Billings?

[Hazza09]

Also if you already have Gray, McLean, Heeney, Sicily & Devon Smith as premiums in your side in addition to Billings, then who is actually worthy of upgrade? Plus even if you don't have Gray, his bye is in just 2 weeks.

Well in my case i don't have Gray, McLean, Heeney or Sicily. My point before was if you have those 4 then Billings can stay, i agree with the fact that other rookies have to go before him.
But if you are holding Billings as a F3 or F4 along with Buddy, Petracca and ZGL, Higgins, Guelfi & Fritsch then you are in a huge spot of bother, like my forward line is.

[ubeaut]

St Kilda's next 5 games:

Fremantle (A)
Collingwood
Richmond
Wes Coast (A)
Sydney

Billings will be 300k by St Kilda's bye going by the way he is playing.

Its a no-brainer....if you have the luxury to hold him on your bench/loophole then ok hold him.
If you don't then its pretty simple....TRADE

It isn't that simple.

His upside is higher than Fritsch, Holman, Murray, Spargo, Higgins, ZGL (ie. rookies averaging <80), so if you are fielding any of these guys then I would move them out of your best 22 first.

Also if you already have Gray, McLean, Heeney, Sicily & Devon Smith as premiums in your side in addition to Billings, then who is actually worthy of upgrade? Plus even if you don't have Gray, his bye is in just 2 weeks.

Billings to a Robinson/Hogan type just seems a tad risky/sideways for mine.

exactly right i just went Finlayson to Crouch

I can see Crouch + Billings easily beating Fwd premo + Finlayson

Dunno about easily.
Crouch 110 + Billings 75 vs
Fwd premo 100 + Finlayson 85

You're banking on Billings improving 10 + points and Finlayson going > 75
Which is totally possible, but I haven't got Gray or McLean so that's another 10-15 points to make that up.

I'm not in a position to trade Billings unfortunately, but if you're comparing scores of Billings + Crouch vs McLean/Gray + Finlayson I don't see much difference. Even with a Robbo/Hogan type.

[_wato]

Dunno about easily.
Crouch 110 + Billings 75 vs
Fwd premo 100 + Finlayson 85

You're banking on Billings improving 10 + points and Finlayson going > 75
Which is totally possible, but I haven't got Gray or McLean so that's another 10-15 points to make that up.

I'm not in a position to trade Billings unfortunately, but if you're comparing scores of Billings + Crouch vs McLean/Gray + Finlayson I don't see much difference. Even with a Robbo/Hogan type.

So Billings 75 considering playing at worst right now. Probably 80-85 more like it.
Finlayson is still a freshy, 3 rd of 70 and 5 rd of 78. Reckon he'd be good for 70-75 from here on out.

And when you consider potential Billings 95 + Crouch 115 v forward premo 100 + finlayson 85. No brainer.

[ubeaut]

Hope you're right about the 95, but I'm not holding my breath.
I don't agree that it's only 10% his fault. Watching him he's way down on form, confidence and above all effort.

[enzedder]

Hope you're right about the 95, but I'm not holding my breath.
I don't agree that it's only 10% his fault. Watching him he's way down on form, confidence and above all effort.

I've just finished watching last week's game. He was shocking. To say he was disinterested was an understatement. He was out for a slow bruise free Sunday jog in space. No energy, no spark and bugger all mid time but 20 possessions and 57 points. His teammates were woeful and I'd like to see the coach play him in the guts so it's not completely his fault but at 377k I'll be stuffed if I'm trading him out. I want to but I can't get anyone I'd like to replace him so I'll keep him. Sigh. Not sure what the stats say but frontrunner ?
Hopefully at the match review during the week he got a rocket up him for squibbing contests and not putting any effort in. Looked so bad on TV at times. I'm actually surprised he kept his spot in the team. On the Melbourne performance he has to be on notice.

[SilverLion]

Got Ronke on the pine with the E. Billings better get a decent score...

[tommy10]

Got Ronke on the pine with the E. Billings better get a decent score...

Wishful thinking... :P

[quinny88]

Traded this dud to Ronke last night. Master stroke  8)

[Sabretooth Tigers]

Traded this dud to Ronke last night. Master stroke  8)

Ditto, with Ronke on field. Ronke's score enabled me to also trade Spargo in, double down grade with a premo score thrown in. Now have 20 trades left plus 520k in the kitty. Just need a team to go with it !!


:)

[whynot102]

Cant believe i have held this spud 3 points at qtr time no more

[RaisyDaisy]

So now I've copped the Naughton donut and this bloke is on 2 ten minutes into the second

Double donut

What the actual flower

[Bully]

Cant believe i have held this spud 3 points at qtr time no more

Gone this week, can't stand watching his seagull antics anymore.

[RaisyDaisy]

Cant believe i have held this spud 3 points at qtr time no more

Gone this week, can't stand watching his seagull antics anymore.

Hopefully Lids returns next week, then I'll play Ronke and Fritsch and bench this hack and then upgrade him to Gray after his bye

[ubeaut]

 So NOW I realize it doesn't matter he's lost cash. U can't have this useless muppet on the field, even over a rookie.
I could have played Fritsch and got 98 or traded to Ronke and got 120.
He is now officially worse than ANY rookie. How the actual flower can u be worse than any rookie and cost over 500k?
I was this close to trading him out today, stopped myself due to keeping my team structure and focusing on upgrading around him. I wish I'd just flowering done it. I didn't realize he was this useless.
I was hoping for a 75+ which is his average. Obviously asking way too much from this auskicker.

[ubeaut]

PS I hate u Billings. You have ruined my fwd line, stuffed up my upgrade plans, and along with Spudstein given me my worst start to SC ever.