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]

The good thing about the preseason draft is just that, it’s a draft.

It isn’t walk to the club of your choice.

If he somehow gets there, I do hope we actually do it

 

[VinegarStrokes]

In a world where that happens - only if he has any interest in coming to WCE.

Sounds like we were in the race, so perhaps, but no point picking up a player that is committed to another club and would rather not he playing for you.

Just pick him and agree with Ah Chee / Adelaide we trade him there next year for the same R2 pick they have been offering?

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Sounds like the Dees might be a landing spot for Steele.

WTF do Saints do with the picks they get for that trade:

• Sheepishly apologise to Leek and attempt to trade with GWS.
• Go to draft night with a shit-eating grin and never make eye-contact with Leek again.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Sounds like the Dees might be a landing spot for Steele.

WTF do Saints do with the picks they get for that trade:

• Sheepishly apologise to Leek and attempt to trade with GWS.
• Go to draft night with a shit-eating grin and never make eye-contact with Leek again.

They won’t get much for Steele, not enough to make an Aleer trade happen

 

[Broken_Chairs]

No trades announced until after 2pm AEST.

The AFL insistence on dramatising the trade deadline is so ****ing forced and cringe.

 

[sey666]

Ask Shaniqua, she knows

I had to look this up. Anyway, I thought it was a simple typo on ATG's part.

 

[TerryFilk]

Can picks still be traded post deadline? I know in years past there was like a window where they could, think it closed a week or two before the draft, but can’t find dates anywhere.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Sounds like the Dees might be a landing spot for Steele.

WTF do Saints do with the picks they get for that trade:

• Sheepishly apologise to Leek and attempt to trade with GWS.
• Go to draft night with a shit-eating grin and never make eye-contact with Leek again.

Leek has re-signed with GWS so most likely the latter.

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Leek has re-signed with GWS so most likely the latter.

Didn't see that went through - cheers.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Is Robey not a risky pick? What is his rise based on? His last month of football was excellent but it's come out of nowhere and was against other kids from a supposedly weak draft class.

CDT was ranked highly at the start of the year, looked reasonably solid throughout the year, had a decent VFL outing and did well at the combine.

Out of these two, it's CDT all day for me.

Same here. I'm typically on board with a swing for the fences type pick, but I wouldn't want to do it with pick 1 or 2. Whoever you're getting in that spot should at least have a floor as a good AFL player. Late in the top 10 I'd be a lot more comfortable with the risk.

 

[Barrybran]

If CDT had a very good outing in the VFL as a ruck then I'd be much more comfortable.

Is he a ruck at the next level though?

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Same here. I'm typically on board with a swing for the fences type pick, but I wouldn't want to do it with pick 1 or 2. Whoever you're getting in that spot should at least have a floor as a good AFL player. Late in the top 10 I'd be a lot more comfortable with the risk.

Especially when we're horsehit. Once we improve we can take the more high risk high reward picks.

I don't want to spend 10 years on the bottom cos we keep taking risks that blow up in our faces on the off-chance one works out.

 

[THE A5]

Yeah be careful you don't get lost in that dude's eyes

More of an ass man tbf

 

[eaglevision]

WTF. Swans offloading cap and then not getting Curnow would be a disaster for Chad2028.

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

Huh. That's very odd.

 

[Mop]

Is he a ruck at the next level though?

I think that’s the point - he’s barely one now

 

[Cuzz09]

Ah Chee at WCE would have similar or less output than Ryan and vice versa so probably is worth 2nd rounder yeah.

Im never buying Continental tyres just to spite the AFL

 

[Couchpotato]

Sounds like Hawks getting pick 22 for a trade to Ess.

Would we do pick 2 for pick 5, 21 and 22? Probably opens up the likes of FRod and Curtin.

1, 5, 13, 21, 22

 

[Cuzz09]

Seems Carlton pulled the old swift on Swans.

"what if we add Florent, can we have Charlie?
'nah, he's shit"
"oh well, if you don't want him we'll take him off your hands for stuff all"
"ok"
"suckers....now we reckon Warner is shit too"

 

[Mop]

Sounds like Hawks getting pick 22 for a trade to Ess.

Would we do pick 2 for pick 5, 21 and 22? Probably opens up the likes of FRod and Curtin.

1, 5, 15, 21, 22

We’ve still only got 4 spots max though, unless we use 15/21/22 to trade up

 

[Barrybran]

Ah Chee at WCE would have similar or less output than Ryan and vice versa so probably is worth 2nd rounder yeah.

Im never buying Continental tyres just to spite the AFL

He's out of contract so the Adelaide offer isn't unreasonable. Based on the Starcevich trade, we'd have over a second though, which we could easily do if we wanted to.

 

[Cuzz09]

We’ve still only got 4 spots max though, unless we use 15/21/22 to trade up

trade 13 for 15,22,22 then trade 15,21 abd 22 for 14

 

[eaglevision]

Ah Chee is worth far more than Ryan. Played almost every game since 2020 apart from injury in 2023 and missed half the season. Performed in finals, if we can get him to replace Ryan for free via the PSD it would be a huge coup.

 

[Mop]

He's out of contract so the Adelaide offer isn't unreasonable. Based on the Starcevich trade, we'd have over a second though, which we could easily do if we wanted to.

Why trade though? We could literally do the groundwork between now and PSD to sweet talk him, pay him overs etc etc

No trade required here. Genuinely

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Is he a ruck at the next level though?

Hope we view any ruck prospect through lens of the future rule changes:

• No bounce
• Focus on removing the wrestling element to allow rucks to leap and tap.

How's CDT's leap?