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Going with a 4-4-1-3 premo config, with Draper / Caldwell as midpricers. 100k in bank for improvements
DEF: Lloyd, Laird, Whitfield, Z.Williams, L.Jones (PTA), W.Gould (Wehr, Highmore)
MID: Neale, Oliver, Merrett, Parker, Caldwell, Phillips, Powell, F.Macrae (Valente, Downie, Davies)
RUC: Grundy, Draper (Treacy)
FWD: Dangerfield, Dunkley, Martin, Cockatoo, Row, Durdin (Laurie, Chugg)
Whitfield and Cockatoo are injury concerns, with Whitfield confirmed out round 1 (correct me if I’m wrong). Also not sold on Parker as I don’t think he will be top 10, but if you are bullish on him go for it.
I do like the 4-4-1-3 structure. Nice team
Hi Mr Plow.
I don’t like the whitfield pick personally he’s had little to no pre season I think at that price there are bettter options. Ryan? Mills? Daniel?
It I don’t mind a POD here and there so Parker is probably okay I don’t think he’s top 10 but not a bad pick there.
Draper I like he is on my radar mate along with stef, hickey and ROB atm it will all come down too this weekend. Draper has a nice run of games early too!
Cockatoo is injured and macrae and chugg haven’t been selected for tonight which is worrying signs. maybe grab O.Henry for cockatoo
Overall the structure works i like it
Whitfield is definitely missing round 1, return date unknown.
Cockatoo is injured and unlikely to be ready for round 1
Watch for if Williams gets suspended based on last night.
F. Macrae wasn’t named despite an extended bench for AAMI, so don’t expect an early start. likewise Chugg.
Dunkley is in danger of losing his spot, his coach really doesn’t seem to like him.
Structurally though it looks good. I like the different picks in Parker and Caldwell, and Draper is certainly an interesting risk given Collingwood losing Treloar may not help Grundy score.
Good team 3 months ago maybe. Just need to replace the
Premos who are injured that other guys have named already
And get those rookies out not playing for some that will.
DEF: Lloyd Laird McDonald Greaves Jones Bianco (Highmore Wehr)
MID: Neale Oliver Brayshaw Cripps Walsh Green Powell Downie ( Valente macrae gulden)
RUCK: Gawn Grundy (Flynn)
FWD: Dangerfield Ziebell Daniher Impey Dow Rowe (Waterman Treacey)
Bank: 62k
Not real confident with rookies so going a little more mid price madness but looked for value at the same time.
Lloyd rumoured to have hurt his knee, Cripps worries me after game 1&2 he hasn’t set the world on fire but only got 62k.
I also have a version where I swap out green and Impey for tom Phillips (F2) and Ely smith (M6) I dont trust any rookies JS
which is why I’ve leant too JS of green and Impey for now.
Certainly watching how Lloyd goes. that knee injury could be a good reason to dodge him and treat him as an upgrade target
yup lloyd is a close watch for me. if any premium defenders put there hand up this weekend im open to culling the seagull. any type of knee injury is concerning
DEFENCE- LLoyd Laird Mills Williams Jones Bianco (Highmore Laurie)
MIDFIELD – Steele Oliver Petracca Fyfe Simpkin Heppell Powell Downie (Valente Durdin Collier-Dawkins)
RUCK – Gawn Martin (Flynn)
FORWARD – DAnger Phillips Ziebell Impey Macrae Rowe (Waterman Spicer)
BANK- 172,000
What are your thoughts guys?
DEF–Laird,Howe,Williams,Grainger-Barras,Bianco,Gould (L.Jones,Highmore)
MID–Neale,Bont,Merrett,McCluggage,Taranto,W.Phillips,Powell,Valente (Cockatoo,Ralphsmith,Gulden)
RUCK–Gawn,Grundy (Flynn)
FWD–D.Martin,Zorko,Heeney,Dow,B.Campbell,O.Henry (J.Treacy,Waterman)
Rookies will probably change after this weekends games.
Don’t have huge faith in many rookies, especially in Def. but i want to get a good bunch of them & avoid midpricers i don’t trust. I like Heppell & Cumming as true midpricers, but outside of that all of them i see having a fair bit of risk (Green, Taranto, Harmes) or not huge upside (Ziebell for example)
I think i’ve tried to take on too much risky value picks in the past, so trying to take more locks into the season this year.
Def – Lloyd, Laird, Stewart, L.McDonald, Cumming, Jones (Highmore, Chugg as a loophole)
Mid – Neale, Oliver, Cripps, Rowell, Heppell, Powell, Downie, Gulden (E.Smith, Bianco, Davies)
Ruck – Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Fwd – Danger, Dusty, Impey, Dow, Campbell, Rowe (H.Jones, Waterman)
I think Isaac Cumming will get a much larger role in GWS backline given the loss of Williams, Shaw and Whitfield being out early. Forward line is a real mixed bag, my locks there are Danger, Impey, Rowe and probably Campbell.
Bit worried Dusty will start slowly & bleed cash but i want to lock away at least 1 more forward, and i don’t see any other players i’d bank on being a top FWD for the year.
So yeah, especially interested on what people think of Cumming, McDonald, Dusty, Dow and other FWD options.
DEF
Lloyd, Laird, Short, Duggan, Jones, Gould…
Highmore & Kozchitzke.
MID
Neale, Oliver, Danger, Brayshaw, Cripps, Campbell, Powell, Smith…
Bianco, Berry & Downie.
RUCKS
Gawn, Grundy…
Flynn.
FOR
Dunkley, Butters, Impley, Dow, Jones, Rowe…
Waterman & Treacy.
Sitting with this team at the moment. Reassess after this weeks games.
I like the GnR team with few potential improvers in my view.
No Rowell or Williams in there.
Rowell being 500k, is he a keeper? Could be tagged? Will he be firing later in the season?
Williams, I just can’t see him being on the park all year.
Going Dow over Ziebell as I get a better D3.
I have the big 4 in Lloyd, Neale, Gawn and Grundy. Excellent captain loops for the 5-6 rounds. Nailing the right captain early rounds keeps you up the ranks due to a lot of teams being little similar.
Seeing a improvement in Short, Duggan, Brayshaw and Butters this year. Little POD hopefully in my team with low ownerships.
Greetings, may the SC Gods smile upon thee. I humbly offer:
DEF – Ryan, Laird, Williams, Mills, G-Barras, N.Cox (Gould/TBC, Highmore/TBC)
MID – Oliver, Jelly, Steele, Merrett, Walsh, Rowell, TT, Downie (Ely, Gulden, Davies/TBC)
RUC – Grundy, Flynn (Meek)
FWD – Danger, Daniher, Impey, Thilthorpe, Dow, Rowe (Henry, Saunders/TBC)
Saunders likely LH. Big deal if no one, I’ll take the cows.
$35,100 in the kitty
Justification: Williams, Laird, Mills: mid-time; Hawks: Depleted list; 2 x rookie rucks: cash cows/risk it for the biscuit; FWD setup: Better spent elsewhere.
Post preseason considerations: Wehr for N.Cox; NM rookie +Neale for Rowell & TT; General rookie changes; Steele for Fyfe + $fiddyK
Fyfe, Bont and even Cripps may spend too much time floating fwd supported by rising mids in each team for initial spend. Prepared to fall on sword, have 30 trades to acquire their services. Had Titch but dodgy shoulder a concern (a la Rowell). Steele – mildly uncomfortable with but stats don’t lie and same job in team as breakout 2020.
Love it. Great team. Pre season comp and rd 1 named players pending of course.
Haha love the prayer.
Tu; Rowell
Td; Taranto
Have at it currently uncontrollably pressing the trade button
Lloyd, laird, Williams, J.Clark, Jones, Gould (Wehr, Highmore)
Neale, Steele, Oliver, Brayshaw, Taranto, P.Dow, Powell, Valente (Collier-Dawkins, Downie, M, Rioli)
Gawndy (Flynn)
Sidebottom, Dusty, Ziebell, Impey, Henry, Rowe (E.Smith, C.Durdin)
First draft of my 2021 side. * next to Lloyd for leg concerns.
Really haven’t been able to do much looking into it this year so far, so let me have it!!
DEF:
Lloyd*, L.Ryan, Laird, Mills, Wehr, Highmore (Gould, Chugg)
MID:
Neale, Oliver, Walsh, Rowell, P.Dow, E.Smith, Bianco, Valente (C.Stephens, Durdin, Downie)
RUC:
Grawndy (Flynn)
FWD:
Danger, Martin, Heeney, Daniher, A.Waterman, Macrae (Treacy, Rowe)
Def: Lloyd, Laird, Stewart, Greaves, Jones, Wehr (Gould, Highmore)
Mid: Neale, Coliver, Walsh, Cripps, Rowell, Dow, Powell, Bianco (Macrae, E Smith, Downie)
Ruck: Grawndy (treacy)
Fwd: Dunkley, Heeney, Ziebell, W Kelly, Rowe, Waterman, (Durdin, Chugg)
$215k left. Could upgrade greaves or heeney but like the value
Have made some changes to my team pre-weekend… first team I’ve made without 4 keepers in the backline and no Cripps. Interested to hear everyone’s opinions. Thanks in Advance.
DEF:
Lloyd, Laird, Mills
Cox, Jones, Gould
(Wehr, Highmore)
Mid:
Neale, Steele, Oliver, Brayshaw (Freo), Taranto
Powell, Macrae, Gulden
(Valente, Collier-Dawkins, Downie)
Ruc:
Gawn, Grundy
(Flynn)
Fwd:
Danger, Dusty
Zeibell, Daniher, Dow, Henry
(Rowe, Waterman)
I like the layout of your team
Tossing up starting Martin at R2 … Other option would be downgrading Macrae to Cripps, Heppell to Valente/Gulden and upgrading Martin to RO’b. Would need to downgrade Rowell to Taranto to accommodate Grundy. Loving Brayshaw’s chances for a huge year. Forward line scares the s@#t out of me this year. Thoughts on this?
Def:
Lloyd, Laird, Mills, Williams, Jones, Highmore (Wehr, Bianco)
Mid:
Neale, Oliver, Macrae, Brayshaw, Rowell, Heppell, Powell, Downie (Smith, Berry, Davies)
Ruc:
Gawn, Martin (Flynn)
Fwd:
Danger, Dusty, Zeibell, Dow, Campbell, Waterman (Rowe, Treacy)
Hey guys, this is just food for thought.
With the new man on the mark cement boots rule
and a higher scoring game who benefits from more goals. With 3300 points per game how is it distributed. Who’s points will go up or down.
A- combination of forwards and defenders with the ball coming in more.
B-a goalkicking midfielder who spends a lot of time forward. ( fyfe,danger etc)
C- a pure midfielder who doesn’t go forward.
For every goal scored the points have to go somewhere.
The more goals there are will Gawn and Neale etc
still make there breakeven with the likes of Hawkins,Daniher,Dixon etc going to town.
Coleman medal predicted to be 70-80 this year.
