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TU
DEF – Whitfield, Mills, Witherden, Smith, Collins, Scrimshaw (Burgess, Mclennan)
MID – Cripps, Oliver, M.Crouch, Steele, Sheed, Libba, Walsh, Constable (Bewley, Atkins, Gibbons)
RCK -Grundy, Gawn (Bines)
FWD – Dangerfield, Heeney, Dunkley, Moore, Setterfield, Drew (Moore, Parker)
TD
DEF – Whitfield, Mills, Smith, Collins, Scrimshaw, Clark (Burgess, Mclennan)
MID – Cripps, Oliver, Coniglio, M.Crouch, Steele, Sheed, Walsh, Constable (Bewley, Atkins, Gibbons)
RCK – Grundy, Gawn (Bines)
FWD – Dangerfield, Heeney, Dunkley, Moore, Setterfield, Drew (Moore, Parker)
T/U – Lloyd + Hurn + Collins
T/D – Hurn + Crisp + Ridley
T/U – Billings
T/D – Dunkley
T/U – Neale
T/D – Coniglio
Narrowed my F5 conundrum down to two:
T.U: Steele
T.D: Brayshaw
T/Up – Treloar
T/D – Coniglio
Billings at f4.
Tu, yep, he’ll be fine for f7 worst case.
Td, get him out now before its to late.
T/U Dom Sheed M6
T/D T Rockliff M6
Comment Brad Crouch
T/U Brad Crouch for M6 instead
just a quick question, how does your team allow a 400k player at m6. im struggling to find money everywhere.
TU Bontempelli
TD Coniglio
Cheers
TU: Macrae & Steele
TD: Neale & Cogs
Boak f4.
T/U – B Crouch & Goldy
T/D – Cousins & Grundy
T/U – Mills & Burgess
T/D – T Greene & Ridley
T/U D. Smith + Rookie F4
T/D Greene + D. Moore
T/U: Oliver, Coniglio, Collins
T/D: Merrett, Brayshaw, B.Smith
TU-Billings.
TD- Boak
Rockliff will either be…
TU-massively awesome or massively crap.
TD-sub par 90ave.
Either way, I bet he’ll be massively injured by round 6.
well if he can pump out 700 by then i’ll take it. It is possible.
TU: Grundy & Neale
TD: Gawn & Cripps
For my F4 spot:
TU: Gray
TD: Save a bit of coin and go with a Billings/Darling type
For D2:
TU: Whitfield
TD: Laird
Billings at F4 and Brodie Smith D4 T/U
Forward Premo defence rookie T/D
IMO
Brodie Smith will average 15-20 more points than a rookie in defence. A premium forward (besides danger) will not average 15-20 more than Billings. You might make some faster cash with a rookie defender, but could cost you points early. Unsure why this is so one sided.
Agree, Smith and Billings are solid D/F4s. There aren’t even that many good premium forwards and rookie defenders
TU: Lachie Whitfeild & Tom Libratore
TD: Brodie Smith & Brad Crouch
Laird T/U
Whitfield T/D
For F3…
T/U: T.Kelly
T/D: J.Darling
Greene and Moore F3 and F4
TU: fine
TD: rethink
Will at least 2 of Scrimshaw, Clark, Duursma and Hore play enough games to make reasonable cash?
TU: yes
TD: no
More the point will more than 2 rookies Play enough to make cash. Have to hold on final structure till teams are named just make sure there all watch listed in order of most likely job security then points.
T/U – Macrae + DMoore
T/D – Coniglio + Greene
is Dom Sheed the real deal
T/U – yes
T/D – no
IMO he my be the new / next Oliver…..remember his breakout format!?!?
Dom doesn’t tackle.
T/U: J Dunkley
T/D: D Smith
T/Up – Matt Crouch, Xavier Duursma, Goldstein
T/Down – Brad Crouch, Sam Collins, Grundy
F4 position:
TU: Greene
TD: Moore (no obvious use for the cash…)
TU. J Lyon
TD. B Crouch
TU: Greene, Gibbons, Hurn
TD: Darling, Liberatore, Ridley
TU: Lloyd and Libba
TD: Laird and B Crouch
T/U – Neale
T/D – M Crouch
TU: Oliver
TD: Macrae
Not a TU/TD, but does anyone know how long Sandilands will be out for?
F-4, Toby Greene.
