Chicko’s Check In – Milka The Cow!
G’day community, that felt like hard work this week…Rocky (KO), Lewis (gone), Hodge (going for longer), Sloane (calf), Pops Kelly (popped right marble) but with every dark cloud there is a silver lining.
Now is the time to prepare yourselves whilst the balmy autumn continues and before the ice cold winds take hold of your rivals.
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You may think that the title of this week’s musing is referring to the friendly smiling cow found on the purple packaging of the Swiss chocolate bar from the 1990’s. You would be wrong. It is a reference to my Italian grandfather who worked on a dairy farm and his “milka da cows” and it is applicable right here, right now, for us in the world of Supercoach. There is an all you can eat smorgasbord of fallen premiums ready for the snaffling over the next few weeks BUT to afford them, we need to start scrimping and saving, we need to build a warchest, we need to start milking those cows and I am here to say that it starts this week.
I can hear some of you say – “it’s too soon you bald mongrel”. I can also hear a few of you say “you are a bit late portly bald man”. You may be right, and I may be crazy, but I am culling one or two cows this week.
Why this week?
If your team is in good shape, you should be prudent and saves those trades but there are one or two rookies who you might decree their day be done and be ready for the chop. A number of coaches traded out Heeney last week – either for Krak or Tarrant (via a DPP into the midfield). I had Krak, so traded out Silence of the Lamb for The Price is Right Tarrant (a pure cash grab that smiling Larry Emdur would be proud of). So this week, I have a couple of players who I am looking at as an avenue to build my warchest. So which players look ready to serve up?
Below is a table of popular rookies who are starting to mature. As most coaches know, you only want to start culling your cash cows once their breakeven closes in on their average points per game. As you can see from the table, Van Berlo, Salem and, possibly Heeney, are the only players who are in, or approaching, this category and I would argue the upside for them doesn’t look as good from this point on. The others have a little more cash to squeeze out. I haven’t had Van Berlo in my side, but if I did (and 30% of coaches do), he would be the first to go – has been ok and made coaches $68k but his price fell this week and with Scott Thompson back in the team, it has impacted his input. You could argue Sloane going out helps NVB – you could argue it, but I would disagree. Must go.
| Player | Price | Breakeven | Average points per game |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Van Berlo | $284,400 | 81 | 68.00 |
| Christian Salem | $285,800 | 42 | 67.60 |
| Isaac Heeney | $232,500 | 36 | 66 |
| K-MacIntosh | $244,100 | 34 | 72.80 |
| C. Ellis-Yolman | $332,100 | 21 | 91.60 |
| Hulk Hogan | $293,900 | 9 | 78.80 |
| Mitch 'Foot' Clark | $221,900 | -13 | 64 |
For me, due to the prospect of having Lewis and Sloane sitting on the pine for my team for a couple of weeks (maximum, I hope), my dilemma this week is whether I “paint the fence” early with two trades (one down, one up), or take the hit to my overall ranking (by playing two of my bench rookies on field for two weeks) and only cull one cow to build up the bank balance to invest for the long term with a future upgrade.
So who is on the horizon for a future upgrade?
Every Friday, our good man Patch has a section in his magnificent Panic room article called Trading Places – it’s a MUST read for all coaches. Read it, savour it, digest it and use it to your advantage.
For me, my first upgrade will be a little price dependent as to who I can afford– I’m sure there are a lot of coaches in the same boat. But here are some names for your radar with their breakevens in brackets. Get ready for this!
- Rocky (290 – post bye target)
- GAJ (234)
- Sloane (215)
- Selwood (189)
- Brodie Smith (168 – our backlines have so many cracks that the rookies can stay!)
- Hodge (151)
- Lewis (150)
- Beams (145)
- The Walkers – Andrew Walker (134), Tex Walker (129)
- Buddy (126)
- Parker (113)
- Defenders – throw a blanket over the likes of Hooker, Duffield, Hibberd, Simpson, The Gift and Burgoyne (all with breakevens between 119-126)
The majority of these players are on my watch list – except Hooker and The Gift. However, of more immediate focus are players who have turned the corner and their breakevens have turned bottom out – for me they are BJ Goddard & JPK. These two are on my short term watch list – as in hoping to get one of them into my team next week. The other to watch for me is Tommy Mitchell-san. First week back and cracked the ton and is an affordable price – let’s see how he goes next week.
So what about you community, are you culling any players this week? If you are hitting the trade button who goes?
