The byes have returned to ruin all our lives. SuperCoach reverts to the best 18 format this week but you should have no problems fielding a pretty strong lineup this week with only Lachie Neale (owned by 56%) the major casualty. Rory Laird (24%) owners may also feel the pinch with backline rookies scarce and those that took a punt on the Big O alongside Sam Draper will be cursing their luck with Draper managed this week against Hawthorn.
The Newz
Three changes each for the Hawks and Bombers this afternoon, headlined by Joe Daniher playing his first game in over a year. Andrew Phillips returns with Sam Draper (managed) and Tom Bellchambers (injured) both out. Jono Ceglar and Jack Gunston return for the Hawks, Shaun Burgoyne is amongst the outs.
Richmond take on West Coast tonight at Metricon and both sides have made two changes. Thomson Dow makes his debut and Toby Nankervis returns to take on the inform Nic Nat. Mabior Chol gets a rest. West Coast are also unveiling a debutante in Bailey Williams. Mark Hutchings also returns for a probable shutdown role on Dusty Martin.
Teams news for tonights game between the Western Bulldogs and Geelong shouldn’t raise any concerns. The Dogs have replaced Ben Cavarra and Pat Lipinski with Tory Dickson and Will Hayes. Geelong gain some experienced heads in the form of Harry Taylor and Zach Tuohy. Esava Ratugolea and Jordan Clark are the ones to make way.
Breakevens
These players come with a free Frogurt (that’s good)
These players come with Potassium Benzoate (that’s bad)
That’s all from me today. I’ll be back over the weekend as more team news drops.
Is Conigliog a fallen Premo about to go on a run of 100+ scores – or a downhill skier with no heart in a soulless team?
Need a premo mid with only 521 to spend. He’s had his bye unlike other options.
Is Gawn back this week?
I think a fallen premo, if you look at the stats 19 disposals with half contested and 1 goals you would pencil in a 100, but 8 clangers hurt him which he doesn’t do every week, if not Travis boak is great value and touk Miller is an option
im seriously looking at JPK. his price is crazy low. He usually rips the back part of the year apart.
scored 80+ last game coming off a few weeks out but only 64% TOG
J riccardi BE of -33. Comes with Frogurt
he might not get a game if Finlayson is straight back in team
This weeks trades, what do you guys think?
Trading Out
– Izak Rankine
– Chad Wingard
– Sam Simpson
Trading In
– Jake Riccardi
– Andrew Brayshaw
– Zach Merrett
Like it Nathan!…Merrett for me too this week.
P.S Love your work Kev 🙂
Riccardi was only in because Finlayson was out. Can’t see him staying in the team if Finlayson comes back
Brayshaw might have a close encounter with debore if he come back
the Chad will go nuts, Essendon and Crows the next two, this is what us Chad owners have been waiting for. When hawks win games Chad scores 100+
Ben Stratton out of today’s game, if anyone was thinking of getting him in this week
Bugger
Is he being rested?…must be plum tuckered out from all the inspiring he does during games.
Hey guys, in a must-win cash league final so going all out. I can afford two premos but only have enough for $950k worth. Would love to hold off, downgrade and save a war chest for Neale but he’s useless the next two weeks and it’s now or never.
What do you think of:
OUT
Jake Aarts
John Noble
Andrew McPherson
IN
Jordan Ridley
Jack Martin
Irving Mosquito
Leaves me with $20,000
Nice Steve, Ridley is a beast and Martin has really come along this year and has proven he can go fairly big, hopefully Mozzie has more js than the other bloke Riccardi
Looking to trade out D Cameron, Ruscoe and either Hill or Mckay this week. My plan is to bring in either Mosquito or Riccardi for Cameron, however, Ruscoe is currently sitting on my DEF bench and as mentioned above, there are no defensive rookies unless I go with Bailey Williams who is debuting for the Eagles tonight and I am not sold on his JS. I can switch Rusoe with Rivers and trade Ruscoe to a MId Rookie ( either Bytel or Wicks – already have Close, Foot and Schoenberg. I would then trade Hill or Mckay to Maynard or Lukocious. My preference is to get Luke Ryan but don’t quite have enough cash.
Any thoughts or advice much appreciated.
I have $114k in bank.
