SuperCoach Panic Room: Round 10
To paraphrase our Lord and saviour and also Patch’s favourite band from the 90’s (and also currently his favourite band), Smash Mouth, ‘the disasters start coming and they don’t stop coming,’ which is how I feel this week. I’ve been waffling on in the last few weeks in the Panic Room about upgrade season, but every time I try to update I’m forced to again field a crap rookie (I’m looking at you Michael Gibbons) because I’ll lose a premium to injury or Chris Scott just being a jerk.
There are so many outs and drops this week it feels like the bye weeks are starting early. Which in a way is great because that means my week will be a disaster straight away, it usually takes until Sunday for the wheels to fall off completely. Always look on the bright side of things.
It just wouldn’t be a weekend without muttering angrily at fanfooty so I’m back for another week of footy goodness to dive into. The podcast is really moving up in the world being on Spotify and all (Lek tells me this is good…?). Barron is a magician that can somehow pump out a 3,000 word article about rookies impressing in the reserves and yet we have NONE at AFL level (except for you Noah Balta, ex oh). I assume everyone is VC’ing Grundy tonight, just in case he fails Damo has got plenty of captain choices for us to fall back on, and Matty is making the role of cursed cheat sheet writer his own with another beauty this week.
The News
It really is all hands on deck this week. Entire benches have been wiped out and many are facing on-field donuts if finalised Sunday teams continue with the carnage theme. For tonight, Buddy and JPK are back to strengthen the Swans, James Rowbottom was panic traded into a few sides last week and has been dropped. Daniel Wells will play his first game of the year, as will Jack Madgen, who gets the unenviable task of stopping Buddy.
Hawthorn have also strengthened bringing into James Frawley and Chad Wingard. Dylan Moore and Big Boy make way. Port are debuting Peter Ladhams (RUC – 123.9k) for the injured Scott Lycett. Robbie Gray is also a returnee. Debutants from last week, Joe Atley and Joel Garner have been omitted. Tim English is back for the Dogs, but continuing the “drop all the rookies” theme for the week, Will Hayes and Lachie Young have been given the axe. LDU replaces Taylor Garner at the Roos. Bryce Gibbs continues his stop/start year, this time dropped for the returning Wayne Milera. West Coast have made 3 changes, but they won’t have much of an impact in long form SuperCoach. Chris Burgess has amazingly been recalled, yes we’re at the point of the year where a guy averaging 37 is a saviour for many to avoid a donut. Some big moves at the cats, Patrick Dangerfield won’t play this week and Charlie Constable has been dropped again. No Esava means Darcy Fort survives another week, Tom Atkins also returns after a week out. Joe Daniher is out of the Dreamtime clash against Richmond. Callum Coleman-Jones (RUC/FWD – 123.9k) has Bradbury’d his way to a debut.
On Sunday, Zac Williams will miss with his sore hammy. Cogs and Jackson Hately are on the extended bench for the Giants, as is Brayden Preuss for the Dees. Matt Parker, Will Setterfield, and Liam Stocker are all on extended benches for the clash of the titans that will be Saints v Carlton. Kade Simpson will make his return. Freo have again named Brett Bewley (MID – 117.3k), can you hurry up and play him please Ross? Connor Ballenden (FWD – 123.9k) has been named by the Lions. They also regain Luke Hodge, while Archie Smith is on the extended bench.
The House of Evil
Despite a few debuts last week there’s really no-one I’d go early on if you can avoid it, especially with the mid season draft on Monday we could get some better options next week.
These rookies come with a free frogurt! (that’s good)
These premiums come with Potassium Benzoate (that’s bad)
Can I go now? (Trade bait)
Smooth Kevy’s Lock of the Week
You really should be tripping over yourself to bring in Lachie Whitfield this week. If his price wasn’t tantalising enough, Zac Williams’ hamstring is playing up which points to even more responsibility (and points) for Lachie. Fresh off pulverising the Blues, his price actually dropped 18k due the injury effected 45 in round 6. His b.e is still a healthy 117 this week, so you could get away with holding for a week, but he really is head and shoulders the best pick this week.
If you already have him, for only $300 more you can pick off Jake Lloyd who is available the at the lowest price he’s been at this season.
