to earn his jumper. Sad story

 

[Bender_]

Who would be more pissed we traded for Clayton Fallover - Will Schofield

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Will Schofield

Age

36

Ht

196cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.6

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

3.9

4star

T

1.8

4star

MG

154.0

2star

D

5.0

1star

K

2.5

1star

HB

2.5

2star

M

0.5

1star

T

1.5

2star

MG

70.5

1star

D

7.4

2star

K

5.4

2star

HB

2.0

2star

M

3.2

4star

T

1.8

4star

or Keys?

 

[dinnaz]

There is a reason Melbourne are willing to pay half his ****ing contract

Do we want to improve or do we want to be the good guys?
Id take the roll of the dice at 600k over 5 along with some clauses in the contract.

 

[DorothyG]

Have we won trade week yet?

 

[eaglevision]

Do we want to improve or do we want to be the good guys?
Id take the roll of the dice at 600k over 5 along with some clauses in the contract.

There’s good guys and there’s poison.

Try 800k-$1m heavily back ended and we’d need to give Melbourne a good 1R if we aren’t taking his salary.

MCQ will know exactly what we’re dealing with. He’ll either be straight in or as I suspect, straight out.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Clarry would fit right in at Hawthorn

Melbourne 2017-20 and Hawthorn 2024- are everything wrong with fake tough guy footy clubs, they’d be an absolute dream pairing.

 

[pantskyle]

There’s good guys and there’s poison.

Try 800k-$1m heavily back ended and we’d need to give Melbourne a good 1R if we aren’t taking his heavily back ended salary.

MCQ will know exactly what we’re dealing with. He’ll either be straight in or as I suspect, straight out.

Not convinced of that, they don't want to be paying him 1.5m for the next five years to play in the VFL. Would be a late first or second rounder even with the 700k they'd cover. It's a fire sale on a single player.

 

[Dark Sharks]

I watched zero hangers mock draft earlier and I wish I hadn't.


Ugghh. Brother ughhhh.

Dursma, CDT, Dovaston, and.....

"Ok so now we have the final pick of round 1, I can see I haven't actually addressed any midfield deficiency on their list yet.... And I still won't with this pick as there's just too much talent left to pick from... WCE select Mitch Marsh"

 

[FootyOutlier]

I watched zero hangers mock draft earlier and I wish I hadn't.


Ugghh. Brother ughhhh.

Dursma, CDT, Dovaston, and.....

"Ok so now we have the final pick of round 1, I can see I haven't actually addressed any midfield deficiency on their list yet.... And I still won't with this pick as there's just too much talent left to pick from... WCE select Mitch Marsh"

Dev is coming!!! Midfield is sorted

 

[TerryFilk]

I watched zero hangers mock draft earlier and I wish I hadn't.


Ugghh. Brother ughhhh.

Dursma, CDT, Dovaston, and.....

"Ok so now we have the final pick of round 1, I can see I haven't actually addressed any midfield deficiency on their list yet.... And I still won't with this pick as there's just too much talent left to pick from... WCE select Mitch Marsh"

In all honesty I would be thrilled with that haul, I love Dovaston and our small forward stocks are so bleak, he’s such a good ground ball player too.

Duursma will be a star midfielder, CDT can act as an extra midfielder, Dovaston gives us a genuine small threat across the ground and Marsh at that pick is incredible value and could be a point of difference wing / forward.

Ideally you’d like a mid to slide instead of Marsh though.

We’ll be trading up anyways so I doubt that comes to fruition, can’t see us not having 3 top 10 picks. We will pick 2 midfielders.

 

[King LeBron]

I wonder if having Mini and Sam Radford in our coaching department persuades the club to go after Clarry. They would no doubt be confident that they could get the best out of him.

 

[KBLT]

I watched zero hangers mock draft earlier and I wish I hadn't.


Ugghh. Brother ughhhh.

Dursma, CDT, Dovaston, and.....

"Ok so now we have the final pick of round 1, I can see I haven't actually addressed any midfield deficiency on their list yet.... And I still won't with this pick as there's just too much talent left to pick from... WCE select Mitch Marsh"

If Marsh slides that far we'd be crazy not to pick him up.

But geez, I'd really want to swap CDT for a Sharp or Robey.