Does that mean pure midfielders averages will be slightly lower.
All valid points.
More goals = more points shared to the forward line.
This argument goes in circles.
More goals , more centre bounces.
More chances for the midfielders to score.
So maybe theres less points for defenders ?
Jayden Short scores 170
DOh…
Greeting all,
Version No “lots,” rookies subject to selection, please go your hardest !
Def: Laird, Mills, Stewart, Williams, L Jones, Gould (Wehr, Laurie)
Mid: Neale, Steele, Oliver, Brayshaw (Freo), Walsh, Taranto, Powell, Macrae (McInnes, Downie, Davies)
Ruck: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Dunkley, Daniher, Impey, Dow, E Smith, Rowe (Durdin, Treacy)
$8100 cash
I would prefer Ziebell to Impey but we will see what happens, loaded up in middle as there is not much else I like in the Fwd line other than Dunkley. Danger will drop $$ & Dusty tends to start slow these days, so yeah I am thin in the forward line but I trust it the least and Daniher and Co should make some coin early on at least. 13 keepers if Taranto goes well.
Any thoughts appreciated !
Boy oh boy wowee. I’m not sure how I don’t have carpal tunnel with the amount of times I’ve clicked the trade button but here we are:
D – Laird, Daniel, Mills, Young +2 rookies
M – Neale, Oliver, Merrett, Cripps, Rowell, Green +2 rookies
R – Gawndy into Flynn
F – Danger, Rayner, Rozee, Impey, Dow + rookie
I see 13-14 potential “keepers” here if Young turns out to be worthy of D6 and I get lucky taking the punt on guys like Rayner, Green and Rozee. Yes, I know. A lot of “what ifs” but the way I see it is that worst case I can flip 2 of them into a premo and rookie. Any thoughts on how I can improve?
TU Lachie Ash
TD Jordan Clark
Thanks
TU: – Taranto
TD: – Dusty
Comment: S Higgins
Would love some feedback.
DEF:
Lloyd, Laird, Short
Greaves, Jones, Highmore
(Gould, Wehr)
MID:
Neale, Oliver, Dangerfield, Cripps
Taranto, Campbell, Powell, Valente
(Cockatoo, Brockman, Gulden)
RUC:
Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
FWD:
Dunkley, Martin, Ziebell
Dow, Jones, Rowe
(Treacy, Waterman)
$47,100 Left in bank.
Trying to bat deep due to lack of confidence in rookies being named. Brace yourself for the forward line…
Laird, Mills, Short, McDonald
Cox, Koschitzke (Gould, Highmore)
Neale, Oliver, Cripps, Brayshaw, Walsh, Heppell
Powell, Gulden (Smith, Downie, Spicer)
Gawn, Grundy
(Flynn)
De Goey, Caldwell, Ziebell, Daniher, Dow
Rowe (Treacy, Waterman)
No Williams or Rowell because i think im carrying enough risk already!
Hi guys,
Playing in a competitive league and would appreciate some advise or changes to my team
Def: Lloyd, laird, mills, young, Jones, high more
Bench: wehr, Gould
Mid:Neale, Petracca, Merret, Dusty, Rowell, Powell, collier dawkins, Donwnie
Bench: smith, Fyfe, Davies
Ruck: Gawn, Grundy
Bench: Flynn
Fwds:Danger, Butters, Caldwell, Daniher, Dow, Rowe
Bench: treacy, waterman
Thanks in advance guys
Am I the only one beginning to wonder whether there will be enough rookies to fill our sides rd 1 ? Kelly gone, Macrae spudded it last night, Phillips at north on the outer, and on it goes.
I feel they always surprise us and enough turn up round one but it’s the lack of quality that is worrying me this year wighty. The very few I’ve got in my side and played have been underwhelming
Thats the problem this year. The year off meant most rookies had little/no dvelopment. It could well be that a gun has to go for two mids to fill the holes. Ironically, my bombers could well start the most rookies, and have several others ready to go.
Starting to think stacking the defence is going to be the way forward. Again. Of the potential rookie players in defence most do not look like a) they will play and b) that they will have points friendly roles if they do.
A thought exercise. Looks like both Flynn and Hunter are certain starters early, and probably Treacy too.
D: LLOYD, LAIRD, MILLS, SHORT, Young, Cox (Koschizke, Wehr)
M: STEELE, OLIVER, PETRACCA, WALSH, ROWELL,
Green, Powell, E.Smith, (Downie, Gulden, S.Berry)
R: GAWN, Flynn (Hunter)
f: DANGER, HEENEY, Daniher, Impey, Dow, H.Jones (Waterman, Treacy)
$32k
Hi
Obviously Short smashed it against Collingwood anyone know what he did in the practice games? Has he had a role change or was this a one off. I see everyone jumping on….2% to 10% already.
Cheers
Glad to be an owner Tinka though Stewart is unlucky ,just hasn’t got a ceiling and behind Daniels DD
Hello everyone,
After a million attempts this the team that I’ve sat on the most without changes, like half an hour ><
I know few of the guns, Danger and Martin above all, will most likely drop but I figured I'm willing to prioritise a couple less trades to do during the season and work on upgrading the other 4 forwards since looks hard enough as it is.
Also not too sure what to do with Lloyd, he was initially untouchable in my team but decided to swap him for Saad and keep extra cash in the bank.
Kenobi Clan@SCT
Laird, Daniel, Saad,
DGB, L.Jones, Highmore
(Laurie, Wehr)
Neale, Steele, Petracca, Merrett, Cripps,
Campbell, Powell, Smith
(RCD, Durdin, Downie)
Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Danger, Dusty, Ziebell
Dow, H.Jones, Rowe
(Treacy, Waterman)
122,900 in the bank.
Mass
Having that much cash in the bank is always the wrong move.
Elaborate? 🙂
I think its smart.
Allows you to upgrade your D4 to a Cummings or Young ( both likely best 22 )
Nice team too.
I’m thinking to swap Saad for Ridley and DGB for J.Clark, 44k left in the bank.
Also not completely sold on Dow
yep. I like Ridley or Short.
Saad will be ok but two things worry me. I don’t really like taking players ( Premo’s ) the first year they move . I feel it takes a while ( 10/12 games ) to click with their new team mates. I’m also just not sure he has too much upside at his age.He may prove me wrong, I just don’t like the risk to start.
Dow is still a wait and see for me. He may come in at M6 / F5. Depending on Rookie availability.
Clark over Cummings / Young looks good for D4 atm.
Had a bit of a structure change due to where rookies are available. $11k remaining.
DEF:
Seagull, Laird, Stewart, Short, LMac, Jones (Gould, Wehr)
MID:
Neale, Satan, Danger, Walsh, Heppell, Powell, Macrae, Brockman (Smith, Downie, Lazzaro)
RUC:
Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
FWD:
Dusty, Ziebell, Daniher, Impey, Laurie, Rowe (Treacy, Waterman)
Not 100% sold on Dangerfield, I may drop him to Cripps if I need the cash for better rookies.
So It’s taken some tinkering, but here goes..
Bank $4.4K 🙁
Laird . Mills . Short .
Cummings . DGB . Wehr.
Highmore / Laurie.
Neale . Steele . Oliver . Walsh . Cripps .
Pedler . Powell . E Smith .
Brockman . Downie . Durdin.
Gawn . Grundy .
Flynn
Danger . Dusty . Zeibell . Daniher .
O Henry . H Jones .
Rowe . Treacy.
I’ve had either Short . Stewart or TMac at D3
Short made it his in that latest game.
D4 -6 is where a bit of a lottery atm.
If I need extra funds..
I plan on downgrading Dusty to either S Bolton or Z Butters.
Any suggestions welcome.
No Swans Rookie.?
Gulden M $117k will come in if he plays.
I will be shocked if Gould plays. He’s at 45% ownership but with McCartin playing back, just don’t see where he fits in ?
Ling may play as a $161k def. he has been in the system a few years . Still lean, but lightning quick, he may get an outside role. We really need playing defensive rookies but…I have no read on his JS
MacDonald an Cambell will both probably play some footy this year, but at their price tags / roles I can’t see them being worth it.
Did I miss some one ?
Looking at Jiaths performance in the pre-season game, I was thinking about putting him in my team at 266k defender.
Tu: nice Pod, breakout season, get him in
Td: you’ve gone mad. what are you thinking
Flynn not named in GWS team, Briggs (DEF/FWD) in the Ruck
Local Western Sydney product Kieren Briggs will take the ruck duties after Matt Flynn was ruled out with an ankle sprain. Flynn will be a test for next week’s intra-club match.
Def: Lloyd, Laird, Williams, Cox, Jonas, Koschitzke (Highmore, Gould)
Mid: Neale, Tracca, Cripps, Rowell, Taranto, Hill, Hately, Powell (Cocky, Brockman, Downie)
Ruck: Gawn, Martin (Hunter)
Fwd: Danger, Dusty, De Goey, Ziebell, Daniher, Campbell (Rowe, Smith)
10K in the bank
Crows Head of Footy Adam Kelly: We would have liked [Hately] to do more last week and we have Matt Crouch back in the lineup… Jackson will need to work his way back into the team.
Hately not selected this weekend and will play in the SANFL team.
Hi guys
Thinking I’m getting close to a team.
Thoughts would be appreciated
Laird, mills, short ,
Cox, Jones. Koschizke ( Highmore, Briggs)
Neale, Merrett, pendles, Rowell, t Phillips
Dow, Campbell, Powell
(Jordan, Brockman, Downie)
Gawn, Grundy (Treacy)
Martin, degoey, Stephenson, Caldwell,
Ziebell, daniher ( Jones, Rowe)
Hey guys, I feel like this is gonna be a hard year of Supercoach haha
Here is my team and I feel like this team is gonna be a hit or miss. Please comment any suggestions!!!
FWD: Lloyd, Laird, Stewart, Short, Jones, Gould, (Wehr, Highmore)
MID: Neale, Merrett, Cripps, Rowell, Taranto, T. Phillips, W.Phillips, Perkins (Powell, Valente, Davis)
RUCK: Grundy, Draper, (Tracey)
FWD: Dangerfield, Dunkley, Ziebell, Ugle-Hagen, O.Henry, Rowe, (Erye, Waterman)
Bank: $17,900
Please let me know what you guys think!!!
Thank you!
Do you think it is worth going from Cripps and T.Phillips to Gaff and Caldwell
TU: Gaff & Caldwell
TD: Cripps & T.Phillips
Tu: Brayshaw Dusty HJones
Td: Zerrett Caldwell Ziebell
Who hates night shift 🙁
Quick question for those who got to watch the Essendon game tonight…
TU – Caldwell
TD – Heppell
Tossing up between them 🙂
Cheers
Can anyone confirm that teams won’t be out on Thursday and Fridays now but before each match? Hope not
Yeah each team releases the day before
I can’t decide. Need some help please.
