He's in my team, was before JLT1 and still in there.

"anybody can score 150 in JLT1".... now I've heard it all.

@Jason - poor choice of words but note that I was guessing at perception by others not my own view

Agreed, but dropping him changes the structure of my team a fair bit.. .

Structure appears good, pretty close to GunsNRookies with Libba/Roberton as two mid-pricers instead of another premium option.

Roberton's health is a concern (both for SC and for his own sake) and he is too much of a risk after ending up in hospital feeling "wonky" after the recent JLT2 game. Consider upgrading Houli with the $$$ from Roberton and adding another rookie-priced option instead.

Some work is needed on your rookies.

Cavarra and Valente didn't play any of the JLT and as such would have to be long-odds to be included in their respective R1 teams. Ely Smith scored 13SC in JLT1 and didn't feature in JLT2, not looking like he is going to play R1 either.

Wilkie's JLT scoring was awful (two scores under 30) and even if he does play R1 he won't really increase in price with that sort of scoring.

Here's my latest after JLT2:


Have gone cold on Sam Collins at his start price and Roberton with his health worries. Pretty happy with all the MID rookies.

Decent rookies in the forward line are thin on the ground. May need to drop a mid premo and add another fwd premo, depending on how teams drop. Should have enough cash in hand to tinker as required with the rookies as teams are named.

Bye structure is 7-13-10. I am happy with generally having less bye players in R12 than the later rounds, but will have a problem in R13 unless I address my current situation with my early upgrades.

I'm not inclined to switch to Williams at the moment, think Smith has just as much upside at similar risk and a cheaper starting price.

My biggest issue with this structure is your backline. You have picked 5 guys who have never been premium scorers on that line (Smith and Roberton have previously had a best average of 93) obviously hoping that they all break out this year into premium territory and finish in the top half dozen defenders for 2019.

There is a chance that they all maintain mid-price form in 2019 and then you will need a lot of trades to upgrade each of them. Chances are you would run out of trades if you needed to upgrade all of your defenders at some point this year.

If they all come good, you're a top chance to win the whole damn thing though - all power to you if it comes off.

Depends how many trades we will need to get to a fully upgraded team. If the rookies this year all make good coin, those mid-pricer options will pay off. But some years the popular rookies on average just don't make as much money and extra trades are needed to finish upgrading all the onfield positions.

Agreed, that's why I like to keep some cash in hand at this point in case some rookie changes are needed once teams drop.

Devon Smith was in that role until recently, but his SC scoring sucked during JLT and I think the addition of Shiel to the Essendon midfield will impact him negatively this year. None of the other F/Ms like Menegola or Dunkley particularly excite me, because their midfield minutes are highly variable from week to week. They would need to have a predominantly MID role in 2019 (with likely value on their start price) and I just didn't see this enough during JLT.

I watched (on the TV) both JLT games that Dahlhaus played. He didn't go great in the first but in the second, his intensity was much better and he increased his tackle count from 3 to 8. He wasn't getting those sort of tackle numbers in 2018 and there is value on his start price if he can maintain it. I think he will.

Rockliff not a bad option either, but I struggle to find enough FWD rookies that I like the look of this year and need to spend more on that line as a result.