Opinion 2024 AFL SuperCoach Planning Thread

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7/11 said:
Now this is a personal observation from me about swans games and rucks over the years, and I could be completely off the mark.

Swans style of play is not conducive to large ruck scores. We rarely get the ball out of stoppages quickly, so the amount of hit outs might be high, but hitouts to advantage are a lot rarer than they are for other teams. This immediately puts Grundy at a disadvantage.

Couple this with the fact we play half our games on a very narrow and small field in the SCG, where counter attacking causes a lot of players to be bypassed in plays. This means Grundy is less likely to get back in defence and potentially get forward in attack to be involved in link up plays.

So I think, it’s not the fact that Grundy won’t be good enough nor the opportunity as sole ruck, but the factors of his teammates and ground make it very difficult for him to score those monster totals.

Couple this with the fact we use a couple of chop out rucks in McLean and Amartey at times and I’m really starting to doubt Grundy outperforms the very top rucks. 105-110 average is where I think he will sit.
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Nice post. Some very interesting observations. But if you think Grundy will be ave 105-110 ave by years end then he is still startable being 100k cheaper than Gawn. That ave is where I think Gawn will be at the end of this year. One of them at least will get upgraded. But to whom?
 
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Manikato1 said:
Nice post. Some very interesting observations. But if you think Grundy will be ave 105-110 ave by years end then he is still startable being 100k cheaper than Gawn. That ave is where I think Gawn will be at the end of this year. One of them at least will get upgraded. But to whom?
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I think he will have days out against the weaker teams, but the Sydney mids generally feast when that happens so they could steal a lot of points from Grundy.

I was a little generous with my predicted average I think. Most of his scores I think will be within that 85-105 range with the odd outlier.

Just a matter of when those scores happen too. Don’t want to be copping the lower ones early on, and then sell him off before his bigger scores.

Personally been looking at a Darcy/Gawn combo the last couple of days since Gawn’s monster in that last match. I’ve also been keen on starting the former for a ruck POD.
 
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