Festival of Fantasy | Day 14
The never-ending season of sportsball continues on its merry way today, which someone told me was Monday. Two games of football? On a Monday?! Lord have mercy.
Anyway, St Kilda and Geelong play a game which could be at literally any ground in the country outside Victoria and I wouldn’t be surprised, while Freo and Hawthorn clash in Perth.
Tobe Watson’s been dropped, Angus Brayshaw will* play, Sam Simpson’s been rested – it’s all happening.
CAPTAINS
If you haven’t VC’d Jack Macrae, Clayton Oliver, Lachie Neale or Christian Petracca then I don’t know what to tell you. You’ve goofed. If you’ve goofed , maybe you have chance for redemption. Maybe
Tom Mitchell is good at football – specifically getting the football. He’s also good at scoring points. He might get some attention from Crowden tonight but honestly he’ll still have 30 touches. Nat Fyfe has been flagged to play forward in the wet – I’d avoid. Could you go #BrayshawBreakout? Magic Eight Ball says: if you’re Damo.
In the other game, Jack Steele and Patrick Dangerfield have been scoring oodles of points this year and you’d back them in to do it again. Mitch Duncan might be a decent POD skipper, but I’m not going there after he only just scraped the 100 last week.
I can tell you for free Jade Gresham isn’t a good pick, because I picked him over Dusty aS a PoD sElEcTiOn and he scored me 50-bloody-five.
BREAKEVENS
Do we even look at these any more? I don’t know? What do numbers mean? I’m losing my goddam mind!
-33 – Caleb Serong
0 – Nick Hind
10 – Lachie Schultz
23 – Gryan Miers
23 – Brad Close
25 – Jack Bytel
32 – Max King
55- Chadley Wingard
212 – Joel Selwood
158 – Nat Fyfe
150 – Paddy Ryder
130 – Paddy Dangerfield
121 – Ben Long
116 – Jack Steele
NEW FACES
Jack Bytel is a human being who plays football for St Kilda and is someone you can select in your Supercoach side. Apparently he’s good? We’ll find out. He’s a $123k midfielder, if that helps.
How is your team looking after four games? Did you nail the VC? What is happening with holding the ball? Let us know in the comments!
Do we think Simpson gets back anytime soon? My mid bench is a walking mess with McInerny, Simpson & Bennell.
I'll be doing Budarick or Simpson to Schoenberg
Yes simpson will be back next week no doubt
Confused? If l have Whitfield and Kelly on ground and put the emergency on all 3 of Mahoney,BUdarick and Schoenberg do l get the 2 highest or lowest scores. Help
You get the two lowest. If you don’t want Mahoney 38, then you can still swap Schoenberg and Budarik for Kelly and Whitfield
Looks like Ridley will be alright to play this week.
Thank God for that Russty. He is a star in the making. Where did you hear he should be good to play? Cheers,
An article in the Age, woosha said he expects him to play…it's not definite though.
Budarick to Adams or Simpson to Titch?
I'm thinking of holding Simpson because he still has some money to make and he should be back next week, I also like Adams as a pod.
Simpson to Titch for me Hedski. Cheers. TH
I was looking at trading Titch, but it's out of Simpson or Noble?
Done TH
Adams is too much of an injury risk for me Hedski.
And Titch has had his bye.
Titch it is thanks fellas.
Schoenberg or Ruscoe?
Gotta do this trade now too before the cats game, don't know much about Schoenberg but I liked Ruscoe, DPP could be handy too.
Flip a coin of those two?
You'd think Schoenberg has pretty good JS but Ruscoes DPP is handy so….
Hmmmm.
I’m tossing up too. Leaning to Schoenberg based on job security. Pies have a lot of mid sized forwards that can take Ruscoe’s role
Ryder won’t play tonight
Noble or Simpson trade for Titch?
I traded Simpson to Titch (I also traded Noble the week he tonned up)
Ruscoe and Titch in.
Come on Cattas 👍🍻
Good game so far Russty and Gator 🖕😁
Cheers mate, hoping Sainters can get up although Cats look good and Danger and Duncan have hardly got going yet.
Field day or McPherson
McPherson.
Looks like I will be getting Bytel and Wicks in next round.
Bytel if named next week is coming in. Looked great in the first half.
He's done enough for me, just have to wait to see if he gets picked again.
Shame about the rest of the team, bunch of bloody spuds!
I own no Saints players. Too many turd droppers. I like Bytel. He has some pizazz about him.
I've had Steele for awhile who's been good but not so much tonight, his de is 50 %
Yeah nice stats for Bytel, good CP and Clearance numbers, 18 disposals, nice debut.
