Need Help on my team

[Lecras2]

I have only 12 trades left but i want to finish off my team, i have 30k in the bank
I was thinking of downgrading harris to someone and either getting fisher (i will have 3 saints in my backline) in for Lower (he has a high breakeven), completing my midfield (swallow to ablett/mundy/priddis) or getting in cox for smith when he has maxed out.

Advice would be great.

My team is as follows:

DEF: Deledio, Shaw, Gibbs, Goddard, Heppell, Lower, Puoplolo (batchelor, jacobs, cripps)

MID: Swan, Pendlebury, Boyd, Selwood, Watson, Swallow (Krakouer, harris, atley)

RUC: Sandi, Petrie (smith, derickx)

FOR: Franklin, Pavlich, Chapman, Goodes, O'Keefe, Rioli, Darling (Harper, Mzungu, Lynch)

Any advice is good. Thanks

[BillyBass]

Sounds good. Can u afford Batchelor > Fisher? Lower will provide better cover, there's still plenty of teams with him on the field atm. If u downgrade Harris to Nicholson from melb, u open up mpp with your backs and mids. That will help with the 3 saints, Goddard can be swapped onto your mid bench during their bye.

[stewfoss]

i wouldnt be loading up of saints until after they're second bye in rd 14. if you do want fisher, and can wait, then wait.
i think what i would do is lower>broughton. you only need about 50k for that.
to find that extra 20k, i'd be trading sandi>cox. that should (unless my maths is awful) give you enough for the lower trade.
come rd 17 after sandi's second bye, you can upgrade smith>sandi bringing the man back in. by then, smith will have made some dollars so it wont be as difficult.

[Lecras2]

thanks guys, i have made 1 trade which was batchelor to howard so i now have 153,100 bucks. I was really thinking how to free up MPP for my backs but nicholson seems to always be the sub and i need bench cover. IDK  :-[

[c4v3m4n]

Hey LeCras,

Out of curiosity which Swallow is that? A. Swallow or D. Swallow?

[Lecras2]

Soz, it is david

[c4v3m4n]

If you're wanting to finish your team off, then you've got look at how you're going to upgrade Lower, Heppell, Darling/Lynch and Harris/Swallow.

For this to happen, you're going to need a bit of cash.

IMO, this is what you might wish to look at doing...

With your last trade this week, downgrade Sandilands to J. Griffin. You've already got Smith and Petrie, who are great ruckman, why not take advantage of Sandi's injury? He's probably not going to be back until Freo have had their bye in Rd 17, and Griffen looks more than capable of taking the no. 1 ruck position until he gets back. If he keeps his scores up for the next 4 weeks, he should rise to anywhere between $350-$400k. Money will spend I think.This would push your bank balance to a staggering $490k!

2. With that 490k, there are endless possibilities. But I'd look at getting rid of Lower and either Harris or Swallow the following week. Plus, keep an eye out for Sylvia in 2 weeks. He'll be great value and a great upgrade for either Darling or Lynch.

Hope that helps. Good luck. Feel free to drop me a line if you need any other help.

[Lecras2]

Thank so much for the advice, I will probably do that although I may be a bit short on trades.

Secondly, I just joined today so I don't know how to drop you a line ( guessing that means a private message or something), soz

[c4v3m4n]

You're welcome.

Trades are a funny thing, last year's SC winner didn't have any trades for the last 4 rounds and still won!

As for contacting me, go to your message inbox (its the link in the 'user info' box underneath the FF logo, just look up you'll find it), then hover your cursor over 'Messages' and click New Message. My username is c4v3m4n.

Welcome to FanFooty BTW. :)

[PiggyPommy]

Welcome to fanfooty mate. Youl get plenty of advice on here but always back your gut and research!

Nice team too by the way.

[charliesheen]

imo, it would be silly not to get the NUMBER ONE player in Super coach.  He has a tremendous record against Adelaide, and you should really get him before he becomes out of reach.

Dean Cox vs Adelaide (AS)

Last 4 games - 166, 93, 149, 103

Round 2, 2008 - 146, 25 disposals
Round 13, 2007 - 134, 24 disposals
Round 2, 2006 - 128, 24 disposals

For me, its

Sandilands > Cox
Krakoar > Tippet ( doesn't have to be krak just make sure its a rookie that allows you to do an upgrade in the subsequent round)

then

Swallow/Harris > Mundy (should now be within your price range).

[charliesheen]

probably would be better to upgrade the backs the week after, but meh reassess things next week.

Swallow > heath scottland maybe.

[PiggyPommy]

Coxy skipper for me this week.

[charliesheen]

Sandilands > Cox (then have him as captain)
Krakoar > Tippet

then

Harris/Swallow > Heath Scotland

reckon that would be nice.  just check the maths.

[Lecras2]

Cheers guys, great advice it is going to be a tough one  :)