Decisions to be made???

[Wild Thing]

I can't decide which strategy to go with...

1. Three premium/six rookie priced defence, four premium/four rookie priced mids, two premium/two rookie rucks and four premium/five rookie priced forwards for this side:

DEF: Goddard, Deledio, Shaw, Clarke, Bower, B. Ellis, Mohr (S. Morris, Blee)
MID: Ablett, Swan, Murphy, S. Mitchell, Coniglio, Wingard (Hampton, Shiel)
RUC: Mumford, Sandilands (Giles, Stephenson)
FWD: Goodes, Pavlich, S. Johnson, Martin, Dev. Smith, Saad, Zorko (Rowe, Dickson)
$2,800 left

2. Four premium/five rookie priced defence, three premium/five rookie priced mids, two premium/two rookie priced rucks and four premium/five rookie priced forwards for this side:

DEF: Goddard, Deledio, Shaw, Birchall, Clarke, B. Ellis, Mohr (S. Morris, Blee)
MID: Ablett, Swan, Pendlebury, Coniglio, Tyson, Wingard (Hampton, Shiel)
RUC: Mumford, Sandilands (Giles, Stephenson)
FWD: Goodes, Pavlich, S. Johnson, Martin, Dev. Smith, Saad, Zorko (Rowe, Dickson)
$18,200 left

3.Three premium/six rookie priced defence, three premium/five rookie priced mids, two premium/two rookie priced rucks and five premium/four rookie priced forwards for this side:

DEF: Goddard, Deledio, Shaw, Clarke, Bower, B. Ellis, Mohr (S. Morris, Blee)
MID: Ablett, Swan, Murphy, Dev. Smith, Coniglio, Wingard (Hampton, Shiel)
RUC: Mumford, Sandilands (Giles, Stephenson)
FWD: Franklin, Goodes, Pavlich, S. Johnson, Martin, Saad, Zorko (Rowe, Dickson)
$17,200 left

4. Four premium/five rookie priced defence, four premium/four rookie priced mids, one premium/three rookie priced rucks and four premium/five rookie priced forwards for this team:

DEF: Goddard, Deledio, Shaw, Scotland, Clarke, B. Ellis, Mohr (S. Morris, Blee)
MID: Ablett, Pendlebury, Murhpy, Dal Santo, Coniglio, Wingard (Hampton, Shiel)
RUC: Mumford, Giles (Witts, Stephenson)
FWD: Franklin, Goodes, Pavlich, Martin, Dev. Smith, Zorko, Smedts (Rowe, Dickson)
$2,100 left

What are everyone's thoughts? 

By the way, I haven't put any thought into the bye situations yet, just getting my strategy right, then I'll look at other factors.

[Free Kick]

Wild Thing.

I think you should rule out the three premium mid stradegy..

IMO four premium mids is a minimum requirment due their potential combined scoring power. Which still leaves four rookies as viable cash cows with plenty of upgrade potential.

So that eliminates sides two and three.

I also think proven ruckmen are the way to go (however Zac Smith proved this wrong last year and was strong scorer from the start).. Who knows, Giles could be this years Smith?? It's a desicion for the coach..

So I'm leaning towards team one as the better balanced side with solid week in week out scorers on all lines.

Good Luck 8)

[Ringo]

Toss up between team 1 and Team 4 as I too believe you need 4 mid prems to be competitive,

Would definitely be Team 1 if you had 2 prem rucks with different bye weeks.  At theoment Sandi and Mummy have the bye in Round 12.

Also select best rookies who are playing in Round 1 to maximise cash gains.

[Wild Thing]

Nice one Ringo, how about this...

DEF: Goddard, Deledio, Shaw, Clarke, Bower, B. Ellis, Mohr (S. Morris, Blee)
MID: Pendlebury, Swan, Ablett, Murphy, Coniglio, Wingard (Shiel, T. Mitchell)
RUC: Mumford, Leuenberger (Giles, Stephenson)
FWD: Franklin, Goodes, Pavlich, Zaharakis, Dev. Smith, Zorko, Walsh (Dickson, Rowe)