I am looking at trading Georgiades, S Hill, Starcevic, S Hill
What would be your best 3 trade ins. I’ve got Laird down back also who isn’t playing.
Maybe Riccardi, Gould and L Ryan? Other thoughts?
Really frustrating when we have less than half the team sheets available and I have 16 minutes to decide whether to go with Mosquito or Riccardi for D Cameron.
I think the safe play is mozzie. Lot of hype around him i think he keeps playing. I want to bring both in but riccardi a very good chance of being dropped
I think his drink’s been spiked with insecticide
Tight for cash, 8 trades and 2 off full premo. Thoughts on Cameron & Mackay to Riccardi & May? Completes the backline and only leaves F6 to finish the team
Yeah you could, but Mckay’s been pretty good for a rook, a solid 65 average could provide a nice backup, if you mean Darcy Cameron, yeah he could go, May ain’t that attractive with an 87 average. You could go Cameron to Riccardi if you think he’ll keep his spot.
Great minds Gator 👍
Zerett doing good.
Zerrett – Good
Mozzie – Not So Much
Yeah pretty hard to ignore Hedski
My VC this week bud, I might survive another week in my only league final. 🙂
Do we think he’d Anderson is a genuine selection he’s a contested bull and is finding the pill.. Or Dunkley but when’s he getting his 2019 role back? I’m chasing value or else I won’t get to full premo :/
I think Jed or as you call him, (he’d) Anderson is turning into a bonafide beasty boy Mav 🙂 !
I pished Yeo off the other week for he’d in my draft squad and I haven’t looked back mate.
Yowza !!
Thanks for the input russty but I already pulled the trigger on dunks! Just need him to get that 2019 role back and he can explode.. Jed was probably the safer and smarter option haha
Dunks is good too mate, you’ll be right 🙂
Second one while I have ya fellas. Playing for leagues. Mcdonald, Zac Williams or Stewart? Leaning toward williams
I’d go Williams Mav
Thanks ranger.
Got Haynes in the picture too now hopefully Davis returns
Putting the Captain on DogDog and not taking Titch VC is gonna haunt me….bye bye finals.
🤮🔫
NIc Nat’s last 2 involvements in that qtr was 2 frees against one leading to a direct goal only lost 4 pts. Very lucky CD is Bullshit
That’s rough mate, hope you survive to fight another week in some of your finals
The diff between a C scoring 150 and Titch scoring 122 as C is only 28 points total
Isn’t it 56 points total russty?
I’m in the same boat it’s under my threshold but I think I might take it.
Only 28
Hey John, pretty sure Wingard was on about 35 points after the 1st quarter, so what the hell happened after that?…lol, he played 87 % gametime.
How can someone go so missing for 3/4 of a game?
Went the VC early on Dusty and it hasn’t come off. This seems to be a regular occurrence this season where every time someone else puts the VC or C on someone like Dusty (e.g. last week) or Mcrae or Grundy etc and I don’t, they always score big and it does not come off when i try it. Who should I put the C on this week out of Mcrae, Bont, Grundy, Steele or Lloyd.
Hey ST, bad luck with the Dusty thing, I would opt for the guy with the 147… 3 round average, Macrae, he’s had ten tons in a row and some of them were huge!
To capt Cripps or keep Titch 🤔
I’d probably take Titch’s score Shake cause Crippa has really only passed 120 once with any significance.
I think I’ll keep it
Can’t decide between J Martin or Greenwood for my last Forward what’s everyone’s thoughts.
Learnt a lesson last night. My opponent had the VC on Mitchell but obviously hadn’t made up their mind on who to choose as Captain as they had left the C on Neale. He must have got one heck of a shock when the system immediately started doubling Mitchell’s score!
They can still change the C. I’ve done the same thing.
SC is smart enough to know that Neale isn’t playing so it activates the VC.
The bye player is locked out at the start of the final game of the round.
Port changes:
Xavier Duursma returns, while Ryan Burton (quad), Connor Rozee (heel), Todd Marshall (thumb) and Cam Sutcliffe are all back in the side.
Out are Sam Mayes, Jarrod Lienert, Boyd Woodcock, Mitch Georgiades and out-of-favour veteran Steven Motlop.
Thanks Dave and…bugger!
