RD's 2017 Team Thread

[RaisyDaisy]

Alright, so we're 3 rounds in so now's as good a time as ever to make an update. Really happy with the start to the year so far

Round 1: 2247 (Overall Rank 7741)
Round 2: 2244 (Overall Rank 4482)
Round 3: 2335 (Overall Rank 889)

Last week I used my first two trades on Ryder to WHE and GHS to Murphy

This week I'll likely be doing Florent to Newman (via Hibberd) and JOM to Touk, leaving me with

DEF: Docherty, Shaw, Laird, Marchbank, Hampton, Otten (Newman, Stewart)

MID: Danger, Pendles, Jelwood, Fyfe, Murphy, Beams, Steele, SPP (Barrett, Pickett, Hibberd)

RUC: Sandi, Witts (Strnadica)

FWD: Dahl, Macrae, Touk, Nank, Roughy, WHE (Parfitt, Eddy)

[Bully]

Looks good to me. I'll be doing similar trades and bringing in Miller for O'Meara.

[_wato]

Docherty, Shaw, Stewart, Pendles, Jelwood, Hibberd, Touk, WHE v Adams, Howe, ZJones, Rocky, Treloar, SPS, Higgins, Butler

They are out differences. We also ranked the same. How bout it :P

[sammy123]

sound trades RD. team is looking good

[Mongoose528]

sound trades RD. team is looking good

[RaisyDaisy]

Cheers lads

Ha wato, pretty crazy, and we're facing off in Elxam KO too!

[RaisyDaisy]

Alright, another 3 weeks have passed since the last update so here's how things stand now

Round 1: 2247 (Overall Rank 7741)
Round 2: 2244 (Overall Rank 4482)
Round 3: 2335 (Overall Rank 889)
Round 4: 2107 (Overall Rank 716)
Round 5: 2199 (Overall Rank 1052)
Round 6: 2095 (Overall Rank 480)

Pretty happy to jump into the Top 500, and here's the team before trades

DEF: Docherty, Laird, Shaw, Marchbank, Otten, Newman (Hampton, Stewart)

MID: Danger, Pendles, Jelwood, Fyfe, Zorko, Murphy, Beams, SPP (Parfitt, Barrett, Hibberd)

RUC: Sandi, Witts (Strnadica)

FWD: Dahl, Macrae, Nank, Steele, Miller, Balic (Pickett, Eddy)

Not sure what I'll be doing trade wise just yet. Mid and Fwd bench coverage is pretty much flowered so need to bolster that up, and even more so if Nank misses through suspension. Upgrading one of the rookie defenders looks obvious, but I reckon I'll upgrade one of them to a prem forward if possible just to bat deeper there

Thinking I might dump one of Otten/Marchbank/Hampton to Black/Parsons via Hibberd and Pickett, and then upgrade Parfitt to a prem forward. Problem is, I like Heeney and possibly Buddy but their Round 11 bye is a killer and I can't get any more Round 11 players so with that being said the one move I can just squeeze in is

Otten to Parsons (via Hibberd and Pickett) and Parfitt to Yeo

Leaves me with

DEF: Docherty, Laird, Shaw, Marchbank, Newman, Hampton (Stewart, Hibberd)

MID: Danger, Pendles, Jelwood, Fyfe, Zorko, Murphy, Beams, SPP (Balic, Barrett, Pickett)

RUC: Sandi, Witts (Strnadica)

FWD: Dahl, Macrae, Yeo, Nank, Steele, Miller (Parsons, Eddy)

Yeo works great bye wise, and this strengthens my mid bench too, but I lose rookie DPP between mids and fwds and def looks a little weaker but I can use Hibberd to loop Stewart with Hampton and Newman and then look to get a def prem in next

Alternatively, I just double down this week

Decisions Decisions

[RaisyDaisy]

Can also do Otten to EVW/Melican and Parfitt to Yeo, and that leaves Balic at either M9 or F7

Can't grab Black in either option as just fall short on being able to afford Yeo, and I can't see anyone cheaper that I prefer both scoring wise and bye wise

If Parsons comes straight back in then I'll grab him and go with the option mentioned in the previous post, and if not then this will be the back up option

Will also look further into other options

[Torpedo10]

I have no faith in YoYo, but being an Eagles supporter you probably know more on that front so trust your gut.

Nank in the forwards is handy if he has a week off, unlike some of us including myself who accidently put him in the rucks when our starting rucks spudded.  :-X

Considering all things, probably fair trades. Not sure I have faith in Hampton starting though. Even against North.

[Ringo]

Look at the B/E RD - Otten still has a negative 4 B/E so I would use Marchbank who has a B/e of 42. Hamptons B/E is 19.

Other option could be look at Marchbank to a Prem defender after Parfitt to Parsons/Black but not sure of your cash situation.

[sammy123]

have you considered nroo

[HoleMeal]

Look at the B/E RD - Otten still has a negative 4 B/E so I would use Marchbank who has a B/e of 42. Hamptons B/E is 19.

Other option could be look at Marchbank to a Prem defender after Parfitt to Parsons/Black but not sure of your cash situation.

Otten 55 B/E 
Marchbank B/E of 49
Hampton B/E 31
You may have the B/E's wrong Ringo.

Hampton to Melican would be my choice, then Parfitt to Yeo.

[Ricochet]

Ha was about to say the same, think you have the wrong BE's there Ringo

[Ringo]

Apologies thought I was in DT thread not SC.

[RaisyDaisy]

Apologies thought I was in DT thread not SC.

Never been in DT section since I joined here haha

have you considered nroo

Can't afford

Yeo I can just squeeze in, but need to dump Otten along with Parfitt