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Looking at ditching Salem and Sheed to pick up Pendles. I need his consistency. Think Salem has done his dash and Sheed has only a little cash left.
exactly the same trades as me
Me too Ricky, don't have Sheed but likely to downgrade Salem to build the bank balance.
Salem downgrade for who?
Hope you guys all took krak and tarrant last week, if not your a week behind the 8 ball
Doesn't Krak only have one game left before he must either be elevated (don't see any long term injuries) or ineligible to play? I may be wrong but if that is the case who would you trade him down to, not to mention another trade gone. Granted he has made some coin.
Salem first out for me Chicko. Not sure whether to bring in Goddard to make 5 forward premos or go with Ryder and have ruck coverage through goldy/Bellchambers/ Ryder
I would bring in Goddard first Charlesy, hold off on Ryder for F6.
Will do mate. Cheers.
I started with Ryder, Nait & TBC! Debating on bringing mummy in as R1 and sticking Ryder in F5!
I traded salem out last week for tarrant – means I can upgrade hogan this week to a goddard. Not sure if I should though as hogan will have at least one more week of significant price appreciation.
Wait on Hogan. Consider in the next couple weeks.
I disagree with holding Hogan, great time to upgrade him imo!, you may miss out on 20k but with upcoming games against swans, hawks, dogs, port and pies he is a chance of averaging stuff all over next 5 games! I want him gone by the byes and happy with the $170k he’s given thus far. Hogan out – underpriced buddy in!
What are you thoughts on Barlow? Averaged 111 last year and has now dropped to 490k. Rookie upgrade?
Seems to be taking on a different role compared to last year now that Creepy Crowley is out. I considered him but after watching his games I'm really unsure. Mundy seems to be taking the points from him this year.
Hey Miles. Agree with Zee on this. Barlow playing a slightly different role – looks like Neale has taken his place in the centre square.
Barlow only scored high on Sunday due to pav and walters going off and fyfe going forward hence giving him rare time in the guts! Big pass unless there is a few injuries.
As a rabid Freo supporter I'd give Barlow a big miss for now. He's playing fine but has the worst disposal in the Freo midfield group so with Neale stepping up and Fyfe taking the tag off Mundy they just aren't using him as often
I need a forward. Got 450k in the bank. Looking to go from Salem to either Franklin, Dahlhaus, Gray or Tom Mitchellson. Who do you guys think's going to be the #1 forward.
I think gray.
Gray is a must have. I’d wait on TMitch see how he goes this wk but even then he’s an iffy one, poor JS
Gray will be a must have by season's end and will pick up now Port's draw levels out. Dahlhaus is getting a very close looking at this week as a smokie POD in my side.
I'd go Dahlhaus for sure. Massive POD at the moment not many people have him.
Go the Gray
Gray
Salem to Ziebell or Goddard
Goddard for mine. He's proven as a consistent scorer as well as consistently being out on the park.
Personally thinking of running 3 rookies in the defense and downgrading Newnes for McKenzie or Scharenberg.. then using McIntosh on field and strengthening my forward line by upgrading Salem to Dahlhaus. Should yield about 50-70 more points.
Great read mate, I’m in the same boat with lewis and sloane. Don’t really want to have to trade either but depending on how long they’re out, I might have to. I was thinking of milking a cow early to bring in another premo to compensate, then with both of them returning in a hopefully reasonable time( 2 – 3 weeks) wouldn’t have to take a risk on another mid premo considering big names(selwood,beams,rockliff,priddis, barlow etc) aren’t showing scoring consistency and question marks on if shiel,mundy, neales scores won’t decrease.i could then concentrate on my forward or ruck lines.
Iv got Hodge,Lewis & Sloane Grrrr.
I was going to trade Salem to Goddard and Lewis to JPK but am sadly 4k short.
What do you suggest I do instead?
hold lewis. Only two rounds, and everyone is playing a lot of rookies so you shouldn't be at a big disadvantage imo
I agree….if u have Miller or cripps or Vandenberg u can sit Lewis on pine as those rookies are scoring very well
is it too early to cull K-Mac?
Dont think he will make us much more cash
Out of the 3 backline rookies, K-Mac looks to have gone from best to worst. I still think there is cash to be made off him as he scored 70 on the weekend, but he is sitting on my bench while oxley and saad are on field.
