Strategy 2024: Round 5 Trades

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How do people feel about trading LDU for Steele this week. Only 20k difference between the two but that will change exponentially soon.

LDU doesn't look interested so far this season, Steele looks amazing...
Steele is coming off a soft draw, which gets hard now.
LDU is coming off a tough draw, which gets easy now.

Could easily see LDU outscoring Steele now.
 
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Howes > Clohesy
Grundy > Gawn

3 boosts left.

Doing this and not looking back. Sexton/Gibcus + a third to get premo #14 next week. Let the climb continue!

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Whilst those moves look good in isolation I think that you've got bigger issues than doing a luxury trade right now. I'm seeing 5 dead rookies on your bench and that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.

That being said, I guess you could boost next week and fix 3 of those rookies with Graham, Comben and maybe Ramsden, otherwise your upgrading will come to a grinding halt.
 

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Out: B Howes, J Jordon and J Lyons
In: S Clohesy, S Flanders and K Lohmann
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Fix the failed Thomas for Comben via Wilson in RD6 and maybe save a boost to avoid a repeat of the Berry and Thomas failures. Very happy with all premiums so far.
Surprisingly little change to this (so far). Prefer Comben and Georgiades over Lohmann but cannot afford either this round if I go with Flanders and no one else that really interest between those price ranges in the fwd line. Keeping Grundy and will reassess in RD7. Can grab Meek but it likely locks me into using my final boost next round to get rid of Livingstone and then make a decision on Grundy/Meek in RD7 and ideally move Darcy to R3.

Alternative would be going a week early on Comben and Georgiades and trading Coffield over Howes with the intention to turn Carroll into Dawson/LDU next round.
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how much more money are ppl expecting d'ambrosio and mckercher to make? has their been any news on whether mckercker will be playing mid more
I would be reluctant to get rid of any midfielder that has Geelong & Hawthorn in their next 2 games.

McKercher is interesting because he had to cop small narrow Norwood last week and now has to cop small narrow Kardinia Park this week.

Could easily seem him putting up good scores again when North returns to a normal sized stadium. Could even be a nice POD if everyone jumps off after an average game at the Cattery...
 
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Steele is coming off a soft draw, which gets hard now.
Is he though? Has had Geelong (unbeaten), Collingwood (reigning premiers), Essendon and Richmond and has West Coast, North and Hawthorn before his bye.

Post-bye the Saints don't play away from Docklands except Adelaide in Adelaide (who look in all sorts this year). Three of those Docklands games are return fixtures against West Coast, Richmond and Essendon.

Probably not worth the cost of the trade from LDU, but still.
 
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For this week at least, LDU's highest average is against Geelong (124 and 134 last two against them) and Geelong also leak some of the highest midfielder scores.

Steele against a very tough GWS midfield to score against.
 
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Steele is coming off a soft draw, which gets hard now.
LDU is coming off a tough draw, which gets easy now.

Could easily see LDU outscoring Steele now.
Steele is a contested beast. His scores might not be 140+ against the better teams but he won’t drop 60-80’s.

Steele’s tackling numbers are up as well (8.5 per game), so his base is going to be solid. Compare that to LDU who has only made 13 tackles in 4 games. Pretty pathetic numbers for an inside mid really.
 
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Is he though? Has had Geelong (unbeaten), Collingwood (reigning premiers), Essendon and Richmond and has West Coast, North and Hawthorn before his bye.

Post-bye the Saints don't play away from Docklands except Adelaide in Adelaide (who look in all sorts this year). Three of those Docklands games are return fixtures against West Coast, Richmond and Essendon.

Probably not worth the cost of the trade from LDU, but still.
Yeah I was talking specifically about midfield difficulty - Geelong, Collingwood, Essendon & Richmond are 4 of the 5 easiest matchups you can get for an inside midfielder.

There are some promising matchups for Steele looking long term though you are right.
 
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Thanks for the sanity check. I'm backing LDU in, hopefully he comes good as a real POD at this point.
I was mentally locked on Steele in and now I have to go and look at his draw, thanks for that 😂
I don't want to talk anyone out of Steele, because there is still the chance his form continues. We just haven't had the chance to see him against a difficult midfield yet.

It's something to consider.
 
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Steele against a very tough GWS midfield to score against.
I'm not trying to be contrarian, I promise, but:
  • Daicos 34 touches (16 contested), 10 clearances and 4 tackles for 131 SC
  • LDU 29 touches (11 contested), 8 clearances and 6 tackles for 121 SC
  • Yeo 27 touches (15 contested), 9 clearances and 8 tackles for 110 SC
  • Rowell 26 touches (19 contested), 8 clearances and 3 tackles for 129 SC
Steele's best numbers for those stats from his 4 matches are 33 touches, 18 contested possessions, 9 clearances and 11 tackles. As the Saints' best (only?!) contested mid and being back in form he must be a good show for 115-145.

But we're not picking him just for this week anyway!
 
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I'm not trying to be contrarian, I promise, but:
  • Daicos 34 touches (16 contested), 10 clearances and 4 tackles for 131 SC
  • LDU 29 touches (11 contested), 8 clearances and 6 tackles for 121 SC
  • Yeo 27 touches (15 contested), 9 clearances and 8 tackles for 110 SC
  • Rowell 26 touches (19 contested), 8 clearances and 3 tackles for 129 SC
Steele's best numbers for those stats from his 4 matches are 33 touches, 18 contested possessions, 9 clearances and 11 tackles. As the Saints' best (only?!) contested mid and being back in form he must be a good show for 115-145.

But we're not picking him just for this week anyway!
I'm just trying to justify not wasting a trade on sidewaysing LDU haha. I have no doubt Steele's gonna smash it.
 
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