TU- Martin F2
TD – Dunkley F2
Thoughts on Coniglio?? Could have a redemption year and at worst probably still averages 100
G’day SC’s,
Current fwd line:
Danger, Heeney, Degoey, Ziebell, P Dow, H Jones (Treacy & Rowe)
I have been switching between Impey, Dow and Daniher for F5. Not sold on Impey.
TU: Dow
TD: Daniher
Thoughts appreciated.
Cheers
T Rex
Silvagni looked good scored 107 at 1.32ppm over 81mins compared to Dows 54 at 0.77ppm over 76 minutes. Only 50k more than Dow.
IMO Too many others at similar price to Dow have shown a greater ability to get the ball and impact the game in aammi
Ian totally confused which way to go this year .
might be the hardest supercoach year ever do We go the tried formula of guns and rookie or 200000 madness and spread the load across all positions any feedback welcome
Half-way aami only 12 players, who played more than 40 minutes, scored at 1.50pp or better and all topped 100
Short 1.96-165
Sheils 1.82-144
Clark 1.82-120
TPhillips 1.70-134
LDU 1.67-122
Sinclair 1.57-130
Stewart 1.56-133
Jiath 1.56-123
Kosi 1.55-130
Morrison1.53-127
McKernan 1.51-109
Zerrett 1.49-127
Love some advice – rooks to change obviously leading up to RD1
DEF: Lloyd, Laird, Mills, Markov, Gould, Highmore (Weir & Chugg)
MID: Neale, Oliver, Cripps, Rowell, Taranto, Campbell, Powell, Downie (McCrae, Valente, Cockatoo)
RUCK: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
FWD: Sidebottom, Martin, Caldwell, Daniher, Impey, Laurie (Rowe, Treacy)
Thanks!
TU Ziebell + Caldwell
TD Dow + Sloane
Thanks
Drop some advice please. Rookies subject to change as we get closer to round 1.
Def:
Laird, Crisp, Short, J. Clark, Koschitzke, Highmore. (Chugg, A Fyfe)
Mid:
Neale, petracca, zerrett, Cripps, Cerra, Taranto, Dom Tyson, Powell (Cockatoo, Valante, J Saunders)
Ruc:
Gawn, Grundy (Treacy)
For:
Danger, T. Phillips, Ziebell, Dow, B. Campbell, K. Briggs. (Rowe, Sheather)
TU:Butters
TD:Heeney
TU: TPhillips +Caldwell
TD: Cripps + JClark
Looking for thoughts on the team –
Def –
Lloyd – Ridley – Mills – Short – Jiath – Highmore (Kozi/Chugg)
Mid –
Neale – Oliver – Jelly – Petracca – Walsh – T.Green – Clark – Powell (Downie/Gulden/McNeil)
Ruck –
Gawn – Grundy (Hunter)
Fwd –
Ziebell – Daniher – Thilthorpe – Dow – Ely Smith – Waterman (Treacy/Brockman)
Bank: 25k
Overall looked to find the best premiums I think I can and make early inroads on the midfield and back line. Not exactly sold on FWD options so have opted for cash cow/good value players so far. Recently added Jiath into the side, looks like he will take that intercept marking role for the Hawks and could be value?
like mine the forwards are a glaring worry.Needs a danger easier said than done DD
It’s usually pretty safe to back in good footballers Butters and Greene would make a fantastic F5,6 at worst and both at value prices phillips @402k looks like a bargain as well.
Who else is there?
Heeney always promises and never delivers, clouds around dunkley, sidey broken, hawkins, sharing with cameron, and marshall broken.
Danger butters, greene looks ok
TU: Caldwell
TD: TPhillips
TU: J Caldwell
TD: J Cameron
Another interesting team I’ve put together. Any thoughts on this one?
DEF – Lloyd, Laird, Short, Clark, Jones, Koschitzke (Highmore, Chugg)
MID – Oliver, Macrae, Merrett, Fyfe, Taranto, Campbell, Powell, Smith (Gulden, Brockman, Davies)
RUC – Gawn, Martin (Hunter)
FWD – Dangerfield, Martin, Butters, Phillips, Ziebell, Rowe (Scott, Waterman)
Has Jordan Clark cemented himself into the Cats best 22 with his performance against the bombers? I still have concerns about his JS..
T/U – He has to be!
T/D – Played great but who knows!
Think I’m getting close to my final product.
Def: Laird, Mills, Short, Williams, Chapman, Jones (Briggs, Kozschitzke)
Mids: Steele, Oliver, Zerrett, Jelly, Rowell, Taranto, Campbell, Scott (Downie, Gulden, McNeil)
Rucks: Gawn, Grundy (Meek)
Fwds: Dusty, Ziebell, Daniher, Dow, Warner, Brockman (Rowe, Treacy)
Got 7.7k in the bank.
TU: Cripps
TD: Rowell
B: Lloyd Laird Stewart Williams HYoung Jones (Koschistke, Highmore)
M: Trac Merrett JKelly Fyfe JClark Campbell Powell Gulden (Smith, Downie, Bianco)
R: Gawn Grundy (Hunter)
F: Danger Dusty Ziebell Impey Rowe Brockman (Treacy Laurie)
Not 100% sold on Lloyd due to interruptions – thinking about downgrading him to Ridley, Short or Daniel which will also let me make another upgrade
Nice team. Jelly and Fyfe are risks…they both miss lots of games. I’d go with one if you must, not two.
I think I heard a rumour that Lachie Neale is a little broken. Did I read that on this forum? Can anybody advise me about it?
Laird-Daniel-Stewart
Jiath-JClark-Briggs (Kosi,Highmore)
Oliver-Petracca-Merrett-Danger
Rowell-TPhillips-Tyson-Campbell (Brockman,Gulden,McNiel)
Max-Stef (Treacy)
Heeney-Greene-Caldwell
Ziebell-Daniher-Warner (Rowe,Scott)
Jiath?
He looked to have a very points lucrative role against the Roos. 14kicks, 10hballs, 7 marks. 123SC @ 1.56ppm 83% DE and only 266k. Looks like value
TU: Martin /Rowell
TD: Dangerfield / Brayshaw (Freo)
Defence rookies are hard to find looks like Hawthorn boys will fill my back line.
Fanfooty have witherden as no FA at half time. In first qrtr he hit banfield in the face in a marking contest and banfield kicked a goal with the free kick. How reliable is fanfooty stats usually?
Should we be concerned that Oliver is sitting out Melbourne’s game?
Clayton Oliver being managed.
“Clayton has some general soreness and as a club, we are taking a cautious approach to ensure he’s ready to go for Round 1,” GM of AFL Football Performance Alan Richardson
TU: Phillips
TD: Toby Greene
CMNT: De Goey
ABOVE
TU : De Goey
Wouldn’t rely on de goey or greene playing a full season. Phillips might be the safer pick?
Must be team number 50 by now!
Def – Laird, Ridley, Stewart, Short, Clark, Kozi
(Wehr, chugg)
Mid – Neale, Steele, Zerrett, Brayshaw, LDU, Powell, E.Smith, Valente
(Bianco, Downie, Gulden)
Ruck – Gawn, Draper ( Flynn )
Fwd – Danger, J.Higgins, Caldwell, Ziebell, Dow, Campbell ( Rowe, Waterman)
TU/TD?
Higgins and LDU look to be a chance at breaking through could hold M8/F6 spots if they live up to this years expectations.
Brayshaw should improve on last year. Caldwell could be a bomb. Im pretty happy with the rest any suggestions?
Who’s the better choice at F2?
TU : Butters
TD: T Phillips
The latest of many iterations of what seems like an ever changimg team:
Ryan Laird Short Clark Young Koschitzke / Highmore A Fyfe (loophole)
Neale Steele Oliver Merrett Taranto Dow Downie Guldon / E Smith Jordan Brockman
Gawn Draper / Flynn
Dangerfield Martin Caldwell Daniher Campbell Rowe / Henry Bergman
I think most/all of the rookies will play R1 now. I think I am sold on Clark, Young, Dow, Caldwell & Daniher all gaining value pretty quickly. Taranto & Draper seem like good value too.
Happy to get any constructive criticism or feedback.
Not long to go now. It’s going to be an interesting season. Good luck to everyone!
TU:- Jack Ziebell
TD:- Paddy Dow
TU: Butters
TD: Heeney
Watched a bit today and Butters looked good. Not sure who was missing but 471 odd is a bit much imo but if heeps pumping out tons who knows, Rozee out might help a tad
I’ve been thinking about Butters myself. Going back to 2nd half of last season he just always seems to be around the ball. The trap is obviously a single pre-season game against a bottom 4 club but he looked as good as any of the higher priced forwards.
Rozee out certainly helps Fantasia a bit imho
TU Jiath
TD Fantasia
Alternatives? Young?
TU LDU
TD T Green
This is what I’ve got so far will wait until the final preseason games to lock in rookies or mid pricers. Also not very set on Neale or getting Lloyd in yet but we’ll see
DEF: Laird, Mills, Short, Jiath, Koschitzke, Highmore (Wehr, Fyfe)
MID: Neale, Steele, Oliver, Walsh, Rowell, Clark, Bruhn, Powell (Downie, Brockman, Gulden)
RUCK: Grawndy (Treacy)
FWD: Butters, Phillips, Caldwell, Ziebell, Daniher, Campbell (Rowe, Waterman)
$39.2k left in the bank
I’m really really stuck with this team so if anyone has any thoughts on how to improve it i’m all ears.
Thanks guys
Jack Buckley 12kicks,2hb,8mrk,1tkl,1ff,2fa,2goals,2cp,380mtr-gnd 78%de 62SC
Lachlan Ash 11kicks,4hb,2mrk,1tkl,0ff,1fa,0goals,4cp,434mtr-gnd 73%de 66SC
Some of Buckleys marks were intercept pack marks and he obviously kicked 2 goals. It looks like Ash had 2 cp hballs that were so game changing they scored equal to 2goals,1kick and 6mrks. I don’t remember Ash doing anything like that. This scoring system is an enigma
T/U – Macrae & Green
T/D – Brayshaw & Taranto
I have a feeling over the likes of Macrae & Josh Kelly, who can rack up the uncontested touches
Team before final day of preseason
Def: Laird, Stewart, Short, Williams, Young, Cox (Kosch, Highmore)
Mid: Steele, Merrett, Fyfe, Taranto, Green, Clark, Powell, Smith (Downie, Gulden, McNeil)
Ruck: Grawndy (Meek)
Fwd: Danger, Phillips, Ziebel, Daniher, Dow, Campbell (Briggs, Rowe)
Pretty happy with this team only changes would be if Williams gets rubbed out maybe him to Duggan or even down to jiath or cumming
Also tossing up between Merrett and Kelly
Had Oliver but is he a concern now that he’s not playing or are u still confident in him come round 1
Daniher is also a watch
Any suggestions or answer to those questions would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Thinking about downgrading Grundy to
Tu Draper
Td stef Martin
What are people’s thoughts? What are u doing?
At the moment I’ve done the same downgrade, Grundy to Draper, for the following reasons, completely subjective.
