McBasketball 2018 team

[Peter]

Agree - with Wallis, Dunkley and Hunter around him, Libba would want to pull his finger out

[SilverLion]

Agree - with Wallis, Dunkley and Hunter around him, Libba would want to pull his finger out

True forgotten about Dunkley too. He's shaping up as a possible elite in the next couple of years.

[Peter]

Had a great 2016 and same sort of size as Bont/Cripps

[DCAK]

Version 3 after further research

Backs - Simpson (hasn’t averaged under 90 and with Docherty out, will have a bigger role imo), Williams (suggest will be the main playmaker for GWS coming out of defence and played midfield at times in 2017), Witherden (taking the kickout and hitting targets is his speciality - did it in 2017 and has Hodge now to hit up), Birchall (will take the 80 points until cash allows me to upgrade him later in the season), Doedee, Morgan, Gardner, Cumming
Mids - Danger, Martin, Mitchell (the three big guns that ooze points and make yhem every time they go near the ball), Fyfe (my early tip for Brownlow), Cripps (No 1 big gun at Blues now), Dow, Brayshaw, UDL, Kelly (believe all will play around 1 and make $200-$250k each and then upgrade), Clark, Worpel
Rucks - Gawn, NicNat, Jones (looked at all the possibilities and just can’t go past them (and neither will 80% of SC’s)
Forwards - Billings (can’t see why won’t be No 1 forward with his draw), McLean (toss up with Heeney, but his injury, Swans early difficult fixture and bye has encouraged me to make Heeney an upgrade target), Lobb (no-brainer), Bennell and Christensen (both recovering from injury but can easily be downgraded at end R2 if needed), Venables, Ryan, Rioli (surely Simpson will start a couple of these)

Leaves $179,300, so plenty of room to change, if needed

Byes 5/4/4 for premiums and one each for mid-rangers

Have left out Savage and MCrouch, but going a little heavier In forwards as imo good points there

Roll on 2018 season

Really like your team Peter, good work!

[Peter]

Have decided after more research, to bring in Sicily. He played in defence after the bye and only had one bad game where he was tagged and lost his head. The only rider is the Hawks moving him forward with the return of Stratton and Frawley, but I think more likely Gunston will go back there. He replaces Birchall, with Hibberd replacing Witherden, after all the talk by the experts here. Ah Chee replaces Bennell for basically same price, so now only $25,400 left, but still 4 first round draft picks in my team. Sicily and Lobb aren’t technically keepers, but as close as they come, giving 6/4/4. Pretty pleased with this and if Sicily is switched, then got Nathan Wilson and Jack Crisp available. Crisp was also anothet switched to defence and recorded good numbers

[Money Shot]

all good trades mate. Me likey.