Hey Now, You’re a Draftstar
Dreamtime! I love this game, I’ve been a few times myself and it’s an awesome experience. Let’s have a look.
RUC
Dig a little deeper at maybe the “taking the cheap ruck” isn’t as cut and dried tomorrow night.
Richmond give up 93DS to the opposition number 1 ruck this season (107DS last 4) but the returning Shaun McKernon (9.4k) has muddied the waters a bit. Despite Tom Bellchambers (10.1k) having a handy record against Richmond (93DS from 3) he has averaged 61DS with McKernon in the side this year and 70DS without. In the 14 games they’ve played together, Belly averages 74. It’s respectable, but you won’t be getting value from him.
Callum Coleman-Jones (5k) get his shot from being the last left standing rather than outstanding VFL form. His numbers per game (12.5 disposals (5.8 kicks), 4 tackles, 3 marks, 7.8 hitouts) don’t leap off the page, but good enough to put up 50-60DS value game if he can hit those benchmarks.
FWD
Noah Balta (6.4k) is the chalkiest lock and load value play tomorrow night. Josh Begley (5.8k) scored 54 last week and will be good value again if he can back that up. Josh Caddy (10.5k) has a handy record against Essendon, who are about middle of the road when it comes to curtailing medium forwards. He also saw more mid time last week as the Tigers try to get bigger bodies through the middle. Trying to pick which Tiger small forward will go off is difficult, Liam Baker (8.4k) has the safest floor due to some more midfield minutes. Richmond have had their problems holding medium forwards if you want to have a flyer on Jake Stringer (9.8k). Dusty (MID / 13.9k) has a ridiculous average of 125 in his past 5 against the Bombers and was back in a big way last week, scoring 135DS.
DEF
“Attacking Richmond via the backline” may not be a thing anymore. The 113DS conceded to medium defenders since round 1 has shrunk to 90DS over the past 4. Conversely, Essendon’s 93DS season average has risen to 99DS over the past month.
As a card carrying member of the Sydney Stack (MID / 10.1k) fan club I love him here and pretty much everywhere. Shane Edwards (MID / 10.2k) loves this fixture, and Nick Vlastuin’s price (10.6k) hasn’t caught up with his recent output. At the top end, Brandon Ellis (MID / 13k) has flourished since being moved onto a wing and Bachar Houli (12.9k) has scored above 113DS in 3 of his past 4.
For value, David Astbury (7.7k) has reeled in 23 marks in two weeks and without Joe Daniher to keep him busy, could see another value smashing game.
MID
Nothing under 10k appeals to me here. Zach Merrett (15.8k) is a lock against a midfield that doesn’t tag. Darcy Parish (11.3k) has scored between 87-93 in his last 4 against Richmond, and there’s plenty of DPP’s highlighted above you can put into your mids.
I’d be praying to the SuperCoach Gods this week, community. It’s gonna be a tough one!
Love ti again Kev! My favourite article for the week.
Think i'm gonna hold Williams, and if hes out next week, straight sideways trade to sicily.
Was gonna trade Parker due to high BE but with the carnage he survives for another couple of weeks.
Looking at Moore/ROB – Young and Constable – Whitfield. Few concerns though. I noticed Whitfield has a poor record against the dees. Should we just be ignoring that and hope he drops a little next week?
Also trade out Moore or ROB? I think moore will make a little more cash, but ROB is a warm body and could be useful if he gets to round 13?
Would love yout houghts community!
I have a similar problem, think Moore will play more if fit so I would trade ROB in your position. I'm going Parker to Young and Moore to Whitfield keeping Williams, Drew and Constable. At least I'm currently happy with the 3 on field when playing and they won't loose money like Parker will this week. Have to trade Moore to reach Whitfield but Constable/Drew would of gone if the cash was there.
Cheers, Tommy. I’ve tried so many different combinations of trades for this week. It’s awful. If Twitter is any indication, the carnage will be felt far and wide.
Get Whitfield any way you can. Won’t be this cheap for long
Ugly. <img draggable="false" class="emoji" alt="🙈" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11.2.0/svg/1f648.svg">
Only way to describe it or could say hang on this is gonna get messy!
With Kennedy to play for the blues could get real ugly real quick at 5pm tonight. <img draggable="false" class="emoji" alt="🤭" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11.2.0/svg/1f92d.svg">
Geez Kev.
