Settle for Goddard or go for better?

[Rusty00]

Was after some thoughts on my trade ideas. My mids and forwards currently look like this:

Ablett, Pendlebury, Selwood, Beams, Rockliff, Watson, Gray, Hallahan, Taylor, Acres
Dangerfield, Martin, Parker, Dahlhaus, Higgins, Lloyd, Cameron, Ambrose

Currently have 14 trades, $67,500 in the bank, ranked 409 overall

My initial plans from last week were to go Lloyd to Shenton/Lennon and Higgins to Goddard (via Gray). Then I started wondering whether I should pass on Goddard and wait to get Fyfe/JPK/SJ. I've also just realised I could go Taylor to Shenton and then Higgins to Fyfe, but I don't really want to trade Taylor yet and this would leave my F6-F8 very thin.

Option 1 - Lloyd to Shenton/Lennon, Higgins to Goddard
Pros - Can use Shenton/Lennon or Taylor at F6 for now
       - Brings another premium into my midfield
       - a bit of cash left over to upgrade Langdon next week
Cons - Goddard is probably going to average less than Fyfe/JPK/SJ

Option 2 - Lloyd to Shenton/Lennon
Pros - Can use Shenton/Lennon or Taylor at F6 for now
        - Allows me to bring in a stronger mid premium later (Fyfe probably gets the Picken tag this week anyway)
Cons - I'm (at least) one premium mid down on almost everyone else

Option 3 - Taylor to Shenton, Higgins to Fyfe
Pros - Brings in one of the better premiums into my midfield
Cons - Taylor still has more money to make and is a solid M9.
        - bank balance virtually at 0
        - F6-F8 would be Lloyd, Cameron, Ambrose

Getting Fyfe into my team as soon as possible would be great, but I think it limits my options to finalise my team. Fyfe will probably cop the Picken tag this week as well and we all saw how that went down last week.

[redfield]

I was about to make a very similar thread so I'm just going to keep an eye on what others have to say in response.

[RaisyDaisy]

I like option 1 Rusty

Is Barlow affordable in this option besides Goddard?

[Bully]

I'm sacrificing a premo score this week to bring in Shenton, really want the Taylor & Shenton combo for the entire season, having the flexibility will be huge when all the trades dry up.

[Rusty00]

I like option 1 Rusty

Is Barlow affordable in this option besides Goddard?

Yeah I can (just) afford Barlow.

Despite the lure of Fyfe this week I think I need to accept that I should settle for Goddard or Barlow for the long term betterment of my team.

[Holz]

not sure goddard is settling at all

Goddard 118 average
Fyfe 120 avergae

but Fyfe has a history of missing games and his best ever year is a 108 average. Goddard rarely misses games, has a better history of being a SC gun and most importantly is 100k cheaper.

You could argue if they were the same price you would still pick goddard so with the price difference I think its a fairly easy choice.

[Swoozie]

Going into this round, Goddard had the 8th highest average in the midfield taking out that 11 against Fremantle.

Having one of the 8 highest scorers isn't exactly settling, and at under $500k he is a steal.