Trent West v Hamish Mcintosh

[torpedo]

If you pick H-Mac over a rookie on the basis he'll score an extra 10-15 ppg, what you then need to consider is whether you could score more than that using the extra $200k+ H-Mac will cost elsewhere on the field? Ie playing an extra premium mid over a mid-priced mid.

I would go with the premium mid & rookie ruck to outscore the mid-priced mid & mid-priced ruck.

I agree that H-Mac should give you very reliable coverage while you monitor the performance of other rucks, you could say that is playing overly conservative though, ideally, you should be backing yourself to pick the best players from the start.

[Holz]

If you pick H-Mac over a rookie on the basis he'll score an extra 10-15 ppg, what you then need to consider is whether you could score more than that using the extra $200k+ H-Mac will cost elsewhere on the field? Ie playing an extra premium mid over a mid-priced mid.

I would go with the premium mid & rookie ruck to outscore the mid-priced mid & mid-priced ruck.

I agree that H-Mac should give you very reliable coverage while you monitor the performance of other rucks, you could say that is playing overly conservative though, ideally, you should be backing yourself to pick the best players from the start.

do you trust giles to play the first 11 games.

with the byes my plan is to either go to mvecoy round 11 or if stephenson is playing go to leuy or cox.

[egosbar]

big risk with going premium ruck and rookie ruck , biggest problem here is that if it all goes pair shaped ie injury and you dont have a lot of cash left who do you get , giles and stephenson might score ok but what if they get hurt or arent scoring well who do you put in , rucks are very limited not like doing the same in other positions

hmac is a risk for the very same reason but a little less risky as there should be some ruck around the 300k that is performing or a 400k ruck that isnt and a price drop , hopefully hmac plays at least ten games

very very very risky and not for me that strategy

[Colliwobblers]

i'm not brave enough to go either but for this year at least west will be #1 ruck Hmac will not be. West for me ... just

[elephants]

I'm taking West as my second ruck. I will regret this and it could change but Geelong rate him (he was in there premiership side) so I'll be jumping on. Save the 100-150k (I'm guessing here) and spend it elsewhere imo... West could become a 90+ ruckmen and i'd take that if not i'll look at a fallen ruckmen...