Love it! Seems a similar strategy to mine where we’re loading up in DEF where the rookies are weakest. Love the Jackson pick, had him all pre-season but Freo seemingly want to give Reidy the #1 Ruck role which scared me off a bit, but he will still score fine.
Yeah bit nervous about Jackson but should get the odd CBA as ruck I hope and has been at stoppages sometimes even as another mid because of his versatilityand size.. think I’ll back him in for the good of the rest of my overall side.
Yep big risk. If Boyd gets dropped i all of a sudden lose my flex and have 2 donuts in my 31 players. But I think boyd will play regularly. They love him at the saints and dominated SANFL, allows RoMo to play more forward especially if kings out.
Alright gang, back for season 2025, got a bit of a weird structure focused around value and rookies, as they appear to be rather weak this year, especially in the backline. As such I’ve tried to load up with value picks/premos on lines where they are weakest, meaning my mids are much weaker than most teams, but the sacrifice has to come from somewhere.
DEF: H. Sheezel, D. Zorko, J. Short, H. Perryman, SDK, Z. Reid, J. Prior, J. Leake.
MID: N. Daicos, C. Petracca, C. Rozee, C. Oliver, E. Tsatas, L. Ashcroft, A. Sheldrick, M. Knevitt, FOS, NOD, H. Boxshall
RUCK: T. Xerri, TDK, T. Sims (Loophole)
FWD: I. Rankine, J. Macrae, B. Smith, C. Daniel, H. Garcia, S. Davidson, I. Kako, C. Stone.
Don’t like the idea of 4 rucks in the team as it gets rid of said flexibility. Will work well if all ruckmen play and all 3 will score well but if one needs to miss a week or two here or there you’ll have to cop it (which isn’t that bad considering its still best 22). Also, that defence is very risky with poor rookies (due to lack of them) – will be interesting to see who is named R1…
Gone deep in defence, like most don’t think there’s much depth in the quality of rookies available there – cheaper options may become available when the like of Coleman and Mills start to play, but they may also come at an awkward stage of the season. Have done countless drafts of this and spent a lot of time watching games back from preseason.
DEF: Sheezel, Holmes, Short, Robert’s, Perryman, Leake, Reid, Allan
Gone a bit deeper here, and don’t love Allan, but surely he can’t go worse than the preseason game.
MID: Daicos, Serong, Merrett, Oliver, O’Sullivan, O’Driscoll, Tsatas, LAshcroft, Langford, Sheldrick, Knevitt
Gone with a few premos to start the year. Oliver does make me nervous, and am considering Day instead – but the high ownership of Oliver eases it a bit.
RUCK: Xerri, TDK, Boyd
Xerri is a beast, and TDK should start the year strong without Pitt.
FWD: JHF, Macrae, Smith, Daniel, Kako, Hewett, Erasmus, Davidson
I am still tossing up between JHF and Rankine, but the injury for Butters lifted the ceiling of JHF – both are clearly top 6 forwards and will be there come seasons end. I am also tossing up between Smith and Sanders – not 100% on either, but both have some value.
FLEX: Stone
Not sure on the best play here, but using this purely as a cash cow – wouldn’t have mind getting Flynn in (provided he was named as solo ruck, but am short on cash to do so).
2 of Kako, Hewett, Erasmus Davidson on field is a concern. With money sitting in the bank consider upgrading one to powell pepper. Erasmus most likely needed to to be fixed.
The moneys just sitting there might as well use it for most likely a 60-75 average on field.
Would probably recommend trying to get one of those bench rookies into the flex spot over Stone. I think if you sub Stone to Erasmus then swap him with one of the higher priced mid rookies. It also opens up a fwd/mid swing for you to use later as needed
I see a lot of teams running up to 4 rookies/sub $200k on-field in the middle, usually a combination of Tsatas, FOS, NOD, Lashcroft, Sheldrick or Knevitt.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do it I mean who cares where the points come from. 3 Premo mids and 3 premo defenders is almost the same as 2 premo mids and 4 premo defenders these days
The major issue is that some of them are hi-risk sub candidates and just 1 early game as sub destroys the income generation of a 200k player.
