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Medical substitutes are
Western Bulldogs : Mitch Wallis
Sydney : Ben Ronke
Here’s one for everyone:
T/U – is it better to grab points (eg Hewett / Cripps) in the hope that they are keepers (and value at low $) … or
T/D – better to grab a Xerri type at a lower price point before that first big rise and forgo one of the others??
Hey Macca I think locking in the cash early to ensure you can lock in Uber premos like a macrae or Miller type rather than the high risk in hoping these guys stay as premos. While these guys are tempting now they’re a bit too much cash for me to justify going for now.
Hi Macca,
I am glad that you got your own pole posted.
I was going to put up a pole post for you, after reading your comments on your other post, but honestly I just ran out of time.
Sorry, mate.
Cheers
CT.
P.S.
This mini pole looks conclusive though.
cheers CT – been too busy with everything this week to look across much and was just quickly looking at a lot of the trade talks and last minute queries etc …
So I thought that may have been a good poll thread … but obviously a bit late in the week!!
Seemed like the main thing most people were wrestling with – ie grab one or two of those “potentially fallen premos or breakouts” and hopefully their scores continue and you get the points and save buying them early … or grab a rookie priced player in there …. and forgo one or two of the premos …
I think, if I interpreted Father’s thread this week, he was basically advocating for grabbing the premo type player first (ie Cripps or Hewett?) as they are very well priced, and will score more points, generally, than any rookie you have on field … so very interesting options I thought!!!
Cheers for responses CT and all who voted!!
Hey Nacca
Grabbing Xerri bud also Cripps .
Missed out on Heeney after reversing my first roy d move but have Brodie who will make cash
Depends who you are trading and how many premos you have.
Generally don’t trade a Premo for a rookie
And try not to fit an extra premo at the cost of cash gen and or 2nd tier premos
Also down in Melbourne for the first time in a year and am very excited for tonight’s game, got a sneaky feeling swans will be too hot to handle tonight but reckon it’ll be a ripper. I am just very excited to be back in a big crowd at the footy!
Enjoy the game Tom.
You picked a good game I think Tom. It’ll be a great one. Enjoy mate!
Hope Both teams are playing to win
Woof Woof.
long time dogs member. Live too far away now. Enjoy mate.Cheers.
Plenty of football and some nice weather down here, Tom.
Have a great weekend.
Cheers fellas, I’ve booked an all star weekend. After tonight’s game I’ve got Essendon dees tomorrow which should be close, pies cats on Saturday night which should see 70k and a great atmosphere and will then see my hawkers beat the blues at the g on Sunday.
How good is footy!
Wow. What an epic weekend. I’m with you, carn the mighty hawks!
Great weekend lined up,Tom.
Enjoy yourself.
Yeah, “How Goods Footy” Tom……for all you podcast listeners.
Don’s dees close ?
I was being hopeful for you wighty!
I appreciate your thoughts……I’m sure it will be close..for five minutes.
Who we liking?
Dogs by 4 points for mine
Got the Dogs as well.
Swans insane form, such a strong side, but SURELY the Dogs don’t go 0-3?
Got Macrae, Dunks and McCartin like everyone else as well as Dale.
Need a large one from you, Bailey.
Who to field?
Rachelle (tu)
Daicos (Rd)
D stephens
McCartin such a good reader of the play it isn’t funny.
Was a top draft pick for a reason. Glad to see him actually getting the opportunity to play.
Is fanfooty working??
It is now. Give it another go
Gotcha… thx MS
Help me out please!
So i traded out Jed McEntee for Xerri but he Mcentee is name to play so undo the change and keep Jed in the squad.
TU: undo the trade keep McEntee and save a trade
TD: Keep Xerri
Save the trade if you already have martin, hayes and Rachele
Zaine Cordy subbed off and Wallis on the field at the end of the 1st term
English CD’s new favourite player this year??? They are scoring him unbelievably …
I was thinking the same thing. My thought was Hickey was dominating him yet English out scoring.
They have stopped now tho :0(
Come on Blakey keep this score going and be a great midpricer POD!
C loop an issue this week. Am I alone ?
11-5 FREES ALREADY. FFS
13-6
17-7
I called 30-19 before the game but I’d say it’s more like going to be 34-13
21-8
So 4 frees to 1 for the last few updates as the umps try and give the game to the dogs.
25-8
JUH Has clicked with the game tempo. Looks sharp.
Free kick Victoria
Weak as piss
Why did I put Stephens on the ground??? Watch Ward for hawks go nuts this week!
U not alone. I have Ward and Daicos on the bench. Not a great start to the round of footy.
D.Stephens……. YIKES move it
I was thinking about it but Luckily did not
Swans kicking percentage is higher than dogs but that is inflated with lots of uncontested kicks down back. Swans have missed lots of targets by hand and foot and have been dominated around the contest. Lucky to still be in the contest and will need a big second half. Hickey and English have been dominating around the ground and bont has been quiet. Would love to get him as a falllen premo in a few weeks time assuming he’s fitter.