I have 500k in the warchest this week, who should i get in for goodes in defence out of mcdonald, rob murphy and pittard, also who do i get in for salem out of dusty, goddard and boomer harvey
your better of ugrading mids or forwards, defence is too unreliable and rookies are getting the job done in defense for now
I think either Tmac or Murphy for the money.
Tmac looking the Goodes for mine (pun intended), and throw a blanket over Goddard and dusty
I'd be happy with either of those defenders. For the forwards I'd go Dusty or Goddard.
So im thinking Switch Swan to the fwd so i trade Salem for Mckenzie in the mid then switching Mckenzie to the Def putting him on the bench and putting Mcintosh on the ground while upgrading Newnes to Pendlebury.
Good move?
wait another week, mckenzie could be dropped in favour for montagna and reiwoldt
is Franklin a good upgrade option this week?
havent seen much talk about him even though he has scored well in the wet
Agreed Tom… you have to assume he will be a top forward by the end of the year. Great POD at the moment.
Hey Tom, he has been quite consistent without being spectacular. Has looked solid, has a decent breakeven, so I think looks a good upgrade target over the next two weeks.
Added to that he has seen a fair bit of wet weather footy! Will go big this week like half of Freo did against the d’s
Going Salem to Shiel, but thinking of also trading Newton to Glenn. Is Glenn from GC going to be a consistent feature in the Suns' team?
Hard to say because his only played one game. Still he looked pretty sharp. If you think he can be consistent then by all means put him in. Im taking the punt by putting Mckenzie in from St kilda and going to wait this week coming up to see how Glenn goes. If he goes well, i might consider downgrading Vandenberg to him to free around 200k up.
Ripping article Chicko as always mate. Toying with a few trades but think I might just hold this week. My trading to be more determined by who I can go down or up to, at the right times.
Thanks General old mate. I have tossed around with doing one or doing nothing. Have tried to plan out my trading plan over the next few rounds, and it looks like I may need to do one downgrade this week. Thanks again for the support BB!
hey fellas currently sitting at 400
Im thinking of pulling the trigger on salem this week and upgrade him to goddard
Then next week i will cull a cow (still not sure who) to upgrade griffen to selwood.
After that i will then upgrade daniel rich for almost a straight swap to rocky , thoughts?
Well done Jake – great ranking! Like your plan, I would execute as you have outlined.
Keep going jake, in your position you've got to stay aggressive.
Salem to Floggard
Rich (he has done his job) to Beams
Thoughts?
Yep good.
Hey Engman, if you have the cash, it sounds pretty good to me. You may want to hold off on the Rich to Beams trade though. Rocky is going to be in the low $400k bracket in a couple of weeks – could do a straight swap.
I need ideally would wait another week on beams as well but I need another promo in now with Sloan going down.
But rocky will be a target in a couple for sure!
Yep the trades you said then rocky locked in in a couple.
Rich and NVB to Pendles & Touk Miller for me.
Takes my midfield to: Fyfe, Pendles, Neale, Boak, Beams, Parker, CEY and Cripps.
Still trying to decide who is going to be the top 6 defenders at years-end.
Too late for the Touk.
Instead of Touk go to Glenn or Mckenzie
Touk has flown the coup. He's not a keeper and not the best stepping stone on offer. If NVB is to go, then a rookie on the bubble or a top end premo is the only sensible option
I’m still hanging on to Brett “the shit brother” goodes. If he’s named gonna trade him down to a loophole/ future rookie like Hugh Goddard or scharenburg type. Also Salem to Goddard. Thoughts in goodes?
Trading a non player to another non player is not a good trading strategy. Goodes is already a loophole & I doubt whether he will be forcing his way into a winning Bulldogs outfit this week.
I would hold him another week & then trade him to Daniel McKenzie, providing he holds his place in St Kilda's team. That's my plan anyway,
Sharenberg, Lever & Goddard will all be good trade down options once they actually get a game.
Non player to non player works in this case imo as Goodes to Goddard makes 100k which is pretty much all we need to make on most of our trades (as long as we get a couple of big bangers ie cey and Cripps and vandy making 250+) to get to full premo
This also assumes your going to downgrade someone else to Mckenzie and want to keep your loophole open, I know I do…
Whilst not named, he's good for a loophole. I'm using him on Oxley and Macintosh. Trade to a rookie on the bubble but lose the loophole. To use the money that rookie generates, you'll blow another trade. Trading down to rock bottom DPP rookie purely to get money into the warchest and retain the loophole makes mores sense IMO.
