My First Crack at SC...

[msc001]

Loving the forum and the effort you guys put in - great to see everyone sharing the love!

This is my first crack at SuperCoach and already making plenty of notes for next year (not trading so aggressively so early is #1).

Would love some feeback on the team - am sitting on a Win/Loss ration of 4-1, 4-1 and 3-2 in my three leagues.

Team is as follows:

Backs: B Deledio, J Adcock, B Goddard, B Gibbs, R Murphy, N Lower, D Heppell (L Thomson, D Stanley and C Pederson)

Centres: D Swan, S Pendlebury, M Pavlich, J Corey, S Burgoyne, T Liberatore (E Curnow, D Harris and X Clarke)

Rucks: D Cox, A Sandilands (Z Smith and T Derickx)

Forwards: L Franklin, N Fyfe, N Riewoldt, C Mayne, J Darling, S Higgins (L Tapscott, C Richardson and I Smith)

Cash: $146,700

Trades Left: 10

Scored 2,294 on the weekend, including Murphy with 35, Higgins with 20, and Thomspon with 51 (how clever of me to leave Lower on the bench with 143...). I would expect a decent score though, given I've burnt so many trades already.

So as it's my first year, not so sure about the tactics. Would love your thoughts on the following:

1) Do I cash in 3 or 4 of my cash cows, pocket close to $1m and use the remaining 6 trades to upgrade to premiums? This would leave me with a decent spread of premiums, but not much quality on the bench.

2) Do I split the $140k now to upgrade two of my mid-range players, maybe do one more cash-in-and-trade-up round, then save myself 6 trades for the last few weeks if I make finals?

3) When upgrading at this point of the season and with only 10 trades to go, can I afford to upgrade mid-rangers to premiums, or should I leave them on as cover and take a punt to upgrade rookies to some emerging mid-level players?

4) Do I really need 2 trades per week for each of the last 3 weeks?

5) Should I get take away tonight or try and cook something healthy? Have been grazing well of late (read: am getting close to the size of Scotty Cummings)

Any help would be appreciated!