Imagine if all 4 of your on-field mid rookies were starting subs or subbed out early in a role share arrangement
I have 3 on-field NOD, Tsat, Sheldrick and it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
Some of these players scored very well in the practice games BUT that is not a reliable indicator of their scoring in the real thing. 70-80 ave over 6 weeks would be above par
Tsatas – Merrett spent a lot of time at half back, he wont do that in real games so Tsatas CBA’s will probably be significantly less. Also, his disposal under real pressure is atrocious.
FOS – 200k is a lot for a guy who might ave 60- 70 for 3 weeks and then get a go in the VFL. Watch the game his SC score was extremely generous. Hi Sub risk
NOD- worrying that he was unsighted for an entire qrtr and his CBA’s came when regular midfielders had left the game. Great kick though and IF they regularly use him on the way out of defence he could be a great scorer.
Freo seem to be very fluid with their ‘other’ mids and half backs and 1 mistake could see him in the wafl and one of their other bargains in his spot.
Lashcroft – I watched the game twice and still don’t know where his recorded stats came from maybe he’s Bont MK2. Hi sub risk
Sheldrick is about the safest but I doubt that he’ll have the same role that he played after Gulden broke. I think he’ll probably get a more defensive role and rowbottom will be released.
Knevitt- Cats did this to me last year with ?? Clarke? anyway they talked him up all season gave him a go in some pretend games and then made him sub
Went NWM down to Roberts, sacrificed reliability in the Flex and went with a few bench rooks with less/no CG prospects to get Dawson up to Neale. Not sure at all that it was the right choice…
I feel like It’s been a lot trickier to get a starting team I’m happy with this year!
If someone asks for feedback then I think they are hoping for some explanation of any TD’s and possible suggestions. I.e. Is the whole team no good? or structure to consider? Or just specific selections? Not sure what they can take from TD alone.
Great question. I want 2 out of either Short, Robert’s or Perryman.
At moment I’m leaning to Short because he is the man down back for Tigers with most of the (many) kick outs. Where Robert’s has some competition from Blakey, Rampe and Lloyd.
Perryman looks to be entrenched in the Collingwood midfield as Daicos’s offsider.
I have Perryman but I am worried about him with DeGoey coming back (and also Pendles and Sidey running through the mids). My only reason is he is that little bit cheaper than Short which then put Garcia out of reach for me.
People starting with Flynn (either R2 or flex) what are your thoughts of starting A Reid at R3 for not just some DPP but handcuffing to Flynn, if Flynn misses a game or two because of his back, Reid would have a very high chance of playing
DEF – Sheezel Zorko Clarke NWM Perryman Prior (Reid Trainor)
MID – Daicos Neale serong Oliver FOS tsatas L.Ashcroft Sheldrick ( knevitt camporeale boxshall )
RUCK – Xerri Flynn (A.Reid)
FWD – Horney Jackson Macrae Daniel Davidson kako (Paton stone)
FLEX: Boyd
I have 22k in the bank..
Love the overall strength of my side i have Jackson as DPP cover if Flynn fails early. Any opinions?
Love it! Seems a similar strategy to mine where we’re loading up in DEF where the rookies are weakest. Love the Jackson pick, had him all pre-season but Freo seemingly want to give Reidy the #1 Ruck role which scared me off a bit, but he will still score fine.
Yeah bit nervous about Jackson but should get the odd CBA as ruck I hope and has been at stoppages sometimes even as another mid because of his versatilityand size.. think I’ll back him in for the good of the rest of my overall side.
Like the Jackson/Reid inclusion for the flex cover but relies on Boyd getting a game week in week out – not sure how guaranteed this is ?
