Good work PL.

@Rudders Rebels Go with what you think first and foremost mate, but personally I wouldn't be swapping Kreuz to Nicnat as a way to reduce risk. Kreuz was certainly pretty sore last week, but Nicnat also just missed a year and only played 50% gametime, so I wouldn't think he was considerably less risky than Kreuz right now.

So, I'm a couple of K away from Libba > Cripps.

So, I'm chasing points.

Hibberd > Simpson
Libba > Cripps.

Probably a smarter downgrade, but I'm pretty happy with my entire list- and really want to get Cripps in for Libba.

Maybe trade to Bonner, but don't trade away Ellis after 1 round!

You've changed, chief. I thought you were an expert.

Poor Hibberd didn't even have that bad of a game (it just wasn't good) and people are jumping ship.

What did you do this time last year? We've only had one round of data, it's very hard to read too much into it whereas after Rd2, we have 100% (fact!) more data to base our decisions on. Hibberd isn't a bad player. Watch his game this week and see if you can pin day any reason why his scoring is trending down, or if last week was just an anomaly.

Now I can't remember this exactly but I must've had a fair bit of cash in hand, but my final roster move when teams were announced last Thursday was to downgrade Bonner to Murphy in defence, upgrade to Coniglio in midfield and with money left over move up to Ryder in rucks from Grundy (who was originally NicNat for most pre-season) but was $900 short of going Cameron -> English.

So I'm kinda kicking myself a lot there because even though getting Coniglio was right call, I could have had a huge score this round and team looking great. Now I'm having to burn a trade and the temptation to bring in Bonner this week is huge.

The good thing about writing this article is it's going to help my itchy fingers because after advocating for holding so much, I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't listen to own advice now.

If you're happy with your team, then yeah don't do anything. Coff is expensive but whilst not playing you can use him as your loophole.

I would say keep Coffield for now, a dpp FD isn't a bad thing to have and you would think he plays pre byes in the worst case scenario.

The main exception would be if a rookie you don't have smashes out a 130 point effort this week and you have to try to get them into your side to pick up their early season cash generation. Same goes for the 4-6 rookies debuting this week who might smash out a massive score in Round 3.

I made 1 trade in the first round last year, but only because I had Joel Smith from Melbourne who picked up a LTI in round 1.
I wish I recorded my trades somewhere because I can’t remember who I brought in

Matt Crouch has duly stepped to the plate

Ryder to NicNat, that's it for me so far, hopefully it stays that way

After hoping for a Billy Frampton debut this week (what better time to do it than against Sinclair), I am extremely disappointed because now I think he'll end up requesting a trade at end of season for more opportunities
Looks like Port are planning on going down the route of using Mr FixIt Hoff as the primary ruck with big Charlie giving him a chop out - I for one don't like this approach because it isn't sustainable for the month to six weeks that Paddy is out, plus it completely ruins the structure Port have worked all pre-season on with a fwd line of Charlie, Watts and Marshall as a triple threat, with Hoff playing off the wing as a link up player that allows him to drift down back when needed.
Not expecting to see Dougal in the ruck as he has become an integral member of the back 7 we are working with this season.
Do not be surprised when you see Ollie contesting some ruck contests either!!!

I was so close to pulling the trigger on this. I had decided not to, but then with MCrouch going down, I know one of my trades next week will be used on him, so I got back onto thinking I should do these 2 trades this week whilst I can. I got out the spreadsheet and tested a few scenarios of what may be available next week if I do it now, but in the end I decided to stick fat for one more week and see how it all goes as is.
I'll have even more options available to me next week because of MCrouch's price and Hibberd/Armitage could still easily end up good selections. We'll wait and see

I’d hoped for more from armitage. I know he’s cheap but 2 scores in the 70s probably isn’t going to cut it

Second-highest disposal getter on a team that got thrashed.

Yeah he has potential. Both weeks he’s started the game really well and then dropped off. And even with another score in the 70s next week, he’ll still increase in value cause he’s so cheap to start with.
But looks like I was delusional to think he’d reach $500k before his bye!