Panic Room | Round 18
This footy seasons seems to have flown by, crazy to think we only have a handful of rounds left after this week. Trades are hard to come by now, so make sure you’re making good decisions so you don’t have to trade in Levi Casboult as your F6 this year.
Newz you can Uze
Matthew Parker will make his Richmond debut after he was selected in the mid-season draft. Kane Lambert and Toby Nankervis will return to the Tigers line up, while Riley Collier-Dawkins, Tom Dow and Pat Naish were dropped for the Lions clash. Brisbane has brought in Tom Fullarton, Ryan Lester and Jaxon Prior to replace Marcus Adams, Eric Hipwood and Callum Ah Chee.
Josh Dunkley will make a late-season return from his shoulder injury. Personally, I hope he stinks it up to end the year so I can start him for less than 700k next season. Aaron Naughton is back, as is Hayden Crozier and Roarke Smith. Jamarra Ugle-Hagan survived the axe, but Mitch Hannan, Tom Liberatore, Anthony Scott, Mitch Wallis and Lewis Young did not. Noah Anderson, Josh Corbett and Caleb Graham will replace Hugh Greenwood, Sam Day and Oleg Markov for the Suns.
Melbourne has not made a change for its clash with Hawthorn, but Ned Reeves, Mitch Lewis and Tim O’Brien will return for the Hawks. Jon Ceglar, Jack Scrimshaw and Changkuoth Jiath are all missing through injuries.
Zak Butters, Steve Motlop and Connor Rozee will all miss Port’s clash with the Saints through injury, while Tom Clurey was dropped. Riley Bonner, Peter Ladhams and Boyd Woodcock come into the side. St Kilda will be unchanged.
Ben Cunnington declined the offer to fly to Brisbane, instead staying with his family. It is unclear whether he plays again in 2021. Atu Bosenavulagi, Tom Campbell, Kyron Hayden and Lachie Young come into the North squad. Kyle Langford will miss with hamstring awareness, opening the door for a potential return to one of Nick Bryan, Dyson Heppell, Brandon Zerk-Thatcher, and Sam Durham, who would debut if selected.
Will Kelly is the only forced change for Collingwood, with one of Mason Cox, Caleb Poulter, Tom Wilson and Jack Ginnivan pencilled in for a game. Will Setterfield has been dropped by Carlotn, with Liam Jones, Zac Fisher, Josh Honey and Lochie O’Brien coming into the squad.
Adelaide will make one forced change, with Tom Doedee out with injury. Darcy Fogarty, Elliott Himmelberg, Tom Lynch, Andrew McPherson and Taylor Walker come into the squad for Sunday. Brendon Ah Chee and Tom Barrass will both miss for West Coast, with Connor West already announced as debuting, and one of Harry Edwards, Mark Hutchings, Xavier O’Neill and Bailey Williams returning to the side.
GWS has swung multiple changes for multiple reasons, with Lachie Whitfield and Shane Mumford injured, Bobby Hill managed and Lachie Ash dropped. Stephen Coniglio will return for the Giants, while Matt Flynn, Tanner Bruhn, Xavier O’Halloran, Zach Sproule, Jake Stein and Matt De Boer will fight for the other three spots. The Swans are yet to make a change.
When a price breaks, it don’t Breakeven
What am I s’posed to do, when Imma lose some cash from holding you:
- 199 – Marcus Bontempelli
- 179 – Dayne Zorko
- 177 – Stephen Coniglio
- 167 – Steele Sidebottom
- 157 – Jarryd Lyons
What am I s’posed to say, when you’re making coin by scoring okay:
- -99 – Ned Reeves
- -68 – Lachie Bramble
- -36 – Max Lynch
- -28 – Riley Garcia
- -22 – Harry Edwards
Oh Captain my Captain
Jack Macrae
Jack Macrae has been in some seriously good form this season. His ceiling is as high as ever, and his pairing with Bontempelli has been dangerous this season. The Dogs will play Gold Coast, and it’s expected for the midfielders to have a day out. Macrae’s form against the Suns is one of the best in the league; he scored 146 against them in round five, which followed 169, 139 and 189 in his three matches against Gold Coast before this season. He has only dipped below 100 once this year, which was a 97.
