SANFL List Management 2024-25

[RossFC]

I'll try to update what happens with the Maggies list in this post & thread.

*Aligned club when not picked in brackets.

Re-signed:
Nick Moore (SMOSH West Lakes) - SANFL Captain. Tough inside midfielder, injury hit season only played 9 games in 2024.
Jake Weidemann (Tailem Bend) - 190cm KPF/KPD who played 16 games and kicked 6 goals in 2024.
Hugh Ferrari (Old Ignatians) - Small forward, Brother of Will Ferrari, who played 14 games and kicked 11 goals in 2024.
Aidan Turner (Moonta) - Forward/Mid who played 14 games in 2024.
Bailey Chamberlain (Henley Sharks) - Winger who played 10 games in 2024.
Kye Roberts (South Gawler) - Half back flanker, played 7 games in 2024.
Harry Williams (South Clare) - Midfielder/Defender who played 6 games in 2024.
Dustin Launer (Eudunda Robertstown) - Winger who played 6 games in 2024.
Brayden Calvett (Athelstone) - Played 6 games in 2024.
Miller Carter (Moonta) - 190cm KPF, Son of Stephen Carter. Played 5 games in 2024.
Josh Byrne (Broadview) - Played 5 games in 2024.
Rome Burgoyne (WWT Eagles) - Son of Peter, brother of Jase, Defender who played 3 games while on loan in 2024.
Will O'Brien (Barossa District) - Played 3 games in 2024.
Cormack O'Reilly (Athelstone) - Played 3 games in 2024.

New:
Jez McLennan (Centrals Reserves/Tanunda) - 24 year old half back flanker from Centrals who was in the SANFL TOTY, formerly on Gold Coast's AFL list.
Oliver Francou (North Adel Reserves) - 18 year old midfielder, Son of Josh Francou

Josh Francou

Age

51

Ht

185cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.4

5star

K

10.7

4star

HB

8.6

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

2.9

4star

No current season stats available

D

14.2

4star

K

8.4

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

2.0

3star

T

0.8

3star

, recruited from North Adelaide U18s.
Austin Harris (Gawler Central) - Recruited from North Adelaide's Reserves where he played 10 games in 2024.
Shay Linke (Tanunda) - Recruited from Centrals Reserves. 20 year old 190cm forward. Played 11 games in 2024.
Heath Growden (Willaston). Recruited from Willaston. Played U18s for Centrals in 2023.
Jack Watkins - Recruited from North Melbourne VFL, 24 year old midfielder who was their captain.
Mack Bowman (South Clare) - Recruited from South Clare. 24 year old who also played a game for North Adelaide in 2022.
Ryan Carnelly (Goolwa/Port Elliot) - Recruited from Goolwa/Port Elliot. Played 3 games for Centrals in 2020.
Nic Couroupis (Henley Sharks) - Recruited from Henley Sharks. Also played a game for West Adelaide in 2023.

Unsigned: -

Gone:
Louie Montgomery - Signs for GWS (VFL).
Ky Burgoyne - Returns to West Adelaide.
Murphy Short - Signs for Port Douglas (AFL Cairns).
Cody Szust - Returns to Murray Bridge Ramblers.
Tyson Brazel - Signs with Yarraville Seddon Eagles.
Preston Cockatoo-Collins - Signs with Morningside (QAFL).
Dylan Aldridge - Returns to Moonta/Signs with PINT (NTFL).
Will Ferrari - Returns to Old Ignatians.
Lachlan Pascoe - Returns to Golden Grove.
Reed Stevens - Returns to Goodwood Saints.
Oliver Cheesman - Returns to Glenunga.
Beau Baldwin - Returns to Rostrevor OC
Cody Gilchrist - Returns to South Gawler.
Nathaniel Cooper - Returns to Goodwood Saints/Signs with Tiwi Bombers (NTFL)
Kyle Marshall - Signs with South Adelaide.

 

[kgerlach01]

Moore, Weidemann, szust, Short. Those 4 to me are must keeps.

I think I'd give that Josh Byrne another crack, he was good in the games he played till he did his knee. Hugh Ferrari, Chamberlain, Cockatoo, Aldridge, Carter and Pascoe I'd be indifferent too, happy to keep em but if they move on they move on.

I think the rest just aren't up to it unfortunately, not their fault at all.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

New SANFL rules hopefully mean we improve the list.

Keep: Moore, Szust, Weidemann
Maybe keep: the good Ferrari brother

Everyone else can go

 

[kgerlach01]

New SANFL rules hopefully mean we improve the list.

Keep: Moore, Szust, Weidemann
Maybe keep: the good Ferrari brother

Everyone else can go

Gotta keep Murphy Short. I think he's been really good since joining last season and he'll be high up in out BnF this year.

But I mostly agree

 

[RossFC]

I'd keep Nick Moore, Szust (play him deep forward), Short, Weidemann, Hugh Ferrari, Cockatoo-Collins, and Pascoe.

Would hope to see Gilchrist and Cooper once though. Cooper looked good in the intra-club last season.

 

[RossFC]

Tex Wanganeen delisted by Essendon.

 

[VineValerian]

I'd keep Nick Moore, Szust (play him deep forward), Short, Weidemann, Hugh Ferrari, Cockatoo-Collins, and Pascoe.

