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The first lockout of the season will be 7:20pm AEDT, Thursday 16 March at the bounce of Richmond v Carlton. The rolling lockout will be in place again this season, so make sure you’re on top of when games are played in round one as to help you lock in your squad. All times below AEDT.
Thursday, March 16
Richmond v Carlton, MCG, 7.20pm AEDT, Seven
Friday, March 17
Geelong v Collingwood, MCG, 7.40pm AEDT, Seven
Saturday, March 18
North Melbourne v West Coast, Marvel Stadium, 1.45pm AEDT, Fox
Port Adelaide v Brisbane, Adelaide Oval, 4.05pm ACDT, Fox
Melbourne v Western Bulldogs, MCG, 7.25pm AEDT, Seven
Gold Coast v Sydney, Metricon Stadium, 7.00pm AEST, Fox
Sunday, March 19
Greater Western Sydney v Adelaide, Giants Stadium, 1.10pm AEDT, Fox
Hawthorn v Essendon, MCG, 3.20pm AEDT, Seven
St Kilda v Fremantle, Marvel Stadium, 4.40pm AEDT, Fox
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McKenna is a wait and see if his named. Ridley at times in the past has been used as a close checking player, when freed up he can be good. Not sure how Scott plans to use him. Hopper won’t be a keeper so he needs to be able to make over $100k cash. Going on his highest average is in the low 90’s and that is when he attended bulk CBA’s at the Giants, I don’t think his worth the selection.
My finalised team. Thoughts will be appreciated.+
DEF: Dockerty, Stewart, McGrath, Constable, Gibney, Cowan (Wilmott, Chesser)
MID : Laird, Steele, Kelly, Green, Callaghan, Ashcroft, MacKenzie, Phillips (Hollands, Long)
Ruck: Marshall, Witts (Moyle)
FWD: Dunkley, Taranto , Rozee Gulden, Sheezel, Greene (Pedlar, Sturt)
UTL: Davey
Nice team Ron. Like the Stewart pick. Good luck.
Thanks mate. All the the best to you to
Geelong had the lowest pts.for out of every team in the practice matches
They were also SMASHED. That’s very interesting considering they were premiers last year
I don’t really see someone like Tom Stewart generating much – if any – value. Maybe I’m wrong
Other than that. Good team. I also want you to know I have Will Day on my team lol
Do the finalists have a shorter pre season?
Is MacKenzie playing?
Callaghan or Worpel??
i’m pretty much set on the rest of my team
Def: doch dawson mcgrath constable ginbey wilmont (chesser, long)
Mid: laird bray jelly sheed callaghan ash mac philips (roberts davey)
Ruc: english marshall (mcandrew)
Fwd: dunks taranto rozee gulden sheezel poo (greene sturt)
Uti: whoever’s named as 200k
Cash: 59k, potentially changing from callaghan to worpel, or i could upgrade wilmont but i’m not sure who to?? Thoughts??
Hawthorn has more mid-depth. Callaghan has better job security & will likely avg. more imo
Hey Guys, need some serious help here, stressing out since Yeo chaos.
Before:
DEF: Doch, McGrath, Yeo, Constable, Jones, Ginbey (Cowan, Wilmot)
MID: Laird, Brayshaw, Smith, Green, Callaghan, Ashcroft, Mackenzie, Phillips (Davey, Long)
RUCK: English, Marshall (McAndrew)
FWD: Dunks, Taranto, Rozee, Gulden, Sheez, Pou (Caminiti, Greene)
Utl: Chesser
I’m thinking drop jones and move chesser on field, then move smith down to Cogs (i keep thinkn of Hewett, is he a legit option?) then i can push Yeo up to Daics. But is it stupid having so many giants in the mid? wary of having so many from the same team stealing points from each other.
After:
DEF: Doch, Daics, Mcgrath, Constable, Ginbey, Chesser (Cowan, Wilmot)
MID: Laird, Brayshaw, Cogs, Green, Callaghan, Ashcroft, Mackenzie, Phillips (Davey, Roberts)
all others the same except for Long moved to Utl.
please help a fella out, cheers!
