Rico's Advice Thread

[Ricochet]

Hey Rico wondering if you can have a look at my team

DEF: Mitchell, Hanley, Simpson, Hurn, Suckling, McDonald (Langford, Langdon)
MID: Ablett, Pendlebury, Cotchin, Beams, Thomas, Michie, Ellis, Dunstan (Cunningham, Crouch)
RUC: Naitanui, Sandilands (Nankervis, King)
FWD: Dangerfield, Martin, Franklin, Pavlich, Fasolo, Kennedy-Harris (McCarthy, Thurlow)

OR

DEF: Mitchell, Hanley, Simpson, Hurn, Suckling, McDonald (Langdon, Georgiou)
MID: Ablett, Watson, Murphy, Beams, Thomas, Michie, Ellis, Dunstan (Cunningham, Crouch)
RUC: Naitanui, Sandilands (Nankervis, King)
FWD: Dangerfield, Martin, Franklin, Pavlich, Caddy, Rohan (Kennedy-Harris, McCarthy)

Thanks

So its basically
Pendles, Cotchin, Fasolo, Thurlow
vs
Watson, Murphy, Caddy, Rohan

Definitely the second one mate. Watson and Murphy are great value and won't be too far off the Cotchin + Pendles combo leading up to the byes. Caddy is underpriced by about 100k already due to his vests last year and with Christensen + Motlop missing from that midfield he will get extra minutes in there. Although Rohan hasn't had a great scoring history he will explode this year and has much better JS than Fasolo or Thurlow.

[Ricochet]

Would love any advice I could get?

Backs: McVeigh, S.Mitchell, Hanley, Suckling, R.Shaw, B.Martin (Langdon, Georgiou)

Mids: Ablett, Pendlebury, Beams, Macrae, Tyson, McDonald, Mitchie, Polec (Ellis, M.Crouch)

Rucks: Leuenberger, Sandilands (Longer, Thurlow)

Fwds: Dangerfield, Martin, Wingard, T.Mitchell, Hogan, Blease (Rohan, Kennedy-Harris)

Cash Left: $39,200


Thought about Ryder in the ruck, free-ing up some $$$ to possibly get Daisy into the midfield, moving Mcdonald into DEF instead of Shaw?

DEF Starts quite nicely with McVeigh and Mitchell being great top end picks and both Hanley and Suckers being underpriced. Suckling at D4 does worry me though mate. Shaw and Martin have good JS but their scoring potential is limited. Most will have Suckers at D5. I'd look to upgrade Shaw here. Especially considering he hasn't averaged over 77 once in the last 5 years.

MIDS Quite weak tbh mate with only 3 true premos. I'd look to take advantage of the underpriced proven performers in DThomas, Cotchin, MMurphy and Rocky. Macrae is a nice POD but at 330k he will need to average 90 just to make you 150k. DThomas is a proven scorer and a similar price.

RUCKS Luey is a nice POD and Sandi is great value but Longer is probably too expensive for a R3 if you were going with a top end premo at R1. Plus Hickey is ahead of Longer at this stage. If you were going to take a risk on spending more money on an R3 then you could take a risk with a Sandi, HMac and Hickey combo. This means you could loophole the best scorer each week. It's risky though.

FWDS Danger and DMartin are great top end picks but I'm not a fan of picking Wingard to start with. You can see my thoughts on him in the Opening Post here. I also think TMitchell will struggle to improve much. He has been killing the NAB challenge games because he has been attending more centre bounces than JPK, Jack, ROK and Hannebery. I expect this to change come round 1 and he will go back to that fwd role we saw at the end of last year which greatly affected his scoring. Hogan is also out for 6 weeks with a sore back now. Maybe look at Higgins or Lamb here. Others to consider at Pav, Caddy or Wright.

[Daniel123]

DEF- Mitchell, Simpson, hurn, Hanley, suckling, McDonald, (Langdon, georgiou)

MID- ablett, pendles, Rocky, beams, Tyson, michie, polec, Ellis, (dunstan, crouch)

Ruck- lobbe, sandilands, (derickx, thurlow)

FWD, danger, Martin, wingard, Gunsten, Higgins, Kennedy-Harris, (Rohan, Taylor)

Love your work BE RUTHLESS

[Coxy10]

Hey Rico, just wondering if you could please give your opinions/advice on my side, cheers mate.