M5
TU: Angus brayshaw
TD: BCrouch
TU: darling
TD: kelly
Is BCrouch at M5 libba M6 to shallow
TU: Yes
TD: No
TU B Crouch M5 & Moore F4
TD Libba M5 & Greene F4
T/U – Neale
T/D – Oliver
T/U – BSmith + Libba
T/D – Scrimshaw + Neale/Coniglio
T/U – M Crouch
T/D – Oliver
T/U: Libba
T/D: B Crouch
TU: Hurn, Hore
TD: Williams, Ridley
U/ Greene and Macrae
D/ Dunkley and Martin
T/U Gawn and Grundy + midfield rookie.
T/D Goldstein and Witts + Coniglio
Grundy and Gawn have rd 13 bye. Goldstein and Witts have rd 14 bye.
Savings of $371,400 at commencement.
Grundy/Gawn averaging 120, Goldstein and Witts averaging 100 and 90 results in a total loss of 410 points following round 13. Should be offset by Coniglio going 30-40 points more than extra rookie on field.
Projected cash price difference between both pairs on above averages at rd 14 reduced from starting amount $371400 to $236,000.
Downside being 2 trades to fix round 14, finding $236000, no loophole for vice-captaining and taking a punt on both ruckmen averaging only 120. Plus cash for corrective trade should one of Goldstein/Witts goes down early.
Staring with 11 premiums excluding Goldstein with Walsh at M6.
T/U – Hurn
T/D – Whitfield
wow surprised with this one
T/U: Billings
T/D: Greene
T/U: Ridley
T/D: Cousins
TU- darling
TD- Boak
TU: N.Fyfe, W.Milera
TD: J.Steele, L.Whitfield
T/U – Coniglio
T/D – Oliver
Darcy Moore
T/U – Will average 65-80 and be a great pick at basically rookie price
T/D – Will average below 65, I should save the money (to spend elsewhere) and get a cheap rookie
Hey guys,
T/U- Smith & Dursma
T/D- Collins & Walsh
Thanks.
T/U Macrae and Scrimshaw
T/D Oliver and Ridley
F4
Moore TU
Greene TD
PLEASE HELP ME DECIDE!?
TU
Michael Walters & Luke Ryan
TD
Brad Crouch & Rory Laird
Whitfield – TU
Hurn – TD
Crisp – TU below
Crisp
T/U: Lloyd & Steele (Scrimshaw)
T/D: Sicily & M.Crouch (Duursma)
TU – Dunkley
TD – Kelly
Which Kelly?
Presumably Tim.
Same price. Same position. Same super contribution.
TU – Butters and Grundy
TD – Rocky (M5) and Witts
Goldy is the other ruckman
T/U – Billings & Greene
T/U – Tim Kelly & Moore
Which strategy this year
TU: pure GnR
TD: midprice madness (5+ midpricers)
T/U Libba M5, Premo F3
T/D Neale M5, DMoore F3
Settled 90% of my team but still struggling with these:
TU – D1 Lloyd, D5 Collins, F4 DMoore + 35K kitty
TD – D1 Laird, D5 Scrimshaw, F4 Greene + 10K kitty
T/U: N Fyfe
T/D: J Kelly
T/U: J Sicily
T/D: L Whitfield
T/U- B.Crouch and Sheed
T/D- M.Crouch and Libba
T/U: Hurn + Greene
T/D: Lloyd + Moore
T/U Libba and Walsh
T/D Greene and rookie
First option has Setterfield as F4, second option has Setterfield as M6.
T/U: J Lloyd
T/D: J Sicily
TU crisp (d2), Williams (d3) and Dunkley (f3)
TD Whitfield (d2) Witherden(d3) and Billings (f3)
TU: Lyons + 13k
TD B.Crouch + 97k
t/u dunkly for bye structure and pOD
t/d heeney
will probs end up w both eventually
T/Up – Macrae, Sicily, Walsh
T/Down – Bont, Crisp, BCrouch
T/U Oliver and Steele
T/D. Neale and Brayshaw
Close!
TU: L Whitfield (D2) and J Darling (F3)
TD: H Andrews (D2) and D Mundy (F3)
Need some more players with R12 bye
TU: Fyfe
TD: Merrett (+70k)
TU B.crouch &Parker
TD Libba & Moore
and another
TU Hore & Hind
TD Scrimshaw & Gibbons
I’m thinking Whitfield, Z. Williams, B. Smith, [D4], Collins, J. Clark
Ideally D4 would be Roberton. But assuming concerns remain about his health, would you go:
TU: Moore ($239k)
TD: Ridley ($233k)
Take Ridley. Moore will offer you more FWD!
T/U: Crisp
T/D: Z Williams
T/U – Whitfield (D1), Mills (D2) and B Smith (D4)
OR
T/D – Lloyd/Laird (D1) Whitfield (D2) Scrimshaw (D4)
D5 and D6 are rookies in both cases, Z. Williams D3.
