Discussion 2021: Strategy, Team & Player Discussions
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Defenders
Rory Laird $564,800
Lachie Whitfield $561,600
Tom Stewart $538,000
Zac Williams $458,600
Lachie Young $202,000
Lachlan Jones $139,800
Will Gould $123,900
Thomas Highmore $117,300
Midfielders
Lachie Neale $721,800
Clayton Oliver $656,700
Taylor Adams $588,800
Sam Walsh $543,300
Matt Rowell $495,100
Tim Taranto $453,700
Rory Atkins $244,200
Jackson Mead $123,900
Luke Valente $123,900
Cooper Stephens $123,900
Corey Durdin $117,300
Rucks
Max Gawn $751,400
Braydon Preuss $303,000
Tom Hickey $261,100
Forwards
Dustin Martin $541,600
Ben Brown $260,300
Jack Ziebell $257,900
Jarman Impey $212,800
Mark Hutchings $157,600
Nakia Cockatoo $123,900
James Rowe $117,300
Josh Treacy $102,400
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Last year I started with an under priced Ruck on the bench in Naismith and I feel Hickey will be the Pittonet of this year.
Considering both Preuss & Hickey save $84,100 over the purchase of Grundy and provide backup in case of injury.
Hickey at $261,100 is priced at a high end rookie who will get games and generate cash and I have omitted Marshall in favour of Martin but that may change.
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Thanks for the response, my interest was piqued when I saw this article:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/...1/news-story/206f54323f7ea86791ddaf7d6b3f959c
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/...1/news-story/206f54323f7ea86791ddaf7d6b3f959c
I think this looks pretty good. I don't like the expensive R3 as it takes 150k off the field that should be scoring for you. I also think Grundy, Cripps and Marshall are three important starting picks that you've missed out on. If it were my team I'd change Neale, Gawn, Hickey ($1,734,300) to Cripps, Grundy, Marshall ($1,729,100) (Treacy to R3). You get an extra premo out of it, which saves on trades, and I'd be surprised if it didn't score significantly better (I'd have Cripps within ~10 of Neale, Grundy within ~5 of Gawn and Marshall about +50 on a rookie, making for a ~35 advantage). Some of that may be o***et by captaincy factor but I doubt it will be strong enough to even things out.
Hard to tell before we get a sense of how many cheap rookies are starting and look like scoring ok. Most will say that they always turn up but there are factors that make it possible it's a tougher year for cash gen than usual, which would tilt us more towards a midprice team. And at this stage it certainly seems like there's a lot of appealing midprice value around.
These questions are still mostly around the margins though and even what we call a midpricery team would usually have about 10 solidish premo picks to build around. What you describe doesn't sound like overkill to me at the moment. If you think Lloyd can score similarly to last year he's not a bad pick but personally I would never spend that much on a player I didn't have in my captaincy considerations.
These questions are still mostly around the margins though and even what we call a midpricery team would usually have about 10 solidish premo picks to build around. What you describe doesn't sound like overkill to me at the moment. If you think Lloyd can score similarly to last year he's not a bad pick but personally I would never spend that much on a player I didn't have in my captaincy considerations.
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I like the Walsh pick so I don't think it's an either/or. To be honest I haven't read those articles but they're pretty much par for the course this time of year. He is an elite mid in the prime of his career and I don't see any scenario other than injury where they play him forward enough that it makes him a bad pick.