Sam Walsh
Walsh is officially Batman, and Cripps is his injured Robin. Walsh has been dominant this season, slotting into the top eight averaging midfielders comfortably. Four sub-100 scores this season, but his last three have been above 130 and he’s coming up against Collingwood, who he has scored 105, 113 and 70 in his only three matches against the side. Walsh has been in great form this season, and is worth consideration.
Brodie Grundy
Grundy has found his form in recent weeks, and is coming up against a Carlton side missing its best ruckman. His last four scores against Carlton have been strong, with 135, 127, 141, 154 spanning from this season to 2018. Tom De Koning will be shouldering the ruck load with a combination of pinch-hitting forwards, so expect the Blues, who conceded 193 to Sean Darcy, to allow Grundy to have his way.
Jack Steele
The St Kilda captain has really exploded in the last two months since Luke Dunstan returned to the side; with 126 being his lowest score in the last six weeks. 105 and 114 against Port in his last two isn’t super attractive, but his form in the second half of this season is what we’re looking at. Another great captaincy option.
Max Gawn
Max Gawn is no longer the uber-captain option that he used to be. His performances have still been solid, but Luke Jackson is rucking 50% of the time, leaving Gawn to find points elsewhere. He’s coming up against Hawthorn, who he loves to dominate, with 172 and 185 in his last two, and a 127 and 112 before that. If he rucks more than half the game, he’ll be in for a big game, but that remains to be seen.
alrighty community would love some help here.
Langford is a must trade too.
A) Marshall – marshall a chance to re injure that foot but the past fortnight he’s increasing TOG% so that’s promising. will ruck more as he can jump confidently on it. high ceiling on him.
B) De Goey – De GOAT, need we say more? probably just that I don’t trust his midfiled role as being rock solid and could go back to dumping turds… any pies fans help me out here?
a)
It’s a flip of a coin decision with players at that price eh Mav?
As a Pies fan I’d be surprised and disappointed if De Goey doesn’t play out the season in the mids and Marshall certainly looks to be gaining some form.
McDonald is a decent POD at that price too.
I’d prob go with McDonald just because he has no injury history and his position is certain but if I had to choose between De Goey and Marshall I’d go Marshall just because of his DPP.
I have 6 trades left, 232k in the bank, and need to upgrade Jordon and Daniher. Only playing for league and comfortably in finals. I want Bont, happy to wait another week or 2 for him, so regarding Daniher, should I trade him to Hind, Dale or DeGoey or go a downgrade to a 102 and get Dunkley next week. Or just no trades and hope Daniher has a day out. Cheers
Hipwood is out for the season, it’s Daniher’s time to shine.
I know Derek, it’s tempting to hold those trades. Other option is turn Jordan into Merret and maybe make Brayshaw into Bont down the track.
I think you can hold mate
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with only 3 trades left, i’m going to have to run with 1 rookie on field for a couple more weeks. Brambles and Madden hopefully will make enough cash to give me a final upgrade and then just cross fingers for the rest of the year.
easy choice this week because of no loop-hole options, will have to be Madden at F6, hopefully get a 60-70.
good luck fellas
Similar boat Derek.. 3 left .. I’ll have to focus on the money leagues here-on-in.. I was really trying to go long in Survivor .. alas, seems to be a 2 horse race between Champs and Holty.. I gambled on Houston at F6 with Laird at M8, but Houston isn’t doing it for me and I now have Whitfield on the bench .. could put Bianco or Frederick on field and upgrade Houston to Adams or Neale but I think I need to hold my trades.. holding Houston means having Marshall at F6 (F4 really with Bolton and Martin spudding it up) and getting Grundy or Dunkley in a couple of rounds (Marshall to F2)
In a very similar position Derek. Madden is also my F6 for a few weeks while some of my other rooks hopefully make a bit more cash and then can make a trade to another forward and hopefully Madden can go to the bench as cover for my forward line. Whitfield is on the bench this week and Bianco on field in defense. Trying to hold trades for finals but I’m running the risk of not making some if I lose this week. It’s a real balancing act
My rank is on the wrong side of 10k, so hoping to make a few league finals (defending 3 titles). Like you, need to win to make it
Madden a huge 16 points for the half, hope he wakes up for ya mate, I have Zorko and Martin onfield who are both presently on 31 points each lol, what a year.