– I reckon Draper is going to kick on hard this season and will easily bank money
– Grundy will do the opposite. Pull out a big score here and there but nothing compared to Big Maxy.
– The ~$300k-odd money can be injected into DEF or FWD lines where they are looking a bit thin right now.
Very open to other opinions on this.
Exactly what I’m thinking. Just gotta talk myself into it now
Thumbs up
Lloyd, English
Thumbs down
Duggan, Gawn
Trying to decide on my M5
TU: J Clark ( his M/D position works in well with Laird in my backline)
TD: T Green (I find it difficult trusting GWS players)
TU: LDU
TD: Sloane
Thanks coaches
TU:
Jake Lloyd and a Rookie
TD:
Tom Stewart and Jordan Clark
D – Lloyd, Laird, Stewart, Williams Z, Koschitkze, Frederick (De Koning, Highmore)
C – Neale, Steele, Oliver, Merrett, Cripps, Dow, Brockman, Downie (Rioli, Guiden, Lazzaro)
R -Grawndy (Treacy)
F – Butters, Phillips T, Ziebell, Impey, Bergman, Rowe (Jones, Waterman)
Gone hard in defence as there are less rookies. Adversely a little weaker in forwards as it seems a rookie goldmine. Five gun mids pick themselves. Still unsure about Dow and Impey but they seem bargains if they perform well. Any thoughts appreciated.
This rookie thing is doing my head in so I have taken a different approach to my latest team.
LLoyd Laird Daniel Lukosius Walker (C loop) R/R/R
Satan Bont Merrett Danger Adams Wines Powell R/R/R/R
Gawn Grundy R
Dusty Treacy Waterman R/R/R/R/R
Powell Treacy and Waterman are the only rookies I am prepared to name at the moment, but apart from Powell they are not locks In my team, I have named only $102.4k rookie fillers (13), none of which play in the first two games.
I have $406.8k in the bank which means I can bring in rookies with an average price of $136.3k and with several $117.3k prospects this should work out.
This strategy means I can bring in rookies on a game by game basis, as I dont currently have any playing in the first two games. The plan is to have as many of the 13 rookies as possible playing on Sunday to give maximum flexibilty.
Thoughts ??
Who should take my D3. Two very different players. Not sure what Mills scored yesterday but he was getting high CBAs..
TU: C.Daniel
TD: Mills
Also can’t split these two
U: J.Clark
D: H.Young
Neither
both
First Draft.
DEF: Lloyd, Laird, Stewart, Short, Highmore, Kosch (Chugg, Carruthers)
MID: Neale, Macrae, Brayshaw, Rowell, Caldwell, Clark, Power, Bianco (Downie, Gulden, Fyfe)
RUC: Gawn, Grundy (Meek)
FWD: Danger, Butters, Ziebell, Daniher, Impey, Macrae (Rowe, Waterman)
Curious if anyone is going to do a write-up on the weekends scorers.
The only article I could find is behind a Hun paywall.
Rip into me boys
Def: Laird, Mills, Short, Young, Fantasia, Clark( Briggs, Highmore)
Mid: Neale, Steele, Oliver, Merrett, T.Phillips, Dow, Campbell, Powell( Smith, Brockman, Gulden)
Ruc: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
FWD: Butters, Hind, Ziebell, Daniher, Impey, Rowe( Waterman, Treacy)
Josh Caddy?
TU Merrett
TD The Bont
Both!
First team post since last season….still very tipsy turvy with rookies. A lot could change.
Def: Laird, Ridley, Daniel, Fantasia, Kos, Highmore (Frederick, Gould)
Mid: Neale, Oliver, Macrae, Merret, Taranto, Campbell, Powell, Gulden (Valente, Mead, RCD)
R: Grawndy (Flynn)
Fwd: Dunkley, Martin, Ziebell, Daniher, Jones, Rowe (Chugg, Treacy)
Bottom end rooks are all subject to selection.
Neale could be gone for Steele.
Dunkley could be gone for Danger.
Grundy could be gone for ROB.
Decisions decisions.
For D2:
TU: Laird
TD: Daniel
TU – Ridley
TD- Stewart
Comment- Daniel
Daniel
Danger and Fyfe/Kelly
Or
Dunkley and Macrae/Oliver/Bont
TU: Grundy
TD: Neale
TU: Dunkley and Dusty
TD: Danger and Tom Phillips
Thanks everyone.
that time of the year again where i try and beat dad feedback on this first posted team would be appreciated (age 17)
Def: Loyd, Laird, Duggan, Young, Koschitzke, Gould (Jones, Wehr)
Mid: Neale, Merrett, Cripps, Rowell, Taranto, J.Clark, Powell, Downie (Valente, Durden, Gulden)
R: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Fwd: Dangerfield, Martin, Ziebell, Daniher, Dow, Campbell(Rowe, Treacy)
That leaves 80k ITB for first round changes
PLEASE leave your opinions
Downie had a very low scoring rate A.Scott from dogs is a better scoring option if named and 15k cheaper. Dow looked ordinary Chad Warner looked really good you can save 60k if you make that swap.
Gould unlikely to play, if you drop him and put clark in his position the 75k you saved with dow/downie and the 80k you have left can get a Tyson or similar low priced bolter in the middle or forward
Ha
Daniher 50% more disposals than Neale in 1st quarter and all of them kicks!
Markov 10 touches wow what position is he playing I’m watching married at first sight haha
Listed as a defender in SC, but he’s playing on the wing tonight
Trade up trac
Trade down Fyfe
Heppelltitis D
Def: laird, Daniel, Mills, Short, Clark, Kosi Em: Gould, highmore
Miss: Macrae, Bont, Merrett, Fyfe, Taranto, Dow, Powell, Brockman* Em: Downie, Gulden, Davies
Ruck: Gawn Grundy Em: Flynn
Forward: Danger, Phillips, Ziebell, Frederick, Warner, Waterman* Em: Rowe, Treacy
13 keepers in my opinion.
First year with an @SCT. Top 3000 last season. Thanks to everyone on this site. I’ve only recently discovered it after 5 years of SC. TOTAL NOOB!!! Embarrassing.
Ok, team is a little off kilter, but I’m fairly settled with structure. My rookies are all holding places until further notice.
Fantasia down back is out there, but it fits my spending structure. I’ve also got a loop to accomodate.
Def: Laird, Ridley, Daniel, Fantasia, Kos, Highmore (Frederick, Gould)
Mid: Neale, Oliver, Macrae, Merret, Taranto, Campbell, Powell, Gulden (Valente, Mead, RCD)
R: Grawndy (Flynn)
Fwd: Dunkley, Martin, Ziebell, Daniher, Jones, Rowe (Chugg, Treacy)
D: Laird, Docherty, Witherden, L Jones, K Briggs, Koschitzke (Laurie, Highmore)
M: Neale, Oliver, Macrae, Cripps, Rowell, Taranto, T green, Powell (Bianco, Downie, Gulden)
R: G G (Traecy)
F: Dunkley, Ziebell, Daniher, Dow, Warner, Bergman (Fullerton, Brockman)
Structure: 3, 6, 2, 1. Bank: 226,700.
Not sure what to do with extra bank.
I reckon upgrade either Daniher or Dow to Phillips
What we thinking of markov performance
Dom Tyson as a stepping stone. Thoughts ?
Lloyd, Laird, Williams, harmes, Jones, highnore (kozi, Gould)
Neale, Steele, Oliver, Rowell, Taranto, D Tyson, Powell, Gulden (Bianco,RCD,Downi)
Gawndy ( Flynn)
Dusty, Greene, Zieball, Daniher, Campbell, Rowe( trendy, macrae)
Thoughts would be appreciated cheers !!
First contribution in awhile, be interested in anyone’s comments.
Def: Laird, Daniel, Howe, Young, Jiath, Jones (Koschitzke, Highmore)
Mid: Steele, Oliver, Bontempelli, Merrett, Green, Caldwell, Clark, Powell (Gulden, McNeill, Saunders)
Ruc: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn / Meek).
Fwd: Dangerfield, Phillips, Ziebell, Campbell, Warner, Rowe (Brockman, Scott).
Bank 2k.
Only leaving out Lloyd as it gives me a little more cash elsewhere. Need Jones get a gig. No Neale as thinking (hoping?) he could be overpriced and able to upgrade to him later for less. Saunders as the initial captaincy loophole as Hawthorn have 5 of their first 6 on a Sunday. Flynn or Meek depending on who plays round 1. See the forwards as the biggest weakness.
And naturally all very subject to change depending on the majority of them getting selected in the first round!
Thoughts?
TU: Dow and Caleb Daniel
TD: Jiath/Young and Walsh
TU B. Campbell (Syd)
TD Dow (carl)
Another poll – M5 choice is tough
TU – Neale & Green
TD – Brayshaw & Rowell
I’ve squeezed in Dunkley to the middle as well as I think he will be a top 3 forward
TU: Tom green and Josh Kelly
TD: Rowell and LDU
I like LDU as a pod and from reports is north’s best preseason player
Just a quick TU/TD on this X v Y:
Tom Powell (TU)
Ned Cahill (TD)
Obviously looking for JS and a higher ceiling, structure not important.
Poor Ned is doomed … that bagel probably won’t change unless a sympathy vote comes in.
Second take on my original team, I went from Saad to Ridley, Martin to Dunkley, Steele to Bontempelli and Cripps to Brayshaw and that’s probably the move I’m less sold on.
Laird, Daniel, Ridley
J.Clark, L.Jones, Highmore
(Laurie, Wehr)
Neale, Petracca, Bontempelli,
Merrett, Brayshaw,
Campbell, Powell, Smith
(Durdin, Downie, A.Fyfe)
Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Danger, Dunkley,
Ziebell, Daniher, H.Jones, Rowe
(Treacy, Waterman)
30k in the bank
Mass
Havent been happy with a side until now – so feel free to tell me where I can improve (obviously rookies will change where required) -96k in the bank.
Lloyd, Laird, Daniel, Clark
L.Jones, Wehr (Highmore, Gould)
Neale, Oliver, Zerrett, Rowell, Taranto
Phillips, Durdin, Gulden (Smith, Cockatoo, Jordon)
Grundy, Gawn
(Flynn)
Danger, Butters, Ziebell, Daniher, Dow
Waterman (Brockman, Burgen)
Only thing I keep thinking about changing is Danger v Dunkley @ F1.
TU: Danger
TD: Dunkley
Dunkley obviously put on a show against the demons. Does this bring Beveridge to recognise how good he is and never question dropping him?
T/U – He’s obviously in the best 22 and even Beveridge can’t deny that.
T/D – Never good to have a coach who holds a grudge, no matter how well you play.
With Oliver not playing against the dogs, what are people’s thoughts on this?
TU: Oliver.
TD: Fyfe.
Oliver was out with the general, club expecting him to play RD1, no point risking him in a praccy.
TU: Tom Green.
TD: Jye Caldwell.
