I’m saying trade but out of the next 5 games who really tags him? They’ve got port, Carlton, bulldogs, Gold Coast & pies ?
Might be a bit of attention with port and Carlton but not heavy tags
The other 2 trade able players are Erasmus & Carroll.
Carroll has a -8 BE so he’s most likely a hold and I do like the DPP of Erasmus but he is an option to trade to have a a bit more cash in bank for future luxury or injury trades.
Would you rather?
TU: Have 22 premos, ignore the flex and have 4 trades to sideway underperforming premos
TD: Have 23 premos, including flex, and have 2 trades to sideway underperforming premos
I have the likes of TDK, Neale, Warner, Rankine i’d like to swing if possible
In the same predicament, and I reckon 23 premos is the right call. I also have tdk, neale and warner but the whole point of the flex is to make up for anyone that has a bad week. Having a reliable flex can save you from needing those extra trades anyway. So I reckon go for it.
Mills is $135k cheaper and you keep an extra trade. You’ll lose about 45 points for the rest of the year if they keep their 3-round averages, but that’s an extra upgrade from an under-performing premo, which will more than make up for that.
6 trades remaining with McCarthy as my 23rd currently sitting in my flex.
TU: Sit tight for a few weeks and hold trades
TD: Go down to 4 and grab Mills through trading out Carroll & Clarke
Thinking some coaches will be in a similar spot to myself this week and with still roughly 9 weeks left I’m leaning towards holding the trades personally and hoping McCarthy can be serviceable as my 23rd for the time being. Only risk with this approach is that it may result in needing to use an extra trade long term to get another decent ‘premo’ as Mills will likely be out of reach in 2 trades.
Interested to hear the thoughts of the community though, cheers!
Not sure it’s as easy as that – Neale has shown in the past he is an uber premium scorer who doesn’t get too overwhelmed with a tag.
I’m leaning towards keeping Neale due to his proven track record as opposed to Ashcroft who is still an emerging talent. Neale’s ceiling is massive and you don’t get to dual Brownlow medal status by coincidence. I still think he has it in him to get 130+’s – Open to opinion though!
I’ve got Neale, and I don’t share your confidence that he’s going to go up a level.
This year, he’s scored:
– under 100 in 7 games (over 100 in 8 games).
– 100-120 three times.
– over 120 in 5 games (mostly early in the year – the most recent were rounds 8 and 11).
Ashcroft has gone:
– under 100 in 6 games (over 100 in 9 games).
– 100-120 in 4 games.
– over 120 in 5 games (twice in the past month).
It’s basically a coin flip, unless you think Neale will benefit more from the bye because of his age, which could tip it in his favour.
5 trades left after Clarke to McCarthy and just need to fill the forward line so:
TU: 2 trades to bring in Darcy
TD: 1 trade to bring in a poddy forward below $380k
7 trades left, still need a premium defender and mid to finish my team. Playing for league, sitting 5th of 20.
TU: Do I use 2 trades this week to get Mills
TD: Wait it out and let some of my rookies make more cash (Trainor, Carroll, O’Sullivan, Johnson) and then upgrade
10 trades left with one more upgrade for full premo (might take 2 other trades to get there but waiting for a few to finish making cash) is it worth sideways trading Neale for Bont this week?
Desperately trying to claw back some wins after disastrous bye rounds. Neale’s inconsistency has cost me games and I think his days of getting big scores are over. Changes to my mids will finalise that part of my team.
Thinking:
T/U
Gross to Liddy
Neale to Butters
T/D
Gross to Liddy
Neale to Serong
Love to hear your thoughts to help a coach in need of some help! Cheers!
