Thoughts on my qualifying final?

[monga77]

We only have seven players different in our sides and looking at it like this I think his got me  :-\

OPPONENT       ME
Hanley               Malceski
Simpson             Mitchell
Jaensch             Suckling/Thompson (loophole)
SJohnson           Dal santo
Liberatore           Cotchin
Zorko                  Parker
Dahlhaus            Gray

My opponent has been the strongest scoring in our league over the last 4-5 weeks and I was really hoping I wouldn't come up against him this week.
What are people's thoughts on the matchup? I have 3 trades left with $156k in the bank.
Should I upgrade suckling? To who though, can't afford Hanley, Birchall?

[ben_020285]

Your only real weakness is Thommo/Suckling but luckily for you the Kangas play GWS this week so I can see Thommo going large with a stack of intercept marks. He plays before Suckers too so I would just loophole him if need be and save the trade if there are no other pressing issues with your side which there doesn't appear to be.

[Jroo]

Your only real weakness is Thommo/Suckling but luckily for you the Kangas play GWS this week so I can see Thommo going large with a stack of intercept marks. He plays before Suckers too so I would just loophole him if need be and save the trade if there are no other pressing issues with your side which there doesn't appear to be.

Yeah I agree,
I think your team should be slight favourites and I'd loophole Scott Thompson too.

[GoLions]

Could go either way. Guys like Hanley, Libba, SJ (although against Crowley), Zorko could all go massive, or score flower all. If Thompson doesn't score well, I'd pull the trigger on Suckling.

[GCSkiwi]

OPPONENT       ME
Hanley         <      Malceski
Simpson       >      Mitchell
Jaensch        =/<     Suckling/Thompson (loophole)
SJohnson       <    Dal santo
Liberatore      >    Cotchin
Zorko            <      Parker
Dahlhaus        <    Gray

That's how I would call it on an average day, the trouble is that heaps of these match ups have the potential to bury you, eg Hanley vs Eski, at the moment Hanley is flying which could hurt. SJ vs NDS, the only reason I give you that is that Crowley should hold down SJ, if he doesn't do a good job then you could get punished here. Gray has been falling back a bit lately so Dahl could get you here too...

I'd rather have your team but could go either way really.

[monga77]

Thanks for the reassurance guys, haven't been that confident all week, but i like the sound of the comments
As GL said his got a couple that could go massive, hopefully I get a bit of luck there :P
If need be I can use a trade, if its gonna help me get over the line but it sure would be nice to be in the prelim with all 3 trades