Rico's Advice Thread 2015

[Hawker_08]

Hey Rico. Would love your thoughts and feedback on my side atm. Great Thread btw

Def: Simpson, Shaw, Birchall, Newnes, Pearce, Goddard, (Edwards, Saad)

Mid: Ablett, Pendlebury, Beams, JPK, Barlow, Newton, Anderson, Heeney, (Vandenberg, Freeman, Krakouer)

Ruck: Goldy, Nic Nat, (Read)

Fwd: Goddard, Franklin, Swan, Clark, Hogan, Lambert (Karnezis, Daniel)

Cheers moite

Lets have a look man
DEF: Very solid start with your premos. Keen an eye on Birchall though, he is nursing a knee injury. Also on CPearce, I'll post my thgouhts below. I love him as a player but there are a few risks as a pick this year. Also you might want to either hold some cash on hand for D6, or put in someone like Whitecross in there. Just so when we get to RD1 and you need to move up from Goddard you can do so easily.
MIDS: Can't fault this line mate. Premos are perfect, rookies are too.
RUCKS: Very strong, only concern is no cover mate. And its a real concern, I'd look at putting an expensive rookie in at R3 to cover yourself or look at Bellchambers in your fwd line.
FWDS: Like your structure here. Solid 3 premos, and your rookies are solid too. Can't fault it mate

Posted in another thread but these are just my thoughts on Clancee mate

I would have him in my 22 every day of the week. He has an elite kick and is a natural ball magnet.
Reality is that is more like 18-25 in our side. Meaning he could be in and out, or cop vests.

When he scored premo numbers a few years ago, he had the freedom through the midfield to do so.
Now, his role does can weekly and does get a few lock down jobs

Yesterday he was impressive but Fyfe, Ibbotson, DPearce and Crowley have to come back into that side, which will reshuffle quite a few boys.

Ross has said Ibbo and Fyfe should play next week, I would also assume DPearce would come back in. So keep an eye on Clancee next week and see what his role is

One thing he has got going for him atm is that Ross loves a good story and rewards boys that put the extra effort in. Clancee has already done that a few years ago (after being sent back to the wafl). last year he dropped the ball a bit in terms of his fitness again (had quite a few off field issues personally) but he came back to preseason a lot fitter after doing a lot of work away from the club. So should be back in favour

Certainly deserves to be on the watchlist, but will need to see more of him in our stronger lineup

Thans mate. Birchall will waltz back into Hawks 22 and with the inclusion of Frawley and Suckling Stratton at full health he will play a rebounding role instead of a defensive role.
Considering JPK to Griffen, Swallow, Wines to get Pearce or Goddard up. This will also enable me to perhaps get a playing rookie in for read but i will be willing to burn a trade and go set and forget.
Pearce is a great stepping stone and if he ave 70 will be able to get a premo in b4 his bye but i do have my concerns and my eye open for other options around that 270-350 mark. Liking MacMillan. Cheers

[brudski]

Hey mate, mind if you give me some feedback about my current team. Thanks in advance

Def - B.Smith, H.Shaw, M,Hibberd, J.Kelly, J.Newnes, H.Goddard (h.wigg. A.Saad)

Mid - G.Ablett, N.Fyfe, J.Kennedy, C.Ward, M.Barlow, N. Van Berlo, A.Vandenberg, N.Freeman (J.Steele, N.Krakouer, K.Lambert)

Ruck - N.Natianui, T.Bellchambers (M.Cox)

Fwd - R.Gray, B. Deledio, D.Swan, C.Salem, M.Clark, J.Hogan (P.Karnezis, c.Daniel)

[Ricochet]

Hey mate, mind if you give me some feedback about my current team. Thanks in advance

Def - B.Smith, H.Shaw, M,Hibberd, J.Kelly, J.Newnes, H.Goddard (h.wigg. A.Saad)

Mid - G.Ablett, N.Fyfe, J.Kennedy, C.Ward, M.Barlow, N. Van Berlo, A.Vandenberg, N.Freeman (J.Steele, N.Krakouer, K.Lambert)

Ruck - N.Natianui, T.Bellchambers (M.Cox)

Fwd - R.Gray, B. Deledio, D.Swan, C.Salem, M.Clark, J.Hogan (P.Karnezis, c.Daniel)

Hey legend, yep no worries.