T/U – Martin and Libba
T/D – Rockliff and Brad Crouch
Selecting up to 5 midpricers /fallen premiums feels so wrong.
But is it this year?
TU D Smith F3 & rookie F6
TD Worpel F3 & Moore F5
With Greene at F4 and Heeney F2
TU Macrae & 123k rook
TD M Crouch & D Moore
T/U J Dunkley
T/D S Menegola
Swinging ruck cover:
TU: Westhoff
TD: Lycett + $108K
Was think about selecting Elliot Yeo this year. However, I am concerned about Dom Sheed’s impact on his scoring. Looking in to this, I noticed that Elliot Yeo’s two lowest scores (27 & 70) last season coincided with Dom Sheed’s two highest scores of the regular season (115 & 90) in Rounds 3 and 11. With Dom Sheed set to get more midfield minutes in 2019 am I….
TU: Reading into this too much
TD: Better off not considering Yeo
Can’t decide on M5
TU – M Crouch
TD – J Steele
Thought I should look at my team over the bye rounds – my current structure means R13 will be a write off, as far as premiums go. So, if I’m looking to improve that a little, I could go Fyfe instead of Oliver, and replace J Lloyd with maybe Whitfield?
TU- Fyfe instead of Oliver, and swap out Lloyd
TD – Don’t stress the byes yet – lots can happen between R1-11
If you could only have one:
TU: Lloyd
TD: Laird
If both were viable options, what kind of ruck cover would you prefer?
TU: A playing R3, whose job-security may be less-than-perfect.
TD: A RUC/FWD in the forward-line, who might average decent but slightly less-than-premium numbers (e.g. 80-85).
You could go westhoff in fwd with bines r3. If one of your rucks carks it you can rotate westhoff in to cover.
D4
Ridley TU
Moore TD
TU: brayshaw
TD: Sloane
Cmnt: libba
T/U- Lycett
T/D- Billings
TU: Macrae and Libba (M5)
TD: Cripps and B. Crouch (M5)
Grundy or Gawn to accompany Goldy
T/U – Goldy
T/D – Gawn
Let’s see if we can split this poll unlike my earlier one today.
T/U Laird and Darling
T/D Whitfield and Tim Kelly
TUp – Gawn
TDown – Grundy
T/U B.Smith + Libba
T/D Whitfield + Hately (Similiar Rookie)
T/U – B Smith
T/D – Greene
Choosing between these by rotating Burgess
Thanks
TU McCrae and Greene
TD Crouch M and Darling
TU Sicily
TD Simpson
TU: Brayshaw (melb)
TD: Dusty
TU: Jacobs (crows) + macrae
TD: Goldy + Dusty
I have a big problem with the round 14 bye so what do you think of this
Out – Coniglio and Greene
In – Fyfe and Liberatore
I initially went Coniglio over Fyfe because I think he will play more games and if Greene goes then Setterfield is my F4 but Libba replaces a rookie in the mids.
TU: coniglio
TD: dusty
Value in libba or not
Yes
No
you’ll want $140k. That means you need a minimum 88pts ave.
Your call 😉
Hmmmmm very interesting I reckon libba is good for an 85-90avg. What do you think all saints
Not for me, but that’s a personal choice. GnR in the MIDs for me.
Hey guys,
T/U- Neale
T/D- Dusty
Thanks.
FINAL DECISON TIME
TU
Z WILLIAMS & MACRAE
TD
CRISP & D MARTIN
COMMENT. LAIRD OR SIMPSON…
worried about milera & Smith affecting lairds scoring …
TU : Rocky and Mills
TD : Steele and b.smith
T/U- Lloyd & F Watson
T/D- Laird & Scrimshaw
TU: Collins
TD: Ridley
Factoring in both points (at D5/6) and cash generation
T/U- Oliver
T/D- A Brayshaw +95k
Up – Billings
Down – Boak
TU
LAIRD
TD
SIMPSON…
Worried about Milera & Smith affecting Lairds scoring…
T/U: Billings/Boak & Smith
T/D: Dunkley & Collins
Up laird and williams
Down hurn harris andrews
TU Moore and Greene
TD Darling and Clark
Who has better job security + value?
T/U – Collins
T/D – Scrimshaw
T/U: Rockliff, J.Lloyd
T/D: Coniglio, Z.Williams
T/U: Macrae + Taranto
T/D: Oliver + Z Merrett
T/U: Macrae + Worpel
T/D: Z Merrett + Dunkley
TU: Collins (D5) + B. Crouch (M5)
TD: Scrimshaw (D5) + Lyons (M5)
TU: Williams
TD: B. Smith
TU: Fyfe
TD: Coniglio
Yeo.
