On a personal note, I am currently ranked 621st and I'm in 9 prelims this round. Hoping for a strong finish, but Ive just used my last trade this evening, so fingers crossed now

How's everyone else going?

lt'd be interesting.
I believe we had $10,200 in the bank. 2 trades remaining.

We hadn't fully decided on our final trades, but some suggestions had been made.
Saad ($480,500) to Stewart ($516,800) was suggested to neutralise our biggest negative-POD, but we needed cash to do that.
A suggestion had been made to do a downgrade to Greaves, but that was if we wanted a 23rd premium. If we were bringing in Stewart, which a few wanted to do, then we probably would've traded Sholl ($230,500) to Buckley ($123,900) with some DPP subs to ensure we had cover on every line.

So I guess those trades would've been as likely as anything else, even though we didn't get to a final decision on them because we were discussing pulling the team out instead!

We hadn't discussed VC and Cap much yet for this round, except to look at when our loophole players were scheduled to play, and we'd flagged Friday night to discuss and make decisions, but we pulled the pin before Friday night came around. We usually went with combinations of Gawn, Macrae or Neale.

Lets say we did those two trades to finish off all our trades. This would've been our final team for the final two rounds:

D: Stewart, Lloyd, Ridley, Haynes, Laird, Docherty (Ruscoe, Rivers)
M: Oliver, Macrae, Viney, Neale, Parker, Cripps, Titchell, Merrett (Schoenberg, Bytel, Foot)
R: Grundy, Gawn (Draper)
F: Brayshaw, BSmith, Petracca, DSmith, Greenwood, Whitfield (Comben, Buckley)

All support behind you now mate.

Hope you lose atleast one of those... TooSerious Donors

My final trade has been a bit of a shocker so far

Before the trade, I'd ended up with 7 premium forwards, but only 1 premium ruck.

I initially set up with Draper at R2, and I had DSmith and Viney as emergencies, so that I could loophole whichever of them scored higher with Foot, and the other would stay on the bench. Turns out DSmith scored 120 and Viney is spudding it up this game right now.
But I ended up deciding to trade DSmith to Ladhams so that I could move Draper to the bench. Yes, Ladhams scored a little more than Draper, but nowhere near enough to offset the points I would've gained by having DSmith instead of Viney.

Wow. Bugger mate!

Who do you loophole Rivers for? Have J Lloyd, S Docherty, and C Daniel. Leaning towards dropping Docherty due to the lingering injury concern.

this didn't work out too well for you
100 point loss, dammit!

Honourable decision. Was thinking that, the team being called TS Donors for a reason, the donation of potential winnings to @walesy might have been some reward for effort. Respect the decision made, but just a thought.

No late changes for the Monday game.

Good luck to everyone whose season is on the line in this match.

Wow, that's an insane effort guys, awesome job with the Donors team and being able to walk away with honour is always a plus.

Also fingers crossed for you choppers, bring it home!

Even though its a pointless exercise, this is how we think we would've ended up this round:

D: Stewart 127, Lloyd 119, Ridley 119, Haynes 46, Laird 136, Ruscoe C = 0 (Docherty, Rivers - e 107)
M: Oliver 87, Macrae 102, Viney 75, Neale 55, Parker 136, Cripps 98, Titchell 71, Merrett 108 (Schoenberg - e 97, Bytel, Foot)
R: Grundy 105, Gawn VC = 300 (Draper - e 61)
F: Brayshaw 86, BSmith 108, Petracca 114, DSmith 120, Whitfield 97, Greenwood 111 (Comben, Buckley - e 90)

Total score for round 17 = 2,427
making our cumulative total = 38,283 points

198 ahead going into the final round...