TU: Bo Allan (This options means I will have the ability to swing McCarthy/Allan through Def/Mid and use them as cover and loopholes, however will have no fwd cover)
TD: Sam Butler (This option means I will have cover in every line, however I won’t be able to use McCarthy as a loop option in defence as he will be stuck in my mids. Ideally would love to loop him as my D7 for the remainder of the season)
T/U: 1 trade – Boxshall to McCarthy (McCarthy as flex)
T/D: 3 trades – A. Clarke, Z. Johnson & Boxshall to Bo Allan, McCarthy & Mills (Mills as Flex, use Allan to swing McCarthy between Def & Mids as cover)
It depends who you’re bringing in for them as to what would be the biggest point differential (for example, if it’s Cerra -> Bont, I’d do that before Rankine -> JHF), but without knowing that, I’d say generally:
Maybe something like this?
Roberts to Mills and $59k ITB
Gray to Archer May and $74k ITB
Hastie to McCarthy and $35k ITB
Replaces 2 non playing rookies with playing rookies.
You will then have $231K ITB to upgrade McKercher to a proper premo.
Playing coverage on Def,Mid,Fwd lines who will make money to upgrade Sheldrick to 23rd premo (Maybe Jackson)
As long as you have reasonable bench cover for potential injuries, I’d go Jackson now.
Gawn could drop some cash after that gauntlet – if he averages 110, he’d lose about $70k, so you’d gain $40k (Max at $605k versus Jackson at $645k now). Having said that, there were a few price drops I’d anticipated that never materialized because the premo had a massive score (e.g., Bont and Butters).
Points-wise, you’ll be up about 75 points over those three weeks (Jackson @ 125 versus McKercher @ 100) and it should be pretty level on points after that. To come out level on points, Gawn would have to outscore Jackson by 15 points per game over the final five rounds, which seems unlikely.
Ooooh, Gunboat brings up a really good point about Sean Darcy that I totally forgot about. If he comes back in, he could steal some of Jackson’s ruck points.
Thinking currently;
Johnson, Gross, Erasmus -> Darcy, Liddy, Allan
Probably the only real way I’m going to be able to get to full premium (one upgrade left after this) and cheapest Darcy will be for the rest of the season, even if it means jumping off ship early on Johnson and Erasmus, I have cover on each line for the rest of the season.
TU: Do it
TD: Don’t worry about trades this week, and grab another fallen premo later
Trades this week out Bice/Hall/Pedlar/Gray and bringing in N W Milera /S Darcey/C Mills and S Butler will still leave me with 9 trades and 232.9 in the bank OK TRADES OR NOT
Trading out one of these crabs for Jackson
TD: Neale
TD: Merrett
Leaning towards Merrett as doesn’t his rd24 game against the Suns not count for SC points?
Thanks legends
Would be nice to know about Rd24 SuperCoach points because I have a few bombers/ GGS playing. Might need to start trading out. What round is SC grand final
Both teams have to play twice that round so they’ll still score in the other game. Won’t be losing points from it unless they get injured or are managed for the one that counts
Hayes Gray Simpson > Mccarthy Butler May
Still leaves me with 10 trades $174k ITB – Roberts, Kerch, Sheldrick, Rankine, Warner in team to potentially upgrade in future weeks
TU: MacRae
TD: JHF
Leaning towards MacRae who is a bit more pricey as looked like JHF playing a bit further forward and potentially still not 100%? Love to hear any thoughts…
At the moment I’m thinking: Carroll, Clarke and Knevitt to Darcy, Bo Allan and Liddy
Also who would you rather have for the rest of the season on the bench?
TU – A. Clarke
TD – Z. Johnson
1 forward.
TU Darcy
TD Warner
Comment someone else. $500k or under
Got sucked into Warner on the premise of full time mid after 2 tons a few weeks ago. Avoid like the mother in law.
Who for final upgrade:
TU: JHF
TD: Darcy
8 trades left, teams basically finished but mills d6, tom McCarthy flex.
With 8 trades would you move on a lachie Neale? Tags incoming and is super frustrating, could sideways to a Daicos or someone!!
TU – Trade Neale
TD – Keep
My thoughts too, Charlie! I’ll be moving him on for the same reasons.
