Take advantage of cheap backmen?

[jfitty]

I was browsing another Supercoach forum and saw one coach that was talking about his backline strategy. He made a valid point that backline premiums are tough to pick this year, aside from Scotland and Goddard (and possibly Deledio after today), alot of them have either injury concerns (limited preseasons) or their roles in the team aren't clear just yet.

However, there are a ton of mid-priced & rookie-priced defenders, and barring injury, could all be great picks to free up cash. I have been playing around with a starting backline of:

Goddard
Scotland
Lake
Hargrave
Clarke
Bower
Ellis

With other possibilities like Duffield, Waters, Malceski, Davis, Golby, Dempsey and Howard

The risk in this strategy is quite huge, but allows me to have Cox & Mummy running the ruck department, and 5 premiums in the forward line.

I'm not sold on this strategy, but thought I would see what other people think. Could the risk be worth the reward?

[colmullet]

interesting thought, ive fiddled around with something similar, but not going as far as only having two premiums, i like it for a second and then i give myself an uppercut and re-shuffle lol

[Freddy]

backmen are inconsistent - i'm sold on god, lids, shaw

playing after that with; heppel, broughts, adcock,

will grimes and malceski smash it and burn us!

[Toast]

I'm looking at this theory at the moment. Goddard, Lids and Broughts followed by Lake, Hargrave, Golby and Ellis. My theory is that all you need is for one of these guys to score enough to be a D7 (about 90 points per game) at seasons end and you only need 6 trades to upgrade the others. Huge risk, but it could have some nice benefits at the end of the year.

[Sabretooth Tigers]

 :-\ ;) :)

Having been playing with something very similar : -
Goddard   Deledio   Lake   Hargrave   M Clarke   B Ellis   B Smedts   /  B Wilkes   P Yagmoor
Working on the theory that Ellis may be good enough to have at seasons end at that either, or both, Lake or Hargrave will become keepers. Backline is a bit thin but the rest of my team has high scoring capability and I believe the backline this year is very value undefined it this early stage. Cheers.

[buddyhell]

I have rotated your same list of players through my backline which is settled finally;

scotland, deledio, malceski, lake, hargrave, golby, dempsey - bench is clarke ellis

I see more potential growth in the BACK rather than FWD this year and adapted accordingly which is a common theme on this site this year - barring injury my FWDS are locked in til mid season;

Fyfe Pavlich Chapman Martin Sidebottom Pearce Porplyzia Kennedy Smith

My point of difference is no Buddy yet-wait til after round 6 & having only 3 Premium MIDS which allows me to have 5 rookie/high growth MIDS to achieve the extra dollars needed. Looking for maximum growth and that is where it is - will harvest them round 6-8

There are 300,000 SC or DT players - if you want to win you must find a different strategy and have the balls to stick to it - you can be scared and blend back in with the crowd but thats where you will finish. I don't want to finish in the top 1000 again - I want to win.

[jfitty]

I think you're 100% right buddyhell, if you want to win it you have to think differently. I've actually gone off this strategy for my current team, went with a 4 premium, 1 mid priced & 2 rookie setup (replicated in forwards as well). Which I think is a pretty stock standard approach, but the more research I did the more I wasn't as keen on the likes of Bower, Golby and Malceski. But this could very well change before the start of the season!