Herald Sun SuperCoach 2008: Part 2

[CrAckDoGGer]

does anyone no if the person ranked #1 overall is a member on bigfooty?

 

[C-Dog]

rioli to >>>

porps
riewoldt
gia
didak

your thoughts?

probably split between porps and riewoldt

 

[Baxter23]

rioli to >>>

porps
riewoldt
gia
didak

your thoughts?

probably split between porps and riewoldt

Porps then Roo
Porps consistent and doesn't have the injury prone issue.

 

[JasRulz63]

That's the sought of idea I had in my head but who do I downgrade to get some extra cash?

Tippett, lack of forward rookies is a problem though. Maybe Valenti could finally be named this week, he was quite good for the zebras, picking up 15 or something possies up to half time.

 

[C-Dog]

Porps then Roo
Porps consistent and doesn't have the injury prone issue.

yeah thats one side of the argument, however roo is a 'gun' player and could hit some real form over the rest of the season

 

[AFLROCKS]

My team

Backs:
Johncock, McLoed, Milburn, Kenelly, H.Shaw, X.Ellis, D.Myers
Emg: Wona & S.Selwood

Mids:
Cooney, Judd, Dal Santo, Pendlebury, Kornes, J.Selwood
Emg: Armfield & Geary

Rucks:
Cox, Fraser
Emg: Kruezer & Meesen

Forwards:
Franklin, ROK, Pavlich, Deledio, Didak, Rioli, J.Morton
Emg: Jetta & McEvoy

I am averaging 2,020 per round, only 4 trades left and nothing in the bank.

I'm sitting in 2nd in my league and 1 game off 1st.

Any suggestions on how to improve my team??

Save trades in case of injuries for finals and go with team i have or upgrade any players???

Thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[SJ]

My team

Backs:
Johncock, McLoed, Milburn, Kenelly, H.Shaw, X.Ellis, D.Myers
Emg: Wona & S.Selwood

Mids:
Cooney, Judd, Dal Santo, Pendlebury, Kornes, J.Selwood
Emg: Armfield & Geary

Rucks:
Cox, Fraser
Emg: Kruezer & Meesen

Forwards:
Franklin, ROK, Pavlich, Deledio, Didak, Rioli, J.Morton
Emg: Jetta & McEvoy

I am averaging 2,020 per round, only 4 trades left and nothing in the bank.

I'm sitting in 2nd in my league and 1 game off 1st.

Any suggestions on how to improve my team??

Save trades in case of injuries for finals and go with team i have or upgrade any players???

Thanks in advance for any advice!

16 trades used and four rookies on the field is a real worry. Should all be gone by now. I wouldn't trade for a month or two.

 

[Biggie]

I count 3 rookies yeah?

Myers, Morton, Rioli.

Is Ellis a rookie?

 

[AFLROCKS]

16 trades used and four rookies on the field is a real worry. Should all be gone by now. I wouldn't trade for a month or two.

Yeah i know, but i am a rookie myself, so i have learnt alot from this season!

My team isn't scoring too badly and i am still winning my matches so i think, i'll sit on my trades just incase of injuries.

Not having ablett hurts any team i think!

 

[AFLROCKS]

I count 3 rookies yeah?

Myers, Morton, Rioli.

Is Ellis a rookie?

Yeah i counted 3 too, pretty sure Ellis isn't a Rookie, although he's been playing like a really crap one.

 

[C-Dog]

porps vs riewoldt???

 

[Biggie]

I had both at seasons start.

Porps is the safer bet C_Dog.

Saints suck balls atm.

But Roo is capable of decent scores.

 

[SJ]

Yeah i counted 3 too, pretty sure Ellis isn't a Rookie, although he's been playing like a really crap one.

He wasn't technically a SuperCoach rookie, but close enough. Picked only because he was cheap.

 

[C-Dog]

I had both at seasons start.

Porps is the safer bet C_Dog.