I’ll admit to everyone here, lockdown has gotten to me and my supercoach addiction has been consuming a fair portion of my time. Being ranked in the top 100 is stressing me out and I’ve been getting abnormally upset if my players aren’t performing well. I know I’m taking it too seriously and the possibility of winning is somewhat out of my control, but I’m finding it tough regardless. Does anybody else feel this way or do i have a problem?
I’m with you Jess. All this time on our hands means much more time to research etc which in turn means we are much more invested this year. I got to my best ever ranking of 350 the other week and was very annoyed when a poor captains choice and a few low scores from normal guns saw me go from a potential awesome score on Sat to losing games Sunday and plummet down the ranks. Have to decided to be happy I got that high in the rankings and concentrate on leagues now and whatever will be will be. However hard not to be annoyed with decisions made. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Was tossing up getting Merrett this week and decided to wait and keep a trade up my sleeve and that wasn’t a good one looking at last nights scores but time will tell in the long run. Good luck with it all cause int he end luck does play a part.
Hi Jess I’ve never been ranked that highly, it must be a fair bit of pressure though I imagine. You can’t be good at this game unless you are serious about it and also have the time to put in for the research and for making changes etc as needed.
I’m normally pretty serious about it myself but this year has broken me somewhat, just too much other stuff happening to fully focus on this, anyways, what I’m trying to say is..try to enjoy it for what it is, a game that’s fun.
You’re doing really well and you can’t do anything about things out of your control…just the best that you can, good luck ! 🙂
Thanks guys. I think that since I’ve lost my job due to covid supercoach has been my escape to spend time on. Think i just need to step back and try not to care so much. I really appreciate the replies guys, all the best x
Know what that’s like Jess, our business closed down after 20 years, had to sell my house and am now moving to a quieter cheaper town, at least Supercoach is a bit of a relief in between all the chaos.
Very sorry to hear that Rusty. Take care
I have been an Addict for a few years now with SuperCoach. In many ways, being quite crap at it despite being so addicted is a bit grounding. Even then, 50/50 decisions where you pull the wrong rein have led to sleepless nights, even with a 10k ranking. My mood around family can vary, depending on how my SC team is going. So I understand well how this can intensify when you are going well. Every trade decision, every bs CD scoring farce, every coach’s positional change of a player starts to feel like a personal measure of your self worth. What I am trying to convince myself if, and I suggest you consider is that whilst some players are consistently in the top 1000 year after year, they are few and far between. And in many ways they are like people who always seem to win at the casino. Just luckier than us. Therefore, what is success in SC? If you are in the top 10%, surely we should be happy with that, right? Anything better is luck and a bonus. Ride it and enjoy it, but see it for what it is. Top 10% is a 16k rank. The other thing I am settling in my mind is to be more satisfied if I a make a good plan, even if it doesn’t come off. Right now I have made a plan for rounds 14-16 that I am super happy with. I have a notebook and that plan alone is 12 pages of notes. I will implement it. But I am trying to direct my happiness to whether it is a good plan, not judging the plan on whether it works. That part I can’t control. There might be bad luck, an injury, bad CD scoring anything. I can’t control that. So I am trying to convince myself that now it doesn’t matter if the plan works. Be happy and satisfied now.
Don’t let SC be a measure of your life. I don’t know how to cure an addiction, but I am learning to separate that addiction from other parts of my life. Good luck for the rest of the season and stay well.
Hey community! Probably need to make up about 50-60 pts somehow against my opponent this week, elimination final. Is Titch’s 122 good to take and then back my premos + difference in captains to make up those points? Or should I put the C on someone like Macrae?
My opponent will either take Titch 122 or put the C on Oliver.
I’ve trying to make that decision as well – take the 122 or gamble on Macrea. Looking like a close round for my matches as well. Honestly not sure – will probably decide a few minutes before the bounce!
Very tough call eh! Stats would suggest Macrae especially at Metricon, but I reckon my matchup is going to come down to the wire so I need every point difference I can get. Still unsure which way to go.
I think all matches will be very close this week, with best 18 (plus it’s going to be hard to keep track of how the matches are going). decision like C will make or break a lot of teams. I going with VC on Macrae to ‘cover’ a lot of other opponents, but got Grundy against Pittonet pencilled as my C.