Yep big risk. If Boyd gets dropped i all of a sudden lose my flex and have 2 donuts in my 31 players. But I think boyd will play regularly. They love him at the saints and dominated SANFL, allows RoMo to play more forward especially if kings out.
But yes it’s risky for sure.
Alright gang, back for season 2025, got a bit of a weird structure focused around value and rookies, as they appear to be rather weak this year, especially in the backline. As such I’ve tried to load up with value picks/premos on lines where they are weakest, meaning my mids are much weaker than most teams, but the sacrifice has to come from somewhere.
DEF: H. Sheezel, D. Zorko, J. Short, H. Perryman, SDK, Z. Reid, J. Prior, J. Leake.
MID: N. Daicos, C. Petracca, C. Rozee, C. Oliver, E. Tsatas, L. Ashcroft, A. Sheldrick, M. Knevitt, FOS, NOD, H. Boxshall
RUCK: T. Xerri, TDK, T. Sims (Loophole)
FWD: I. Rankine, J. Macrae, B. Smith, C. Daniel, H. Garcia, S. Davidson, I. Kako, C. Stone.
FLEX: M. Flynn
Tear it to shreds!
Feedback welcomed please!!
B – H.Sheezel, L.Whitfield, M.Holmes, M.Roberts, Z.Reid, J.Leake. (Bice, B.Allan)
M – L.Neale, N.Daicos, C.Rozee, C.Oliver, F.O’Sullivan, E.Tsatas, L.Ashcroft, A.Sheldrick. (Hewett, S-El-Hawli, Boxshall)
R – TDK, L.Jackson. (Boyd)
F – JHF, I.Rankine, J.Macrae, R.Sanders, C.Daniel, I.Kako. (A.Johnson, Davidson)
Flexi – M.Flynn
Def: Sheezel, NWM, Perryman, Allan, Reid, Busslinger (Leake, Bice)
Mid: Daicos, Serong, Petracca, Rozee, Oliver, Tsatas, Ashcroft, Binns (Knevitt, Angove Boxshall)
Ruck: Xerri, TDK (Boyd)
FWD: JHF, Macrae, Smith, Daniel, SPP, Kako (Hewett, Davidson)
Flex: Nank
Feel like I haven’t seen many using the flex for an extra premo but think all 3 of those rucks are gonna have a big year.
Don’t like the idea of 4 rucks in the team as it gets rid of said flexibility. Will work well if all ruckmen play and all 3 will score well but if one needs to miss a week or two here or there you’ll have to cop it (which isn’t that bad considering its still best 22). Also, that defence is very risky with poor rookies (due to lack of them) – will be interesting to see who is named R1…
Think a 3rd Premium ruck will come into play a lot as a final upgrade after teams are finished or there abouts.
Thoughts?
Def: Sheezel, NWM, Holmes, Short, Perryman, Reid (Bice, Leake)
Mid: Neale, Serong, Oliver, Cerra, FOS, NOD, Tsatas, Ashcroft (Knevitt, Kako, Boxshall)
Ruc: Xerri, TDK (Boyd)
FWD: Horney, Rankine, Macrae, Daniel, SPP, Davidson (Hewitt, Stone)
Flex: Sheldrick
$8k itb
Few changes to what I thought was a final team due to bye rescheduling.
DEF: Sheezel, Martin, Holmes, Short, Roberts, Leake (Reid, Bice)
MID: Naicos, Dawson, Rozee, Clarry, FOS, NOD, Tsatsas, Ashcroft (Sheldrick, Knevitt, Boxhall)
RUCK: Xerri, TDK (Boyd)
FWD: JHF, Macrae, Smith, Daniel, Kako, Davidson (Hewett, Stone)
FLEX: Flynn
Gone deep in defence, like most don’t think there’s much depth in the quality of rookies available there – cheaper options may become available when the like of Coleman and Mills start to play, but they may also come at an awkward stage of the season. Have done countless drafts of this and spent a lot of time watching games back from preseason.
