The defense connundrum

[gazpron]

Hi guys,

Holding 5 trades, and considering moving Broughton on
Team:
Lids, Shaw, Goddard, Lake, Grima, BROUGHTON, Yarran   Shaw, Howard
Ablett, Mitchell, Boyd, Priddis, Dal,   McDonald, Gibson
Cox, Jacobs   Redden, Jenkins
Franklin, Sidebottom, Dangerfield, Johnson, Martin, Porplyzia,   Cloke, Hall

3rd in a top 50 league with 3 top 3000 players over the last 3 weeks of the season & need top 4.
Rance is a straight swap - and despite a personal no KPD rule...there's a sniff of Lake about him and Tigers have to win.  He's also done well against most of the teams to play.  The concern is at this point should only buy the best available, which for me is Scotland with Judd out, rather than Carrots.  Final consideration is I have more trades than my opponents, so given how many playing benchmen I have...ride it out and keep that advantage.

Cheers for your thoughts

[bomdiggity]

if u can get the win without trading you'll b better for it down the track. i wouldnt bring rance in tho..

[Spinking]

With Howard on the bench I think you've got reasonable cover. Hargrave out this week so he may get called on to play a role, but should still score ok.  Hold your trade, definitely don't go to Rance...

[The Bomber]

Rance is no Lake. Against poor(ish) opposition forward lines he is able to out mark them. Only Carl, Ess, Bull, Port will he be able to rack up score of any value. You will still get the 3 bad scores from the other weeks.

How is Carrazzo's scores going to go down with judd out of the team? Carrazzo is tagger, he isn't going to get tagged. Also Murphy will take the main tag now with Judd out. Carrazzo's output should stay the same...

Broughton is a problem, With 5 trades I would just upgrade him to the best defender you can afford...