I haven't posted my actual team on here yet, so thought it was my turn.
Defenders:
As you can see; no
Lloyd,
Laird or
Sicily for me. I think all 3 will be in the top 6 in their position come years end, but I have question marks on all of them. How will both
Milera and
Smith impact
Laird’s scoring? How many brain farts is
Sicily going to let rip this year?
I am scared to leave
Lloyd (LLLOOOOOOYYYYYYYD) out of the line-up, especially after going at 122ppg post bye last season. The 25ppg increase from the previous year is what has me thinking we might be able to get him at a better price later in the season. Come back to earth slightly? I think Whitfield is a lock and Williams has to much value to leave out... so have gone a little thin in the hope of catching the above three mentioned players a little cheaper later on.
Midfielders:
Cripps,
Oliver and
Neale have been in my side from day dot.
Steele is my POD pick that I am sticking with, will go up another gear this year. I mentioned in another post that he is in the perfect age bracket and his games in the tail end of last year give me confidence. I’ve decided against
Liberator and instead gone with
Cousins - which turns B
Crouch in to M
Crouch – Matt has the better history and consistency. I think he will go 110+ in a much improve Crows outfit.
No
Macrae is also daunting, especially considering he averaged 127 with an injury affected game where he was on track to go enormous. History, however, shows that it is unlikely he will keep that output up this year. Will look to bring in.
Rucks:
Grundy with his interrupted pre-season is just carrying too high of a price for mine. Wanted to go with a cheap R2 in
Clarke or
Fort with Gawn, but looks like that dream isn’t going to eventuate. Happy to go with
Gawn &
Goldy.
Forwards:
Dangerfield and
Heeney are locks for just about everyone I think. I had
Greene at F4 and several people roll through F3; from
Dunkley to
Mundy to
Gray to
Wingard to
Worpel and then
Kelly – just didn’t feel comfortable with any of them. I have eventually settled on a nice little POD in
Darling. Averaged 99 without his injury affected games last season and I think he can finish as a top 6 forward.
Rookies:
I have got lots of wiggle room as I have gone with quite expensive rookies/Cash Cows.
Ridley,
Cousins,
Walsh and
Moore are all $200,000+ and I also have 5 rookies over $140,000 (Never had this many in the past)… So depending on round one teams and news between now and then, I’ll hopefully be able to free up some cash... Not really sure what I’ll do with it though as I've been sitting on this team for quite some time now. Anyway, that’s my two cents.
Good luck everyone ?