Madden wasn’t good.
I just realised Cripps is out. How bad?
I could take opportunity to trade Cripps to Dunkley and play Brambles or Bianco in guts and not take Maddens score (had Madden with E)
Madden score very disappointing. Hoping he doesnt get dropped next week as I have no bench cover and I see Martin is also injured. Any info on how bad that is? Was toying with trading Whitfield to Short but might be glad I saved that trade as long as Whitfield is back in next week
That’s my problem. Might need a trade for Martin now
I’ve got 4 trades left and I’m not sure whether to trade this round or not
Highmore is my last upgrade to make but I also have Whitfield and Cripps out this week.
I’m considering
1 – trading Cripps to Mills and CCJ to a rookie this week then waiting for highmore to max out and trading him to Bont/Oliver/ Parish after they drop in price – I would have no trades left after this
2 – Holding trades this week, let Cripps and Whitfield come back in and then upgrade highmore to Mills later – this means I would have 2 trades left over for injury trades or could then trade heeney to marshall
Did you make a call mate?
Ended up holding Lek and by Friday night I was bloody glad I did with dusty going down!!
Dusty straight to Marshall next week
Then highmore to mills the week after
Going with Steele as my VC and Walsh as my backup C. Have a donut in the fwd line due to Langford being out for 2-3 weeks and my bench cover being injured or dropped. Saving the one trade that I have left for later on, don’t expect to win any league games, so I can say goodbye to finals apart from one league where I am 4th and my 10,969 ranking won’t be improving this round.
Good luck everyone
Yes ,you too Holty, getting down to the business end now, I haven’t been able to nail my VC / C lately ,hopefully I can get it right from now on
Dusty out for the year with kidney damage…who saved trades?
I have 7 trades might just do 1 this week with Whitfield down I’ll wait till the last second to decide
Hi Shake, my team’s Hammers. Have I got you in Clements league this round. Just curious.
Quickly doing some maths to calculate the coin needed for a Dusty to Dunkley trade.
My fwd line is slowly disappearing.
The ones who have Dusty but not Marshall will be a popular trade for them imo, they will have a similar price after this round
FFS.. that screws any chance of me getting Grundy et el.. looks like I’ll have to keep Greeves as my R2 and Marshall up FWD.. Martin to Dale, or Greene, or Hawkins .., as for Houston .. how is it possible to score 4 pts in a half of footy 😡
Thank god for Sharp..
Gee Houston has been an incredibly frustrating choice this year. Showed signs early, but ever since he did his shoulder he has been a total spud. Today he was on 48 at half time and finishes with 52. Yes, he was onfield the entire second half.
POD’s are great when they perform, but a total liability when they don’t.
Can’t loop Sharp onto the field because Newcombe’s been brought in 🙁
Shame about the Saints losing but the two players that mattered really performed. VCd Steele and brought in Marshall this week. Thanks Sainters !!
Hope no-one had the C on Newcombe!
Uugh…I hate these low score decisions…take Brockmans 41 or roll the dice on Henry who has so far managed 9, 32, 7 and 29?!
Hilarious to have to be making this kinda decision at Rd18 I know!!
Someone needs to tell Branble to step outside the square before he kicks it
With Dusty injured I have 377k left and 6 trades I have Sharp on my bench with 117 and I can’t loop his score unless I trade my M8 Bianco to a non-playing rookie, I was going to upgrade Bianco to Taylor Adams as my final upgrade to complete my team.
what should I do cause if I don’t get Adams this week I’ll have the cash to go Dusty to Dunkley next week in one trade, or if I downgrade Bianco I could go double upgrade next week?