You do know two teams play in draft stars dont ya? 🤣
Haha. Look maybe a bit of bias crept in there 😜 My game script is Richmond will smash ‘em but if Essendon can make a game of it Shiel and Stringer are not a bad shout in the mids. I hate Shaun McKernon but he’ll probably play key forward and Richmond struggles against height, same with Belly if he’s resting forward. Aaron Francis played fwd last week and looked okay, unfortunately he’s def only
This type of week will kill us during the byes, I have Danger, Crouch, Williams, Moore, Constable and Drew as regular on fielders. Won't have a doughnut but fielding some meek averages this week.
This does not sound good for Libba and Dunkley. From the coach on Lipinsky:
"There were a few things Pat's been working on and this whole start to the VFL season he's played as an inside mid for Footscray. We've been rapt with his progress there and how he's blossoming, so we'll give him an opportunity as an inside mid at AFL level," Beveridge said.
Mr. Magnets at it again!
20K – 21 Trades Thinking Collins, Duursma or Gibbons. Just not sure who to trade in.
Thoughts welcome.
Laird, Sicily, Whitfield, Clark, Duursma, Answerth, (Burgess, Collins)
Macrae, Cripps, Fyfe, Neale, Libba, Walsh, Setterfield, Atkins, (Hayes, Scott, Gibbons)
Gawn, Grundy, (Bines)
Heeney, Boak, T Kelly, Dunkley, Balta, Corbett (Parker, Danger)
Good work Kev!
Panic indeed – 5 players on extended benches! Black cats and broken mirrors have come early this season.
My dilemma is to go for Whitfield now or wait another week. 23 trades and low cash. Have the top 5 mids, and defence ok, incl Lloyd, Laird, Williams.
Considering the below…
1. Walsh & Drew to Oliver & Young;
2. Walsh & Drew to Whitfield & Young.
Thoughts community?
Do I base the decision above on bye structures,
Point generation or value for $?
Whitfield is the top player in his position, Oliver isn't. Get him in.
Thanks Finnius. Do you think he will out score Oliver or is it line ball?
I think he will probably outscore him. Even if they are the same, the fact that Whitfield is a defender gives you the opportunity to get a higher averaging player in the mids – i.e. Whitfield over Stewart is more valuable than Cripps over Oliver.
Yeah true. Risky week with no bench cover for the week but reckon I’m not alone.
Currently having issues with Williams, Moore, Constable, Hayes, Hately, Dangerfield and Drew.
Makes it difficult to upgrade fattened (and not so fattened) rookies like Petrucelle, Parker, Clark, Gibbons, Duursma, Stack and O'Brien.
Not to mention Libba.
So there's half the team on some sort of sad case!
19 trades 230k
I have my injuries on the bench already with *’s
DEF: hurn sicily BSmith Duursma Clark Answerth (williams* burgees)
MID: Cripps Fyfe Oliver Treloar TKelly Brayshaw Walsh Atkins ( Crouch* Scott Setters)
RUCK: Gawn ROB (bines)
FWD: Cameron Heeney Dunkley Rozee Larkey MLewis (danger* Moore*)
I have two options: this will leave me with 5k
Moore ->Marshall
Walsh -> macrae/Whitfield
Or I can do: leaving me with 20k
Moore -> macrae and hold Walsh and pass on Marshall Walsh .
Rozee moore Burgess answerth duursma setters allows a lot of flexibility which has been crucial
Like option one, Mav. Whitfield over Macrae. Walsh still scoring okay but slowly losing the cash he made. Jump off now
Thanks Kev.
Hopefully longer isn’t named tonight if he is I’ll pass on Moore -> Marshall I’ll wait before I lock it in.
Call me crazy but I am considering brayshaw to Whitfield instead of Walsh Kev. reasons being he has tonned up 3 times and a R14 bye could be nice cover! Brayshaw has that dreaded R13 and lower avg only 1 Ton both the exact same price too…
do you not think brayshaw/walsh is too 'luxury'?
i think so
Do you guys think Stocker will make the cut this week? If not i'm fielding a donut
I think he’ll keep his spot
Im worried simmo could push him out
As was i Tommy, all good now though
Stocker is in AB
Beautiful, keen for a 45
He’s been getting the ball, I reckon he’ll go ok.