Tu; Rowell + Taranto (extra 200k roughly saved)
Td; Steele + either Rowell/Taranto
Tossing up these two for M2
TU: Oliver
TD: Macrae
TU: – Dunkley + Short/Houston
TD: – Dusty + Mills
All
B – Laird, Stewart, Short, Howe, Clark, Jones (Kosi, Highmore)
M – Neale, Macrae, Dunkley, Brayshaw, Walsh, Campbell, Powell, Downie (Gulden, Davies, Scott)
R – Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
F – Butters, De Goey, Ziebell, Impey, Rowe, Brockman (Treacy, Waterman)
$95k in bank
If the back rookies don’t show, I’ll sacrifice one of Walsh/Brayshaw to Rowell/Taranto/Green to get in H.Young
Pretty set on the 4 premos down back, and dead keen on the De Goey & Butters combo for a breakout. Dunkley a late inclusion but I think he’ll end up at F1, so I’ll hold him in my mids for now
Would love some feedback
Pretty happy with the state of the team following practice matches. Just waiting on those all important rookie selections come RD 1.
DEF: Larid, Daniel, Mills, Short, Clark, Koschitzke (Briggs, Chugg)
MID: Neale, Steele, Zerrett, Danger, Rowell, B.Campbell, Powell, Downie (Brockman, Gulden, McNeil)
RUC: G+G (Flynn)
FWD: Dunkley, Phillips, Ziebell, H.Jones, Rowe, A.Scott (Treacy, Waterman)
Pretty set on the backline. Would be nice to have Lloyd but the fact I don’t have him allows me to afford the 4 premos. MIDs look decent, feels weird starting without Macrae and Satan though. FWD line seems to hold a bunch of viable rookies so I’ve gone relatively slim there.
Would appreciate your thoughts!
Cheers,
B321
Keen on any thoughts, gone for a couple PODs in the middle.
DEF: Lloyd, Mills, Stewart, Jones, Kozi, Highmore (Laurie, Fyfe)
MID: Neale, Merrett, Lyons, Menegola, Rowell, Campbell, Powell, Valente (Smith, Gulden, Scott)
RUC: Gawn, Grundy (Meek)
FWD: Dangerfield, Butters, De Goey, Ziebell, Warner, Briggs (Treacy, Waterman)
$56k itb.
DEF – Lloyd, Laird, Short, Young, Clark, Jones (Koschitzke, Highmore)
MID – Macrae, Merrett, Bontempelli, Fyfe, Rowell, Powell, Gulden, Brockman (Smith, Jordon, Downie)
RUC – Gawn, Draper (Flynn)
FWD – Dunkley, Martin, Butters, Ziebell, Campbell, Scott (Rowe, Waterman)
Liked the look of Young on the weekend, plus him taking the kick ins with Ryan is a positive.
Also brought in Draper for Martin. His 71 in 58% game time was enough for me to pick him instead of Martin (who was rather disappointing and outdone by English). If Draper had a much fuller game, he would’ve had a score somewhere between 90-100. So I’m happy with that
Young had 14 kicks and Eagles scored 13 behinds. If he was taking kick ins he only managed a single kick for the rest of the game.
His de was lowish at 73% for a guy mostly doing kickins so if each kick from a kickin only got him 2pts he would have scored 57 without kickins.
When Ryan is back his scores will be without kickins. 280k for a mid 60’s ave isn’t good value
Fair enough.
Who do you think would be the best D4/5 choice in between $200-300k apart from Clark?
Lol young will then get a mark and a kick
Don’t ya thank?
Great side similar to mine
T/U Houston
T/D Ridley
If Meek and Flynn are both going to play round 1, could you start 1 on the field paired with Grundy or Gawn?
TU: Ridley
TD: Mills
T/U Lloyd and Daniher
T/D Daniel and Caldwell
Currently have T/U option but think Lloyd may average less and Daniel more, and Daniher is injury prone whilst Caldwell looks a lock for every week.
Top 10 Rucks for hitouts during AAmmi
I watched all games and had a quick glance at historical preseason HO numbers to develop a theory.
My theory is that the new rule is resulting in less ‘rushed O.O.B’ because the traffic isn’t being pushed as hard against the boundry. Less O.O.B means less throwins which means less scoring opportunities for rucks.
None of the games had a combined total of throwins + Ball ups that was over 38 and stoppage ball ups seemed comparable to previous years.
To me the difference appeared to be more than 20% less throwins.
ATMO I have Grawndy but based on game changes + Jackson I am concerned that I’ll see a massive value drop in those 2 players
Pittonet 37 V Hunter 23 +McKernan 13 (38 CBs) 35 non CB
Witts 36 V BigO 27 +Fullarton 3 (35 CBs) 31 non CB
Gawn 32 V Stef 14 + English 9 (29 CBs) 38 non CB (jackson had 12 Tmac1)
Big O 27 V Witts 36 +Day 2 + Burgess 3 (35 CBs) 31 non CB (Fullarton 3 Daniher 1)
Grundy 26 V Chol 8 + Nank 8 (26 CBs) 24 non CB (Cameron 4 cox 2 Balta CCJ 1ea)
Hickey 26 V Briggs 22 +2other (34 CBs) 27 non CB (sinclair 8 Ried 4 Himmelberg 1)
Hunter 23 V Pittonet 37 + OMac 2 (38 CBs) 35 non CB
NicNat 22 V Meek 18 + Treacy 2 (21 Cbs)
Ceglar 21 V Goldy 21 + Campbell 8 (33 CBs)
Goldy 21 V Ceglar 21 +McEvoy 17 (33 CBs)
Hi guys trying to decide between these two options
Tu: Butters and Caldwell
Td: dusty and Daniher
Thanks in advance
T/U: Steele and Taranto
T/D Jelly and Rowell
I’m not sold on Cripps yet his still my M5 and has been since day 1. I know he’s been uber in the past but he had a down year last year he was pretty poor and his first two pre season games were just as poor. I know ya not too buy into pre season blah blah blah but after a bad season I needed too see a great game or show more than he did. Are the walshes, Williams dows etc finally going to standup and steal his points and Cripps have down weeks.. his best years were when he was surrounded by noone and had to single handedly carry the football club, are those days gone?
Are Taranto, brayshaw and Rowell better M5 options than the proven crippa?
Page 1
TU: Rowell
TD: Brayshaw
Page 2
TU: Cripps
TD: Taranto
Please only pick ONE of the four options not one on each page 🙂
Rowell scored at 1.30 ppm played 70 minutes
Brayshaw scored at 1.18ppm played 80 minutes
Rowell 17 CP and 7 Clearances
Brayshaw 07 CP and 3 clearances
Thanks Dja. Looking at that little stat Rowell looks a good selection but I’ve got this little voice in my head saying it’s brayshaws year.
Mate I’ve been having the same thoughts the last week, I had him as my M5 sonce January and never thought I’d get rid of him as his price it’s tempting for someone that proved what he did in the past.
But there’s also something there that’s very tempting about Walsh, Brayshaw, etc..
Something’s telling me that Cripps will definitely deliver some Cripps scores but I have a feeling this year around that price there are options taht could pay off more on the long run.
As you said looks like he’s not carrying the whole team on his shoulders so points could be spread out more.
Decisions decisions…
I saw exactly what I needed to see to lock Cripps in.
14 possessions and 11 of them contested and he got the ball every time that he wanted to. He wasn’t getting any free/easy possessions mainly because he wasn’t making himself available to receive in the midfield after the initial cb contests; he stepped back to give others the opportunity.
Pittonet topped the clearance count followed by Williams and the ‘others’ Dow, Walsh, Martin, cunningham & O’Brien didn’t take the opportunity to stand up.
Carlton found out that none of their ‘young midfielders’ are ready yet and Cripps has to do it all again.
When he went forward he looked dangerous, and a bit rusty.
First crack at my team for the year!
Keen to get some feedback on the below.
Def: Ryan, Laird, Williams (Pending suspension), Clark, Koschitzke, Highmore (Gould, A Fyfe)
Mid: Neale, Steele, Oliver, Taranto, Rowell, Dow, Downie, Campbell (E Smith, Scott, Jordon)
Ruck: Grundy, Draper (Treacy)
Fwd: Martin, Dunkley, Zorko, Caldwell, Ziebell, Rowe (H Jones, Bergman)
118,400K left in the bank. Wouldn’t mind upgrading someone in defence to move Highmore to the bench.
Cheers
Change Zorko to Danger and your side will be better in an instant
Just a reminder that if you are starting rookies onfield from North, Port, Giants, Saints, Eagles or Suns you will only be able to swap them for players from those teams if your rookie is not named.
E.G.
If you have briggs at D6 and Flynn gets named but Briggs doesn’t you will either have to take your emergency score or swap briggs for a team selected defender that is yet to play who you can afford.
It is a first round fraught with danger and threatening trauma
If you are making selection choices between cow like objects such as Clark/Tyson/Fantasia/Jiath/Dow/Impey there is potential for serious burns before some round 1 games have started
I “think” I’m starting to narrow down my starting lineup . Here goes
F, Laird,Ridley, Daniel,Allir,Jiath,J.Clark.
(Kossie,Highmore)
M, Bont,Merrett,Danger,Fyfe,Phillips,Caldwell,
Campbell,Powell. (Valence,Downie,Gulden)
R, Grundy, Draper. (Flynn)
F, Dunkley,Martin, Fantasia,Zieball,Daniher,
Rowe. (Treacy,Scott)
I
Thanks for any feedback
Noice team
Taranto and Dunkley (thumbs up)
Or
Macrae and Caldwell (thumbs down)
Basically same price. What do we think?
Top 10 Contested possessions in AAMMI
Josh Dunkley 20
Matthew Rowell 17
M. Bontempelli 16
Hunter Clark 15
Tom Liberatore 14
Tom Atkins 14
Luke Parker 14
Liam Shiels 13
Zach Merrett 13
Josh Kelly 13
Players who had 30+ disposals during AAMMI
Jayden Short 43
Jack Macrae 39
Zach Merrett 37
Dan Houston 34
Caleb Daniel 34
Liam Shiels 33
M. Bontempelli 32
Darcy Parish 32
Josh Dunkley 31
Tom Liberatore 31
Tim Taranto 31
Ethan Hughes 31
Brandon Ellis 31
Andrew Gaff 31
Tom Phillips 30
Harry Morrison 30
Touk Miller 30
Chad warner and 60k odd
Or
Impey/Dow
Thumb up or down
Top 30 scores from aammi. doesn’t look like too much over the salary cap
Bontempelli 197
Jayden Short 165
Josh Dunkley 165
Jack Macrae 157
Liam Shiels 144
Caleb Daniel 140
T Liberatore 138
Steven May 138
Dan Houston 135
Tom Phillips 134
Tom Stewart 133
Toby Greene 133
Jack Crisp 130
Jack Sinclair 130
Jacob Koschi 130
Nat Fyfe 128
Merrett 127
H Morrison 127
Zak Butters 126
Changku Jiath 123
Ethan Hughes 122
Brennan Cox 122
LDU 122
Aliir Aliir 122
Jake Lever 122
Robbie Gray 121
Jordan Clark 120
Tom Atkins 120
Tom Barrass 120
Brodie Grundy 118
575 Clearances recorded over the 9 games and you’d think that the winning team would dominate the clearances but that isn’t a fact.
