Setting Up For Finals. Which Trades This Week?

[Brad1976]

This is the current status of my team. 7 trades left and $251,800 in the bank.

Backs - B Goddard, H Hartlett, P Hanley, H Shaw, B Gibbs, T McKenzie (L Brown, M Clisby)
Mids - G Ablett, S Pendlebury, D Swan, J Selwood, J Kennedy, T Cotchin, M Priddis, T Mitchell (B Crouch, L Hunter)
Rucks - T Goldstein, D Cox (T Nicholls, D Currie)
Forwards - D Martin, J Bartel, T Rockliff, L Franklin, S Johnson, R Gray (N Naitanui, B Staker)

Option 1 would allow me to upgrade M Priddis & B Crouch next week to two of M Barlow, R Griffin or P Dangerfield
Optiion 2 would allow me to upgrade 1 mid next week.

I'm leaning toards option 1.

Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

[Ringo]

Have you thought of Nat to McBean and Crouch to Walker. Switch Gray and Walker. Gray will give sound coverage and a DPP, Crouch may suffer a little with Danger back
Leaves around $470k and 5 trades plus the extra DPP to mids from Fwds Players like Bartel, Rocky, Johnson, Martin and Walker cam be interchanged may be useful in finals.

[lkell69]

Ill start by saying nice team, especially with that amount of trades and ca$$$h.

Option 2 would would leave you with Staker and Cox (or buddy or whoever you decide) on the bench. Which IMO is too much.

Option 1 would leave you a great forward line with staker as cover. Nic nat not bleeding any cash, so next week, for first week of finals, hit em with a massive double midfield upgrade of Priddis and Crouch/Mitchell (whatever b/e's and draw allows) to say Beams and Griff.  Would leave you with the other of mitchell/crouch as cover plus you still will have the option of keeping nic nat if he ends up playing, nic nat downgrade if you get injuries, 4 trades and cash.

Id say you're in a fairly strong position

[fever]

like ringo's thoughts and ditto the first line of ikell's opst, quite impressive.

of the two poll options i like minson. no point having squillions of dollars and not spending them.

[Brad1976]

The issue with option two is having enough cash to do a double mid upgrade next week. Option 1 should also give me enough cash left for a luxury trade say Nicholls to Minson after the double mid upgrade.