Round 10: Teams & In Game Discussions
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1352/13+C (Buddy)
Fairly happy so far, given that I had 3 rookies (Kelly, CEY and McIntosh) combine for 129 points.
Traded in T Mitchell and Westhoff, which brought in 268 points.
Would love Birchall, Bennell and the Bont back soon - very hard seeing those players on the pine.
Griffen, Ward, Swallow, McGovern, Naitanui, Priddis, Pendlebury, Swan and Goldstein to come.
Good luck to all today.
Fairly happy so far, given that I had 3 rookies (Kelly, CEY and McIntosh) combine for 129 points.
Traded in T Mitchell and Westhoff, which brought in 268 points.
Would love Birchall, Bennell and the Bont back soon - very hard seeing those players on the pine.
Griffen, Ward, Swallow, McGovern, Naitanui, Priddis, Pendlebury, Swan and Goldstein to come.
Good luck to all today.
1217/13/Fyfe
Donut in backline with Smith, JPK and TBC. Looking as though it'll be one of those seasons where my team will be equal to or even better than the top 250 by the end of the year, yet the method by which I got there was highly inefficient. Any other stragglers feeling the same?
Not going to walk out on my team because want to finish the job and make it full strength and at least be in the running for some weekly cash prizes! The thing keeping me optimistic is the amount of cash tied up in some rookies (Tarrant, Sheed and Wallis), in conjunction with the fact that my premium spots left to feel are almost all in the backline where "premiums" are cheapest relative to the other positions.
Taking a bit to muster up the humility to admit this but I've had a very lean run with injuries - just Ablett who has needed trading, whilst keeping Henderson (4 missed) and Smith was debatable. Had a constant loop of 1-2 week injuries it seems, but not to the important players who have seemingly destroyed other coach's seasons. To think I escaped Lamb, McGrath, Glenn, Wines, Sloane, Rockliff (both times), Bartel, Johnson, Lewis, and probably a dozen others has been tough for me to handle given you would think that gives someone free passage to top ~2000 if they had an inkling of supercoach know-how!
Pains me to say it, but sadly it has just come down to a series of bad picks, as simple as that: Lumumba, KK, TBC, Goodes, Parker (from start) and Selwood combined with the annoying tendency I have to try and get creative with my initial squads which caused me to pass up other "no-brainers" for other coaches in Miller and Vanderberg (2nd and 6th in overall price jump), almost more importantly than the profit is how I could've spent the cash savings instead of picking Jong and Sheed for example. I will say though that the influx of GC injuries have made trading out KK and passing up Miller seem worse than what I feel otherwise would've happened - so willing to put that down to uncontrollable shenanigans.
Donut in backline with Smith, JPK and TBC. Looking as though it'll be one of those seasons where my team will be equal to or even better than the top 250 by the end of the year, yet the method by which I got there was highly inefficient. Any other stragglers feeling the same?
Not going to walk out on my team because want to finish the job and make it full strength and at least be in the running for some weekly cash prizes! The thing keeping me optimistic is the amount of cash tied up in some rookies (Tarrant, Sheed and Wallis), in conjunction with the fact that my premium spots left to feel are almost all in the backline where "premiums" are cheapest relative to the other positions.
Taking a bit to muster up the humility to admit this but I've had a very lean run with injuries - just Ablett who has needed trading, whilst keeping Henderson (4 missed) and Smith was debatable. Had a constant loop of 1-2 week injuries it seems, but not to the important players who have seemingly destroyed other coach's seasons. To think I escaped Lamb, McGrath, Glenn, Wines, Sloane, Rockliff (both times), Bartel, Johnson, Lewis, and probably a dozen others has been tough for me to handle given you would think that gives someone free passage to top ~2000 if they had an inkling of supercoach know-how!
Pains me to say it, but sadly it has just come down to a series of bad picks, as simple as that: Lumumba, KK, TBC, Goodes, Parker (from start) and Selwood combined with the annoying tendency I have to try and get creative with my initial squads which caused me to pass up other "no-brainers" for other coaches in Miller and Vanderberg (2nd and 6th in overall price jump), almost more importantly than the profit is how I could've spent the cash savings instead of picking Jong and Sheed for example. I will say though that the influx of GC injuries have made trading out KK and passing up Miller seem worse than what I feel otherwise would've happened - so willing to put that down to uncontrollable shenanigans.
14 / 1400 (Fyfe C)
Everything OK on average, although was never going to be spectacular when you cop a -3 on Friday night (Johnson).
Mixed results from my 2 new recruits (Wines & Dahlhaus), but 201 between the 2 of them is nothing to sneeze at.
Other positives include some strong premium scores from Dangerfield, T. Mitchell & D. Martin, with Selwood hopefully starting to turn a corner.
7 premiums & 1 rookie still to come: Griffen, Newnes, Pendlebury, Shaw, Tarrant, Goldstein, Swan & Naitanui. 2,200 would be nice.
Everything OK on average, although was never going to be spectacular when you cop a -3 on Friday night (Johnson).
Mixed results from my 2 new recruits (Wines & Dahlhaus), but 201 between the 2 of them is nothing to sneeze at.
Other positives include some strong premium scores from Dangerfield, T. Mitchell & D. Martin, with Selwood hopefully starting to turn a corner.
7 premiums & 1 rookie still to come: Griffen, Newnes, Pendlebury, Shaw, Tarrant, Goldstein, Swan & Naitanui. 2,200 would be nice.
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12/1223 (C Gray). -3 hasn't helped, neither has my captain choice, JPK or Goddard. however Selwood's back, Buddy, Cripps, Neale have done well and H Taylor has almost made up for MJ's injury singlehandedly. Think i'm around par.
Goldy, Nicnat, Swan, Pendles, Tarrant, Beams, Oxley, Yeo, VDB and Lumumba to come. could be anything by Monday arvo?!
Goldy, Nicnat, Swan, Pendles, Tarrant, Beams, Oxley, Yeo, VDB and Lumumba to come. could be anything by Monday arvo?!
the sooner they drop him and bring the other 2 in the bette,r both mckernan and giles are better fwd options then TBC 
While it's still fresh in everyone's mind, how did Brodie Smith go in his return game yesterday?
13 kicks, 7 handballs, 5 marks, 1 tackle, 5 contested, 1 clearance, 3 clangers, 55% DE, 85% TOG, 67 SC
Is he still the worthwhile upgrade in round 12 after his bye? Will be $340k give or take so we might actually make some coin trading Ox/Saad out for him
13 kicks, 7 handballs, 5 marks, 1 tackle, 5 contested, 1 clearance, 3 clangers, 55% DE, 85% TOG, 67 SC
Is he still the worthwhile upgrade in round 12 after his bye? Will be $340k give or take so we might actually make some coin trading Ox/Saad out for him
I think he will be good for the run - was rusty but he was so awsome in the first few games, i don't think we have seen his ceiling yet. If you though at the start of the year that you could straight swap K McIntosh for Brodie Smith would you do it?!? I have him and would be very happy if people don't jump on him....bargain in my opinion!!