DEF: J. McVeigh, S. Mitchell, K. Simpson, S. Hurn, M. Suckling, L. McDonald (T. Clurey, T. Langdon)
MID: G. Ablett, S. Pendlebury, D. Beams, D. Thomas, J. Macrae, D. Tyson, V. Michie, J. Polec (X. Ellis, L. Dunstan)
RUC: M. Leuenberger, A. Sandilands (T. Derickx, M. King)
FWD: P. Dangerfield, D. Martin, L. Franklin, J. Caddy, S. Higgins, G. Rohan (M. McDonough, J. Kennedy-Harris)

CASH: $7,900
BYES: 9/9/12

[jumbo]

Hi Rico,

great work on all your efforts replying to peoples teams. If you get a chance to look at this team it would be greatly appreciated.

DEF: Bartel, Mitchell, Hanley, Suckling, McDonald, Langford (Fuller, Georgiou)

MID: Ablett, Pendles, Murphy, Beams, Thomas D, J Martin, Michie, Dunstan (Sheed,Garlett)

RUC: McEvoy, Sandi, (Thurlow, Nankervis)

FWD: Danger, Martin, Buddy, Pav, Higgins, Rohan, (Taylor, JKH)

I have 185 k to play with.

Concerns are the;

backline. Do I upgrade a defender? Which one and to whom?

Midfield: Thoughts about downgrading Daisy to Polec or similar to spend more on prem defender?

any other suggestion?

[gook]

DEF: Mitchell S, Thompson S, Hanley P, Swallow D, Suckling M, McDonald L
(Langdon T, Fuller, M)

MID: Ablett G, Pendlebury S, Murphy M, Beams D, Thomas D, Polec J,  Ellis X, Dunstan L
(Crouch M, Honeychurch M)

RUCK:Naitanui N, Sandilands A
(Thurlow F, Nankervis T)

FWD: Dangerfield P, Martin D, Franklin L, Pavlich M, Higgins S, Rohan G
(Kennedy-Harris J, Impey J)

Remaining Salary

$5,900

[Chinwag]

Can I just get a rate on my team, first time in three years and I haven't got a clue who or where to start to build a solid team.

DEF: A Walker, P Hanley, A Rance, D Rampe, M Suckling, D Grimes, (J Frost, C Cameron)
MID: G Ablett, D Swan, D Beams, H Hartlett, A Gaff, D Thomas, B Jack, X Ellis, (V Michie, D Sheed)
RUCK: B Grudy, A Sandilands, (S Michael, C Wood)
FWD: J Roughead, J Gunston, J Cameron, M Hurley, T Boyd, J Hogan, (J Kennedy-Harris, J Impey)

Cash Left: $9,300
I found Daisy and Ellis really cheap for the quality players they are. Just feel I have a lot of areas to improve but I don't know how to go about it.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

- Chinwag

[Jmachete]

Is this good enough to take into round 1??????

Revised team.

Backs: McVeigh, Mitchell, Hanley, Suckling, Webster, McDonald, (Laidler, Langford)

Mids: Ablett, Pendles Rockliff, Beams, Tyson, Ellis, Michie, Polec (Dunstan, M.Crouch)

Rucks:  McEvoy , Sandilands (Derickx, Thurlow)

Fwds: Dangerfield, Martin, Gunston, Higgins, Caddy, Rohan (Kennedy-Harris , L.Taylor)


Bank: $238,200

[Blues Blues Blues]

Hey Rico,

Today's team (sorry, I mean this mornings team. It is likely to change thus arvo!)  8)

Def: McVeigh, Mitchell, Simpson, Hurn, Suckling, McDonald (Clurey, Giorgiou)
Mid: GAJ, Pendles, Libba, D Beams, Tyson, Michie, Polec, Ellis (Dunstan, Crouch)
RUC: Leuey, Sandi (Currie, Derricx)
Fwd: Danger, Dusty, Gunstan, Caddy, Higgins, Bennedy (JKH, Impey)

Cash left $14,500

Alternative is Dusty > Roughy and Libba > Jobe???

