Split round - hows everyone going

Since Trade talk won't be very high this year thought we could see howe everyone is travelling this week and heading into next. Who was your star, who are you hoping gets picked next week, who are you hoping doesn't and who are you hoping has a shocker.

Score so far: 1582 (16 and captain played) vs 983 (13 played)
Please get picked: Hayden Skipworth
please don't get picked: Nathan Brown - collingwood (ememrgency for the opposition) & GAJ (not likely)
let down: Beau Muston - what was i thinking playing him instead or Rich AHHHHHH!, Dean Cox - captain and only 93 points
thank god i bought you in this week: Nick Dal Santo
not another injury: Jack Ziebell (possible broken leg)

Score so far: 1497 (15 and captain played) vs 997 (13 played with GAJ Capt)
Please get picked: Hayden Skipworth
please don't get picked: CHeney, Frawley, Mundy, Corey, Chappy, Sylvia and Lovett ha ha
let down: Buddy Buddy Buddy, Dean Cox - captain and only 93 points
thank god i had you: Otten, Porp, Cox I suppose, Tippet only 60 odd
not another injury: Nil

Will be tight I recon, I have factored in 300 for GAJ so am still 180 odd up, need Pav to shake a possible Ling tag, Skippy picked as have no cover (he should after tossing the coin last week and tonning up!) Bartell, Selwood and Swany to kill it and save my bacon again with no GAJ.

This win is real important because it is the SC League organiser and he will be stranded on 3 wins and unlikely to make the finals. He holds all the cash and supposed to be the SC expert! He had Roughy, Buddy and Ziebel (a collective 58 pts)

Score so far: 1223 (with 14 played and GAJ as skipper) versus 1110 (15 played and Swan as capt)
Please get picked: Cheney
Please don't get picked: all the Pies team
Let down: Half my forward line (Fev, Roughie and Bradshaw)
Thank god you're here: My Saints contingent (Roo, NDS and Goddard)
Injuries: Nil

Should be close. I have Pav and GAJ, while he doesn't, so hopefully they have big games. He has Swan, Shaw and Davis so I want the Pies to have a shocker.

A win will take me to 1 or 2 (depending on results) so fingers crossed.

Score: 1235 (15 played Capt yet to play) vs 961 (11 played capt yet to play)
Let Down: Buddy, Roughy, Ziebell
Thank God: J.Brown, Brennan (brought in for Krak)
Injured: Ziebell
Glad I traded you in: Brennan

Dpending on his outcome - may sway my trades for rnd 13-14.
The rest of my team is relying on Mids and Backs - all of my fwds and rucks have played.
I'm hoping at least Didak has a shocker.

It'll be close again for me this week. I've lost twice this season 36pts and 26pts.

Going to be close Clackerz. Hows the oppositions team looking for next week, any guns. I'm glad Brennan fired up and worked out well for you. If Mitch Clark is out for a few weeks with a quad Brennan will get more of a run in the centre which could boost his scores.

Yeah it'll be close.....for sure.
He's still got:
Grimes (as do I)
Drummond (out)
Milburn
Broughton (as do I)
Ablett (capt) - (As do I)
Bartell (as do I)
N.Jones
J.McVeigh
Skippy
Chapman
Didak
Sidebottom

I still have (inc.those listed above)
Mattner
Mackie
J.Selwood

If Skippy doesn't play then his replacement will be Ziebell.

Buddy and Roughy will kill me this week.....
I'm not sure on what to do now with this weeks trades (was going to do Rich>NDS) but with Warren & Ziebell (pending scans) will be out for a while. It maybe time to offload JZ - but he'll drop a bit with his 10 this week.

Score so far: 1403 vs 1170 both from 16 players and both with GAJ as skipper next week
Please get picked: Cale Hooker (I cant see him getting dropped but he is the only one who might)
please don't get picked: Steele Sidebottom / Greg Broughton
let down: Buddy 23, Roughead 25, Muston 27.
thank god i bought you in this week: Didn't bring anyone in this week but seeing A.Collins (one of my pre-season rookies) get 99 was nice.
not another injury: none

I have:
Hooker
Enright
Grimes
Ablett (c)
Sellwood
Steve Johnson

VS

Broughton
Enright
Grimes
Ablett (c)
Bartel
Sidebottom

If i win this week i will take first spot in my league.

Score so far: 1213 (14 played)
Please get picked: Nick Suban and Stephen Hill
please don't get picked: -
let down: Franklin, Ziebell, Fisher and Tippet to a certain extent.
thank god i had you: Mitchell, Goddard and Riewoldt
not another injury: Ziebell

I'm happy the way my season is going. Had a few injuries which leaves me with 10 trades left. Currently sitting at 10,000 out of the entire 337,000. Was up to 5,000 until i had injuries left,right and centre. Still aiming for top 3,000 though.