Saints suck balls atm.

But Roo is capable of decent scores.

yeah both decent options, just have to make the decision i guess.

 

[Magpie Magic]

porps vs riewoldt???

Porps is safer, but there's a possibility Riewoldt may fire up in the second half of the season. Personally I'd go for Riewoldt.

 

[Thommo4pm]

Reiwoldt is only playing 1 or 2 teams in the next 10 rounds that defensively has the manpower to stop him;

Freo
Roos
Carl
Hawks
Eagles
Port
Coll
Freo again
Adelaide
Essendon

Pretty much 1 top 8 team.(Dont rate Coll). Can only really see him being held to a fairly low score against adelaide and maybe Carlton (Waite does well on him).

Porps has maybe 2 or 3 games against genuine defensively sound sides, but his ability to go into the midfield makes him that much better of a propisition!

Bris
Geelong
Coll
Port
Syd
Carl
Rich
Ess
Saints
Dogs

F___...you can choose.

 

[SJ]

Risk versus return boys.

 

[dougthelegend]

Its hard to go past Porps, very consistant - even through the string of games where he had that injury. Thought he wasn't capable of getting big 100 games but that was proven wrong last week.
Riewoldt still seems a wait and see proposition despite a decent game last week... would want to see him back it up next week at the very least.

 

[Impromptu]

Who should I start?

Armfield or Myers

Geez I'm really getting sick of H.Shaw to the stage where I hope my opponent has H.Shaw....Normally, when I have H.Shaw I think it's an advantage but now..geeezz..

Last week H.Shaw first possession got 12pts...and I'm thinking....He is back....then he scores 30ish...LOL

I'm getting sick of Kornes as well, thinking of starting Cotchin, but knowing my luck, he'll come back with a 140s...

 

[hellfire]

This is just totally doing my head in. I'm going insane. Luckily exams are finished and I'm not sacrificing study time...

I've said it in the trades thread, but I just need to say it again. I'm upgrading both Houli and Palmer in the next two weeks, and I have multiple options:

I can get Ablett (averaging 158 over last 6 weeks) + anyone up to 542k. The best mids for the latter would be Harvey (479k, averaging 90.5 in the last 6 weeks) and Goodwin (534k, averaging 104 in the last 6 weeks). Bartel is also an option. So the best I could get out of this would be a combined average of 262, with an obvious captain choice, but I'd probably go with Harvey - so that's 248.5.

Or, I can get ANY two midfielders except for Ablett. With which I would be leaning towards Cooney as one of the two, and I already have Goodes. Cooney is averaging 135 of the last 6 weeks. The partner for Cooney would be one of Thompson (122), Hodge (118), Black (115), Kirk (123) or Judd (112). So that would give me an total in the range of 247-258, and I'm leaning towards Kirk to be honest, because it's a more original choice.

Absolutely doing me head in. I really want Ablett, but Harvey is such a worry. As is the recent form of the likes of Goodwin and Bartel.

 

[boppin]

brent harvey, dal santo or Bartel. is dal worth 70k more than harvey, considering harveys overall is more, Bartel was pencilled in till last week??????
Thoughts?

 

[Hazey1977]

This is just totally doing my head in. I'm going insane. Luckily exams are finished and I'm not sacrificing study time...

I've said it in the trades thread, but I just need to say it again. I'm upgrading both Houli and Palmer in the next two weeks, and I have multiple options:

I can get Ablett (averaging 158 over last 6 weeks) + anyone up to 542k. The best mids for the latter would be Harvey (479k, averaging 90.5 in the last 6 weeks) and Goodwin (534k, averaging 104 in the last 6 weeks). Bartel is also an option. So the best I could get out of this would be a combined average of 262, with an obvious captain choice, but I'd probably go with Harvey - so that's 248.5.

