Pies Guns?

[Kuruki]

Im looking at it from a season point of view not a selected block of games.  I dont think Swan will play 22 games guys like Boyd Thomo Rockliff i think will. For me that makes them more valuable. I'm not expecting i will have many trades to sideways this season, i want to get it right from round 1.
I could still get Pendels but im risking it on leaving Swan out.

What does it matter?

Regardless of whether you were going for league or overall last year Swan would of destroyed you at the start. What do you do then?

My guess is you had to bring Swan in, just to compensate for the huge scores.

Dt is also a mental game. Not having Swan at the start of last year would have you outside the top 3000 after 5 rounds, meaning that you would already of had that "flower my dream team" adittude

All that matters to me  is what happens in terms of the overall season. Swan had the highest average but Pendelbury scored more points overall. This is what i mean when i say it is not going to kill me not having Swan. Should he miss a game like i think he will, that little bit extra he gives you over guys like Boyd, Ablett, goes out the window.
Swan may have been great from 1-5 but from 6-11 he was poor. I may be wrong but im picking guys i think will play every game and saving some cash.

[TheMailman]

If your backing on Swan having the same mid season as last year, I fear you'll be bitterly disappointed

[Crows84]

Im still taking pendles, however boyd i am not certain about, i think i can remember last season he had a couple stinker games were he scored poorly. But Gaj, pendles and swan from memory never dropped much under 100

[Holz]

Im still taking pendles, however boyd i am not certain about, i think i can remember last season he had a couple stinker games were he scored poorly. But Gaj, pendles and swan from memory never dropped much under 100

boyd had 5 scores under 100:       70, 85, 89, 93,94

ablett 7 (from less games)
swan 5
pendles 4

so pendles was the most consistent and with a low score of 86, but boyd is pretty consistent in 2010 only 4 sub 100 scores

[Memphistopheles]

Im looking at it from a season point of view not a selected block of games.  I dont think Swan will play 22 games guys like Boyd Thomo Rockliff i think will. For me that makes them more valuable. I'm not expecting i will have many trades to sideways this season, i want to get it right from round 1.
I could still get Pendels but im risking it on leaving Swan out.

What does it matter?

Regardless of whether you were going for league or overall last year Swan would of destroyed you at the start. What do you do then?

My guess is you had to bring Swan in, just to compensate for the huge scores.

Dt is also a mental game. Not having Swan at the start of last year would have you outside the top 3000 after 5 rounds, meaning that you would already of had that "flower my dream team" adittude

All that matters to me  is what happens in terms of the overall season. Swan had the highest average but Pendelbury scored more points overall. This is what i mean when i say it is not going to kill me not having Swan. Should he miss a game like i think he will, that little bit extra he gives you over guys like Boyd, Ablett, goes out the window.
Swan may have been great from 1-5 but from 6-11 he was poor. I may be wrong but im picking guys i think will play every game and saving some cash.

I traded him out in round 6 and picked him back up again in round 14 :P

Turned out to be a ripping move.

[TheMailman]

Im looking at it from a season point of view not a selected block of games.  I dont think Swan will play 22 games guys like Boyd Thomo Rockliff i think will. For me that makes them more valuable. I'm not expecting i will have many trades to sideways this season, i want to get it right from round 1.
I could still get Pendels but im risking it on leaving Swan out.

What does it matter?

Regardless of whether you were going for league or overall last year Swan would of destroyed you at the start. What do you do then?

My guess is you had to bring Swan in, just to compensate for the huge scores.

Dt is also a mental game. Not having Swan at the start of last year would have you outside the top 3000 after 5 rounds, meaning that you would already of had that "flower my dream team" adittude

All that matters to me  is what happens in terms of the overall season. Swan had the highest average but Pendelbury scored more points overall. This is what i mean when i say it is not going to kill me not having Swan. Should he miss a game like i think he will, that little bit extra he gives you over guys like Boyd, Ablett, goes out the window.
Swan may have been great from 1-5 but from 6-11 he was poor. I may be wrong but im picking guys i think will play every game and saving some cash.

So from that I'm assuming that you're going for overall. You think Dane Swan will miss more games mid season?

From 2007 - 2010 he played 22 games every year. In 2011 he played 21.
He is already underpriced from the phenomena that was his mid season slump

Saying that your going to pick Pendlebury over Swan because you think he'll get more games isn't really valid.

[Kuruki]

Pendelbury scored more points then Swan last season. That's valid. I think he will do it again. We will just have to wait and see.

[TheMailman]

Swan missed one game.

In 4 seasons. 1 game.

He averages more and everything. Yet because he misses 1 game. You decide not to pick World Number 1?

[salver11]

Mailman why have you replied 75 times here? The mans argument is valid, pendles scored more points last year and HE THINKS it will happen again.

If you have the prospectus from years past you might have read the article in I think the 2010 book where the overal winner didn't have Garry Ablett from about round 6 on and he still won even with Gaz carving up.

If I go and get the ten top scorer from last year and then fill the rest with not playing rookies am I going to win? Obviously not! It's about spreading your money where you think best and this bloke thinks it's best not on Swanny. I tend to agree, there will be a point somewhere that his price will take a bit of a dip. Hopefully after the bye. If not well hopefully I make use of the money elsewhere.

[Grannyboy]

I seem to remember last year most of the guns mentioned here didn't really get going til half way through the year. Pendles did ok when Swanny was carrying an injury, Gaj had a very slow start coming back from injury/new club-er-itis, Rocky had a better 2nd half of the year, Thommo only posted 1 huge score early, but Boyd n Swan(til his groin thing) were off from the get go. It's a brave coach that will start without Swanny imo.

[Grannyboy]

If Swan is rested it may be an extra doughy though because you would imagine it would happen the round before or after the bye, when your subs will already be stretched. But will he pay for himself before then?