SC 2014 Profile: Grant Birchall

[specky92]

#14 Grant Birchall - Hawthorn Hawks

Requested by _wato


Name: Grant Birchall
Age: 25 years, 9 months
Team: Hawthorn
Position: Defender
Bye: Round 9

2013 Low: 30
2013 High: 152
2013 Average: 92
2013 unsubbed average: 96.1
2013 Pre-Bye Average: 96.8
2013 Post-Bye Average: 83.6
2013 Average being tagged: 69.6







Fanplanner Price: $492,700

Predicted average: 85-90ppg

Verdict: Too easily tagged out of the game for my liking, IMO should be the first tagged at Hawthorn for the rest of his career, if he proves he can cop a tag and maintain an average of around 100 then we should all be jumping on but seeing the average whilst being tagged will most likely scare many off.

[Holz]

3 straight 90+ seasons.

This year will be his 4th.

[TeeJay]

3 straight 90+ seasons.

This year will be his 4th.

When he's bad he's sooo bad though

[Holz]

3 straight 90+ seasons.

This year will be his 4th.

When he's bad he's sooo bad though

Depends if you care about league or overall

I only care about my rank so 150 one week 50 the next is still a 100 average.

Also that was only this year, he used to be a guy who would pump out 80-110 every week.


It's all suckers, you can't put a really hard tag on him as suckling will go crazy. The downside is with suckers they split the ball use so I don't think we will see as many monster games.

I expect him to be more consistent next year.

[Dayze]

So wierd. This time last year birch was a model of consistency with a low standard deviation and ceiling.
Then bam the exact opposite.
Suckling could well b the reason.
Almost forgot the two of them played off halfback together.
Hodge birch and suckling is a ridiculously good half back line.

[TeeJay]

3 straight 90+ seasons.

This year will be his 4th.

When he's bad he's sooo bad though

Depends if you care about league or overall

I only care about my rank so 150 one week 50 the next is still a 100 average.

Also that was only this year, he used to be a guy who would pump out 80-110 every week.


It's all suckers, you can't put a really hard tag on him as suckling will go crazy. The downside is with suckers they split the ball use so I don't think we will see as many monster games.

I expect him to be more consistent next year.

Understood, but a guy that's gonna throw in sub 50 scores will be a cheap pick up at some stage.
Guerra just retired to don't forget. He was a main distributor out of the back half. Hopefully birch takes some more kick ins .

[shorty3264]

He used to be Mr Consistent but yeh I think no Suckling changed that a bit, he's in my side atm, he should get back to that consistent form. But picking defenders is so hard at this stage without knowing who will have DPP.

[_wato]

Thanks mate, great write up.

Yeah, I have locked him also, think he'll get back to that 95+ consistent average.

[Levis43]

Should easily get a 95+ average.