Honey Badger's First Attempt

[Honey Badger]

Hi guys. Wondering if you could tell me how my first attempt looks. Don't really know many of the rookies yet so they will obviously change

Got $49,000 left in the bank.

Back
Brendan Goddard, Heath Shaw, Hamish Hartlett, Bachar Houli, Chris Yarran, Tony Armstrong, Steven Morris
(Jordan Lockyer, Tim Mohr)

Midfield
Gary Ablett, Marc Murphy, Andrew Swallow, Ryan Griffen, Michael Barlow, Chad Wingard
(Liam Sumner, Marty Clarke)

Ruck
Shane Mumford, Trent West
(Tom Derickx, Jonathan Giles)

Forward
Lance Franklin, Travis Cloke, David Zaharakis, Tom Hawkins, Anthony Morabito, Jason Porplyzia, Ahmed Saad
(Israel Falou, Dayne Zorko)

Any comments would be great

Changes

Out	In
Waters	Shaw
Shuey	Barlow

[Ringo]

Sound team - Think you need another prem back. I would upgrade one of Hartlett, Houli, Yarran or Waters to a Gibbs, Delidio or Heath Shaw if game.

[My Chumps]

Yeah, I tend to agree with Ringo in saying you need another premium defender.
I'd be looking at downgrading Sheuy and upgrading one of Waters, Yarran, Houli or Hartlett.
The rest looks good though 

[Honey Badger]

Thanks for the comments guys, traded out Waters and Shuey and brought in Shaw and Barlow. Sound good?

I'll explain a couple of my picks though...
• Hartlett and Yarran I reckon will improve again this year (hopefully Hartlett stays on the park) and with them both being classified as backs I reckon they need to be picked because there aren't a great deal of premium backs around.
• If you ignore Houli's first 5 games as a Tiger then he averaged 96 for the season, which is great for a defender and also means Houli is very under-priced.
• Armstrong moved to Sydney and they have a habit of recycling players so reckon he could do well there. Same with Morris at the Tiges coming from the VFL. I would prefer a mature age rookie over some of the young guys.
• The mids pretty much explain themselves.
• West should be the number 1 ruckman at Geelong next year so should score pretty well, will most likely upgrade him later.
• Forward line pretty cheap, but with lots of potential for improvement in my eyes from Zaha and Hawkins, then Morabito and Porps are very cheap for what they could score.

[Ringo]

Like the move.  I considered Houli as well as a possible unique and may still go that way. Personally would have taken only one of Yarran or Hartlett but that is just me due to their injury record and being new to the positions.

Barlow is an interesting choice  as we know what he is capable of and exhibited it on return from injury. Can not go wrong there.


You forward logic is good hope Zaha come off for you.  Shows potential but depends on how Richmond are going.
 

[My Chumps]

Yeah I like that change  .
I do like Houli, but I've got my doubts on Hartletts body and Yarran keeping up with his breakout in 2011.
Best of luck though

[Honey Badger]

Thanks guys. Think I will just leave it for now and then come back to it when it actually opens.

On another note I know that if you had the dream team gold thing or whatever it is called you get a look at the new prices and positions before christmas, but do you get the same if you had the SC gold?

[Voldemort]

Waters is a premium, just under-priced, get him again

[Ziplock]

waters had one quasi-premo year... that being said, he's worth consideration, but I definitely wouldn't say he's a premium...

[Speculator]

I think if you had supercoach gold it will also open in December just like DT