McKenzie down

[honza]

Simpson fears ACL.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-02-27/we-fear-the-worst-simpson

How do we see the re shuffle in the line up? I'm thinking McLovin going down back, opening for Sinclair up forward, and maybe more JS between Lycett and Sinclair?

[eaglesman]

Agree with this

[RaisyDaisy]

As an Eagles fan I'm gutted to hear this. I really hope it's not as bad and he gets back soon

McLovin would go down back for sure, and there is every chance he would spend most of his time down back even if EMac was still playing

I've got a team where I have NicNat at R1, Lycett at R2 and Sinclair at F3. I really think all 3 will play for now, and even if Sinclair doesn't play, I just move him to the bench and bring on Hogan at F7.

Lycett and Sinclair both have DPP so it's very handy being able to swing them around. Sinclair essentially replaces Bellchambers. Belly might have the better JS, but the advantage of going with the 3 eagles is that you are more or less guaranteed to never cop a donut in the rucks

Back onto McLovin, Keep and eye on what he does over the next 2 matches. Could be a POD down back

[Gigantor]

As an Eagles fan I'm gutted to hear this. I really hope it's not as bad and he gets back soon

McLovin would go down back for sure, and there is every chance he would spend most of his time down back even if EMac was still playing

I've got a team where I have NicNat at R1, Lycett at R2 and Sinclair at F3. I really think all 3 will play for now, and even if Sinclair doesn't play, I just move him to the bench and bring on Hogan at F7.

Lycett and Sinclair both have DPP so it's very handy being able to swing them around. Sinclair essentially replaces Bellchambers. Belly might have the better JS, but the advantage of going with the 3 eagles is that you are more or less guaranteed to never cop a donut in the rucks

Back onto McLovin, Keep and eye on what he does over the next 2 matches. Could be a POD down back

But if Sinclair is in the fwd line, Cox/Read plays before the Eagles and NicNat is a late out you are still gonna cop a donut

[honza]

As an Eagles fan I'm gutted to hear this. I really hope it's not as bad and he gets back soon

McLovin would go down back for sure, and there is every chance he would spend most of his time down back even if EMac was still playing

I've got a team where I have NicNat at R1, Lycett at R2 and Sinclair at F3. I really think all 3 will play for now, and even if Sinclair doesn't play, I just move him to the bench and bring on Hogan at F7.

Lycett and Sinclair both have DPP so it's very handy being able to swing them around. Sinclair essentially replaces Bellchambers. Belly might have the better JS, but the advantage of going with the 3 eagles is that you are more or less guaranteed to never cop a donut in the rucks

Back onto McLovin, Keep and eye on what he does over the next 2 matches. Could be a POD down back

Yep, I've gone back to the WCE 3 banger in the rucks. You'll give away some points compared to Jacobs/Goldy/Nobody but you get the security of no donuts & 0 trades. Also in the instance where one is injured the other two experience the points uplift of more TOG.

[GoLions]

As an Eagles fan I'm gutted to hear this. I really hope it's not as bad and he gets back soon

McLovin would go down back for sure, and there is every chance he would spend most of his time down back even if EMac was still playing

I've got a team where I have NicNat at R1, Lycett at R2 and Sinclair at F3. I really think all 3 will play for now, and even if Sinclair doesn't play, I just move him to the bench and bring on Hogan at F7.

Lycett and Sinclair both have DPP so it's very handy being able to swing them around. Sinclair essentially replaces Bellchambers. Belly might have the better JS, but the advantage of going with the 3 eagles is that you are more or less guaranteed to never cop a donut in the rucks

Back onto McLovin, Keep and eye on what he does over the next 2 matches. Could be a POD down back

But if Sinclair is in the fwd line, Cox/Read plays before the Eagles and NicNat is a late out you are still gonna cop a donut

Umm, you'd just sub Sinclair with NicNat, and play a fwd rookie. That's the whole point of it haha

[Gigantor]

As an Eagles fan I'm gutted to hear this. I really hope it's not as bad and he gets back soon

McLovin would go down back for sure, and there is every chance he would spend most of his time down back even if EMac was still playing

I've got a team where I have NicNat at R1, Lycett at R2 and Sinclair at F3. I really think all 3 will play for now, and even if Sinclair doesn't play, I just move him to the bench and bring on Hogan at F7.

Lycett and Sinclair both have DPP so it's very handy being able to swing them around. Sinclair essentially replaces Bellchambers. Belly might have the better JS, but the advantage of going with the 3 eagles is that you are more or less guaranteed to never cop a donut in the rucks

Back onto McLovin, Keep and eye on what he does over the next 2 matches. Could be a POD down back

But if Sinclair is in the fwd line, Cox/Read plays before the Eagles and NicNat is a late out you are still gonna cop a donut

Umm, you'd just sub Sinclair with NicNat, and play a fwd rookie. That's the whole point of it haha

How do swap Sinclair and NicNat?? one is DPP the other inst. Cox/Read would be locked out, you could swap Sinclair and lycett but that wouldn't mean jack.

[RaisyDaisy]

Yep, I've gone back to the WCE 3 banger in the rucks. You'll give away some points compared to Jacobs/Goldy/Nobody but you get the security of no donuts & 0 trades. Also in the instance where one is injured the other two experience the points uplift of more TOG.

