Nige's SC Campaign 2018

[GoLions]

[Nige]

[Money Shot]

I really like this team and love that you have stayed with a lot of your pods throughout the whole preseason.

The thing I love most however is the banter on this thread hahaha.

[meow meow]

Get off the bandwagon you dirty barbie.

[Nige]

I really like this team and love that you have stayed with a lot of your pods throughout the whole preseason.

The thing I love most however is the banter on this thread hahaha.

If you think it's good now, just wait until the season starts. 8)

Get off the bandwagon you dirty barbie.

As long as nobody else gets on.

[crowls]

Probably the final update before Round 1 teams drop as I'm pretty happy with what I've got here.

Also forgive the laziness, but I couldn't be arsed with a screeny so here's the team in text form.  :P

Rory Laird, Michael Hibberd, Alex Witherden, Andrew McGrath, Aaron Naughton, Tom Doedee (Sam Murray, Jeremy Finlayson)
Dustin Martin, Tom Mitchell, Nat Fyfe, Dayne Beams, Stephen Coniglio, Tom Liberatore, Andrew Brayshaw, Tim Kelly (Bailey Banfield, Dom Barry, Nick Holman)
Max Gawn, Toby Nankervis (Scott Jones)
Jack Billings, Toby McLean, Josh Caddy, Rory Lobb, Jaidyn Stephenson, Bayley Fritsch (Jarrod Garlett, Zac Langdon)

Love thoughts as always, happy to explain anything.

Love this team nige.   Not sure Witherden will perform,  McGrath likewise.  Both possibly will, you may need some luck.   Libba and McLean are two good picks.   I see McLean being a consistent mid TOG performer and very solid fwd option.  Dahl is likely to have too much forward time to see his score avg >90.   Lobb has been a Lock as F4/3 option if he starts sole ruck for GWS and nothing has changed.  Great value and choice.   Caddy is capable of scoring but strikes me as too inconsistent in SC and is a trap.   
Think Nank is not the value he was last year.   For me Goldy is best Value starting Ruck outside of Gawn.   Personal issues behind him,  fit and mentally right should be 105+.

[Nige]

Alright, so I started with:

Laird, Hibberd, Witherden, McGrath, Murray, Finlayson (Naughton, Doedee)
Martin, Mitchell, Ablett, Fyfe, Beams, Brayshaw, Kelly, Holman (Clark, Banfield, Barry)
Nankervis, Gawn (Jones)
Billings, McLean, Smith, Lobb, Garlett, Fritsch (Gowers, Langdon)

That team got me 2306.

Had the VC on Dusty so I loopholed that with Jones as C.

Pretty happy with every bar the decision to grab Clark over Stephenson/LFogarty and the performance of Fyfe (who just about everyone has) and Beams (played well, scored poorly).

Mostly positive signs, just waiting for the rank to come through.

[Nige]

So, lockout is over, got a rank of 10,557 to begin with.

Only downhill from here.  :P

[GoLions]

Hmmm... player missing from your forwards? ;)

[Nige]

Hmmm... player missing from your forwards? ;)

Yeah, Josh Caddy is missing but SC wouldn't allow me to have 7 on field. :'(

[Nige]

First off, team name was changed because Reece Conca is a disgrace. Can't go wrong with the new one.

Only got 2286 this past week. Somewhat fortunately, I only dropped 340 places to 10,897 so I'm still in a decent place to eventually start a climb up the ranks.

Read a Facebook memory this morning where I celebrated Brett Peake scoring 102 and Travis Boak scoring 158, suffice to say we've come a long way. Yes, I used to make Supercoach statuses. It was a simpler time, don't judge me.  :'(



Anyway, team is at is 4 posts up. Had the VC on Dusty against and used my boy Scott Jones to loophole that.

Let downs this week included Rory Lobb, Andrew McGrath and Dayne Beams.

The latter of which is at the centre of trade plans.

I think I'm gonna cut my losses and move on by giving him the boot for Jack Macrae. I had this to say in the Round 3 trades thread:

Macrae seems to have no issue scoring fine even in losses, is a POD, has a nice bye and just means I cut my losses with Beams who I love dearly but has had an awful first two games.

I feel it's still a pretty safe trade and that's while being of the opinion the trading premos is never a great idea. It's why I'm gonna stick by Hibberd for now.