I'm going to spend the cash I made last week when I traded in Tarrant and Krakouer and do the following:
VB out, JPK in
Salem out, Goddard in
It feels good to finally bring in a couple of premos!!
Yeah good trades.
very good trades.
You won't have any arguments there
That’s great work Sarah. You’re well placed early.
Danger not jpk
I thought I'd made my decision but now I'm not so sure… Danger has a higher ceiling but JPK is more consistent…
Best feeling when processing trades like these
can straight swap salem to goddard but goddard has freo and would leave me with no war chest
im thinking of making this move
yep, then ill be able to cull someone like sheed to a glenn or mckenzie next week when there on the bubble, dont want to miss goddard due to his 69 BE
I'm thinking that move as well. will only leave $15k in warchest. but it does bring in a season long premium keeper at a good price.
I had Oxley on the bench last week, and most of my opponents had him either loopholed or on field. I felt I needed his points for overall rank (I'm about 4k and needed to stay with the pack). So I traded out heeney for H Goddard (via swing Saad to mid) it would have been Whitecross, but he got a last minute call up and I needed a donut in defence.
It banked $95k and let me win 5 leagues that I would have lost (1 by only 2 points). Scored 2238 so happy with outcome. I had 28 trades left, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
now I have $230k in warchest, this gives me just enough cash to go Salem to Godard this week. Happy with that. Do I cull another cow?
im not culling til next week because Glenn and Mckenzie are on the bubble (this is for supercoach so they need to play 3 games to change in price)
Is Goddard is good. Do it, you'll have him for the year (hopefully)
I love my Goddard (hugh) loophole and when he starts playing and everyone says see now you can’t downgrade too him I will be more than happy to trade another fat cow for another non playing rook. Nothing lost and lots gained from the loophole and the extra 100k. Win win I reckon, excellent trade Derek
And I think next week is the next cull opportunity, hold (other than the Salem to Goddard trade you mentioned which is a1)
Fantastic work Derek. You've got plenty of trades but that's no reason to trade. If you can hold out another week, you'll get more bang for your buck and of course some of those premos will go down after another week too. Come the bye rounds, you'll be able to trade like mad if you can hold your trades now.
Franklin Or Goddard
Franklin, played most of his games in the wet and still averaging 95
Trading out lychee. Who is the best ruck to bring in out of:
Blicavs
Ryder
Grundy
Mumford
Nic Nat
Jacobs
jacobs
I would normally say Sauce, especially looking at the crows upcoming games. but he is not scoring very well at the moment, Blicavs is starting to look ok.
Go Blicavs or Grundy.. you want a ruckman who gets possies… if you have cash and want a POD go S Martin… he is scoring well in a side getting smashed.. wait till they start winning… they arent as bad as made out…
Trading out lycett. Who is the best ruck to bring in out of:
Blicavs
Ryder
Grundy
Mumford
Nic Nat
Jacobs
Blicavs looks incredibly good. Honestly was considering bringing him in for Nic Nat for a POD. This kid isn't a normal ruckman.
Lewis 2 weeks,Hodge to the Tribunal – Herald Sun
I guessed 1-2 each.
What rookies are worth downgrading to? I don’t see the point in trading cash cows when there isn’t any rookies on the bubble worth getting
Glenn & Mckenzie have only played 1 game but both look pretty decent
Can't believe someone else knows 'milka'!
Missed out on the Tarrant trade last week. Do you think it
's worth getting him in this week?
nope
what were you doing last week? there isn't much else on offer and still some cash to be made. if you are trading out a non-player that won't make you any cash I would.
Sorry but it's too late. You'd be paying an extra 100k
I didn’t out in Tarrant either I felt as if the risk was too much time will tell whether it’s the right move although I don’t think he’s a must and defs don’t bring him in now
Jake Lloyd people? Worth consideration
Games so far:
!: Sub affected 27 he had it 13 times at 46% and 4 clangers only real bad game
2: 75 he had it 20 times at 80% and a goel
3: 95 he had it 24 times at 92% mostly handballs
4: 113 he had it 25 times at 88% and a goal
5: 82 he had it 20 times at 50% (in the wet) and 9 tackles
I like him and he's a very good user of the Ball and gets around the 20-25 touches mark
I like how he doesn't get clangers or gives away free kicks
$392,600 and they play Melbourne next
Too awkwardly priced, not for me Harrison although I am a fan of left field selections so I'd say go for it
I wouldnt touch him, its not that he's bad but you'll get weeks where he's not involved and some weeks he's pretty good. Its a real season changer and can make or break your team.
