Strategy 2022: Round 5 Trades
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Averaged 96 over the second half of 2021, so there were signs he was coming on once Ratts starting trusting him with the sweeper / distributor role. Kinda like Maynard in that the starts seem to be aligning for him to have a spike season and they are similar sort of player - contested ball beast who plays with intensity, can find the pill across half back and does the defensive stuff well.
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Watched the entire game and it was just an off game for him.
I noticed a lot of of his ruck contest wins were sharked cleanly (as opposed to being halved by whatever metric CD uses), he was getting owned by bloody Sam Reid of all people in the battle of the "second string" rucks and he really was a bit of a non-factor around the ground for most of the game (2 kicks, 4 handballs and 2 tackles so not getting much of it and not really getting it done defensively either).
Missed a shot on goal later in the game from 40m out too iirc which would have bumped up his score a bit too given how tight it was.
Overall it just wasn't his day and Goldy wound back the clock to show he still has it late in the game when fourth-quarter scaling season was open. I'm not too worried about it at this stage he still has the role and the price is still right, he's another spike game away from surging again.
Cogs is the biggest worry for me, a slow start to the season masked by a 149 is not what I wanted to see from him as a potential keeper.
Rowell was a strange one, didn't show much at all in the game last week and just kept plodding through the middle of the ground between half back and half forward and seemingly went to the wrong side of the ground a lot in the second half when the game was up from grabs.
Dew seems to prefer that maniacal ball butcher Anderson over Rowell to play both an inside and outside mid role at the same time (which makes no sense), but perhaps he wants some size in there as Touk and Rowell are both pretty small by today's standards.
I've got issues with the same four players, but the little voice in my head says that if your team is still putting up scores in the vicinity of 2200 in round 4 then you're still doing well enough and it's no time to panic with no obvious downgrade candidates to swing to (yet), which is one thing I think might be falling by the wayside a bit.
I noticed a lot of of his ruck contest wins were sharked cleanly (as opposed to being halved by whatever metric CD uses), he was getting owned by bloody Sam Reid of all people in the battle of the "second string" rucks and he really was a bit of a non-factor around the ground for most of the game (2 kicks, 4 handballs and 2 tackles so not getting much of it and not really getting it done defensively either).
Missed a shot on goal later in the game from 40m out too iirc which would have bumped up his score a bit too given how tight it was.
Overall it just wasn't his day and Goldy wound back the clock to show he still has it late in the game when fourth-quarter scaling season was open. I'm not too worried about it at this stage he still has the role and the price is still right, he's another spike game away from surging again.
Cogs is the biggest worry for me, a slow start to the season masked by a 149 is not what I wanted to see from him as a potential keeper.
Rowell was a strange one, didn't show much at all in the game last week and just kept plodding through the middle of the ground between half back and half forward and seemingly went to the wrong side of the ground a lot in the second half when the game was up from grabs.
Dew seems to prefer that maniacal ball butcher Anderson over Rowell to play both an inside and outside mid role at the same time (which makes no sense), but perhaps he wants some size in there as Touk and Rowell are both pretty small by today's standards.
I've got issues with the same four players, but the little voice in my head says that if your team is still putting up scores in the vicinity of 2200 in round 4 then you're still doing well enough and it's no time to panic with no obvious downgrade candidates to swing to (yet), which is one thing I think might be falling by the wayside a bit.
I have a choice of trading Ward, Xerri or Hinge to Noddy which will give me enough dosh to get Macrae in for Rowell.
Trouble is that I expect all of those players to have a spike score and reignite their cash generation, maybe the smart play for me is to hold fire on the Rowell upgrade and trade Soligo > Noddy at a cost of 50k but get the cash happening from a dead rookie.
Thoughts?
Trouble is that I expect all of those players to have a spike score and reignite their cash generation, maybe the smart play for me is to hold fire on the Rowell upgrade and trade Soligo > Noddy at a cost of 50k but get the cash happening from a dead rookie.
Thoughts?
Rowell is my biggest worry right now, there's really no spread from the contest, he just makes his way to the next contest, there's no outside possies, no marks and really his only way of scoring is off the back of contested possessions and tackles on the top of high HB > kick ratios. He's gone from my team as soon as I have the funds to upgrade to Macrae etal.
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