Cavarra is injured, won't be fit to play for several weeks at the earliest.

I'm not the only one to have suggested Lobb. @Len and @Royboy Forever have both suggested him previously in this thread too.

Reckon I've picked it 3 years running now This time for sure!

Beveridge has said that Dunkley will play midfield to start the season. There is no guarantee that he will stay in that role for long though. During JLT, he played the first match as a FWD and the second match as a MID. Last year, he played most of the season as a FWD and the last 6 or so games as a MID.

If he stays as a MID, should be good to average around 100. I'm just not convinced that he is going to stay in that role. Toby McLean has been pushed into a FWD role for 2019 as a result of all of this.

Wasn't half a season, more like the last 6 rounds or so once Dahlhaus got injured and never played for us again.

I said above, Toby McLean has become a FWD because of Dunkley's changed role.

Last year, Beveridge experimented with Easton Wood as a FWD. That lasted one week.

Nothing is permanent when it comes to positions at the Bulldogs.

There's no.such thing as making enough money in SC and the game can go kaplooie at any stage, you have noway of knowing, so it is a risk to intentionally hobble your side.

You have to ask yourself if saving a trade is more important than a cash cow? If he's a must have, he's a must have at R4/5 (the earliest he'll play 2 games), not now.

NN is one I'm considering, definitely has the opportunity to score in that Carlton backline, and has proven it in the past which you like. Still, he's at Carlton.

You seem to have missed my point.

I am risking some tempo in terms of cash generation but consider that I will still have generated enough money from my other rookies to still be able to start making my upgrades on-time.

Yes, the trade is more important than the slight delay in cash generation.

Well I see it as losing out twice: once on a playing rookie to put in your team before round 1 and once again on a mid-season downgrade target. Purposely choosing to limit your cash generation by having a non playing rookie over a playing rookie is not something I would ever recommend anyone do in their SC team. The game it hard enough with intentionally making the odds harder for yourself and no one can be over-confident that they've picked the perfect combination of rookies that will moo that they can afford another walking bye. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

I expect him to play R3. I get two loophole options in my MIDs with my emergency this way that a lot of other teams won't have access to (Fremantle play in the last game for the first two rounds). That and saving a trade are worth the sacrifice in my view.