Score so far: 1370 (14 played - captain is GAJ) vs 1230 (15 played, captain has played)
Please get picked: GAJ
please don't get picked: Greg Broughton (emergency for the opposition)
let down: Buddy Franklin
thank god i bought you in this week: Jason Gram- thanks Roachie, great tip! 98 points, cost 363K.
not another injury: Mitch Clark (leg, muscle tightness) - hopefully will be ok after week off. Have M Brown, T Walker on bench anyway.
Sitting 27th overall, 100K in the kitty, down to 4 trades though so plan is to sit tight till finals time. Like most I have been hit hard by injuries mainly to my Backline :- Waite, Hodge, Cornes, Raines. Glad I traded Ziebell out last week.

27th overall is just awesome, I feel like i am in the company of the pope when i share a forum with you Dav

27th overall you are comparing with the pope. i'm speechless

Thanks boys - made some rookie mistakes (first year in this comp) so learning alot as I go as I imagine everyone is. I will never underestimate the importance of having solid bench players again, so when the guns get injured ( 2-3 week injuries) you have backup thus saving trades. Best advice I got was to pick Ablett & Cox as your first 2 players, then build your team around that. Next advice was to make Ablett captain every week because he never lets you down.He maybe over 700k but what he scores every week when captain is what 4 good players combined score so well worth the money.

Score so far: 1916 (18 played) captain played, 4 players left are J. Selwood, S. Johnson, N. Malcheski, G, Broughton
Please get picked: Greg Broughton
please don't get picked: - GAJ
Let down: Beau Muston 27, Robin Nahas 46, C. Newman 75
thank god i had you: Riewoldt, Power, Dal Santo, Goddard, Gilbee
not another injury: -

Great week for me this week i hope. Sitting pretty with 7 wins and still have 199,000 in the bank, not so good overall though in the 11,000 range but building.

willim wrote:27th overall you are comparing with the pope. i'm speechless

Just a figure of speech willim, I hope i didn't offend anyone. I guess what i am trying to say is that 27th overall is just awesome in my opinion.

Sorry for the poorly chosen words.

[quote="fatcat"<snip> I'm glad Brennan fired up and worked out well for you. If Mitch Clark is out for a few weeks with a quad Brennan will get more of a run in the centre which could boost his scores.[/quote]

Yeah thanks for heads up on Brennan - he wasn't on my radar, but glad I took him up.

Hey guys first time poster. I must say I love the site.

Currently sitting on 1179 with 13 players played.

Players still to play
Ablett (c)
Grimes
Broughton
Cheney
J Selwood
Chapman
Pavlich
Davis
Okeefe

Hoping for 2100+. Currently ranked 300 overall so looking to hold my overall position.
Only worry is 6 trades left.

Score so far: 1477 (16 and bartel captain) vs 1126 (15 played and ablett captain)
Please get picked: Bartel
please don't get picked: Broughton
let down: Jack Ziebell 10 (did pretty bad considering he got injured in the last quarter) and McGlynn 9 (don't know if he got injured or not)
thank god i bought you in this week: Luke Power (162 points)
not another injury: Jack Ziebell (possible broken leg)

Score so far:1380 from 15 Gablett as capt vs 1316 from 16 Gablett as capt.
broughton vs broughton
mackie vs rooke (named on ext bench)
grimes
gablett (c) vs gablett (c)
selwood j vs goodes
pavlich vs aar davey
stevie j vs al davey

Let downs: mcglynn and buddy
no injuries so far
ranked 4850 overall

So far 1372 with 14 players-Ablett captain
Still have Lockyer, Grimes, Broughton, Mackie, Bartel, Ablett(c),Sandilands and Skippy
Let Down:Franklin
Overall ranking:13767

Well I ended up going down by 27pts
That's 2 in a row I've dropped (and a total of 3).
Still - I'm not gonna panic - (yet). The team needs a little work on it still, but will look at it week by week.

This week I'll take focus down fwd with both Warren and JZ with LTI's and only Schoenmakers to fill in. Time to relieve the team of JZ me thinks - thanks for the $ anyway!

I ended up winning by about 300. Thornton and Nathan Brown pulling out gave him 1 donut (1 started the other the emergency - in split rounds you never select emergencies that play in the 2nd week, you just never know - same with captains) and also Ablett only having an ok game (for him anyway). O'keefe, Dal Santo (good decision to trade for Haselby) Hurn and Adcock came through with the goods this week but my decision to bench Rich and go with Muston was a DOH moment. Playing the last placed guy in my league this week so will probably hold tight, although Hodge is looking tempting.

Yep I beat my opponent by 320pts 9-0 now, Swan was awsome again, Pav, Skippy, StevieJ, Bartell solid.

Broghton on the bench with grmes playing

Selwood WTF

Maybe another chance to pick up GAJ soon