Westhoff now that Lycett out 🤔
What is Ladhams like? Ruck?
He is a ruckman. Just don’t think he plays as many mins. Westhoff good for my byes. Ruck swing, want to see if Parker & Setters plays.
wayyyyy too much unpredictability for mine shake.
I would not touch Westhoff until Dixon is back which will release him from full forward
O’brien & Moore out
Heeney and Simpson in (via Bines)
Thoughts?
Hately's ownership is up to 17.3%, go figure. Could be sitting on the bench for the entire bye rounds.
Can't go wrong with either but Lloyd or Whitfield this week, who should I bring in?
Probably makes sense to go Whitfield as in 2 weeks his price will be through the roof.
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Who is best FWD to bring in , money no issue.All ready have Kelly Walters Heeney Danger
Honestly really like Marshall, and he's got the blues this week
tend to agree Sinny. Even Mundy might be an option although very expensive
Boak. He has a highish BE but is capable of getting it. Looking like a top 10 player, overall.
Boak if money’s no option..
with limited cash generation this year I’m going for value & getting Marshall this week consistently over 90 each week. 🔐
Boak for sure. Good bye as well
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Buddy kick 6 on Madgen last time he was in for the pies? Seems strange, are they going for 8 tonight or will he slay the dragon.
I think last time out, he only kicked one playing on Madgen. He kicked all of his goals on other defenders
Walsh to Mcrae or Williams to Whitfield?
Is walsh to Whitfield possible?
He must have Duursma or Answerth
Yup. Hopefully he has one If not both if so that’s the move I’d be making.
Cheers Mav N Holty yeh ive got xav and noah but no dpp mids!
Duursma & answerth both in ya backline? Perfect if so swing one into the middle and it opens up a new mid/def swing that’s what I’m doing this week redd. Rozee Burgess & Moore’s swing have got me out of trouble several times with all this carnage.
That's all good until you trade them out and don't have the DPP anymore.
Yeh Mav cant swing one into the middle without a dpp defender in my mids to swing back? Mid bench is gibbons hayes n rowbottom with stack n walsh onfield.
can you not hit trade on walsh press 's' on duursma swing him into your mids and buy whitfield, redd?
Wow was not aware that was possible mav! 5th season of SC and had no idea!
Did you never wonder why there was an 'S' on other lines mid trade Redd?…at least you know now, should be a game changer for you from here on out.
Fwd to back, fwd to mid, ruck to fwd, def to mid…play around with it, before the round starts next week.
You can do all sorts of funky trading shenanigans now 🙂
Haha yeh im really lookin forward to trying it out Rusty. I honestly have never noticed it. I really thought you could only swap them on field. 🤯🤯 Sittin in the top 1% time to push on. Really appreciate the advice as always
Fellas. My forward line has been ripped open. I've got Lycett, De Goey, Danger and Schultz all out.
If Stocker & Setterfield are named I can go Gibbons & Lycett > Young & Boak, moving Danger to my mid bench and having Stocker cover.
If not I'll have only $520K to upgrade so I can get Boak. Best option sub $520K? Would it be Heeney?
Forgot to mention if I do that I have no room for Boak.
Forward line is Kelly, Dunkley, De Goey, Danger, Marshall, Lycett (Schultz, Setterfield)
How much do you want to keep DeGoey?
Did you go for Heeney? If not, jump on Hawkins. He’s been poking along, getting around 100 most weeks. A huge score is coming his way soon (starting at 7:25 tonight). Cameron is another option, but he has a huge breakeven – which he still might get.
Should’ve taken your advice! Ended up going Boak as I still think he will be a top 6 forward, but at the moment Hawkins is looking the goods
who is thinking matt parker wont make the final 22 this week?
Dunstan and Acres are locks so its between Parker, Coffield, Long, White, Longer and Clark for 2 spots. If saints don't go the extra ruck i think he should be alright, although i dont know the form of the other blokes
He is in Big G.
Was it Melbourne who tagged Whitfield last year. He scored a 50ish?
Yes, 61.
B Scott looks likes he’s gone b4 season ends
The coach or the player Shake?
Coach
Coach TH
Great call Shake, he's out.
