2025 List Management

[UUaswan]

Would play Ollie over Bice

Lloyd is on the Outer, Ollie needs to get back in

[imuninformedtwo]

This is exceptionally vague and potentially meaningless, but just pegging it in case - an article suggesting rival club interest in Florent.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2025/06/20/rival-interest-growing-in-victorian-swan

[BRS328]

It does make a difference at draft time. You don't get to add to your rookie list until the xxxx end of the draft. I guess you can clear a senior list spot by 'demoting' someone to the rookie list. But you have to be careful about delisting players you want to keep (or might want to keep, or might want to get something back for if they leave) because they immediately become delisted free agents. (See James Jordon, for example.)

Very good point Liz

[Roadrunner]

Ramps deserves another year as his form has been ok and we don’t seem to have an obvious replacement at this stage. Lloyd should retire, no doubt. Has been a great servant but his form this year has been poor. Fox’s spot will depend on how he goes from here on. McLean and Ladhams to a lesser extent, are needed as we don’t have many talls. Adams is too injury prone and adds very little so should be let go. Hamling is only VFL level, unlike Francis who can be called upon as needed for our seniors.

I’m confident Ollie will regain his form and he is needed for depth- should not be traded unless we do a massive acquisition of a star player. Which I think we need but may be very difficult to obtain at a fair price.

[liz]

I do agree with everything you are saying, but there is really little difference between the rookie list and primary list as all are available for senior selection. A good example is Tom Papley was initially drafted on the rookie list and if my memory serves me correctly, he has never played a game in the VFL. Makes you wonder why we even have rookie list instead of a primary list of 44 players

It does make a difference at draft time. You don't get to add to your rookie list until the xxxx end of the draft. I guess you can clear a senior list spot by 'demoting' someone to the rookie list. But you have to be careful about delisting players you want to keep (or might want to keep, or might want to get something back for if they leave) because they immediately become delisted free agents. (See James Jordon, for example.)