Strategy 2024: Round 8 Trades

[Bermi]

Dempsey & Sharp need to go, would like to get rid Campbell who is maxed out/ dead wood.

Maybe:
Campbell > Sweet
Dempsey > Rogers (Reid moves into the fwds)
Sharp > Dawson

Means backing Steele in to turn it around ( saints have a great draw, just hope his knee is ok) & Powell - surely Phillips gets dropped after his poor performance…No fwds I really want to prefer hold if possible.

I still have lots of Posts to catch up in this thread.

I am also deciding to trade Steele out, or not. The severity of his injury is unclear.
I'm now leaning to keeping Steele, based on guessing that he has one of those injuries that is not serious enough to be rested, but an injury that will come good eventually without worsening through play.
Obviously, a 190 BE is not good for a price drop, if need to trade him out later, but if he comes good, we have saved a trade.

I am still waiting to read what his injury is, I hope we find out before trade lockout.

 

[Hondo]

Honestly I'd be trading Williams before Roberts. Can't trust Williams won't be pulled at 1/2 time again if anything flares up, and we don't have the best 18 safety net any more.

They are $100K different so it's not apples and apples and it depends who you want to get in.

I'd expect Roberts to tail off a bit and Zac to build up a little and so will average about the same from here. That's why I say if you need to exit Roberts now to get the premium you want you should do it and keep Zac (if that's your setup) for now. I get he's a risk but we knew that going in.

Roberts has been a great pick but the great payoff could come from the upgrade to a gun midfielder sooner rather than later. OR it may come from him holding up D6 instead of Zac. Who knows.

 

[bandit]

Apologies as quite a few posts in the thread around this topic. Conscious of having 22 trades left after using final boost this round, would you go Meek down to Sweet to free up more cash ($572K in the bank) and save another trade down the line to realise cash gen, or would you keep Meek but upgrade Livingstone to Sweet to try ride Meek for the extra $40-50K he could generate? Would have around $222K in the bank if I went Livingstone up to Sweet and kept Meek for now.

 

[Chumpion]

Apologies as quite a few posts in the thread around this topic. Conscious of having 22 trades left after using final boost this round, would you go Meek down to Sweet to free up more cash ($572K in the bank) and save another trade down the line to realise cash gen, or would you keep Meek but upgrade Livingstone to Sweet to try ride Meek for the extra $40-50K he could generate? Would have around $222K in the bank if I went Livingstone up to Sweet and kept Meek for now.

Don’t trade Livingstone, you want to take someone down to Sweet (either as R2 or R3) but definitely don’t want to be investing money getting Livingstone up, especially as his DPP could be handy down the line.
If Meek is your R3, make the trade. If he’s your R2 then it really comes down to whether you can manage a scenario where Sweet is dropped or injured. All well and good to reinvest the cash, but if you have to blow up your team to get a viable R2 back in it might not be worth it.

 

[Shannon]

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Please remove it next year 🙏🤞

 

[Shannon]

Don’t trade Livingstone, you want to take someone down to Sweet (either as R2 or R3) but definitely don’t want to be investing money getting Livingstone up, especially as his DPP could be handy down the line.
If Meek is your R3, make the trade. If he’s your R2 then it really comes down to whether you can manage a scenario where Sweet is dropped or injured. All well and good to reinvest the cash, but if you have to blow up your team to get a viable R2 back in it might not be worth it.

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[Connoisseur]

Apologies as quite a few posts in the thread around this topic. Conscious of having 22 trades left after using final boost this round, would you go Meek down to Sweet to free up more cash ($572K in the bank) and save another trade down the line to realise cash gen, or would you keep Meek but upgrade Livingstone to Sweet to try ride Meek for the extra $40-50K he could generate? Would have around $222K in the bank if I went Livingstone up to Sweet and kept Meek for now.

Ideally would prefer the Meek downgrade to Sweet at R2 to reinvest the cash on other lines given the points benefit should far outweigh the hope of squeezing every penny from Meek. If you have Jackson in your fwd line as coverage for the worst case scenario with Sweet and are content with continuing to hold Jackson, then take the Meek money and run.

No interest is earned on the $572k of remaining salary if this was your final trade of the round, so I would look to adjust the other trades to take full advantage of the downgrade and minimise the possibility of being unable to use it next round, if correctional trades due to injuries or downgrades are necessary, etc.

 

[JY5165]

Apologies as quite a few posts in the thread around this topic. Conscious of having 22 trades left after using final boost this round, would you go Meek down to Sweet to free up more cash ($572K in the bank) and save another trade down the line to realise cash gen, or would you keep Meek but upgrade Livingstone to Sweet to try ride Meek for the extra $40-50K he could generate? Would have around $222K in the bank if I went Livingstone up to Sweet and kept Meek for now.

wait till after thurs game. put the e on sweet and trade out meek and flip livingstone back to r2 for loop if he scores well

 

[Raaraab]

I still have lots of Posts to catch up in this thread.

I am also deciding to trade Steele out, or not. The severity of his injury is unclear.
I'm now leaning to keeping Steele, based on guessing that he has one of those injuries that is not serious enough to be rested, but an injury that will come good eventually without worsening through play.
Obviously, a 190 BE is not good for a price drop, if need to trade him out later, but if he comes good, we have saved a trade.

