I’m going to level with you community.
I’m not in the mood.
I reversed my trades last night, thinking the games started at 7.50pm, when they actually started at 7.20pm.
What time did I reverse my trades? Why, I reversed my trades at 7.15pm.
This left Zak Butters on the bench with no purple Emergency tag on him.
In a round you need all the players you can get, I went and done f**ked up.
So now I only have 17 for the round.
Not only that, I can’t swing Butters to my forward line so I can’t do my proper trades that I had done five minutes before lock out.
I hate myself.
As a result for my dumbness, there’s going to be a lot of discontent in this Panic Room.
Newz you can Uze
Jordan Boyd is back in the Carlton side. Caleb Marchbank plays his first game in a while and Jesse Motlop got dropped. Darcy Parish will have 35 touches and do nothing with it. Fight me Patch I’m not in the mood.
St Kilda dropped Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera. I don’t know if anyone actually owns him as a rookie, but it’s one less rookie running around. Joe Daniher returns for Brisbane.
Jackson Callow will play his third game for the Hawks. He averages 33, but that’s 33 points more than what Butters will score for me this weekend. Nat Fyfe is returning for Fremantle, he’s 541k but I’d want to see what he does and how he fits.
I want Leon Cameron back. What is McVeigh doing, leaving Preuss out of the side. Who does he think he is?
Lachie Whitfield returns and Jacob Wehr holds his spot. Aaron Hall plays his first game in a while and Tarryn Thomas gets dropped.
Daniel Turner will debut for the Dees on Monday, but he’s only in the side because he’s got a thug for a teammate who goes around trying to start fights when he’s been drinking beers. Collingwood has brought Finn Macrae into the squad and might debut Isaac Chugg, so let’s see what happens there.
Captains
George Hewett is a gun, so is Pat Cripps, so is Sam Docherty, and don’t forget Sam Walsh. Essendon on the other hand, is trash. I know, Hawks lost to them. Whoop-de-doo. We are also trash. Pick a Carlton mid.
Clayton Oliver is also a gun, and is in great nick at the moment. 108, 137 and 114 against the Pies in his past three. Lachie Neale could go well against St Kilda, but hasn’t got the history. Josh Kelly put up 147 against North Melbourne last season and is playing full-time midfielder now. Max Gawn against Darcy Cameron could be large, he has scored 123, 99 and 153 against the Pies in his past three.
Walsh or Parish, cheers
Walshy. Parish normally needs 30+ to get over 100pts, 40 to go large. Walsh only needs 25 to hit 100pts. My gut feeling is Parish averages 120-125 for the rest of the year. Walsh 125-130. So both great options, but Walsh get the nod from me
Have definitely been leaning towards Walsh, I think he will fly home this season. Good advice, thanks
Walsh
Merrett.
I couldn’t decide either. So I got them both. I flicked Macrae to get enough cash.
Madness? Probably. But I need to roll the dice from here on…….
Maybe madness but he has been bleeding mucho dinero since round 7, Walsh and Parish are both looking a bit crapish tonight, hopefully they turn it around for you mate.
I miss the good old days of Leon Cameron.
Take me back
Similar mate, didn’t trade Thursday night before rolling lock-out started and now I have Rioli not selected stuck on the field in the fwds, Wehr on the def bench, likely non-scoring and MacDonald on field fwd not selected either … Zak is stuck midfield and can’t move things round to get 18 on the field (in scoring position) … : (
Feels ya, stay strong, thanks for the weekly Panic room ; )
So best laid plans , really pays not to plan.
Leading up to the Rd 13 bye I was particular about choosing rookies that didn’t have the Rd 13 bye.
Carroll rioli, McDonald. 😫
So my team also has the bye.
This week is a write off.
Bring on next week.
If you had Rioli, Carroll, McDonald and Preuss you’d be really dirty on SC, I was all set to field 19 for this and next week with no trades, ended up doing 3 dagmammit.
Yep had all 4.
Traded Pruess to Doc but 3 more 🍩
Pruess to Doc was a good trade Trigga.
Looking the goods so far ….
At least Doc is looking like a good score for you Trig
1 out of 14 😆
Hehe, oh shit really mate only 14?..I think Holty is taking the hit this week too. I’m expecting to lose maybe half my league matchups this week but at least I’m fielding 17, just need Crippa to score 100 in the 2nd half LOL
That’ll do Dochy That’ll do. 😉
Was looking at either Doc or Merrett to bring in, but had Stewart marked down to trade in round 15. Could have moved Sinclair to the mids I guess, but Merrett is going alright, just that Doc is going better for not much more.