Yeah there a things to like about him Harrison but I do not see him as SC relevant.
Fallen premiums or rookies on the bubble is what you want at this time of the year. Not mid priced mids or forwards, too much risk.
thanks TTJ, Ethan and Phil, looking back at it i think how stupid it was be gee i love this guy and love how he plays. As three of you have said not worth the risk, not SC relevant and at the moment we need to be focusing on the fallen premos and culling some rookies ohh and players on the bubble over the next few rounds.
Questionable: B.Smith (bring him in and he goes 60 and 40 wow) Salem, Kmac, Newnes, Simpson, Griffen, Wallis, Lewis, Goodes
Absolute beut
Yeh cause everyone scores good against Melbourne, look at stats they have won possession albeit to Fremantle last week
Thoughts on which trade, I have 444k in the bank…
1) CEY to pendles (and not enough & to upgrade elsewhere)
Or
2) Vandenberg to Danger & Hogan to Dahlhaus
Also thoughts on Armitage .. He’s getting big 100’s and only once sub 100!
Definitely 2. CEY is looking the goods. Still has a potential increase of money to make. I wouldn't really be looking to trade Hogan either. Surely you have worse rookies to cull.
Armitage looks a beauty. Too expensive for me but certainly a good POD.
CEY and VAN still have too much upside to trade just yet. If you hang off for 1-2 weeks you'll get Danger and Pendles for a lot less cash
Thanks guys ..
And thoughts on Armitage as a POd?
He seems to be doing quite well with the temporary captaincy with Roo out. Hes too dear for my taste but could be a great POD selection.
Like. but late. I ran stevens and newnes to fill the scoring void. Wish I did Armitage.
Danger has hit his bottom!
Agreed MC. Enrage! Look for players like Rich who have hit their breakeven or are close to to trade. If you don’t have any or no LTIs then suggest holding. There are plenty of falling premos to come. Pendles, Danger Priddis, Parker this week for mIne, but chances are not all of em will hit it next week. And then others will join the party like selwood rocky etc cheerz
Thanks for the great article Chicko,
Communtiy, thoughts on
a) trading out Salem, subbing Swan into the foward line and bring in Luke Parker in the mid
b) trading out Salem, subbing Swan into the fowardline, Brayden Maynard (anyone know if he's getting a game soon?) into the mid, and bringing in a fallen premium defender in Simpson, Hibberd, ect
c) holding salem
I've got around 250K in remainding salary
out of those option, 1 is best
a or c, b sounds stupid if theres no one to trade to
Hold see how rooks play this week and option b next week
Im sick of Newnes i have to get rid of him.
I have 465K to pick a defender.
Who should i pick?
I'm holding since we lack a lot of info back there. Can't really go wrong with McDonald. Other than that I'd probably consider Bobby Murphy
at that price, K Simpson is a standout! $448k. will be close to top 8 defender this year.
houli or tom mcdonald?
houli, will get more ball if mcdonald is forced to play a shut down role
Houli
Wingard to Goddard and Rich to Priddis?
That would be two ticks for me Liam!
Yep yep
Sounds good
Which forward rookies worth trading in on the bubble in the next week or weeks?
Pretty slim, think you have missed the boat!
krakour is still available but theres not really anyone else
already have salem, clark, tarrant, krakour, hogan
Can you trade Salem swapping a dpp
None worth picking up
If you need to downgrade real bad you should downgrade to caleb daniel or kane lambert. Daniel is coming back in 2 weeks and lambert 5-6
noted. but are there any down grade options?
Here’s some news community. Jake Lever from Adelaide, a highly rated young defender is tipped to play soon. From memory he’s worth $150 ish K. So another potential down grade soon if you want to slaughter a cow from your defences.
not sure any of the adelaide players will get culled for him for the moment, if theres a quite easy game ahead of them maybe he will play
They love the kid at Adelaide. Will play and will do well
Talia reckons he’s a chance to play this week
Not much said about the danger! Thoughts? Rich is done now 100k upgrade for danger!
Once again, great write up Chicko. Community, currently have 2 FWD keepers in Gray and Swan. Have 26 trades left. This week Im thinking:
Walker to Glenn (via DPP swing)
and
Salem to Goddard, Martin, Dahlhaus or Franklin.
Leaving me with around 270,000 in the chest.
Good or bad idea?
