Points of Difference (POD's)

[Nige]

Taranto or Hopper if ya like spice.

[bowyanger]

Did my 1st 5 min team selection from research ...I have a lot of other notes to consider but have included at this stage as potential mid priced breakouts:

Witherden, H.Clarke, AMcgrath, Ross, McCluggage, Dunkley, Boak, Billings & Himmelberg

[TommyC]

Taranto or Hopper if ya like spice.

Taranto, more consistent and has a higher ceiling.

[RaisyDaisy]

Taranto or Hopper if ya like spice.

Taranto, more consistent and has a higher ceiling.

Taranto would probably be my choice for breakout contender this year

Don't have the balls to start him, but he'd be my pick to become a true prem mid this year

[ubeaut]

Taylor Adams 524k, right now my best POD...
- Finish to 2018 was clinical and would have him a top 10 mid with ease.
- Less likely to be moved from the midfield that all other Collingwood player mid with beams inclusion (lacks goal kicking power)
- Easily our most important midfielder.
- As far as I know full pre season thus far.

Thoughts?

This, Adams is a gun in a gun team. A few years ago Daisy, Pendles, Sidebum, Swan and Beams were all top tier SC scorers.

Only difference is this year  Grundy is in the mix and Daisy is out.

Pendles potentially drops in output this year, I can see Adams being a good selection and am strongly considering Adams to get off the leash

A few years ago everyone had Enright, Ablett, Selwood, Bartel, Kelly & Chappy in their sights from the 1 team

Adams has had one premo year in 2017 and went backwards 12 points in 2018.
His high scoring end of season coincided with Treloar out and now Beams is back as well.
The difference with those Geelong guns is Bartel, Chapman, Enright were usually available as defs/fwds so 95-100 was OK. Whereas Sidey, Adams, Pendles, Beams, Treloar all mid only.

[Southstorm]

It's not like Adams is deprived of touches because he still racks up 27-28 per game. 4th in the league for clangers per match says it all really, not clean or damaging enough to be a supercoach premium.

[RaisyDaisy]

Can't see Adams being anywhere near a Top 10-15 mid, and that's the aim of the game, especially for anyone we pick with a 500k+ price tag

[Mat0369]

Given the best kicking efficiency of the 3 gun mids is Zerrett and has shown an inability to cope with a tag I'd think he'd be the first tagged which IMO makes Shiel potentially an attractive option.

This really hurts me to say it as much as I hate the Dons, Zach Merrett is quite possibly the best field kick in the AFL right now, especially anything in that short to intermediate range. Agreed you would probably send your best tagger to him, but I still don't think that makes Shiel a 105 guy.

[RaisyDaisy]

Shiel is probably one of the most overrated players in the game. I say that, in that he is a good player, but the media and commentators pump him up way too much and really overrate him, so I wouldn't be surprised if the tag goes to him and Zerrett only benefits

[shaker]

Taranto or Hopper if ya like spice.

Taranto, more consistent and has a higher ceiling.

Taranto would probably be my choice for breakout contender this year

Don't have the balls to start him, but he'd be my pick to become a true prem mid this year

Expecting these two to step up and fill the void left by Shiel don't think I'd pick Hopper but will be keeping a close eye on Taranto in JLT , I would have to agree he could be the player that goes the big breakout this year RD.

[GoLions]

Shiel is probably one of the most overrated players in the game. I say that, in that he is a good player, but the media and commentators pump him up way too much and really overrate him, so I wouldn't be surprised if the tag goes to him and Zerrett only benefits

I don't think many teams will tag someone just because the media/commentators say so aha

[frenzy]

I think Zerrett will cop the tag because he couldnt deal with it last season and opposition team know this.

[RaisyDaisy]

Shiel is probably one of the most overrated players in the game. I say that, in that he is a good player, but the media and commentators pump him up way too much and really overrate him, so I wouldn't be surprised if the tag goes to him and Zerrett only benefits

I don't think many teams will tag someone just because the media/commentators say so aha

LOL, it's not because the media/commentators say so - it's because years of talking him up has made him a much more rated player that what he actually is in reality

[jvalles69]

I think Zerrett will cop the tag because he couldnt deal with it last season and opposition team know this.

Late in the season he was tagged by:

Round 14 WC (Hutchings) - 112pts
Round 18 Freo (Banfield) - 123pts
Round 19 Syd (Hewett) - 114pts

So he got better as the year went on.

[Gigantor]

Shiel is probably one of the most overrated players in the game. I say that, in that he is a good player, but the media and commentators pump him up way too much and really overrate him, so I wouldn't be surprised if the tag goes to him and Zerrett only benefits

I don't think many teams will tag someone just because the media/commentators say so aha

LOL, it's not because the media/commentators say so - it's because years of talking him up has made him a much more rated player that what he actually is in reality

Are you saying that with all the data and footage available to teams to analyse the opposition, clubs are tagging Shiel based on hype?