How we all going community. Im hoping to eclipse the 2500 again. Biggest concern will be Dusty though. Will be difficult to get to full premo now for me.
If every player hits their projection I’m looking at 2417.. really depends on my Capt choice today .. Walsh, Laird, Merrett or Kelly .. currently on Walsh.. not sure though.. Dusty going down has screwed my chance of full premo too.. will have to rely on MID loop
Hopefully dont finish too far behind you holt. The foe par of playing my capt before my vice (did they change the time of the saints game? Swear when I looked earlier in the week it was Sat night) turned out ok.
Still on the right Trac.
You weren’t only one who did that. I had a couple of opponents who had the C on Steele before their VC
Dilemma… VC on Macrae.. have to choose between Kelly, Laird, Walsh or Merrett.. leaning towards Walsh.. but think Kelly is ready to go big.. 🤔
I am in a similar position Lazza. I also put the VC on Macrae and tossing up between all of the above plus Grundy for the Captain. Leaning towards Grundy based on projected scores but very tempted to stick with Merrett or switch to Grundy or Walsh.
I’d probably go Grundy if I had him ST.
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Yeah grundy or poulter
Dougy with the Crystal Balls.. smashing reply..
Only a psycho would type that many haha’s lol
Hope you ignored my advice and went with Walsh, ST… I’ve had a bit of luck this week on the back of bad luck .. With Whitfield out I shuffled my team via DPP which allowed me to bank Sharp’s 115 and then I stuck with Walsh for Capt .. plus I don’t have Mills ( not for want of trying) nor Greene.
Spoke too soon … JKelly down, and LEdwards late in screwed up my loop for Sharp.. need 2 trades just to cover injuries this week… ffs
I feel for you Lazza. Injuries have really hurt this season. I have also Kelly and Dusty who I will need to look at trading next week. I was lucky to have Sharp on field and brought in Walsh this week. I left the C on Grundy which was looking ok at half time before he had a very quiet second half. It will probably cost me a win in most of my leagues, however, it was my choice and I didn’t expect Walsh to score as high as he did. Unfortunately, you always require a bit of luck in SC and sometime it deserts you. Good luck next week 👍.
So many times this season I have taken a good VC score of 125+, only for the C to do even better, scoring an extra 30 or more points. It’s happened again this round, took the 145 VC score from Steele, only for Walsh to score a lot better.
sook it up John you’re not a contender and you never will be so stop making excuses for being so crap at supercoach and own your incompetence
you are an idiot doug and can’t even use your own name WEASEL
Don’t worry Doug, this will be my last season. Though I wouldn’t consider myself crap at SC, won two premierships last season and four in 2017 when I ended the season ranked 1,501. Happy with what I have achieved in the seven years playing.
Don’t worry about that dipshit John, just wipe this year off as another Covid debacle…I am, and the unusual amount of injuries I copped which completely derailed my season. Don’t you dare quit playing because of some random loser who get’s his daily jollies tearing people down.
People like that hate themselves and try to blame everyone around them for their lot in life, which they caused.
Hi Russty, I don’t really care what Doug thinks, I wouldn’t mind knowing how he is going this season though. If it is Dave under another name, then I am doing better, since he set up a rivalry with me in round 9 and we are currently 7-2 in my favour, he only won in the bye rounds 13-14. He has nothing to do with me thinking about not playing again, it’s all about the amount of injuries we have had and how that impacted on my enjoyment of playing SC. If you have a poor season due to players not performing or trading badly, then that is all on the coach and you learn from it, but if we keep getting these amount of injuries during a season without SC having something in place like injury trades, I can’t see that it will get any better. Rank wise, I am actually having my 3rd best season, currently sitting at 11,397, my best two were in 2017 – 1,501 and 2020 – 6,377. the other four seasons I didn’t get into the top 15k. So you would think I would be happy with that, but it hasn’t felt that way, all I’ve felt most of the time is frustration this season and that’s not how I want to feel.