Yep I was lucky enough to have all 4 as well, really mucked up plans
And I forgot Hamilton to add to that lot missing Only fielding 16 this week when I was looking OK
Bringing Owens in this week was a bitter pill also, and that I don’t have Cogs anymore LOL
Yeah will be interesting to see if Owens gets back in after this. Billings and Clarke to come back, so he may find it hard to break back into the team when he is available for slection again. Similar to what happened to Hamilton, was sick and now has lost his spot but hoping he may get a chacne later in the season. At least I got Wehr and he went OK
I hope Owens does get back in Kat cause I actually started with him haha and traded him out, yeah Wehr is going well…decent defensive backup going fwd if he keeps his spot.
Add Hamilton to that list
Oh good Cripps is not dead, I thought he’d died somewhere on the ground and nobody noticed…Let’s go Crippaaaaaaaaaa!
I see you have him as VC Russty.
Hi mate, yeah changed it to him from Neale who might be tagged by Owens but Cripps is being tagged lol. Cripps going ok now I’m happy 🙂
I went with something different in Hewett, decided to mix it up for a change.
I vc’ed Mr consistent Georgie boy
Both going pretty well at the half way point 🙂
I guess I shouldn’t have gone with something different after all. Will be only the 5th time I will have had to depend on my C.
Oliver or Gawny could bang out a 150 mate, I’m just gonna play it safe and bank the 126
Yes, any score 120+ is good enough to take for a VC. I’ll be happy with a 120+ from Clarry. I had the VC on Brodie at one stage, will be interesting to see how he goes.
Looks like Fyfe affected his scoring a fair bit, didn’t see the game but not good signs.
I think he just had a bad game Russty, though Fyfe might not have helped, have to hold though, would be a luxury trade to trade him out, was thinking he was a keeper.
Oh Parish has some kind of Calf injury…yikes if you brought him in this week, that’s crappy luck.
Yep. And its a two for one deal. He burns ya this week AND next week when ya needed him to field a full side. He has carried the bombers all year. It will be interesting to see who his points go to while he is out. I cant see it only being Zerrett.
Well…….it IS Essendon….maybe they will just give him a jab….<backspace> <backspace>
heheh can’t believe Merrett just spent about 5 minutes on the pine in the last 8 minutes of the game when he could’ve made a real difference especially with Parish out of the game, that to me, is not very good coaching.
I got Merrett this week. Thought he played better than his score, managed 15 points in last 5 mins when he did get back on to to boat it a bit.
I’m sure he’ll benefit greatly score-wise with Parish out, but what kind of coach keeps his main mid off the field in the last ten mins for half that time when the game’s on the line? Almost looks like tanking.
I didn’t realise Docherty was so popular this year. 6/10 of my opponents have him this week. I dont’t but I’m loving watching him play and score so well.
His DE is amazing. Hardly misses a target. Considering what he had been through and where he has come from nothing short of REMARKABLE.
FEEL GOOD STORY OF THE YEAR! 👏
Hi Team..Should i take Crippa’s score for Captain?
Yep unless going for overall, bank the points. Someone else may score 140 but it’s not worth the worry for 15 more points.
Oliver will go big 140 will be a rump in the park for Clarry
I’m taking it.
I would check my league scores and go from there although that has backfired twice against Russty and Shake
Any VC score over 120 should be taken.
Id take it
I have already made three trades bringing in Wehr, Callow and Houston. Now Preuss is not playing is it worth using one of my boost trades to trade him out or hope he gets a last minute call up. My only worry is that it leaves me with 12 trades.
Appreciate any advice or thoughts. Thanks.
I’d use a boost, having 12 trades left is a good position to be in.
Which to bring in – wehr or owens? Which is more likely to play next week as well?
Not sure really, Wehr has Stein and Haynes waiting in the wings and Owens has Billings and H.Clark, maybe Owens if he can successfully tag Neale this week.
Was looking at bringing in Brayshaw, but couldn’t decide if I should wait until after his bye. Then once I made up my mind to get him in, (Haw usually let the opp mids score large) I only had one min left and missed out.
Sometimes you just gotta go with your gut John He is a top 8 mid just out of my range now
Absolutely kicking myself Neil, as soon as I missed out I knew he would go large. Will look at Touk next week now.
Tout will be good just avoid Trac
Dodged a bullet this week NDD.
Fredrick didn’t even play…..
