Papley is a small forward who has kicked 5 goals in two big wins for Sydney. Can't see him keeping up anywhere near the 100s yet.

Adams however, watching his game last week was playing with such confidence, reading the ball well in flight, intercept marks, and kicking well.

So, Adams all the way

I think Mills will get to $350K+. I think you should keep him and punt Rockliff. Mills will have a big game at some point which will drive his price up. Rockliff played no pre-season games and was considerably off the pace over the first two rounds. He's missing two more games which will effect his fitness even further. Also, he has a calf which is one of those injuries that can be hard to shake. Even if Rockliff does get back to his best at some point, I don't expect it to be until Round 8 at the earliest. It's a big risk to take just to save a trade.

So Barlow gets another week. Can trade in papley for either mccarthy or mcgovern.

Rocky to either of the below is one for the thumbs. Thanks in advance.

TU: Parker
TD: R. Gray

I think dumping Rocky & keeping Mills would be better in the long run. Use the money from Rocky to grab Hall & change De Goey to a better cash producing rookie.
I'm doing something similar - De Goey out for Ben Kennedy & Gresham into Hewett. Leaves me with a bank of around 220K for the first upgrade.

My trade plans I think are a bit risky but looking to ensure I have all cash cows in my team. My main problems are Barlow, Rich and potential non playing rookies like Gresham/Dunkley. Best rookies I don't have are Papley and Parish.

Barlow - Papley
Gresham/Dunkley - Parish

I'm well and truly in the Barlow has to go corner. Too risky at his BE to keep with hope of 100+ average for rest of the year, less risky to punt him and at worst bring him back if he turns it around but I don't think he will. Poor record last year and continued this year after all the midfield talk fell on its face so there is too much history of poor form in my opinion.

Problem with my trades is a I lose a premo for a rookie in the sort term but put cash in the bank and hopefully can upgrade a couple of weeks earlier than other to offset this.

I think trades before R3 are all about maximising cash to allow quicker upgrading.

OK have one for the options here guys.....here are my trade scenarios...

Option 1: Rocky to Parker
Option 2: Rocky to Parker and Barlow to JJ
Option 3: Rocky to Danger and Barlow to JJ

Parish - 202k. Will cost 2 trades (1 to bring him in, 1 to downgrade/upgrade later).
I can see him getting to about 350k.
So, if he makes 150k:
Thumbs up: Worth trading in for cash gen
Thumbs down: Not worth the trades

Depends on who you trade......if you have the cash spare and its say Gresham to Parish then yeah for sure

Absolute dilemmas this week with rocky, gresham, barlow and crouch this week. Trading rocky to libba (jumped on the Hunter bandwagon). Not sure if I should do a second trade or not. Basically have every rookie bar parish. Not sure how much of a must have Parish is given his 202K price. Im currently sitting in the hold Barlow corner.

Do I,

Trade Gresham to Parish , Hold Barlow
Hold Gresham & Trade him for Hartley next week. (Can be done with DPP moves), Hold Barlow
Trade Barlow to Parker, Hold Gresham

Options are:
1. Rocky > Parker (TU)
Or
2. Rocky > Merrett (or anyone under 490k), Gresham > Parish (TD)

Mundy out bodes well for Barlow.

Now has me rethinking my trades - again.

I've been pretty lucky with rookies, but I don't have great hopes for Barlow, even if Mundy is out this week it is just delaying the inevitable. So I'm giving Barlow the boot (in the forward line). . .

Thumbs up: Zac Merrett
Thumbs down: Kane Lambert

Cheers