Would hope to see Gilchrist and Cooper once though. Cooper looked good in the intra-club last season

My son is an assistant coach for Modbury C2 grade footy side.
He said Cooper will be playing against Modbury this weekend in a qualifying final!!!
So Port are recruiting top up players from the Ammo's Div 2 (not 'A' or 'B' grades, but from the 'C' grade level)?
What have we become?

 

[RossFC]

My son is an assistant coach for Modbury C2 grade footy side.
He said Cooper will be playing against Modbury this weekend in a qualifying final!!!
So Port are recruiting top up players from the Ammo's Div 2 (not 'A' or 'B' grades, but from the 'C' grade level)?
What have we become?

Cooper was a GWS VFL player in 2022. Was playing A and B grade for Goodwood in 2023 before we recruited him.

 

[kgerlach01]

Tex Wanganeen delisted by Essendon.

No suprise there.

 

[RossFC]

No suprise there.

Another note with Tex Wanganeen that I mentioned in another thread is he hasn't played an AFL game for 2 years so he can be on our SANFL list.

 

[VineValerian]

Cooper was a GWS VFL player in 2022. Was playing A and B grade for Goodwood in 2023 before we recruited him.

And somehow playing C2 ammo's now! Sounds like a real rort going on there by Goodies.

 

[RossFC]

Andrew Capel claiming that we targeted Matthew Allen from Glenelg but he rejected the offer.

 

[RossFC]

Former Port Magpie Alex Barns leaves Morphettville Park to join Kingston.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

If I was List Management I would recruit the best 3 VFL or SANFL midfielders and pay them to tend bar at the Precinct for a wad of cash.

It would allow a great stability with the team and allow us to compete strongly.

 

[raptalia]

Does anyone know what difference these new SANFL/AFL rules will make ? How do they differ from the current arrangements?

What we need is an influx of three or four 100 game AFL/SANFL players into the Port Magpies list. Under the present set up we have too many AFL kids and sub standard top up players. Do the revised rules accommodate this?

 

[RossFC]

Does anyone know what difference these new SANFL/AFL rules will make ? How do they differ from the current arrangements?

What we need is an influx of three or four 100 game AFL/SANFL players into the Port Magpies list. Under the present set up we have too many AFL kids and sub standard top up players. Do the revised rules accommodate this?

Not official yet but I’m hearing this is what could happen.

Not sure if the pay will change, but we will have the ability to sign players delisted from the AFL straight away, instead of the past rule where they had to not play AFL for 2 years.

Also can sign 6 U21s players and 4 overage players from other SANFL clubs, even if they are best 22. Limited to 1 U21 + 1 overage player per club. The old rule was we could recruit the best ressies players from other SANFL clubs.

 

[raptalia]

Not official yet but I’m hearing this is what could happen.

Not sure if the pay will change, but we will have the ability to sign players delisted from the AFL straight away, instead of the past rule where they had to not play AFL for 2 years.

Also can sign 6 U21s players and 4 overage players from other SANFL clubs, even if they are best 22. Limited to 1 U21 + 1 overage player per club. The old rule was we could recruit the best ressies players from other SANFL clubs.

The 4 over age best 22 players from other SANFL clubs looks promising. If we could add 4 players with 100 SANFL games experience it should help the younger AFL listed players. The bit about signing delisted AFL players straight away is also good as we could delist a player then sign him to the Port Magpies with the prospect of re listing on the AFL list mid season. That could work well for the player and the Club.

 

[1954]

Not official yet but I’m hearing this is what could happen.

Not sure if the pay will change, but we will have the ability to sign players delisted from the AFL straight away, instead of the past rule where they had to not play AFL for 2 years.

Also can sign 6 U21s players and 4 overage players from other SANFL clubs, even if they are best 22. Limited to 1 U21 + 1 overage player per club. The old rule was we could recruit the best ressies players from other SANFL clubs.

The new rules may help in finding better top up players but if the amount we can pay them doesn't change significantly the major problem with retaining them will remain ad infinitum, ie Port find a player whether it be locally or from interstate but can only pay him the current $450ish a game, he has a good year at Alberton and then sturt, glenelg or the deadlegs offer him multiple x that, resulting in goneski, and we have to start the process all over again.

 

[kgerlach01]

I'd like to see us pick up a genuine Ruck man on our magpie list. I dont think we've had one since Johnothan Ross. Makoi played 2 games in a struggling season.

I think this season Brazel was our only consideration of a ruck in our top up list.

 

[shewho]

The only incentive to come to Port for any top-up player is the chance to be looked at closely for the Mid-Season draft- Sutcliffe, Logan Evans etc. That doesn’t work for 10 players.

In addition, the top up players have the very real prospect of having to play parkland footy if we have few injuries. We will struggle to recruit more than a couple SANFL standard top ups.

 

[kgerlach01]

A bloke named Jonti Scuback has left south citing "travel" but is committed to signing with another SANFL club, some rumours are he's keen to sign as a top up for either Port or Crows.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Jonti Schuback, played for Gippsland Power and Vic Country in 2022, wingman, medium defender.

Jonti Schuback Draft Profile

Gippsland Power prospect Jonti Schuback is a smooth mover with silky skills, capable of setting up play off half-back or the wing.

central.rookieme.com

 

[kgerlach01]

2023 and 2024 stats

 

[kgerlach01]

Signed for Westies.

 

[RossFC]

Signed for Westies.

Westies getting it done early, we'll probs know about our signings when the intra-club happens in February haha