TU: Yay
TD: Nay
TU: Simpson + Billings
TD: Crisp +Darling
J.Steele
T/U – YES
T/D – NO
current midfield looks like this:
Macrae, Cripps, Coniglio, M Crouch
Steele, Walsh, Butters, Constable
(Scott, Atkins, Gibbons)
Need help.
cheers
T/U – B.Smith, Merret
T/D – Ridley, Neale
Hey guys,
T/U- Gawn & Collins
T/D- Goldy & Smith
Thanks.
TU Dunkley
TD Billings
(Apologies if this has been done, wanting to get a post JLT opinion)
T/U: Hurn in defence
T/D: Tim Kelly in forward line
Pearce Hanley…
T/U – $296k for a former premium, snap him up
T/D – are you crazy? barely played a game in 2 years, steer clear
T/U Z Williams, Liberatore, Grundy
Or
T/D Ridley, Oliver, Goldstein
While Westhoff is priced at his peak, I’m still tempted to buy him in at F2 to allow for coverage for an injury in my rucks if needed (by rotating him in for basement priced DPP Schlensog).
TU: Pay overs for Westhoff but have the additional flexibility
TD: Spend the money on better value elsewhere but lose the flexibility
TU brayshaw M5 & Greene F4
TD libba M6 & TKelly F3
Current line up without the above in them:
Cripps Oliver Fyfe m.crouch b.crouch Walsh butters
Danger heeney darling setterfield Burgess
Hey guys,
T/U- Macrae & Goldy
T/D- Dusty & Gawn
Thanks.
Hey guys,
T/U- We’ll be lucky to have 22 on the field.
T/D- We’ll do it easy and have an E on 3 lines.
Thanks.
M.Crouch..T.u
A.Brayshaw..T.d
T/U Oliver
T/D Fyfe
T/U Harris Andrews & Neale
T/D Kade Simpson & 1 of Dusty / Merrett / Brayshaw / Sloane
T/U Lloyd + Steele
T/D Whitfield + Dusty
Getting down to final combos
T/U Laird + $200 in the bank
T/D Whitfield + $45700 in the bank
Cheers
Thanks for your opinions coaches
T/U Neale
T/D Dusty + 44k
Neale expensive but reliable and consistent. Can get him later.
Dusty underpriced, can go big with the occasional stinker. Start him or forget him.
So many possible combinations 🙂
T/U: Rory Sloane
T/D: Angus Brayshaw
T/U: Laird
T/D: Whitfield
T/U: Whitfield + Goldy + 117K in the bank
T/D: J.Short + Grundy + 33K in the bank
Seen him included in a few teams, looked back at his JLT scores and now that he’s been touted by Ben, I’ve got consider him: Darcy Moore at F4.
T.U: Yep, can expect a few decent scores and some cash generation at the very least.
T.D: Nah, not worth the extra cash- just stick with a rookie.
Apologies if already posted.
VC on Thursday.
T/u Cripps
T/d Dusty
Danger in the loop if needed
T/u dusty
T/d merrett
T/U: Harris Andrews, Rory Sloane, Sam Collins & 17K in Bank
or…
T/D: Tim Kelly, Lachie Whitfield, Zac Butters & 4K in Bank
TU Macrae/Cousins
TD Coniglio/Libba
And another one…
T/U: Harris Andrews, Darcy Moore in FWD line w/ 30K in bank
or…
T/D: Tim Kelly, Darcy Moore in DEF line w/ 4K in bank
T/U: Harris Andrews and 65K in bank
T/D: Whitfield & 4K in bank
TU: Oliver
TD: Brayshaw
TU: (Fyfe or Oliver) and Greene
TD: Brayshaw and Darling
TU: Fyfe
TD: Oliver
TU: Gawn, Mundy, Duursma, Steele (113k Bank)
TD: Goldy, Greene, B.Smith, Neale (127k Bank)
TU: Goldy & Brad crouch M6
TD: grundy & libba M6
For F4
T/U: Darcy Moore and $115,200 cash
T/D: Toby Greene
T/U: Jack Steele
T/D: Rory Sloane
Stuffed up a couple posts above left out a player.
TU: Goldy, Fyfe & Brad crouch
OR
TD: grundy, dusty & libba
Can’t decide on F3
T/U – R.GRAY
T/D – MUNDY
COMMENT – OTHER
Dunkley, Billings, Tim Kelly…. going young with upside….
D1
T/U – Lloyd
T/D – Laird
other premium defenders are:
Whitfield & Williams.
or COMMENT for – Lloyd, Laird, Williams
Loyd Laird and williams
Why is there not much love for Dusty?