Guns n Rooks DEF/FWD/RUC… Midrange Madness Midfield
Paying for Prem Rooks with Some Job Security
DEF: Doc, Dawson, Stewart — Consta,Ginbey,Chesser (McVee/Cowan as named but may change)
FWD: Dunks, Cogs, Taranto, Rozee, Horndog, Sheezel (Greene,Davey)
RUC: Timmmmmmmmmmah, Marshall (Mc Andrew)
Sideshow Utility – Wilmot, but could be anybody by Sunday…
And the Midfield Midpriced Madness:
Brayshaw, Gulden, Sheed, Worpel, Callaghan, Ashcroft, MacKenzie, Hollands (Phillips, Phillipou)
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Should be some Banging Cash…. Gotta roll them dice…
Also Shambles of a leagues needs love — Workmates all bailed on fantasy this year…
Good Luck to All, and may the subs vest not curse your rookies…
7A22NZEE
RDT leagues 296089 & 955586 only a Couple of spots left to fill.
Advice plz
Doch, daicos, McGrath, constable, ginbey, chesser (cowan, wilmot)
Brouch, baz, jelly, serong, worpel, Callaghan, bytel, ashcroft, (hollands, Mackenzie, phillips util)
Marshall, ladhams (moyle)
Dunks, taranto, gulden, jhf, mclean, sheezel (phillipou, davey)
23k left
Undecided whether to go daicos and brouch or sicily and ldu… that would leave 56k left… thoughts,
Tia
1: Be weary of Ladhams. Hickey’s estimated return is 2-3 weeks – https://www.afl.com.au/matches/injury-list
-> Around that price range, I would probably select someone like Luke Jackson
2: Serong avg. 87.7 in 2022 with 7 100+ & many average scores with a floor of 60.
-> Some better suggestions: Tom Green, Tom Green, Tom Green, and Tom Green
3: I’ve heard others say it and I’ll reiterate: Brad Crouch isn’t rlly suitable for captaincy
4: It’s usually better if your utility is a DPP so you can move around players more easily
-> You should probably change one of your low-price midfielders to a DPP and Util
5: Bailey Smith + Bevo = recipe for disaster??? I swear WB mids are cursed (ignore)
When you support Collingwood & don’t have a single Collingwood player on your team
Fantasy is not about the team you support. I am a Collingwood supporter with precisely zero Pies in my side. If Daicos was not a tag risk, I would have him. I think the Pies are going to do great things this year, but scoring Fantasy points is not going to be one of them. A few years ago, I had a swag of them because they were Fantasy relevant. Now, they are not.
I’m a long term Port Adelaide supporter and Rozee is the first Port player I’ve had since the Rockliff and Boak era.
Well, I have two more Port players than Pies. I am stuck with JHF at F5, because he is the best of a sorry bunch at that price.
What’s the thoughts on Tom Green? Taranto gone could see him scoring big but quite worried considering his run of form at the end of last season
He set the world on fire at the start of last year, then went bust when he was given some roles. This year, GWS have lost Taranto, Hopper & Bruhn, so they will rely on Green now. He won’t get the defensive roles. so lock him in.
We have one spot in our AFL Fantasy League – Parched. Grade : We think we are better than we actually are !
League code AVCU5CRJ
I think I fit into the same category if you don’t mind having me.
DEF: Doc, Dawson, McGrath, Constable, Ginbey, Chesser (Wilmot, Cowan)
MID: Laird, Brayshaw, Green, Sheed, Worpel, Phillips, Ashcroft, Mackenzie (Hollands, Long)
RUCK: English, Marshall (Moyle)
FWD: Dunks, Taranto, Rozee, Gulden, Sheezel, Phillipou (Greene, Sturt, Davey (UTL))
Feel good but a tiny bit concerned about the Green pick, just wondering if i could somehow restructure my team to get him up to a Jelly if needed. Advice welcome thanks
Who should I play on field out of Wilmot, Cowan and Chesser?
atm ive got wilmot in
How many Giants are too many Giants? Have Kelly, Cogs, Green and looking at Callaghan over Worpel…
Thats too many. If they get belted your in trouble plus the bye will kill you.
With Yeo & McLean out, my reshuffle leads to a choice:
1 – Sheed + Bruhn
2 – Worpel + JHF
I feel Sheed is better than Worps, but JHF is better than Bruhn.
Any thoughts?
And the first player to pass their breakeven this season is . . . . . Cowan
Player values already going up :)
Holland’s might go backwards 😅
Have no idea he is only in 12 in the first half, he was around the pill frequently.
At least he made his BE
1: Will Phillips is selected as an emergency. What should we do?
2: Todd Goldstein has been ruled out. How will that impact Trent Xerri’s scoring?
3: I had Lachie Cowan and Oliver Hollands on the bench. They were both disappointing
I think I will be offloading Phillips. He is a massive sub risk, which means he could well go down in value. Goldstein has not been ruled out; he is one of the emergencies. So, he is also at risk of being made the sub; not likely, but possible. It’s more likely to be Phillips. However, I know some will be eyeing off Xerri, but he could go off at three-quarter time. So the Norf game is important to look out for the final teams and sub announcement.
