Not sure - thoughts?

[Ewoks]

After DCAK's advice

[tor01doc]

CotchOUT - Pendles IN.

Love your defence and rucks.

A lot of expensive ''rookies'' in mids.

A little short up front - but maybe that is how you roll.  :P

You'd have to think one of Martin or Wingard would be worth a start.

Good luck.

[Ewoks]

Yeah problem is trying to find playing rooks, looking around and it seems this year you have to pay a premium for ones with any sort of shot  :-\

I can go: cotch -> pendles, tyson -> thomas and c.beams -> honeychurch

[tor01doc]

I like that mix better.

We prob all have to compromise somewhere to start with rookies in the $150 - 170K range this year.

[Ewoks]

Must be a repressed memory but I cant remember struggling to balance team this much last year, really not liking the forward line but I cant see where I can make cuts

[tor01doc]

Last year we had a lot of cheap rookies and guys like Macaffer, Staker (a bit later), Leuenberger, and Vlastuin, Mitchell, O'Meara etc.

This year we got Higgins.

[Ewoks]

lets hope he can get his season total of 10 games all in rounds 1-10.......at least that's what I'm gambling on

[DCAK]

Hi bud, I like the look of your team and it's good to see you went to the effort of uploading a pic of your team.  Here's my thoughts on your team:

DEF:                     Really good, I'll just point out that Georgiou is rookie listed.

MID: Strong, but... Have you considered who will be your captain in wk 9? Your current mids have the following bye weeks:
                            Ablett {8}, Pendles {8}, Rocky {10}, Beams {8}, Daisy {9}
                            what I would consider to be next cab off the rank is Danger (fwd/mid) - who has wk 8 bye

                            Also, I would only pick one of Sheed/Ellis - they may be a 'handcuff' for each other so no good. I'd go with Ellis

Ruck:                   Great, maybe after the Swans v Giants game Derickx may be the better R4 option than Nankervis?

FWD:                   I don't like that you've gone with 3 KPP setup (Buddy/Pav/Tomahawk) KPP's are prone to hot/cold games,
                           I prefer DPP forwards (Dusty/ Wingard)

                          Also you have a poor bye structure on your fwd line:
                          Danger {8}, Buddy {10}, Pav {10}, Tommy {8}

                          Also, you can't seriously consider Higgins. How did he go the other night? Oh, that's right, he didn't play!!
                          Until he does play he is an absolutely NOT

For these reasons I think your team requires some tweaking.  Best of luck for the season!

[Ewoks]

Bashing my head on the wall here it seems don't like my options

I can go:
Pendles/Sheed/Hawkins/Higgins/Georgiou/Nankervis -> Griff/Polec/Dustbin/Garlett/Langdon/Derickx

but then I'm having to play Fasolo and one of the rooks in the fwds doesnt help the fwd bye structure either

[Ewoks]

considering going dusty -> wright (with Van Berlos injury reckon he should get his run with role) and Fasolo -> Caddy

[RaisyDaisy]

Even with Motlop and Christensen out I still don't think Caddy will go beyond a 75+avg

Very nice team mate, love the structure and balance on each line - some real strong PODs too