Review 2022 Round 6 Review

[Rowsus]

Score: 2,090
Weekly: 69,996
Overall: 49,030rd (down 4,746)
Team Value + ITB: $12,240,000
Trades Made: Gibcus --> Rosas --> Baldwin, English --> Macrae
Heroes: Dunkley, Grundy, Hawkins, Hewett, Sicily, Sinclair
Villains: Butters, Dow, GC for no Rosas warning.
Comments: For the 3rd time this season, I have been screwed over by the game order. If GC played before GWS, I would have had Preuss, once I realised Rosas was out. Having traded Rosas in, and used some of the Gibcus cash to get Macrae, I couldn't reverse back to Gibcus, which was my preferred option. I was running a little behind in a League match I wanted to win, so out of desperation, turned Rosas into Baldwin. . Needless to say, disaster ensued, and I lost the trade, and the match up! . Not saying my Ranking would be top 10,000, but by jingo the game order and late outs have been haunting me this season!!!
Intended Trades: Hayes --> Hayes, Dow --> Rosas.


Wife
She continues to pants me, each and every week. She hasn't gone under 2,200 this season.
Her 2,234 this week saw her drop from 430th to 560th.
She has only used 6 trades, and no boosts, so she is well set up.

 

[mike89]

Oh boy, here we go.

Score: 2193 (Steele)
Weekly: 29,517
Overall: 11,516 (down 208)
Team Value + ITB: $12,249,700
Trades Made: Gibcus and JHF -> Hobbs and Luke McDonald
Heroes: Dunkley 142, Steele C 140, Grundy 129, Preuss 117, Martin 95
Villains: Where do we begin! O'Driscoll 42, Butters 58, Jackson 68, Xerri 68, Petracca 87 (Durdin 14, MacDonald 30, Hobbs 34, Rachele 35)
Injuries: Hayes 16, (McCartin 44)
Comments: Let me go through my round in chronological order for you...
Mid-week - Macrae is the most sensible C option, so I'd like a VC before him. Steele is the only real candidate. This ends the list of correct decisions I made this week.
I decide that D6 is the obvious place to shore up my team, with Gibcus, McCartin and SDK not providing a lot of confidence for an on-field spot, and even though the latter two have DPP, the plethora of forward options and paucity of defensive ones makes it hard to justify a move down there. Especially as I'm now hiding Dixon, Durdin for one more week and also Rosas. So one of those defenders has to go, and given he has looked the weakest relative to starting price so far, Gibcus it is.
As for ins, the various additions to the DPP DEF list all make strong cases, but given nobody is yet ready to cull I settle on Luke McDonald, who should have a plum role while Hall is out and has even been able to score well with him there. JHF leaves to accomodate this change, largely for the fact that I can't justify having three players in a terrible team in my side. Others I considered here include Pendlebury, Melbshaw, Zorko and May, all of which would have required me to cull Jackson instead. More on this later...

Friday - I have one R/F donut in Dixon, and nowhere else to put him but R2. Ideally I would loop both Preuss and Hayes but without anyone to put in at F6 if they both go large, I put Hayes on field and bench Preuss instead, just in case he gets injured in the first quarter or something... and then inevitably, Hayes is the one to go down
Hayes going down is a real kick in the guts, not just for my team but for the game as a whole. I love when a guy works his guts off for years and finally gets his chance, they typically make the most of it, and Hayes certainly had. Look forward to seeing him back on the park next year.
But it can't get any worse, right? Right??

Saturday - Rachele plays first up so he gets the mid E. Nothing doing. NOD replaces him, for a gain of seven. Low score from Macrae. Low score from Butters. Carlton lose. Durdin somehow manages to score less than Hayes despite playing an entire match.
Still no panic, those were all popular picks. Rachele and Durdin were out next week anyway (and probably Hayes too with Ryder back) but I'm now starting to worry that it affects the plan of getting Oliver in next week.