Yes mate lucky
Good luck to the Saints fans hoping they kick rse. Offloaded May to the geriatric from Colac in the draft One born everyday. We both need a win and a Russty loss to make it and stitching Gat up makes sense
Think they might have our number tonight mate, especially at home, Gresham needs to pull his finger out, had it 6 times for one point lol
hope u r right long way to go Go Saints/ give Gator a surprise when he wakes up
Not going with the tried and true (Neale) for my VC is going to cost me big time, quite a few of my match ups have him as their VC/C.
Early days John, Neale hasn’t done much this quarter, I’m surprised Ratts didn’t use Owens to tag again.
Yea, feeling a bit better, but he should still get a 120+ which would have been good enough to take. I’m just not used to relying on a C score.
Oh well that’s probably Owens done for the night, and next week.
never ends jeez he goes in though
What a waste of a trade that was. I now have two loop players for after the bye rounds.
I chose Owens over Wehr too, Wehr will probably score an 80 lol
Should get 60+, which is what Owens was on track to get.
Gallant effort Sainters just too many injuries
Injuries aside, they didn’t look like a team who can go deep into the finals to me, fwd line has problems, not enough targets or scorers there consistently.
Is Nick Daicos a starter for Monday?
Yep he’s named on the starting bench
The Same Olds decided to shut up shop this week in the trade department, had 17 playing pre-bye before trades, dropped to 13 after team selections😢Hayes/Preuss combo really hurt, was thinking of a cash grab with Teakle last rd but thought Preuss might not be ready so kept him for coverage!😭 could’ve been competitive and brought it up to 17 for this week but just not sold on the rookies, Owens unlucky as it turns out, but he really needed a blinder to hold his spot and I feel Wehr is in the same boat with Stein/Haynes awaiting, but I’d assume the Giants might go unchanged after a Roos demolition so should see out the byes, Sinclair is proving to be a bad miss, but I probably would of targeted Zerrett not sure what’s going on there but way too much time on the pine in the last. With 15 trades and 3 upgrades still to go, I’m kind of glad I held my nerve and more importantly held the lines of Clark, SDK, PMac etc, as the rest of my rookies are the Rd12 flops of Ham,MRJ & Carrol! There’s no denying my H2H’s are in for a very healthy percentage boost this rd and it’ll hurt my ranking of 2.6k but I’m hoping playing the long game will make up for this rds debacle. Best of luck to the organised coaches you all should be in for a huge jump on the comp. 👍
Great summary John- Owens was terribly unlucky and will prove to be a wise selection for the sainters not us unfortunately. You are in a good position and may not lose much ground.Plenty have 13 as their worst bye . i am close in most leagues with the closest being that old fella from Colac I am leading by one polnt in the totals Crikey I will never hear the end of it if he gets up Daics ,do the right thing and ton up and Crispy , time to have a poor score go dees NDD
Great position to be in with 15 trades left mate, good luck for the run home, many will be struggling with low trades from here.
I have 18 playing this week. I also have Owens but he started in my side and just sat on the pine while not playing. I did bring in Wehr and Merrett this week. Have Neale as vc, not sure if I’ll keep that. 17 trades left will use a few next week.
You blew me out of the water when I saw the 17 trades left part Shake, you are in a very good position.
I started with Owens, traded him out to Hobbs in round 6, who I am very happy with, then traded Owens back in this round.
Oh Dear!
This week is absolute carnage 🙁
I will struggle to break 1,800 for the round
12 already played with Cripps as captain and my score is only 1220
I only have Green, Anderson, Crisp, Cameron, Gawn, Oliver left to play.
Half of my most competitive league are predicted for over 2,000 so I need to pull a rabbit out my hat but mixo has killed all of them. I’m not game to put the C on a Demons player in case they knock Oliver out in the warmup or Max continues his yo-yo form, the 5 times that I have had the VC or C on him he has scored less than 100 (4 of them less than 90)
I think you should easily go over 1800 providing Green and Anderson don’t crap the bed, many will be scoring less than that this week.
You will kill 1900
Go Cogs.
I’m surprised how many teams still have Cogs. I traded him to Libba a few weeks ago.
9/10 of my opponents this week still have him. Starting to make a few of my matches ups very close
Always a keeper in the fwd line Derek.
traded him back in with 2 mins left gotta win some i suppose
I seriously thought about trading both Whitfield and Cogs back in to my team this morning. I only had 18 playing and that included a 28 and a 40. GWS playing North. I settled on getting JKelly instead. I just couldn’t trade players back in.
Only 18 in this round is pretty good Derek, most only have 16 or 17.
Butters to miss you would think with a small fracture. Shit timing.
