Good Foward Rookie?

[Joel20]

Im looking for a good foward rookie who should play a good amount of games. 123k is my limit at the moment. Your suggestions would be great cheers.

[FisherSaints]

Ahmed Saad

[nathan11]

there is a couple i prefer my fwd rookies to have dpp so looking at zorko or smedts

[Joel20]

He is just out of my price range but ill try changing a few things and see if it works. Any other suggestions?

[Joel20]

Yeah i have both zorko and smedts, sorry that i didn't notify that :)

[BratPack]

For under 123 I like Adam Treloar. He was one of the first signees for GWS so they must rate him highly, and he has DP status

[Joel20]

Treloar is in my mids and i have Pfeiffer also in my forwards. Is Crozier a chance?

[CFC 1979]

keep an eye on this guy

Tory Dickson
Club: Western Bulldogs
Position: FWD
Price: $98,700 DT, $106,600 SC
Here’s one who hasn’t got a lot of press in the fantasy community and I definitely think he’s one to keep an eye on over pre-season. Tory Dickson has a bit of an interesting background, having being an elite tennis player as a youngster he didn’t go through the TAC Cup system. He’s a mature aged draftee who was playing for the Bendigo Bombers last year and is a natural football player with a very good ability to read the play. He’s got terrific goal sense, as evidenced by his 48 goals for Bendigo in 2011.

The thing that makes Dickson’s 2011 season so impressive is that he was training once a week commuting from Beaconsfield to Bendigo. He also had a limited pre-season because his decision to return to the VFL was a late one. He had already been training with Noble Park after a 112 goal season with them in 2010.

Going back a little further in 2009 he won a best & fairest with Frankston in the VFL, which is where he caught the attention of Shannon Grant, who was Frankston coach back then and persuaded him to come over to Bendigo for the 2011 season. Grant recently joined the Bulldogs as an assistant coach and is known to be a fan.

From a fantasy perspective I’m immediately interested in any players that are drafted at 24 years of age. Generally speaking, those players are recruited for a reason and with the Bulldogs new look forward line there should be opportunities for him.

He averaged a solid 77.7 for Bendigo last year and scored quite evenly in a lot of stat categories. In fact, he scored 216 from handballs, 219 from marks, 220 from tackles and 288 from goals. Those are perhaps meaningless stats, but I thought it was pretty neat that he scored so similarly from most of the DT point scoring categories.

He has a high enough ceiling and had a four week patch in the middle of the season where he scored over 100 each week. His season average was also dragged down by a quiet last two games where he scored 40 and 41. After 17 games he was averaging 82.1.

I think the prospect of him scoring in that sort of ballpark at AFL level isn’t particularly crazy. 77 is a bit of a lofty prediction, but I would be pretty surprised if he was less than 70. Keep a very close eye on the Bulldogs NAB Cup because if Dickson is able to press for a spot in their Round 1 side I think he’ll be a decent option and might end up a bit more popular than you’d be thinking at this stage.

[Mozza3]

Tory Dickson, mature age, played under McCartney before.

[nathan11]

couple to watch from the swannies jed lamb and tommy walsh

[BratPack]

Move Treloar to the forwards and pick up Dylan Shiel?

[Joel20]

I acctually originally had Tory Dickson but i was unsure about him so that's why i have made this post. I can't move treloar to my Fowards because that will mess up my subs for the bye because i have Brown and Zorko in my forwards and Lions and GWS have the round 11 bye

[yorgis]

pfeiffer should be itching to go. plenty of opportunities in the power midfield and plenty to prove after being on crows and

blues lists. 23yrs ols solid bodied and used to play for norwood [SA] home of puopolo lower and duigan to name a few]

[Jay]

Curtly hampton???