Grundy did ok last week, but he was up against Goldy and they nullified each other. he came out on top in the end against one of the best ruckmen going around, Pittonet will feel like a walk in the park this week.
my left-field hail mary C would be Whitfield on the wide open spaces of optus oval
if I had titch i’d be thinking 122 isn’t a Captains score in the first week of finals.
No way I’d be taking 122, 130 minimum every time.
This aged well 🙁 macraes lowest score since round 5. Gonna need a bit of a miracle now!
I wasn’t over keen on VC Macrae, but 5 of my opponents had him as C, so I was covering them.
Yeah i had the same problem last week too John where taking the safe option cost me points. Which is why I felt more inclined to go macrae C this week
I’m going to have to trade Neale or Laird to the best available scoring option this round. Thinking either Luke Ryan or Steele?
Went Neale to Jelly
Decided Grundy better C than Whitfield
Unlucky with Jelly Derek! He was on track for a huge score otherwise. I went Neale to Steele which has given me a little sniff at a win.
Any reason my comment is still under review and not being posted?
I think it’s cause you have the word Butt in your name 😉
Who knows Russty. All I can say is that I took some time to draft a thoughtful response to the thread with Jess, Kat you and John. Posted it more than 2 hours ago. Still awaiting approval. Didn’t say anything controversial, I don’t think. It sort of feels less relevant now a few hours later. Takes away some interest in posting have to say
Oh sorry to hear that Keen, the same thing happened to me the other day, not sure why, I didn’t say anything untoward either. Hopefully Lek and co see this and can have a go at sorting it out for you, he said the other day when Intense Debate ended and this WordPress format started that too many comments on Intense Debate were being flagged as spam..maybe that’s still happening with your comments here.
matt de Boer is back. god help some poor fremantle soul this weekend.
Who do you think it’ll be Derek?
Walters or Brayshaw
Fyfe probably play too much forward
Good ol alabama
Loop Close into Wicks
Or Close into riccardi?
I’d go Close into Riccardi – he looked really good last week. More potential to go high than Wicks.
Hi John yeah that would’ve been the time, he was only averaging 99 up until then, as I recall, you had a ton of injuries to deal with didn’t ya?
He was having a very up and down season up until round 10, wasn’t scoring like a proper premo, I traded him out after round 1 for some reason lol, that was a blunder, ya gotta back your premo picks in unless they cop an injury.
Wow some steaming piles are being dropped tonight, almost 3/4 time and Macrae is on 70 odd, Duncan on 38, I have English in my draft side and the spud’s on about 35…mucho dissappointo!
Yeah definitely noticed the 38 at 3QT for Duncan, can’t believe he’s that low! He hasn’t been that bad at all. Hopefully a nice big last quarter for all the gun players
I think Duncan lost 20 points in one quarter.
Lol. Mitch Duncan is my main POD
and Jack mcRae is my captain
The Duncan score really hurts cause it probs won’t even make our best 18
Edit, well he redeemed himself a bit, 78 now…not terrible and not great.
Nah it was terrible
Cousins scored 90 and parish scored 91 Duncan shat the bed for me.
I thought Dunkley coming back would have hurt Bont, but it hasn’t
What about Dunkley tonight, 71 at quarter time
Got him and Titch in rd 9 for Gawn when he 790k not knowing Gawn would go out rd 10. I bit the bullet there but that’s the sort of season it’s been!
My R2 has been
Jacobs>Naismith>Pittonet>Gawn>NicNat
And most likely Gawn next round.
NicNat to Gawn next week might only be $60k
NicNat will rest for sure
This is the week to remember…the guys who let you down bigtime and lost you your shot at glory…the premos who were supposed to deliver gold but instead, gave you a roughly wrapped turd.
Only the end of the round will tell us who the culprits were, those with the double chance don’t have to feel the pain this week but this week could be the last for some of us…and some blame will need to be laid! LOL
There will be some harsh exit meetings.
Bailey Smith. I finally weakened 2 weeks ago and bought him in, same week as Ridley. Seemed like I needed them just in case they hurt me in the run home.
Watch Simpkin do the same who I got last week
I have the C on Macraes 96. That’s prob gonna lose me a few games.
