Discussion 2021: AFL Pre-Season Practice Matches & AAMI Community Series Discussion

[stephen]

I'm a tad excited to go into the season with Neale as a POD it seems

currently equal third highest owned player at 46%

 

[Courtesans]

I shouldn't have watched todays ganes lol. My whole team structure has changed entirely. No more neale, cripps, taranto and lloyd. In comes macrae, merrett, rowell and daniel.
Might change again tomorrow though

Not a good idea swapping a set of calibre premiums you were set on based on a couple of practice games. 2c

 

[Professor]

Joey kicks his 3rd

 

[Rowsus]

One for those getting excited about Rowell.....

Brisbane gave up more 130+ scores to Mids last season, than any other team.

Might be rose colored glasses, judging him on a game against Brisbane!

 

[Chumpion]

For mine, the second half has summed up exactly why I'm going to avoid Rowell. Looked a million dollars in the first half but nothing has suggested he can consistently hit elite scoring levels when the other team is well on top. On the balance of things you have to assume Gold Coast won't be challenging for finals, so if they lose more than they win I can see that being a big factor that limits his ceiling.

Of course if the opposite happens and he plays well and they win many more games than expected, or he starts playing well in badly beaten games, he is likely to get a pretty quick shut down role assigned to him...

Going to be an absolutely jet and future brownlow winner.. but I'm just not sure this is the season he his SC relevance..

 

[McLovin]

Good point, GC should limit his minutes to max 70%

Not even that necessarily, they just need to find a way of making sure he doesn't get beaten up the way Swallow did. Ideally they need Greenwood and others to do more of the heavy lifting inside for a while yet.

 

[Professor]

I've brought in Harry Sharp, looking very sharp tonight. 117k mid/def endurance beast, broke the record for 2km time trial, apparently did steeplechasing, with longer quarters less rotations, I see why he was recruited.

 

[Ben's Beasts]

I've brought in Harry Sharp, looking very sharp tonight. 117k mid/def endurance beast, broke the record for 2km time trial, apparently did steeplechasing, with longer quarters less rotations, I see why he was recruited.

Looks as though he’s ahead of E Smith and the injury to Rayner certainly helps.

 

[Peter56]

 

[Bomber18]

I've brought in Harry Sharp, looking very sharp tonight. 117k mid/def endurance beast, broke the record for 2km time trial, apparently did steeplechasing, with longer quarters less rotations, I see why he was recruited.

Mid / def...? Wowee!

 

[Herbie66]

I've brought in Harry Sharp, looking very sharp tonight. 117k mid/def endurance beast, broke the record for 2km time trial, apparently did steeplechasing, with longer quarters less rotations, I see why he was recruited.

Almost gets you 4 or 6 starting rookies in defence

 

[Herbie66]

Daniher kicks 3.0 and only scores 63

 

[BIGB0Y]

Does fullarton play round 1?

 

[Hawk41]

Daniher kicks 3.0 and only scores 63

He was scored pretty harshly, at one point only got 9 points for a contested mark kick goal.

 

[Herbie66]

He was scored pretty harshly, at one point only got 9 points for a contested mark kick goal.

The issue could be when he scores only 1 or 2 goals a game (consistent with his career) and scores < 50.

 

[Zim^zuM]

At his price don't see that to be a major issue

 

[Hondo]

For mine, the second half has summed up exactly why I'm going to avoid Rowell. Looked a million dollars in the first half but nothing has suggested he can consistently hit elite scoring levels when the other team is well on top. On the balance of things you have to assume Gold Coast won't be challenging for finals, so if they lose more than they win I can see that being a big factor that limits his ceiling.

Of course if the opposite happens and he plays well and they win many more games than expected, or he starts playing well in badly beaten games, he is likely to get a pretty quick shut down role assigned to him...

Going to be an absolutely jet and future brownlow winner.. but I'm just not sure this is the season he his SC relevance..

I don’t think you can draw all those conclusions based on the second half of a practice match?

 

[Erek22]

The issue could be when he scores only 1 or 2 goals a game (consistent with his career) and scores < 50.

And a few clangers per match to be expected. I think I have more questions than answers after the CS series. Happy some rookies are appearing but a few question marks around some of the uber premiums.

 

[gutsroy]

Anyone looking to catch up on scores:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1368888537400053764

 

[gutsroy]

The issue could be when he scores only 1 or 2 goals a game (consistent with his career) and scores < 50.

Fwiw, he does need to do a bit to attain the cash generation (and elevated on-field score) you'd ideally hope for.
just rough numbers (didn't bother basing the MN off a curve, just plugged super-rough numbers in with a bit of variation around a mean etc.)