Opinion Rate My Team

Which of the following apply to your current team? (multiple choice)

  • Starting with Libba (no Crouch or JOM)

    Votes: 92 38.7%
  • Starting with Libba + Crouch (no JOM)

    Votes: 69 29.0%
  • Starting with Libba + Crouch + JOM

    Votes: 15 6.3%
  • Full GnR (no mid pricers)

    Votes: 19 8.0%
  • GnR + Libba (1 mid pricer in Libba only)

    Votes: 44 18.5%
  • Set and forget rucks

    Votes: 97 40.8%
  • Ruck cover (R/F in your forwardline)

    Votes: 45 18.9%
  • Spending big (starting 3 or more of Shaw/Fyfe/Goldy/Lids/Joey)

    Votes: 37 15.5%
  • Spending less (starting 1 or less of Shaw/Fyfe/Goldy/Lids/Joey)

    Votes: 70 29.4%
  • I will be starting with all 4 of Fyfe/ Ablett/Pendles/Rockliff

    Votes: 46 19.3%
  • Planning to start a POD no one has spoken about

    Votes: 43 18.1%

  • Total voters
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I finally settled on a team, then realized that more expensive rookies are probably now a requirement... well, players we can be confident in anyway. How is this looking?

D: Laird, Simpson, Bartel, Hurn, Hartley, AMT (Brown, McCarthy)

M: Fyfe, Danger, Ablett, Shiel, Rockliff, Mills, Oliver, Menadue (Petracca, Keays, Davis)

R: Goldstein, Martin (Grimley)

F: Martin, Barlow, Hall, Wells, Kennedy, Kerridge (Adams, Wyatt)

Cash left: 3.3k
Team looks great, well done. Like the Shiel pod!
Agree with DSM very nice team - albeit the low warchest.

Counting 14 keepers there? include that with some solid rookies (many of which are higher priced - worried about cash generation at all?) and Wells at F4 (we're running a very similar FWD structure)...looks great.

Good work!
 
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I finally settled on a team, then realized that more expensive rookies are probably now a requirement... well, players we can be confident in anyway. How is this looking?

D: Laird, Simpson, Bartel, Hurn, Hartley, AMT (Brown, McCarthy)

M: Fyfe, Danger, Ablett, Shiel, Rockliff, Mills, Oliver, Menadue (Petracca, Keays, Davis)

R: Goldstein, Martin (Grimley)

F: Martin, Barlow, Hall, Wells, Kennedy, Kerridge (Adams, Wyatt)

Cash left: 3.3k
Nice team. Shiel or Ward...who cops the tag. Can remember last year Shield was shut down pretty easily when tagged. Scored 60odd i think
 
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From an Essendon supporter who would have watched them more closely than me that's good enough.

Bye Bye Birdie


Now to Wells or not to Wells?
 

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D: Laird, Birchall, Rich, Sheridan, Cutler, Weitering (Hartley, Broad)
M: Dangerfield, Priddis, Treloar, Liberatore, Steele, Lyons, Mills, Parish (Polec, Crowley, Macaffer)
R: Martin, Gawn (Cox)
F: Barlow, S.Gray, Stringer, D.Menzel, Wells, Kerridge (B.Kennedy, L.McCarthy)

Have to obviously wait until teams are up for round 1, but most of these have had solid NAB efforts and form is form.

Still a bit iffy on Polec though, and have a few coming back from injury in the squad, but that's the risk I'm happy to take.

Also probably a risk on Sheridan, Cutler, Steele, Lyons and Parish, as I have no idea who they actually are and had to google Hartley. :D
 
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I'm fairly happy with my team, just want some advice.

DEF:Houli, Laird, Bartel, Smith, Brown, Hartley (Collins, Ruggles)

MID:Fyfe, Danger, GAJ, Rockliff, Libba, Mills, Gresham, Gore (Keays, Hibberd, Davis)

RUC:Goldstein, Gawn (Grimley)

FWD:Martin, Barlow, Gray, Hall, Wells, Kerridge (Payne, AMT)
Bump. Would like some feedback
 
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I finally settled on a team, then realized that more expensive rookies are probably now a requirement... well, players we can be confident in anyway. How is this looking?

D: Laird, Simpson, Bartel, Hurn, Hartley, AMT (Brown, McCarthy)

M: Fyfe, Danger, Ablett, Shiel, Rockliff, Mills, Oliver, Menadue (Petracca, Keays, Davis)

R: Goldstein, Martin (Grimley)

F: Martin, Barlow, Hall, Wells, Kennedy, Kerridge (Adams, Wyatt)

Cash left: 3.3k
hi bomber
i really like your team. bartel and hurn are interesting picks for him. bartel is coming off concussion and im not keen on hurn. other than that i really like your team.
 
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Bump. Would like some feedback
hi alecee
nice team however i would upgrade your midfield and downgrade your defence. i would downgrade smith to a rookie maybe dea and use that money to upgrade libba. also i would change hibberd to an oliver or bkennedy to strengthen the midfields.

rucks are set and forget i think gawn is in for a big year and i love your forwards.
 
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Bump. Would like some feedback
Backs and Rucks are fine for mine. Team overall is similar to mine in many ways.