DEF: Sheezel, Holmes, Short, Robert’s, Perryman, Leake, Reid, Allan
Gone a bit deeper here, and don’t love Allan, but surely he can’t go worse than the preseason game.
MID: Daicos, Serong, Merrett, Oliver, O’Sullivan, O’Driscoll, Tsatas, LAshcroft, Langford, Sheldrick, Knevitt
Gone with a few premos to start the year. Oliver does make me nervous, and am considering Day instead – but the high ownership of Oliver eases it a bit.
RUCK: Xerri, TDK, Boyd
Xerri is a beast, and TDK should start the year strong without Pitt.
FWD: JHF, Macrae, Smith, Daniel, Kako, Hewett, Erasmus, Davidson
I am still tossing up between JHF and Rankine, but the injury for Butters lifted the ceiling of JHF – both are clearly top 6 forwards and will be there come seasons end. I am also tossing up between Smith and Sanders – not 100% on either, but both have some value.
FLEX: Stone
Not sure on the best play here, but using this purely as a cash cow – wouldn’t have mind getting Flynn in (provided he was named as solo ruck, but am short on cash to do so).
ITB: 61.2k
Feel free to rip it apart.
2 of Kako, Hewett, Erasmus Davidson on field is a concern. With money sitting in the bank consider upgrading one to powell pepper. Erasmus most likely needed to to be fixed.
The moneys just sitting there might as well use it for most likely a 60-75 average on field.
Would probably recommend trying to get one of those bench rookies into the flex spot over Stone. I think if you sub Stone to Erasmus then swap him with one of the higher priced mid rookies. It also opens up a fwd/mid swing for you to use later as needed
T/u. Gawn Flex, 2 rookies on field in def
T/d. Sheldrick Flex, premo and 1 rookie in def
Please give me some thoughts or ideas.
Backs: sheezle, zorko, short, Roberts, perryman, Reid. Prior, leake
Mids: neale, daicos, rozee, Oliver, o’sullivan, o’driscoll, tsatas, l. Ashcroft
Knevitt, kako, Allen
Ruck: xerri, tdk. Boyd
Fwd: jhf, macrae, Smith, Daniel, powell-pepper, davidson. Hewett, stone
Flex: sheldrick
Looks solid. Short as a keeper is the only thing I’d be thinking about.
If he’s There to make money fair enough.
DEF: Sheezel Zorko Clark Perryman Prior leake – Reid Trainor
MID: Neale Naicos Brayshaw Oliver O’Sullivan tsatas Ashcroft Sheldrick – knevitt boxshall camporeale
RUCK: Xerri Flynn – Boyd
FWD: JHF Rankine Macrae Daniel Garcia
kako – Davidson stone
FLEX: Cerra
BANK: 25k
My M3 is far from settled. I’ve had rozee, brayshaw & LDU in there the last 24 hours.
Flynn R2 will take a big set of plums, not sure i have them, But like the side overall from it
Looks good Mav, due to the required plums size I can’t go with Flynn but if it pays off it’s a big win.
I see a lot of teams running up to 4 rookies/sub $200k on-field in the middle, usually a combination of Tsatas, FOS, NOD, Lashcroft, Sheldrick or Knevitt.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do it I mean who cares where the points come from. 3 Premo mids and 3 premo defenders is almost the same as 2 premo mids and 4 premo defenders these days
The major issue is that some of them are hi-risk sub candidates and just 1 early game as sub destroys the income generation of a 200k player.
Imagine if all 4 of your on-field mid rookies were starting subs or subbed out early in a role share arrangement
I have 3 on-field NOD, Tsat, Sheldrick and it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
Some of these players scored very well in the practice games BUT that is not a reliable indicator of their scoring in the real thing. 70-80 ave over 6 weeks would be above par
Tsatas – Merrett spent a lot of time at half back, he wont do that in real games so Tsatas CBA’s will probably be significantly less. Also, his disposal under real pressure is atrocious.