Should keep his spot no worries.
Disappointing tonight Russty, you needed to kick 12.1 again to be a chance.
Back to our good ole can't scoring ways John, I could barely watch, especially after 3 blokes in the goalsquare allowed Dangerfield's 65 metre kick to bounce through for a goal.
That would hurt.
Your Dees are starting to turn things around mate, that's encouraging.
It helps when you play the bottom two clubs in a row, get a bit of confidence back, Collingwood will be the test.
Yep kinda like the test we had tonight, and failed miserably…hope your blokes go better mate.
Held off on Schoe this week only used 2 trades really wanted to see how Bytel went
Thinking the same DJ
Already had Wicks on my watchlist, added Bytel last night, I get them in next round and I should have mostly playing rookies on my benches.
I need to pick one of Grundy or Titch for C, and Cameron being named scares me a bit from going on Grundy, especially given the team tactics the Crows could impose on him, which worked against Gawn.
Thoughts on who I go with?
Help…. Haha
Titch then mate…easy 🙂
Titch on 72 at 3/4 time Cliffy, I hope he comes home stong with the points for ya mate.
Butler was disappointing Not sure he is the real deal yet Bytel however looks a chance at least in sc
Is it worth bringing in Schoenberg this week and missing out on one of Wick or Bytel next week, for the extra week of cash generation? Or better to wait and be able to bring in the two better looking rookies next week?
Most rookies only look good for a week or 2 before they revert to…50 per week if you're lucky.
I passed on Wicks this week but brought Schoenberg in, (59 for a debut is alright with me)..with Bytel, I'd like to know he'll keep his spot once the rested Jones comes back in next week before considering him.
Wicks looked alright despite his indiscretion with the illegal metal stud incident that injured Quaynor.
Hawks look pretty awful tonight, think Clarko maybe should've gotten out a bit earlier and let someone else take over, it's sad cause they were a powerhouse side for many years but that was 5 years ago. If I was Clarko I would've gone and played Golf lol
Fremantle had 99 more disposals than the Hawks….. Fremantle!
I can’t watch them anymore
SHill’s score will be counted in my best 28 ahead of Chad’s
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I feel your pain Derek, the Saints reverted back to the usual Saints tonight, the last time I felt proud of them was 10 years ago, and that ended in disappointment.
I'm surprised you still have Hill in your side, he was somewhere we should never have gone lol
Holding Brayshaw after his poor start has to be my best decision this year. Not a whole lot to choose from though haha
Hey AB, I was just reading the comments in that other place, fanfooty and half those blokes were regretting trading out Brayshaw too early, I was too dumb to believe in him in the first place , and many others this year lol
Hawks just let him do what he wanted. No pressure at all
Yeah he was free to roam huh
The hawks will play the occasional good game, but their opponents midfield usually score very well.
Look to see who the hawks play, especially in draft
I think the moral here is to trust in Damo
What shits me is….I picked Brayshaw, Petracca, Viney, Greenwood etc in other years where they completely failed…just not in the year they finally became players.
Know the feeling mate or i just dismissed them as duds ,petracca always thought he was ordinary at sc How wrong
I hate to admit you might be right. The man is smart.
Praise be our lord and Damiour
I love my young guns, Oliver, Petracca, Brayshaw.
Had brayshaw from round 1. He's doing better than expected.
Do we have 2 or 3 trades next round
3
Next round is best 22?
Yep, back to 22 next week
I needed just 2 of my rookies to have a decent score. So far Close is the best of them with a half decent score. Pickett, Aarts, Hill, Rivers haven’t cracked 60. Chad gave me a rookie score as well. Rankine is my last hope (Budarick on bench).
It’s been the year of the rookies scoring 50’s
50 to 60 is all I expect from my rookies this season, anything over is celebrated, anything below, no comment.
Hey Derek,
Where can i find the group code for the JR Survivor group please.
Hey Derek,
I've found it. Thanks for organising this.
Ok
Where would i find the code Derek? EAGLE POWER div 1…..love playing this format , much appreciated.
SuperCoach is a funny game, last week I could only field 19 players and I thought I was in for a bad round, I scored 2,054 and won 8/10 games. This round was supposed to be the easy round with 26 players to chose from for my 22 on field players after using my three trades on getting rid of three non playing rookies. I'm currently projected to score 1,945 and win 6/10 games, but with two games to go it's still to early to tell how it will pan out, what ever happens it sure hasn't been the easy round I was expecting.
Does Butler have to go this week?