Morabito, Lake, Hayes (if similiar drop to Petrie), Barlow/Mundy depending prices?? Pendlebury a must, Ablett should be in all teams in my opinion. Giles certainly Ruck 4, wait and see on Tutt for the rest of this year and see if he keeps scoring well, mid-priced second ruckman..... etc
Everyone will come under scrutiny when I research potential players for next year - as long as they don't have surnames of Higgins, Grimes, Riewoldt!!!
Hoping for Dustin Martin to be a M/F and will be looking at the Kruez / Luenberger / whoever Richmond pick up ruck combo.
Nathan Fyfe & Tom Rockliff will pick themselves... Couple youngsters to keep eye on that will still be rookie priced would be: Jamie Cripps - Played as sub this year so ave wont affect price, should be rookie priced again and is one Ross Lyons favourites already and will play every game. Kicked 7 goals in 4 games so knows where the goals are!! John Butcher - Should be still around rookie price, but has shown he is going to be a gun. Must have next year. Anthony Morabito - Missed entire year and with quick calculations should be around $150K
Will there be any chance of Swanny being M/F next year? I mean, the bloke has kicked 30 odd goals playing in the fwd line in breaks and may get named in the AA pocket/flank... Food for thought.
Mumford, Pendlebury, Ablett, Franklin, Deledio all demand a spot. Hayes should make decent $$, waiting to see his start price. Probably not a keeper though. Very tempted by Rockliff.
Gazza kicked 44 odd I think. Yamum's favourite Koby Stevens may be worth a look, expected around Morabito's price. I'm going for Hayes. I've never gone Franklin, and not planning to. 50/50 on Fyfe, depends what other options are around, I'd personally prefer ROK. Morabito and K.Stevens worth a bench spot IMO. Didn't go Ablett, Franklin this year. Should I go with them? Or get PODs? Sort of suicide with out them, maybe that's been the difference on falling just short of a few Grand Finals. It's hard to pick a team at this stage, we'll have to see the prices of JBrown and Didak (yes i am a risktaker), looking at Pendles, Murphy, Selwood, Hayes, Shiels, Ablett, Shuey etc so will have to pick out of them to start. O'Meara a MID? Would be good to hve Martin FWD/MID too. Tyrone Vickery, I reckon will be better next year.
Dustin Martin as M/F would be very tempting. Also think Zakharsis (spelling?) will continue to improve. Huge fan of Nat Fyfe so hope he is also M/F again next year. Butcher looks awesome, but I don't like choosing very young key forwards. Think Jack Watts will be more consistent in 2012. J Roo could also be very good value next year. Will also be paying Heath Scotland a lot more respect next year!
Dempsey and Winderlich based on discounts and preseason form would be ones to watch. Also any chance of Hodge becoming a Def/Mid again? Was really missed this year due to lack of real defensive options.