At least bot Cowan and Hollands made their BE (just). I had Hollands on-field after the Phillips not being named fiasco, so consider yourself lucky.
Looking at NM’s injury list, if he’s not qualifying for the team now, it’s unlikely he will.
Will Phillips was my M10 & I could either offload him for:
1: A midfield ~200k as my m10, DPP M/F for utility. So: Laurie or Long
2: Swap Phillipou to M10 & select a forward ~200k as my f7. So: F. Greene
Or, I could keep him, but if he doesn’t play rnd.2, I will lose a trade. So?
1. Best option would be to go ip to Bytel, but if not enough cash grab Phillipou if you don’t have him
2. Xerri will average 80+ solo, but risk of Goldy playing when North play dual rucks
3. Coach seemed happy with both players, so both should get more opportunities.
J. Dawson + S. Darcy vs A. McGrath + T. English?
Dawson/Darcy
1: Cumming, Davies-Uniacke and Coniglio
or
2: Daicos, Laird and Horne Francis
Option 2
Great input jack, though with Daicos on one of these lines and that comment being at 8am yesterday morning, he probably nerded the feedback yesterday before 7pm I would have thought lol
what do we think;
option 1 – upgrade Day to Daicos or Young and downgrade Kelly to Green
option 2 – keep Day in defence and Kelly in mid
Option 1 for sure
Xerri a legit option now without goldstein?
Yes :)
Good Luck in 2024
kelly or macrae?
add merret to the mix so rank the three?
Merrett, Macrae, Kelly
Do we take Docherty’s 110 VC score or do we risk it and go with Laird? I personally feel like taking the loop with Heath. Can’t risk it knowing the potential tag with Ash/Perryman.
Macrae or Smith?
Smith
Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera?
Liam Jones Rage Trading will be all the rage
do I trade McGrath or hold to see if he improves? Thinking of trading him down to Day + $150k
I took a punt on Grundy – I have no injuries – rookies are good.
Option 1 Witts
Option 2 Darcy
Option 3 down from a premo and get English or Gawn
Cheers.
English probably has at least a 10-point buffer over Witts/Darcy, so potentially 3 if you had a premo underperform and you missed Green. Otherwise, I think Witts is more reliable than Darcy due to no second ruck, although Darcy probably has higher potential scoring though.
For my first trade I’ve gone Long to Chandler. However, for my second trade I have a few options:
1. Josh Kelly to LDU + 116k
2. Sheed to Setterfield or Callaghan + 232k (Have to take Hollands 77)
3. F Greene to Uwland (Have to take Hollands 77)
Any ideas?
Sleepy Joe, I like the simplicity of Greene to Uwland.
Option 1: Kelly->Setterfield and Bytel->Day (using DPP) and thus getting second 2nd DEF rookie off-field and Ginbey at D6.
Option 2: Kelly->Green and either (Macrae/Bont up to Brayshaw) or (Bytel to Phillipou/Uwland (if named)) for cash grab.
Although Bytel looks like a good rookie, no word on how long he is out for.
Have Hollands E on mid bench, covering either Bytel or Kelly if I wish as well.
Nothing better to do, as nailed all my other mid-pricers and rookies.
Need HELP!
i Defence:
Docherty, Dawson, Sicily
McKenna, Constable, Ginbey
(cowan, wilmot)
Midfield:
LAIRD, Macrae, Brayshaw, Merret
WORP, Callaghan, Ashcroft, Bytel
(c.mackenzie, hollands)
Rucks:
Flynn, Xerri (s.ryan)
Forward:
Dunkley, Rozee, Taranto
Sheezel, Philipou, Davey
(long, greene) Utlity: Chesser
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Im going Xerri to S.Darcy but I am 206k short.
what should i do? Trade Laird or Worpel?
BEEN GOING CRAZY TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT!!!
I NEED HELP WITH TRADES
The team is:
Def: Dawson, Sinclair, docherty, mcvee, Cowan, ginbey.
Mid: laird, a.brayshaw,oliver,mills,ashcroft,Davey,c.mackenzie(rookie),
Hollands.
Ruck: english,Marshall
Fwd: dunkley, sheezel,coniglio,taranto,pedlar,philliphou
Bench: uwland, Wilmot, Bergman, Laurie, Heath, Greene, chandler,
Chesser.
Bank : 48k
2 trades
I NEED HELP