Cheers

[brudski]

Hey Rico,

Would love some of your great advice because l'm quite stuck current team

Def - J.Mcveigh, S.Mitchell, K.Simpson, C.Enright, S.Hurn, J.Webster (T.Langdon, A.Georgiou)

Mid - G.Ablett, T.Rockliff, T.Cotchin, D.Beams, D.Tyson, V.Michie, J.Polec, X.Ellis (L.Dunstan, M.Crouch)

Ruck - M.Luenberger, A.Sandilands (.F.Thurlow, A.Smith (needed to make cash somewhere)

Fwd - Dangerfield, D.Martin, M.Pavlich, J.Caddy, S.Higgins, J.Harris Kennedy (J.Impy, Z.merrett)

I'm just a little concerned with my forward line l'm thinking if l should get rohan for F6 i have three options

1.Leave the team
2.Mcviegh to Houli to get rohan
3.Webster to macdonald to get rohan

Which would you choose or would you recommend leaving the team at it is?

[Ricochet]

DEF- Mitchell, Simpson, hurn, Hanley, suckling, McDonald, (Langdon, georgiou)

MID- ablett, pendles, Rocky, beams, Tyson, michie, polec, Ellis, (dunstan, crouch)

Ruck- lobbe, sandilands, (derickx, thurlow)

FWD, danger, Martin, wingard, Gunsten, Higgins, Kennedy-Harris, (Rohan, Taylor)

Love your work BE RUTHLESS

DEF Love your Hurn pick mate. He's underpriced and will play further up the ground this year. In fact I really like your backline.

MIDS Another good line. I do think your missing out on the value of MMurphy or DThomas though. However Ablett and Pendles are top end picks who go well with both Rocky and Beams who are underpriced. Your rookies are the best of the bunch also.

RUCKS Not a fan of Lobbe this year. You can see my thoughts on him in the opening post here. Sandilands is great value though.

Danger and DMartin are great top end picks but I'm not a fan of picking Wingard to start with. You can see my thoughts on him in the Opening Post here.  I'm not a huge fan of the Gunston pick either. At an 83ave from last year he will have to average 100 to a) be a top end premo and b) make you some decent cash. If you can see him doing that then jump on but if not it's not such a big deal if you don't start with him and jump on him later. Higgins, along with the rest of your rookies are fine except Taylor. He has had an injury interrupted preseason. I'd look at McCarthy or Impey here.

[Ricochet]

Hey Rico, just wondering if you could please give your opinions/advice on my side, cheers mate.

DEF: J. McVeigh, S. Mitchell, K. Simpson, S. Hurn, M. Suckling, L. McDonald (T. Clurey, T. Langdon)
MID: G. Ablett, S. Pendlebury, D. Beams, D. Thomas, J. Macrae, D. Tyson, V. Michie, J. Polec (X. Ellis, L. Dunstan)
RUC: M. Leuenberger, A. Sandilands (T. Derickx, M. King)
FWD: P. Dangerfield, D. Martin, L. Franklin, J. Caddy, S. Higgins, G. Rohan (M. McDonough, J. Kennedy-Harris)

CASH: $7,900
BYES: 9/9/12

DEF Nice backline mate. Hurn is a great pick imo. McVeigh and Mitchell are great top end picks and Simpson, Suckling and Hurn are all great value.

MIDS Ablett and Pendles are great top end picks, while both DBeams and DThomas are ripping value. Be careful with Macrae, I'm not completely sold. The rest of your rookies are fine.

RUCKS Leuey is a great POD and Sandi is also great value. Nice line here

FWDS Another very very good line with a good balance of top end picks (DAnger and Martin) and value picks (Buddy, Caddy, Higgins, Rohan). For your rookies also consider McCarthy and Impey.

[Ricochet]

Hi Rico,

great work on all your efforts replying to peoples teams. If you get a chance to look at this team it would be greatly appreciated.

DEF: Bartel, Mitchell, Hanley, Suckling, McDonald, Langford (Fuller, Georgiou)

MID: Ablett, Pendles, Murphy, Beams, Thomas D, J Martin, Michie, Dunstan (Sheed,Garlett)

RUC: McEvoy, Sandi, (Thurlow, Nankervis)

FWD: Danger, Martin, Buddy, Pav, Higgins, Rohan, (Taylor, JKH)

I have 185 k to play with.