Port beat the crows by 12 goals but the crows won 3 more clearances! Tigers lost the clearance count against the pies, swans had more clearances than the giants.
Actual Clearances per team
Carlton 35 V St Kilda 50 (34 goals kicked St Kilda won by 4 goals)
Collingwood 30 V Richmond 20 (22 goals kicked Richmond won by 1 goal)
North 28 V Hawks 44 (29 goals kicked Hawthorn won by 6 goals)
Cats 33 V Bombers 27 (21 goals kicked Geelong won by 1 goal)
Giants 29 V Swans 39 (30 goals kicked Giants won by 4.4 goals)
Crows 28 V Port 25 (23 goals kicked Port wont by 11.5 goals)
Eagles 27 V Freo 33 (17 goals kicked Eagles won by 1.4 goals)
Dogs 48 V Dees 24 (25 goals kicked Dogs won by 6.3 goals)
Suns 40 V Lions 35 (31 goals kicked Lions won by 4.4 goals)
Hey guys I believe this will be my final team going into round 1:
DEF: Laird, Daniel, Stewart, Short, Clark, Briggs (Highmore, Koschitzke)
MID: Steele, Oliver, Macrae, Merrett, Dow, Campbell, Bruhn, Powell (Brockman, Downie, Scott)
RUCK: Gawn, Grundy (Treacy)
FWD: Dunkley, Phillips, Caldwell, Ziebell, Warner, Rowe (Scott, Waterman)
$47.7k left in the bank
No Neale, Lloyd or Rowell but trying not to pick any players with an interrupted preseason/seem overpriced as of right now.
If anyone has any ideas on how to improve this team let it rip!
Oliver is also not 100%.
Your thoughts regarding injuries should also include him.
So do you reckon:
1. Trade him for another $600k + premo
2. Trade him for a $600k – premo and potentially upgrade a rookie with the cash return
3. Just keep him and hope for the best
Birkenstock, I would not be worried about Oliver missing round one.
4. Keep him and don’t worry.
He was managed from an inconsequential practice game due to abundance of caution.
Take Neal, Loyd and Rowell!
Meeks and Flyn…
And the Bont
Team almost finished but can’t decide between Rowell and Caldwell or Taranto and Phillips …
T/U: Rowell and Caldwell
T/D: Taranto and Phillips
Thanks!
Darcy Parish played a lot better than the stats suggest. personally I think that they missed 3 or 4 clearances and wrote down his de% he played a 110+ game not a 89pts game
DEF – Lloyd, Laird, Daniel, Stewart, Jordan Clark, Kositchke (Jones, Highmore)
MID – Neale, Oliver, Merrett, Cripps, Tom Green, Campbell, Bruhn, Powell (Brockman, Downie, Gulden)
RUCK – Grundy, Meek (Flynn)
FWD – Dangerfield, Dusty, De Goey, Ziebell, Daniher, Rowe (Bergman, H Jones)
Saving $630k not starting Gawn and playing Meek who looked good on the weekend. Gawn priced at 140 which i just don’t think he can maintain but I’ll still try to get him in once I’ve made some cash and he goes down a bit in price. This allows me to go bigger in DEF where I’m worried about rookies…
Thoughts?
Backs: laird, Daniel, Ridley, short, Clark, kosi, Em: Gould, highmore
Mids: Bont, Macrae, Merrett, Fyfe, Taranto, Dow, Phillips, brockman* Em: downie, gulden, McNeil
Rucks: Gawn, Grundy, Em: Flynn
Forwards: Dunkley, Phillips, Ziebell, Daniher, Warner, Rowe*, Em: Waterman, treacy
Great layout, bit bulldogs heavy though!
Thanks. Yes that’s what concerns me. Could have danger over Dunkley. Or swap Bont for Fyfe perhaps
Leave Bont I reckon. Only thing that scares me is treloar comes in and takes 20-35 touches off Dunk, McCrae or Bont but at least Bont goes forward and kicks goals. I’m still thinking danger isn’t worth his price tag this year.
As a Bombers supporter I’m starting to understand a comment I saw recently stating this is a heavily Essendon supported page. Perhaps some sort of update that has your supported team colours or logo next to your name could help everyone out.
Nothing wrong with that Tappy….we need all the support we can get !!
Nothing wrong with that Tappy….we need all the support we can get ??
I’m hearing about some crisis in the UK. They obviously havent got to deal with SC rookies !!
Ok if I get rid of Neale for Steele I can upgrade Butters in forward line for Dunkley.
TU worth doing
TD are you cray cray just leave it!!!
TU – LLoyd, Duggan, Dow
TD – Daniel, H Young, Taranto
TU: C.Oliver
Or
TD: Z.Merret
Any feedback greatly appreciated – rookies still very much subject to change.
Backs: Lloyd, Laird, Daniel, S. May, Koschitzke, Highmore (Briggs, Jones)
Mids: Neale, Oliver, Merrett, Rowell, Taranto, Campbell, Powell, Gulden (Brockman, Downie, Durdin)
Rucks: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Fwds: Dangerfield, Caldwell, Ziebell, Daniher, Rowe, Treacy (Waterman, Henry)
Garryowen Version VI
DEF: Lloyd, Daniel, Short, Young, J Clark, L Jones (Briggs & Kosi)
MID: Neale, Merrett, Laird, Cripps, Taranto, Campbell, Powell, Gulden (Brockman, Downie, Scott)
RUCK: Gawn, Grundy (Meek)
FWD: Danger, Dunks, Ziebell, Daniher, Warner, Bergman (Rowe & Waterman)
$13k in the bank
Reckon I have 12 keepers there (3/5/2/2) which is what you need. (I am counting Taranto as a keeper) My primary concern surrounds J Clark At D5. With Duncan & Menegola to come back, not sure that role on a wing is his for long.
Also a mid-field without any of Steele, Mitchell, Macrae or Oliver looks light on…but my thinking is that the ruckmen will carry the majority of the captaincy weight…
I’m as confident as anyone can be in my rookies…
Would LOVE to take a punt on LDU but can’t find a way to get him in at the price. Maybe for 2022…
Thoughts?
TU: Caldwell and Dow
TD: Daniher and Green
DEF: Laird, Whitfield, Ridley, Clark, Jones, Gould (Wehr, Highmore)
Mid: Neale, Macrae, merrett, Cripps, Rowell, Cambell, Powell, Downie (Perkins, macrae, Gulden)
Rucks: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Fwds: Dangerfield, Martin, Heeney, Brockman, Rowe, Waterman (Cockatoo, Treacy)
Hey just put this team together. Expected to make more changes but would still be up for it to be rated
DEF: Lloyd, Laird, Williams, Fantasia, J. Clark, Koschitzke (Gould, Highmore)
MID: Steele, Oliver, Merrett, Rowell, Caldwell, Tyson, Bruhn, Powell (Bianco, Durdin, Downie)
RUC: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
FWD: Dunkley, Phillips, Brodie, Jenkins, Daniher, Brockman (Rowe, Waterman)
TU: Bontempelli
TD: Macrae
Thoughts on Dom Tyson? Only 243.9k for M7. Only in 4.7% and priced to score 45. What would his JS be like?
Hey guys, first time posting. Would love some feedback on this team, please. Don’t be gentle 😛
DEF: Lloyd, Ryan, Laird, Clark, Young, Koschitzke (Gould, Highmore)
MID: Neale, Bont, Fyfe, Steele, Rowell, Philips, Powell, Cockatoo (Downie, Gulden, Davies)
RUCK: Gawn, Flynn (Meek)
FWD: Danger, Dusty, Dunkley, Daniher, Campbell, Rowe (Treacy, Brockman)
Nice team, but i would look at moving Flynn to the bench and replacing him with Grundy.
Looks to be the year of the Seagulls thus me going 4 deep down back.
Walsh, TT, Clark no locks just yet would love some thoughts
Laird, Daniel, Stewart, Short, Briggs, Kozi (Jones, Highmore)
Neale, Oliver, Merrett, Walsh, Taranto, Clark, Powell, Gulden (Brockman, Downie, Scott)
Gawn, Grundy (Meek)
Dangerfield, Phillips, Ziebell, Campbell, Warner, Bergman (Rowe, Treacy)
Is Witherden a contender?
15 kicks, 9 marks and 2 tackles in essentially 3 quarters of footy scored at 1.05PPM only had 2 kickins but he played on from both
Going with a bit of a different set up this year, and really unsure on rucks in particular given everyone seemed to underperform a bit during the pre-season:
Def: Laird, Daniel, Short, Fantastia, Jones, Highmore (Koschitzke, Laurie)
Mid: Neal, Oliver, Macrae, Merret, Taranto, Phillips, Powell, Downie (Coackatoo, Brockman, Gulden)
Ruck: Gawn, Draper (Treacy)
Fwd: Dangerfield, Dunkley, Ziebell, Daniher, Warner, Rowe (Bergman, Waterman)
Macrae and Dunkley in the same starting team
TU: Rotations will hurt. 1 dog only.
TD: Both will still score well, go for it
Hunter Clark a good option to replace Williams??
TU: Tyson
TD: Fantasia
I feel like the MID’s need a spruce up but unsure who to swap out.
DEF – Laird, Daniel, Short, Clark, Jones, Koz (Cox, Highmore)
MID – Oliver, Fyfe, Dunkley, Rowell, Taranto, Dow, Powell, Gulden (Bruhn, Downie, Berry)
RUC – Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
FWD – Danger, Dusty, Phillips, Daniher, Campbell, Rowe (Brockman, Scott)
93k remaining.
Let me know what you think.
Phillips and Butters
or
Phillips and Taranto with 18k
I’ve noticed more and more people dropping Lloyd from their side since twisting his knee a week back.
TU: Put someone else like Laird or Ryan in at D1. Lloyd’s preseason injuries are worrying and/or may not start Rd.1
TD: Don’t worry about him, keep him in! He should be fine and fit for Rd. 1
He should be fit, but a) there is a risk and b) he is likely slightly overpriced anyway.
But there is also c) which is sharing the same bye as a lot of stars.
I could overlook 2 of a) b) or c). But ignoring all 3 is probably starting to ignore so many risk factors that you’re effectively beginning to ignore reality.
Brodie Smith?
God help me I’m considering Draper/Meek/Hunter (now that Ryder and Marshall are out) or some variation in the ruck. Hear me out!
Firstly, there’s a couple reasons to think there’ll be lower ruck scores:
1. The longer games just surely reduce their share of total TOG and total ruck contests attended. Some of these blokes took really high shares of total contests last year.