Out – Woodcock, D Cameron, Ruscoe
In – Riccardi, Jack Martin and Wicks (or other Mid Rookie)
or
Out – D Cameron, McKay and Ruscoe
In – Riccardi, Maynard and Wicks
In terms of MId rookies, I already have Schoenberg and Foot who are not playing.
Thoughts?
The first one, but Wicks in at this stage isn’t a great idea. Why not bring in a cheaper rookie and keep the extra cash?
Wouldn’t be gojng wicks myself. Feel he could get dropped any week
Thanks Joe and Tommy. I don’t want to bring Wicks in but I couldn’t find any other mid rookies who are playing and I missed O’Neill from WC. I might leave the last trade and see if there are any rookies named tonight in the teams for tomorrow. Cheers.
In a bit of a pickle for the big C after Nic Nat spudded it. Thinking one of Steele, Jelly or Grundy but can’t for the life me make the call. What are your thoughts community?
I’ll say Kelly Ralphy
Take close’s 57 or go riccardi?
Will 57 be in your best 18?
My rucks are Grundy (R16 bye), Goldy (R15 bye) and Xerri.
I don’t really care about H2H, just trying to improve my rank.
Thinking about doing the following trades……..
R15…. Out- Goldy….In-Draper
R16…. Out- Grundy…. In- Goldy
R17…. Out- Draper…. In- Grundy
Is this strategy-
8 left after the current round. Its tight.
I could use Gawn or Nic Nat instead of Draper. Should score higher, but if they got rested…. it blows up on me. Nearly all the other good ruckmen have R15/16 byes.
There is a possibility of Draper going up a bit in value during those 2 weeks also.
Round 16 you shouldn’t have too many out. I’d hold Grundy.
Goldy to Gawn next week
Makes sense. A lot of people will be watching Gawn closely tonight.
Grundy, Oliver or Adams skipper?
My main league im down and both of us have Cs on Grundy, but im prioritizing rank a little more.
Could saints tag Oliver?
Hey Tommy, yeah they could but it’d be Ross I reckon and not Steele.
hmmm ross did a pretty good job tagging neale last week, which turns me off clarry slightly
Haynes or Zilliams?
Also do I take titches VC of 122 or role the dice on Grundy v carlton
Haynes and roll the dice! Grudy should destroy Carltons 2nd string Rucks.
Hi Community, I had the VC on Macrae last night as I’m sure many did and were disappointed with his score but are having a hard time deciding who to put the C on out of Ryan, Steele, Grundy or Gawn? Am probably leaning towards Grundy given Carlton’s Ruck woes but would appreciate your thoughts on wh is the best Captain option?
Hi mate, I think Ryan’s been the most reliable lately, tough call though cause Grundy could dominate Shittonet
I chickened out on Ryan (spewing too as he’s on 41 at Qtr time) so now it’s down to Steele or Grundy and most likely will give the C to Grundy as he should go big.
Lucky you did..he’s on 33 at half time, haven’t watched so don’t know why, Grundy should be ok.
Lloyd finally in team. Feels very comfy
Yep. Comes into VC/C calculations at times as well, which makes him extra valuable.
Even better. Traded SHill to Lloyd.
So you missed out on Hill’s 20 ?… LOL Big money needed to ponied up for that Derek, I’m surprised Hill was worth 286k still, he scores like he’s worth 100k
Congrats on dumping a true spud and picking up the mega-seagull, Lloydy loves his chips 🙂
de Boar tagging Fyfe
Traded Neale to Jelly this week
Looked good up to half time
Very unlucky Derek, even worse to be taken out by his own team mate.
That’s rotten luck Derek , I contemplated doing the same but pulled out , he will probably lose approx 20k also
Lol, Derek. Never trade a premium unless he is injured, rookie mistake. Understand you were chasing points
Same with Ryan I think for a lot John, I had the C on Ryan in both my Draft games lol
I feel the same about Steele John, although I brought him in round 6, he’s been great since he’s been a free roamer and not just a tagger…Both are going pretty nicely at half time 🙂
Gawn is looking ok 20k short to get him. Don’t want 2 trades
Hey Neil I think Clarry might be a double agent…he keeps trying to hand us goals LOL
Oliver goes massive last quarter
Bummer John, although Steele has done bugger all in the 3rd, Gawny’s looking like going 150 +, are they double chance games?
