Finding trades difficult this week. What I was hoping to do was:
Jordon > Steele
Billings > Lohmann
Jackson > Premo
Gives me 583k for the premo. Can make it 627k or 642k if I opt for Graham or Clohesy.
The thing is, who’s that premium?
Wouldn’t go for a ruck as I have Gawn and Grundy but even if I did, I wouldn’t pay almost 700k for English and I’m not overly interested in Marshall as I don’t think he’ll keep up with English and Gawn.
I have Heeney and Flanders in the forward line. The cupboard is extremely bare after that. I can’t confidently say they’ll finish top 6-8 for any of the others.
I think the top defenders are still sorting themselves out. I have Ryan, Sheezel and Houston right now and Yeo who I’m expecting to offload at some point. I have doubts on Stewart being top 6-8 which is a bold take. He needed 10 intercept marks for his one big score. Just isn’t getting involved enough in the Cats ball movement. Regardless, I wouldn’t be paying 600k for him. Sicily has obvious role issues right now and not touching him. Sinclair is starting to get going after his calf setback but I’d like to wait a bit before grabbing him. Not going anywhere near McGovern. Liked Whitfield but he had a poor game last week and I’ve cooled on him. Duggan I actually thought would be getting more attention as an option. Hurn gone and he’s thriving. Not for me though. Not liking the Young/Clark/NWM options. Guessing game trying to pinpoint who actually works out.
As for the midfielders everyone is at their peak price. My top 10 would be Bont, Petracca, Serong, Green, Merrett, Butters, Gulden, Steele, Libba, Neale in roughly that order. Already own Green, Serong and Libba. Grabbing Steele this week already. Out of the others Bont, Petracca, Merrett and Butters are too expensive, Neale has injury concerns and I like Gulden but he has a bye! Rozee and Dawson look value but I just don’t think they’ll cut it at the end of the season. Andy Brayshaw is there but I don’t think he’ll ever be a top liner in SC like he is in AF. Liked Miller last week but turned off by his recent performance. Not touching LDU and Oliver is very much a wait and see. Was looking at JHF but he needs DPP and Wines out seems to have cost him that. For Martin’s good scores he played the Saints who leak bulk points to defenders and in a heavy loss to Port where the ball lived in his area.
Really want to offload Jackson but I just can’t see a good option for him. Will probably just do a Howes > Clohesy/Graham trade instead and store the cash for Gulden and/or Daicos next week.