2. Rule changes maybe causing less stoppages, especially boundary throw ins, since teams don’t need to kick down the line as often. Those down the line kicks are also historically part of Grundy and Gawn’s scoring via marks and 1%ers.
Secondly, this is a strange year where there’s actually several rookie ruck options who might make cash. And there’s potentially a scarcity on some other lines, especially in defence. It might be worth forgetting about balance across the lines and following where the playing rookies are, putting extra keepers elsewhere.
While the goal is eventually to get Grundy and Gawn as the likely two top scoring rucks, if I believe they might go from 140s and 120s to 110s and 100s, they’ll come down in price, and be plausible upgrade targets from the rising rookie rucks, or maybe from Draper.
The question is really how strongly I believe some combo of Meek, Flynn, Hunter and Fullarton will play enough to rise in value, and how much I believe Gawn and Grundy will come down. And then, if it doesn’t work, how badly I’ll suffer from having to correct trades later.
Like case scenario
Darcy comes back for round 1 and Meek doesn’t play
Briggs is seen as a better match for Hunter and continues to be favoured over Flynn
Hunter Plays due to Paddy Ryder taking time off
Fullarton plays 1 or 2 games and gets dropped when gardiner & Mc Stay return.
Even with line flexibility you’ll get an early donut if you don’t have at least 1 first choice ruck.
I’m not saying you have to have grundy or gawn but you should have at least 1 garunteed starter when fit ruck
Honestly I think the main strike against me actually doing this is having to commit to one or both of those guys before GWS and 5 other Sunday teams are named, and indeed to Grundy by Friday.
It’s a structural call about how many keepers and rookies go where, and how much money goes into the ruck line… and there’s not going to be much flexibility left by Saturday afternoon.
So tempting though.
I think it’s certainly bold.
I would go with AT LEAST one of G&G because captaincy options are a thing, especially with injury clouds over established midfielders like Oliver and Neale.
But the thought of only running with just one makes sense, and using the clear opening in the ruck at two teams to lock in some growth.
Hunter is difficult though, because at this stage there is a quite visibly a chance that he only plays 3 or 4 games and then has to be traded out early or becomes an overpriced donut (but at least he only cost 102 to begin with).
I just chucked Hunter in my side because it gave me the cash to go with Saad over Docherty, and we are uncertain as to Flynn for round 1 due to his ankle injury, and Briggs’ relative success against a weak Swans ruck outfit.
I cannot see this scenario lasting. I suspect Hunter gets at most 4 weeks, and Flynn goes to #1 ruck sooner rather than later.
For me, this potentially means Treacy back to R3 before the week is out.
I think the less extreme play might be Grundy and Draper onfield as of Thursday, and if Flynn is named, there’s a window to swap him in for Draper there.
Freo could also make things simpler by naming Darcy alongside one of their rookie guys, giving some clarity about their intended setup with Lobb out.
Hunter will remain a risky mystery of course.
(I think Grundy is more likely to hold 120s than Gawn is to hold 140s, although it might look otherwise as Gawn probably feasts in the first month)
I agree. but those first 6 weeks are pure captaincy material.
TU: Taranto
TD: LDU
Taranto…
TU:Tom Phillips
Or
TD J.Zeibell
Or comment others
Ok, post Ryder changes coming.
This year’s team lineup keeps getting stranger and stranger. There are now effectively 0 premium forwards available. Dusty and Danger exist, but have recent history as cheap fallen premiums, so I’m going to run with a premo free forward line for the first time in living memory, with one former “elite” rated player if he gets his old role back.
On the other hand I will be overflowing with premo defenders into the midfield.
People keep talking about the “abundance of premo defenders” but they really aren’t there. I’ve gone with Lloyd, Laird and Stewart. Most people will want Ryan (nobody has him yet) and Whitfield at some point, so who are these other must have defenders?, Yes daniel and short look alright, but its ridiculous to go 5 or 6 deep with defs as some people are doing. Fix your teams imo
Ok. Crazy time.
Backs: RIDLEY, SAAD, SHORT, HOUSTON, Jiath, Clark (Koschitzke*, Briggs)
Mids: STEELE (vc), BONT, ZERRETT, LAIRD, WALSH, TARANTO, Bruhn
Powell, (Gulden*, Downie, Scott)
Rucks: GAWN (c), GRUNDY, (Hunter*)
Forwards: PHILLIPS, Zieball, Daniher, Campbell, Bergman, Rowe (Brockman*, Treacy)
$2700 remaining.
One final level of crazy available.
Danger in forwards for one of Treacy, Brockman or Scott via DPP
Flynn in for Grundy.
Huge cash generation opportunities in the ruck this year.
TU: What could possibly go wrong? Money money money
TD: I have a propellor on my hat and this is too crazy for me
I’m hearing you HH. You could easily have three ruck rookies this year generating much more cash than your bottom three rookies.
No faith in defenders so going with 4 down back. Rookies also aren’t set in stone
Lloyd, Laird, Steward, Clark (Saints), Kozi, Highmore (Briggs, Murray)
Neale, Oliver, Merret, Rowell, Taranto, Clark (Geelong), Powell, Gulden (Brockman, Downie, Scott)
Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Dangerfield, Phillips, Ziebell, Dow, Campbell, Bergman (Rowe, Treacy
For the love of God, someone please talk me out of Tom Atkins in my forward line. He keeps finding his way in there.
In the olden days someone folloing you home was sorted out with half a pool cue.
Hopefully we have progressed from this era and you can just use the T button like everyone else.
I have repeatedly, but the bastard keeps coming back.
Forgive me if i’ve missed it, Any thoughts on all rookie rucks, (ruck and fwd)????
Hunter will play, as Marshall is out and Ryder is on an as yet uncertain length personal journey of self discovery/recovery.
Meek SHOULD play as a replacement for Darcy, however this is potentially only short term. Treacy SHOULD play as a replacement for Lobb. Meek may continue to play instead of Treacy though.
Briggs may play as either #1 or #2 ruck at GWS, especially since Keefee has an ankle injury. Flynn SHOULD be back for round 1 to play #1 ruck but this is not certain yet.
Note: BRIGGS does not have ruck.
Bailey J Williams wasn’t named in preseason matches, and it looks like Harry Edwards might be preferred. Comben is out injured, possibly giving Tom Campbell as small breathing space in a quest for a role.
Tom Fullarton might get a short lived go until McStay is back.
Riley Thilthorpe starred in the 2’s and spudded in aami.
Is that enough of a quick update?
TU – Daniel
TD – Short
Comment – Stewart
Jed Anderson and Ben Cunnington will be back for round 1 does T.Powell get a place in Round 1 team?
If he does can you afford to have him onfield?
No CBA’s and only 67% game time and 57 SC in the aami and any open position in the Kanga middle will surely go to Dom Tyson after his game against the dominant Hawks. If Powell plays it will probably be mostly as a forward
Is 150k too much for a guy who might only ave 55 when for an extra 50k you can get a guy who might ave 80?
Remember that Kanga’s first game is a Sunday game and most of your other rookie options will have played before the teams for sunday are announced.
If Powell isn’t in the Kanga’s 22 who will you swap him for?
Or to look st it differently, powell is one of the strongest rookies in the midfield this year, and is only 20k more than the majority of others who might now play. it all comes down to where you want to spend your cash, but we dont want to be selecting too many higher/mid priced players who ultimately wont be in our team at the end of the season.
Powell will play im certain. His junior sc numbers were elite, and he will score you more point and make more $ than any of the predominantly fwd rookies that people are selecting in the midfield. Lock him in for a 70+ no matter where he plays
TU: Macrae for Steele
Or
TD: Macrae for Fyfe
Or comment
Backs: Laird, Stewart, Short, May, Clark, Koz (Briggs, Highmore)
Mids: Oliver, Macrae, Petracca, Merrett, Brayshaw, Tyson, Powell, Brockman (Jordan, Bowey, Gulden)
Rucks: Gawn, Martin (Hunter)
Forwards: Danger, Martin, Ziebell, Daniher, Warner, Rowe (Waterman, Bergman)
Ignore the rookies for now. May will most likely play, if not, Doc will take his spot.
12 premiums. Stronger backline due to limited rookie selections.
Tyson did well in practice matches, playing in the guts, looks like the coach is backing him. He is already experienced.
Get rid of may wow. Don’t like tracca or brayshaw (especially in mids). Tyson i can tolerate but hate that he’s mid only. Martin in the ruck a huge no from me, but everything else in your team is great. I will say that unless there is a massive change to shorts scoring, he will likely have a lot of very low games to go with the good. Houli will slot strait in at some point and they will share the points more, which isn’t great for a keeper
Thank you for your feedback.
I can see you’re not a fan of May because he is a key position defender but he is much more than that. Look at his scores from previous 14 games last year. 9 x over 100, 3 x over 90. 2 x below 60. He takes intercept marks, high efficiency disposals and does the kick outs.
Petracca will go step up into another gear. Less forward time, will be in the guts with Oliver.
Brayshaw dominates when Fyfe is in forward line as his coach said Fyfe will spend more time in forward line. Brayshaw will step up another gear.
Houli coming back won’t affect Shorts scoring. Short scored 169 on grand final. Almost reaching 100 games, i’m confident that Short will perform consistently with high scores.
Is Dunkley’s main competition for midfield time Liberatore?
TU: Libba is his midfield competitor
TD: Bont/Macrae is the competition
I reckon it is the coach.
Western Bulldogs: “We just have to be all versatile this year, we’ve got lots of good Mids & a lot of depth throughout the entire list. We all just need to play a lot of positions.. just have to adapt to whatever spot your name is”
Pat Lipinski
Don’t you just hate it when they say that.
3 guns went 150+ and I want 1 of them in my team but which one?
Treloar is going to take a bit off everybody but somebody from aammi will suffer a greater loss than the others and I don’t want to buy that one by mistake.
Your question makes no sense mate. Libba looks to play a lot of mid and macrae/bont will too. Smith looks to be up fwd drastically more and hunter will certainly stay on the wing. I’ve still got dunkley locked in but they are all somewhat competing for mid time
Tu; Dusty
Td; Rowell
Who would you start? I can move dow from mid/fwd and go deep in the midfield. This would mean Dunkley is my only premo fwd. is that okay? Thoughts please !
TU Cripps
TD Taranto
Thanks
Both mate lock them in
Taranto saves you 70k which can be critical if used properly. Cripps has the potential to go 120, but from what ive seen of him, and from last year, Tatanto’s 110 (im hopefull) odd could be more the ticket over cripps. Taranto could score 5-10 less or 5-10 more, but 70k is significant. Im taking the gamble on taranto
TU: C.Oliver
Or
TD: N.Fyfe
Def: LAIRD, DANIEL, STEWART, MCDONALD, Jones, Koscitcke (Briggs, Highmore)
Mid: NEALE, OLIVER, WALSH, CRIPPS, ROWELL, Dow, Powell, Gulden (Bruhn, Downie, A Scott)
Ruck: Grawndy (Meek)
Fwd: DUNKLEY, BOLTON, Ziebell, Campbell, Rowe, Brockman (Warner, Fullarton)
$40k left, any advice?
