The week is upon us

[Sams-Town]

Well guys the week is upon us after todays game to do those tweak trades before the player prices go all four directions. I am against trading early, my first year I really burnt my trades. But I do beleive 1 or 2 trades this week IF needed are the way to go. So question is what rules do we apply? I guess the first category you strike off the list are guns/prems. They are guns for a reason and will come good. So we then go to mid prices high or low this is the area where I believe most attention should be focused as this is the area the price will really fluctuate after round 3. You could really find yourself chasing players if you have a mid priced that is playing poor. I guess a mid priced is 240k to 440ish. Rookies, not a big fan of shuffling them around but again if something blaringly obvious is facing you with rookies now is the time to address that. Yes it is to soon to make these decisions but we are slaves to the game and the price jump will dictate this.

So what are your thoughts where do you draw the line how do you look at this week. What hassles are facing you? If you are happy and not trading what would be your rule of thumb?

[ossie85]

I have a few underperforming players, and I know most will come good. Just have to not panic!

My tactic at the moment is to downgrade a midfielder for a rookie, and upgrade somewhere else.

But yes, I do feel now is the time to take advantage of a rookie trade. As long as it is not a SIDEWAYS trade.

[brownmans muffins]

obviously held off making and rnd 1 trades; overall have hit well on prems (goddard, shaw, goodwin ?, nds, ablett, bartel, sandi, roo, rok, pav?) but am missing j.brown.

nailed most of the rookie picks so far: waters/goose/silvagni/nason; barlow/trengove?/martin/shuey/basti; hitchcock/gumbi/roberts... wouldn't wasted a trade there.

m.clark is killing me.
if harvey gets rubbed out that makes the decision easier; otherwise i need to think if i will want to burn a 2nd trade down the track to bring him cautiously back into the fold.

[Justin Bieber]

i don't like trading early but round 3 is where i make my exception. i have burned 2 trades here last 2 years and set me up for the year. but i am against trading out playing premiums even if they are in a form slump.

need gray to play or will likely go for brown. other one likely go to a rookie change. put my trust in strauss but been getting defensive roles so far. also got goose on bench so i will have to scan through all my options during the week.

[alman]

Everyone should use 2 trades after R2 to tidy up there team before price changes, there it is said now everyone prove me wrong  :) Rookies and mid-pricers only (i'm about to contradict myself)

My contemplations are:

Clark to Kreuzer (the contradiction)
Clark sharing the ruck with Leudenberger and really cannot see him scoring better than 60 whilst doing 50% of the rucking. This was also proven last year when both Charman and Leudenberger were gone by R4 and Clark started scoring tons. So I figure instead of praying for Leudenberger to injure himself, a trade will be the best option  :)

Nason to Silvagni
Pointless and won't do, just anoyed I missed the boat as Silvagni will make more money and faster  >:(

Kennelly to Malceski
Again, not going to do as will be a waste in my opinion. 2 rounds not enough to be sold on one or the other of these players - just wish the scoring was the other way round  :P

Otherwise happy with my players, Hall and Tippett could be doing better. Hall will come good and Tippett MPP for my ruck cover. Prems and rookies doing well - will probably make a few moves to improve my list after R5 I reckon.