Discussion 2022 AFL: Practice Matches & AAMI Community Series Discussion

Joined
18 Jul 2016
Messages
3,769
Likes
26,252
AFL Club
Sydney
That's a dangerous thought process for me - you can lose a lot of ground with these mid-price players week in week out just plodding along whilst others stack their teams with high scoring premiums. They're hard to offload when you have bigger problems on other lines and rookie trades and cash generation needed so you can get caught up whether it's best to generate that cash or trade that underperforming premium, cash gen always takes priority and you find you get caught holding these guys for the season like many did with Taranto last year in the mids.
I think this is a little off, they're disasters if they don't improve, but if they can generate at least some cash and score extra points you can work around them. By that I mean Sicily needs to get to low 90s and Hewett mid+ 80s then they're not seriously impeding your progress, they just become bye round upgrades to make, Hewett of course hurt that he has the first bye so can't dodge a bye with him but Sicily has last bye and a lot of the stronger backs are available at that point.

But yeah, they're not ideal but still, a Sicily scoring 88 would technically be a better pick than a Short scoring 95 on value but the trade needed probably o***ets that. Using trades for 10 point improvements is not ideal, it's generally going to be similar value to a donut avoided later in the season!

But last year 20 mids averaged higher than the leading defender and 25 mids averaged higher than the leading forward!
So it begs the question?
I'm not sure what stats you're looking at but given Laird is ranked 9th, Mills 14th, Zorko 16th and Dangerfield is 23rd I'm not sure how you're getting those numbers.



Midfield more than ever is a line you have to get right or you're going to be in trouble, just so many points coming from those guys these days, the days of riding out a value pick at M7/M8 are long gone IMHO.
The winner last year literally had Taranto as just that so I'm not sure I agree, albeit it's nice to plan for more!

We definitely overstate what is needed from starting picks when value is included. Everyone looks at "premium line =x" therefore value pick must average x but the reality is that depending on the value that line can move significantly and be a fair bit below x.



Personally would like to actually see it, dont understand why youd play in a position if its not at least in the coaches thinking to use you there at some stage.
Sometimes you use a veteran who knows the role to direct youngsters, might be a case where he does it so you can have leaders to structure the defense and learn where they need to be on both the sides.

It's still a threat though because I agree that in most cases you'd do it for a more obvious reason. The fitness one is a good one though, HB allows for better controlled running and less contact influenced running so certainly allows for more miles into the legs under controlled situations.
 
Joined
18 Jul 2016
Messages
3,769
Likes
26,252
AFL Club
Sydney
Hinge on a wing would be far more preferable, as a backman he could be playing a Jake Kelly type of role. Did most of his scoring on a wing in the practice game.
Not phased by that myself. None of Brown, Jones, Macpherson, Butts, Doedee or Murphy are really strong kicks or rebounders, some of them aren't bad but really only Brodie Smith right now who seems a big threat to the pill finding it's way to him.

He's probably not a primary rebounder but he's cheap enough and the role is decent enough that the JS/Durability is really the only question I have on him but he's just about at the top of my personal rookie ranks.
 
Top