BBL|12: Combined SCS Team
- Thread starter Ironhawk
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I think Hatzoglou will play tomorrow, on form Agar should be the one they drop (but I would have dropped him a few rounds ago , looks like he has no confidence at all).
Leaves one of the quicks to miss.
Hardie mentioned a groin injury , wonder when he got that , last time he missed a game I thought they said it was a quad (unless they were playing sneaky buggers)
Leaves one of the quicks to miss.
Hardie mentioned a groin injury , wonder when he got that , last time he missed a game I thought they said it was a quad (unless they were playing sneaky buggers)
Alright, I'll make sure to jump on mid afternoon to check on this topic and make any trades we have got agreement on and more importantly can afford. We've traditionally done a lot better in the double game rounds, so hopefully this'll be a much better round for us.
We either need to:
We also need to decide on VC and E's as usual. Likely the VC will be from the Scorchers unless you want to have a punt on a single gamer as either VC or C.
We either need to:
- Sacrifice Abbott or Short if we want the Neser/Renshaw/Bazley combo
- Change at least one of these trade ins to a much cheaper option and trade out Sams
- Hope someone is announced early in the day as being dropped for our third trade out. I can't guarantee being around between bat flip and the first game starting to cover late outs / change trades.
- Find a more out of the box option and somehow all agree to that.
We also need to decide on VC and E's as usual. Likely the VC will be from the Scorchers unless you want to have a punt on a single gamer as either VC or C.
My vote is option 1, sacrificing Abbott.
As @Diabolical said on a podcast yesterday, you want the best players on a double (and sometimes have to sacrifice an SGR player to allow that).
If Brisbane selections are different to expectation, we can then trade update for anyone except Adelaide and Perth players (including Abbott => Sams if Abbott’s cash is not needed, Bazley => Stek if Stek is selected ahead of Bazley).
VC Tye would be my suggestion. Neser the C if required.
My suggestion is that if anyone wants to suggest something different to Ironhawk’s options, it should provide a fully fleshed out trade plan for this round - eg it probably can’t leave a loose end like being an unfunded in, without specifying the out we are choosing to allow that in. I think that will make it a lot easier for us to agree something, and for @Ironhawk.
So to clarify, for me it’s:
Head, Carey and Abbott
=>
Neser, Renshaw, Bazley
VC Tye, C Neser
Short + all Heat and Scorchers on field, except Handscomb at WK1 and Inglis with WK E. Wade and maybe Sams with other Es. Spread out our BAT/BWLs from game 1 across the two lines.
Let’s come home strong! 🙂
As @Diabolical said on a podcast yesterday, you want the best players on a double (and sometimes have to sacrifice an SGR player to allow that).
If Brisbane selections are different to expectation, we can then trade update for anyone except Adelaide and Perth players (including Abbott => Sams if Abbott’s cash is not needed, Bazley => Stek if Stek is selected ahead of Bazley).
VC Tye would be my suggestion. Neser the C if required.
My suggestion is that if anyone wants to suggest something different to Ironhawk’s options, it should provide a fully fleshed out trade plan for this round - eg it probably can’t leave a loose end like being an unfunded in, without specifying the out we are choosing to allow that in. I think that will make it a lot easier for us to agree something, and for @Ironhawk.
So to clarify, for me it’s:
Head, Carey and Abbott
=>
Neser, Renshaw, Bazley
VC Tye, C Neser
Short + all Heat and Scorchers on field, except Handscomb at WK1 and Inglis with WK E. Wade and maybe Sams with other Es. Spread out our BAT/BWLs from game 1 across the two lines.
Let’s come home strong! 🙂
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I’m unlikely to be around a computer enough today to get a fully fleshed trade plan together, but I’m comfortable with this plan of attack.
My only thought is whether we want to fade Bazley and go a POD in the hope he doesn’t work out, but I don’t really have a compelling player that comes to mind (Johnson or Kuhnemann are two I thought of, as well as Brown, but there are all very risky!).
Perth play at AO and Optus, first likely to be bay friendly and given his form at Optus has been good, I’d throw Inglis in the mix as a potential VC option.
Anyway as I said I’ll probably be MIA most of the day, so I’m the absence of detail and planning, count me as +1 for Darkie’s plan, or whatever Darkie pivots to.
My only thought is whether we want to fade Bazley and go a POD in the hope he doesn’t work out, but I don’t really have a compelling player that comes to mind (Johnson or Kuhnemann are two I thought of, as well as Brown, but there are all very risky!).
Perth play at AO and Optus, first likely to be bay friendly and given his form at Optus has been good, I’d throw Inglis in the mix as a potential VC option.
Anyway as I said I’ll probably be MIA most of the day, so I’m the absence of detail and planning, count me as +1 for Darkie’s plan, or whatever Darkie pivots to.
It’s a good point about Perth. The attacks they will face are not in good form (at least from an SC perspective - much worse than Brisbane’s opponents) - for my own side I was trying to find another Perth bat, but I couldn’t find one I was happy with (Eskinazi okay but hit and miss so far, Turner probably bats too low on a good deck). Currently I have Stek myself, ahead of Khawaja or Eskinazi.
Inglis or Hardie as a VC could be good options to take advantage of the same idea in a different way. Both have been batting well, and may have a second string to their bows. Hardie commented recently that he’s fit to bowl (or similar), he just hasn’t been needed. I think he may have said he’d possibly need some net work to build up loads, but surely bowling 6, 12, 18, 24 deliveries can’t take much to build up to?! His bowling could be a bonus in any case, he’s in good batting form on a good deck against soft opposition. Inglis obviously has the gloves.
We have the fallback of a Heat captain if they fail, so I generally do like to go for ceiling (rather than expected score) with the VC.
Tye has been very good though, with the home game in his favour, and potentially bowling first could help him if the toss goes that way.
Maybe Tye as VC if Perth bowl first, Hardie or Inglis if not?
Inglis or Hardie as a VC could be good options to take advantage of the same idea in a different way. Both have been batting well, and may have a second string to their bows. Hardie commented recently that he’s fit to bowl (or similar), he just hasn’t been needed. I think he may have said he’d possibly need some net work to build up loads, but surely bowling 6, 12, 18, 24 deliveries can’t take much to build up to?! His bowling could be a bonus in any case, he’s in good batting form on a good deck against soft opposition. Inglis obviously has the gloves.
We have the fallback of a Heat captain if they fail, so I generally do like to go for ceiling (rather than expected score) with the VC.
Tye has been very good though, with the home game in his favour, and potentially bowling first could help him if the toss goes that way.
Maybe Tye as VC if Perth bowl first, Hardie or Inglis if not?