Thanks Luviboy, much appreciated mate. I like the Salem trade, less certain on the Walker to Glenn trade – I want to see Glenn for one more game before getting him in.
If I went Salem to Goddard it would leave me with a measly 9k in the chest, whereas Walker to Goddard with leave me with 108k. Does keeping Salem for one more week sound plausible?
No rush to trade Salem out, unless he starts going down in price
Could hold Salem another week, although leaving you one week behind everyone else
Better yet, Walker to Goddard. Let Salem go another week, save a trade and see if Glenn is on the bubble.
Is Birchall a good option?
or should I go with someone like Enright/Taylor
Love Enright, didn’t have the nuts to take him this year, will pick him up soon concentrating on other lines first!
How about McGovern??
Too much cash
Hold or trade Rich??
Trade to danger
Im waiting a couple weeks to trade Rich to Rocky, which in all likelihoods will be a straight swap.
I’m sure there will be a rookie to swap Rockliff for in the byes, wouldn’t you wanna premo your side as quick as possible.
I'd trade him but on the proviso that you upgrade him to a fallen elite like a JPK or Priddis which would require an extra $120-130K.
If you can't easily do that without mucking up your structure elsewhere then I'd hold him for another week or two until the perfect opportunity presents.
Had the cash so gone for Pendles for me, would go JPK but with Lewis and Sloan I want a consistent performer this week
Should I consider judd to JPK
Hi Bailey, I would!
absolutly, judd has done enough as a stepping stone
Unfortunately Juddy like Griffen has been a fail as a stepping stone as he's actually leaked cash and will leak more with a BE of 133 this week.
So yes you may as well pick off a fallen premo like a JPK or Priddis and get some elite scoring into your team.
I never understood why Judd got a run in any team. He was never going to be a season keeper, nor a rookie cash cow, nor a mid priced stepping stone nor a player likely to take the next step and provide value for money. Not anything really.
Walker to Franklin this week?
I think Franklin's price has just about bottomed (-27K at 510K) and I sense he is about to lift his scoring output . Buddy playing the Dees this week on a hopefully dry MCG. His breakeven sits at 126 which is achievable against Melbourne.
Walker is down 45K at 385K. This corrective trade would cost me 18K but I think is money worth sacrificing as I am not confident Walker is worth sticking with for the rest of the season.
Any thoughts?
Im in the same position, but considering Goddard. I have no objections.
Thanks mate,
There is a lot of chatter around Goddard as well. Will have a look at him as well, before making the big call.
Cheers
TMAC is the most likely defender to keep buddy kickless. He might drop another 20k if he's kept to a sub 70 by Mcdonald.
Who is the best downgrade option across all lines? with my DPP's I can downgrade salem to anyone.
All these talks of downgrades but at a glance I see nothing.
McKenzie and Glenn will both be on the bubble after next round.
Backs – shaw, oxley, kk, saah, mcintosh, newnes, n.brown, hamling
Mids – fyfe, pendles, beams, selwood, griffen, parker, yolmen, heeney, vandenberg, cripps, miller
Rucks – goldy, maric
Forwards – gray, d.martin, swan, hogan, salem, tarrant, krakour, clark
26 trades left with 160k in the bank. Only trades have been corrective trades on rookies and bringing in tarrant and krakour for lambert/lamb
Need to cull someone to make money for future upgrades
Want to get rid of salem but there arent any appealing downgrade options
Any help fellow supercoachers
cheers
find someone to go with a down up trade if salem is on the choping block
not many downgrade options
I have Jaksch in my backline on the bench. Is he going up or down in price? Is there anybody I can trade him out too?
Break even of 84, will be gong down in price I'd say.
What does TBC mean on the AFL injury list?
Also, a few rookies coming back from injury in the next few weeks!
To be confirmed
Is hepell a stong mid upgrade consideration?
Sounds good, Goldstein is a must have and quick!
Ahhh wrong comment…
Tbh, i'm not too sure if Heppell can keep this up for longer, much like Hannebery & Mundy. I would much prefer a Jelwood or JPK
Heppell will be elite this year
Which option is better?
Getting rid of Newnes and getting sam butler or Jasper pittard or even Mcgovan
Or
Getting rid of Swallow and getting Shiel, Swan, Lachie neale.
Any suggestions?
Magnif as always Chicko. If your going up from Salem it's 200k from the warchest minimum. For mine that's too much. If he has to go then send him down & grab cash if possible. If you picked off Krak or Taz they are worthy replacements on the park.