Not sure he is a keeper. Same with Brodie, eventually they have to go to make way for Bont, Smith, English (Boak if gets FWD)
if you have the trades i am keeping him this time
I’ll be keeping both.
me 2 john
I already have Bont and English.
Glad I decided to ignore this round … went from 18 to 14 players after team announcements before Preuss didn’t show… decided to make 1 trade to be ready for next week .. Hayes to loophole Treakle..
One thing that determines/directs my choices at this time of the year is the leagues I want to win .. money leagues take priority so I tend to make changes based on who I’m playing… so for those in other leagues who monitor what their opponents are doing must scratch their heads when they play me… e.g. this week im playing Russty in Holy Grail, but I’ve let it go to save trades cos whilst I’ll lose this week in the money leagues I’ll only drop 1 possie and will be well inside the 8.
Whereas I will be in the bottom 4 of other leagues.
Don’t know what SC plans are, but it would be better if we were able to have different teams in each league… might mean I play less leagues, but will keep the competitiveness higher.
You’re normally right up there in the leagues I’ve been in with you Laz, it’s just a bit of a rough year I think for ya, know what you mean though I’m in 6 or 7 leagues where there’s a lot of the same faces and it’s tough cause they’re all good.
I don’t mind seeing a few of the same teams in the leagues Russty, I find it interesting how some can be near the bottom 4 in some, but in the top 8 in others.
puzzles me too Laz Having an extra team has merit especially in the byes when you want to trade in some leagues and none in others
Good luck today Neil. Melbourne by 30
half time great game Shake
I was wrong in my prediction. I thought at 3qr time we’ll over run you
took an extra quarter
Trading out Daicos last week might have been my worst trade of the year, after scoring 113 last week and looking like another 100+ today.
Rising ⭐️
Great display by your pies Shake just beaten badly by a better team Cox played unbelieveable intercept footy Well done Shake
Hope Melbourne get back to where they were. I’m sure they will. The Break comes at a good time.
Does SC have a weekly Spudteam Award I’d have it all sewn up I reckon 13/1566!
I might come second haha, surely it has to be better next week.
No more curvbeballs please SC Gods
😂 yes SC Gods leave the curve balls to the Socceroo’s! Fielding 17 before trades and 19 if Preuss/Hayes combo getup, Daicos making it hard to move him on, might move him to M8 for a bit and bring in a Dawson type with the Crows run looking good.
How did everyone go this week?…pretty crappy week for me 1723, quite below par as it turns out, hoping to bounce back in round 14.
What kind of moves did you make in your leagues?
As expected got beat in most of my leagues Rust but only having 14 on the park was always gonna happen. Mind you 1650 for 14 players is pretty impressive 👍
Tres impressive Trig, I got over 1700 from 17 but got smooshed in 6 out of 10 leagues, not having Gongigliogs hurt, and also having Pendlebury, what a fkn spud he turned out to be lol…onwards and upwaaaaard!
Nice Trigg, scored 1566 from 13 myself, so I’m happy with the fire power the team has, just disappointed most of my prebye plans failed.
I had my one round of glory, scored 1,922 and won 10/10 league games for the first time this season. After the bye rounds I will go back to being not verry good because other teams will be ahead in their up grading and have way more trades than me.
very. I must have pressed the keyboard too hard.
Well done John…10 out of 10 is verrry good mate 🙂 Keep yer chin up mate, you never know what the other team’s situation is near the end of the season, one trade at the right time could make all the difference.
Thanks Russty, it was a good feeling to log on and see that I was winning all my games and not one close game in sight. That said, it came at a cost regarding my trades. I could have done no trades instead of three and I still would have won 5/10. I’ll do a few more this round and that will have to be it, won’t be fully upgraded, but I never seem to get to that stage anyway, so no big deal.
10/10 is a monumental achievement John well done I doubt many will get to true full prem, been that kind of year I will end up with nearly prems like Cogs Butters and Daicos filling my last three spots .They are ok but i bet numero uno doesn’t have them keep it going son
Cheers Neil. Yes full premo is just a dream for me, wasted too many trades on rookies that played 3-5 games and that was it, or did get games, but scored too low for any meaningful cash generation. Most of the ones that I started with were the best.
Enjoy the success John 10/10 is great
Thanks Kat, I hadn’t even come close to winning 10/10 this season, so the dreaded round 13 bye was always going to be my chance. I did it three times last season, but I was travelling better then than now, even with the injuries. I have done some silly trades the last two rounds, just so I could field 18 players and I feel it could come back to bite me.
1828 and won 6/10.
had C on Gawn (changed 30 mins before game) and that cost me 3 wins and getting to 1900.