Sunday - Out having lunch with my wife when the Rosas news comes through. Not in any real position to think about it too deeply, I pull a simple switch to Hobbs and don't think about it any more. This was probably my biggest mistake of the round, there was an opportunity to bring Gibcus back in here by switching SDK or McCartin forward, which had just now had a spot open up. This probably would have meant rolling both trades back though - and in Dunkley, Butters and NOD, I'd used all my mid spots allocated for DPP players or rookies, meaning JHF would have to come back on the bench.
McDonald ends up doing okay, actually, with a ton in a well beaten side. JHF does nothing to suggest bringing him back was a good idea anyway. I can just about live with this.
Then Richmond vs Melbourne happened. The raw numbers are terrifying enough, no embellishing necessary.
In my team: Petracca 87, Jackson 68
Not in my team: Oliver 168 (intended in next week), Gawn 123 (traded out round 3), Gibcus 102 (traded out round 6)

Monday - McCartin copping another concussion just put the icing on the cake - another great story for the season ruined. Hard to know how long he'll take to come back but I can't imagine it'll be the standard 12 days with him given his history. The final game actually went okay, with Grundy repaying the faith. So the first game and last game were okay, it was just everything in between...
Intended Trades: The coup de grace was that this set of trades failed by what, from memory, is about eight points:

Looks like I'll be turfing Jackson after all.

Epilogue: Grundy out for 2-3 months means I'm now fielding Port Hayes against Ryder and Marshall. Incredible.

 

[Yasi]

Score: 2239
Rank: 2,343 (up from 2,498)
Heroes: Cripps, Gawn, Neale (C), Hewett, Short, Sicily, Dunkley, Bowey, Rowell, Preuss, Brodie, Martin
Villains: Whitfield, Butters.
Trades: Hinge for Preuss, Trac for Grundy.
Planned Trades: Sayes for Jayes. Clarry for Rachelle. McCartin for Rosas.
Comments:
Planned trades went out the window when Preuss went big and Rosas late out. With Sayes looking like another great cash cow it just made sense to get Preuss to R2. I don’t even mind too much that Grundy scored well, although Trac was underwhelming first up. Not concerned longer term though.

May decide to keep McCartin for a loop if no one else falls away at selection, which would mean Berry or Whitfield as third trade our candidate. Surely Whitfield can’t maintain these low SC scores off a DT average above 90!

 

[BC]

Score: 2190 Neale
Rank: 4,816 (down 1,062 spots)
Heroes: Cripps, Grundy, Hewett, Short, Sicily, Dunkley, Rowell, Preuss, Brodie, Martin
Villains: Whitfield, Butters,
Planned Trades: Hayes for Hayes and Clarry in for Horne-Francise
Comments:

Average week. Another low captains score. Brought in Petracca over Oliver mainly due to price. Watching the game I thought he wasn't moving freely. Hopefully he's ok.

The O'Discroll affair already rocky haha. I think that'll be the lowest he goes. Still happy to field him over McCartin.

After being at the game yesterday I'm telling my brain: "Repeat after me" Nic Martin is fieldable every week. Will loop with Xerii perhaps if possible from now on.

My teams in good shape on paper. Just a couple of weeks of bad luck with Captaincy scores (crippa 30s and low 100s from others) while alot got on clarrys/steels high scores.
Just need a decent week to stop this freefall I'm in.
Nearly 4000 spots over the last 3 rounds to be exact.

 

[froffershanners]

Score: 2,310
Weekly: 4,042
Overall: 9,615 (up 9,259)
Team Value + ITB: $12,305,200
Trades Made: English (DNP), Stephens (DNP) to Preuss (117), SMith (80)
Heroes: Hewett, Short, Gibcus (bench), Oliver (C), Cripps, Rowell, Grundy, Preuss, Dunkley, Brodie, Martin
Villains: Whitfield, Butters, Xerri, JHayes (on-field)
Comments: Finally nailed a POD captain in Oliver and mostly got my rookie decisions correct if you don't count Whitfield vs Gibcus as a rookie decision Now just need Ward to find that spike game that Gibcus had to help with the cash generation. English being out made me change plans and hold Rowell and JHF so hoping they still can make some more money. Undid my boost during the weekend and reversed the Rosas trade so still have 5 boosts. Another big week of trading incoming. Hayes to Hayes makes sense. Will then move on Rachele and McCartin and bring in a rookie and a premium mid. Looking at paying up for Steele but will likely talk myself into a POD during the week.
Intended Trades: Hayes, Rachele, McCartin to Hayes, Clark, Steele

 

[frostylane]

Score: 2,092
Weekly: 69,277
Overall: 15,705 (down 7,247)
Trades Made: Rowell > Rosas - A. Hall > B.Smith - Hinge > T.Green
Heroes: Dunkley, Grundy,
Villains: Rowell (or myself), Butters
Comments: Not the best trades above I know, but I wanted to keep some cash back to upgrade another rookie. Away bush camping with not the best coverage I traded Rosas with minutes to spare to McCreery (who let me down and used my extra cash !!!!)
Intended Trades: Hayes --> Hayes, have had enough of Butters (not sure what to do there).

