Herald Sun AFL Super Coach

[Sean K]

Hayes is looking to be the retrospective no-brainer of the year.

Add Barlow.

Pav being wasted as a decoy forward.

Pearce having a breakout year.

 

[Ves]

Hayes is looking to be the retrospective no-brainer of the year.

Add Barlow.

Pav being wasted as a decoy forward.

Pearce having a breakout year.

Yes - and I don't have any of them! Hayes was tempting, but it was hard to say how a 32 year old would come back from a serious knee injury. Proving all the skeptics wrong so far.

Milera looks like he will only perform on "flat tracks." He will be hot and cold, the typical impact forward. I think a lot of people got burnt by his hype after round 2.

 

[Sean K]

Milera looks like he will only perform on "flat tracks." He will be hot and cold, the typical impact forward. I think a lot of people got burnt by his hype after round 2.

I picked him up simply as a cash cow. Will trade for one of the rookies coming through who are about to bubble.

Carrazzo big loss for me today. At least he could have scored 100+ before getting injured.

As a Bomber supporter, I'm embarrassed I don't have Stanton...

 

[sammy84]

As a Bomber supporter, I'm embarrassed I don't have Stanton...

I'm with you there. But then again, we have had to sit through many years of up and down Stants. Even now I still don't the balls to trade him in for fear he will return to his old ways.

 

[Ves]

2095 for me this week. My worst score so far, but I will take it under the circumstances. Lots of donuts around (I survived them somehow).

 

[Sean K]

Shocking week for Super Coach's with the injuries and I was lucky to crack $2K. Lucky to win my first game in our public league which looks pretty strong.

Couple of great Cash Cows coming through. Many GWS already doubled. McDonald good for another couple of weeks probably.

 

[Sean K]

I've decided to trade GAJ for JPK. Now I know he'll be back next week. lol. He had a cycle this afternoon apparently and the knee 'felt great'. Running tomorrow. Sounds alike at least 2 more weeks to me. Can't have $720k sitting on the pine and 3 x GWS in the guts...

 

[Ves]

I've decided to trade GAJ for JPK. Now I know he'll be back next week. lol. He had a cycle this afternoon apparently and the knee 'felt great'. Running tomorrow. Sounds alike at least 2 more weeks to me. Can't have $720k sitting on the pine and 3 x GWS in the guts...

I actually did the same, and much for the same reasons. I also traded in Pendles for D. Smith. Obviously a few weeks early in hindsight. But I needed a trustworthy captain!

Scored 2180 this week. Back in the top 20k. Much better than 1793 the weekend before (my worst ever).

 

[Sean K]

I actually did the same, and much for the same reasons. I also traded in Pendles for D. Smith. Obviously a few weeks early in hindsight. But I needed a trustworthy captain!

Scored 2180 this week. Back in the top 20k. Much better than 1793 the weekend before (my worst ever).

Good scoring. I've had too much cash on the bench the past 2 weeks ($567K). Need to upgrade a couple to score better. Averaging 2108 though and at 16,222 I'm pretty happy. I've been a dunce at this game for years.

Now, who trade in for Goodes?! grrrr. Thinking Sidebottom or Zaharakis to maintain the DPP link.

 

[Sean K]

A good week for Super Coaches. Half my team is GWS and other Cash Cows and still scored over 2100. My wife scored 2416!

K Horsley was a great pick up last week and still has another $100K at least in upside.

I missed the Sidebottom trade but have pencilled him in now. With Ball out and Pendles and Swan being alternatively tagged he's had a free run on the weakest midfielder. Should keep pumping out the numbers.

Time to ditch some Cash Cow GWS'ers. But who to ditch? They're still all making cash!! Maybe a couple of more weeks before they need to be traded into a Premium.

I've dropped back to 26,428 after last weekend.

Probably due to having $990K in cash not deployed.

Must trade up soon to get back into the top few %.

 

[Ves]

I think I might go with the double downgrade again this week. Will then have about the same cash balance as you.

Currently ranked 21000-sh. We're pretty close by the looks of it!

I picked up Horsley and Adams last week. Got rid of Goodes and Magner (probably slightly early, but no other way to get Horsley and Adams in).

This weeks looks like a very rare chance to get some defender rookies on the bubble.

 

[Sean K]

This weeks looks like a very rare chance to get some defender rookies on the bubble.

I'm just about off bubble boys and need to get some numbers on the board. I think I'll only trade up to a Shaw perhaps.

