Solid team, I am not yet on the Roughy bandwagon but am eyeing a spot
Hearing Balic is unlikely till mid year, but yanno, rookies

Midfield is interesting, Steven in particular a very left field pick, if everyone on that line fires you win SC but risky.
I like the rest of the team, again very solid

Cheers, you could be right, Dawson a known SC threat I've had him sitting there since the start, if I get a similar priced alternative that is sticking his hand up will switch him out.

Jason – Higgins is always a risk for mine, had him last season but don't feel comfortable pushing my luck and trying to get another one out of him. The Bont is still undecided on whether he'll step up to the top bracket of Mids this season, but probably close to a 50/50 in my book. Grundy seems like a good POD, but also one I'm not sure can hit the top bracket just yet.

JamieH – Heater is too highly priced to start with this year for me, that might change but with Williams really stepping up and heater getting on in years I reckon I'll be waiting for first upgrades to get Heater. Lids I was fairly keen on early days, but I have heard that he's had a hamstring issue and I really can't see too many points up for grabs in the Giants Half-Forward area. A lot of their M/HF players still have a fair bit of improvement in them for mine.

Len – Mummy the main one that stands out here for me. Do you think he can get back to top 2 ruck status? Haven't looked at his stats this year but gut feel is he isn't as durable as he could be and just doesn't seem to get many points not directly related to rucking. Nothing to back it up but for me I'd probably prefer Jacobs if he's fit for that type of gamble.

TiB – Steven, Wines and Prestia is a bold starting midfield. I'd back one of those to make the jump but all 3 seems really pushing it. Having said that I can see why you picked them, Prestia should have plenty more opportunities this year with the new club and no Lids, Wines is on track for a (proper) break-out season especially if Port can lift their game and Steven and the rest of the Saints are all tracking quite nicely to give the 8 a good shake this year. For my money I'd go Wines and keep my fingers crossed.

At work so don't have my team details on hand but I'll post it sometime tonight.

Good looking side, Sandi obviously if fit, if not do you cull one of Heeney & Roughy?

Cheers mate, he is a risk. If Sandi is fit I'll bring him in and upgrade elsewhere.
Top 3 ruck last year for total points only missed one game, for some reason a complete POD atm with 3.1% ownership, so if Sandi isn't fit and Mummy is I'm comfortable rolling the dice on him.

Way too many mid priced options for my money mate, they are the right ones (mostly) to be looking at, but the chances of even two thirds of them coming off unlikely. I don't think Carslisle has any fantasy relevance at all.

Hi Terry,

Have soundly chastised myself for having as many similar picks as your February team. I blame premiership hangover and/or having watched replays of 2016 finals games too often.

I have enough $$ in hand to be able convert Higgins into Macrae, but I'm just not convinced that SC is his thing unfortunately.

Will you be making Max Gawn your captain each week? Can't see too many other standout options at this stage, given that you have not chosen Dangerfield or Pendlebury or Ablett, etc.

@Len Solid stuff, I reckon Marchbank's price is too awkward and the $100K could be put to better use.
Like that you don't have TMitch. Still trying to talk myself out of him.
Mummy - inspired or rose-coloured? Will he play 22?
Do you have some inside word on mid rookies that the rest of us dont?

Well (hmmm), the plan is that Max probably will be skipper on a regular basis (he can have a bad day tho) until such time as I bring in one of those names you mention. Unlikely to be GAJ. Have Rory on the backburner. You could be spot on about Macrae - realised all I have read is Dream Team stuff - might look at Isaac. Seems to be teams posted so far have a pattern of 4-5-4 (500k + in Def, Mid, Fwd) or variations thereof, not a lot of room for mid-pricers.

Not everyone on every line will fire, but if those interesting mids can provide 100+ until upgrade time, will be happy enough.

I think if you are going to roll the dice on someone at 2k you want them to be playing in an area of the ground that will see a lot of ball (Carlton's back half) and be a good combination of accumulator and efficient ball user, Marchbank ticks both boxes, lock for me.
As I said to Iain, if Sandi is fit I'll bring him in and spend Mummy's cash elswhere.
Top 3 ruck last year for total points only missed one game, for some reason a complete POD atm with 3.1% ownership, so if Sandi isn't fit and Mummy is I'm comfortable rolling the dice on him.
At the moment most of the rookies are ones I like, I wont be locking any in below $160k for a few weeks but the ones I have onfield plus EVW are ones I think are most likely to remain there.

Interesting squad, all your MP guys are the right options, but I think having that many of them pretty much assures you of being a struggler from the start, or right at the top, if more than one goes wrong you will be chasing your tail to correct without the cash to do so.

Caddy JJ and JOM would be the ones to watch most closely over the next few weeks to see if they look like being what you are hoping they will be.

I'm not sold on Heppell being assured of a top 12 mid spot, not a fan of that pick.

On Roughy, I get the appeal and his last couple of years were 90+, he is certainly priced well below that so if his next game in JLT is as good as his first I'll join you in picking him, but I'm not there yet.

I've left Swallow out of my team on the basis that he has zero chance of being a keeper and has to average 95 odd to be a decent stepping stone by his bye round.

That said I like the squad, will be very interested to hear how close to it you end up running

@RPritch pretty ballsy team
Effectively three mid pricers in the guts is right out there.
Will be an awesome roller coaster to ride, but you'll need a strong stomach.
Still trying to talk myself out of more than two mid pricers in my whole team, let alone six.
I really want to go with the crowd and choose Adams as well, just see it ending badly and wasting a trade.