Go English! :0)
Nice camera angle…
Must be Marvel Stadium swans ain’t doing good!
Hickey out
Ronke subbed in
Mid 3rd term
As a neutral fan, this seems to becoming a lot of soft frees to the Dogs
25 -8 frees is an impressive variance!
Swans with 3 free kicks in the 2nd and 3rd term to the Dogs 17
They will try and even it up if the game looks like it’s over.
What I really want to see is a team walk off the ground after getting this kind of treatment from the umpires against the dogs.
They’d get fined for bringing the game into disrepute.
But no one is bringing the game into more disrepute with the umpires with such blatant imbalance. No wonder the AFL is terrified of dissent.
The best solution is honestly a national competition not VFL+++
I was on your side until you bring out that VFL rubbish HH. In recent years Richmond received the worst free kick differential and the Eagles and Bulldogs the best. It was ugly tonight but not Vic bias.
West Coast is pretty much the ONLY exception to the rule regarding free kicks and interstate clubs.
They have been all along too. There’s been all sorts of reasons given for that over the years from the noise of the fans (funny how home ground advantage doesn’t exist for most other clubs), umpires fearing for their life, to the AFL being terrified of upsetting the WA golden goose.
The two greatest free kick ratios in the last 25 years have been given to the Western Bulldogs and West Coast Eagles.
This is pretty easily confirmed from the AFL stats website.
Compare this to say Sydney, GWS, and for some reason St Kilda. Hating sydney is almost a Victorian sport in its own right but the St Kilda thing still mystifies me.
Richmond’s free kick differential is admittedly one of the lower ones for a Victorian club but compare it to those 3 and then get back to me with your results.
2021 Free Kick Differential.
1. Western Bulldogs 79
2. Geelong 33
3. GWS 27
11. Sydney -10
16. Essendon -18
17. St Kilda -34
18. Richmond -86
These are H&A only. Pretty self-explanatory.
If you look back over a five year period a lot of clubs are in the -120 to -180 range including Sydney and my Hawks but Richmond is more like -400 and the Dogs are obviously way ahead on 300 (close to the Pies surprisingly) and just ahead of WC.
Were those the stats you wanted?
Ya killin me Stephens.
Free kick count is disgusting and I’m saying this as a would be dogs supporter if I wasn’t a Carlton man
Swans playing 23
anyway we can bench stephens……
Should have gone English as a Gawn replacement. Haven’t yet decided if I am trading Gawn (need funds for Cripps) or not, but if I do
TU : Gawn for Witts (R13 ruck works in with Grundy’s R14 bye)
TD: Gawn for Jackson (same bye as Grundy)
I’m regretting not taking English instead of Marshall. Regardless the other stuff going on in the game it’s pretty clear that both A) he’s improved a lot and B) CD still favour the bulldogs very heavily for their scoring calculations.
Agreed. He is a favourite. I have him but he should lose a few weeks after the head high challenge.
Yeah, probably pretty lucky in that regard.
But then again, Rioli round 1 deliberately leapt off his feet for that high hit on Rowell and was let off.
Rioli was trying to mark the ball
English forearm to the head NO FREE KICK
English with that fend off/hit on Blakey could end up causing some nerves as a potential suspension could rise from it considering how the MRO has operated lately
I have him but they have to penalise!
Oops sorry I forgot Victorian clubs players get off!
Given Rioli got off in Round 1 it’s unlikely anything short of attacking someone with a chainsaw deserves a week off in 2022
They usually wait for a Geelong player to harden the rules…
My man English should lose games at the tribunal:0(
Guess Bont gets 160 now.
Bont was gifted 16pts for his “Joe The Goose Goal” whilst Dunkley was penalised 3pts for it.
The SC gods move in mysterious ways.
Mills was poor that game with only 20 disposals. He might be someone that will be dropping a bit of cash in the coming weeks to become a target for coaches
VC on Dunkley. Should I take that score as captain?
What happened to macrae in the last quarter, did he even touch it once, I didn’t see him at all?
Got Bevo’d and played wing
mixed feeings
English Dunk Macrae
McCartin and Stephens
Comparing how favourably English was scored tonight by CD as opposed to how poorly Witts was scored last week is a disgrace and clearly shows how CD manipulate the scoring for the players they want …
Do you perhaps have Witts in your team and not English?
Nothing to do with that David – I have proven across the years the clear bias in scoring by scoring full quarters on players- CD do it deliberately.
I watched Witts last week closely as he is a popular target and discussion point – did you? He was totally screwed by CD and dominated against Gawn and even Jackson and clear taps to advantage were not being paid to him.
The reverse occurred tonight where English was given extremely favourable and questionable scores and was clearly being outplayed by Hickey yet Hickey was not being scored.
This was and has been commented on by more people than myself not just in the case but multiple times
Miss Stephens 95 last week. So I will put him on the field this week!!!
At least starting with English is paying off.
And Macraes score means I have to choose a captain instead of banking 130 and missing a Cripps/Neale score
I just realised Owen is my captain loop and stephens is my emergency. Am I better off straight off captaining Neale and JHF on field.
Yes
No