FOS – 200k is a lot for a guy who might ave 60- 70 for 3 weeks and then get a go in the VFL. Watch the game his SC score was extremely generous. Hi Sub risk
NOD- worrying that he was unsighted for an entire qrtr and his CBA’s came when regular midfielders had left the game. Great kick though and IF they regularly use him on the way out of defence he could be a great scorer.
Freo seem to be very fluid with their ‘other’ mids and half backs and 1 mistake could see him in the wafl and one of their other bargains in his spot.
Lashcroft – I watched the game twice and still don’t know where his recorded stats came from maybe he’s Bont MK2. Hi sub risk
Sheldrick is about the safest but I doubt that he’ll have the same role that he played after Gulden broke. I think he’ll probably get a more defensive role and rowbottom will be released.
Knevitt- Cats did this to me last year with ?? Clarke? anyway they talked him up all season gave him a go in some pretend games and then made him sub
Good points David but there’s not a heap of decent cheap rookies is there?
Or else we’d be all over them.
TU: Washcroft/Cerra & H Garcia
TD: Dawson & Sheldrick
Hi all,
Any love for Steven May?
Had some good scores last year when you take out the injury effected games.
Please comment if there is a more suitable option at his price at $487,500
Mckercher would fit into that price range.
Absolutely love this
Been throwing a few things around and come up with this for now
Backs: sheezle, zorko, short, Roberts, perryman, Reid. Prior, leake
Mids: neale, daicos, heeney, Oliver, o’sullivan, tsatas, l. Ashcroft, sheldrick,
Knevitt, kako, boxshall
Rucks: xerri, tdk. Boyd
Fwd: jhf, macrae, Daniels, Garcia, pepper, davidson. Hewett, stone
Flex: Flynn
T/u: leave
T/d: out zorko, heeney Flynn for Allen amd gawn as flex
TU: Neale
TD: Serong
Looking at making a change:
TU: Neale + SPP + Stone
TD: Serong + Garcia + Hewett
and yes I am a couple of hundred $$ short of Stone -> Hewett
Def: Sheez, Zorko, Roberts, Allan, Reid, Leake (Trainor, Bice)
Mid: Neale, Naicos, Dawson, Rozee, Oliver, Tsatas, Ashcroft, Sheldrick (Knevitt, Kako, Boxshall)
Ruck: Xerri, Flynn (Boyd)
Fwd: JHF, Rankine, Macrae, Sanders, Daniel, Hewett (Berry Davidson)
Flex: Jackson
20K ITB
Thoughts on this… Open to feedback!
DEF: Sheezel, Holmes, Short, Roberts, Prior, Allan (Reid, Leake)
MID: Daicos, Rozee, Oliver, W.Ashcroft, FOS, O’Driscroll, Tsatas, Sheldrick (Knevitt, Kako, Hewett)
RUCK: Xerri, De Koning (Boyd)
FWD: JHF, Rankine, Macrae, Smith, Sanders, Daniel (Stone, Davidson)
FLEX: L. Ashcroft
TU: C. McKercher and W. Ashcroft
TD: J. Short and W. Day
Last attempt…for the week
Sheezel Holmes Rioli Short Roberts Leake, (Reid, Bice)
Daicos Brayshaw Oliver Washcroft FOS NOD Tsatas Sheldrick (Lashcroft, Knevit, Camporeale)
X TDK (Boyd)
JHF Rankine Macrae Daniel Hewett Davidson (Kako, Stone)
Flynn
Worried about the high priced rookies in midfield, potentially downgrade 1 to upgrade one of the mid pricers down back
Hi all,
Would very much appreciate any feedback on my latest team –
DEF: Sheez, Holmes, Short, Roberts, Perryman, Reid (Leake, Charleson)
MID: Neale, Naicos, Anderson, Rozee, Oliver, Tsatas, Lashcroft, Sheldrick (Knevitt, Boxshall, Day-Wicks)
RUCK: Nank, TDK (Boyd)
FWD: JHF, Macrae, Smith, Daniel, Kako, Davidson (Hewett, A Reid)
FLEX: Erasmus.
