AFL Teams 2023: Round 1

Wednesday March 15 – Early news

The all important round 1 teamsheets for the opening match between arch rivals Tigers and the Blues have dropped. Finally after waiting since the final game in home and away season ended, our Fantasy grand final of 2022, on August 21 2022 at about 7pm, we’ll see our first DT scoring game after 208 days 12 hours and 40m min (But who is counting right?). As always a few note about this articles format, each week I will include the team sheets as soon as the become available from the AFL website and focus on DT relevent players, especially those all important rookies and cashcows! Don’t forget the important times for team selections as pointed out in this article here and reminded in notes below. Below I have provided a list of new rookie debuts announced so far, and below that you can see the full squads and notes for the Tigers vs Blues game. Good luck this year, and may the DT gods (whoever they are) be in your favour!

Late Update: popular mid price defender Elliot Yeo has reportedly suffered a calf strain.

A major blow for @WestCoastEagles – Elliot Yeo is dealing with a calf injury, and will miss round one.

Scans confirmed the issue yesterday afternoon.

Yeo has had a near faultless pre-season til now. Horrid luck for the 2-time club champion.

More details on @7NewsPerth tonight.

— Ryan Daniels (@FootyRhino) March 15, 2023

New Player Debuts so far

Lachie Cowan ($242k DEF Blues)

Oliver Hollands ($280k MID Blues)

Ben Hollands and Graham Cowan have now had a taste of sharing big announcements about Ollie and Lachie, so they were keen to be part of another.

Unfortunately, Vossy was out on the track when this particular phone call came through.

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— Carlton FC (@CarltonFC) March 14, 2023

Harry Sheezel ($296k FWD North Melbourne)

Showtime.

Harry Sheezel will debut in Saturday's season opener against the @WestCoastEagles ??

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— North Melbourne FC (@NMFCOfficial) March 14, 2023

Jayden Hunt ($379k DEF Eagles)

Reuben Ginbey ($284k MID/DEF Eagles)

Campbell Chesser ($200k DEF Eagles)

Noah Long ($200k MID/FWD Eagles)

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Ginbey, Chesser, Hunt and Long will debut this Saturday against @NMFCOfficial at Marvel Stadium!

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— West Coast Eagles (@WestCoastEagles) March 14, 2023

Bailey Laurie ($200k MID/FWD Demons)

Judd McVee ($200k MID/DEF Demons)

The debut news kept on coming in today’s team meeting. ??

Sound on low for this one, Dees fans. ??

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— Melbourne Demons (@melbournefc) March 15, 2023

Alwyn Davey ($212k MID/FWD Bombers)

Alwyn is all set for Sunday.

— Essendon FC (@essendonfc) March 15, 2023

Important times to remember:

Thurdays game teamsheets ~6:20pm EST Wed March 15

Weekend Teamsheets ~6:20pm EST Thurs March 16

Sunday games Extended bench selection ~5:00pm EST Friday March 17

 

GAME 1: Tigers vs Blues

7:20pm EST MCG

Notes: The traditional opening match between the tigers and blues. Blues have already dropped news for a couple of rookies with Lachie Cowan ($242k DEF) and Oliver Hollands ($280k MID), with Cowan selected over popular preseason pick Alex Cincotta (DEF/MID $200k) who didnt make the cut. Make sure you update your team before bounce if you still have him or he could be stuck on your bench for the year. Another popular Rookie on peoples bench is ruck rookie Samson Ryan (RUC/FWD $200k) who isnt in the squad. Personally I prefer another ruck rookie as you can’t use Ryan for the all important VC loophole (and there is always an outside chance another ruck rookie is named round one).

The big names are playing, with Sam Docherty being the most owned from blues (About 40%) and Tim Taranto with very high ownership for tigers with above 50% ownership. Patrick Cripps is confirmed in after an injured affected preseason, but blues will still be without Sam Walsh with a back injury. Also George Hewett and Jayden Short are in the odd team as a POD, but not as popular losing their DEF status. Moreso Hewett who scored a great 121 in the tiges vs dees preseason match, but that was without both Cripps and Walsh in the squad. Another on my watchlist is Jacob Hopper as a new recruit at the Tigers, however I’d have to see a better role then I saw in preseason to consider. Liam Baker went BANG in the practice match versus dees scoring 121, priced at a $616k he could be a bargain if he continues scoring anything near that, and as such is in a few teams. Others that pop up are Adam Cerra, Toby Nankervis (now that rucks are all over the shop) and Matthew Kennedy.