Discussion 2022 Round 18: Teams & In Game Discussion

[Professor]

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[Juzzo]

Did you trade in the end mate

Yep, Oliver and Whitfield for Laird and Gus Brayshaw.

 

[Vicwood]

17 / 1834

To Play

Miller (C)
Tracca
Merrit
Witts
Houston

Big one today from Touk Touk would be welcome. 140+ please.

 

[Leroy]

17 / 1834

To Play

Miller (C)
Tracca
Merrit
Witts
Houston

Big one today from Touk Touk would be welcome. 140+ please.

Touk could cop a Caldwell tag

 

[Drew]

17/1954, Macrae VC taken.

Butters, Ridley, Sicily, Petracca and Witts to come. Be nice to push 2500 for the first time this year.

 

[Peter56]

Definitely, this year I've had 4 scores over 2300, 4 over 2400 and 2 over 2500.
Far better than any year previous, I did trade pretty hard early though but those 5 extra trades and the boosts made it easier to get a better side more quickly than usual.

It will be interesting at seasons end to see if going early and hard was the better way of building the team than slow and having trades at the end.

 

[Professor]

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[Philzsay]

Are we seeing higher total points when comparing to last year? Maybe wait until the round is over, but, I'm seeing some consistently huge scores. I'm sure it's the extra 5 trades that have afforded teams the ability to upgrade quicker.

I also think Daicos, Brodie & Congilio essentially becoming premiums from a bargain price that have played the full year has also helped.

Some years you may get 1 or 2 rookies/cash cows that end up being potential year long keepers, but 3 is gift.

 

[Bermi]

 

[AngryAnt]

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You'll be able to go to Stewart in a couple of weeks from him and make money, he'll be hitting $600k . Not that you would want to get rid of him if you still have him.

 

[NT.Thunder]

How good is it being crook, can watch every game of footy this weekend. First time been able to do this for years.

 

[Drew]

How good is it being crook, can watch every game of footy this weekend. First time been able to do this for years.

Did you cop the 'Rona mate?

 

[AngryAnt]

Culley gonna score alright through tackling.

 

[Darkie]

I also think Daicos, Brodie & Congilio essentially becoming premiums from a bargain price that have played the full year has also helped.

Some years you may get 1 or 2 rookies/cash cows that end up being potential year long keepers, but 3 is gift.

100%. I was recently thinking that we haven’t really had that “is rookie X a keeper” discussion this season (the answer to which is almost always no in my view) … although Daicos went from being a fairly clear non-keeper to looking like a potential premo in the matter of a few weeks.

Brodie and especially Cogs always had keeper potential in my view, but they were more rookie-priced, rather than actual rookies.

 

[AngryAnt]

100%. I was recently thinking that we haven’t really had that “is rookie X a keeper” discussion this season (the answer to which is almost always no in my view) … although Daicos went from being a fairly clear non-keeper to looking like a potential premo in the matter of a few weeks.

Brodie and especially Cogs always had keeper potential in my view, but they were more rookie-priced, rather than actual rookies.

We had Ziebell last season and Impey was looking like a season long keeper as well until he got injured.

 

[Darkie]

Took Sam Mitchell 18 rounds to play Josh Ward through the middle.

He had decent CBAs early on (42% season average, and in the 70s in round 3 and 5), but Ward did very little with them. Good to see him having a better game today.

 

[Darkie]

We had Ziebell last season and Impey was looking like a season long keeper as well until he got injured.

That’s true. The non-rookies at rookie prices have much better keeper potential in my view … it’s usually when we start running low on trades that the “is rookie X a keeper” gets wheeled out!

 

[Shannon]

Culley gonna score alright through tackling.

Yep, 45 already

Likes the physical stuff, exceeding my scoring expectations so far.

 

[AngryAnt]

Yep, 45 already

Likes the physical stuff, exceeding my scoring expectations so far.

Not sure how sustainable the tackling numbers are, 5 possessions is quite low.

 

[NT.Thunder]

Did you cop the 'Rona mate?

Put it this way, I’ve been crook on and off for the last 2 weeks and 4 of our crew have all tested positive to the Rona I’ve been working with, yet I’ve had to do like half a dozen RATS and they’re all negative. A cough I just can’t rid, chesty, really sore throat and just lethargic. Heading to NZ in under 2 weeks so hopefully I’m on the tail end of it.