I’m saying trade but out of the next 5 games who really tags him? They’ve got port, Carlton, bulldogs, Gold Coast & pies ?
Might be a bit of attention with port and Carlton but not heavy tags
Im holding, will be 4 trades left once team is complete, rather save that for injury. Worst case can loop with McCarthy on bench
Hoping the bye helps and every chance next game he goes 120 and Dunks or Ash go 80
Last forward spot
Tu: Macrae
Td: Darcy
Rookie with better JS
Tu: Liddy
Td: Bo Allan
8 trades left, prob going to need 3 of these for last premo upgrade.
Worthing doing a straight swap: Chad Warner to Sam Darcy?
Needing to upgrade my forward, thinking:
Hewitt —> Darcy
Erasmus—> Macrae
Cleary—>Butler
14k left after, cheers
Currently 6 trades left with 22 premos and McCarthy at Flex!
Is it worth trading A. Clarke and Z. Johnson to C. Mills and rookie to finish side?
Would be full premo with 4 trades left.
TU – Yes, make the move
TD – No, hold for now still 9 rounds left and could be plenty of carnage.
Cheers everyone!
Can you trade anyone else besides Clarke?
The other 2 trade able players are Erasmus & Carroll.
Carroll has a -8 BE so he’s most likely a hold and I do like the DPP of Erasmus but he is an option to trade to have a a bit more cash in bank for future luxury or injury trades.
Would you rather?
TU: Have 22 premos, ignore the flex and have 4 trades to sideway underperforming premos
TD: Have 23 premos, including flex, and have 2 trades to sideway underperforming premos
I have the likes of TDK, Neale, Warner, Rankine i’d like to swing if possible
In the same predicament, and I reckon 23 premos is the right call. I also have tdk, neale and warner but the whole point of the flex is to make up for anyone that has a bad week. Having a reliable flex can save you from needing those extra trades anyway. So I reckon go for it.
Last defensive spot
TU – 2 trades Mills
TD – 3 trades Rozee
Mills is $135k cheaper and you keep an extra trade. You’ll lose about 45 points for the rest of the year if they keep their 3-round averages, but that’s an extra upgrade from an under-performing premo, which will more than make up for that.
Nine trades left. I don’t wanna go early on McCarthy but it’s the only way I can make this work.
Merrett -> Bont
Long -> Darcy
Hustwaite -> McCarthy
TU – Darcy
TD – JHF
Comment – Macrae
TU – Macrae
6 trades left $396k ITB, full premo except flex if you include mills D6 and and Daniel & Warner in my fwd line.
Already done hustwaite and visentini to butler and McCarthy.
Now should I save the trade this week leaving me with 4, or use my third trade to turn either Clarke, gray, or day-wicks to my last premo for my flex?
TU – Macrae
TD – Serong
OR, turn neale into a more reliable mid.
Do we have an official word on if WHITFIELD will be available for round 17???
He’ll have to go through the protocols. Won’t know for sure until next week
He’ll be right I reckon. Looked OK in the back row of the dugout celebrating the teams comeback
Erasmus, Clarke and Keeler out
Mills, Butler and Liddy in
Team has struggled this year, due to some suspicious coaching and a bit of bad luck. 5 trades and 125K left for final mid upgrade
6 trades remaining with McCarthy as my 23rd currently sitting in my flex.
TU: Sit tight for a few weeks and hold trades
TD: Go down to 4 and grab Mills through trading out Carroll & Clarke
Thinking some coaches will be in a similar spot to myself this week and with still roughly 9 weeks left I’m leaning towards holding the trades personally and hoping McCarthy can be serviceable as my 23rd for the time being. Only risk with this approach is that it may result in needing to use an extra trade long term to get another decent ‘premo’ as Mills will likely be out of reach in 2 trades.
Interested to hear the thoughts of the community though, cheers!
Do you have Whitfield?
If not, can you hold your 6 x trades & then get Whitfield in a few weeks time when his price bottoms out
Already a Whitfield owner and planning on holding him!
