Discussion 2023: Rate My Team

[Athomas]

Only needs to be their 4th mid to score very well for mine and looks like Swallow has stepped aside to allow that to happen, goal kicking mid/forward has some serious ceiling about it he's in my side currently.

From what I read, Swallow had decent/standard CBA's in the intraclub.
As AngryAnt mentioned, we won't really know now in the pre-season games, as I assume Swallow will get his standard 40-50% CBA's and Flanders will have a CBA boost with Touk out.

Definitely if Flanders is the 4th MID, I think he would benefit, I still see him as the 5th MID though.

I could see GC having a 5 man rotation this year (some talk of it pre-season) rather than a strict 4 man rotation.
See Round 22 last year (Touk 73% Rowell 73% Anderson 60% Swallow 40% Davies 43%) which was a bit of a change from their heavy 4 man rotation.

Still a lot of guess work I think

 

[Shaunpro1]

From what I read, Swallow had decent/standard CBA's in the intraclub.
As AngryAnt mentioned, we won't really know now in the pre-season games, as I assume Swallow will get his standard 40-50% CBA's and Flanders will have a CBA boost with Touk out.

Definitely if Flanders is the 4th MID, I think he would benefit, I still see him as the 5th MID though.

I could see GC having a 5 man rotation this year (some talk of it pre-season) rather than a strict 4 man rotation.
See Round 22 last year (Touk 73% Rowell 73% Anderson 60% Swallow 40% Davies 43%) which was a bit of a change from their heavy 4 man rotation.

Still a lot of guess work I think

Davies was on the B side, Touk only played half a quarter, who the hell knows really, did hear Swallow has trained mostly on the wing though and that's where he started the match.

 

[Ben's Beasts]

Davies was on the B side, Touk only played half a quarter, who the hell knows really, did hear Swallow has trained mostly on the wing though and that's where he started the match.

Davies played for the A team. They may have switched at some point but he started the match for the A team.

 

[Eagling]

Conundrums:

Two breakout candidates in defence.
Light in the midfield (fewer captaincy options)
Josh Goater (will he be selected)
8th bench spot (currently Phillipou)
Darcy v English R1
Oscar Allen (KPF worthwhile?)

 

[Shaunpro1]

Davies played for the A team. They may have switched at some point but he started the match for the A team.

Definitely didnt on Monday which is alot more relevant considering their best mid wasn't out of the whole session.

 

[Ben's Beasts]

Definitely didnt on Monday which is alot more relevant considering their best mid wasn't out of the whole session.

They had an intraclub on Monday?

 

[Athomas]

Conundrums:

I've got this structure atm ( )

Thoughts:
Two breakout candidates in defence: No issue
Light in the midfield: Others will disagree but I think it's fine. Oliver/Bont VC/C will work fine for early rounds.
Josh Goater: Monitor pre-season games, should play the first one. Easy fix really if he's out.
8th bench spot: Assuming you mean M9, I'd be playing Phillipou on the field, probably over Allen.
Darcy v English R1: I'm very happy with English.
Oscar Allen: Would much rather Phillipou on field, move Allen to bench. A lot of $ for the bench so could even downgrade to King or preferably Greene. I expect Greene to score pretty well early (debatably even on field, but moreso I'd want to at least pick him)

I like paying the premium for rookies sometimes, but probably downgrading Coffield/Allen to base rookies (move Ginbey to D5, Phillipou to F6) would give you $200K for some alternatives. Really depends if you find a way to spend the $ that you are happy with.

 

[Shaunpro1]

They had an intraclub on Monday?

They've had 3 in the last 2 weeks and had a different midifeld combination in all of them, makes it very tough to have any idea what is actually going to be their priority and in the games wed have thought we would find out Miller is now missing, nightmare scenario really.

 

[Shannon]

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Conundrums:

Two breakout candidates in defence.
Light in the midfield (fewer captaincy options)
Josh Goater (will he be selected)
8th bench spot (currently Phillipou)
Darcy v English R1
Oscar Allen (KPF worthwhile?)

Solid team overall but a few tweaks could make it better in my opinion.

167K on the bench for Phillipou is too much - I would put him in your fwd line in place of Allen.

Consider Davey/Drury for the M11 spot with mid/fwd classification which gives you a link to your fwds (already have a backline link with Constable)

Goater looks doubtful for round 1, with the money saved from the above I would look at someone like Callaghan for example who looks set for midfield time at the gaints - kid looks an exceptional talent.

 

[donkz]

Settled on this structure until we get more data from the pre season games.

Def - Think Doch will defend his price and willing to take the punt on Daicos going at least D6 worthy.

Mids - 3 big boys speak for themselves and started Green last year which may have been a season too early. With the GWS departures and another pre season going to back him in.

Rucks - likely paying overs for Witts but feels the safe pick. Would like to avoid the ruck trade merry go round this season.

Fwds - 4 likely top 6 starters to avoid the low rookie scores, not confident in any of the midpricers. May change if Phillipou doesn't look fieldable.

Bring on the pre season games.

Any feedback appreciated, cheers.

 

[Shannon]

Settled on this structure until we get more data from the pre season games.

Def - Think Doch will defend his price and willing to take the punt on Daicos going at least D6 worthy.

Mids - 3 big boys speak for themselves and started Green last year which may have been a season too early. With the GWS departures and another pre season going to back him in.

Rucks - likely paying overs for Witts but feels the safe pick. Would like to avoid the ruck trade merry go round this season.

Fwds - 4 likely top 6 starters to avoid the low rookie scores, not confident in any of the midpricers. May change if Phillipou doesn't look fieldable.