Also gonna flick Finlayson to the mids and oust Hunter Clark for Riley Bonner. That will put Bonner at D5 which is good because Doedee appears capable of holding down D6 for a little while. Finlayson can them be fielded as a mid rookie and I should be gaining about roughly 40 points from him over Brayshaw who can ride the pine.



So trade plans are:

Clark -> Bonner (via Finlayson)
Beams -> Macrae

Team would then be:

Laird, Hibberd, Witherden, McGrath, Bonner, Doedee (Naughton, Murray)
Martin, Mitchell, Ablett, Fyfe, Macrae, Finlayson, Kelly, Holman (Brayshaw, Banfield, Barry)
Nankervis, Gawn (Jones)
Billings, McLean, Smith, Lobb, Garlett, Fritsch (Gowers, ZGL)



So I think I'll probably straight up captain either Dusty or Titch. Probably back my boy D Martin in this one but it'll be close and I can't really go wrong either way I think.

Only other issue will be deciding who to field out of Gowers, ZGL and Garlett. Garlett's got the easiest match up and he's the one I've fielded the first two weeks, but both Gowers and ZGL looked better and probably have better scoring potential from what we've seen first two weeks. I think I'll be going with ZGL though, looks the most likely to score the best.

[Nige]

So I'm going backwards right now which isn't ideal.

Team as follows:



Summary

Only got 2099 this week which was naturally detrimental to my rank. Dropped 10,224 places and now sit at 21,121. At least I called it being downhill from Round 1. :P

Didn't think of VCing Fyfe and chose Dusty over Titch which wasn't my best moment and setting up to loophole Garlett and then not going through it was a dumb idea.



Issues

Issues at the moment are Rory Lobb and Andrew McGrath primarily. Lobb with an injury cloud is a more immediate problem but I don't think I'll be doing anything to either just yet.

Gaz is the other huge issue and sadly I'll probably have to move him on. Have considered a few options, but Jarryd Lyons and Stephen Coniglio are the leading candidates with Luke Parker not far behind. Should be able to manage Lyons over his bye and then gives me a leg up with the byes later on. Looks in great form too.

The rookie situation isn't too bad. Missed the Ryan boat but that looks like I dodged a bullet now. Missed out on Lachie Murphy and Lachie Fogarty which sucks and I'm gonna probably have to pass on Ed Richards as well at this stage.



Plans

As mentioned above, I'll have to trade Gaz to someone, and it'll probably be Jarryd Lyons or Stephen Coniglio. Leaning towards the former on this occasion. The other trade is likely Brayshaw -> Crowden, if and when I do that, I'll swing Crowden forward and have Garlett on my mid bench. Doing this means that Crowden can cover Lobb for a week should he miss.

Still hoarding ZGL but I can use him for loopholing and then maybe trade him to Jack Higgins should retain his spot.

Using another two trades this week means I'll be down to 26, which I think is okay as long as I've settled my team to a point where I don't have to worry as much with fixing problems.



Probably will wait until Thursday to give time for any news that might impact the plans, but I think the ideas should help me bounce back with a better score and rise up the ranks.

[Nige]

Been a couple of weeks since I provided an update.

I've burned through a fair few trades already, which isn't ideal but I figured if there are moves to be made it should pay off in the long run.



That's how the team looks before doing anything for Round 7.

Billings, Bonner and Holman are the biggest issues I can see but I think I could potentially hold this week and then grab two of the four debutants (probably Spargo and Worpel) next week.

Did call my rank going downhill after my decent first week, but after going backwards I climbed a little and I'm up to 38,080 now. Now hoping that a good week can catapult me into that 20-30k range or higher. Just not sure whether I need to doing anything this week for that to happen.

[Adamant]

JackMac, Hoges and Witho. This is my kind of side.

No point being patient for the sake of it. I don't know how much cash you have in the bank but I'd be going early on Spargo and getting Banfield/Holman to a gun.

[sammy123]

Been a couple of weeks since I provided an update.

I've burned through a fair few trades already, which isn't ideal but I figured if there are moves to be made it should pay off in the long run.



That's how the team looks before doing anything for Round 7.

Billings, Bonner and Holman are the biggest issues I can see but I think I could potentially hold this week and then grab two of the four debutants (probably Spargo and Worpel) next week.

Did call my rank going downhill after my decent first week, but after going backwards I climbed a little and I'm up to 38,080 now. Now hoping that a good week can catapult me into that 20-30k range or higher. Just not sure whether I need to doing anything this week for that to happen.

Team looks really good with some nice PODS in there