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

 

[Hasselhough]

it would be a smart move to try get Melbourne's future 1st . I think they may fall in a screaming heap next season

 

[Donkers]

I feel like Kenh (with a year of development projected) would have been a first rounder this year.

I guess one of the benefits of the 2026 class being relatively strong would be pushing our NGAs back in the order, making it easier to match bids.

Players develop at different rates. Kenh is incredibly talented and athletic. He could develop hugely next year and we're talking a 10-20 player in the draft or he could stay as he is or regress and go undrafted. Whatever way he goes I don't think it matters as he will be drafted as a project. He will almost certainly need 3-4 years in the system before he's ready to win his position week in, week out. So considering draft age we're talking 2029 which would be slightly early or more likely 2030.

Kenh is another one of the reasons why there should be no list cap on players (say you have 50). If these guys take years to develop and you pay the salary floor then it's fine trying to develop that talent over 4-5 years. If you have a list cap of 42 then it potentially means these guys are pushed too hard, too soon and don't make it.

Also who was the dickhead who said Evans had off field issues, it's the first i've heard of it and indigenous football development is what I do. (I'm not saying i'm any good or should be a recruiter but it is what I do)

 

[juice568]

Wow the Melbourne board is wild

Pick 5 from essendon for Oliver

Pick 6 and 7 for petracca

Gws will get Oliver IMO it will be a jesse hogan type deal

A bit like the 5 and 6 for 1 I've seen on this board. And chesser and change for for Pick 10

 

[Bender_]

Speaking of simmo, i was in carlisle yesterday and got a whopper meal from his HJ franchise.

I must say whilst the burger was standard for your get em in and out. The chips were on point and the staff were very courteous and polite and actually smiled at you.

Simmo must be hiring private school boys and girls.

Did you chuck the Whopper straight on the bitumen outside the restaurant before eating it?

 

[KERRPOW]

Did you chuck the Whopper straight on the bitumen outside the restaurant before eating it?

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Riley and Cal also indicating they think the Eagles are in front for the Dev race due to the work we have done over a period of time.

I'm a few pages late to the party on this, but surely the Eagles aren't that dumb as to dilute a band 1 compo pick #2 down to a band 2 or 3 pick #19, blowing out to #25+?

 

[Boohemian]

Friend of mine who taught Dev at Aquinas reckons he had a massive ego

Gee, wonder why that is.

 

[Barrybran]

Gee, wonder why that is.

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He's no Chesser

 

[Boohemian]

He's no Chesser

Well yeah. He's coming here, not ****ing off

 

[Elite Pete]

 

[dinnaz]

Extra rookie spots means extra swings.
If we keep Livingstone who has been serviceable and will only improve, we can add a legitimate ruck in Caleb May (West Adelaide).

 

[Elite Pete]

Brissy huge winners due to the situation but if I had to pick out of
Starcevich and pick 2
Or
Allen and Pick 23, I’d take Pick 2 and Starcevich…

 

[Ruben Grubarb]

Brissy huge winners.

We just luuuurve over paying.

 

[Rids]

Honestly wrapped with this. I promise if you watch Brisbane every week, you’ll see why the club is so into Starcevich. Quite possibly the best small/medium forward stopper in the league (and capable of playing defensive mid if required). Yes, concussion history is a worry but as long as games based triggers are there for later years of contracts then I think it’s a risk worth taking.

 

[eaglevision]

Brissy huge winners.

Sack Clarke.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Brissy huge winners.

Completely expected, but once it was announced the compo pick didn't have to be traded thought we might grow a pair

Dev must be thrown in with it surely

 

[Scotland]

Gonna be awkward if Melbourne tell May and Oliver to explore their options, there turns out to be no options and they both end up back at the club in November.

There are options for Oliver and Petracca. May TBC.

The issue for Melbourne is those options aren't great for Melbourne. Petracca was All Australian and B&F winner in 2023. Oliver did that double in 2022. We're now talking about a 29 and 28 year old going into 2026. And May is turning 34. I get the feeling Melbourne look at it as a choice between keeping the guys they have or hitting the draft with a bunch of early picks but I can't see the offers being that good. Best case you get Port's pick out of Gold Coast or a couple of firsts out of Adelaide who just won 18 games for Petracca who is the one they don't want to get rid of.

Charlie Curnow had a poor second half of the year but is still an elite key forward. Zach Merrett has been consistently good for a decade. These guys just want a fresh start and to play for teams that aren't shit. Their clubs aren't Moe-ing them out the door like Melbourne.

Maybe clubs will start to clue in to long term huge money contracts being a dumb idea. Doubt it.

 

[Elite Pete]

Completely expected, but once it was announced the compo pick didn't have to be traded thought we might grow a pair

Dev must be thrown in with it surely

ideally Dev as a DFA so he doesn’t take a main list spot.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

smart move to try get Melbourne's future 1st . I think they may fall in a screaming heap next

They are tanking. They are ripping the bandaid off and trying to get in before Tassie start ****ing the draft. They aren't trading their F1.

 

[eaglevision]

Completely expected, but once it was announced the compo pick didn't have to be traded thought we might grow a pair

Dev must be thrown in with it surely

Need Dev to be delisted so we can take him as a rookie. **** I hope we’re smart enough to tell Brisbane and Dev that.

 

[Toli13]

Does anyone have any intel on Jy Simpkin

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Jy Simpkin

Age

27

Ht

183cm

Wt

77kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.0

4star

K

7.9

3star

HB

8.1

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

3.3

5star

CL

2.9

4star

D

20.6

5star

K

11.0

4star

HB

9.6

5star

M

2.0

2star

T

3.5

4star

CL

5.5

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

4.4

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.4

4star

CL

0.2

2star

?

Cal Twomey said on FF last night that we would love him but he doesn’t want to head west. Any truth to that?

 

[HoneyBadger35]

The pick will end up at about 45, but even still I’d like to see them at least start with a harder bargain.

Not too fussed in the long run, Starcevich is bloody good and that pick is getting pushed to the shadow realm so we move. Will be good to get it done and fingers crossed he stays healthy for everyone’s sake.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Need Dev to be delisted so we can take him as a rookie. **** I hope we’re smart enough to tell Brisbane and Dev that.

If it's 23 for Starc they better do the right thing by Dev and do whatever we ask them to do.

 

[Boohemian]

They are tanking. They are ripping the bandaid off and trying to get in before Tassie start ****ing the draft. They aren't trading their F1.

Well they're certainly not getting much better if they're trading out their best two midfielders.

Wouldn't be the first time either. Wonder if they've ever contemplated just folding instead of tanking.

 

[Elite Pete]