Ringos Team Thread 2025

[Bully]

Feels like that with most of the moves (or lack of moves) we make this year. Roberts came back to a mediocre score, but I don't know how much Bice is hurting him. Maybe one to look at moving on next week for Daicos?

Daicos only went up 2k, still under 585k, that's great value for a player who should be a top 10 mid. Options to get him in could involve some underperforming mid pricers, for me it will probably be O'Sullivan or Parker depending on this week's scores.

[Ringo]

Rd 5 Results

Rd 5 Score 2,153
Rd 4 Rank 37,087
Overall Rank 9,219 (down 1,842)
Cash $202,500

Only one trade

O'Driscoll to Clay Hall

Rd 5 Team Look at that defence bench scores which hurt,



Good: Sheezel, Holmes, Reid, Merrett, Serong, L Ashcroft, Gawn, Archer Reid, Horne-Francis, Bailey Smith, Daniel, Powell-Pepper,
Average: Zorko, Bice, Trainor, Neale, Oliver, Xerri, Davidson
Bad:Roberts,Lindsay, Moraes, Hall, Humphrey, Kako
Ugly: O'Sullivan, Henderson

Trades at this stage and will reassess when teams announced. If Any of the rookies remaining dropped will change,
Davidson to El Hawli (Davidson with a B/E 60 little cash gain)
Moraes to Gross (Maybe a small rise still but with a B/e of 36 nearing his limits as well)
Henderson to Nick Daicos (Henderson has reached his ceiling as well)
Leaves $46k in bank

Still some issues to sort Roberts, Connor O'Sullivan, Kako. Lindsay but not alone there,

[Colliwobblers]

Pretty good round considering the rooks on the field and bench, Lalor and Tsatas back will help.

Trades sound like good moves.

[arbel]

Those are pretty nice trades. I too had way too many points on the bench this week. Nice score considering

[Mat0369]

The trades look great, clearing rookies out and getting a genuine upgrade with some cash left in the bank. I can't fault it

[Ringo]

Rd 6 Results Being under for Thursday night and Friday morning made monitoring difficult but do not appear to have lost too much,

Rd 6 Score 2,1113
Rd 6 Rank 41,601
Overall Rank 11,166 (down 1,947)
Cash $45,900

Trades
Davidson to Gross
Moraes to Nic Daicos
Henderson to El=Hawii

Rd 6 Team



Looking at these trades
Connor O'Sullivan to Flynn moving REid back.  Reid still has relatively low BE and can sit on bench for a couple of weeks.
Hall to Carroll moving El-Hawii to mids and DPP
Humphrey to Petracca
Hope anesthetics have not dulled brain.

[Mat0369]

I think we all got killed by the rookies last week.

I'd 100% grab Flynn this week for O'Sullivan, that seems like a really solid trade. Trac was also a fantastic option so hopefully you pulled the trigger on that.

I'd have a back up option because my gut says Carroll will be dropped with Cowan back so early (he was supposed to be another 2-3 weeks away). If you can afford Trac without moving on Hall that may be the play. Just keep an eye on teams tomorrow.

[Bully]

I think we all got killed by the rookies last week.

I'd 100% grab Flynn this week for O'Sullivan, that seems like a really solid trade. Trac was also a fantastic option so hopefully you pulled the trigger on that.

I'd have a back up option because my gut says Carroll will be dropped with Cowan back so early (he was supposed to be another 2-3 weeks away). If you can afford Trac without moving on Hall that may be the play. Just keep an eye on teams tomorrow.

I don't have a back-up plan as I need a 99k player to get Daicos. Might have to shelve a big mid and get Boyd to Flynn somehow, but to do this I need 110k.

