This is an interesting side Bomber, a bit different to many that have been posted. A few thoughts:
- I don't think your defs are too thin, but I'd say they aren't that proven, and they are quite injury prone. JJ, Adams and Scharenberg is potentially too much injury risk in one line as I see it. I personally think Doc is overpriced, and that's why he's not in as many sides as you might normally expect. If you're looking for a tweak, and/or to add a R12 premium (it looks like maybe you should be?) Rance could be appealing.
- Your mids look good. As an overall comment, you've probably gone for younger and less proven players than many, but perhaps with a bit more upside (Adams, JJ, Bont, Mitchell), without going too speculative or mid-priced.
- Your rucks are interesting. Few are going set and forget, so to pick Gawn and Goldy is a big investment relative to others. It doesn't seem to have hurt you too much elsewhere for the most part, although your F5 and F6 might need upgrading. Your D3 and F3 would probably be riskier/weaker than most as well. You're probably well aware, but the top two rucks basically never back it up two years running, so there's a strong chance you're spending top dollar, and not getting the best two rucks anyway. I'm much more inclined to spend up in the mids because they're more consistent and more predictable (although this year, you need not even spend up in many cases!). I'd consider picking your favourite ruck, and looking at choosing Sandi at R2 as a way to choose your R2 keeper when you have more info (rather than viewing Sandi as a mid-pricer/stepping stone, eg).
- Your F1-3 are the same as mine, so I obviously think they're good picks. I have three $200k picks behind them though, so you're probably relying more heavily on the basement priced forwards to get up and score okay. The consensus might be wrong, but at this stage I think the view is that the forward rookie stocks are pretty dire. If you were to shift one of your rucks out for Sandi, this is one area where you could invest a bit more to derisk your side, perhaps by adding someone like Heeney. Alternately using your cash balance, or downgrading McGrath down to Newman or someone similar, might be options to make your starting forward rookies a bit more solid.
Good luck, it's good to see some different approaches being used.
- I don't think your defs are too thin, but I'd say they aren't that proven, and they are quite injury prone. JJ, Adams and Scharenberg is potentially too much injury risk in one line as I see it. I personally think Doc is overpriced, and that's why he's not in as many sides as you might normally expect. If you're looking for a tweak, and/or to add a R12 premium (it looks like maybe you should be?) Rance could be appealing.
- Your mids look good. As an overall comment, you've probably gone for younger and less proven players than many, but perhaps with a bit more upside (Adams, JJ, Bont, Mitchell), without going too speculative or mid-priced.
- Your rucks are interesting. Few are going set and forget, so to pick Gawn and Goldy is a big investment relative to others. It doesn't seem to have hurt you too much elsewhere for the most part, although your F5 and F6 might need upgrading. Your D3 and F3 would probably be riskier/weaker than most as well. You're probably well aware, but the top two rucks basically never back it up two years running, so there's a strong chance you're spending top dollar, and not getting the best two rucks anyway. I'm much more inclined to spend up in the mids because they're more consistent and more predictable (although this year, you need not even spend up in many cases!). I'd consider picking your favourite ruck, and looking at choosing Sandi at R2 as a way to choose your R2 keeper when you have more info (rather than viewing Sandi as a mid-pricer/stepping stone, eg).
- Your F1-3 are the same as mine, so I obviously think they're good picks. I have three $200k picks behind them though, so you're probably relying more heavily on the basement priced forwards to get up and score okay. The consensus might be wrong, but at this stage I think the view is that the forward rookie stocks are pretty dire. If you were to shift one of your rucks out for Sandi, this is one area where you could invest a bit more to derisk your side, perhaps by adding someone like Heeney. Alternately using your cash balance, or downgrading McGrath down to Newman or someone similar, might be options to make your starting forward rookies a bit more solid.
Good luck, it's good to see some different approaches being used.
