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

 

[Shuestar13]

It was a shit deal that hinged on Essendon needing to do the smart thing and take as many assets as they could, even if they weren’t particularly good ones.

10 (15ish), 22 (30+) and a first rounder you’d expect slides into the 20s next year, and having to send a pick back to facilitate.

20 A-Graders over there at Hawthorn but evidently not a good wheeler or dealer on the books.

Yeah, I was reading quite a bit of the Merrett thread on the Dons board. Definitely a lot of conflict and in a cold reality, I agree with them needing to move him on for the picks and kick start a rebuild. But Hawthorn and their whole attitude, ugh.

They probably will get him next year and the Bombers get a lot less, but I guess they are backing themselves in to make good with the draft hand they have now. Very brave or crazy

 

[ThePuma #9]

Crows just said they will take Ah Chee via the PSD.

They will probably offer him a two year deal on stupid money and then the other years later on for nothing to smooth it out but we can afford it.

We should get on the phone to Callum and tell him we are taking him but we want to pay him very handsomely for it so let's talk.

 

[Roobs321]

gee, that Curnow deal is costly, PRESSURE!

 

[amazingjoshy]

The PSD isnt a real threat crowd gone quiet

 

[ghostbat12]

gee, that Curnow deal is costly, PRESSURE!

he is worth every cent. especially if you look at where swan weaknesses are.

 

[Smotie2]

Surely we talk to achee and offer him casherooonie

 

[Roobs321]

Carlton won't make the 8 next year looking at those list changes

 

[Bestbird]

Hawks unwilling to hand over a decent best 22 player was the issue.

 

[SpecialBruce]

Merrett 3o0 years of age , Essendon didn't trade , bad blood between Hawks and Essendon must be very real .

The Hawks offer was more than fair. Essendon want to keep someone who doesn't want to be there. They could have improved their list. Their culture is bad.

Eagles no nonsense. Do trades to help them improve. Your culture is good.

Who will be the first to be successful again? You will be without a doubt.

 

[TerryFilk]

If Ah Chee gets to Adelaide through the PSD then it just proves a lot of people’s points in here about how bad we are at negotiating, considering we have pick 1 in the PSD and apparently have zero idea how to leverage that.

 

[Elite Pete]

 

[Yippy Yi Yeo]

Tell Ah Chee we'll give him an extra 500k in the first year on top of what crows are offering, no one could turn that down.

 

[ThePuma #9]

The Hawks offer was more than fair. Essendon want to keep someone who doesn't want to be there. They could have improved their list. Their culture is bad.

Eagles no nonsense. Do trades to help them improve. Your culture is good.

Who will be the first to be successful again? You will be without a doubt.

Let's hope we can get Ah Chee if you decide not to match the Crows offer.

We'll pay you back down the line.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

The Hawks offer was more than fair. Essendon want to keep someone who doesn't want to be there. They could have improved their list. Their culture is bad.

Eagles no nonsense. Do trades to help them improve. Your culture is good.

Who will be the first to be successful again? You will be without a doubt.

If just makes nonsense from Essendon's perspective and it seems to be a continuation of the list management culture of the past under dodo.

 

[Goroyals22]

If Ah Chee gets to Adelaide through the PSD then it just proves a lot of people’s points in here about how bad we are at negotiating, considering we have pick 1 in the PSD and apparently have zero idea how to leverage that.

There’s a limit to how far we can go with it. No point blowing the bank with him.. he isn’t a must have

 

[Deplorable trumpster]

Even if Ah Chee wants to get to Adelaide we could take him in the PSD and agree to trade him to Adelaide next year for a top 20 pick. Get a top 20 pick for nothing.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Crows just said they will take Ah Chee via the PSD.

Can't take him if he isn't there!

 

[Ishmael_]

In the end it wasn't enough, but mamma mia, I did love Petroro attempting to perform Italian until those pasty Hawks gave in.

 

[Farmer Lister]

Ah Chee will still go to Adelaide says Cal Twomey.

That's not how a draft works

 

[Wce17]

Tell Crows we want a deal for that F2 or we take him in the PSD. Can we do that? Some sort of pick swap

 

[new breed]

We should forget about AhChee unless he is keen....

 

[boondy]

Adelaide must have offered him more than we did initially , but now he is a free hit we on principle should be into picking him up in psd .

 

[Westend]

So just checked the Adelaide board they are pretty sure they will get Ah Chee

We hold the number 1 pick in the PSD.....but if he wants to go to the crows ..??? how does this work

is this a bidding war how much money between the Crows and eagles offer for his signature ?

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

If Ah Chee gets to Adelaide through the PSD then it just proves a lot of people’s points in here about how bad we are at negotiating, considering we have pick 1 in the PSD and apparently have zero idea how to leverage that.

I wouldn't say it would be an indictment of the Eagles specifically, since a whole stack of clubs have picks before Adelaide. If he does get through to them then it's an indication that every AFL club just has a gentlemen's agreement to let players get to their preferred destination through the PSD, not that the Eagles are somehow incompetent.

 

[ThePuma #9]

Can't take him if he isn't there!