Understandable mate…yes it has been a frustrating year, it’ impossible to do well and get ahead when all it is is damage control, I’ve had 20 injuries now and with 30 trades…it’s pushing it uphill.
Just had a look at my trade history for the season and I had 8 injury trades used on keepers and another 6 on rookies, so just under 50% of trades used for injuries, no wonder it has felt like a uphill battle and that’s not counting the ones I just put on the bench.
what a nasty negative flog you are, you are the reason people don’t like social media and or Forums.
You’re the kind of person who actively makes the world worse every day you’re still breathing.
No offence, have a great day! 🙂
Its a real lottery sometimes isnt it John. Lots of luck involved as well as some skill but at least Steeles score was a good one. Worse if you didn’t take it and Walsh was injured or had a bad day.
Yes you are right Kat, I was happy with the 145 score from Steele, anything over 125 you have to take. It’s just a bit frustrating when the original C gets a much bigger score and the 48 pts difference would have come in handy this round.
Keep an eye on a lot of late changes in the Swans v GWS game, due players having to isolate who attended the Rugby game last , game due to start on time
That was hard work watching Grundy’s second half. Carrying the C
No Greene tonight
DeKoning is looking like a great ruck option in 2022 he beat Grundy today in every facet of the ruck game and according to AFL ‘journalists’ still a baby (if he played for bombers)
Aaaah! Mills is a late out!!! Do we trade or hold?
Hope you held ranger. Definitely not worth the one trade when he is so far ahead of the competition as #1 Def. Assuming everyone has Laird.
Agree with Mav. Definitely hold. He will be available for SC finals
Game started
One of my opponents traded Whitfield to Mills this week. Ouch
I was going to do the same trade so stuck with Whitfield and lucky to have the e on Bianco
Huge score coming up holty, 2600+ if all goes to plan. Your giving me a touch up in the holy grail haha well done mate
Unfortunately Haynes had a average one which I’m amazed with as he saw plenty of it in the second half.
For those who missed the news .. lates out for Sydney & GWS.. Mills and Greene the main 2 … stood down due to covid site exposure..
That hurts. Should have had the E on Fullerton, now I get a donut
And there out for 2 weeks
Are you serious?
Im hearing have to quarantine for 14 days
Two maybe 3 weeks if play early rd 20 🙉
Shake is correct.
What a load of BS this is. Already loopholed Fyfe in my backline so don’t have coverage for Mills.
I wish Heeney went to the Rugby last week and couldn’t play tonight , at least I would get Brockmans 41
Didnt do too bad dbb. 85?
Yes, he must have heard me urging him to lift ffs, his score actually got me over the line in 2 leagues
Only needed JKelly to score 105 to win a couple of important leagues.
that hurts
Does anyone know how badly hurt is he? Can’t afford another player down to trade
He looked sore but not sure how serious it is. Issue with Kelly is a little niggle that takes most players a week to recover tends to take him a month. Hence I never pick him anymore. I was starting to really worry I had made a bad choice not bringing him in when he was cheap as chips as I was always expecting him to go down. He finally has but those who still have trades left have done very well with him as he has been scoring exceptionally well since his slow start.
Thanks Holty. Unfortunately the sad words in your reply are “those who still have trades”. With Martin and Highmore also going down this round, things are looking grim.
I have Martin which means I won’t be getting to full premium. Obviously I’m in the same boat as you with not many trades.
Now Flynn is down.
Terrible day for SC. Although I wasn’t affected but for those who were, I feel for you. Absolutely nothing you could possibly do with the Sydney match being the last of the round. I don’t think I’ll be mentioning my score this week and let some of the community vent with their unfortunate happenings this round.
totally agree with your sentiment Holty. Feeling the pain of the community on this one.
Chaos is an understatement. I had Greene and no bench cover but none of this can be helped. Are the times we live in at the moment. Not sure what will be done, if anything, but whatever it is, it won’t be fair and equal for everyone. I doubt a fair solution can be found. Bit like the missed Melb game last year where those of us with Gawn and Oliver etc in the missed game were at a disadvantage. Not SC fault though and we will all just have to suck it up and roll with the punches and hope we can finish the AFL season
Sunday was carnage, having Grundy C capped it off.
