Birchall

[pikla]

Havent heard him spoken about much.

After flipping between Hanely and Hartlett muliple times I dcided to have a closer look at their individual scores last season to find that they both have big standard deviations.

Considering I, like a lot of teams, have many port (6) and brisbane (4) players I'm thinking about going with Birchall for better team balance and more consistency

thoughts?

[kfewster]

im sticking clear of birch for now, at his price im not sure how injuries to suckling & whitecross will effect him game.

For $500k+ i want certainty, that the player in question will b a lock for 100 odd.....this year i cant say that with Birch

See how Hawks first few games go, esp with Lake out being injured and maybe bring him in later. Atm he is only in 8% of teams so will make a nice POD.

[pikla]

im sticking clear of birch for now, at his price im not sure how injuries to suckling & whitecross will effect him game.

For $500k+ i want certainty, that the player in question will b a lock for 100 odd.....this year i cant say that with Birch

See how Hawks first few games go, esp with Lake out being injured and maybe bring him in later. Atm he is only in 8% of teams so will make a nice POD.

Do you think that the acquisition of Lake would offset this somewhat?

[kfewster]

I think it depends on how the hawks use Lake.

Lake likes to play floating role & run and carry from the back-line (similar to Birch).

How else u got in your backs Pikla - Have u considered Waters, Hanley or Peace instead?

[pikla]

back currently Goddard, Gibbs, Birchall, Goodes, Pittard, Stevenson (Heath, Turlich)

Previously had Hartlett but as I said he has a high SD. Im weary of having too many port players as I already have 6 and Hartlett will make it 7. Ditto with Hanley and Brisbane players (Rocky, Zorko, Karnezis, Luey) will make it 5 if I take him.

also, waters is a gun but already played and injury prone

[kfewster]

As quinny said in another thread, understand your reservation with Brisbane & Port players (I think most ppl are in same position as they offer value & will be playing) - But how many do u think u'll keep come mid year/end of the year?

Pearce is someone I'm kicking myself I didn't put in my team. Before last week I swapped Goddard out for Peace - But put a "stevenson" instead so I could put Franklin in my fwds.....them the breaks I guess.

[pikla]

As quinny said in another thread, understand your reservation with Brisbane & Port players (I think most ppl are in same position as they offer value & will be playing) - But how many do u think u'll keep come mid year/end of the year?

Pearce is someone I'm kicking myself I didn't put in my team. Before last week I swapped Goddard out for Peace - But put a "stevenson" instead so I could put Franklin in my fwds.....them the breaks I guess.

Thats just it, 5 brisbane players is better than 7 port but realistically 4/5 brisbane players could be keepers compared to 1/7 (hartlett) port players.

Pearce, yeah looked good but already played