I see that everyone has Buddy and Cyril as locks. Is this without a Chappy, Stevie J or Pav? I can't see how you get the coverage in Rnd 6 without taking a massive hit.
Chappy, I have Buddy, Cyril & Pav. Will send Pav to Mid Bench & bring Krak or Rohan to fwds (injuries allowing). Have Petrie, Matera & Darling to hopefully cover two Hawks Anyway that the plan!
Thanks HeavyMan. This is my dilemma. Is it worth taking the risk that a Matera or Darling will play? With good scoring coverage from Krak and Petrie, is getting a Rnd 6 starting prem a better option than relying on a rookie to cover the 3rd prem.
Is anyone else going cold on Rooey? So far his pre-season really hasn't impressed me, particularly with his new kicking style. Forward line is probably hard enough already this year but I really can't see him maintaining his average over the first 6 weeks or so. Anyone else giving him the boot?
Yeah, this whole FWD line is really starting to frustrate. I just caught a quick glimpse of Fox sport news and Scott said chappy was in line for RD1 so who knows. He is an hour to hour proposition at this stage, but if he is named RD1, watch everybody re-shuffle their side. BB-personally Rooey stays in my team.
I'm looking at Chappy as a mid-year upgrade target now. With no pre-season can't see him spending lots of the first 5 weeks in the mids, and Johnston is filling that role anyway, so Chappy may be overvalued at first. Prefer others...
I'm thinking about taking Johnathan Brown. He's the only quality forward at Brisbane. He'll have to carry the side, what do you think?
@PJ He has a element of risk on him. Big questions will be if the midfield can get the ball to him in the forward line, rather than him travelling up the midfield constantly. They need goals and he seems to be the only route. Second question is if he stays healthy. He'll have the odd breakout games. But I've looked elsewhere.
Goodes vs Pavlich? Both have DPP, both have been absolute stars, and are similarly priced (somewhat). One has got the dreaded Round 6, the other's likely to be in the dreaded Forward spot when he scores less. Which one would u prefer?
I'd prefer Pav. Goodes will have stints in the midfield but I think Pav will be there more often. Sort of a gut feeling to go Pav.
yumcha-Pav is pretty consistent and durable for a FWD and averages close to 100 most years. Goodes, well we all know what he's capable of and is way under priced to begin with at 458K as opposed to nearly 508K last year. Personally I have both. The FWD line is going to make or break teams this year that's why I have gone strong from the start in mine. I reckon you have alot more options in defence and through the middle. If most people can get through the RD6 dilemma with players from those sides affected it's half the battle as you don't have to trade into them later-trying to figure out the right bench coverage to cover these guys is the problem.
<blockquote>Quote from yumcha on March 16, 2011, 13:18 Goodes vs Pavlich? Both have DPP, both have been absolute stars, and are similarly priced (somewhat). One has got the dreaded Round 6, the other's likely to be in the dreaded Forward spot when he scores less. Which one would u prefer?</blockquote>I'm looking at starting both.
Option - start one in the forwards, and one as your 4/5 midfielder. Gives you the forward MPP, which is hard to arrange with the Rookies on offer, and then later in the season you can swap from mid to forward as a Premium, and upgrade in the mids where you need 110 averaging players.
@corks Why do you rate this strategy over moving a defence MPP (Goddard, Lids or Gibbs etc..) to the midfield as M4/5 and then starting more defence rookies. Then as you say switching them back later in the season and upgrading the mid rookie? Is just to give you a forward MPP? Assuming you don't have Smith, Matera etc. as mid rookies...
Tanksforscully - yep forward MPP option attracts me to this. With Hibberd and Heppell (maybe Buckley) there are some good MPP defensive rookies. Matera's not MPP, and Smith, Prestia and Schneider don't seem likely to play that many early games, barring injury. D5 was never that "locked in" for me anyway - Grimes from Dees - so in effect I'm upgrading Grimes to Pav / Dids / Boomer.
Right - thanks for that. Sorry meant Prestia, not Matera. Grimes is an interesting one. As a Melbourne supporter I hope he has a great year but his durability is the key issue from a SC perspective.