Ok, so now I am thinking to trade Heeney. Mainly just that it fits with my team structure better.

I have a bit of a rule of my own that I use every year for the last few that my early season fixup trades are only for guys I was strongly considering preseason.

The two players I want to bring in are the two guys who were closest to making my starting team, Rocky and Kelly.

Kelly I had all preseason but swapped out to Dunkley last minute after the news Dunkley would play mid and also for bye structure, and Rocky was a last minute decision I made between him and Zac Williams.

I'm happy to keep both Dunkley and Williams, but I would like to bring in Rocky and Kelly.

I had been planning to drop Dusty Martin and Sam Walsh. I dont think Sam Walsh will generate enough cash at his starting price, I am regretting starting with him. But Ive just decided I will keep him because at least he is making cash and scoring ok. Also, If I traded Walsh, Kelly would need to be in my mids until I could swing him forward through future trades.

So, I think I'll trade Heeney to get Kelly into my fwd line straight away and keep Walsh for the $$ he will make, albeit probably minimal.

It will leave me with a war chest to upgrade someone in the coming weeks too.

Because of the extra cash on hand, I considered trading in Jake Lloyd instead of Rocky (Lloyd was another I was close to starting with, it was out of him and Laird), but I didnt start with Lloyd because of his price and Im gonna stick with that thinking because if he scores even 100 this week he will drop in price. Might be able to get him for about $550k in a few weeks.

Another option is to not trade at all. Despite a relatively poor start, my team is in ok shape I think. If Dusty Martin, Isaac Heeney and Sam Walsh are my biggest problems then Im doing ok.... But we've got enough trades for the season and I think this is a key time to take advantage of the price structure with enough of a sample size, so Im just gonna do them.

And, he traditionally does poorly against Collingwood.

I told myself before that game that even if Dusty scores poorly, that I need to stick with him.

But I’m trading him anyway hehe

Interesting reading all this. Never dodged so many bullets in my life.

Rules are made to be broken. Heeney is carrying an injury - who knows how long (remember Hanners)? Swans a bit of a mess. I have traded him, but plan to get him back towards the end of the season as he will be a top 10.

Balta is back. Hore is not in the 26.

Ok so what route do I decide to go?

Mills and Heeney out for Lloyd and B.Smith with Burgess going forward.
Mills and Hore out for B.Smith and Wilkie?

Forwards seem most unpredictable this year and Lloyd looks a must have. Trading out 2 "prems" just feels dirty and like chasing points but with most of my mid rookies doing ok, there's not a lot there I need to change. Hore could be a useful floating donut with Clark playing tonight too so leaning towards option 1.

We also have two rookie price rucks having their first game of the season (O'Brien and Clarke). Bin Bines could be the flavour of the week come rd4/5.

Definitely one option. Bines to F8, ROB or Clarke in at R3 as part of a 1 down 1 up in Round 5 also sounds good.

I started with Clarke so hope he gets at least 6-7 games through the season - it looks like Bellchambers and McKernan are also in the team so I don't know how the 3 will work together this week or longer term.Draper is also on the EMG list. Any bombers fans wanna speculate on that ?