Who would you trade out:
TU: Neale
TD: Will Ashcroft
Realise Ashcroft is in decent form but who is more likely to bring it home? Whoever gets traded out gets upgraded to Bont
Who would you say gets less tags?
Not sure it’s as easy as that – Neale has shown in the past he is an uber premium scorer who doesn’t get too overwhelmed with a tag.
I’m leaning towards keeping Neale due to his proven track record as opposed to Ashcroft who is still an emerging talent. Neale’s ceiling is massive and you don’t get to dual Brownlow medal status by coincidence. I still think he has it in him to get 130+’s – Open to opinion though!
I’ve got Neale, and I don’t share your confidence that he’s going to go up a level.
This year, he’s scored:
– under 100 in 7 games (over 100 in 8 games).
– 100-120 three times.
– over 120 in 5 games (mostly early in the year – the most recent were rounds 8 and 11).
Ashcroft has gone:
– under 100 in 6 games (over 100 in 9 games).
– 100-120 in 4 games.
– over 120 in 5 games (twice in the past month).
It’s basically a coin flip, unless you think Neale will benefit more from the bye because of his age, which could tip it in his favour.
Clarke, Erasmus –> May, Mills
Gets me to full premo with 9 trades and 1 boost left. Roberts D6, Neale M8, Daniel F6, and Mills flex.
Trades will be kept for underperforming premos and injuries/suspensions. Targeting bringing in Gawn, Sinclair by finals.
Well done
5 trades left after Clarke to McCarthy and just need to fill the forward line so:
TU: 2 trades to bring in Darcy
TD: 1 trade to bring in a poddy forward below $380k
7 trades left, still need a premium defender and mid to finish my team. Playing for league, sitting 5th of 20.
TU: Do I use 2 trades this week to get Mills
TD: Wait it out and let some of my rookies make more cash (Trainor, Carroll, O’Sullivan, Johnson) and then upgrade
5 rounds left + finals? You might need to save some trades IMO
TU: Bont
TD: Butters
10 trades left with one more upgrade for full premo (might take 2 other trades to get there but waiting for a few to finish making cash) is it worth sideways trading Neale for Bont this week?
Tu: Do it
Tu: Hold Neale
Desperately trying to claw back some wins after disastrous bye rounds. Neale’s inconsistency has cost me games and I think his days of getting big scores are over. Changes to my mids will finalise that part of my team.
Thinking:
T/U
Gross to Liddy
Neale to Butters
T/D
Gross to Liddy
Neale to Serong
Love to hear your thoughts to help a coach in need of some help! Cheers!
Warner and Whitfield to Jackson and Mills
TU – Yes
TD – No
Better option regarding rookies/bench cover?
TU: Bo Allan (This options means I will have the ability to swing McCarthy/Allan through Def/Mid and use them as cover and loopholes, however will have no fwd cover)
TD: Sam Butler (This option means I will have cover in every line, however I won’t be able to use McCarthy as a loop option in defence as he will be stuck in my mids. Ideally would love to loop him as my D7 for the remainder of the season)
8 trades left
T/U: 1 trade – Boxshall to McCarthy (McCarthy as flex)
T/D: 3 trades – A. Clarke, Z. Johnson & Boxshall to Bo Allan, McCarthy & Mills (Mills as Flex, use Allan to swing McCarthy between Def & Mids as cover)
Cheers
Voted TD but I’d recommend having Mills in at D6 and a premo def/mid at flex which will make rotating things a bit easier too
C.Gray, Johnson & Clarke > Butler, Allan & Darcy
Leaves me with 6 trades/1 boost, $47k in the bank and full premo except Jack Martin and Jaxon Binns on-field.
Bench cover includes Carroll, McCarthy, Rowston, Allan & Butler.
If you say full premo except for 2 rookies on-field, then you are not full premo lol.
Is it worth trading neale if it means I can get mills to finish backs and jhf to finish Fwd?