Any thoughts on trading Newnes for D. McKenzie as a downgrade? Newnes is killing me and has turned out to be a big dud!
I'm thinking of doing the same next week when Mckenzie is on the bubble, based on averages newnes is my D7 with Oxley , saad and Macintosh averaging more. Then using the cash from that and the warchest to upgrade 2 fwd rookies
I wouldn't. I'd hold Newnes and wait on Mckenzie, if he plays this week then grab him from a cash cow and then upgrade Newnes
Ok Thanks!
No reason to get rid of Oxley / McIntosh / Saad. All still doing comparatively well vs premo defenders – why ditch one of them if Newnes is the problem? Just dump Newnes and let the cash cows continue to give you decent points and fatten
its better to get rid of Newnes this week as opposed to next week because chances are he will go down in price AGAIN.
I have Geary as my D7 and am going to make Geary my D6 and get rid of Newnes.
I'm trading out NVB and bringing in McKenzie, using the DPP swing McKezie as my D7 and bring Newnes i my midfield and trading newnes out for either Mundy, Dagerfield or Shiel
I have had enough of Newnes, the guy is a DUD…
Dumped NVB and Salem last week, no trades this week – next cull is McIntosh as I reckon he is just about done.
Thinking Heeney to Josh Glenn
TBC to Goldstein
Bellchambers has done the stepping stone job i wanted from him and im ready now to lock in Goldstein and Stef Martin as my permo rucks for the season.
Thoughts?
Sounds good, Goldstein is a must have and quick!
Glenn also looks like a solid pick
A week too early for Glenn. I would make sure Glenn holds his spot and is named for his 3rd game in a couple of weeks before making this switch especially with Heeney a good chance to play this weekend.
A little bit of patience and restraint over the next fortnight could be rewarded Jesse.
Heeney to Glenn gives me the extra bit of cash i need to get Goldstein in and leaves 50k in the warchest.
What about the possibility of holding Heeney and a straight trade of TBC for either one of:
Blicavs
Sauce
Grundy
Or
Mummy
???
Again I don't see a huge urgency to upgrade TBC just yet. I have him too at R2 with $1M in the war chest but even I, with all these funds available, have no urgency to burn a trade on TBC just yet. Has a very gettable BE of 57 this week and looks to be steadily improving, at least to my eye.
Yes Goldy is the must have ruck this season but you would be paying absolute top dollar right now. He's bound to put in a quiet game or two at some point that will dip his price well below $600K.
I just reckon if you get rid of Heeney this week there's a good chance you'll have seller's remorse in about a month's time. Of course this is just an opinion as no one can predict the future.
Yeah nah totally understand where your coming from with Goldstein, at some point he will have a quiet week.
I just have the opposite opinion about Heeney. I think he’ll get the vest alot when he slots back into Sydneys lineup and i think Tom Mitchell really staked a claim this week.
1M in the war chest surely I'm reading a typo lol how does one come by this serious amount of coinage so early??? If you don't mind my asking what are you currently ranked/scoring??
The war chest has come about mainly due to the Gaz and Bartel injuries which crippled my Supercoach start. Decided at that point to adopt a cash cow heavy strategy given how well our rookies are performing especially in midfield and defense and how poorly our premos have been going in comparison.
Ranking is nothing to speak of at 33K but actually feel ok about my team now with a respectable 2188 on the weekend with double upgrades planned over the next fortnight picking off those juicy fallen premos like Goddard, JPK and Buddy.
Unfortunately I've had to burn more trades than I would've liked but you have to deal with what cards have been dealt to you each season.
Yeah i'm pretty interested aswell haha
Fair call. Everyone has to have a strategy and be able to adapt. Thats what you’ve
got and thats what you have done. Well done.
Still my plan was always to upgrade TBC asap and right before a game against the in form Dockers seems like a good timeto me.
I’ll be sweating on the Glenn situation though like you said mate haha
if grundy gets rid of the top bun and curls his hair, he could certainly become a PERMO ruck..
hey all would love a hand for my next few trades please !
def : shaw, oxley, mciintosh, saad, newnes, henderson (goodes, hamling)
mid: fyfe, heppel, kennedy, griffen, beams, ellis yolmen, cripps, vandenberg, (miller, heeney, kraker)
rucks: goldy, mummy (nankervis)
for: gray, swan, salem, bennel, hogan, christensen, (tarrant, clark)
i have 198k in the bank and 26 trades left !
thank you all in advance
I would hold for this week at least, then if there are some rookies on the bubble trade out some rookies that have maxed out in their price for them and build up a warchest
Is it worth holding B. Goodes as he isn't playing or should I be looking to downgrade him?
