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There will be 21 players OOC next year. Will be interesting.
It will, for sure.

If the over-30 group hold up okay (crossing fingers & toes),

we'll have Maynard & Hill;

then best performing youngsters among (Allan, Harry & Ryan already signed):
Jiath, Smit, Steene, Parker & Harrison.
 
It will, for sure.

If the over-30 group hold up okay (crossing fingers & toes),

we'll have Maynard & Hill;

then best performing youngsters among (Allan, Harry & Ryan already signed):
Jiath, Smit, Steene, Parker & Harrison.
We'll see some retirements for sure from the list.
Hill isn't OOC until 2026
Maynard they'll work on over the summer you'd think
Harry is OOC end of 2025, so they'll have to give him an extension.
 
The CBA states “if a player is delisted with a remaining term still on his contract he is to be paid up as per monthly payments schedule to the 31st Oct in the delisted year.
For the period between Nov and all applicable draft periods moving forward the player is to get his monthly payment based on his terms of the contract. Then if he isn’t contracted by the club or any other club at the conclusion of National and rookie drafts he must be paid out his contract in full within 7 days.
This by nature means all his payout would be for the 2025 TPP year

Re your TPP buffer zone. This ability to pay up to 105% is only available if in the previous years you haven’t paid your full TPP. Not as you’ve suggested.

Just for clarity and not trying to be a Pr$&k
What you have quoted relates to how a delisted player is paid out, there is nothing in what you quoted which relates to TPP calculation. If I get a moment, I will track down the regulation.

All payments to a delisted player go the final cap year in which he was on a list.
 

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It has been labelled a ‘Super Draft’, and list managers have been cutting harder and younger than they have in years in an effort to maximise their hauls in late November.
In an effort to create more list space and flexibility entering this year’s draft, which has been touted as the deepest in years, clubs are culling former top picks that were once earmarked as the future of their teams.

There have been more than 100 delistings across the competition, although several clubs have committed to rookie listings players they no longer had space on the senior list for.

Collingwood will take that step with premiership player Oleg Markov and forward Ash Johnson, while Sydney will re-rookie Aaron Francis and Joel Hamling after they were cut this week.

Players still out of contract (updated 30 October)​

PlayerTeam
Pat DangerfieldGeelong
Mitch DuncanGeelong
Rhys StanleyGeelong
Hugh JacksonPort Adelaide
Luke EdwardsWest Coast

The total number of delisted players has eclipsed 100 for the first time since the Covid-impacted 2020 season, which had 121.

Several former first-round selections have already been cut, including Denver Grainger-Barras (2020 No.6), Cooper Stephens (2019 No.16) and Ned McHenry (2018 No.16).

Players from the 2022 draft class, who all came out of their rookie contracts at the end of this season, have also found their futures at risk if they had not broken into the senior side.

AFL delistings: Past five off-seasons​

YearDelistingsAve AgeAve Games
2024103*23.634.9
20239523.842.9
20229423.841.6
20219524.348.7
202012123.335.8

100+ game delistings​

PlayerGames
Seb Ross211
Gary Rohan204
Adam Tomlinson185
Sam Day155
Jack Martin151
Brandan Parfitt130
Matt Taberner125
Tom Clurey124
Alex Witherden121
Riley Bonner112
Ethan Hughes107
 
Re Rookie list
Hate say it but I completely agree with Cornes.
Rookie list is a joke.
Nearly ever club has exploited it.
There’s no way we should be able to put Johnson and Leggy on the rookie list.
It was set up by the AFL to give untried players a chance - what a farce it has become.
They need to fix the parameters or get rid of it and just have one main list size.
 
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Re Rookie list
Hate say it but I completely agree with Cornes.
Rookie list is a joke.
Nearly ever club has exploited it.
There’s no way we should be able to put Johnson and Leggy on the rookie list.
It was set up by the AFL to give untried players a chance - what a farce it has become.
They need to fix the parameters or get rid of it and just one main list size.

Serves no Purpose anymore so just get rid of it

Only keep the Cat B List
 
Re Rookie list
Hate say it but I completely agree with Cornes.
Rookie list is a joke.
Nearly ever club has exploited it.
There’s no way we should be able to put Johnson and Leggy on the rookie list.
It was set up by the AFL to give untried players a chance - what a farce it has become.
They need to fix the parameters or get rid of it and just have one main list size.
Or at least put very strict rules on it, that only players that have played a certain amount of games or haven't been on an afl list.
I think they should increase the cat B list from 2 to 4
 
Looking like we're going with Frampton and Dean as the back up key defenders. Would it be worth putting Dean on the main list and only taking 2 in the draft. That way we could leave a rookie spot for someone like tomlinson or clury. Our side looks well served everywhere else except those 2 KD Positions
Literally makes ZERO sense to not get Tomlinson, the cupboard is absolutely bare currently for KPD.
 
It's complicated, because if you do work your arse off, you won't have an arse and then you can't bearsed, which isn't what we want eitheru0i8i8i8
I think they should get rid of cat a rookies, but I don't think ours are really a rort. We've taken heaps through rookie means recently, so many that last year we had to add Markov and Steene to the senior list prematurely in order to not have too many rookies. It's only being forced to put a couple of rookies on the senior list last year that has led to us doing what we're doing with Oleg and Johnson.

The real rort is for matching points - which we do when we have a player to match and will probably do next year - where you delist and then re-rookie in order to create a couple of fake list vacancies to take extra matching points into the draft. Getting rid of cat a rookies won't stop the real rort.
 
