Round 3 saw some curveballs thrown with a lot of popular rookies being named as sub which really hurts their cash generation for the short term. On top of that Linday injured his knee after being the top trade target. Fortunately it isn’t season ending and may only be 1-2 weeks.
Fortunately the most part though, scoring was really good from the rookies. All of the defenders scored well and we also had hundreds from Reid, NOD and Davidson.
If you need a defender then Bice is the man unless you want to wait 3 weeks for El-Hawli. Moraes is the pick of the midfield crop with Langford a more expensive option but still serviceable. Clohesy, Erasmus and Hamling are all good forward options but do have some doubts associated with their job security.
Players on the bubble are marked with an asterisk*
DEFENDERS
| Player | Club | Price (Change) | Score (Ave) | BE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riley BICE* | SYD | $113,500 | BYE (74) | -81 |
| Connor O'SULLIVAN | GEE | $203,900 (+$55.2k) | 77 (71) | -44 |
| Zach REID | ESS | $163,100 (+$43.2k) | 88 (56) | -27 |
| Luke TRAINOR | RIC | $156,200 (+$42.7k) | 90 (55) | -21 |
| Tobie TRAVAGLIA (MID) | STK | $172,000 | 83 (83) | -13 |
| Jaxon PRIOR | ESS | $206,600 (+$37.4k) | 78 (62) | -12 |
| Karl WORNER* | FRE | $185,400 | 54 (50) | 11 |
| Taj WOEWODIN | MEL | $152,600 | DNP (43) | 20 |
| Liam O'CONNELL | STK | $120,700 (+$0.8k) | 3 (24) | 27 |
| Kaleb SMITH* | RIC | $121,200 | 23 (21) | 30 |
| Saad EL-HAWLI (MID) | ESS | $119,900 | 16 (16) | 33 |
Good: Trainor had an excellent game with 18 touches, 6 marks and 4 intercepts. Reid had his best score thanks to 16 touches at 88% with 10 marks and 5 intercepts. Travaglia made his debut and with Steele as a late out avoided what looked like a certain sub role. Ended up with 18 touches with 11 contested, 3 tackles and 3 clearances.
Sub: El-Hawli had a few nice moments in his debut. 7 touches in his 25% TOG. Smith was the sub again with 7 touches and 3 marks from 25% TOG.
MIDFIELDERS
| Player | Club | Price (Change) | Score (Ave) | BE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian MORAES* | PTA | $113,500 | 94 (73) | -79 |
| Murphy REID | FRE | $199,100 (+$67.6k) | 106 (77) | -63 |
| Lucas CAMPOREALE* | CAR | $113,500 | DNP (54) | -41 |
| Nathan O'DRISCOLL | FRE | $274,200 (+$76.2k) | 104 (97) | -36 |
| Clay HALL | WCE | $129,500 | DNP (88) | -35 |
| Ned LONG | COL | $240,000 | BYE (67) | -28 |
| Jack HENDERSON | MEL | $148,300 (+$49.2k) | 43 (57) | -27 |
| Elijah TSATAS* | ESS | $191,200 | DNP (64) | -15 |
| Angus HASTIE* | STK | $119,900 | 21 (37) | -3 |
| Tom HANILY | SYD | $139,900 | BYE (37) | -2 |
| Harvey LANGFORD* | MEL | $181,000 | 87 (53) | 2 |
| Harry SHARP | MEL | $204,900 (+$15.8k) | 68 (49) | 11 |
| Levi ASHCROFT | BRL | $221,700 (+$36.2k) | 36 (64) | 24 |
| Xavier LINDSAY | MEL | $193,400 (+$34.9k) | 9 (58) | 28 |
| Mitch KNEVITT | GEE | $181,200 (+$31.4k) | 20 (53) | 30 |
| Tom COCHRANE | PTA | $99,100 | 9 (9) | 32 |
| Finn O'SULLIVAN | NTH | $207,400 (+$8.4k) | 44 (46) | 37 |
| Sid DRAPER | ADE | $182,600 (-$7.4k) | 49 (32) | 39 |
| Sam LALOR | RIC | $220,000 (+$16.5k) | 45 (53) | 47 |
| Angus SHELDRICK* | SYD | $161,700 | BYE (23) | 50 |
Good: Reid has been a great rookie and gone under the radar slightly. 19 touches, 5 tackles and 10 score involvements. O’Driscoll kept his form up with another great game. 22 touches, 4 marks, 6 tackles, 5 clearances and a goal. Moraes had an excellent game spending time in the middle. 27 touches at 85% with 7 marks and 2 goal assists.
Bad: Lindsay was heavily traded in and started the game on fire but after 3 minutes on the ground was off with a knee injury. It doesn’t seem to serious and could be back in a couple of weeks.
Sub: Cochrane made his debut and had 2 kicks and 2 marks in 22% TOG. Hastie was a late in as the sub and came on early to have 62% TOG. Only managed 7 touches and 3 marks. Knevitt had 4 touches and 2 tackles from 19% TOG which ruins his cash gen for the next couple of weeks. Draper made it 3/3 subs but managed 59% TOG this week. 7 touches, 4 tackles and 2 goals.