DEF: Super strong man. Very strong line and you may have to re-look at D6 given Goddard doesn't look like much of a scorer, but the rest of the line is strong.
MIDS: Another solid line man. Your top end premos are perfect and really like your Barlow and Ward picks. I'm tossing up between the two but have Barlow at this stage. Rookies are fine for now, also consider Cockatoo, Newton and Heeney.
RUCKS: Ok here we may have issues. Your picks are fine but no cover is very very risky.
FWDS: Nother wrong here mate. Gray showed the other day just how good he is, even though it was only a NAB game. Swan is a lock and Lids is proven. ROokies are fine at this stage too.

Overrall its a great team mate, except for the cover in the rucks. I would either find some cash for a better R3, or look for a Ruck/Fwd link. Good luck mate

[brudski]

Hey mate, mind if you give me some feedback about my current team. Thanks in advance

Def - B.Smith, H.Shaw, M,Hibberd, J.Kelly, J.Newnes, H.Goddard (h.wigg. A.Saad)

Mid - G.Ablett, N.Fyfe, J.Kennedy, C.Ward, M.Barlow, N. Van Berlo, A.Vandenberg, N.Freeman (J.Steele, N.Krakouer, K.Lambert)

Ruck - N.Natianui, T.Bellchambers (M.Cox)

Fwd - R.Gray, B. Deledio, D.Swan, C.Salem, M.Clark, J.Hogan (P.Karnezis, c.Daniel)

Hey legend, yep no worries.

DEF: Super strong man. Very strong line and you may have to re-look at D6 given Goddard doesn't look like much of a scorer, but the rest of the line is strong.
MIDS: Another solid line man. Your top end premos are perfect and really like your Barlow and Ward picks. I'm tossing up between the two but have Barlow at this stage. Rookies are fine for now, also consider Cockatoo, Newton and Heeney.
RUCKS: Ok here we may have issues. Your picks are fine but no cover is very very risky.
FWDS: Nother wrong here mate. Gray showed the other day just how good he is, even though it was only a NAB game. Swan is a lock and Lids is proven. ROokies are fine at this stage too.

Overrall its a great team mate, except for the cover in the rucks. I would either find some cash for a better R3, or look for a Ruck/Fwd link. Good luck mate

Cheers for the advice mate. What if i dropped lids for lycett to create a fwd/ruck link and used the extra 133k to upgrade barlow and ward to jelwood and pendlebury? Or would that make my fwds a little weak?

[Ricochet]

Hey mate, mind if you give me some feedback about my current team. Thanks in advance

Def - B.Smith, H.Shaw, M,Hibberd, J.Kelly, J.Newnes, H.Goddard (h.wigg. A.Saad)

Mid - G.Ablett, N.Fyfe, J.Kennedy, C.Ward, M.Barlow, N. Van Berlo, A.Vandenberg, N.Freeman (J.Steele, N.Krakouer, K.Lambert)

Ruck - N.Natianui, T.Bellchambers (M.Cox)

Fwd - R.Gray, B. Deledio, D.Swan, C.Salem, M.Clark, J.Hogan (P.Karnezis, c.Daniel)

Hey legend, yep no worries.

DEF: Super strong man. Very strong line and you may have to re-look at D6 given Goddard doesn't look like much of a scorer, but the rest of the line is strong.
MIDS: Another solid line man. Your top end premos are perfect and really like your Barlow and Ward picks. I'm tossing up between the two but have Barlow at this stage. Rookies are fine for now, also consider Cockatoo, Newton and Heeney.
RUCKS: Ok here we may have issues. Your picks are fine but no cover is very very risky.
FWDS: Nother wrong here mate. Gray showed the other day just how good he is, even though it was only a NAB game. Swan is a lock and Lids is proven. ROokies are fine at this stage too.