Who's a higher priority to trade out? Walsh (and get Lloyd/Whitfield) or Duursma (and get Dunkley/Marshall)?
Walsh trade is a bigger premo get, but I'd also be trading out the rookie with the better points production. No matter which trade I do, the other rookie will need to play this round.
Setterfield out.
Stocker and Parker hold their spots.
Bewley to debut…finally.
Stocker and Parker keep their spots, Setterfield dropped.
Bewley to finally debut
Ha ha. Great minds Tommy
ahahaha great minds indeed Hedski
B long gets a gig.
Setterfield dropped too, wonderful. Need to go early on either hinge or young? Who do people recommend?
Young for sure
Bewley
Wow Parker kept his spot unbelievable haha hopefully he can bag 3 or 4 goals against the Blues this weekend
Drew to Young
Duursma to Whitfield
I'll be fielding exactly 22 this week no bench at all! I am in the hands of the supercoach gods now please will the gods let me stay inside the top 2K this week!
I've gone Duursma to Lloyd this week but only have 21 on field because I have Dangerfield, Drew and Setterfield out in the forward line. Should I use the second trade to go Walsh to Worpel and move one of those into the mid or Drew down to Young. Got 90k in the bank.
Cheers
I'm taking the punt on Young to avoid the donut.
Fingers are crossed.
same. don't even know what he looks like, but he's in my team.
Mature aged, renowned for his pace, tackling and forward pressure, surely the Saints will give him a run of games…
Heeney? Buddy's back and Heeney is named on the wing – only 453K
I’m taking the punt on wills
I'm fielding Lockhart instead of Answerth and Young instead of Parker this week, watch them both tonne up while my on field players both do an acl in the first 5 minutes
Nah if anybody breaks it will be the bargain defender that I just got for $556,400 optimists.
Who suffers more in supercoach the eternal optimist or the eternal pessimist?
Atkins or Butters onfield?
Butters I reckon might go ok in the wet, I’m vcing rocky in the hope of rain and mud and contested posies everywhere
Atkins against the suns Ranger.
Butters looking like he needs a run in the magoos for mine. Surprised Drew didn't come back in for him. Atkins against the Suns will get amoungst it
Is whitfield or Macrae priority this week?
which even i don't get tonight may be on my wishlist til post byes.
feel i'm a bit light in the mids too but happy to get which ever 🙂
do you have Neale?
nope and cannot afford him sadly
20K – 21 Trades Thinking Collins, Duursma or Parker to go.
Like everyone, feeling stuck this week. Trade option strategies welcome.
Maybe Marshall, Houli, Billings. I don't know.
Laird, Sicily, Whitfield, Clark, Duursma, Answerth, (Burgess, Collins)
Macrae, Cripps, Fyfe, Neale, Libba, Walsh, Gibbons, Atkins, (Hayes, Scott, Setterfield)
Gawn, Grundy, (Bines)
Heeney, Boak, T Kelly, Dunkley, Balta, Corbett (Parker, Danger)
Let me know your trade advice. Cheers
Not much cash there Dash.
Parker to Young and Walsh to Dusty???
Was considering holding Walsh there.
Had considered Duursma and Collins, but not sure what to do there. Can't go to Hurn/Lloyd, Potentially could do something with Houli
I'd be looking to get rid of Collins, out for 6 weeks, maybe to Marsh, and one of your 3 non playing mid rookies out to Stocker or Bewley maybe…even DPP for Young.
At least then you'll have some money next week.
You reckon I hold Duursma for one more. He's the one with the most money for me at the moment, besides Walsh.
I reckon hold Walsh and Libba until Byes or did you like the Dusty option.
Hey Dash, don't mind the Dusty option but you need some cash generation and some cash, your mid bench is dead at the moment.
I'd double down the injured/non players.
That's true. Do you think keep Gibbons, Atkins and Parker. Which one would you get rid of?
I'd keep em, and anyone who's playing this week, except maybe Parker to Young. .but Collins has to go, I'd actually go Collins and Scott out but you could go Parker out to Young.
Who should I bring in for constable this week, rupert wills, brett bewley or mitchell hinge (swinging duursma or lockhart to my mids), I currently have 2 donuts in the mids with setterfield/crouch/hayes/drew and constable out, also is it better to trade o'brien out for macrae this week as his cash generation has peaked or to trade crouch to macrae and keep o'brien for one more week?