RUCKS
| Player | Club | Price (Change) | Score (Ave) | BE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darcy FORT* | BRL | $190,500 | 67 (72) | -30 |
| Archer REID (FWD) | WCE | $149,800 (+$29.9k) | 86 (46) | -6 |
| Lachlan KEEFFE | GWS | $211,300 (+$31.5k) | 47 (59) | -6 |
Reid had his best game thanks to 8 touches, 5 marks, 6 hitouts and 2.2. Fort had 10 touches, 3 tackles, 4 clearances and 39 hitouts. Keeffe had 8 touches and 10 hitouts as he returns to the 2nd ruck.
FORWARDS
| Player | Club | Price (Change) | Score (Ave) | BE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam DAVIDSON | WBD | $189,800 (+$76.3k) | 129 (80) | -88 |
| Ted CLOHESY* (MID) | GEE | $119,900 | 58 (71) | -71 |
| Daniel CURTIN | ADE | $204,500 (+$45.9k) | 90 (66) | -51 |
| Neil ERASMUS* (MID) | FRE | $119,900 | 80 (61) | -50 |
| Joel HAMLING* | SYD | $159,600 | BYE (73) | -50 |
| Ethan READ* | GCS | $169,200 | 47 (74) | -47 |
| Isaiah DUDLEY | FRE | $99,100 | 82 (82) | -41 |
| Aidan JOHNSON* | MEL | $113,500 | 31 (46) | -24 |
| Lance COLLARD* | STK | $119,900 | 55 (47) | -23 |
| Tyrell DEWAR | WCE | $192,000 (+$25.7k) | 46 (52) | -16 |
| Max HALL (MID) | STK | $173,300 (+$53.4k) | 85 (64) | -15 |
| Corey WARNER | SYD | $191,100 | BYE (59) | -15 |
| Jesse MOTLOP | CAR | $222,500 (+$31.8k) | 64 (62) | -13 |
| Sam POWELL-PEPPER | PTA | $199,000 (+$18.5k) | 48 (50) | -13 |
| Will MCLACHLAN | BRL | $119,900 | DNP (62) | -13 |
| Isaac KEELER* | STK | $119,900 | 39 (40) | -9 |
| Thomas EDWARDS* | ESS | $99,100 | 10 (29) | 1 |
| Conor STONE | GWS | $155,600 (+$35.7k) | 46 (51) | 4 |
| Joe BERRY | PTA | $160,300 (+$19.8k) | 34 (43) | 5 |
| Tom LYNCH* | RIC | $183,200 | 42 (52) | 6 |
| Elijah HEWETT (MID) | WCE | $149,000 (+$26.2k) | 22 (44) | 8 |
| Isaac KAKO (MID) | ESS | $180,100 (+$30.6k) | 62 (53) | 11 |
| Jacob KONSTANTY | NTH | $155,200 (+$35.3k) | 41 (50) | 15 |
| Liam FAWCETT | RIC | $119,900 | DNP (30) | 19 |
| Steely GREEN | RIC | $183,400 (+$0.7k) | 49 (37) | 19 |
| Charlie SPARGO | MEL | $135,800 | DNP (33) | 23 |
| Harry ARMSTRONG | RIC | $120,800 (+$7.3k) | -3 (28) | 26 |
| Josh DOLAN | WBD | $111,600 (-$1.9k) | 20 (21) | 29 |
| Matthew JEFFERSON* | MEL | $119,900 | DNP (21) | 30 |
| Jed WALTER | GCS | $190,500 | 47 (47) | 31 |
| Roberts HANSEN JR | NTH | $186,300 (+$20.6k) | 19 (48) | 37 |
| Jye MENZIE* | ESS | $182,800 | 63 (34) | 41 |
| Arthur JONES* | WBD | $150,900 | DNP (17) | 56 |
| Reef MCINNES | COL | $198,500 | DNP (36) | 65 |
Good: Davidson had a blinder! 31 touches, 10 marks, 3 tackles and 639m gained. Curtin played just about his best game with 2 goals from 15 touches with 5 marks and 3 tackles. Hall kicked 2.1 from 18 touches, 8 marks and 9 score involvements.
Bad: Armstrong only had the 2 handballs with a clanger to finish with a negative score. Edwards was subbed out after 48% TOG after 6 touches with 4 clangers.
Sub: Dolan played 20% game time for 5 touches and 3 marks. Hewett played through the middle in his 33% TOG as he had 6 touches and 2 tackles.
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Leaderboard After Round 3
N. O’Driscoll – 6
N. Long – 2
R. Bice – 2
Do you guys rate Moraes as a must have? Ive used 6 trades to date and have all the other really low BE rookies.
I could trade Camporeale or Lindsay to him but wondering if I should be a bit more conservative with my trades. Rest of my team looks alright at this point other than the standard JHF question
Seeing as you’ve used 6 trades I reckon pass on him. Hopefully Camporeale comes back into the side soon but if not he should some time this year anyway. Lindsay should be back soon also probably 3 weeks max on the news I’ve seen so far
Yeah sweet was leaning towards that.
If the only way you could get Moraes was to trade Stone/Kako to him would you do it?
T/u – yes, he’s a must have
T/d – not worth the trade
The main concern would be job security. If you needed the quick cash hit then I’d pull the trigger but otherwise keeping the trade is more valuable.
35 trades
Out Knevit
In Moraes
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Nevitt is a gun, hopefully starts getting some GT