Overrall its a great team mate, except for the cover in the rucks. I would either find some cash for a better R3, or look for a Ruck/Fwd link. Good luck mate

Cheers for the advice mate. What if i dropped lids for lycett to create a fwd/ruck link and used the extra 133k to upgrade barlow and ward to jelwood and pendlebury? Or would that make my fwds a little weak?

I do like the upgrades, but I'm not too keen on Lycett at this stage mate. Worth keeping an eye on in the remaining NAB game though and see how he goes.

Could also look at Lids to Maric and Belly comes into your fwd line.

[brudski]

Hey mate, mind if you give me some feedback about my current team. Thanks in advance

Def - B.Smith, H.Shaw, M,Hibberd, J.Kelly, J.Newnes, H.Goddard (h.wigg. A.Saad)

Mid - G.Ablett, N.Fyfe, J.Kennedy, C.Ward, M.Barlow, N. Van Berlo, A.Vandenberg, N.Freeman (J.Steele, N.Krakouer, K.Lambert)

Ruck - N.Natianui, T.Bellchambers (M.Cox)

Fwd - R.Gray, B. Deledio, D.Swan, C.Salem, M.Clark, J.Hogan (P.Karnezis, c.Daniel)

Hey legend, yep no worries.

DEF: Super strong man. Very strong line and you may have to re-look at D6 given Goddard doesn't look like much of a scorer, but the rest of the line is strong.
MIDS: Another solid line man. Your top end premos are perfect and really like your Barlow and Ward picks. I'm tossing up between the two but have Barlow at this stage. Rookies are fine for now, also consider Cockatoo, Newton and Heeney.
RUCKS: Ok here we may have issues. Your picks are fine but no cover is very very risky.
FWDS: Nother wrong here mate. Gray showed the other day just how good he is, even though it was only a NAB game. Swan is a lock and Lids is proven. ROokies are fine at this stage too.

Overrall its a great team mate, except for the cover in the rucks. I would either find some cash for a better R3, or look for a Ruck/Fwd link. Good luck mate

Cheers for the advice mate. What if i dropped lids for lycett to create a fwd/ruck link and used the extra 133k to upgrade barlow and ward to jelwood and pendlebury? Or would that make my fwds a little weak?

I do like the upgrades, but I'm not too keen on Lycett at this stage mate. Worth keeping an eye on in the remaining NAB game though and see how he goes.

Could also look at Lids to Maric and Belly comes into your fwd line.

Cheers mate. Atm i went kelly to harry o lids to martin and nic nat to maric. Heard nic nat is carrying a back injury. would it make my fwds to weak playing bello at f3?

[esedgman]

Gday, can you please rate my team. First time posting it up here so appreciate any assistance.

[madskill55]

Hey Rico,
Gonna throw a left field question for you instead of the usual rate my team type of advice.

There is a lot of posts and discussions about midfield and how history suggests that only 3-4 of last years top 10 mids will stay in this years top 10 mids. The question I have for you is do you think that history will repeat itself and continue with that theory….who do you think will be this years top 10? and who are your roughie candidates to step up their game to enter their top 10 and average 115+?

Cheers
Mads

[Ricochet]

Hey mate, mind if you give me some feedback about my current team. Thanks in advance

Def - B.Smith, H.Shaw, M,Hibberd, J.Kelly, J.Newnes, H.Goddard (h.wigg. A.Saad)

Mid - G.Ablett, N.Fyfe, J.Kennedy, C.Ward, M.Barlow, N. Van Berlo, A.Vandenberg, N.Freeman (J.Steele, N.Krakouer, K.Lambert)

Ruck - N.Natianui, T.Bellchambers (M.Cox)

Fwd - R.Gray, B. Deledio, D.Swan, C.Salem, M.Clark, J.Hogan (P.Karnezis, c.Daniel)

Hey legend, yep no worries.