Have Dusty, Jelly and Cripps to deal with and still have Madden at F6. Only 3 trades left.
Somehow managed 7/10 wins and still in race for most of my leagues. Plus 3/3 draft wins
Nice post Holty, yes you did have an excellent score , should move up in the rankings mate, well deserved
It’s going to be an interesting week for the AFL, let alone SC
I got a donut from Mills, but I’m not whining about it. Late outs (for any reason) are always a risk that you take looping benchies and not having cover. Its just typical for this year.
Kudos to Toby for finding a new and creative way to burn owners, with no dumb act involved.
Not sure how the quarantine only applies for the player’s, etc who attended the rugby. Surely since the rugby they’ve spent plenty of time with the whole team and coaching staff. A more common sense approach would be for all to quarantine until tested negative for 3-5 day’s or however long the infectious period is for.
Read up about the Tier system Daz and you’ll understand why.
The infectious period can be up to 14 days hence why Tier 1 people isolate for that long. As a contact of a Tier 1 all of the players etc would have got another test but they don’t have to isolate as they didn’t visit the Tier 1 site.
Imagine how many people would have to isolate if we made everyone who knew a Tier 1 visitor isolate?!
There were nearly 10,000 people at the G, we can’t make everyone that knows all of those 10,000 do 14 days isolation. We just ask them to monitor and get tested if they have symptoms. Only those people actually deemed a Tier 1 as they are much more likely to develop into a covid case.
Josh Dunkley has been forced into isolation for 14 days
This looks like developing into a rolling clusterf**k.
I can’t see how GWS and the Swans won’t have more problems for a start.
See what Daz says above… Dunkley clearly mixed with many players in the interim too… the selective quarantine is clearly illogical ..
Its really logical Lazza! That’s what science is, logical. We don’t make people who are in touch with other people who MIGHT be positive isolate. We make people isolate who have been in touch with people who HAVE become positive. There’s the logic right there.
Not entirely correct Ranger.. those living with a Tier 1 attendee have to isolate as well until the attendee is negative. Which is logical.
I guess the point I was making was that there is some logic there somewhere! Maybe the other players are deemed work colleagues rather than co-habitants? I have a work colleague that visited a Tier 1 site and I was at work with her last week but I don’t have to isolate for 14 days.
Well there goes the dusty to dunkley plan. 🙄
Can someone explain how Dunkly playing doesn’t effect the rest of the Bulldogs team. If they had known earlier he wouldn’t have been allowed to play.
If there are no issues why we’re the GWS and Swans players stood down.
He attended the Cafe on Wednesday and then played on Saturday so really everyone who came in contact with him since then should be in quarantine but don’t they have rapid testing facilities now? It’s a shame Australia seems to be regressing with covid now, with the Govt dragging their asses in getting the Nation vaccinated, now people are getting infected again and we’re going backwards. Just get everyone vaccinated already!
That’s what I would have thought. If he’s now isolating why aren’t people he came into contact with.
He’s deemed to be a Tier 1 contact. No one else at the Dogs went to the same cafe so they don’t have to isolate for 14 days as they’re not Tier 1 and don’t have the same restrictions. As a contact of a Tier 1 they would all be tested but they’re all tested regularly anyway.
Lachie Neale left training this morning supporting same shoulder he injured earlier in the year
There goes one JKelly trade option..
I brought Lyons in for Dusty, if Neale’s injured, Lyons should benefit.
I’m liking Lyons too.. and Hall for Dusty.. not sure I have the $ .. maybe McCluggage or Boak or Guthrie now that he has had his rest.
Just saw this on the Fox Sports page…..
“Lachie fell on his shoulder and got a bit of a stinger. He’s completely fine and he’s going to be all right to play this weekend,” Brisbane’s high performance manager Damien Austin said.