2025 List Management Thread

[Bulldogs201616]

Pretty underwhelming trade period so far. Hopefully we make a move soon. Are we thinking any moves get done other then Buku jamarra and budarick ?

[Uninformed]

A very quick age bracket of our squad:

18-23: (17)
O’Donnell, Busslinger, Freijah, Darcy, Sanders, Hynes, Croft
Cleary, Sellwood, Jaques, Kennedy, Gallagher, Poulter, Dolan, Walker, Jones, Smith

24-29: (17)
Dale, Budarick, Williams, Davidson, Naughton, Kennedy, Weightman, West, English, Richards, Bramble
Gardner, Coffield, Baker, Vandermeer, McNeil, Garcia

30+: (6)
Lobb, Bontempelli, Liberatore, Treloar
Harmes, Johannisen

Makes sense to only bring on 2-3 kids as they nearly make up half the squad already!

The 18-23's look very promising. Maybe only a couple of misses in that lot.

[jazzadogs]

I see Buku's value as being around pick 35, somewhere between 30-40.

25yo - prime of his career.
Contracted - this is the key part that kicks up his value from pick 50 to a second rounder.
31/47 games in the past two years - that's not quite best 23, but shows he is right in the mix.
Has played forward, back, ruck.

I think we will want to respect his wishes and move him on, but won't do it if the deal is crap.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Keep him. He's good depth and while it's nice to be helping him make a bag and our opponents, the onus on our club is to do what's best for us. He's contracted after all and he'll play games. If we don't get a good offer, he stays.

We ain't a charity.

[Hotdog60]

I wonder if Carlton have had a change of mind and are low balling to make us give him up for peanuts or say we keep him.
If they lose Curnow Buku can fill a forward role and would more of a asset.

[Aidan7557]

Carlton are currently only offering a future 3rd round pick for Buku Khamis which is unders for a contracted player who they targeted 2 months ago.
As much as I would be happy to let Khamis search for more opportunities to player senior football I'm not inclined to let him go for a pick in the 50's.

If a vastly improved offer doesn't come through should we keep him or should we do the right thing and help him depart?

Right now with no KDP coming in I think we almost have to keep him for depth at least. Out of contract we take that offer but because he has one year left we can command a better deal. Pick in the 30s-40s ideally but maybe we can poach a FF2nd round pick?

[GVGjr]

Carlton are currently only offering a future 3rd round pick for Buku Khamis which is unders for a contracted player who they targeted 2 months ago.
As much as I would be happy to let Khamis search for more opportunities to player senior football I'm not inclined to let him go for a pick in the 50's.

If a vastly improved offer doesn't come through should we keep him or should we do the right thing and help him depart?

[lemmon]

We asked the question for Geelong's Knevitt and Brisbane's Roberstson so I'm wondering if we have another shot at bringing in a midfielder?
I'd like us to get a taller defender but there is a chance a midfielder is a bigger priority for the club.

It sounds like we're targeted in what we're after - a player with a mix of speed and endurance in that role who can push big kilometres at good intensity.

Florent may fit that bill? He's the only one that springs to mind, but we seem to be working more towards an underappreciated youngster.

[Stevo]

Ballard being a free agent next year, he’s 10x the player Butts is

You don't think we should bring in Budarick? 10 times seems a stretch

[GVGjr]

We asked the question for Geelong's Knevitt and Brisbane's Roberstson so I'm wondering if we have another shot at bringing in a midfielder?
I'd like us to get a taller defender but there is a chance a midfielder is a bigger priority for the club.

[Aidan7557]

I can't believe Bont is 30. I'm not ready for that.

Halfway done to me. 10 good years left.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

I can't believe Bont is 30. I'm not ready for that.

[Willow18]

We need to look at this trade and draft period a little bit different to most other years.
What I mean is that after drafting 5 players at last years National Draft we also selected 2 players at the mid season draft.
Those two players are the selections we might have otherwise used in the 3rd and 4th rounds in the this draft.
Basically we got a jump start and have had a few months to work with Sellwood and Walker and they gained finals and GF experiences at the VFL level.

If you look at this when we only draft 2 or maybe 3 players this year remember that Sellwood and Walker fill in those missing spots.

A very quick age bracket of our squad:

18-23: (17)
O’Donnell, Busslinger, Freijah, Darcy, Sanders, Hynes, Croft
Cleary, Sellwood, Jaques, Kennedy, Gallagher, Poulter, Dolan, Walker, Jones, Smith

24-29: (17)
Dale, Budarick, Williams, Davidson, Naughton, Kennedy, Weightman, West, English, Richards, Bramble
Gardner, Coffield, Baker, Vandermeer, McNeil, Garcia

30+: (6)
Lobb, Bontempelli, Liberatore, Treloar
Harmes, Johannisen

Makes sense to only bring on 2-3 kids as they nearly make up half the squad already!

[Willow18]

Ballard being a free agent next year, he’s 10x the player Butts is

[Aidan7557]

We need to look at this trade and draft period a little bit different to most other years.
What I mean is that after drafting 5 players at last years National Draft we also selected 2 players at the mid season draft.
Those two players are the selections we might have otherwise used in the 3rd and 4th rounds in the this draft.
Basically we got a jump start and have had a few months to work with Sellwood and Walker and they gained finals and GF experiences at the VFL level.

If you look at this when we only draft 2 or maybe 3 players this year remember that Sellwood and Walker fill in those missing spots.

I think people are fine with our draft strategy overall. I think the frustration is coming from the trade period especially when comparing ourselves to the other top teams. Seems like that key back won't be filled and if it isn't, will put lots of eyes on list management and the coaches next year and fairly enough imo. We know our weakness and haVE the off season to address so the internal improvement would want to be drastic if no talent comes in. Also would be hoping guys like Butts, May etc have poor seasons, just imagine if Butts had an all aus type of year, I think that would be enough for some supporters.