Ask Ziplock Pre-season NAB1

[Justin Bieber]

Hey Zip another question which I need to know. I have 4 keepers in the fwds who share the rd 13 bye. Robinson is the one I want to get rid of. Who do you think I should get? Pav or Fyfe looks like my best options?

Pav. He's a more proven performer with less injury concerns- plus fyfe will probably be copping more attention this year, bad for him, but once again, good for pav :)

Ok done traded lol.

[Ziplock]

Is Goodes worth his 493k price tag?

and

What is your favoured structure out of 3 premiums one mid-pricer or 4 premiums 1 midpricer?

Cheers and yes I am asking lots of questions because of the cheeky aforementioned library remark :P

goodes- to start with, no imo. Yes he has an easy starting draw, but his average against those opponents is actually quite unimpressive. As well as that his standard 'start slow finish fast' pattern leads me to feel upgrade target.

well, your forward line structure depends on where you're subtracting it on (and what you're defining as midpricer), for instance this year tbh, I believe to be competitive you really need at least 2 forward mid pricers, out of robinson, martin, sidebottom, brown, christensen and maybe even watts and j/n riewoldt for more sneakies. 

I presume you've counted one of those players as a premium, so I'm going to go 4 premos 1 mid pricer, so long as it doesn't make your other lines too weak (if you have less than about 3 premos in the backline, then it's too weak :P )

[Ziplock]

Another one for me:

James McDonald or Lachie Neale?

I'm going to go mcdonald. Proven performer, with decent job security. Imo, will average over 80. Neale is still rookie listed isn't he? and could very well end up as a richardson... at this stage, mcdonald for me.

[Ziplock]

Which Scott Thompson do you prefer? Not Dreamteam, just in general.

tbh, going to have to go with scott thompson (adelaide).

basically because I don't care about either of them except from a DT/ SC sense :P

also, I find thompsons efforts last year in a pathetic adelaide performance (aka 2011), quite inspiring- if he shows up in a back brace sometime soon we'll know why.... the whole adelaide crows football clubs must have been a dog to carry on one mans back...

[Ziplock]

and with that I'm going to sleep. Night all.

[Justin Bieber]

Another one for me:

James McDonald or Lachie Neale?

I'm going to go mcdonald. Proven performer, with decent job security. Imo, will average over 80. Neale is still rookie listed isn't he? and could very well end up as a richardson... at this stage, mcdonald for me.

Ok done, if Tralour or Zorko are fit, he's out.

[PowerBug]

What's gonna happen when we're offline. :-\ May we need a limit of unanswered questions??

[Justin Bieber]

lol. Well here's one.

Another bench forward for Tommy Walsh who doesn't have the rd 12 or 13 bye?

[n00bsauce]

Sidebottom has been said to be in the midfield more this season but with collingwood's small forward injury concerns, (macaffer, krakouer and didak) will he be pulled back to the forward line more?

and if so, will beams get more game time in the midfield?

[Capper]

Zip

Who will most likely get the start in R1 for Dees?
Couch
Magner
Nicholson

To Shiel or not to Shiel? Any idea when will he be back training after the surgery??

[Justin Bieber]

Bad idea Zippy lol....

[elephants]

I dunno but my question was regarding midfield structure not forward structure... :(

[Justin Bieber]

I dunno but my question was regarding midfield structure not forward structure... :(

Yeah mine was forward questions regarding in which I should get Pav or Fyfe. It says on the first page that yours is about midfield structure??

[elephants]

Yeah it does but Zip answered it in as if it was about the fwd line...

[Justin Bieber]

lol I see now.