Went NWM down to Roberts, sacrificed reliability in the Flex and went with a few bench rooks with less/no CG prospects to get Dawson up to Neale. Not sure at all that it was the right choice…
I feel like It’s been a lot trickier to get a starting team I’m happy with this year!
Thanks!
Back
Sheezle, zorko, short, Roberts, perryman, Reid. Bench, prior, leake
Mid
Neale, daicos, libba, Oliver, fos, o’driscoll, l ashcroft, sheldrick, bench, tsatas, knevitt, kako
Ruck
Xerri, tdk. Bench, Boyd
Fwd
Jhf, macrae, Daniel, Garcia, powell-pepper, davidson. Bench, Hewett. Stone
Flex
Flynn
$5,600 left in bank.
Any thoughts welcome as to who I should ditch or look at getting
Mid Premo + Fwd Rookie combo option
TU: Zerrett + J Berry
TD: Dawson + SPP
If someone asks for feedback then I think they are hoping for some explanation of any TD’s and possible suggestions. I.e. Is the whole team no good? or structure to consider? Or just specific selections? Not sure what they can take from TD alone.
Agreed!
DEF: Sheezel Zorko Clark Roberts SDK Paton (Reid Leake)
MID: Naicos Dawson Rozee Oliver FOS
Tsatas Lashcroft Sheldrick (Knevitt Camporeale Boxshall)
RUC: Xerri Flynn (A. Reid)
FOR: JHF Rankine Jackson Macrae Daniel Kako (Stone Davidson)
FLEX: H. Boyd
Final team before OR. Tear it apart!
DEF- H.Sheezel, D.Zorko, J.Clark, M.Roberts, H.Perryman, Z.Reid (J.Leake, L.Trainor)
MID – L.Neale, N.Daicos, C.Petracca, C.Oliver, FOS, NOD, E.Tsatas, L.Ashcroft (M.Knevitt, L.Camporeale, H.Boxshall)
RUCK – T.Xerri, TDK (H.Boyd)
FWD – JHF, J.Macrae, C.Daniel, H.Garcia, SPP, S.Davidson (I.Kako, C.Stone)
FLEX – M.Flynn
TU: Short
TD: Roberts
More looking at the potential of them being a keeper, rather than money making. I don’t trust Perryman as much as I trust these two.
Great question. I want 2 out of either Short, Robert’s or Perryman.
At moment I’m leaning to Short because he is the man down back for Tigers with most of the (many) kick outs. Where Robert’s has some competition from Blakey, Rampe and Lloyd.
Perryman looks to be entrenched in the Collingwood midfield as Daicos’s offsider.
Seriously I don’t know how to split them
I have Perryman but I am worried about him with DeGoey coming back (and also Pendles and Sidey running through the mids). My only reason is he is that little bit cheaper than Short which then put Garcia out of reach for me.
People starting with Flynn (either R2 or flex) what are your thoughts of starting A Reid at R3 for not just some DPP but handcuffing to Flynn, if Flynn misses a game or two because of his back, Reid would have a very high chance of playing
TU: A Reid
TD: Boyd
Reid might actually play alongside Flynn. Good shout
Hi guess chuck us a rate
Backs: sheezel, Whittfield, Dan houston, T travaglia, B Allan, el-hawli… int z reid, j leake
Mids: neale, dacos, serong, Oliver, fin o’sullivan, tsatas, s draper, ashcroft… int a sherlderek, x Lindsay, knevitt
Rucks xerri, de konging … int Boyd
Ford JHF, Luke Jackson, j macrae, B Smith, D Curtin, kako int s Davidson, e Hewitt
I’ll step in for GD here…nice team but you need to fix your backline
TU: SDK + Sanders
TD: Short + SPP