 

[warewolves]

Score: 2,228
Overall: 4,711 (up 420 spots)
Team Value: $12,814,200 (incl $50K ITB)
Trades Made: Caldwell --> Mitchell, Rowell -->B. Smith, Hinge --> McInnes
Heroes: Houston, Hewett, Cripps, Grundy, Preuss, Dunkley, Neale(c), Green, Mitchell & Martin
Villains: B Smith, Butters, Lipinski, Gresham

Comments: I did achieve a modest improvement in my ranking, but overall I was disappointed as I thought I was set up for a really good round.
Decided to carry English - his injury is a blow to my real & fantasy teams.
I didn't cop any of the low on-field rookie scores, but finished up with too many scores in the 80-90 range.
From memory Smith, Newcombe, Neale & Titch were all 40+ at qtr time, but they all failed to build big scores..
Picking my Captn is a recurring nightmare
Team value still higher than just about anyone I can see - hoping it translates into bonus points soon!!

Intended Trades: Hayes --> Hayes & Lipinski --> Miller

 

[nawtay]

Score: 2,294 (Oliver)
Weekly: 5,727
Overall: 1,383 (up 1,073)
Trades Made: English (DNP), Hall (DNP), Rowell (103) => De Goey (76), Oliver (168), Sinclair (112)
Heroes: Dunkley, Grundy, Sicily, Hewett, Sinclair, Preuss, Oliver
Villains: Butters
Comments: Finally a week where I dodged a lot of bullets. Just goes to show a few sliding doors can change the outcome of the weekend. If English & Dixon had not gone out I would have fielded Hayes & benched Preuss. Happy with my new recruits Oliver & Sinclair. It was a coin toss between Petracca & Oliver for the C so i'm glad I made the right decision there. Sign of relief that Rowell didn't go gang busters & crack 150 after trading him out although I knew he was always going to burn me. Backed out of my Rosas trade & upgraded to De Goey. This was not really on the cards for me so I hope it works out long term.
Intended Trades: Hayes --> Hayes & one of (McCartin, Rachele or Durdin) to Rosas

 

[stephen]

Score: 2,349
Overall: 1,731 (+3,355)
Team Value: $12.6m
Trades Made: Hall, English, Berry > Macrae, Petracca, Preuss
Heroes: Oliver, Cripps, Rowell (not really a hero but he gets the improvement award), Grundy (ditto), Preuss, Dunkley
Villains: Whitfield, gastro
Comments: After two weeks in the wilderness, I have been shown mercy by the Gods.

Nice to undo the damage of last week and return to the top 2k. Will take longer to repair the damage of RD4 unfortunately, but hopefully I am heading in the right direction. My goal for a while has been to get to Daicos D6, Rowell M8, Preuss R2 and Brodie F6 as quickly as possible and then recalibrate from there. One away from that after this week's trades, and should be able to get there next week. Although there's an argument now to be made that Daicos should go before Nick Martin.

Whitfield, Butters and Grundy the pressure points for my team. If they can all come good I think I can compete. Not too worried about Butters but Whitfield is amiss and Grundy has to hold pace with Gawn, so it's a tough ask.

Fingers cross and good luck all.

Intended Trades: The obvious rookie trades and a def upgrade. Will be weighing up Lloyd v Witherden all week.

 

[Professor]

Moved up the rankings nicely, but, still a long way to go. Avoided fielding Hayes and Durdin, but, did field Rachele and NOD. Locked in Steele's vc early and used the 1 trade, English out for Mills. Also held onto Danger as he was only a 1 weeker.
Intended trades, already made, Hayes and Rachele out for Hayes and the Texan.

