I dodged a bullet with Hingano not dropping any cash last week. Damn easy trade for me - Hingano to Hampton.
My rage trade of Ryan James to Wallace won't be happening. Should have done it last week and banked the 140k, but the gap isn't so big now.
Makes more sense to cashout one of FWinter, Yates, Kelly, Talakai or Suli for the 80k odd instead.
Glad I didn't fall into the revolving door trap by trading Leota out for Hoare a couple weeks back. Had visions of some other Panther from last year, and I think Welch might've done a similar thing, but basically averaged trash all year, in and out of the side, and then pumped out a couple of good scores and made 100k.
Feel like the experience of being in my 3rd season is making decisions a lot easier. Banking 3 trades already is a huge improvement and even last week's trade of RJennings to Slater turned out shit.
The wait and see approach with trading in guys like Bodene, Whitehead and JBrom is paying off, whilst keeping Siro, Lamb and SMat hasn't burned me yet. Just need Ryan James, Merrin, Manners and Maloney to play ball now. Maloney obviously getting upgraded pretty soon though.
In saying that, I hope anyone that takes a chance on those guys earlier than most is rewarded.
Interesting to see Lone Scout deemed JBrom a sell. Finished 14th overall in 2016, 9th in 2015 and 11th in 2014. Hasn't averaged below 50 and only missed 1 regular season game in those 3 seasons.. Yeah I'm still in the wait and see camp, but selling now looks like a nooooob move.
Reminds me of my mate wanting to sell Issac Luke 2 weeks ago. After bombarding him with some stats, he decided to keep Luke and upgraded Ash Taylor to Macca via Hampton instead.
Which prompted me to write this since we're now quoting ourselves
WT Winfield from 2 weeks ago wrote:Even though I have Hingano and want as much cash as possible, will be interesting to see how Issac Luke goes with Foran in the side.
Luke averaged over 48 the past two seasons, though only played 20 games both years and 16 in 2014, but down 76k so far to 383k, might be an option for Brailey in a few weeks if I can't raise the cash for McInn.
SJ is back to kicking goals over Luke, but who knows how long that will last with whatever leg issues SJ always suffers from.
and finally, to answer a lot of questions from Monday and Tuesday pre-TLT:
"
player x and
player y to Frawley and Cook?"
No, they look like bad trades.
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