Tough week for most with the Ruckmen (in general) underperforming along with premiums such as Oliver, Merrett, Dangerfield & Heeney. Then there was the age-old problem of having the right rookies on-field. Anything over 2100 should be very solid for Rd1 this year. Remember to keep calm, there’s still a long road ahead……..
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2110/Gawn
Poor captaincy option and having Petruccelle, Butters and Hore on the field instead of Parker, Scott and Wilkie cost me in excess of 100 points.
Should hopefully finish this round in the top 10k.
2080 / Cripps
Plenty of upside for Catta’s Clan, Balta & Collins on the ground & Parker & Scott on the pine! Oliver / Grundy & Heeney to lift in R2.
Outstanding efforts by Cogs, Fyfeinator, Macrae, Cripps & Drew.
Fantastic effort by most of the rookies with Constable, Clark, Walsh, Setterfield, Butters & Duursma all doing very well to kick off the season.
Isn’t it great to have the footy back 🙂
The TEAM
1998/Gawn
A little disappointing, I’d say. Will probably miss qualifying for SCT Cup again. Main thing is minimal injuries and we can re-group for Rd2……
2292/ Cripps
Beginners luck and a bit of help from husband
Stars
Lloyd
Hurn
Fyfe
Coniglio
Neale
M Crouch
Sheed
Cripps
Wow! this is going to rank very well. Great job!
2163/Crippa
Solid last game climb up with Fyfe and Goldi playing well. Looked sad at the start of the day when it looked like I was last in a few leagues but you can’t tell how many players to go for the others, just yourself. At the end of the day, very happy with most except Collins.
That gets a round 1 ranking of 8038
2139/Sloane
balta and collins got me 44 points 🙁
2119/Macrae
Rookies all did well even though Walsh and Butters on field didn’t perform as well as lower priced rookies although they Still did well.
Grundy score scared me so I went Gawn to Goldstein which worked out however I then upgraded Sheed to Martin.
Biggest disappointment Oliver however only rnd 1.
2136/Gawn
Should’ve just taken the Cripps VC score, oh well, got greedy!
2262/ Crouch
Hard not to think what could have been with perfect rookies on field . But overall very happy with potentially darling and gawn my only 2 disappointing premos
2022/Fyfe
Fyfe saved me from total debacle. Have Balta, Collins + Bailey Smith on field ahead of Drew, Duursma + Bailey Scott. Could’ve been better, could’ve been worse……
2214 / Cripps
New man-crush: Stephen Coniglio. Bailey Scott not far behind. May not even trade this week!
2117 – Gawn.
Solid start but a few things to sort out. Collins on the field hurt.
I traded in Burgess on the field too. There’s some rookie carnage out there.
My last decision was between Burgess and Parker. I made the wrong choice there
Same. I panicked and traded the wrong rookie out, and the wrong rookie in? I hate trading after Round 1, but I’m not impressed with a couple of those rookies – I’m looking at you, Collins, and well may you hang your head.
2131/Gawn/ don’t think I’ll make top 10k with this….
Bit disappointed with some of my decisions, but overall not too bad. Also I’m worried about my rucks. Spent a bloody fortune on these two blokes and both were disappointing. What’s worse is that I haven’t seen a decent replacement out there for them except the Hoff maybe…. Well it’s just round one, back to the drawing board. Good luck to all the coaches!!
Hoff did amazingly well but he won’t kick 5 goals straight every week.
Absolute train wreck, my Technical team beat my main by over 200 points. Going to take a long hard look at myself!!!
I was a bit disappointing at 2025 (Cripps VC).
A lot of talked up midpricers failing me.
Dad’s team hit all the right midpricers , with his last minute change from Libba to Rocky, as well as Sheed.
2309 is a massive round 1. the old fella might actually take the biscuit.
2180/Cripps
Pretty happy with that tbh. Only regret was trading in Collins including having on-field and trading out Westhoff would you believe……oh what could have been!
Had most of the high scoring quality rookies playing though which obviously helped boost the score except for Bailey Scott.
Oliver, disappointing capt
But have to start somewhere
2071
Goodluck coaches
2069 Danger
Anything that ends up in a 69, isn’t all that bad 😉
2136/Cripps
Was expecting a 2050 with 2 in the last game. Then Fyfe and Scott pump out a 250 between them. If it wasnt for the likes of Oliver, Gawndy and Petruccelle on the field instead of Parker it could have been better. The other coaches had to deal with some lacklustre performances too, so shouldn’t complain.
2039/Gawn
2165/Danger
2200/Fyfe
Lucky with Fyfe as capt, quite happy overall.
2080 – Fyfe (my saviour)
1998 / Gawn
Excellent rookie performances by Drew, Parker and Scott..who were all on my bench. Haha it is only round 1, marathon not a sprint
2083/Macrae
Gawn and Grundy lemons
2076/Cripps
with a couple bad field choices with my rookies, but sounds like I’m not the only one.