Exactly, but even though you lose about 15ish points a week by having Lycett instead of Maric/Goldy etc you've got an extra 150k in the bank which you can use in other positions to get those points back anyway

But if Sinclair is in the fwd line, Cox/Read plays before the Eagles and NicNat is a late out you are still gonna cop a donut

Looking at the fixture I'd say Read is probably the best to pick, and yes there are weeks when Read plays before the Eagles. In those weeks, if you want to be really cautious I guess you could just put Sinclair at R3, make him E, then field F7?

[GoLions]

As an Eagles fan I'm gutted to hear this. I really hope it's not as bad and he gets back soon

McLovin would go down back for sure, and there is every chance he would spend most of his time down back even if EMac was still playing

I've got a team where I have NicNat at R1, Lycett at R2 and Sinclair at F3. I really think all 3 will play for now, and even if Sinclair doesn't play, I just move him to the bench and bring on Hogan at F7.

Lycett and Sinclair both have DPP so it's very handy being able to swing them around. Sinclair essentially replaces Bellchambers. Belly might have the better JS, but the advantage of going with the 3 eagles is that you are more or less guaranteed to never cop a donut in the rucks

Back onto McLovin, Keep and eye on what he does over the next 2 matches. Could be a POD down back

But if Sinclair is in the fwd line, Cox/Read plays before the Eagles and NicNat is a late out you are still gonna cop a donut

Umm, you'd just sub Sinclair with NicNat, and play a fwd rookie. That's the whole point of it haha

How do swap Sinclair and NicNat?? one is DPP the other inst. Cox/Read would be locked out, you could swap Sinclair and lycett but that wouldn't mean jack.

Haha flower I was thinking Lycett, my bad! :P

[Gigantor]

Haha flower I was thinking Lycett, my bad! :P

Thats OK, i quickly put the 3 of them in my team and had a look because I was thinking "shower am I missing something here?" haha

[RaisyDaisy]

First 4 rounds of the season Read does the job

Rounds 5,6,8,10 and 11 Read plays first so there is exposure there

So up until WCE rd13 bye, there are just the 5 weeks where you would need to make a call on whether you think you should move Sinclair to R3. It's only NicNat being a late out that this happens, so the chances of him being a LATE out on these 5 rounds has to be quite minor anyway

[honza]

First 4 rounds of the season Read does the job

Rounds 5,6,8,10 and 11 Read plays first so there is exposure there

So up until WCE rd13 bye, there are just the 5 weeks where you would need to make a call on whether you think you should move Sinclair to R3. It's only NicNat being a late out that this happens, so the chances of him being a LATE out on these 5 rounds has to be quite minor anyway

I'm not even moving or using the dpp. Set. And. Forget. All year long. Just put the E on Sinclair and laugh if he outscores Lycett.

I had some confidence in this strategy. Now with McKenzie down it's the gold standard.

[RaisyDaisy]

First 4 rounds of the season Read does the job

Rounds 5,6,8,10 and 11 Read plays first so there is exposure there

So up until WCE rd13 bye, there are just the 5 weeks where you would need to make a call on whether you think you should move Sinclair to R3. It's only NicNat being a late out that this happens, so the chances of him being a LATE out on these 5 rounds has to be quite minor anyway

I'm not even moving or using the dpp. Set. And. Forget. All year long. Just put the E on Sinclair and laugh if he outscores Lycett.

I'm putting Sinclair in the forward line. I mean, if he is playing he should always score more than our F7 anyway, so I'll take his score and only switch him to the rucks if one of NicNat or Lycett is out. Why miss out on his score when he is most likely going to score better than a rookie forward

[H1bb3i2d]

First 4 rounds of the season Read does the job

Rounds 5,6,8,10 and 11 Read plays first so there is exposure there

So up until WCE rd13 bye, there are just the 5 weeks where you would need to make a call on whether you think you should move Sinclair to R3. It's only NicNat being a late out that this happens, so the chances of him being a LATE out on these 5 rounds has to be quite minor anyway

Usually you hear rumours about a potential late out pretty early anyway, it's not like injuries appear in the warm-up very often. It's more the "yes Nic's groin was a bit sore after last weekend's game (or yesterday's training), but we'll give him every opportunity to get himself up for the game" *puts Sinclair at R3*

[RaisyDaisy]

First 4 rounds of the season Read does the job

Rounds 5,6,8,10 and 11 Read plays first so there is exposure there

So up until WCE rd13 bye, there are just the 5 weeks where you would need to make a call on whether you think you should move Sinclair to R3. It's only NicNat being a late out that this happens, so the chances of him being a LATE out on these 5 rounds has to be quite minor anyway

Usually you hear rumours about a potential late out pretty early anyway, it's not like injuries appear in the warm-up very often. It's more the "yes Nic's groin was a bit sore after last weekend's game (or yesterday's training), but we'll give him every opportunity to get himself up for the game" *puts Sinclair at R3*

Spot on

No need to have Sinclair sitting on bench missing out on his scores. Just field him in the forward line - he'll score better than forward rookies