I reckon most people were scared off by his JLT scores.
They shouldn’t be based on JLT. Against Hawthorn he was killing it then sat out almost the whole last quarter and his score got scaled down big time. Same as Worpel. I’m just not choosing him because I prefer M Crouch and Cripps same bye week
T/U – Whitfield and Fyfe
T/D – Laird and Merrett
Cogs and Lloyd TU
Oliver and Whitfield TD
Oliver a must have to me. So maybe replace one of your already uber premiums with oliver, and then reassess the question
And remeber lloyd scored 119 average for the second half of last year
D1.
TU : hurn
TD: crisp
M5
TU: brayshaw
TD: BCrouch
I expect brad to avg 105 n brayshaw 105-110 with viney in the midfield.
Answered your own question then. B crouch
T/U- Conigilo + Collins
T/D- Olliver + Scrimshaw
TU- Grundy & Ridley
TD- Goldy & Williams
Grundy yes, but dont rate ridley. He was played more on the ball in jlt and wont stay there.
TU: Take a break until Thursday and have have a fresh look.
TD: Continue to over-analyse and go insane.
and the 2UP of the day award goes to …
😉
Thanks AS. Judging by the poll numbers, I won’t be alone in the asylum. 🙂
TU: Fyfe & Dunkley
TD: Neale & T.Kelly
Will both fyfe and dunkley being more than neale and kelly, I propose going Fyfe and Kelly
Which is more likely in 2019
T/U Dunkley to average 100+
T/D Libba to average 90+
100% libba to average 90
T/U: Billings
T/D: Darling
T/U: B.Smith & Libba
T/D: Scrimshaw & Brayshaw
T/U:Darcy Moore
T/D:Lincoln McCarthy
t/u: dunkley at f3
t/d: westhoff at f3 as a swing with bines as a back up ruck
T/U T KELLY , GRUNDY, BEWLEY
T/D GREENE, GOLDY, B CROUCH
TU Josh Dunkley
TD Tim Kelly
Up – Macrae & BSmith
Down – Bont/Merrett & Crisp
TU- Oliver, Scrimshaw
TD- Coniglio, Collins
T/U Neale
T/D Fyfe
M6 & F3
T/U Libba and T.Kelly
T/D B.crouch and Worpel
Or toss a coin?
TU: Neale & B.smith
TD dusty & Mills
TU dusty & Mills
TD Neale & Bsmith
F3
TU: darling
TD: lynch
T/U: Macrae + Worpel (F3)
T/D: Cogs + Dunkley (F3)
Thanks guys.
TU. Rocky
TD. BCrouch
Gut says rocky will go big this year
TU Angus Brayshaw
TD Jack Steele
For m5
Posed the same question a few days ago, Zoomer. Currently stands at 12 for Steele and 33 for Brayshaw. Think I’ll be starting Steele though, slightly cheaper and one less premo who doesn’t have that dreaded R13 bye.
T/U – Oliver and Goldstein
T/D – Brayshaw and Gawn
Grundy R1
TU- Fyfe
TD- Oliver
TU LLoyd and M Crouch
TD Sicily and J Kelly
At M4:
T.U: S. Coniglio
T.D: M. Crouch
Wow, why no love for Coniglio? Or, rather, why so much for Crouch?
T/U D Martin, S Coniglio, S Walsh
T/D C Oliver, N Fyfe, B Bewley
And should we be starting Fyfe and Kelly, both have that injury cloud over them but are apparently set to play R1.
T.U: Yes, they’ll be fine. The risk is offset by their huge scoring capacity.
T.D: No way, you’d rather a MID with a slightly lower ceiling who you can rely on to not miss a match.
Hello everyone,
Would really appreciate help – this below is only what’s giving me sleepless nights:
T/U: Whitfield (D1) , B. Crouch (M6) T.Green (F3)
T/D: Lloyd (D1) , Walsh (M6) & J.Dunkley (F3)
Thanks very much!!
Vindude,
Good luck with that one.
Toss a coin, and pray to Murphy, you’ve got 2 weeks to reassess.
Williams plays half a game, then disappears and hasn’t been spoken about by GWS since.
Tu suspicious
Td nah he’s fine, take ‘im instead of Mills
TU: Hore (field Clark) and Oliver
TD: Smith and Brad Crouch
TU: Ridley, M Crouch, Darling
TD: Hore (field clark), Oliver, Dunkley
Up – Bontempelli & Coniglio
Down – Josh Kelly & Merrett
F4
TU : higgins
TD : Greene