If Grundy,Gawn,Oliver and Danger can all fire and score what we were expecting then I think I’m gunna be alright.
2140 / macrae
Collins, scrimshaw wasn’t great.
Everyone else just did okay. Doubt I will trade, darling definitely gets another week. Duursma might be fielded before Collins tho
2085/Cripps
The excellent:
Drew (onfield) and all other rookies
The good:
MCrouch
Cripps (VC/C)
Neale
Steele
Whitfield
The bad:
Danger
Heeney
and he ugly:
Grundy, Gawn and Oliver
Hopefully they’ll bounce back.
Midpricers? All far out-scored BEs but nothing to write about
Feel pretty philosophical about it. Could have been better/worse.
Not bad at all.
Oh, and the thing seeing your team on twitter inspired me to do was to look at the cows again and see if I could open up a midfield spot for Matt Crouch. Which I did and could, swapping Kelly out from the forwards. Reminds me I need to update my team reveal with my actual team.
2187. Captian cripps
Stars
Danger.
Stephen cogliano.
Hurn
Sheed
Goldie
Walters.
J Lyons.
Rocky
Drew.
B crouch.
Spewing sat Matt parker on the bench and put balta in.
And b Scott as Walsh scored 68 so yeah.
2024/Cripps
Ranking is in the 50-thousands, but that won’t start to mean anything for another week or two.
Most ripped off player of the week award:
Libba.
“The 2016 premiership hero was typically at his best in the clinches, accumulating 28 possessions (13 contested) and game-high tallies of clearances (eight) and centre clearances (five) ”
13 contested possessions, 28 total, 8 clearances.
When did that only work out to 75 SC points?
Completely went missing in the fourth quarter when the game was on the line. Bont and Macrae stepped it up late, hence their inflated scores.
I have Libba too, going to have to be patient with him while he builds his playing time back up, but I think he’s going to be a good buy.
I think they just wanted to gift points to that SC fave of old, Bont.
2175/macrae.
Zerrett is on my never again list. Have to hold him but can’t wait to push him to m9. I though he’d be OK for a 90 minimum, hoping for a 110.
He only made that 117 because of no other midfielders in one season. That doesn’t equal premo status.
Got 4850 hope west Hoff and gray keep rolling points. Put the c on rocky this coming weekend he will get over 50 positions
U English bad.
English better than Grundy and Gawn 🙂
They’ll bounce back, but happy to pull the trigger if they don’t. Managed to land almost all the good rookies luckely. So they can be my correctives. But I have faith.
Who cares lol as long as my team keeps rolling out massive scores agree
I want 4850
2086
Rank: 28793
Captain: Fyfe
120+: N Fyfe, R Sloane, L Neale
100+: T Goldstein, R Laird, W Drew, L Whitfield
80+: B Grundy, I Heeney, C Constable, Z Williams, P Dangerfield
Below 80: C Oliver, Z Merrett, T Greene, J Darling, S Collins, Z Butters, J Clark, D Moore, S Walsh and W Setterfield.
Only 7 players scoring more than 100 and only 8 exceeding 85 so very happy with my score.
Z Merrett, J Darling, B Grundy, C Oliver and P Dangerfield combined for 391
in comparison to W Drew, D Moore, C Constable, W Setterfield and J Clark combining for 403 outscoring the aforementioned premium quintet which would be a rare occurrence.
2149 Cogs
Had Scott and Drew on the bench – if I had them on field and Butters/Balta on the bench, would have scored 2250+
Oh well, bring out round 2!!
1974/ Gawn
77392 not actually my worst ever starting Rank, was 78979 in 2017, finishing 4216.
So many big names spudded up, and so many medium and little one were off by 10 or so. At least I stuck with my Gawn plan and did not put the C on Oliver.
Not seeing any moves to make however, unless a really good forward or defensive rookie I do not have shows up. I feel it is hard to come out ahead with cow upgrades, and suspect I will need the trade(s) more later on. Premos are all ones I will totally keep if uninjured, and cows will have to grow in whatever time it takes. I don’t think I missed any of the big ones.
At least you’re honest about it! 🙂
2053 / Cripps / 42,259
Taking Cripps score as C was the right call… Along with Neale & Drew – only positives really.
So much bad… where to begin…
Last minute changes saw me take out several guys i had in my team all preseason & should’ve stuck with them, as it cost me dearly:
Sheed -> Libba
Moore -> Greene
T. Kelly -> Mundy
Lloyd -> Whitfield
Oliver, Collins & Grundy probably the worst of them all.
