Good evening all, well, here it is, Back for 2012! The Silverback's great weekly review on the Team Of The Round. A quick summary for those of you who are either a) new to this, or b) exceptionally forgetful. Each week I'll show you what the highest possible score could have been if you had fluked the perfect combination and squeezed it all in under the $10m salary cap. Gotta admit that this week's TOTR was by far the hardest I've ever done. The best scores added up to 3074 but were a huge $1.9m over budget... anyway, some serious trimming has produced this result: To score 2981 you needed: Adcock - BL - $490,300 - 140 Hibberd - ESS - $400,600 - 116 Yarran - CAR - $473,400 - 111 Thompson - KAN - $459,100 - 111 Dempsey - ESS - $273,800 - 98 Bugg - GWS - $113,200 - 88 Mohr - GWS - $124,700 - 86 Stanton - ESS - $538,800 - 360 (c) Pendlebury - COL - $700,500 - 167 Black - BL - $507,600 - 152 Thompson - ADE - $598,800 - 147 Jack - SYD - $438,400 - 134 Hartlett - PTA - $499,800 - 134 Ryder - ESS - $492,600 - 165 Kreuzer - CAR - $418,300 - 125 Tippett - ADE - $392,400 - 150 Franklin - HAW - $600,600 - 142 Riewoldt - RIC - $441,600 - 118 Kennedy - WCE - $470,300 - 115 Dahlhaus - WBD - $355,800 - 112 Walker - ADE - $338,600 - 106 Kennedy - GWS - $113,200 - 104 bank of $0 and a bench made up of $94,700 no-namers so who got the cut? (all too expensive) Goddard - STK - $584,700 - 116 Rance - RIC - $456,800 - 108 Hanley - BL - $447,700 - 104 Richards - SYD - $413,300 - 104 Del Santo - STK - $647,100 - 148 Ablett (Gary, not Nathan)- GCS - $689,000 - 139 Rockliff - BL - $615,600 - 139 Mitchell - HAW - $615,000 - 139 Rioli - HAW - $540,100 - 116 Zaharakis - ESS - $494,100 - 112 Special mention to Essendon for getting 4 players in to the TOTR (could have been 5 if Zaharakis wasn't squeezed out). So yeah, well done to The Bombers, but I still hate 'em for beating my Hawks in the '84 and '85 Grand Finals. So, why so hard to get under budget? Basically none of the cheap players smashed through the 120 mark. The cheapest player in the original score was Luke Dahlhaus at $355,800. In fact the average player price to make the over-budget TOTR was $507,000! Anyway, let's hope that next week see's some big scores from the cheaper players and an easier job for me! Take care, The Silverback