DEF: Super strong man. Very strong line and you may have to re-look at D6 given Goddard doesn't look like much of a scorer, but the rest of the line is strong.
MIDS: Another solid line man. Your top end premos are perfect and really like your Barlow and Ward picks. I'm tossing up between the two but have Barlow at this stage. Rookies are fine for now, also consider Cockatoo, Newton and Heeney.
RUCKS: Ok here we may have issues. Your picks are fine but no cover is very very risky.
FWDS: Nother wrong here mate. Gray showed the other day just how good he is, even though it was only a NAB game. Swan is a lock and Lids is proven. ROokies are fine at this stage too.

Overrall its a great team mate, except for the cover in the rucks. I would either find some cash for a better R3, or look for a Ruck/Fwd link. Good luck mate

Cheers for the advice mate. What if i dropped lids for lycett to create a fwd/ruck link and used the extra 133k to upgrade barlow and ward to jelwood and pendlebury? Or would that make my fwds a little weak?

I do like the upgrades, but I'm not too keen on Lycett at this stage mate. Worth keeping an eye on in the remaining NAB game though and see how he goes.

Could also look at Lids to Maric and Belly comes into your fwd line.

Cheers mate. Atm i went kelly to harry o lids to martin and nic nat to maric. Heard nic nat is carrying a back injury. would it make my fwds to weak playing bello at f3?

I don't mind those changes mate. Just keep an eye on NicNat though, he has the potential to be the #1 scoring ruck this year and Adam Simpson said the only reason that he didn't play against Port was because it was a plane trip that he didn't need at this stage of the year. So if he plays NAB3 then still consider him.

And Belly at F3 is fine as long as you are strong in other lines. There are plenty of fwd rookies this year so I'm going down that structure too.

[Ricochet]

Gday, can you please rate my team. First time posting it up here so appreciate any assistance.

Hi esedgman and welcome to the site man. Lets have a look

DEF: Not a fan of a few things in this line mate. First of all Rance. At his price you can get someone like Hurn who will average more, or go down to Lumumba/Newnes/etc who will also average similar. The main reason I don't like Rance is because he is a key defender, so he is more prone to quiet games. So his price may be a bit of a rollercoaster, meaning he could be a cheaper pickup later in the year. I love your midpricer pick in Ibbo though, I think he's a great pick this year. The other concern on this line is the strucutre. Atm you have gone 3 premos, 1 midpricer and 2 rookies. Most people will only field 1 rookie at D6 this year, some won't even field 1 and go a midpricer. Its due to the lack of rookies in defence and those that score well too. So I would consider looking at 3 premos, 2 midpricers and 1 rookie as a structure.

MIDS: Interesting mate. I can see you've done for dpp links. But does it cost you in terms of scoring? You're top end premos are perfect. Love the Fyfe pick. Griffen is good value at that price. But fielding Gray and Burgoyne is an interesting tactic, it could cost you though. For example at Gray's price you can field Barlow who is far more proven and won't attract trades. Jack Steven is 50k less than Brugoyne and has proven he can go 105+. A midfield of GAJ, Fyfe, Barlow, Griffen, Steven is a genuine chance to be a 10-20pt gain. Your rookies are fine at this stage. Also strongly consider Newton, Cockatoo, Van Berlo and Vandenberg.

RUCKS: Ryder is a great premo pick mate. I'd look at Bellchambers over Giles at this stage mate, unless something happens with ASADA. All the word I've heard is that Belly will be #1 at the Dons this year. Good to see you have a pricey-ish rookie at R3 which gives you a little room to move as well.

FWDS: I like this structure of 4 premos and 2 rookies mate. Your top end premo picks are perfect. Zorko could be a nice POD as well, just be careful that he may get less midfield time with the introduction of Beams, Robinson and Christensen. I'd also really strongly Swan mate. Is seriously underpriced after an injury interrupted 2014. He is currently getting through a full preseason and could go back to his pig days. Again, rookies are fine at this stage mate. Also consider MClarke, Karnezis, Krakouer and Salem.