If he ain't playing he ain't paying!!!! His job was to make you money.
No i'd prefer him not to play as he isn't losing cash
Completely agree, Chicko. Time to build the money reserves. Salem has worn out his welcome. Earned but not at the rate we'd hope.
Decision this week is whether to downgrade him and leave it alone or upgrade Griff (just not seeing his value going anywhere). Decisions, decisions.
Griff OUT Pendles IN. Lost my league game due to my opponent having the VC on Pendles, he did the big C loop and I could not make up the difference. Pendles is a must have and I don't see his price going down anytime soon and on the other hand I see Griff loosing cash as he cant put 2 good games together.
Too unsteady for where he's at. Was always brought in as an upgrade so might as well use him for the intended purposes. Game vs Hawks can't see him doing much better than 95.
yeah he was never a keeper for me, thought he would make a little cash and the very least hold his value. Pendels in gives me that VC and C insurance with Fyfe as Sloan has let me down.
Solid move, Fava.
Only have 200k in the warchest, will hold trades this week and next week pick off Mckenzie and Glenn on the bubble by down trading newnes and Salem . Newnes by avg is my D7 , not worth holding him any longer, spewing he is going to lose more cash this week, but I want to see Mckenzie named for his third game before bringing him in.
Ok guys, I'm having a few second thoughts so I need your help…
JPK or Dangerfield?
Danger has a higher ceiling, but JPK has more consistency. Who would you trade in out of those two?
JPK all the way
JPK , but I'm a biased sydney supporter.
JPK for me Sarah
Yes JPK looks ripe for the picking this week. I reckon Danger is a good selection too but I'm more confident in JPK delivering elite scoring week in week out with all that guaranteed on ball time.
What do you think of Dyson Heppell?
I'm re-thinking whether to get JPK in or not.
I'll be bringing in JPK myself. Just too much value at $547K this week to turn down personally. I was considering Hannebery too but reckon I'll hold on to the extra $50K it would've taken to get him in instead.
But yes HepD would be a great pick up too. In fact I brought him into my AFL Fantasy side last week and although he had somewhat of a mediocre game on the weekend, by his standards, I expect that to be a solid selection over the course of time.
So it's really a case of six of one, half a dozen of the other. So you may as well just pick the player you like the best and roll with it I say.
Looking at the numbers again, they're pretty similar betweek JPK and Heppell. Now leaning back towards JPK to save the extra $30k for future trades.
JPK this year. I think Heppell will be elite next year or the year after. His consistency is Pendlebury like but he's still building.
Danger and Thompson both look very tempting with their next 3 easy games and I did consider bringing them in myself but questioned wether they will be in the top 10 mids by years end. In the end I paid the big bucks on Pendelbury as I don't see his price dropping anytime soon
JPK is already in my team. Very happy
Gone with JPK & Priddis purely on the poor output from players under contractual 'clouds'. All have their own unique reasons for sh!thouse year. Parker I think is the interesting one….when to pull the trigger, should I pull the trigger?
This is just my opinion but im over JPK I feel there are POD options out there that can do the same if not better.
I have always felt that JPK was a bit of a boring player, but he keeps racking up 100's.
I'm having a closer look at Heppell for an extra $30k… thoughts?
JPK if you don't have too many round 12 bye midfielders
JPK for mine Sarah. I'll take the boringly predictable 100's any day!
I really want Dalhaus in my team, is it a good time to pick him up now or should I wait?
Help community 🙂
have had him in since week one. I would day it is too late though. Doubt he is top 6. I will look to upgrade him after byes.
Looking at their draw, they have an easier fixture after the bye……and they’re 4-1 after a “tough” five rounds. Why waste a trade? He’s bringing steady tons
Jdogg why would you even contemplate trading out Dahlhaus?
Definitely locked and loaded, when do you suggest I try to bring him in
It is a good time
What about Goddard, who would you pick out of them?
I'm bringing him in this week and wanted him from rd 1. Clear fwd keeper for mine
Salem & Rich to Glenn & JPK?
Holding Lewis as he's only out for 2, but means i have to put Glenn on the field….
Unless Heeney returns or Jed Anderson plays, whats the chance of this?
Heeney should be back