Or, I can get ANY two midfielders except for Ablett. With which I would be leaning towards Cooney as one of the two, and I already have Goodes. Cooney is averaging 135 of the last 6 weeks. The partner for Cooney would be one of Thompson (122), Hodge (118), Black (115), Kirk (123) or Judd (112). So that would give me an total in the range of 247-258, and I'm leaning towards Kirk to be honest, because it's a more original choice.

Absolutely doing me head in. I really want Ablett, but Harvey is such a worry. As is the recent form of the likes of Goodwin and Bartel.

Not sure whether this is a good point or bad, but I reckon Goodwin will get more time in the middle of the ground as the rooikes/younger players tire in the second half of the year. They also have a tough run with 5 of the top 8 plus Port in the nest 6 games or something like that.

Remember Harvey got knocked out 3 games abck and it may take a while to recover. North have also been woeful in the last month, so hopefully it can only get better for them, but even as a proud shinboner I can't see any silver lining for the second half for us this year....Anyone a Tank driver?

Personally I would go for Ablett and Goodwin.

 

[Clunk]

This is just totally doing my head in. I'm going insane. Luckily exams are finished and I'm not sacrificing study time...

I've said it in the trades thread, but I just need to say it again. I'm upgrading both Houli and Palmer in the next two weeks, and I have multiple options:

I can get Ablett (averaging 158 over last 6 weeks) + anyone up to 542k. The best mids for the latter would be Harvey (479k, averaging 90.5 in the last 6 weeks) and Goodwin (534k, averaging 104 in the last 6 weeks). Bartel is also an option. So the best I could get out of this would be a combined average of 262, with an obvious captain choice, but I'd probably go with Harvey - so that's 248.5.

Or, I can get ANY two midfielders except for Ablett. With which I would be leaning towards Cooney as one of the two, and I already have Goodes. Cooney is averaging 135 of the last 6 weeks. The partner for Cooney would be one of Thompson (122), Hodge (118), Black (115), Kirk (123) or Judd (112). So that would give me an total in the range of 247-258, and I'm leaning towards Kirk to be honest, because it's a more original choice.

Absolutely doing me head in. I really want Ablett, but Harvey is such a worry. As is the recent form of the likes of Goodwin and Bartel.

Rnd 21 = Ablett V NM @ K Park
Rnd 22 = Ablett V WC @ K Park

At rough calculations its about a MILLION points on offer!!

If you make the prelim final this will either win it for you (if you have him) or lose it for you (if your opposition does)

 

[OneEyedHawk]

BACKS: Shaw, Cornes, Gilbee, Newman, Ibbottson, SDT (Myers & Proud)
MIDS: Ablett, Bartel, Dal Santo, Kornes, Stevens, Palmer (Wellingham & Cotchin)
RUCKS: Cox, Simmonds (Hampson & Renouf)
FORWARDS: J Brown, Riewoldt, Pavlich, Franklin, ROK, S Johnson, Rioli (Reimers & N Thompson)

* 7 trades, $20k in bank.
I figure with only 7 trades and bugger all cash, I have 2 upgrades left, requiring 4 trades. I'd love a downgrade that would me some serious coin, and am thinking very seriously about Cox>>rookie, then Myers>>gun (with coin left over to turn Palmer/Rioli into a gun). If I move on Cox, it should be this week, I reckon he's done (maybe), and has a b/e of 195 and will drop nearly $40k.
Is Cox to a rookie a stupid move? If so, what would you do with the above team?

 

[hellfire]

Rnd 21 = Ablett V NM @ K Park
Rnd 22 = Ablett V WC @ K Park

At rough calculations its about a MILLION points on offer!!

If you make the prelim final this will either win it for you (if you have him) or lose it for you (if your opposition does)

That's an angle I didn't consider. You've convinced me. Now I just have to work out who to get as his partner. Harvey / Goodwin / Bartel / Cross.

Or I can take a risk, hope Ablett scores around 100, Black scores sub-100, and SD Thompson scores 80+.... then I can get Black and Ablett.