 

[OnTopBar]

Score: 2183
Weekly: 33196
Overall: 44035 up (4452 )
Team Value + ITB: $12,280,000
Trades Made: Grundy > B. Smith
Heroes: Dunkley, Witts, Hewett, Doc, Cripps, Preuss, Martin
Villains: 8 so called keepers who delivered an average of 82 between them.
Comments: Happy to have held Cripps, Grundy > Smith allowed me to field Preuss, the Crows pressure game didn't suit the Dogs (apart from Dunkley) so I'm hopeful of a bounce back there.
Intended Trades: Working hard and churning through the trades to get a team finished quickly, so for this week (like most) it's:
JHF, Durdin, McCartin > Oliver, Hayes, Rosas

 

[Ginty22]

Score: 2,092
Weekly Ranking: 69,277
Season Ranking: 25,958 (down 8,208 spots)
Trades made: Horne-Francis (65) to Rosas (DNP), Rowell (103) to Petracca (87), Bowey (106) to Stewart (97)
Heroes: Oliver (168), Dunkley (141), Grundy (129), Gibcus (102) on bench to kick start some cash gen
Villains: Hayes on field (16), Rachele (35), O'Driscoll (42), Butters (58), Marshall for getting recorked just after HT and missing out on the 160+ he was on track for

Comments:
Was busy for most of the weekend so didn't get to watch many games which was probably fortunate considering how my round went
Don't really have much to say to be honest, pretty flat
Feel bad for Hayes, frustrated that Marshall gets a couple games without Ryder and cops a cork in both games that restrict him (especially this week), Butters is a roller coaster
Lost points on both my premium trade ins, never gonna have a good week when that happens

Intended Trades:
JHayes to SHayes, Rachele to Callaghan (like the look of him, don't like the look of Hobbs, willing to pay the extra cash)
Gives me good bank to full steam the upgrade train the next 6 weeks to a finished team (If I count Marshall, Butters, Coniglio and Brodie as keepers)
EDIT: Grundy injury means I probably use a boost and move him to Cripps

 

[Socrates2]

Score: 2,158
Weekly: 42,905
Overall: 5,798 (down 2,296)
Team Value + ITB: 12,385, 200
Trades Made: -Berry(84) -> Rosas(dnp), JHF(65)-> Bailey Smith (80), English(dnp) --> Taranto(65)
Heroes: Dunkley, Grundy, Preuss
Villains: Butters, Dow, Hayes, NO'D, B.Smith, Taranto
Comments: Very dissapointing apart from Steele as captain.
My traded in players were horrible. Taranto and Bailey Smith need a heap of possesions to score well and it didn't happen.Dodged Touk Miller until he drops further in price.
Probably chopped Berry too soon but I'm counting on the plethora of trades we have to make up for it in exchange for on field points.
Not happy Jan.
Intended Trades: Grundy -->Sam Hayes, J Hayes-> Oliver, Ridley-> Docherty (edited after Grundy news)

 

[jel]

Score: 2,063
Overall: 42,517 (down from 33,156)
Value: $11,897,000 + $223,900 itb
Leagues Won: 1/10
Heroes: Oliver, Dunkley, Keays, Grundy, Hewett, Short, Neale, Crisp, Brodie, Gibcus
Zeroes: Macrae, Butters, Heeney, all my rookies who fell off the cliff.
Trade Out Made: English, JHF
Trade In Made: Heeney, Hobbs
Planned Trades: 3 of Hayes, Rachele, Durdin, McCartin to go out, Hayes, Rosas?? and a premo to come in
Comments:
In Saving Private Ryan they describe their situation as FUBAR. This also describes my round this week.
Hayes & McCartin going down, while sad for my team is infinitely sadder for them. Hope they both recover well, particularly McCartin.
Both my trade ins this week were disappointing, especially Heeney who decided to have his worst round of the season.
Hobbs as a last-minute replacement for Rosas wasn’t great, but with a -ve BE should make cash so long as he still gets picked.

Cash generation has stalled for several rookies so I’m looking at those with the worst BE to go first. Rachele (85) & Durdin (60) need to go before their hard won cash evaporates.
SHayes and likely Rosas are in line to be traded in, along with a Premo if I go with the Boost.

Won 1/10 leagues which is also disappointing, but luckily the one win was in my Cash league.

 

[wogitalia]

Score: 2,245
Weekly: 14,072
Overall: 30,780 (up 9,689)
Team Value + ITB: $12,482,100
Trades Made: Ridley > Steele, Rowell > Macrae and Dixon > Preuss
Heroes: Dunkley, Grundy, Hewett, Short, Steele (c), Cripps, Brodie & Preuss
Villains: Whitfield, NOD, Touk, JHF, Rachele, Ward, MacDonald, Curnow, McCartin , Xerri, Hayes and Durdin
Comments: The saddest part is that this pathetic week is my 2nd best week