 

[Tyberious Funk]

So what's the afl equivalent of buying the worst house on the best street?

Tim Kelly.

 

[InTheWings]

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Can we trade players for rookie picks next week? If so, welcome aboard Dev!

 

[Kegs15]

If we get Dev, wonder if that would change our thinking with possibly Sharp as one of our first 2 selections.

Not sure a midfield with both Dev and Sharp would work that well

I'm still team JTS. Feel like if we're making decisions around what we do with top 5 picks (ideally key pillars of our side for a decade) based on whether or not we have Dev Robertson, we've got our priorities backwards.

Dev will be good to have for a bit of hardness and protection in the right age bracket, whether that's at AFL or WAFL level. But it'd be long odds that he'd be our #1 contested mid in 3-4 years time when Sharp would be developed enough to hit his straps in that role. If we don't end up getting as much games out of him as he'd like because Sharp is excellent early and outclasses him, that's an L I can live with.

Also on balance if using Brisbane as a template they roll with both Dunkley (Sharp) and J.Berry (Robertson) in their best side, but could make do when Berry got injured. Perfectly happy to have a few eggs in the tough contested mid basket.

 

[Mop]

I wonder if having Mini and Sam Radford in our coaching department persuades the club to go after Clarry. They would no doubt be confident that they could get the best out of him.

There is every chance they’ve seen the worst of him though and think hell no.

I know bad behaviours ingrain themselves situationally, but I suspect the media don’t know/ haven’t reported nearly the half of it.
There’s a reason Melbourne want him gone and are prepare to take a big financial hit.
My strong opinion is we’ll stay away from that. Sam Mitchell, however, that seems a perfect fit

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

Melbourne will be an interesting watch. McVee, Petracca, Oliver and May all possible departures.

Current draft hand is poor - 24, 55 and 60.

McVee a likely R2 (Dockers have 11, 30, 39)
Petracca will not get them multiple R1 unless Dees eat huge salary % (apparently the 4 years are heavily back ended)
Oliver will be a win IF they just get him off the books (5 years at $1mln ++) and "off field" issues
May is at best a late R2

Sounds like King turned the light on for them

 

[Keys]

I wonder if having Mini and Sam Radford in our coaching department persuades the club to go after Clarry. They would no doubt be confident that they could get the best out of him.

Alternatively they may tell the club to stay the **** away from him.

At least we have two people at the club with first hand knowledge of what Oliver’s problems were/are and will have an idea as to whether he’s worth speaking to

 

[CountryLad]

In all honesty I would be thrilled with that haul, I love Dovaston and our small forward stocks are so bleak, he’s such a good ground ball player too.

Duursma will be a star midfielder, CDT can act as an extra midfielder, Dovaston gives us a genuine small threat across the ground and Marsh at that pick is incredible value and could be a point of difference wing / forward.

Ideally you’d like a mid to slide instead of Marsh though.

We’ll be trading up anyways so I doubt that comes to fruition, can’t see us not having 3 top 10 picks. We will pick 2 midfielders.

Agree regarding the small forward issues. I was saying it last year that it’s an area of need. Quality over quantity, just because we have heaps of options in that area doesn’t mean they aren’t a big pile off sh1t.

 

[InTheWings]

If they're willing to pay 700k they'll definitely be after a 1st

Pick purchasing effectively

Pick 19?

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

There is every chance they’ve seen the worst of him though and think hell no.

I know bad behaviours ingrain themselves situationally, but I suspect the media don’t know/ haven’t reported nearly the half of it.
There’s a reason Melbourne want him gone and are prepare to take a big financial hit.
My strong opinion is we’ll stay away from that. Sam Mitchell, however, that seems a perfect fit

God, that could be so perfect for the smug campaigner though. Burn relationships with other teams by openly pursuing captains and only caring about winning. Backflip on Merrett due to cost and bring in Oliver, burning relationships with player managers because you only care about winning. Have a toxic bloke in the club poisoning the youngsters, but it's fine because you only care about winning.

And then eventually it all falls down around him. Beautiful.

 

[CountryLad]

Good work folks or not much work getting done at all. 250 posts in this thread in less than 6 hrs.

Get Dev they said and God smiled down upon thee!!!!!!!

The curse is over thanks Simmo.