[Ringo]

A very good week with only downside picking the wrong one out of Reid and Trainor to bench,

Rd 7 Results:

Rd 7 Score 2,533
Rd 7 Rank 3.503
Overall Rank 6,505(up 4,621)
Cash $35,200

Trades
Humphrey to Petracca
Hall to Flynn
O'Sullivan to Carroll

Rd 7 Team



Good: Sheezel, Zorko, Roberts, Bice, Reid, Daicos, Serong, Neale, Horne-Francis, Smith, Petracca, Powell-Pepper, Flynn
Average: Trainor, Oliver, Lindsay, Lashcroft, Merrett, Gawn, Xerri, Hewett, Daniel,
Bad: Carroll, Lalor, Macrae, Kako,
Ugly: Archer Reid

Looking at these trades this week which also uses final boost.
Archer Reid to Thomas Sims. Reid has maxed out for cash gen and with Flynn currently at flex need to keep that DPP open.
Lalor to Hustwaite - Lalors B/e is now 67 and can afford to downgrade,
Ashcroft to Butters/Bontempelli leaning towards Bont atm with Butters having a high B/e so may fall further,

Leaves 2 mid rookies on field, 1 def rookie on field and SPP at F6

Looking at byes now for premiums, semi prems on byes:
Rd 12 Sheezel, Bontempelli, Xerri, Horne-Francis, (Daniel and Powell Pepper)
Rd 13 Serong, Macrae,
Rd 14 Roberts, Bice, Daicos
Rd 15 Oliver, Gawn, Petracca (Flynn but maybe gone)
Rd 16 Holmes, Zorko, Neale, Smith
So quite manageable.

[Colliwobblers]

Awesome round team looking great. Trades great. Although I plan to switch Flynn to the next best ruck likely Gawn for me  as soon as Flynn is ripe. Not worrying about DPP for flex for that reason. Although in the end another premium mid there would be just as effective.

[Mat0369]

Awesome round team looking great. Trades great. Although I plan to switch Flynn to the next best ruck likely Gawn for me  as soon as Flynn is ripe. Not worrying about DPP for flex for that reason. Although in the end another premium mid there would be just as effective.

The DPP allows you to have ruck coverage using on of your big 3 and not have a donut by playing one of your forward bench options on field. Strategy is sound and it's a good way to get a quick 150k in the bank to make some trades. May as well bank that with limited downgrade options this week

[Ringo]

With Oliver news breaking have amended trades as follows

Archer Reid to Thomas Sims. .
Lalor to Hustwaite -
Oliver to Bontempelli.

Trust Ashcroft earns a little more with a B/E of 48.

[GoldDigger]

With Oliver news breaking have amended trades as follows

Archer Reid to Thomas Sims. .
Lalor to Hustwaite -
Oliver to Bontempelli.

Trust Ashcroft earns a little more with a B/E of 48.

Oh, you tempt me!

[Ringo]

A very good week again and like a lot did not put faith in Gawn as C

Rd 8 Results:

Rd 8 Score 2,521
Rd 8 Rank 3.192
Overall Rank 3,025(up 3,520)
Cash $146,400

Trades
Oliver to Bontempelli
Lalor to Hustwaite
Archer Reid to Sims.

Rd 8 Team



Good: Sheezel, Zorko, Holmes, Reid, Trainor, Bontempelli, Merrett, Neal. Ashcroft, Hustwaite, Gawn, Xerri, Horne-Francis, Petracca, Smith, Macrae, Hewett,
Average: Daicos, Daniel, Kako
Bad:Serong, Linsday, Tsatas, Flynn, Powell=Pepper
Ugly: Bice, Carroll

Late news on Oliver was helpful as it meant I kept Levi Ashcroft,

What to do this week.

1 Trade SPP to Chad Warner,

Not sure whether to then sit as rookies sill mooing or cash to make. Would only be a downgrade of rook if I do for cash.

Looking at Rankine as next upgrade and with mids up and down thinking moving Macrae or Petracca back to mids. 

Note for defence one of Bice, Trainor, Reid or Carroll will become Coleman in a couple of weeks.

 

[Bully]

That's a great score, you have been flying the past fortnight, top 1000 within sights this year.