1996/Gawn/67,929
Passed on VC Cripps and put C on Gawn. Pure genius. 🙁
Grundy, Gawn and Collins’ 27 hurt, and some 60s (Walsh, Setterfield, Port rookies)
Still think overall Gawndy will get the most points for season. Expecting another 200pts+ in R2 if I field the right rookies… and put the C on a midfielder for goodness sake!
2131/Gawn/14,700
Gawn hurt me as C, my POD’s Rockliff, Worpel and Steele all payed off this week, hopefully they keep paying off,also got rid of Grundy last minute for Goldstein.
Great choice I took gawn out last minute for westhoff massive and Robbie gray for curnow charlie thank the lucky stars but had 6 players score 60 something way it goes I guess.
2283/Fyfe
Largely thanks to having some of the big scoring mids- cogs, bont, crouch, Fyfe.
2186/Fyfe
Fyfe and Goldie dragged me to a decent score – best start to SC in the last couple few years!
2095/Gawn
Until last week, Gawn wasn’t even in my team, but a meal and a few drinks with friends . . . .
Unhappy with the last minute trades (not the Gawn trade, he will come good), but the premium side worked, having traded out MCrouch and Witherden for Neale and HAndrews (HANDrews from now on, surely). The rookie side is where I dudded – Parker for Burgess? I blame Mr Bourbon, he is a pour (*) decision maker.
Unfair to be too hard on any player really – post-Round 1 is not the time for knee-jerk reactions. That is post-Round 2, when I realise the H2H is on.
2062/Cripps/38k
Horrible week for me with Balta and Collins fielded in place of Duursma and Parker 🙁 some premos did not fire also hoping for them to rebound.
Studs:
Lloyd
Hurn
Cripps
Cogs
M.Crouch
Drew
Scott (Benched)
Duds:
Collins (Fielded)
Oliver
Gawn
Grundy
Balta fielded too another dud
2060/Gawn/39246
Not too bad a start.
Hurn, Cripps, Neale, M Crouch, Cogs, T Kelly and Drew tonned up. Had Scott on the bench.
Rookies are rookies, not rage trading this week.
Disappointing start from Grundy and Gawn, can only get better.
1950 with over 150 points difference on the bench (Parker, Drew, etc)
No panic trades for me…. yet.
2231 / Macrae / 1584
Bit disappointed with Parker / Scott on bench but good start.
1947 – Gawn
Had all the best scoring rookies on the bench in Scott, Parker and Drew missing almost 200 points there. Gawn/Grundy betrayed me and taking McGrath over Newman was a royal blunder.
Zorko, Fyfe (people seemed to be jumping off preseason) and TK (robbed of a better score as BOG) served me well.
Could be a long year.
Put up 2077, nothing special. On the bright side: nailed rookie selection, stayed away from Collins and Balta and Steele came good- special thanks to allsaints for getting me aboard that train.
2060/ Danger
Had VC on Cripps and got greedy with Danger.
Was considering swapping Lycett to Westhoff when Ryder was named but stuck with my decision.
Fielded Collins with Burgess on def bench. Late swap Scrimshaw to Burgess.
Swapped Parker to Balta (bench)
Fielded Drew, Constable, Scott and J Clarke.
No changes this week but will probably look at swapping Balta back to Parker and burgess to another def rookie after week 2
2,255 / RANKED 800
Pretty happy with first ever crack at AFL Supercoach.
Always have played Afl fantasy & NRL Supercoach.
loving the advice on this site, really helped me out.
Only regret this round was thought I had Captain on CONIGLIO, but only had him as my VC. Had captain on BRAYSHAW by mistake. Should’ve swapped them.
Top effort either way, Colin. Well done. Thumbs up for you.
Fair start with 2131.
Got the Goldstein/ Witts ruck setup plan away to a solid start with Grundy and Gawn performing below par. Extra $370,000 allowing to start with 3 premium defenders all scoring 100’s. Getting the rookies right fro round 3 will be the biggest challenge.
2148
MCrouch and Cogs were impressive but played safe with Cripps’ Thursday VC score – glad I avoided the ruck choice
Overall rank of 10,781
Have all the good rookies with some incorrect decisions on the field and looking to rid of Collins when I start trading in a few weeks
and expecting bigger things from Grawndy, Oliver, Danger!
2097 / Cripps.
These guys’s were great.
Cripps
Rocky
Sloane
M Crouch
Drew
Scott + Parker ( benched)
These guys were not!
Oliver
Grundy
Gawn
Mundy
Heeney
Collins
Burgess.
Pretty happy with my start overall.
VERY happy with Freo’s start. 😉
Check out the ladder. 🙂
2186/Cripps/4901
Have midpricers B.Smith, Z Williams, T Liberatore and A. Brayshaw as my mid price brigade. Hoping they can keep improving.
No trading this week.
2249
Macrae
Rank: 935
Pretty happy 1st up.