Basically everything that could go wrong did after a sensational start where Preuss covered English, Steele gave me my second useable VC score of the season to the point of almost cancelling out how bad Whitfield was and then we went spiraling down hill from there. Macrae was outscored by Rowell, Miller stunk and looked injured again, NOD was my worst back rookie, McCartin go KO'ed, Rich looked so bad again but at least eeked out a score, JHF, Rachele, Ward, MacDonald, Durdin, Xerri and Curnow all slammed the breaks on any cash generation, Hayes did an ACL and then Grundy does a PCL and then finally finds some form for the first time all season (yes in that order) only to now likely be out for the best part of the season and get me going sideways right in the middle of upgrade season. Oh yeah, and Butters continues to be a rollercoaster that I don't want to ride.

On a positive, holding Cripps was good for a week at least.

Intended Trades: I had them all penciled in until Grundy...

Hayes in is certain.
Oliver in is just about certain. A case could be made for Gawn (but I think Hayes, with a loop, is fieldable for a few at least) or Parker (but Martin is going fine as F6 right now).

Hobbs, Windhager or Rosas would make up the other part.

Hayes out is certain.
Grundy I'll await confirmation but he'd have to go if out 10+ as expected, at least he saved his price with his best footy of the season after the injury.
JHF or Rachele the other out. Genuinely tough choice, JHF has better role and I think a better ceiling as a result, Rachele can score big points though and his DPP is very valuable. One thing is for certain though based on this season, I'll absolutely pick the wrong one. If Grundy is fine, then both go.

 

[Ricky Bobby]

Score: 2,205
Weekly: 25,416
Overall: 22,166 (last week 25,475)
Trades Made: Hall / Chapman / Rowell => B.Smith / Petracca / McCreery
Heroes: Oliver, Cripps, Grundy, Gawn, Dunkley, Brodie, Hewett, Short, (kept Hayes off field)
Villains: New recruits Petracca & Smith, plus existing players Macrae, Butters plus various Rookies
Comments: This was an "almost, but not quite week". If my 2 new recruits had fired instead of flopped then I could have had an extra 50-100 points and a better Captain than Neale could maybe have secured a further 50. Having said that, I was very happy to have held Cripps and Oliver, Gawn & Grundy all stood up when required, while Hayes was safely buried on the bench (e).
The team is looking solid, without being great. If a few players hit their stride, then there could be rapid improvement so I will just focus on continued upgrades and hope things click sooner rather than later.
Intended Trades: Will probably use a 3rd trade boost to bring in Hayes & possibly Rosas and a Def premo (just need to figure out which one)

 

[Shannon]

Score: 2,147
Weekly:47,261
Overall: 6,354 (Down 2,785 spots)
Team Value + ITB: $12,227,200
Trades Made: English/ JHF/ Rowell > Preuss/ B.Smith / Petracca
Heroes:Cripps, Grundy, Dunkley, Brodie, Hewett, Short, Nic Martin
Villains: New recruits Petracca & Smith, Butters,Rachele,Durdin,NOD & both Macrae/Neale failing as VC/ Capt.
Comments:I believe my team looks decent on paper but the results aren't showing that yet... frustrating.Too many premiums underperforming each week. Very glad I kept Cripps, looked great v Freo again. Have a few concerns with my bench rookies - Dixon & McCartin missing this week, Durdin has a stinker on the weekend, MacDonald not generating much money & hoping Stephens might get a recall ....his BE of -1 is really the only reason I have kept him
Next big mid target is Steele, but my priority is getting another premium defender so Daicos becomes D6. Tom Stewart is my preferred target - 571K BE 105, hope to get him next week. Maybe next week I will go Rachele/ Stephens (if he misses again as expected) > Clark/ Stewart so NOD goes to mid bench & gives a link to defence for cover.
Intended Trades: Grundy/Hinge/J Hayes > S Hayes/ Rosas/ Oliver

Team would look like this after those trades :-



Bank: 231K

 

[Eagling]

Score: 2237
Weekly: 16047
Overall: 2779 (up 181)
Team Value + ITB: 11,740,600
Trades Made: JHF > Preuss, CMac > S. Hayes, Berry > Hewett
Heroes: Short, Gibcus (E), Steele, Oliver (C), Hewett, Martin, Grundy, Preuss, S. Hayes, Dunkley, W. Brodie, J. Hayes (E) (exemplary services to the team).
Villains: None. Butters gets a pass for illness concerns and I believe he also copped a knock. Not going to slam a villain on a rookie.