Bolton is an interesting selection. don’t see many teams with him. Great POD.
TU: J.Zeibell
Or
TD: J.Daniher
With Williams missing round 1, should we still start him or look for other options?
TU: Start.
TD: Shaft.
TU: J. De Goey and T.Taranto + 35k
Or
TD: J.Zeibell and C.Oliver + 9k
Hey guys so far my midfield is Neale Steele Bontempelli Merrett thoughts on who to put at M5 have 666k or any things I could change
Cheers
With that much cash left over you may aswell grab oliver if you dont plan to spend it elsewhere
Interested to see what people think.
T/U – C.Oliver
T/D – J.Steele
Alternatively there is the question of
T/U – C.Oliver
T/D – J.Macrae
T/U – Danger + 16k
T/D – Dunkley + 66k
I already have Macrae, Bont and Daniel
Last spot for the defence, who’s it going to be?
T/U J.Clark
T/D H.Young
TU: Steele
Or
TD: Macrae
TU: Steele
Or
TD: Merrett
Both
Hey everyone
Appreciate any feedback good or bad
Def – Lloyd – Howe – Houston – witherden – Koschitzke – Gould ( L jones – highmore)
Mids – Neale – Dunkley – Cogs – Rowell- Taranto – B Cunnington- Dow – Powell (F Macrae- Brockman – Downie)
Rucks – Grundy – Draper ( treacy)
Fwds – Dusty- Zorko -J Cameron – J Daniher – Campbell – Cockatoo ( Rowe – Waterman)
108k remaining
Not sure about Grundy and a bit weak in the Def but what you all think
Is it crazy to be thinking of choosing 2 out of these 3 for D4 and D5??
Alir Alir
Jiath
Jordan Clark
No not crazy
I wouldn’t be picking aliir just because I don’t think he can score like that every week I think he will average around 60 or 70 odd but for that price not worth it maybe if he was 50-100k cheaper but I think he’s a bit overpriced and job security is also a problem
Jordan Clark I like because he took a lot of kick ins and dominated at that new spot on the half back flank. If he can hold down a spot he is a lock
Jiath is an interesting one I wouldn’t be picking him personally but if you want him as a POD that’s certainly not a bad option
One last thing: Backline premiums are probably where we are most confident at the moment and with the lack of rookies and forward premiums I’d be looking to have potentially 4 premiums down there and then one of Clark/Jiath/aliir and a rookie at D6
Just my thoughts u do whatever u think though
thanks mate
Whats your thoughts on Hunter Clark
Look, not in my team personally just because I haven’t really gone for any mid prices in the back half because of the reasons I stated earlier and gone with the 4 premiums which I’m confident in, one in the 200-250k range and a rookie but if you like his game and think he will score well then 100% go for it. At the moment at 4% ownership he is a good POD and at the end of the day it’s your team and if u think that’s a good option and he fits your team well then go for it mate
Wehr & Gould seem to be out of favour with most coaches on the site.
Can either of them feature in round 1?
It is highly unlikely that they will feature in round one unless something unpredictable occurs before next week.
Neither played in the AAMI game despite extended bench.
Maybe watch for later in the season preferably if they are on the bubble.
T/U – Lloyd, Brayshaw, De Goey (Dunks to midfield)
T/D – Howe, Oliver, Taranto (Dunks to F1)
Feel De Goey could be big value but scared to pull the trigger. Worst case I buy him in at a higher price
T/D but instead of Howe get short or McDonald
Already rocking Laird & Short. I could move up to Daniel as an alternative.
Had McDonald all preseason but didn’t like what I saw in the AAMI game. Possibly Ziebell impact his scoring
Yep agreed try and get to Daniel if u can as I think there is no one affecting his role in their and Bevo has finally realised how good his kicking is and where they can use him effectively
TU: Cripps
TD: Brayshaw
TU: Cripps
or
TD: Brayshaw
TU: Draper and LDU
TD: Grundy and Bruhn
Not sure that i agree with the thumbs here…
Grundy is yet to prove he can recapture top form and bruhn is a rookie,
Draper and LDU both have huge potential upside and points scored would be pretty similar between the pair in total.
TU: Bont
Or
TD: Fyfe
TU: D.Zorko
Or
TD: J.Dunkley
TU: Brayshaw
Or
TD: Fyfe
TU: Fyfe
Or
TD: Taranto
TU: N.Fyfe and J.Clark
Or
TD: Bont and L.Jones
TU: Rowell
or
TD:Brayshaw
TU: Daniel
or
TD: Laird
For D1 and D2
TU: Laird and Daniel
TD: Ryan and Laird
Tu- Danger and rookie +100k
Td- caldwell and phillips +60k
Tu- Danger and rookie +100k
Td- j clark and phillips + 90k
Tu: Neale + Walsh
Td: Zerrett + Bont
4 keepers in D – Ryan D1, Stewart D4
6 keepers in M – Neale M1, Taranto M6
1 keeper in R – Grundy
2 keepers in F – Dunkley, Phillips
TU or TD?
lemme know what yas all think
DEF: Laird, Daniel, Stewart, Short, J.Clark, Jones – Koschitzke, Highmore
MID: Steele, Oliver, Merrett, Rowell, T.Phillips, Campbell, Brockman, Gulden – Berry, Downie, Scott
RUCK: Grundy, Draper – Hunter
FWD: Danger, Martin, Dunkley, Ziebell, Warner, Briggs – Bergman, Rowe
TU: Idun
TD: Cumming
Thought appreciated:
DEF: Ryan, Laird, McDonald, H. Young, Grainger-Barras, L. Jones (Wehr, a high)
MID: Oliver, Bont, Zerrett, Cripps, Dow, Phillips, Campbell, Powell (Bruhn, Downie , Valente)
RUC: Gawn, Grundy (Treacy)
FOR: Dunks, Dusty, De Goey, Ziebell, Holland, Rowe (Worrell, H. Jones)
Still $112k ITB
What do we think of heeney
T/U good
T/D bad
–
TU: Harmes D5 & Impey F4
TD: L Jones* D5 & T Phillips F4
*If Jones is not named on Saturday I would need Nik Cox, Gould, Laurie, DGB to have been named.
Current line up
Def: Lloyd, Laird, Daniel, Duggan, harmes, Clarke, Koschitzke, highmore
Mid: Neale, Merrett, Cripps, Rowell, Taranto, Campbell, Powell, gulden, downie, Scott, sanders
Ruck: Gawn, Grundy, Flynn
Fwd: Dunkley, ziebell, Daniher, impey, Dow, Rowe, brockman, treacy
Similar price point; who do you back in given the interrupted pre season?
T/U – Lloyd
T/D – Oliver
TU Cripps
TD Walsh
THIS^
been racking my brains over thus exact question
Why not both?
When Carlton get beaten badly there is a huge chance they both score quite badly
Rate me team 🙂
Def:Lloyd, Stewart, williams, Duggan, Scrimshaw, wehr, (highmore, fyfe)
Mid: Neale, Macrae, Philips, Perkins, Macrae, Downie, cripps, Smith (Powell, Gulden, Davies)
Ruck: Grundy, Naitauni, Hunter
Fwd: Dangerfield, Sidebottom, Caldwell, Ziebell, Campbell, Rowe (Ballenden, Durdin)
wow this is quite a bad team, needs a lot of work done
First time player:
DEF: Lloyd, Laird,Short,Young,Clark, Jones (Highmore,Murray)
MID: Oliver, Mcrae,Merrett,Cripps,Taranto,Green,Campbell,Powell (Downie, Gulden,Fyfe)
Ruck: Gawndy ( Meek)
FWD: Martin, De Goey, Ziebell, Daniher, Rowe , Brockman (Treacy, Waterman)
Any guidance would be appreciated. Want to beat my smartass mates
Great first up team maybe Walsh at M5 but that’s only personal DD
TU: Lloyd & Rowell
TD: short & MacRae
TU : Rowell
TD: Walsh
Tu: Zerrett Dunkley LDU
Td: Walsh Danger Taranto
Have decided on a bit of a different structure then most people are going! Keen to hear the community thoughts:
Def: Laird, Ridley, Short, Young, Fantasia, Clark (Highmore, Koz)
Mid: Neale, Dunkley, Cripps, Rowell, Parish, Tyson, Powell, Gulden (Smith, Brockman, Downie)
Ruck: Gawn, Grundy (Flynn)
Fwd: Danger, Martin, Ziebell, Campbell, Warner, Rowe (Fullarton, Treacy)
Bank: 77k
TU: Dunkley
Or
TD: Danger
TU: Bont
Or
TD: Macrae
I am questioning Taranto pick as he will be my M8. Thinking it may be better to get a premo up FWD.
T/U – Taranto, Waterman
T/D – T.Phillips, Bruhn
Cheers,
B321
Just another question from the one earlier, are we keeping the seagull (Lloyd) in? Little worry with his knee but all reports have seemed like keeping him out of the preseason game was down to precautionary reasons. Although taking him out does create some upgrade opportunities
T/U Keep Lloyd in and relax
T/D Lloyd>Stewart which enables Cripps > Merrett
Cheers
TU: Danger + Dom Tyson
TD: De Goey + Phillips
TU: Caldwell + Cripps
TD: Impey + Steele
TU: Cripps
TD: Phillips
P.Dow ?
N.Cox?
M5 position?
TU – Rowell.
TD – Cripps.
TU: Lloyd
TD: Steele
TU: 4 Premo Defs and 4 Mids
TD: 3 Premo Defs and 5 Mids
TU: Taranto
TD: Andrew Bradshaw
Comment: Cunnington
TU Cunnington
Rate my team. Going to take the risk of Meek due to lobb out, and sean darcy a potential out. Held his own against nic nat & frees up a lot of cash for other positions.
Should I downgrade a forward to daniher & upgrade a back rookie to J clark? Hunter clark will be my POD.
Give us your thoughts,
Def: LAIRD, DANIEL, SHORT, H CLARK, L jones, k briggs, (j kozzie, J butts)
Mid: OLIVER, MACRAE, ZERRETT, CRIPPS, TARANTO, b campbell, t powell, Bruhn, (Golden, Downie, Scott)
Ruck: GAWN, Meek (Flynn) or Treacy depends on selection.
Fwd: DUNKS, MARTIN, T GREEN, PHILLIPS, Ziebell, h jones, (Rowe, Waterman)
80k left
Rate my team.. First Time having go at this.
BACKS… Laird, Daniel, Stewart, Short, briggs, koschitzke (jones, highmore)
MIDS… Neale, Macrae, Rowell, Taranto, dow, campbell, powell, gulden (bruhn, downie, scott)
RUCKS.. Gawn, Grundy (hunter)
FORWARDS… Dangerfield, Dunkley, Martin, daniher, fullarton, brockman (warner,rowe)
10k left over
Tu – Hayden young
Td – Jordan Clark