Jack Riewoldt, worth considering?
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Jack Riewoldt, worth considering?
Your picking him because hes wearing purple
Hopefully he plays in the intra-club match on Friday, give a good indication of how he'll play and how he's going.
You going down for a look?
Im hopeful i will make it
Nah, i live on the other side of the country now...
No - unless you're going for the weekly prize and hope to have a huge one when he might kick an absolute bag.
Honestly i've never really fancied FF's, maybe Lloyd back in the day, but times have changed.
Basically reassured my thoughts on him even more, that being "Dont touch". Knee and Groin problems now? with all those hammy problems. Hes 30, had minor/major surgery on both on the off season. Would have got a delayed start and missed a fair chunk especially considering Geelong would have started PS later.
Hes almost guaranteed to break down and you cant afford that, especially through rounds 11-13. Interesting that Geelong played him in so many games last year than, considering they lead the way in regards to sport science and resting players.
Why did he play against GC in round 10? why did he play against them at metricon in R20? When Geelong lead the way for resting players? Brisbane R17? Richmond R18? Did Scott and the medcos not know? i find that hard to believe
Ok, just doesn't seem to be many around his price range that I should bring in. Any suggestions? I considered Christianson, but thought Riewoldt would be a safer bet.
Thats one way of looking at it, Keystone agony.
Some positives -
He is still probably more durable than Franklin.
Averaged over 100 and obviously wasn't anywhere near 100% fit
Is apparently tearing up the pre-season (source afl website)
Said he is determined to pay back his team-mates, and if his surgery has ceased the pain coming from his groin, and knee, it could be back to his 2010 average of 110+...
Just the angle that I saw...
Ok, just doesn't seem to be many around his price range that I should bring in. Any suggestions? I considered Christianson, but thought Riewoldt would be a safer bet.
Good to note that generally you do get the 50-70 points that your bench player supplies when your Gun player misses out. But your argument is still very valid that you must look at total rather than purely avg.
Thats one way of looking at it, Keystone agony.
Some positives -
He is still probably more durable than Franklin.
Averaged over 100 and obviously wasn't anywhere near 100% fit
Is apparently tearing up the pre-season (source afl website)
Said he is determined to pay back his team-mates, and if his surgery has ceased the pain coming from his groin, and knee, it could be back to his 2010 average of 110+...
Just the angle that I saw...
For me durability is defined by two things, amount of games played in the season, injuries picked up/carried in the season. I don't see a player who plays 22 games in one year but only does because he gets injection after injection, blood taken out/ frozen and put in/ nerves burnt so he feels no pain as a durable player. Maybe others do.
Buddy avg 19.75 games past 4 years, the only reason he seems to miss game is either through suspension which he gets harsh calls on because of his size/status in the game. Or the hawks rest, ala R24 vs GC.
Where as Chapman over the past 4 years, has avg 18.75 games. One game lass than Buddy a year. He rarely puts himself in a position to get suspended, although he did have the incident with Dunn. However his body is terrible he is like 5-8 years older than Buddy and he has just had major/minor surgery on two body parts ala Lake/Fyfe. If you pick Chappy than you may as well pick Fyfe.
Tearing up the preseason? please we hear it from everyone about everyone. All you need to do is run within 10secs of your 2-3km time trial and "your as fit as ever". The reality of preseason was that Geelong started a lot later than other teams, was it December or late November? pies started in December from memory. The grand final was played late in September, than you have the next day as your "seeing the fans day" than after that is "muck up Monday". So the earliest he would have had surgery would have been in October. He probably didn't even start preseason or didn't start preseason doing the full work and considering it was a late start anyway, means he missed a fair amount of work before Christmas. Even in that article he said he needs to keep on top of his groins and closely monitor them. Burnt nerves isn't a good thing, it basically helps you feel less pain.
He could again avg 110, but he comes with a massive risk and you really are relying on good luck as shown above. I see less and less midfield time for Chappy aswell. I think he will play closer to goal and rotate alot less. Midfield time will be injected into the youth. Christensen, Guthrie/Hogan taggers, Smedts, Duncan, Varcoe ect
Some really good points there mate, good post. Not saying I disagree with you at all, you make some really good points. I was just looking at the other side of the coin. Like you said, What scares me off about me picking Chappy is the 2-3 games he might miss for his groin or "general soreness". However what makes me really want to pick him is that he's capable of averaging 110+. It's pretty hard to pick him over Goodes at this point, though.
Tradionally goodes has been a player that I have upgraded to as he is older and does have slower starts to the year especially with a tough draw. Chappy was now where near fit last year and still averaged well. As a goal kicking mid fielder I think he is a must and then look to upgrade when the body gets a little tired. Buddy I think is a must, potential to have huge scores and playing in a dominate side.
The big ones are looking into the value side of things. Revolting and Big bad browny are to that have had interupted years but the best footy is still available.
This year the forward line is essential as there are some real bargins that could earn plenty of coin early for you to then upgrade to players how have had slow pre seasons like fyfe. One question is on Zaka's knees, how will they hold up. Martin is better value for me.
Just having a look at Franklin and all the talk not to get him - to me he's seems perfect.
He plays arguably his worst side round 1 (although before last year he had previously scored 4 consecutive 100's against collingwood) - which is the best time to play your worst team as it only affect 1 week of price change.
He plays arguably his 2nd weakest team in rd 2, again, this only counts for 2 price changes.
He then has a stretch of playing team he scored the following against;
72
127
144 & 100
125
87 & 127
So unless you plan on trading him in at rd 4-5, which is highly unlikely given his starting price and the fact you'll probably be looking to use a 100k rookie to upgrade to him. He seems a perfect player to have.
Only way you could work it your way is having 200k in the bank just for that trade.
Just food for thought...i know i'm struggling to settle my forwards.
If we're talking about FWD keepers (blokes you're locking in from the start and don't plan to trade), the focus should be on total points. A good average is one thing. Playing all 22 is another. Basically, you want as close to (if not above) 2200 points from that player. Looking at some of this years propects, based on 2011 averages, they're ranked as follows:
agreed in fact now that its been proven albeit a practise match that he can in fact play in the midfield so much for his hard start to the year i.m.o the recruitment of gunston is defitnetly going to help buddy because had gunston been at hawthorn last year they would have more than likely won the grand final i.m.oYes, I suspect Buddy's run through the midfield was just a trial of Plan B or probably Plan C with a an opportunity to look at Gunstan at FF. Nice option though and may be used during the year if Buddy is being well held.