The Rookies Thread 2020

[IntegralX]

You can add TDK to the Ruck list. Marchbank going down yesterday plus the way he performed in his half means he should get a few games whilst McKay gets healed up. He’s a ruck only though.

[frenzy]

Watch for Comben to impress today (hopefully gets a good run).been good in intra clubs and could make it onto people’s tick sheets.

[SilverLion]

Watch for Comben to impress today (hopefully gets a good run).been good in intra clubs and could make it onto people’s tick sheets.

He hasn't been named? ???

[frenzy]

Watch for Comben to impress today (hopefully gets a good run).been good in intra clubs and could make it onto people’s tick sheets.

He hasn't been named? ???

Really.? Sorry, could of sworn, he was in the 26. Oh well, forget I spoke.

Just checked and you are correct, I’m an idiot.

So for two really good intra club matches, his reward is emergency for a marsh game. Geez my team sucks at times.

[RaisyDaisy]

Watch for Comben to impress today (hopefully gets a good run).been good in intra clubs and could make it onto people’s tick sheets.

He hasn't been named? ???

Really.? Sorry, could of sworn, he was in the 26. Oh well, forget I spoke.

Haha, yeah Xerri is the man we have our hopes pinned on for today :)

[frenzy]

Watch for Comben to impress today (hopefully gets a good run).been good in intra clubs and could make it onto people’s tick sheets.

He hasn't been named? ???

Really.? Sorry, could of sworn, he was in the 26. Oh well, forget I spoke.

Nah got a little over excited to see his name on the team sheet Saturday.  ;D thought it was too good for my team to have 5 rookies playing marsh 2, alas, it’s only 4 .

Haha, yeah Xerri is the man we have our hopes pinned on for today :)

[Mat0369]

Taylor is looking really good. 123k forward.

I have no idea why Williamson didn't play for Carlton yesterday. He had a knock in the Freo game but I've seen nothing. I'd have him ahead of Newnes and definitely ahead of Polson pretty easily. Depending how the Plow/Marchbank injuries play out he will be in contention for round 1

De Koning was awesome last night. Outplayed McGoven comfortably and I'd play him round 1 in McKay's spot. He is probably out though when McKay comes back so I wouldn't pick him

[IntegralX]

I think we can forget about Williamson, along with probably Bonar and Mahoney as well. TDK will sit at r3 with Xerri at f8 at this rate, might just roll into r1 with 30 playing and no loophole as it’s a near certainty someone will get dropped at some stage.

[Mat0369]

Bonar scored okay in the first game but I wasn't impressed. He doesn't look to spread or win the pill at all and after the initial contest he was pretty much uselese standing in dead space.

Mahoney I was never considering

[RaisyDaisy]

With Turner injured HS was reporting that Mahony was going to play Round 1, barring he didn't shower the bed today

Taylor might get that spot instead

Either way, there's a decent chance one of them plays, and at this rate we'll take it!

As for Bonar, I haven't had in my side much at all. Too expensive imo. We're forced to spend that sort of cash on defender rookies, but not on a fwd/mid. He's a last resort type

[jfitty]

Curtis Taylor will play round 1 for sure, loving what I'm seeing from him.. Didn't realise he was only 123k after playing a few games last year.

[Mat0369]

Mid rookies are horrible. I'm actually considering batting 6 deep in the midfield with Rowell, Pickett and Green the only ones looking like getting a gjg. Robertson might round 1, I'm not sold on Anderson and Budarick is meh.

Taylor is a lock for the forward line. Just kicked another

[Bones Bombers]

Taylor was awesome to watch down in Kingston today. He’s a good size lad and read the ball and handles it really well. Nice kick.

[RaisyDaisy]

With a qtr to go, I think I've seen enough to make a call on who I think the decent rookies are that we will have come Round 1

D: Noble, Ash (M), Guthrie, BZT, Young, Starcevich (M), Brander (F), Williams, Watson

Can't really see any other defenders getting a gig, and as you can see most of these guys are expensive. McAsey doesn't interest me, and I think Ash, Starcevich, Williams and Watson are all 50/50 shots to line up Round 1 too

M: Rowell, Anderson, Green, Pickett, Robertson, Sharp, Budarick (F), Mahony (F)

Looking pretty damn sad here - bugger all cheapo's. I expect Rowell, Green, Pickett M6-8 to be the norm, with Dev, Budarick/Sharp, Mahony to be the bench. *shudders*

R: TDK?

I'll be starting Cameron to use for Captains Loophole and R/F DPP

F: Taylor, Georgiades, Rankine

Ugh, with Hill now getting injured there's every chance a lot of us will be fielding 2 fwd rookies, which isn't exactly comforting based on the lack of overall FWD and FWD/MID options. I don't want to start King so he's not on the list, but he's probably the break glass in case of emergency last resort

That's it. That's the only guys I see starting and worth picking. I'm sure we might see a couple of other rookies not on that list get named, but if they're not on that list I would expect them to be horrible scorers anyway.

Happy Days!  :'(

[jfitty]

Ben Crocker will play for the Crows I feel. If he can average 15-18 touches and a goal or 2, he could be a decent option. More out of necessity!