Adamant - Fanplanner Sqaud - 10/10/12

[Adamant]

TEAM NAME: Adamant

DEF: B. Goddard, J. Grimes, B. Gibbs, G. Birchall, P. Duffield, T. Smith, S. Docherty (S. Colquhoun, J. Thurlow)

MID: D. Swan, G. Ablett jnr, S. Pendlebury, M. Murphy, L. Whitfield, O. Wines (B. Crouch, J. O'Meara)

RUC: T. Goldstein, M. Leuenberger (B. Grundy, J. Daniher)

FWD: L. Franklin, M. Robinson, D. Zaharakis, T. Cloke, M. LeCras, S. Mayes, J. Stringer (M. Shaw, M. McDonough)

CASH LEFT: $67,200

13 Premiums
3 Mid-Pricers
14 Rookies

DEF: The 4 G's (Goddard, Gibbs, Grimes & Grant) are locks. Duffield averaged 89 if you remove his sub-affected games. Lyon likes to use him in the sweeper role and I believe he is back to 2009 & 2010 form, where he averaged 89 & 88.

MID: Swanny & GAJ are worth the price tags. They are the safest captain options in the comp (particularly Swan), and I would feel much better to have them in my team from the start, then to hope one of them has an average game. Pendles & Murph are great value (especially Murph) and are locks for the top 6 mids.

RUC: Goldy will push a 90+ average with H-Mac at the Cats and will be priced at 79...bargain. Berger will be most selected ruck and possibly player - a no-brainer.

FWD: Not too sure on Buddy atm. I dont really wanna start him, but I would hate to see him in my opponents team pumping out a 140+. Robbo would have averaged 100 without that end of season injury, and will be a nice unique. Zaha was averaging 90+ before he tore his quad, his injury lowered his average down to 83...great value. I can see Cloke going back to at least an 85ish avg, and LeCras is another no-brainer at that price.

- Will swap Buddy/Zaha for Rocky/Fyfe if given DPP.
- Would like to upgrade Zaha to Stevie J, but unfortunately fall 5k short.

Rooks arent set in stone obviously, but how's it looking at the moment?

[Mr.Craig]

You've essentially got the same structure as me except I went with Beams ahead of Ablett and have six premium/mid-pricers in the forwards. I feel like that'll be a bit safer.

Premiums look good. Don't expect me to say anything nice about Cloke, I really don't think he's worth the trouble. Rookies are very nice but you might want to look at Boston, Lee or Membrey ahead of Shaw.

8.5/10. Top 1% material. 8)

[Adamant]

You've essentially got the same structure as me except I went with Beams ahead of Ablett and have six premium/mid-pricers in the forwards. I feel like that'll be a bit safer.

Premiums look good. Don't expect me to say anything nice about Cloke, I really don't think he's worth the trouble. Rookies are very nice but you might want to look at Boston, Lee or Membrey ahead of Shaw.

8.5/10. Top 1% material. 8)

Thanks Mr.Craig.
I would like to have Beamsy in there, but that could get ugly with the byes. I could mabye go Ablett & Cloke to Cotchin & Stevie J/Stanley? The latter does look better on paper...

[Mr.Craig]

Yeah, I have Stanley. 6 tons from 13 games last year and only one score below 80 reads well. Should be a solid pick.

And Cotch is a gun. :)

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gotta have treloar if hes a forward

[Spinking]

Like it Ada.  Only thought would be whether Cloke is worth the risk as a mid priced forward.  Obviously quite a few reasonably priced mids, and while Cloke may get back to his best now the contract discussions are over, I think he's a bit of a risk.

Anyway.  Like those kids, very nice balanced team!