Tory

[nickyt]

It'd bring me up to 8 and needing 1 midfield & forward line trade (Shiel & Cameron?). It certainly does make it a different situation for you... if you can plan the cull before round 11 correctly it'd be ok but that plan is a risk in itself committing to as you're forced to get players of a particular bye just for the sake of it - not great.

Hmmm, I can't ignore the fact that he's averaged 103 in first two games tho... do you have also the broughton issue this week?

[Andrew]

It'd bring me up to 8 and needing 1 midfield & forward line trade (Shiel & Cameron?). It certainly does make it a different situation for you... if you can plan the cull before round 11 correctly it'd be ok but that plan is a risk in itself committing to as you're forced to get players of a particular bye just for the sake of it - not great.

Hmmm, I can't ignore the fact that he's averaged 103 in first two games tho... do you have also the broughton issue this week?

LOL I sure do..! Getting Marty Clarke in, I'm comfortable with that. Smedts ain't a bad pickup either as you could utilise him all year with the new trading rule.

3 trades is what you get for round 11, so you have to figure out if you can leave until then and not cop a doughnut. Greene does look irresitable to me and improving my forward line along the way seems worthwhile.

[nickyt]

It'd bring me up to 8 and needing 1 midfield & forward line trade (Shiel & Cameron?). It certainly does make it a different situation for you... if you can plan the cull before round 11 correctly it'd be ok but that plan is a risk in itself committing to as you're forced to get players of a particular bye just for the sake of it - not great.

Hmmm, I can't ignore the fact that he's averaged 103 in first two games tho... do you have also the broughton issue this week?

LOL I sure do..! Getting Marty Clarke in, I'm comfortable with that. Smedts ain't a bad pickup either as you could utilise him all year with the new trading rule.

3 trades is what you get for round 11, so you have to figure out if you can leave until then and not cop a doughnut. Greene does look irresitable to me and improving my forward line along the way seems worthwhile.

If i leave all these GWS rookies in I'll get donuts galore! The problem is you really want to have rd13 or and some rd12 players there to be traded. Rd13 players can be traded for any rd11 or rd12 premium or rookie avoiding a O and improving your team. If I have many rd11 rookies coming into rd11, they will likely have to be swapped twice as many of my premiums are already rd12 and rd13 (as is the case with most people) so i'll trade them to rd12/rd13 rookies but may be forced to trade back in the other direction with NO gain whatsoever on the second trade - it will simply be wasted. I plan on not having to trade prior to rd 11 (on account of the byes anyway). What are your current plans for Broughton - i'm thinking i'll keep him, my only legitimate option is going to waters, but IMO broughton will have averaged better come years end so this would be a waste of a trade if you look at the likely big picture...

[fertalong]

Yeah that is the idea. Unfortunately the byes are just something you'll have to trade to avoid at the time. Alot of the best rookies are round 11 rookies. Good point about Milera's bye, I've only got Franklin & Martin copping a bye in round 13. But part of my plan is to have the MID/FOR who was in midfield (Kennedy, for instance) playing in the forward line instead of unrealible cash cows starting (Hall & Cameron). I can't have Milera come in as F7 and start pulling 30s for me like Dickson & Hall have done. Greene is scoring well enough to compete with Magner or McDonald for a midfield spot, but as we've seen with those two already injury or suspension can happen at any time. He'd start for me this week with McDonald still out.

I'm about 90% sold on the Dickson -> Greene trade, I just feel that Greene's form is irresitable - any other situation when a rookie pulls out two huge scores, nearly everyone would be all over them. Surely a fair few infront of him at GWS will get the chop before he does and in the meantime he's averaging over 100...

I'm making the same trade this week. Dickson's JS looks shaky and very high chance of him being the sub. I made this mistake with Bewick last year by saving the trade and hoping he will string some good games, but it just never happened. Greene will gain about 90k this week if he can maintain his average which justifies the trade already. Even if he only averages 60-70 from here on, he will still make a lot more than dickson.