Bring on the pre season games.

Any feedback appreciated, cheers.


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I thought I was looking at my own side tbh

Just a couple of rookies different so looks great to me

 

[Eagling]

I've got this structure atm ( )

Thoughts:
Two breakout candidates in defence: No issue
Light in the midfield: Others will disagree but I think it's fine. Oliver/Bont VC/C will work fine for early rounds.
Josh Goater: Monitor pre-season games, should play the first one. Easy fix really if he's out.
8th bench spot: Assuming you mean M9, I'd be playing Phillipou on the field, probably over Allen.
Darcy v English R1: I'm very happy with English.
Oscar Allen: Would much rather Phillipou on field, move Allen to bench. A lot of $ for the bench so could even downgrade to King or preferably Greene. I expect Greene to score pretty well early (debatably even on field, but moreso I'd want to at least pick him)

I like paying the premium for rookies sometimes, but probably downgrading Coffield/Allen to base rookies (move Ginbey to D5, Phillipou to F6) would give you $200K for some alternatives. Really depends if you find a way to spend the $ that you are happy with.

Yeah my biggest issue is trying to find players that are in that $123k range that are likely to play that can fill out the bench. I would prefer to field Phillipou over Allen but it's hard to find room with Comben and Van Rooyen seemingly having good JS but not being worth a field spot. Playing Phillipou and selecting a $124k mid over Allen would be the obvious solution but the pre-preseason picks (Sinn, Chesser etc) seemed to be dropping like flies.

 

[Eagling]

Solid team overall but a few tweaks could make it better in my opinion.

167K on the bench for Phillipou is too much - I would put him in your fwd line in place of Allen.

Consider Davey/Drury for the M11 spot with mid/fwd classification which gives you a link to your fwds (already have a backline link with Constable)

Goater looks doubtful for round 1, with the money saved from the above I would look at someone like Callaghan for example who looks set for midfield time at the gaints - kid looks an exceptional talent.

Yeah Drury was one I've had in a lot of preseason teams; though I wasn't sure how his chances of getting a game was looking; obviously I'd rather not spend $40k more on a bench spot so if he's available it'll allow a much better structure.

 

[Shaunpro1]

Yeah Drury was one I've had in a lot of preseason teams; though I wasn't sure how his chances of getting a game was looking; obviously I'd rather not spend $40k more on a bench spot so if he's available it'll allow a much better structure.

Dont see how hes best 22 if hes starting in a B side when Corr,Goater and Hall all aren't playing but time will tell.

 

[Eagling]

Dont see how hes best 22 if hes starting in a B side when Corr,Goater and Hall all aren't playing but time will tell.

Yeah that's the feeling I was getting; and the temptation is there to use up most of the $ in the bank so I felt it was safer to build a team around Phillipou on the bench rather than Drury; one that I still feel reasonably satisfied with.

 

[Shaunpro1]

Yeah that's the feeling I was getting; and the temptation is there to use up most of the $ in the bank so I felt it was safer to build a team around Phillipou on the bench rather than Drury; one that I still feel reasonably satisfied with.

Id rather be carrying more money on the bench and have guys actually making money than my whole bench be 130k or less and none of them get past 200K, but that's just my opinion on the issue, lot of the cheap rookies are either going to be rubbish scorers or have terrible job security.

Went el cheapo bench last year and had 3 donuts by round 4, looking to avoid that personally.

 

[whydoihavetoo]

I have landed on this after some tinkering - the 123k rookies are replaceable when we get some more info regarding round 1 teams. Some things I am still considering are:

Replacing a premo defender for Taranto - this would depend on the rookie situation and i'm likely to just go with the strongest rookie. I don't think not jumping on Taranto at 500k will be season defining and I will target him as an upgrade.

Cameron in the rucks is just a wait and see option at the moment. Not sold on him but none of the rucks other than Marshal really stand out to me, and he would be good cover at F7 hopefully, but that being said im a sucker for English's ceiling and some good pre-season games could sway me.

 

[Shaunpro1]

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I have landed on this after some tinkering - the 123k rookies are replaceable when we get some more info regarding round 1 teams. Some things I am still considering are:

Replacing a premo defender for Taranto - this would depend on the rookie situation and i'm likely to just go with the strongest rookie. I don't think not jumping on Taranto at 500k will be season defining and I will target him as an upgrade.

Cameron in the rucks is just a wait and see option at the moment. Not sold on him but none of the rucks other than Marshal really stand out to me, and he would be good cover at F7 hopefully, but that being said im a sucker for English's ceiling and some good pre-season games could sway me.

I know English will end in pain but I love watching him play, if he puts it all together its not going to be fun as a non owner, you dont want to have to trade in a bloke that's made of glass like him either, I made that mistake last year when he looked a must have and ended up burning 4 trades in the position.

 

[NT.Thunder]

I know English will end in pain but I love watching him play, if he puts it all together its not going to be fun as a non owner, you dont want to have to trade in a bloke that's made of glass like him either, I made that mistake last year when he looked a must have and ended up burning 4 trades in the position.

Yeah but that said you can afford a guy like that more nowadays with 36 trades. I burnt a heap of trades on rucks last season and still had a trade last round with premium coverage on the bench.

 

[Manikato1]

I see Comben in a few teams. I know rookie selections can change after the pre season games and he is a chance to get a start. But. If he played a KP forward he will be getting delivery from a midfield that is still in a development and I suspect his scoring will be volatile in a team that could struggle to kick winning scores.