Concerns are the;

backline. Do I upgrade a defender? Which one and to whom?

Midfield: Thoughts about downgrading Daisy to Polec or similar to spend more on prem defender?

any other suggestion?

Yep you definitely need to upgrade your D5 or D6 here mate. I'd look at KSimpson, Hurn or Birchall.
I'd keep Daisy because he is great value. Maybe bite the bullet and downgrade Pendles. He has a tough run up to the byes and you have the firepower in the rest of your forward line to cover him. You could also just go Pendles to Cotchin which would nearly give you enough to go LMac to Birchall. Or should be enough for LMac to Hurn.
Only other concerns would be your rookies.
Fuller has struggled to get games in NAB and when he does has struggled to cement a spot. Georgiou is still on the rookie list. Look at Langdon and Clurey here.
Garlett won't be playing football any time soon. Swap him with XEllis asap.
Taylor has had an injury interrupted preseason, swap him with McCarthy, Impey or McDonough.

[Ricochet]

DEF: Mitchell S, Thompson S, Hanley P, Swallow D, Suckling M, McDonald L
(Langdon T, Fuller, M)

MID: Ablett G, Pendlebury S, Murphy M, Beams D, Thomas D, Polec J,  Ellis X, Dunstan L
(Crouch M, Honeychurch M)

RUCK:Naitanui N, Sandilands A
(Thurlow F, Nankervis T)

FWD: Dangerfield P, Martin D, Franklin L, Pavlich M, Higgins S, Rohan G
(Kennedy-Harris J, Impey J)

Remaining Salary

$5,900

DEF Pretty solid mate and love the DSwallow pick. Only concern I have with Thompson is picking a player after his first big breakout year. He has averaged 80s before but never this close to 100. Still he is a solid pick based on last years performance, just be careful there.

MIDS Very solid with a good mix of top end picks (Ablett and Pendles) along with some great value (in Murphy, Beams and Thomas). Your rookies are fine at this stage but maybe look to get in a Michie or Tyson.

RUCKS The best ruck combo imo. Nothing wrong here

FWDS Another good mix of top end picks and underpriced proven performers. Can't really fault this line at all.

[Ricochet]

Can I just get a rate on my team, first time in three years and I haven't got a clue who or where to start to build a solid team.

DEF: A Walker, P Hanley, A Rance, D Rampe, M Suckling, D Grimes, (J Frost, C Cameron)
MID: G Ablett, D Swan, D Beams, H Hartlett, A Gaff, D Thomas, B Jack, X Ellis, (V Michie, D Sheed)
RUCK: B Grudy, A Sandilands, (S Michael, C Wood)
FWD: J Roughead, J Gunston, J Cameron, M Hurley, T Boyd, J Hogan, (J Kennedy-Harris, J Impey)

Cash Left: $9,300
I found Daisy and Ellis really cheap for the quality players they are. Just feel I have a lot of areas to improve but I don't know how to go about it.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

- Chinwag

Hey mate, lets have a look.

DEF Walker, Hanley and Suckling are great picks. I like that you have loaded up the backline because of the lack of defender rookies but not that keen on Rance or Rampe. For Rance's price range strongly consider Birchall or Hurn. As for Rampe I would suggest Jimmy Webster. Rookies that I would suggest are Langford, Langdon, Clurey and LMcDonald.

MIDS Again you start strong with Ablett, Swan and DBeams. I'm not that keen on Harlett or even Gaff and BJack tbh. I would strongly consider MMurphy, Cotchin, Rockliff or rookie priced DTyson and Polec. Also consider Dunstan as a rookie.

RUCKS Not a fan of Grundy at all this year and you can see my thoughts on him in the Opening Post here. Sandi is great value though. For your rookies consider TNankervis and Thurlow.

FWDS Really need to be strengthened. Dangerfield is a must imo. I'm not a huge fan of the Gunston pick tbh. At an 83ave from last year he will have to average 100 to a) be a top end premo and b) make you some decent cash. If you can see him doing that then jump on but if not it's not such a big deal if you don't start with him and jump on him later. In your forward line consider underpriced proven players like Pavlich and value picks like Caddy, Higgins, Rohan, Blease, McCarthy.