T.u yes
T d no
Do you have Whitfield?
If not, can you hold your 6 x trades & then get Whitfield in a few weeks time when his price bottoms out
TU: IN: Day, Liddy and May
OUT: Johnson, Clarke, Hustwaite.
Day would be M6 but I’d have full Premo bar my flex
TD: IN: Lual, Liddy, Darcy
OUT: Carrol, Johnson, Clarke
Darcy would be FWD allowing me to put one of Trac, Smith, Rankine, Macrae, Warner or JHF as my last midfielder full Premo bar my flex
If you had enough trades in which order would you upgrade the below?
Roberts, Caleb Daniel, Kerch, Rankine, Cerra
It depends who you’re bringing in for them as to what would be the biggest point differential (for example, if it’s Cerra -> Bont, I’d do that before Rankine -> JHF), but without knowing that, I’d say generally:
Rankine
Roberts
Daniel
McKercher
Cerra
Hey Guys, bit stumped on what to do this week – would appreciate any help please. What would you do with this team? 13 trades, $63k ITB
Clark, Dale, NWM, Sheezel, Rozee, Roberts (Clarke, Hayes)
Brayshaw, Butters, Bont, Dawson, Sinc, Cerra, Petracca, Kerch (Johnson, Hastie, Campo)
Xerri, TDK (West)
Baz, Macrae, Daniel, JHF, Warner, Rankine (Gray, Simpson)
Sheldrick
Maybe something like this?
Roberts to Mills and $59k ITB
Gray to Archer May and $74k ITB
Hastie to McCarthy and $35k ITB
Replaces 2 non playing rookies with playing rookies.
You will then have $231K ITB to upgrade McKercher to a proper premo.
Playing coverage on Def,Mid,Fwd lines who will make money to upgrade Sheldrick to 23rd premo (Maybe Jackson)
At full premo (except McKercher Flex) and seeking thoughts re the following:
T/U: McKercher out now, Jackson in (3 trades left for last 8 rounds).
T/D: Hold McKercher for 3 weeks and then bring in Gawn after he plays Witts, O’Brien & Xerri (3 trades left for last 5 rounds).
TD. Spot on.
Only thing that would change that, or maybe make me atleast reconsider, would be Jackson getting the solo gig again this week.
Heads up, he’ll murder RoMo.
As long as you have reasonable bench cover for potential injuries, I’d go Jackson now.
Gawn could drop some cash after that gauntlet – if he averages 110, he’d lose about $70k, so you’d gain $40k (Max at $605k versus Jackson at $645k now). Having said that, there were a few price drops I’d anticipated that never materialized because the premo had a massive score (e.g., Bont and Butters).
Points-wise, you’ll be up about 75 points over those three weeks (Jackson @ 125 versus McKercher @ 100) and it should be pretty level on points after that. To come out level on points, Gawn would have to outscore Jackson by 15 points per game over the final five rounds, which seems unlikely.
Ooooh, Gunboat brings up a really good point about Sean Darcy that I totally forgot about. If he comes back in, he could steal some of Jackson’s ruck points.
4 Trades left
22 Premos + McCarthy.
$67k itb
Bolton is a nightmare own. Trade to JHF make sense now while JHF prob at his cheapest? Then save final 3 trades for injuries
TU: Do it, JHF good option
TD: Hold Bolton and prob upgrade later possibly to Martin
Wouldn’t grab JHF.
He’s waiting to break down. Shoulder still looks dicey.
I’ve got him, I held him. It’s been a sweat watching him play on return.
Even Martin I don’t love as a trade in. Lacks upside with Dons season (you’d think) and fixture.
Grabbed him when he had a string of big uncontested possesion opps, who he’d eat again.
No longer the case and now also a sweat to see out the season.
Bolton does need to go however.
Have you hopped on Darcy already?
Thanks for the feedback mate.
Yeah, I grabbed Darcy last week and have done Erasmus > Macrae already this week.
