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For me its an aknowledgement it was a bad choice to leave him out of my starting team.
In terms of injury, one factor is the other rucks are not exactly durable. Even Witts, who is arguably the most durable of the current premo rucks has missed significant time with injury. For Timothy himself, his age gives a greater leeway for me in terms of injury recurrence. This is not a situation like with Elliot Yeo who is quite a bit older with very signficant injury history. There usually are quite a number of young players who do do soft tissue injuries during the pre-season where the load in terms of running is highest but then have no issues during the season. For example, Jordan Dawson did a calf in the 2022 preseason but then played a full regular season. Teams are very scientific these days in approaches to training with load management and I have no doubt after English missed a big number of games last year the Dogs have adapted his schedule this season. This is not to say he won't get injured, but that they will put in safeguards to avert that possibility.
Another very big factor was the disparity in scoring between Timothy and the player I had in previously in Shrek, and the flow on effect this week in terms of cash gain/loss for each player. We're likely talking about $100k difference between changing this week to next week. That's a huge amount of $ to lose with upgrade season approaching.
The biggest factor is Tim's scoring. He's going just under 140 average for 3 games in three very tough matchups. At this pace the distance between he and the next best ruck will be quite signficant even if Tim gets injured: if that happens owners will bank a huge amount of cash +points, get the next best option and likely still have $ leftover for an upgrade. That's a massive advantage over non-owners.
With 36 trades + boosts, the old school approach of "holding your premiums" is largely dead in the water if you want to compete for overall; hoping for "something to happen" is never a good situation to be in in Supercoach, and basically this is where non-owners are at with English right now.
In terms of injury, one factor is the other rucks are not exactly durable. Even Witts, who is arguably the most durable of the current premo rucks has missed significant time with injury. For Timothy himself, his age gives a greater leeway for me in terms of injury recurrence. This is not a situation like with Elliot Yeo who is quite a bit older with very signficant injury history. There usually are quite a number of young players who do do soft tissue injuries during the pre-season where the load in terms of running is highest but then have no issues during the season. For example, Jordan Dawson did a calf in the 2022 preseason but then played a full regular season. Teams are very scientific these days in approaches to training with load management and I have no doubt after English missed a big number of games last year the Dogs have adapted his schedule this season. This is not to say he won't get injured, but that they will put in safeguards to avert that possibility.
Another very big factor was the disparity in scoring between Timothy and the player I had in previously in Shrek, and the flow on effect this week in terms of cash gain/loss for each player. We're likely talking about $100k difference between changing this week to next week. That's a huge amount of $ to lose with upgrade season approaching.
The biggest factor is Tim's scoring. He's going just under 140 average for 3 games in three very tough matchups. At this pace the distance between he and the next best ruck will be quite signficant even if Tim gets injured: if that happens owners will bank a huge amount of cash +points, get the next best option and likely still have $ leftover for an upgrade. That's a massive advantage over non-owners.
With 36 trades + boosts, the old school approach of "holding your premiums" is largely dead in the water if you want to compete for overall; hoping for "something to happen" is never a good situation to be in in Supercoach, and basically this is where non-owners are at with English right now.