Bloody hell Viney’s hard tagging Steele now, I was hoping for a huge score from him.
You must be disappointed with Wingard, he could’ve scores tons the other day and fell asleep instead.
I’m feeling the same way about Angus Brayshaw since I brought him in he’s been rubbish lol..never again.
He was a colossus tonight John, smashed King to pieces, could be a good solid option for next year too.
Congrats on the Dees win, bloody 2 close losses for us in a row now, not good.
great game only because of the closeness As Ratten said saints field kicking was bad but ask Jones about that Dees was equally as poor
Did Gawn get shot in the 3rd quarter?? 88 at half-time and only added 30 to it? Grrrr
Ended up with 135 Bells, not bad considering he was out 3 weeks, he’s a beast.
I think Gawn was about 130 at 3/4 time.
Yep, lost 20 points in 5 seconds early in the last 1/4 for some reason ???
Racking up a lot of below average scores this week.
William, Ridley, BSmith, Jelly, Rivers all scoring around the 70
Don’t want to talk about Chad.
Going to be close in most of my matches, will come down to C on Grundy or Lukiosious to drag me over the line.
Looking at my leagues this week there are close matches everywhere
7 of my matches the prediction is less than 20 pts.
NDD is predicted ahead by 40 and Ranger predicted ahead by 50.
Is the prediction based on best 18 ?Trying to work out best 18 v your opponent is hard !
Would you really put the c on Lukosius Derek ?
Lukosious my only real POD left, you never know? Desperate times.
Good luck this week Derek, it’s beyond me to calculate scores with best 18 but ours will go down to the wire. I think?
I’m not confident against you AB. I might be in a bit of trouble there
I think Rankine is a fair chance to go absolutely ballistic against the Kangas, i’m a bit nervous about that
Who do I bring in out of Jack Martin, Lukocious, Greenwood or Simpkin? Martin appears the obvious choice as he has already had his bye, however, apart from his score last week (which was against GC), his scoring hasn’t been that good. The others all have the bye next week, however, as I am playing for leagues and not overall rank this does not bother me. I bought Simpkin in earlier in the season the week he got injured and then proceded to produce three sub par scores before I got rid of him. However, he seems to be back to form over the past few weeks.
Appreciate any advice. Thanks.
Hi St I reckon Lukosius, I just think he’s good cause he’s a cool cucumber and does very good things with the ball and makes good decisions under pressure.
Lukosious has got better as Suns have got worse. The ball has been in Suns defence a lot last couple of games, he is a good intercept Mark with his height, and a great kick so he is the main way for the suns to get out of defenders.
He takes most of the kick ins and always runs out of the goal square. Last week Carlton kicked 18 behinds, hope kangas don’t kick straight tomorrow
Sitting on 1591 from 13 players so far, pretty happy with that. Still have Cripps, Doch, Simpkin, Grundy, Lukosius, Goldy and McKay, so 20 playing this week and so far my 2 lowest scores are 57 and 66. Hoping for mostly wins, but I’m only in one top 8 chance.
Maybe I’ll live another week..gotta keep trying I guess 🙂
Russty if any afl club could pick 2 of TRACCA CLARRY BONT or MACRAE which two mine would be BONT and TRACCA who’s yours?
I’d go Bont and Clarry cause they were both really good really young plus Clarry’s a wranger so he has more to prove.
Would they all get a game at the saints?
Definitely mate!…we’ve only really got 2 or so A graders in the whole team, Steele and Marshall, all the rest are B grade at best.
Captain grundy or cripps?
I’ve gone Grundy because it ensures me a win in a 2 cash leagues where they have the same with no one else to Captain, however Cripps could go big , he’s due for it
Went with a bit of a left fielder and chucked the C on tracca. Looking like an inspired choice at 1/4 time!
Finished 127 couple of frees against on the last hurt his score but I’ll take the points banked.
Gday Trigga, Tracca captain choice worked out pretty well in the end! Thought he was going for a 200 score at quarter time haha. I ended up taking Titch’s 122 instead of Macrae just to play it safe
Coulda been anything tbone but we all know tracca is a scoring 🎢
A smokey for Charlie TRIGG
More than a Smokey mate. 😉