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So, for next year, we have AJ, Macrae and Markov contracted, and Dean, Long, Sullivan and McInnes signed for 1 year.
If none of these make the grade, we'll have a few list spots to fill at the end of next season, and that's not including likely retirements.
We might need more 2025 draft picks.
It’s going to be a tricky one to navigate!

You would expect that most of that group goes (let’s say 5), at least 2 veterans (I’m going to guess Cox and Pendles) and another by trade which means 8 new additions will be required in a supposedly weak draft year. That’s leaving a lot of heavy lifting to FA and late draft picks (most of our hand will be chewed up by a McGuane bid).

Sure we’d be picking late draft, but I can’t help feeling that the better strategy might have been cutting one of Macrae or McInnes as well and taking a 4th ND pick in 2024. It becomes even bleaker if the plan is to move a 2024 pick into 2025 on draft night once our picks come in…
 
The CBA states “if a player is delisted with a remaining term still on his contract he is to be paid up as per monthly payments schedule to the 31st Oct in the delisted year.
For the period between Nov and all applicable draft periods moving forward the player is to get his monthly payment based on his terms of the contract. Then if he isn’t contracted by the club or any other club at the conclusion of National and rookie drafts he must be paid out his contract in full within 7 days.
This by nature means all his payout would be for the 2025 TPP year

Re your TPP buffer zone. This ability to pay up to 105% is only available if in the previous years you haven’t paid your full TPP. Not as you’ve suggested.

Just for clarity and not trying to be a Pr$&k
You need to go to the correct document. With regard to how to determine what payments go to the TPP in any particular year, the operative document is the AFL Rules, not the CBA(don't need the pesky players interfering with cap calculations) - think the below might be the latest copy. Rule 28 is what you are looking for. A lot of the definitions come into it as well - the main one being that a player is no longer a Player once they are not on a List.


You are correct about the availability or unavailability of the buffer - so if the club was insane enough not to re-rookie a player, which then resulted in exceeding the TPP, and they didn't have an available buffer, they would cop a smack on the botty - in the form of sanctions - from the AFL.

Maybe think of what the Swans did with Tippett a few years back. He retired but they re-rookied him to get his payments into the next Footy Year.
 

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Matt, I’m starting to think that you want Tomlinson on our list.
The moment we re-signed reef and long was the moment we washed our hands of Tomlinson. Unless we put HH on inactive list and trial him through pre-season.
 
It’s going to be a tricky one to navigate!

You would expect that most of that group goes (let’s say 5), at least 2 veterans (I’m going to guess Cox and Pendles) and another by trade which means 8 new additions will be required in a supposedly weak draft year. That’s leaving a lot of heavy lifting to FA and late draft picks (most of our hand will be chewed up by a McGuane bid).

Sure we’d be picking late draft, but I can’t help feeling that the better strategy might have been cutting one of Macrae or McInnes as well and taking a 4th ND pick in 2024. It becomes even bleaker if the plan is to move a 2024 pick into 2025 on draft night once our picks come in…

Then again if, say, Reef goes even okay playing down back this coming year, he’s an easy retain at end-2025 because we have so many older players retiring and no draft picks.
 
We'll see some retirements for sure from the list.
Hill isn't OOC until 2026
Maynard they'll work on over the summer you'd think
Harry is OOC end of 2025, so they'll have to give him an extension.
I think Pendles might retire. The others will go when they're pushed (unless it's a significant injury) - it'll be called retirement though.

I'm betting on Howe and Sidey to be allowed to roll on and Titch to be pushed but it'll depend on next year's form. Cox might depend on Smit and Steene.
 
I think Pendles might retire. The others will go when they're pushed (unless it's a significant injury) - it'll be called retirement though.

I'm betting on Howe and Sidey to be allowed to roll on and Titch to be pushed but it'll depend on next year's form. Cox might depend on Smit and Steene.
You shut that dirty little mouth. Pendles is never retiring!
 
We are all-in on a shot at the 2025 Premiership but if Moore cops a significant injury, we are stuffed.

I’m not sure how we make it fit but we absolutely must recruit the best available delisted experienced key defender over the summer.


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We are all-in on a shot at the 2025 Premiership but if Moore cops a significant injury, we are stuffed.

I’m not sure how we make it fit but we absolutely must recruit the best available delisted experienced key defender over the summer.


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Re Rookie list
Hate say it but I completely agree with Cornes.
Rookie list is a joke.
Nearly ever club has exploited it.
There’s no way we should be able to put Johnson and Leggy on the rookie list.
It was set up by the AFL to give untried players a chance - what a farce it has become.
They need to fix the parameters or get rid of it and just have one main list size.
Even if the way the rookie list works in practice is a bit weird, Cornes calling it a "disgrace" this morning smacks of him trying to over-extend himself in creating a headline. I can think of a lot more disgraces in AFL than putting a 28 year old on the rookie list.
 
Then again if, say, Reef goes even okay playing down back this coming year, he’s an easy retain at end-2025 because we have so many older players retiring and no draft picks.
I agree and it would seem that he’s the other depth in the KPD discussions of the past few pages, but it’s a big if given he’s had 4 years on the list with glimpses of ok. In that discussion he’s an upgrade on Eyre.

Pondering it further I think cutting Long/ Sullivan completely and Macrae to the rookie list is the path I would have committed to without knowing the play for next year.
 
We are all-in on a shot at the 2025 Premiership but if Moore cops a significant injury, we are stuffed.

I’m not sure how we make it fit but we absolutely must recruit the best available delisted experienced key defender over the summer.


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Moore’s form was career worst in 2024, there were times where he should have been dropped for Dean.
 

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