Please give advice to save my team!

[Jay]

Ok here is my team at full strength with 12 trades and 203,100 in the bank

Back: fisher delidio goddard enright newman gibbs heppel___lower buckley puopolo
Mid: swan pendles Jelwood s.thompson cotchin harris___iles jacobs prestia
Ruck: sandi cox___smith bailey
Forward: pav n.roo j.roo rioli goodes yarran mzungu___lynch mckernan richo

Please give some good advice on what is thebest way to strengthen this team

Thanks

[j959]

guessing you're only really worried about league wins with your double ups in lines ...

i think you can upgrade/downgrade Lynch or McKernan into a premium fwd - Sylvia should be on your radar as his price will/is dropping with his sub-affected 21 (or so) from rd11.

another option is because you're going to have Pendles/Swan out this wk, you could upgrade Harris into an MPP fwd/mid (Sylvia/Chappy/Didak) who you can switch into your fwd-line when the Pies return the wk after ...

good luck!

[Jay]

Yer just goin for league...was thinking of keeping harris as my M7

It is a big league game for me this week and i hav 3 mid premo's out so keep the advice comin :)

Thanks

[j959]

Yer just goin for league...was thinking of keeping harris as my M7

It is a big league game for me this week and i hav 3 mid premo's out so keep the advice comin :)

Thanks

you've got enough cover IMO to be able to ditch Harris (Jacobs/Prestia/Mzungu/even Heppell) - he hasn't been travelling that well - I've got Swallow as M7 - if I was in your position I would dump Harris (I upgraded Harris into GAJ after the Suns played the Cats).

[Jay]

Ok that mite be an option

Wot would be your long term advice (wot should i do this week and next and so on)

[j959]

Ok that mite be an option

Wot would be your long term advice (wot should i do this week and next and so on)

mate, i'm no expert but depending on how many trades you've got - if league wins are your goal, you would probably want at least 8 (absolute minimum now) to 11 or 12 trades between now and finals so you can pump your team up just for the finals.

ideally you would have 8 trades for the finals - makes for 4 double downgrade/upgrades - one for each wk of the finals!  ;)

so if no LTIs, i would sit tight.
if you're pretty secure in the top half of your league, you can even have doughnuts in matchups to save trades.

[Jay]

Just thought of another option...swing heppel to mids and upgrade him???

With selwood out for 4 should I trade him??

Help is really needed

[Jay]

Any one else out there who can give me some advice i am really stuck!

[Ringo]

You have some options in the Players and trades as we have discussed.
Looking at your Team overall, and this is just my opinion, I would not like to be relying on Heppell, Harris or Mzungu as playing in finals.  They are Ok as your first emergency.
Selwood should be a definite trade out this week as he will miss 5 of the remaining 11 matches.
Then I would be looking at ways over the next 4/6 weeks to upgrade your team so that you will have playing prems in all positions for finals. This could possibly use up to 6 trades but will then set you up nicely with prems in position and a further 4 trades for finals. If you are well placed in leagues I would be conservative but if needing wins now would be the time to get a little agressive with trade strategy.
This week then Selwood>Boyd/Ablett
then If you went Boyd you would have sufficient cash left to go Lynch to LeCras (could be a uniqie POD for you) but this trade is not absolutely necessay. If Smith is named for Hawthorn I would look at a downgrade as he would be on the Bubble either Prestia in Mids or Lynch in forwards.

[Jay]

Thanks a lot thinking selwood-->boyd but then i get a bit stuck...maybe downgrade someone in my backs to strauss or downgrade a forward to howe/i.smith or just upgrade lynch/mckernan???