Comments:

Back to par, which is pretty nice. Hard carried by luck factor right now, and with Grundy out long term it's thrown my original plans into chaos. Messed up the Gibcus v SDK choice, but it is what it is, rookie roulette is called such for a reason. J. Hayes injury meant Kaine Baldwin was thrown on field, and in a twist of fate his 24 ended up handily beating many other options that might have been exposed this week, meaning I wasn't punished too much for fielding him. I was hoping he could start building cash, but I'm not sure he can stay in the team after that.

On a positive note, Gibcus did manage to kickstart his cash gen. Nico Martin keeps going on, and my captaincy was a nice POD on most.



Trades Planned: It was J. Hayes, Rachele and McCartin to 2 rookies and Cripps, but now I'm not sure.
Trivia: The departure of Connor MacDonald means there are now zero players from the Hawthorn Football Club in Fancy Hibiscus.
George Hewett is the first Blue to make an appearance for Fancy Hibiscus this season.

 

[Crowls]

Oh boy, here we go.

Score: 2193 (Steele)
Weekly: 29,517
Overall: 11,516 (down 208)
Team Value + ITB: $12,249,700
Trades Made: Gibcus and JHF -> Hobbs and Luke McDonald
Heroes: Dunkley 142, Steele C 140, Grundy 129, Preuss 117, Martin 95
Villains: Where do we begin! O'Driscoll 42, Butters 58, Jackson 68, Xerri 68, Petracca 87 (Durdin 14, MacDonald 30, Hobbs 34, Rachele 35)
Injuries: Hayes 16, (McCartin 44)
Comments: Let me go through my round in chronological order for you...
Mid-week - Macrae is the most sensible C option, so I'd like a VC before him. Steele is the only real candidate. This ends the list of correct decisions I made this week.
I decide that D6 is the obvious place to shore up my team, with Gibcus, McCartin and SDK not providing a lot of confidence for an on-field spot, and even though the latter two have DPP, the plethora of forward options and paucity of defensive ones makes it hard to justify a move down there. Especially as I'm now hiding Dixon, Durdin for one more week and also Rosas. So one of those defenders has to go, and given he has looked the weakest relative to starting price so far, Gibcus it is.
As for ins, the various additions to the DPP DEF list all make strong cases, but given nobody is yet ready to cull I settle on Luke McDonald, who should have a plum role while Hall is out and has even been able to score well with him there. JHF leaves to accomodate this change, largely for the fact that I can't justify having three players in a terrible team in my side. Others I considered here include Pendlebury, Melbshaw, Zorko and May, all of which would have required me to cull Jackson instead. More on this later...

Friday - I have one R/F donut in Dixon, and nowhere else to put him but R2. Ideally I would loop both Preuss and Hayes but without anyone to put in at F6 if they both go large, I put Hayes on field and bench Preuss instead, just in case he gets injured in the first quarter or something... and then inevitably, Hayes is the one to go down
Hayes going down is a real kick in the guts, not just for my team but for the game as a whole. I love when a guy works his guts off for years and finally gets his chance, they typically make the most of it, and Hayes certainly had. Look forward to seeing him back on the park next year.
But it can't get any worse, right? Right??

Saturday - Rachele plays first up so he gets the mid E. Nothing doing. NOD replaces him, for a gain of seven. Low score from Macrae. Low score from Butters. Carlton lose. Durdin somehow manages to score less than Hayes despite playing an entire match.
Still no panic, those were all popular picks. Rachele and Durdin were out next week anyway (and probably Hayes too with Ryder back) but I'm now starting to worry that it affects the plan of getting Oliver in next week.

Sunday - Out having lunch with my wife when the Rosas news comes through. Not in any real position to think about it too deeply, I pull a simple switch to Hobbs and don't think about it any more. This was probably my biggest mistake of the round, there was an opportunity to bring Gibcus back in here by switching SDK or McCartin forward, which had just now had a spot open up. This probably would have meant rolling both trades back though - and in Dunkley, Butters and NOD, I'd used all my mid spots allocated for DPP players or rookies, meaning JHF would have to come back on the bench.
McDonald ends up doing okay, actually, with a ton in a well beaten side. JHF does nothing to suggest bringing him back was a good idea anyway. I can just about live with this.
Then Richmond vs Melbourne happened. The raw numbers are terrifying enough, no embellishing necessary.
In my team: Petracca 87, Jackson 68
Not in my team: Oliver 168 (intended in next week), Gawn 123 (traded out round 3), Gibcus 102 (traded out round 6)

Monday - McCartin copping another concussion just put the icing on the cake - another great story for the season ruined. Hard to know how long he'll take to come back but I can't imagine it'll be the standard 12 days with him given his history. The final game actually went okay, with Grundy repaying the faith. So the first game and last game were okay, it was just everything in between...
Intended Trades: The coup de grace was that this set of trades failed by what, from memory, is about eight points:
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Looks like I'll be turfing Jackson after all.