Feel I’ve missed the boat on Jacko and would take a couple of precious trades to get the funds for him now too.
Bit stuck as to who to upgrade Bolton to. Is Kennedy a solid pick maybe?
Or Dylan Moore perhaps?
Yep. Kennedy. Very solid. Capped ceiling but still playing well in a midfield role. Dogs with a nice Marvel heavy fixture too.
Trade T/U Neale or T/D Merrett to Bont
Thinking currently;
Johnson, Gross, Erasmus -> Darcy, Liddy, Allan
Probably the only real way I’m going to be able to get to full premium (one upgrade left after this) and cheapest Darcy will be for the rest of the season, even if it means jumping off ship early on Johnson and Erasmus, I have cover on each line for the rest of the season.
TU: Do it
TD: Don’t worry about trades this week, and grab another fallen premo later
Houston to Mills a worthwhile trade? Houston is killing me
Houston to a half-finished bottle of Gatorade is looking like a worthwhile trade at this point.
Trades this week out Bice/Hall/Pedlar/Gray and bringing in N W Milera /S Darcey/C Mills and S Butler will still leave me with 9 trades and 232.9 in the bank OK TRADES OR NOT
Your joking aren’t you.
Lmao.
im getting sick of Shai Bolton is he a trade?
TU Yes
TD No
if he is a trade
TU darcy
TD M kennedy
Trading out one of these crabs for Jackson
TD: Neale
TD: Merrett
Leaning towards Merrett as doesn’t his rd24 game against the Suns not count for SC points?
Thanks legends
Thinking Bont is this week at his bottom, can do it thru multiple trades or ditch an excess fwd (have 7 “premo fwds)
Trade to Bont:
TU: Rankine
TD: Bolton
Comments: Daniel
TU: Daniel
Cheers legends.
TU: Trade Prestia for Darcy
TD: Keep him
TU: Trade Jeremy Cameron for Sam Darcy
TD: Keep him
JCam been targeted I50 at 16% this year.
TU: Mills
TD: Darcy
Looking at bringing in Nic Martin next round but am I right in believing that the rd24 game against the sun’s doesn’t count for sc points?
Would be nice to know about Rd24 SuperCoach points because I have a few bombers/ GGS playing. Might need to start trading out. What round is SC grand final
Both teams have to play twice that round so they’ll still score in the other game. Won’t be losing points from it unless they get injured or are managed for the one that counts
Correct Taz – doesn’t count.
How to fund Darcy in
TU: Z Johnson to Bo Allan
TD: Neale to Mills
should caleb daniel be traded out, need to trade him in order to get jhf
TU = Yes, do it
TD= No, hold him
Roberts Johnson > Naicos Mccarthy
TU: Good Trades
TD: Bad Trades
Hayes Gray Simpson > Mccarthy Butler May
Still leaves me with 10 trades $174k ITB – Roberts, Kerch, Sheldrick, Rankine, Warner in team to potentially upgrade in future weeks
TU: Good Trades
TD: Bad Trades
TU: MacRae
TD: JHF
Leaning towards MacRae who is a bit more pricey as looked like JHF playing a bit further forward and potentially still not 100%? Love to hear any thoughts…
TU : Bont this week
TD : Finish team by trading in S Darcy
Replacement for Shai Bolton…
TU – Macrae
TD – JHF
Gray Johnson Roberts > Naicos Butler Mcarthy
TU/TD
7 Trades – 110k ITB
S. Bolton -> J. Macrae
A. Clarke -> C. Mills
Z. Johnson -> M. Liddy
TU – Yes
TD – No
TU: Liddy
TD: Butler
Meek in flex if have Charlie West DPP as R3
TU: Yes
TD: No
Sheldrick Johnson > Naicos Mccarthy
TU: Good Trades
TD: Bad
In: Darcy, Jackson, Mills
Out: Jeremy Cameron, TDK, Prestia
TU/TD