[Ricochet]

Hey Rico,
Gonna throw a left field question for you instead of the usual rate my team type of advice.

There is a lot of posts and discussions about midfield and how history suggests that only 3-4 of last years top 10 mids will stay in this years top 10 mids. The question I have for you is do you think that history will repeat itself and continue with that theory….who do you think will be this years top 10? and who are your roughie candidates to step up their game to enter their top 10 and average 115+?

Cheers
Mads

Hey man, yeh I don't think history will repeat and I think 5-6 will stay in the top 10. There are a few reasons for this.
The first is that we have seen the emergence of new top end elite scorers in Fyfe and Rocky who have both now hit that 120+ mark. Meaning we now have Gaj, Rocky, Jelwood, Pendles and Fyfe all over that 120ave and I can't see any dropping out of the top 10 unless injury strikes. So they're a lock in there. That leaves 5 more and I can't see all 5 dropping out of the top 10. Dayne Beams has question marks over his head being at a new club, but I think his output will be similar. He may drop out of the top 10 but can't see him dropping below 110ave. JPK will do what JPK does and will still be in the top 10 imo. I think Sloane may drop slightly, just because its had to back up such a good year. But again, can't see him dropping too much. Priddis will cop a hell of a lot more attention and WCE will be looking to rely on others more than him. So can see him possibly dropping out. Steele could go either way. Will cop more attention with Beams leaving but will also need to step up again. Not sure with him. Gut feeling says he will drop slightly. Barlow is the one I see coming in. Primed to go 115+ in my opinion. Ward should also improve and benefit from Griffen copping the main tags. Then there are guys from way back like Cotchin and Dangerfield who have the ability to go 110+ too.

So this is my top 10, not in order

Rocky
GaJ
Fyfe
Jelwood
Pendles
Barlow
JPK
Beams
Ward
Cotchin

I'm pretty certain on the first 8-9, with Cotchin as my smokey.

[TexR74]

Ok Rico, quick question on defence. I need a D1 with a $502k exactly. I have Josh Gibson at the moment but I wanted a second opinion. Cheers for the help

[Ricochet]

Ok Rico, quick question on defence. I need a D1 with a $502k exactly. I have Josh Gibson at the moment but I wanted a second opinion. Cheers for the help

Hey Tex, I'd try and find 10k to get KSimpson in.
If you can't then HShaw is the next best option imo

[Browndog76]

whats do you think Rico



K.Simpson, H.Shaw, J.Newnes G.Ibbotson, J.Geary, B.Whitcross (H.Goddard, A,Saad )

G.Ablett, S.Pendlebury, J.Selwood, R.Griffen, J.Stevens, B.Newton, B,Boekhorst, A,vanderberg, (J.Steele, N. Krakouer, k. Lambert)

I.Maric, N.Naitanui, (M.Cox)

R.Gray, D.Martin, D.Swan, T.Bellchambers, M.Clark, J.Hogan (J.Lonie, C.Daniel)

$66,600 cash left.

[Ricochet]

whats do you think Rico



K.Simpson, H.Shaw, J.Newnes G.Ibbotson, J.Geary, B.Whitcross (H.Goddard, A,Saad )

G.Ablett, S.Pendlebury, J.Selwood, R.Griffen, J.Stevens, B.Newton, B,Boekhorst, A,vanderberg, (J.Steele, N. Krakouer, k. Lambert)

I.Maric, N.Naitanui, (M.Cox)

R.Gray, D.Martin, D.Swan, T.Bellchambers, M.Clark, J.Hogan (J.Lonie, C.Daniel)

$66,600 cash left.

Honestly mate I can hardly fault it. Its a very similar structure to mine and your rookies are fine for now. Nothing stands out as a concern. Nice team man