Opinion Player X vs. Player Y
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Apologies for the delay in response mate and I’m sure you’ve made a decision one way or another by now. I don’t have him myself. I think he has the potential to score reasonably well however I feel like if he puts in a stinker or two he is always going to be on the chopping block. I went with Hore instead so time will tell 
Apologies for the delay in response mate and I’m sure you’ve made a decision one way or another by now. I don’t have him myself. I think he has the potential to score reasonably well however I feel like if he puts in a stinker or two he is always going to be on the chopping block. I went with Hore instead so time will tell
Merrett looked as rubbish as anyone on Sunday. Completely unlike him. I'd back him to turn it around but with the way Essendon played in general, I'd avoid him for now.
Collins will be a good rookie, but Fyfe is the way to go, probably with Wilkie.
Edit: sorry. Didn't notice that this was an old post. Hope you went with Fyfe and Wilke.
Collins will be a good rookie, but Fyfe is the way to go, probably with Wilkie.
Edit: sorry. Didn't notice that this was an old post. Hope you went with Fyfe and Wilke.
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I have decided to be aggressive and trade out JRoo due to him just becoming a new father, he looked really flat against the Blues.
Will consider picking him up around the byes with a better 2nd half draw and hopefully more sleep.
My options to trade to are, Rockliff, Sheed, Zorko. All three have a few possible negatives I can see.
Rockliff, injury risk + Wines coming back (unknown affect)
Sheed, His great scoring run leading back into last years finals series has all been minus Andrew Gaff.
Zorko, is 100-120k more than option 1 or 2, has a better individual run with teams who don't play a hard tag after the bye.
After Zorko beat the Hutchins tag and with Brisbane on the rise Zorks is now fully in my sights, either now or post bye.
With more tagging match ups to come earlier on it could keep his scores in check and thus make him still affordable later on, on the flip side if he starts posting 90-100 scores while being tagged he could be in for a record year personally.
Any arguments for or against any/all of these, bearing in mind 520k is my limit and I don't want Sloane. If I had 560k id consider the Bont too.
Cheers.
Will consider picking him up around the byes with a better 2nd half draw and hopefully more sleep.
My options to trade to are, Rockliff, Sheed, Zorko. All three have a few possible negatives I can see.
Rockliff, injury risk + Wines coming back (unknown affect)
Sheed, His great scoring run leading back into last years finals series has all been minus Andrew Gaff.
Zorko, is 100-120k more than option 1 or 2, has a better individual run with teams who don't play a hard tag after the bye.
After Zorko beat the Hutchins tag and with Brisbane on the rise Zorks is now fully in my sights, either now or post bye.
With more tagging match ups to come earlier on it could keep his scores in check and thus make him still affordable later on, on the flip side if he starts posting 90-100 scores while being tagged he could be in for a record year personally.
Any arguments for or against any/all of these, bearing in mind 520k is my limit and I don't want Sloane. If I had 560k id consider the Bont too.
Cheers.
Worth flagging that not everyone plays worse when they have a child ... I can’t speak from experience, but I gather some dads are a lot more involved than others, some children are just a lot easier than others, and sometimes dads are even quarantined in another room (I’ve heard of a few sportspeople doing this), so some of them sleep quite well. I think one of Pendles or Goldy played better after having their first.
That aside, if you do go ahead with a move, Zorko would be my starting point because he’s an actual premium, whereas Sheed is speculative and Rocky is potentially an ex premium (TBC!). If you can figure out why Zorko scored poorly in the last three rounds I’d say that probably gives you your answer ... if he was concussed, ill etc then you can potentially set those aside, in which case he likely averaged close to 110 post bye, once he figured out how to deal with a tag. If he was suffering with tags again, that makes it hard to see him returning premium output.
He’s super durable, now the captain, and apparently came back in his fittest ever state in an attempt to beat the tags. He also has a good ceiling. I’m not sure what happened late last year, but if it’s legitimate to set that aside I think he could be quite a good pick. If not, it gets harder, given that a lot of what you say makes him sound like an upgrade target.
That aside, if you do go ahead with a move, Zorko would be my starting point because he’s an actual premium, whereas Sheed is speculative and Rocky is potentially an ex premium (TBC!). If you can figure out why Zorko scored poorly in the last three rounds I’d say that probably gives you your answer ... if he was concussed, ill etc then you can potentially set those aside, in which case he likely averaged close to 110 post bye, once he figured out how to deal with a tag. If he was suffering with tags again, that makes it hard to see him returning premium output.
He’s super durable, now the captain, and apparently came back in his fittest ever state in an attempt to beat the tags. He also has a good ceiling. I’m not sure what happened late last year, but if it’s legitimate to set that aside I think he could be quite a good pick. If not, it gets harder, given that a lot of what you say makes him sound like an upgrade target.
I was tossing this up earlier as well. I haven't decided but am erring on Duursma ... Wilkie's scoring was horrible in JLT (from low TOG, which is potentially a bit of a JS concern) although I think the view was that he might get Roberron's role which could be SC friendly ... his R1 score wasn't overwhelming though.
I'm leaning towards Duursma but have the luxury of waiting until next week when we have more info on scoring and selections.
I'm leaning towards Duursma but have the luxury of waiting until next week when we have more info on scoring and selections.
