Round 3 - Teams, Trades & Discussion

[Q.]

I think I am buying into the 'trade out Broughton' hype.

[mickey]

Have only made the 1 trade so far this year, and that was this week.

Had Mitchell from Sydney after getting caught out with the week 1 lock out.. and bring in magner who is 10k less and whose price will skyrocket Monday morning

[blink]

I think I am buying into the 'trade out Broughton' hype.

Who would you bring in for Broughton?? I'm pondering the same but don't know if Courtenay Dempsey is worth the risk...

[Q.]

I think I am buying into the 'trade out Broughton' hype.

Who would you bring in for Broughton?? I'm pondering the same but don't know if Courtenay Dempsey is worth the risk...

Goddard. Should have had him in the first place, but I thought Broughton was underpriced for a player who was meant to be spending most of his time in the midfield.

[OnSong]

I think I am buying into the 'trade out Broughton' hype.

Who would you bring in for Broughton?? I'm pondering the same but don't know if Courtenay Dempsey is worth the risk...

Broughton did the same thing last year, spudding up until round 8 before coming good.
I'll back him to do the same and save the trade for a rainy day.

[blink]

Goddard. Should have had him in the first place, but I thought Broughton was underpriced for a player who was meant to be spending most of his time in the midfield.

Only have $400 spare cash so the Goddard option is out for me. Think I'll hold onto Broughton and hope he comes good....Freo are playing in WA this week. Also hoping I get some better performances out of Heath Shaw...he has been scoring 20-30 less than what I would expect.

[Squids]

I hope some of my players aren't named so I am forced to trade.

[OnSong]

I hope some of my players aren't named so I am forced to trade.

Got the trigger finger Squids?

[Squids]

I hope some of my players aren't named so I am forced to trade.

Got the trigger finger Squids?

No I have the patience of a Buddhist usually. Early in the season you can really set yourself up though.

[Q.]

Don't normally cut and paste from TooSerious, but seeing as it involves one of SAFooty's own...

Beat the Best – McAlmanac gets the chance to prove Blighty’s team is the Best in 2012

So all of us were sniggering when Malcolm Blight’s team came out. We were all thinking “what is this midprice madness”?!

Well here we are a couple of rounds into the season and though Blight’s team isn’t necessarily the best at the moment, a team named Blighty Teasdale has the number one slot.

And yes once again, great work in the forums tearing the top teams apart. It’s fantastic we have such a good group of people here wanting to do some nice work to make my job easier. And it’s smoked McAlmanac out. Hope to see you comment a bit more. As you wrote in the forums you can always be called “a former world number one”. Even in my best ever season I was never able to take the overall lead (3rd was my best, top 10 for about 10 weeks). But I digress…(after thinking of the future ranks of FWN1 champs including Dirty Whorks and Yamumlovesbigcox)

So what makes his team special? Well if you throw a range of midprice gambles in the air and they all come up trumps, that’s pretty much what I see in this team so far. Which is no surprise as we’re only two rounds in. The question that needs to be asked is “will these gambles continue to pay off?” If they do, well he’s a genius and will be hard to stop in the Supercoach running this year.

Let’s see his team over the break

Defence: Only one premium. Inspired strategy one would say with a few of the rusted on prems of previous years in the doldrums. And no Goddard!

Deledio, Dempsey, Malceski, Bower, Hargrave, Clarke, Lake (Morris, Ellis)

Midfield: A ripping 4-1-3 combination, reliant on Ebert, but he’s had a great start to the year. Another pertinent point is that Wingard is here and probably not getting a game. Lots of dollars there for possible future upgrades.

Pendlebury, Ablett, Thompson, J Selwood, Brad Ebert, Magner (Wingard, Shiel)

Ruck: He’s gone 202, and has the pick of the bunch. Could not have a better ruck combination at this stage of proceedings, value for money and points on the board. Giles is a very luxurious cash cow.

Sandilands, Kreuzer (Giles, Redden)

Forwards: I’m looking for a few more weaknesses, and the forward division might be some are found. Thing is he has forwards that have held value early, which is a very important thing to do. He can get into others’ fallen premiums, yet his midpricers may well stay close enough to top 10 to not warrant a slash and burn upgrade. Obviously two trades will be used here this week to improve the two rookie bombs. And what great potential replacements exist.

Franklin, N Riewoldt, Goodes, Darling, S Reid, Porplyzia, D Smith (Folau, Pfeiffer)



So how will this team get beaten I hear you ask?

In the long term, that defence will require at least 4 upgrades (more likely 5), the midfield 2, and the forward line 4. I’d suggest that will leave this team a touch short when compared with teams that have a few more locked in premiums. The other thing is that when you go with a team of this structure, you have to nail the rookies, and nail the first downgrade so that you can create and kill another cow. I think there’s the potential for this team to have 8 of the best rookies sitting there waiting to moo, but the downgrade options may not be as good as other players that teams have already locked in now.

If a few options can remain available as future cows/coverage, then this team will be up there for a longer stint near the top. If not, it will head to midprice purgatory.

Good luck McAlmanac. Hope to see you comment a bit more around here, as you certainly know enough to put a good team on the park early, and make the chasing hordes need to do a power of work to catch you up.

Until next week, best of luck to all who want to “Beat the Best”

[McAlmanac]

I only discovered that site today. Some serious trainspotters there.

[Hondo]

I think I am buying into the 'trade out Broughton' hype.

Yes it's proving hard to ignore

Everywhere I look it's Dempsey, Dempsey, Dempsey

[Squids]

Anyone know the teams? I can't find them on the net?

[Rik E Boy]

Mummy out is the word on the hun chat feature.

regards,

REB

[heater31]

Any one have Hannebery from the Swans?


Little disappointed with his performances so far

50/50 on if I swing the axe now or tough it out...

[Rik E Boy]

Big Cox gets an early season visit from the General.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Jamison and Duigan are back for the Blues but Bower is safe.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

PIES Maxwell, Wood, Wellingham for Paine, Seedsman, Tarrant.
TIGERS A Maric for King.
DEES Davey, Morton, Tapscott, Martin for Green, MacDonald, Petterd, Bennell.

Green gets the arse for being a softcock but they bring in Davey. Go figure. Pies look a bit stronger this week.

regards,

REB

[Alaska]

Big Cox gets an early season visit from the General.

regards,

REB

No, he is sitting in the forward pocket could kick 15 he is lining up as my captain!
I suppose it will be like a week off!

[Alaska]

PIES Maxwell, Wood, Wellingham for Paine, Seedsman, Tarrant.
TIGERS A Maric for King.
DEES Davey, Morton, Tapscott, Martin for Green, MacDonald, Petterd, Bennell.

Green gets the arse for being a softcock but they bring in Davey. Go figure. Pies look a bit stronger this week.

regards,

REB

I agree the Pies do look stronger may have to change that tip.