Rumour GFC 2025 Player Trading, Drafting FA, Rumours and Wish lists Pt 3

[cats_09]

2025 AFL Draft and Trade Dates:​

Fri Oct 3 - Fri Oct 10: 2025 Free Agency Period
Mon Oct 6 - Wed Oct 15: 2025 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period
Wed Nov 19 - Thu Nov 20: 2025 Telstra AFL Draft

 

[you pick one]

Never thought we'd get Curnow or Marshall. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that opposition clubs have agreed never to let us get their contracted players so that we can get even better. I can't prove that, but I feel it. Might just be all in my head, though.

Mackie in the corridors Wednesday night was friendless.

 

[joe444]

I can say with reliability that you underrate draft picks.

Yes but the thought of round one pick you will receive a player ready to go. That’s far from the case in reality.

We’ve been lucky in the draft, but saying overs in regard to getting a ruck who’s still competing extremely well at the top of his game is hilarious.

Known quantity versus the unknown. A few don’t grasp that.

That's why I literally only listed picks in the 1st and early 2nd rounds.

I think your opinion made more sense 10 years ago when drafting was less of a science. At the moment we're tracking at a rate of every 2nd player being a career player. The fact that a fellow poster had to mention Thurlow as a rebuttal kinda proves the point.

Worth sacrificing for Cameron, not for Marshall.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

anyone be intrested in rookie listing Arie Schoenmaker?
dropped his draft year for character/off field stuff but had the talent of a top 20 guy.
decent size and a massive left foot kick.

Even without the off field stuff he's slow as

 

[MacStradbroke]

Even without the off field stuff he's slow as

Schoenmaker and Hustwaite in a race would be an enthralling watch

 

[standupand]

I don't think I've ever said this, but we're being completely moronic if that's the case.

Maybe Bews at a stretch if he's on the rookie list as depth. I don't hate that idea.

Expecting Cam to play again and going through this charade for the fourth year in a row is more than fools gold, it's complete delusion.

With Cam it all boils down to the medical advice doesn't it? If it's optimistic, then why not keep him on? He's the absolute professional and team player. I don't imagine he would keep going if it was going to hurt the team.

 

[joe444]

Schoenmaker and Hustwaite in a race would be an enthralling watch

I feel sorry for Hustwaite - that trade period must have been brutal for the self-esteem.

 

[thegerman]

That's why I literally only listed picks in the 1st and early 2nd rounds.

I think your opinion made more sense 10 years ago when drafting was less of a science. At the moment we're tracking at a rate of every 2nd player being a career player. The fact that a fellow poster had to mention Thurlow as a rebuttal kinda proves the point.

Worth sacrificing for Cameron, not for Marshall.

That fellow was me.

You didn’t mention Cooper Stephens or Darcy Lang. So was it a science 5 years ago? FMD.

There was a number of other first round misses also, so there you go I guess.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Schoenmaker and Hustwaite in a race would be an enthralling watch

Get them to do a lap of the oval. Make a coffee and drink half of it before they finish

 

[Cataholic]

With Cam it all boils down to the medical advice doesn't it? If it's optimistic, then why not keep him on? He's the absolute professional and team player. I don't imagine he would keep going if it was going to hurt the team.

He's coming up 34, and hasn't played for what.....3 years?

I get your point about the medical advice etc, but it's hard to see how he'll stand up to the rigours of footy given his record with injury and absence from competitive footy for so long.

 

[cats_09]

Schoenmaker and Hustwaite in a race would be an enthralling watch

Where would Constable come if it was a race between 3?

 

[cats_09]

With Cam it all boils down to the medical advice doesn't it? If it's optimistic, then why not keep him on? He's the absolute professional and team player. I don't imagine he would keep going if it was going to hurt the team.

It's been over 500 days since he last played a senior football match

 

[Pure_Ownage]

I think you should be allowed to match only if your offer was within a certain % (e.g. 10%) of the rival offer. You cannot criminally undervalue and then miraculously find the money under cushions etc.

I mean under the rules you can because gws matched Cameron with cap room they didn't really have.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

He's coming up 34, and hasn't played for what.....3 years?

I get your point about the medical advice etc, but it's hard to see how he'll stand up to the rigours of footy given his record with injury and absence from competitive footy for so long.

If we retain guthrie and delist Clohesy i think i'll have a seizure

 

[dudusmaximus]

I mean under the rules you can because gws matched Cameron with cap room they didn't really have.

Agree. I was suggesting it change.

 

[you pick one]

With Cam it all boils down to the medical advice doesn't it? If it's optimistic, then why not keep him on? He's the absolute professional and team player. I don't imagine he would keep going if it was going to hurt the team.

The body often lets down the ambitions of the mind he's cooked time to withdraw gracefully.

 

[Cataholic]

If we retain guthrie and delist Clohesy i think i'll have a seizure

Same.

We'll make out like a pair of epileptics

 

[Spearman]

DAAS (Drafting as a Service)

Well, don't some leagues allow for lending of players for set lengths of time. We could lend some club Wells on draft days in exchange for...?

 

[Pure_Ownage]

If we retain guthrie and delist Clohesy i think i'll have a seizure

Why not delist both.

 

[Hamingja]

Schoenmaker and Hustwaite in a race would be an enthralling watch

 

[Pollywaffle]

I wouldn't mind seeing the club employ Hawkins as a PT for Neale just to teach him positioning and bodywork during the off-season.

Can he work for us and Melbourne?

 

[Cataholic]

Can he work for us and Melbourne?

Yeah, apparently not.

But tbh I didn't know he was working for Melbourne.

My bad.

 

[dudusmaximus]

Well, don't some leagues allow for lending of players for set lengths of time. We could lend some club Wells on draft days in exchange for...?

their R4 pick?

 

[standupand]

It's been over 500 days since he last played a senior football match

Should be pretty fresh then.

 

[thegerman]

If we retain guthrie and delist Clohesy i think i'll have a seizure

It wouldn’t make sense, rather selfish from Cam tbh

 

[year of the cat]

So what’s our pick 19 projected to be after academy bids etc? And who are the players we are likely to have available to us here? Haven’t followed the U18’s hardly at all this year.