I'm unsure all your mid rookies are set to play (immediately), Gresham, Gore, Keays and Hibberd haven't exactly locked themselves in over NAB. Suggest Menadue is probably missing as an obvious one.

Perhaps a little deep in fwds? Don't mind it though, thinking of doing something similar.
 
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Backs and Rucks are fine for mine. Team overall is similar to mine in many ways.

I'm unsure all your mid rookies are set to play (immediately), Gresham, Gore, Keays and Hibberd haven't exactly locked themselves in over NAB. Suggest Menadue is probably missing as an obvious one.

Perhaps a little deep in fwds? Don't mind it though, thinking of doing something similar.
I'm thinking about downgrading Sam Gray to a rookie and then upgrading a few of my cheaper rookies to 200k priced rookies. What do you think about this?
 
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hi alecee
nice team however i would upgrade your midfield and downgrade your defence. i would downgrade smith to a rookie maybe dea and use that money to upgrade libba. also i would change hibberd to an oliver or bkennedy to strengthen the midfields.

rucks are set and forget i think gawn is in for a big year and i love your forwards.
Thanks for the feedback. I can't find many rookies defenders, so I think I might keep my defence the way it is. I feel like I might have to upgrade a few mid rookies though. See my reply to jaca for what I'm thinking of doing.
 

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I finally settled on a team, then realized that more expensive rookies are probably now a requirement... well, players we can be confident in anyway. How is this looking?

D: Laird, Simpson, Bartel, Hurn, Hartley, AMT (Brown, McCarthy)

M: Fyfe, Danger, Ablett, Shiel, Rockliff, Mills, Oliver, Menadue (Petracca, Keays, Davis)

R: Goldstein, Martin (Grimley)

F: Martin, Barlow, Hall, Wells, Kennedy, Kerridge (Adams, Wyatt)

Cash left: 3.3k
Everything's fine with some good PODs, my main issue is you only have 3.3k left and no room for Gresham or Hewett. Keays probably won't get games and Gresham has shown potential to be a decent rookie option. I'd sacrifice one of your premiums somewhere to fit in Gresham over Keays. It's a tough one but maybe Simpson out for someone else and allow some flexibility to fit in Gresham.
 
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Ok guys and gals.
I currently have around a dozen teams written down. This one was done during the first week of the NAB games and forgotten about.
With the NAB games now completed, this team suddenly starts to look a little better.
Seems cookie cutter ish with a few pods thrown in. (risky).
My concern is that it's possibly too mid price heavy. Can it create enough funds to build on. We seem to have limited cheap mid rookies to pick from so we are almost forced to go with the more expensive rookies.

R Laird, J Bartel, G Birchall, B Smith, M Brown, M Adams.
(M Hartley, T Ruggles.)

P Dangerfield, G Ablett, D Shiel, T Rockliff, O Wines, T Liberatore, D Wells, C Mills.
(G Hewett, C Adamson, R Davis.)

T Goldstein, M Gawn. (M King.)

M Barlow, M Robinson, A Hall, D Menzel, B Kennedy, S Kerridge.
(L McCarthy, A Tipungwuti.)

Thoughts - Forward line to risky ?
Thinking Mitch Robinson will get plenty of time in the midfield now due to Beams. A Hall's NAB scores very hard to ignore also.
 
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Ok guys and gals.
I currently have around a dozen teams written down. This one was done during the first week of the NAB games and forgotten about.
With the NAB games now completed, this team suddenly starts to look a little better.
Seems cookie cutter ish with a few pods thrown in. (risky).
My concern is that it's possibly too mid price heavy. Can it create enough funds to build on. We seem to have limited cheap mid rookies to pick from so we are almost forced to go with the more expensive rookies.

R Laird, J Bartel, G Birchall, B Smith, M Brown, M Adams.
(M Hartley, T Ruggles.)

P Dangerfield, G Ablett, D Shiel, T Rockliff, O Wines, T Liberatore, D Wells, C Mills.
(G Hewett, C Adamson, R Davis.)

T Goldstein, M Gawn. (M King.)

M Barlow, M Robinson, A Hall, D Menzel, B Kennedy, S Kerridge.
(L McCarthy, A Tipungwuti.)

Thoughts - Forward line to risky ?
Thinking Mitch Robinson will get plenty of time in the midfield now due to Beams. A Hall's NAB scores very hard to ignore also.
like it. i think Robbo will have a good year. possibly better than most expect.
 
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Thanks for all the great feedback earlier today, DSM, Tthomas, Adrenaline, BC and Bomber! Much appreciated.
 
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Wow.
I have 26 out of your 30 players.
Scary.

I have also gone with 3 expensive rookies vs. Libba + 2 cheap rookies.
I think the better money generation & higher scoring with 3 more assured rookies will outweigh the potential 100 scores which Libba *might* produce.

Thought about upgrading Houli to Shaw?
Thought about it.... a lot. Shaw will be my first defensive upgrade. No doubt can get him cheaper. Houli is durable and only somewhat inconsistent...hahaha. Also, I might just be short of money for a trade from an ultra cheap rookie to Petracca should he come back slightly early...say R3
 
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