Need a downgrade option, is Stocker okay? Don't want to go early on Young.
He did some good things in his 2nd game, probs end up one of those 50 average rooks.
How many games we reckon Hately gets. One and done, again?
Don't know whether it's relevant to your question Rick but he didn't make it again.
Ah yep, none is the answer. Will end up with a 90 average.
2 and done maybe, the 2 he's already played, coach musn't rate him.
If gets associated with SOS in any way scratch him off your list. That guy has bought more spuds than the smiths chip factory!
He was recruited last year? Don’t know how that has anything to do with SOS
Not sure what you're on about mate
😂😂😂😂
Can't understand it. Last year 18yo and playing against men in the SANFL. Was rated just behind Lukosius Rankine and Rozee.
Setterfield out welp looks like I’m eating krispy kreme’s
who is the better option Wills or Young?
If I get Wills = Parker is F6 this week
If I get young he will be F6 this week
Wills will be M10
104k + 21 trades
Hurn, Lloyd, WILLIAMS, Hore, Duursma, Answerth – Burgess, Lockhart
Cripps, Fyfe, Oliver, Macrae, MCROUCH, Danger, Walsh, Atkins – Setters, BScott, Stocker
Grundy, Gawn – ROB
Kelly, Daniel, Heeney, Dahlhaus, Drew, Petruccelle – Balta, Corbett
Traded Cogs last week after given an excuse to do so.
Looking to try to keep Williams and Crouch as a result of that and I think they're worth keeping.
Because of these out, looking to keep Walsh for some pts this week, even though I know he's high BE.
Need Whitfield so looking at the following, is this the best I can do this week?
Drew + Petrucelle > Whitfield + Young
Danger is also out cash_cows so you may need to revise ya plans or you could get a donut?
Yeah just forgot to move him in the write up. It'll have to be stocker on field.
Very bare bones team.
What you reckon? The trades I have lined up are the best I can do?
Anyone have a decent read on Z Williams' injury? Will it only be a week or two or more likely 3-4 and not play again till after the byes?
Noone knows Mick and GWS have a history of hiding seriousness and lenghts of injuries just look at greene & JKelly.
I'm yet to see any rock solid articles i'll hold though his ceiling is high he'll be a nice D6 for me i hope
I'm holding this week until we hear more. If he needs to be traded next week Sicily is ripe for the picking
Officially GWS are saying 2 weeks
Looks like ROB & Drew for Whitfield & Young is the go for me. Don’t like going early on Rookies but I need to make 2 trades to avoid a donut
Hinge better then a young?
Young's got the better bye, but will depend on him getting goals to score ok probably.
Unless constable gets a hail mary call tomorrow dont expect him to be a late in as apparently wasnt on the flight up to the gold coast.
I heard Geelong have sent emergencies up away with the main group a few times last year. I dont expect him to play either but ya never know
Trades done.. covered all on field positions but not one bloke on my bench is playing. 4 injuries and 4 selected as emergencies on bench.
Good luck this week then PizzaCat…hope there's no late outs for ya.
I'm lucky enough to have cover on every line but am having to field 6 rookies so it'll be an average score week.
Ahh bye week scores 🙊
With setters out no choice gotta trade to avoid a 🍩
Thanks Rusty, I'm going to need some luck, good luck to you too. I have 9 rookies on field, definitely not expecting a good score this round!
7 rookies on for me Russty.
ROB and Drew out, Young and Fyfe in.
Danger, Williams and Crouch on the bench.
I can loop Durrsma with Answorth and Petrol with Parker/Young.
Not ideal but what can ya do?
Same. A full team on-field but now bench options this week. I just calculated how much value I have on my bench… $2,904,500!!! Im still projected to get 2220. If I hit 2200+ this week i'll be very happy
Ditto.
At least I don’t have Parker or Burgess.
(hope you don’t either)
I have Williams, Danger and M. Crouch all out this week, and I’m playing for ranking. Is it the right thing to hold onto all of those three even though I’m trying to get a high rank?
I’ve currently gone Moore and Duursma to Lloyd and Young via Burgess… are those trades good? I can field 22 this week, 13 of those being premiums and one is Libba.