 

[Sean K]

Sheeds!!! Why rest 4 of my key GWS planks all at once? Arghhhhhh! Lucky I have some back up and can field a team without trading still. Having said that I'm bringing in Sidebottom for Masten who has peaked by the looks. Still have 700k to deploy. Trying to conserve trades for the inevitable injuries but it's costing me overall rankings dearly....

 

[Ves]

Sheeds!!! Why rest 4 of my key GWS planks all at once? Arghhhhhh! Lucky I have some back up and can field a team without trading still. Having said that I'm bringing in Sidebottom for Masten who has peaked by the looks. Still have 700k to deploy. Trying to conserve trades for the inevitable injuries but it's costing me overall rankings dearly....

I was trading Bugg already, he has peaked for now. he has a low score in his price cycle which makes it hard for him to get much higher in a rush. Probably bring in Spurr this week. And upgrade Ellis to a premium.

 

[Sean K]

I was trading Bugg already, he has peaked for now. he has a low score in his price cycle which makes it hard for him to get much higher in a rush. Probably bring in Spurr this week. And upgrade Ellis to a premium.

C Delaney or J Brennan look a great DEF Cow option to make a quick 100k if you have plenty of trades. I need to stop looking for Cows and deploy my cash into Premiums. Sacrificing about 150 points a week at the moment to conserve trades. Trying to apply lessons learnt from losing a final last year by not having just one last trade left. Might cost me the other way...

 

[Sean K]

Averaging 2137 with $771K in the bank. In top 7% but well off the pace now. I don't know how those guys at the top have done it. Just amazing luck with picking the right Cash Cows and no injuries early? Gotta be some luck...

Zorko and Jenkins the Bubble Boys this week. If I had more trades would bring them both in but I've only got 15 left. Might just grab Zorko due to DPP flexibility and hold him for 3-4 weeks and trade up. Risk with Jenkins is that Walker will be back shortly, but geesh, what a great start. Will be hard to drop.

 

[Ves]

C Delaney or J Brennan look a great DEF Cow option to make a quick 100k if you have plenty of trades. I need to stop looking for Cows and deploy my cash into Premiums. Sacrificing about 150 points a week at the moment to conserve trades. Trying to apply lessons learnt from losing a final last year by not having just one last trade left. Might cost me the other way...

I traded Scotty Thompson in for Bugg and traded Ellis down to Spurr last week. Brennan, Spurr and Delaney were the best of the bunch. Job security is a worry for each of them. I reckon Spurr will miss out this week, just a hunch, he is named on the extended bench and Silvangi is also named.

Traded Murphy to Ablett. Losing count of the trades I have had to make through injury to premiums! I wanted to get Ablett back, but not quite this early!

 

[Ves]

Averaging 2137 with $771K in the bank. In top 7% but well off the pace now. I don't know how those guys at the top have done it. Just amazing luck with picking the right Cash Cows and no injuries early? Gotta be some luck...

Zorko and Jenkins the Bubble Boys this week. If I had more trades would bring them both in but I've only got 15 left. Might just grab Zorko due to DPP flexibility and hold him for 3-4 weeks and trade up. Risk with Jenkins is that Walker will be back shortly, but geesh, what a great start. Will be hard to drop.

I think mostly luck with injuries. Some astute choices as well obviously, but guys like Lake and Hargrave could have gone either way! And obviously the injuries and rookies are always a lottery each year. More so this year with less bench spots!

I wouldn't have brought Jenkins in if I had trades, as you mention his job security is low. Not sure about Zorko! He might do OK, but could easily get dropped too. At least Lions cannot make finals, so they might keep him in the side for experience.

 

[Sean K]

I think mostly luck with injuries. Some astute choices as well obviously, but guys like Lake and Hargrave could have gone either way! And obviously the injuries and rookies are always a lottery each year. More so this year with less bench spots!

I wouldn't have brought Jenkins in if I had trades, as you mention his job security is low. Not sure about Zorko! He might do OK, but could easily get dropped too. At least Lions cannot make finals, so they might keep him in the side for experience.

Yep, I tossed up Lake and Hargrave. Lucky Lake turned up. Same with Ellis and Morris. I jagged Morris, although he's falling off and will need to be traded up if I can to a Shaw perhaps.

Not so lucky with Harvey, Martin, and Burgoyne. I really thought Harvey had at least another good year in him, Martin should be doing a Dangerfield, and Burgs is just a bad mistake.

I hope Stants isn't rested at the last minute or subbed early tomorrow. I have my C on him.

 

[NewToTheTrade]

anyone here do AFL dreamteam?