I intentionally haven't had a look around SCS as yet so I'm not sure who the popular picks are.
My core is going through some final checks but looking to revolve around :
D Lloyd, Ryan
M Macrae, Oliver, Neale, Daicos
R Grundy
F Dunkley, Martin, Butters, Coniglio
I have a bunch in the 'maybe' box but want to really put some focus in to the rookies over the coming few days to work out where the value / JS is this year and can then come back to the maybe's once that structure is in place to finalise the team. Need to also have a bit of a look over the byes.
Some potentially popular picks that I will not be starting based on % ownership on SC (I know that's not always a great correlation with this site) are :
Whitfield, Sicily
Steele, Will Brodie
Gawn, Darcy
Heeney, Taranto, McGovern
I'm an eight year member to this great site and well aware of the calibre of coaches that are active and posting in this forum so I just don't want to be swayed from my own thoughts this year. I'm a sucker for group think. That's not to say that we shouldn't be having good conversations in here and challenging one another's thought processes and decisions, it's just a different starting tactic that I want to try this year, where I am 100% responsible for every pick in my team and I own it whether good or bad. I will keep myself away from browsing the other threads until next week when it all kicks off, with the exception being the rookie thread.