Lloyd is a gun and a must have.
Danger and Crouch will be back next week.
If there is bad news about Williams, meaning he misses more than 2, he can go
A – Bring in Boak, offload Gibbons
B – Bring in Heeney, offload Hayes early
A
Going Parker to Young and Drew to Boak. Thoughts?
Yep 👍
I went; Gibbons, Drew OUT
Whitfield, Young IN
Whitfield could go mental in the games up to his bye!
Lloyd or Whitfield this week? And why?
Whitfield because no Williams.
And likely to go ballistic until his bye
Whitfield. Although I don't think Williams being out is good for him. Williams didn't play H&A last year and Whitfield made All Australian halfback but only averaged 100. Williams plays the 2 finals and Whitfield smashes 2x130s.
Is it just me, or is there very little articles/info around in the supercoachsphere about the addition of the mid-season draft this year? It is the catalyst for a huge injection of rookies to help us navigate the byes more easily than ever before. All I keep reading about is "where are the rookies". In 2-3 rounds we may have a candy store full of sweet cash cow goodies to choose from.
I guess with all the carnage this round some may need to go early on a rookie too cover a donut. But if you can avoid it, I would recommend holding trades this week as we will have a greater incentive than ever before to use all 9 trades over the three bye rounds.
Because of the mid-season draft and the assumed injection of rookie options to cover holes, I actually dont fear the byes at all. Are you guys feeling similarly?
My question is will Champion Data put these mid-season draft rookies into Supercoach at all?
Of course! That would be just cruel if they didnt.
I wouldn't count on it Saritz, not much flexibility in SC, Marshall should've been made a DPP Ruck but they refuse to do it.
I agree about trades, and am hoping not to trade this week only cause I can, many have to.
At the moment I can almost get 18 or more on field in all 3 bye rounds so not keen to change much.
Saritz, I think your being a little naive here, the mid season draft isn necessarily going to bring in 'ready made talent' to blood as soon as recruited. It will be exploited and used as picking up players before the AFL draft in November and AFL clubs will then be able to develop the talent within the AFL club.
Would find it rare that some bloke gets picked up from WAFL, VFL, SANFL etc. and jump ahead of players already on an AFL list, these players may prove to be good, but might need some development time and also be behind those already at the club they are drafted to.
I am not confident they get an early run. They are probably not AFL ready, don’t know the team plans and structures. Hopefully wrong, but just the way I am seeing it at the moment
I agree with points being raised here. But if thats the case, then the mid-season draft is basically a sham then. I would argue if less than 50% of those selected dont get at least a game, then it should be scrapped
I do agree with Saritz. The whole point of a mid season draft was so teams could fill holes created by injuries on their list with ready to go players. If teams start adding potential/development players it should be scrapped.
Yep. Otherwise it’s just an easy grab for teams to take advantage get some late blooming talent and stockpile a player (or two) that may have been a 2nd round pick in the PSD. Maybe there has to be a rule that players picked up in the mid season draft have to play at least 2 games (barring injuries)?
On the other side of the coin. IMO the mid season draft is just so wrong in that it has the potential to greatly disadvantage the clubs who lose a player. The player may have been playing at, say, state league level for half a year and the club then loses a player who, most probably, is one of their better players who may not even get a game in the AFL.
Yep, it compromises the integrity of the reserve competitions for sure. Essentially, a player (assuming they don’t play AFL) could swap clubs mid season and make that new club better and their old club far worse off. All the more reason an AFL mid-season needs to ensure traded in players play a minimum number of AFL games. It will be interesting to see how it plays out and what fallout might occur.
Who should I trade out to get in Young ( going early due to half my team being out) Constable or Setterfield?
Constable. Get that $$
Clearly the coach doesn't think he's best 22.
Setters can always find his way back in to underperforming blues + DPP.
I traded out Constable. With Danger back next week I just dont see him getting back in. Whereas if Setters has a good weeks in the magoos, he'll be straight back in
Hahaa, I have 9 rookies on field .. including poopster Parker.. be lucky to crack 2000 this week..
Parker could have one of those weeks where he doesn't fall asleep after the 1st quarter, and maybe kicks a couple of snags, we can only dream…lol
A couple of goals and no free kicks against would do it.