EA100 2018

[HappyDEZ]

Firstly, Hibberd, Jacobs, Menagola & Billings all stay for the forseeable future. Touch wood 2 or 3 of 'em get moving asap. I would consider a double downgrade. Finlayson & Maurray to Ridley & Rice. Then next week Coffield/Garlett to McCrae & Kelly to Rocky/Shuey.

[EA100]

Thanks boys. Decided to take the advice from both of you guys and get rid of Finlayson and Murray. I went:

Finlayson > Ridley
Murray (switched with Sicily) > McLean
Left with 86k

Mainly did this because it suits the bye rounds better. Needed a suitable option for the round 12 bye in my defence and moving Sicily back was the best and then McLean is also a suitable option as well for the forward line, leaving me with room to go for Westhoff/Boak to help get through the bye's.

[HappyDEZ]

Good call I reckon EA. McLean has been super thus far. A 72 & a 91 & 7 x 100+.

[EA100]

Round 8 score: 2328
Round 8 rank: 25,481
Overall rank: 51,194 (+6,847)
14 trades left & 84.5k in the bank



Pretty happy with how i went this week considering Grey was out, but Henry came up huge with the 99. Defensively, i think i leave it for now especially with Mirra playing well right now, and Ridley still in the team this week fingers crossed. Midfield is where i think i make the upgrade move with Kelly on the decline right now unless he somehow pulls a big score to stop the large B/E from dropping his price. Coffield, Phillips & Spargo are still playing, which gives me decent cover, as well as Garlett constantly moving in and out of the 1's. Rucks has created one of my worst decisions by getting in Sam Jacobs at the start of the year which has killed me with his last three games average being around 50. Honestly been so tempted to upgrade to Grundy right now. With the forward line, im pretty happy with how its looking, especially with Grey having his bye over and done with and having Henry, Ronke and ZGL having decent games to keep their price going up.

With my trades this week i definitely am thinking of upgrading Kelly to either Westhoff and Boak and having them as cover for the first round of byes in the midfield then swinging them back into the forward line as M6 and then upgrading to Gaff/Macrae after their bye. I can just afford getting Boak i think by doing the straight upgrade from Kelly. However i really want to get in Smith from Melbourne because he's been taking advantage of their form by having a very low B/E now. Need help with whether its worth downgrading to him or not. As well as trades overall for the next week or two.

[HappyDEZ]

Maybe Ronke to Smith & Kelly to Westhoff/Boak or a dirt cheap Rocky. Henry to Heeney at some stage.

[EA100]

I was thinking of doing these moves this week but not 100% sure..

Coffield > T.Smith via McLean into the midfield
Kelly > Boak

which leaves me with 126.9k

MID: Fyfe, Dangerfield, Martin, Coniglio, Mitchell, Cripps, McLean, Boak
FWD: Gray, Menegola, Smith, Billings, Ronke, Henry

Then in the next two weeks eventually move Boak and McLean back into the forward line, and upgrade Ronke & Henry in the midfield for Gaff & another prem midfielder, so..

MID: Fyfe, Dangerfield, Martin, Coniglio, Mitchell, Cripps, Gaff, Prem Midfielder
FWD: McLean, Boak, Gray, Menegola, Smith, Billings

This will leave me with my D6 left to upgrade..

[HappyDEZ]

Offloading Coffield instead of Ronke sounds like a good move.

[SilverLion]

Offloading Coffield instead of Ronke sounds like a good move.