Potential Expat League ~

Squiddy, If you don't have cover then he has to go. I'd actually trade him irrespective of cover or not as one month out plus 500K sitting on the bench could seriously strengthen your team. If you have trades to boot, then maybe down up a couple of weeks and you'll possibly have a POD come finals but there is no guarantee he won't have a lingering negative effect when he comes back.

Pull the trigger and strengthen a line and raise the bar towards top 20!

 

Cheers J, yeah well I have cox and smith, and Petrie in the forwards with DPP to Joel Tippett. SO i think I will send Petrie into rucks for rest of the season with Smith as back up. then downgrade sandi to a non playing ruck and use the cash. IF only i did this when he first got injured!

 

Freo really panicked on Sandilands, bringing him back so early, especially with Griffin doing OK. Luckily I couln't afford to bring Sandi back in last week and still have the Griff in my side. Agree that Sandi must go but obviously no Cox either this week, with the bye.

 

Squiddy, I don't know that it is worth sending him there for the rest of the season, Petrie that is.
Smith is a more than capable ruck and I have the same combo and will be bringing Petrie straight back to the FWD's after Cox's bye.

If you have to downgrade, look at Hale or Bailey as I would think they will play weekly with the Hawthorn injury crisis which will nett a 250K windfall that you could then use to upgrade at least one cow, maybe one of the DEF to Fisher which would make a pretty formidable defensive line.

You may even have enough cash after that to turn Rioli into Buddy?

It is now or never though!

 

I have a question for everyone.

Are we going for highest individual & league position or individual league win?

These next few weeks will make or break the League win scenario and could kill the highest position rankings.

Or is it just do your best at both and let the SC gods take their shots?

I want to finish as high as I can but there is a good vibe here amongst the Expats and I'm sure bragging rights will be acknowledged for the whole off season.

 

i have cash leagues to think about so Im doing my trading considering multi round byes and who has games during SC finals. I still dont plan on eating any donuts though.

@J. do you think Smith would be an adequate 2nd ruck when sandi is back and your oponent has him but you dont?

 

@ Tibby, you would know best with Lobbe. Is he the incumbent? If so then he's an option.

@ Squiddy, I don't plan to trade any more rucks for the rest of the season. I know the best rucks have better avg than Fwds but getting the best on other lines plus the best MPP available with my remaining trades will be my plan of attack.

This week, it will be Rioli to Cloke (almost certain with Cloke's run home and byes out of the way) and maybe Chapman as M7/F? which would give me 6 genuine Prem mids (I believe Hodge will avg 115+ for the rest of the season) plus Chappy to swing between FWD and MID during the byes, settling in the FWD's at the end of the season.

 

@J. Not sure about Hodge doing that well. He struggles when tagged (but don't get me wrong. I do love him. Hawks genius) and he ceratainly will with Sewell and Lewis out.
But I do need to replace watson so am thinking it would be good to get a Hawk in my line up while Rioli is out. So maybe Hodge. And having just survived riding my motorbike home through Cyclone Utter Bastard I am feeling quite lucky.
Any other choices out there? I have about 500K to spend

As for the question about individual position or overall league position I'm with the league option. I'm 29th in league terms and 69,000th individually. So it's an easy choice.

 

Expats up to 26th and rising - great stuff, guys.

Also, fine work by Squiddy last weekend.

Personally, my focus is on winning another league against a bunch of mates (last year I snuck into top 4 then rolled the leader in the PF - his only loss of the year! Won the GF the following week by about 500).

This time I'm undefeated in that league and hoping last year's leader doesn't return the favour at finals time, lol. It's all about winning via (as the Yanks would say) "shock and awe" so a bye product of that is helping our league to keep moving up the rankings.

For everyone still holding Sandi... time to pull the trigger. I have the Petrie/Tippett MPP package but there are more points to be had by bringing in another premium R2 and using Petrie in FWDs. Question is who to takes Sandi's place?

 

BTW, Anth - cheers for your feedback last week re: the Enright trade (posted elsewhere on the site), was a good call

 

@Neil - I'd go Swan over Mitchell. Swan looked good first game back and has a much higher ceiling.

Mitchell, even when racking up 38 touches, doesn't seem to score as high in SC as DT.

 

I couldn't afford Ablett so went Swan (he's so cheap at the moment). I have a very Collingwood team now. Really hate them but the players get lots of points.

@Ant - Cheers - It was a wild one. Felt like I was in the middle of some disaster movie.