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

 

[Keys]

If Clarke is talking to Gold Coast about getting in on the Petracca deal so we get pick 8 as a byproduct then that’s not a bad thing

 

[Mop]

Hearing Essendon are about to offer pick 5,9,22 for pick 1, which them accepting Merrett offer is conditional on.

I’d counter with 5,6,F1 for 1,13. See how much they want Duursma.

That’s pretty good. Okay we don’t get Duursma but that’s a quality rebuild kick right there.

Yeah I’m in with that

 

[ghostbat12]

trade pick 2 to Ess for 5&6.

Walter for Pick 6.

have pick 1, 5, Walter. do some back end deals to increase points for suns.

get it done Clarky

 

[FatPizza]

I'm not a doomer by any means when it comes to Clarke, but I do get anxious whenever there's a possibility of us doing something.

 

[Bestbird]

Pick 1 should be off the table IMO

Interesting the value of the top end players makes the Tim Kelly

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Tim Kelly

Age

31

Ht

184cm

Wt

83kg

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M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.6

5star

K

13.5

5star

HB

10.1

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

4.0

5star

CL

4.9

5star

D

19.9

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

7.6

4star

M

3.1

3star

T

4.7

5star

CL

3.6

4star

D

21.6

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

11.2

5star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.8

5star

CL

3.8

5star

trade look very reasonable, although i gather it says more about the lack of depth in this years draft.

 

[Patron]

If Clarke is talking to Gold Coast about getting in on the Petracca deal so we get pick 8 as a byproduct then that’s not a bad thing

Or a threeway with melbourne for pick 1 or 2.

 

[Obeanie1]

I think it's all about the environment. The club's in a shambles right now, Harley's barely able to keep his head above water and he was touted the best prospect seen in decades, so I'm a little ehhh on how guys who aren't quite up to his level will fare in our environment.

Depends on the day for me tbh, one day I'm like, yeah, take the best kid available, next day I'm like get a number of players for the pick cos we need as many highly talented youngsters we can get to kickstart this thing.

Well with picks 1 and 2 we can do both.

 

[TerryFilk]

Did someone say we’re involved in something?

 

[TOA.]

To be fair, the top of this years draft is all over the shop so Clarke can't make too much of a meal of it by splitting picks - unlike previous years.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

That makes no sense for us. Given our squeeze on main list spots, we want fewer, higher picks, not more, lower picks.

I'm not saying that we should do this trade, but if a trade comes up that makes sense we can always open list spots by delisting players. We have a few that could go even if contracted at no loss to us.

 

[Bender_]

What could we get from Essendon if we chuck in pick 19 as a sweetener?

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Hope we do find a way to trade for Walter just so I never have to read another ****ing mock trade where people are clamouring for Walter ever again.

 

[Farmer Lister]

Hearing Essendon are about to offer pick 5,9,22 for pick 1, which them accepting Merrett offer is conditional on.

I’d counter with 5,6,F1 for 1,13. See how much they want Duursma.

Nah pick one should be off the table.

 

[CountryLad]

Are we trading pick one to Brisbane for Dev? I’m getting anxious we won’t get our man

 

[eaglevision]

If Clarke is talking to Gold Coast about getting in on the Petracca deal so we get pick 8 as a byproduct then that’s not a bad thing

2,34,41,52 for 7,8,F2 (MELB)
1,13 for 5,6, F1 (ESS)

5,6,7,8 and add the F1 and F2 for us.

2 goes to Melbourne for Petracca, GCS get the points that 24 from Melbourne would have got. Dees get CDT.

 

[Keys]

Or a threeway with melbourne for pick 1 or 2.

The only club I’d have any interest in trading pick 1 to would be Essendon - the only ones with the collateral and motivation to make it viable

Pick 2 for 7 and 8 which is the best Melbourne could get us I have reservations with

 

[FatPizza]

What could we get from Essendon if we chuck in pick 19 as a sweetener?

Does Pick 19 even want to be traded?

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Petroro said the reported deal put to the Bombers was like nothing he had ever seen before for a player of Merrett's age.

"I've been lucky enough to be in this game for 23 years, I've never seen a deal like this for a 30-year-old," he said.

"For a club that's in a phase where they're focussing on youth, I would've thought three top picks is probably better than a 30-year-old to take the club forward." - Dylan Bolch

To me there is something very gross about a player's manager openly agitating to leave the club that he voluntarily signed a long-term contract with, let alone talking to the media and bagging out that player's current club for not accepting a trade offer.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

2,34,41,52 for 7,8,F2 (GCS)
1,13 for 5,6, F1 (ESS)

5,6,7,8 and add the F1 and F2 for us.

2 goes to Melbourne for Petracca, GCS get the points that 24 from Melbourne would have got. Dees get CDT.

The F1 F2 would certainly be the clinch

 

[bzparkes]

5,6,7,8 and add the F1 and F2 for us.

Ah, you're our Boot Scootin' baby.

 

[Wedgetailed Westerner]

No one is doing that trade though. Tassie have 7? first rounders in 2027. Plus they would have been prelisting 17 year olds the year prior to dilute the draft further. First rounders in 2027 will have extremely limited value as a result.

With the Tazzy thing. Over half the first rounders have to be traded

 

[Patron]

The only club I’d have any interest in trading pick 1 to would be Essendon - the only ones with the collateral and motivation to make it viable

Pick 2 for 7 and 8 which is the best Melbourne could get us I have reservations with

Melbourne have shown they are the most serious about moving up to the top of the order in recent times with huge offers. They gave the best offer for Harley and I would consider their F1 extremely valuable.

1 for 7,8 and their F1, with an F2 or something going back would get me interested. I don't think there is that big a difference this year for us between 4,5 and 7,8.

 

[stylish]

Cant see any reason for WC to get involved today if its just trading picks.
Recruiters will be pouring over footage between now and draft day and as per natural human behaviour, will become stronger in their views of a certain player.
So if someone has a hard-on for CDT right now that will only increase between now and the draft & so will the offer

 

[Goroyals22]

To me there is something very gross about a player's manager openly agitating to leave the club that he voluntarily signed a long-term contract with, let alone talking to the media and bagging out that player's current club for not accepting a trade offer.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

To me there is something very gross about a player's manager openly agitating to leave the club that he voluntarily signed a long-term contract with, let alone talking to the media and bagging out that player's current club for not accepting a trade offer.

Ultimately that’s the job of a player manager, but it does feel the whole player movement thing is starting to reach a critical point.

I will have a level of respect for Essendon for the first time in my life if they don’t budge here.