Epilogue: Grundy out for 2-3 months means I'm now fielding Port Hayes against Ryder and Marshall. Incredible.

Jesus Mike I feel for you, except it sounds like you were writing about my team. I am on holiday in Cairns and catching up with Daughter and grandkids who I havent seen for two years.

Did what seemed like a hundred permutations including trading English or Grundy. In the end sat on them with plans to bring in Sicily and Preuss. Get the team sorted for Friday night and trade Rowell to Pruess via DPP using a mixture of desktop and phone apps for SC.

Friday I had lunch scheduled with ex girlfriend at local restaurant on the beach. Great afternoon stretches into dinner. Too many drinks for the day eventually I get home and go to look at my scores for the first round using Fanfooty. See Hayes is injured and scored sfa, bit bummed and not yet fully recovered from Cripps as C for his injury score and then on the bench last week.

Thinking ok at least he is E and I will have Martin or Xerri scores instead. Log in to Sc and find bloody Hayes at F6. I am on the verge of tears....

Big sigh and go ok just make the best of it. Stick with the plan. Saturday was lazy recovery day from prior days session and spent it watching footy , SC and Fanfooty. Looked at Saturdays games to ensure I had everything sorted. See most of my action is Sunday and Monday games so not really worried. Late Saturday night I am tossing up whether to do my Sunday trades or not. Decide to go ahead and do them so I can spend the following day with my family and grandkids without worrying about footy and SC. Because I want to get ND and NOD into Def I decide Gibcus is the best option to trade out of him, SDK and Skinner. My last trade was Gibcus to Rosas on Saturday night. Not real happy about Gibcus trade as I still have Stephens and Ward and Stephens was the plan until he was selected in early teams on Thursday.

Anyway long story short have a wonderful day with family and grandkids, watched a bit of NRL with son in law and end up home about 9.30pm on Sunday night to find out McCartin injured, Gibcus tonned up, Rosas doesn't even play or in the team (*** what happened there).

Cant really complain scored 2199 after taking Steeles VC on Friday night. But had NOD, McCartin, Hayes and Butters on the field. Missed Gibcus ton and cash gen, lost Hayes score over Martin. Now have English, McCartin, Dixon, Grundy, Hayes injured and Stephens, Rosas and Skinner on the bench for this week. I need two weeks trades to get through this coming weekend and plans to pick up Trac and Oliver may be in tatters due to lack of cash.

Have gone from 2800 ranking in round 3 to 14047 now and god knows how I can recover the team over the next couple of weeks. Looking for the delete button. I feel for the poor buggers in some of my leagues as I drag them down the chute.

Decided I am over having no visibility of teams and subs on Thursday nights as it makes the whole thing too bloody hard! Now I will catch up on my reading and find out what has happened to Rosas and Grundy and see if a solution to this weekend is available somewhere and somehow. Rucks this week might be Xerri, Preuss and SHayes.

 

[Diabolical]

Score: 2,142
Weekly: 49,282
Overall: 9,219 (from 5,724)
Trades Made: English & Hinge to Macrae & Preuss
Heroes: Hewett, Short, Ryan, Dunkley, Grundy, Preuss
Villains: Whitfield, Macrae, Miller, Jelly, Butters, Gresham, and Rosas (thus Hayes)
Comments: This week added to the free fall that has seen me drop 9,000 places in three weeks. For a team that is only fielding 3 rookies there are just too many premium passengers. I am just going to have to ride this form slump out and hope it isn’t permanent! I brought in Macrae to finally close the negative POD and help turn my pathetic captain scores around - averaging less than 110 this year. To top things off I missed the Rosas out news so copped Hayes 16. The glass half full though is that it would have been McCartin who I would have replaced him with, so it only cost me 28 points. Things must be turning for the good!!
Intended Trades: Well the Grundy news means I might be using my first trade boost to try and turn him into two premiums plus Hayes.