A Little Help For My Final Team

[swanny89]

DEF: B. Deledio, B. Goddard, G. Broughton, J. Adcock, G. Birchall, D. Heppell, A. Carrazzo <T. Bugg, L. Spurr>
MID: J. Watson, S. Thompson, G. Ablett, J. Selwood, M. Barlow, S. Pendlebury <D. Nicholson, S. Gibson>
RUCK: D. Cox, S. Mumford <J. Giles, T. Campbell>
FWS: S. Sidebottom, L. Franklin, D. Beams, M. Robinson, P. Dangerfield, D. Martin, C. Sylvia <D. Zorko, J. Murdoch>

4 Trades & $51,100

My thoughts are to sit tight for a while and probably make a Gibson to Goodes move when they have topped and bottomed out which would put Goodes in my forward line and allow me to use Sylvia or Zorko as FWD/MID back-ups. Planning on keeping Bugg as cover and moving Spurr on to someone later on in the season, hopefully to a Docherty/Baguley/Brown if they play to open up DEF/MID DPP with Nicholson. Any advice or thoughts?

[Ash A]

Awesome cover!!!!
the only problem i have is NO SWAN?!?! I traded barlow to swanny but barlow with 5 tons on the trot is pretty hard to remove.
personally i dont think you need any stronger cover than what you have. Its good enough for you to sit on and keep 4 trades for LTIs and end of season resting. I do however feel that Goodes will be a benefit up front so the gibbo to goodesy trade would be the go.
A very strong team no doubt. Good Luck!!! :D

[Andrew]

Sylvia is a shocking pickup when you've got Zorko and Gibson sitting on your bench. Hold your trades so you've got enough to move this clown on.

[swanny89]

Thanks, it hurts not having Swan but I'm not sure how I would fit him Mate I cant remember if i had a chat to you about Uni games, but thought i'd see if you're keen. It's over the September midsem break, an even though it will cost about $1000 because it's in Adelaide it's definitely worth it. Easily one of the best things you can get involved with at Uni. Let us know if you've got any questions.in unless I traded Barlow to him and I like how easy Freo's last few DT games are. It has cost me a couple of league wins though! Picked up Sylvia a few weeks ago at $280,000 as FWD/MID bench cover, before I had Gibson.

[Ash A]

Thanks, it hurts not having Swan but I'm not sure how I would fit him Mate I cant remember if i had a chat to you about Uni games, but thought i'd see if you're keen. It's over the September midsem break, an even though it will cost about $1000 because it's in Adelaide it's definitely worth it. Easily one of the best things you can get involved with at Uni. Let us know if you've got any questions.in unless I traded Barlow to him and I like how easy Freo's last few DT games are. It has cost me a couple of league wins though! Picked up Sylvia a few weeks ago at $280,000 as FWD/MID bench cover, before I had Gibson.

??? dont have a clue what you are talking about there- :o maybe facebook open in another tab??? hahaha

[swanny89]

??? dont have a clue what you are talking about there- :o maybe facebook open in another tab??? hahaha

Haha shower didn't even realise, I was copying facebook messages to mates and must have accidentally hit paste in the middle. This is what it meant to say...

Thanks, it hurts not having Swan but I'm not sure how I would fit him in unless I traded Barlow out and I like how easy Freo's last few DT games are. It has cost me a couple of league wins though! Picked up Sylvia a few weeks ago at $280,000 as FWD/MID bench cover, before I had Gibson.

[dtfreak]

flower you have an awesome team!! good cover, every position is strong. i think personally save 4 trades for finals and use them strategically. i think you should put zorko on over martin also

[PowerBug]

Firstly, awesome team, very strong with nice cover. That is why i'm going to point out the problem in it:

You have Martin, Slyvia and Zorko. You only need 2 max, preferably 1 at F8, and Zorko is dominating.  Get in Chapman or Roughead in time.

No Swan, but Barlow is holding up his end of the deal so i wouldn't worry.


4 trades, and because of this i wouldn't trade incase of late season carnage. :) Nice team, great cover, hopefully you destory in the later rounds. :D

[swanny89]

Thanks for the tips all, but I ended up going against all of your (and my own) advice. What I forgot to mention that I am sitting 14th in a cash league and had a neck and neck game this weekend. With Murdoch out I was looking at a donut in my forward line, so I moved Barlow down to Couch to get someone on my field. Then plan was to wait a couple of weeks to move Gibson-Swan at the ideal time cash wise, but I realised that I had enough to do it now so went for it. I figure, though I'd like to have 4 trades in the bank to finals, there's no point having them if I don't even make it. Risky, because I like Barlow's run home, but worth the gamble I feel. So essentially I moved Barlow up to Swan and Gibson across to Couch, giving me a FWD/MID link but only 2 trades for finals.