I am still waiting to read what his injury is, I hope we find out before trade lockout.

I’m also sweating on an update @Bermi, I was caught before, last year I think, holding him too long. But I’m mindful of the collective wisdom here that this is the time to trade with a view to getting Rookies off the field not sideways

 

[Connoisseur]

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Comben and Thomas on the chopping block for the following round. Could double downgrade again in RD9 but feel bringing in Flanders/Petracca may be a better move in RD9.

Just fall shy ($22k) of D Moore (Hawthorn) over Rogers. That extra 50 odd points and required cash from holding Williams over Dempsey and selecting Dawson over Walsh would have come in nice and handy right about now.

May entertain trading Grundy but is reliant on what Sweet scores. Prefer to continue with the fwd structure and waiting even longer for upgrades as I have no confidence in going Grundy to Moore as I would rather do the move via a rookie and feel that Grundy to a Dunkley/Serong would be the better move. Both have those nice byes.

 

[BIGB0Y]

Sorry should have clarified that Graham would be at M9 as i’ve still got Essendon Reid sitting at D8 for looping purpose.

Would leave team as below. View attachment 72268
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Very impressive team, where are you ranked?

 

[randomcliche]

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Please remove it this week 🙏🤞

Fixed it.

 

[Shannon]

Fixed it.

😂👏

 

[randomcliche]

Anyone else got a hobbled looking Jack Steele in their team?

I traded him in early, got some good scores and good price rise but I'm not sure I want to hold now and watch it disintegrate... it's very sideways to move him but I'm looking at a No. 1 draft pick in his 5th year on a huge improvement curve averaging 130.

I don't think Jack in his current state gets within 20+ppg of that

I'm probably selling. Saints play 4.35pm Saturday, before / at the time of my other problem children. So if he walks out with knee brace or strapping, he's gone.

My thinking at the moment is this.

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Or am I better to go?

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Like the English one, I think he would #1 in this week if wasn't for Sweet! Great price. I'm considering buying next week.

Has some good match us the next 5 weeks. I going to hold, cross the fingers and hope he can get some good returns and then flick to top 8 for the run home.

Thanks for making the decision even more difficult!

Apologies as quite a few posts in the thread around this topic. Conscious of having 22 trades left after using final boost this round, would you go Meek down to Sweet to free up more cash ($572K in the bank) and save another trade down the line to realise cash gen, or would you keep Meek but upgrade Livingstone to Sweet to try ride Meek for the extra $40-50K he could generate? Would have around $222K in the bank if I went Livingstone up to Sweet and kept Meek for now.

Sell any R1/2/3 for Sweet, unless his name is Gawn. You can emerg Sweet, he scores well, keep the base case of selling Meek and Livingstone R2. If he gets a FF tombstone Q1 update trade out from Meek to Livingstone. Easy.

 

[Blue Bloods]

Powell < Sweet
Sharp < Green

Sweet E if scores 90+
Grundy < Dawson/Parish
Thinking Parish as would need the extra cash to turn Massimo into Stewart next week.

 

[randomcliche]

Help me not spend $428k. I sent Grundy > Sweet.

I'm leaning Steele and Powell out, pending knee brace and team selections. ($1.444M)

Options in:
1. Bont and Zerrett = bank 190k, probably enough to continue the one up one down for a couple of weeks.

2. Zerrett and Parish = $311k, Allows Xerri to English and an upgrade the following week.

3. Bont/Zerrett and Laird = $242k/$269k, the latter still could allow the Xerri > English next round with an upgrade.

I could not worry about English and sell Xerri in two weeks and move Sweet to R2, keeping the upgrades going!

Cheers!

 

[Shannon]

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Help me not spend $428k. I sent Grundy > Sweet.

I'm leaning Steele and Powell out, pending knee brace and team selections. ($1.444M)

Options in:
1. Bont and Zerrett = bank 190k, probably enough to continue the one up one down for a couple of weeks.

2. Zerrett and Parish = $311k, Allows Xerri to English and an upgrade the following week.

3. Bont/Zerrett and Laird = $242k/$269k, the latter still could allow the Xerri > English next round with an upgrade.

I could not worry about English and sell Xerri in two weeks and move Sweet to R2, keeping the upgrades going!

Cheers!

Powell > Flanders

Bramble > Bont

Reid on the ground

Georgiades bench

 

[randomcliche]

Powell > Flanders Oh how my season would have been better if I didn't see him do nothing in the preseason match and I just stuck him in my team. Bit like Taranto last season, no one near him bar Heeney. I've made excuses nearly every round not to buy him.

Bramble > Bont. Bramble is dead set liability I'll be happy he's gone. Might even bench for Graham if he doesn't make the cull list this week.

Reid on the ground. Of course!

Georgiades bench, with the E so Sexton can do forward something useful!

Thanks suggestions eminently more sensible than mine!

 

[Rumbler]

Currently have made one trade this round so far which is Powell --> Sweet. 280k cash in bank and 24 trades left. 2 boosts available.
Not sure which way to go for my other moves. Upgrading the defence is what I'm targeting this week.

Option 1: Comben to N.Martin (would leave zero cash).

Option 2: Grundy and Sharp to N.Martin and D.Houston (not keen on this but would consider it only if Sweet does really well again).

Looking for other options which can help make the team better. Cheers!

 

[tso]

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