Brought in: Owens, Wehr, Merrett & JKelly and had 19 on field.
Bit underwhelmed by Merrett and Jelly (especially as GWS was playing North). Don’t have Cogs but did hold Daicos
will only have 14 this week because of Owens & Butters won’t play and Carroll & Hamilton probably won’t. therefore will need my final boost to field 18
Kelly has inj doubt aswell
Lucky you have all those extra trades you saved mate, at least you didn’t have to cop Owen’s score, bummer about the C on Maxy
1895 with 18. Won all my games 2 bye rds in a row. I think I’ll make 2 trades this week Doch and Miller in. I should have 20 playing. Maybe 21 if Hayes plays. I always do a little planning over the bye rds from rd 1.
I’m jealous of all those trades you have left
I have 17 left Kat. I got 1895 with 18 playing.
yes you do and that is wise you are like the pies -travelling beautifully and myself ,well just like my dees Did you think Cox was bog? he got my vote good players everywhere and a few like Cox i have bagged cameron is one of the few i liked early good luck bud
I’m happy with Clarry. U could say his influence in the 2nd half waned.
Nice score Shake, very strong effort..I thought I was ok for round 13 and 14 too until last week happened lol
Only 16 playing for me this round but managed to win 8/10 league games with 1839 score so pretty happy with that. Only have 16 playing in Rnd 14 as well now but hopefully Preuss being selected will bring numbers up to 17 this week. No Owens now to get to 18 and doubt Hamilton will get a game, so any trades may depend on whether Preuss gets a game. Otherwise may have to sit tight and wait for the rookies to fatten. Really wanted to get Sinclair in last week but that would have required trading Clark and he was my only mid-rookie guaranteed game time as cover on the bench so went Gresham in the fwd line instead. Did not pay off this week but fingers crossed he is a good inclusion for my team. In a perfect world, he will end up becoming my mid9/fwd 7 swing but doubt things will work out that way and will be in my fwd line
That was a good score with only 16 playing Kat and that’s including Owens 26. I should have just sat on my hands and not traded this last round, it really wasn’t worth it.
You must’ve picked the right Captain Kat, nice score mate!…I think I’m gonna end up not having Stewart in my backline which sucks but it was dictated by last week and this week, sometimes we just gotta roll with the best we can do I guess.
No wonder Gawny was off against Collingwood he had goalkeeping duties for Australia What a doppelganger even his antics are the same Now back to the dees Maxy boy
Will Max play this week Neil?…he is pretty banged up apparently.
no mate they have a bye
Next week I meant 🙂
Doesn’t look good, does it, the bye came at the right time, Max looks pretty bad, ankle and back. Glad I have English as a back up.
Yeah for sure John, hope the week off does him the world of good, if I was him I’d have a spa and a massage every day haha, and no dinners at Entracote.
I’d say they will be working on him everyday Russty, just good that he has a week and a half to get over it. Really if they are playing injured, sometimes it’s better to give them a week off, Petracca was the same, last week, except he was ill, just play someone else.
Yeah the Dees need Maxy at his best, especially after 3 straight losses, that must be a bit of a worry for you….how the Dees are going at the moment?
Gawn may have more to worry about with his foot. Could be out for awhile.
Not worried Russty, I thought at the start of the season the best we might do is win 17 lose 5 and end in the top 4. At the moment it looks like it will be worse than that and the main thing will be to just make the eight. But truth be told, after winning the Flag last season, I couldn’t care how we went, the main thing is I saw us win one in my lifetime.
You are very lucky to have seen your team win a flag John. As a Saints supporter all my life, I’m not sure if I’m going to be that lucky. The injuries and couple of incidents Melbourne have had over the last few weeks just show that as well as being good at football a team has to have a lot of other things going right for them in terms of injuries and off-field stuff to win one.
It was a weird feeling Kat, I didn’t get that excited, a tear did come to my eye when they were handing out the medals, but that was about it. If I had been 30 yrs younger I would have been jumping all over the house, I was more of a fanatic in the seventies, eighties, nineties. You are correct Kat, everything has to go right to win a premiership and that’s the season Melbourne had last year.
That was my take on winning it also John A little tear but in the 70’s i would have been locked up again That did happen I was on the 6 oclock news and front page of the sun for fighting at Mas in north melbourne and had to explain all to my boss Not last season though almost like it wasn’t real
wonder if mag will get a run been doing ok for casey or maybe Tomlinson will ruck he ‘s done it before
Max out for at least 5 weeks. I’m just going to put him on the bench, move English into the ruck and Bont from the midfield to the fwd line.