Personally I was hoping for a 3-4 week injury to Rocky, sort of force my hand. Now i'm stuck in no mans land with both Barlow and Rocky, but not wanting to miss out on Papley and his cash creation. Very important week for me and I'd think many others.?.?

I find it very hard to trade a player e.g Barlow who will most certainly play round 3. Rockliff however poses a different Q it is wait and see how long and if he will be out. Burning trades at this stage are surely rage driven, as such must be considered carefully.

Nothing wrong with Barlow to Papley. Use some of the Cash to upgrade Rocky to an 'uber-prem' that you don't have (Fyfe/Danger/Priddis) or go Rocky to a Parker/Zaharakis type and bank the cash for a couple of weeks and use it to finance an early upgrade of a rookie that's almost maxed out to a fallen prem heading into R5.

must be your first year playing sc. rage trading, you call it, please ....i'm giggling. round 3 is the perfect opportunity to use 2 of your trades. getting the right rookies now is a must so we can upgrade to " whoever". the only thing I can think of is that you have no interest with the overall prize and will focus on league wins

My thoughts exactly!

Merrett was always going to be a future fantasy gun but it seems that the suspensions at Essendon have fast-tracked things. I haven't seen the Bombers yet this year but can anyone enlighten us on Merrett? Is he being played as a genuine on-baller?

After Rocky and Barlow's games on Saturday, my original thoughts were Barlow > Merrett, Rocky > Danger but I was about $5K short. My next thought was Priddis but now reading everyone's thoughts on here I am tempted by Parker.

Barlow > Merrett, Rocky > Parker would leave me with $115K, providing me with much more flexibility for future trading.

I have a couple of options i need to trade 2 of 3 players Barlow looks to be leaking cash quicker than the titanic took on water, Rocky injured and also leaking big time (might be black listed next season along with others in previous years), finally Rich who has proved he cant handle the tag. Wanted to pick up 2 of 3 players (depending on who i punt). Hall, Papley or Adams.
Option 1 - Barlow - Adams, Rocky - Papley (using dpp link to send either dalhaus wells kerridge kennedy menadue to mids)

option 2 - Rich - Adams, Barlow - Hall

option 3 - Barlow - Hall - Rich - Adams

option 4 - Any other options

Like a lot of people I've got Rockliff and Barlow, but will probably hold both of them. I've also got most of the good rookies, except for Papley - who I will trade in for Gresham this round. The question is, how do people see Parish going this year, is he a must have?

Option 1: >85 average
Option 2: 75-85
Option 3: 65-74
Option 4: <65

Option 2 seems the most likely, but it is hard to tell. I will be one that doesn't have him and doesn't get him in even though I would like to. He would be a great in imo but I think Papley in is a bigger priority and for me Rocky out is a bigger priority too

Yeah Barlow is the one for me as well ... what happened to his form? Has Ross been using him outside of the midfield?
My dilemma is i haven't got either of Papley or ben kennedy.
Currently i've traded barlow for Kennedy however this only leaves me with Hall/Dahlhaus/Wells as my top 3 FWD players and the rest are rookies. I'd also have a large sum of cash 300k sitting there doing diddly squat My options are:
1. trade barlow - get kennedy
2. trade barlow get papley.
3. Double trade and get them both in.
4. Hold fire!

Yeah I think Rocky has to go for sure, Barlow was obviously brought as a keeper but looks far from that at the moment.....could wait it out but if he continues in the same vein then we start losing a lot of flexibility in who he can be traded for

Two very solid moves there Len

Yeah agree regarding Rocky and Barlow. However if Rocky doesn't play this week I'd be more tempted to hold him if I could as his price wont drop yet. I am tossing up changing my structure in trading Barlow out for Papley which would give me enough to trade Mitch Brown to JJ, and also leave 135k in the bank.