Trades 2026 Round 4 trades

[jumperfan]

I just saw the footy of Philipoo on first crack. Are we sure he isn't going to get dropped next week? He's soft as butter and has horrible skills. Surely won't keep getting a game with what he's dishing up

He won't get dropped until someone like Macrae or Byrnes is fit again

 

[Northernsoul74]

gonna have to skip scerri i reckon with young looking to return, which of the rooks is next best bet?

looking at Durs, Cook, Bond

brining in Durs at high price and means one of blam or jagga on the pine this week and means i cant bring in a premo next week as planned with scerri

cook a bit cheaper and has dpp which helps big time

or overthinking and just get in scerri? means next week in comes ash

Who are you trading out for the rookie?

 

[who shot the barman]

What’s Linc Mccarthy role like? His on the bubble wondering if it’s worth swapping Carroll to him to generate some cash?

 

[Frambles]

Deathriding Bont and Naicos is starting to test my nerves. I fear I'll be giving up ~50 points a week without them

So I'm considering doing a couple of potentially silly trades this week.
Walsh > Naicos
It's sad seeing a Carlton premo in my team and I imagine FOS might be targeting him this week. But even watching him play, I'm not sure if he has the ceiling he once had. But maybe it's just Carlton looking like trash at the moment.
I want to get off Mr Voss' wild ride.

Parish > TKelly
This is a risky POD pick, but he looks to be in the main CBA rotation again and hopefully in Mini's good books for now.
He went 95 and 102 in '24 and '23 when he was getting CBAs, which is enough for a forward Premo to me, especially at 400k. Had some good scores last year when he was getting >50% CBAs too.
West Coast seem to actually be playing with some heart which I think he needs to get going properly.

May also use a boost if DSharp isn't playing to get Rogers/Bond in. They aren't exactly inspiring rookies but I'm leaving Steene until next week.

 

[Mags98]

If you’ve got a Carroll/Sharp/non-playing mid might be worth first looking at looping Blamires and decide on Duursma based off Blam’s score? (I’m planning on a Blamires loop with Brayden Cook)

yeah good shout actually, can loop with murdok

Who are you trading out for the rookie?

carroll

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

Those handballs over his head

Looks scared. No idea how they can keep throwing him into the middle if he's doing that.

 

[St Steady]

I just saw the footy of Philipoo on first crack. Are we sure he isn't going to get dropped next week? He's soft as butter and has horrible skills. Surely won't keep getting a game with what he's dishing up

he's ross's golden child. he just needs to keep his game simple. he is very talented

 

[SC fish]

That’s essentially what I’ve done

A DPP quirk was masking the Royal Roughie before. Here fixed it:

Rd 2:

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Rd 4:

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Judd_Magic will be thrilled with this!

 

[True Blue Saint]

TEAM CURRENTLY ($332k ITB):

Clark, Worrell, Windsor, B Allan, Jaques, Lindsay (Serong, Kondogiannis)
Butters, Daicos, Anderson, Serong, Parish, Bruhn, J Smith, Blamires (Grij, Watkins, Sharp)
Grundy, English (McAndrew)
Sheezel, Flanders, Budarick, Cook, Robertson, Marshall (Pou, Lombard)
Xerri

OPTION 1:
Xerri, Kondo & Parish -> Rogers, McKercher, Bont ($141k ITB after)
Bont is obviously a must have, I'm a bit unconvinced on Rogers, could do Duursma here too. McKercher IMO is probably a 10-12 rank defender but he's at a decent price. Gets rid of a dead rook in Kondo

OPTION 2:
Xerri, Lombard & Parish => Bont, Miers & Duursma ($29k ITB after)
Miers is a clear top 4 forward and Duursma should provide decent scores whilst fattening.

Thoughts?

Any advice? Currently leaning option 2, but willing to be persuaded

 

[Kessian]

Thinking of

Parish, Xerri and ZZ to
Bont, Gawn and White

Feel odd brining in a non playing player though.

Thoughts?

 

[True Blue Saint]

Thinking of

Parish, Xerri and ZZ to
Bont, Gawn and White

Feel odd brining in a non playing player though.

Thoughts?

When McAndrew tops out I'm thinking of roughy-ing in old glandular fever Kalani

 

[Saints4ever]

Thinking of

Parish, Xerri and ZZ to
Bont, Gawn and White

Feel odd brining in a non playing player though.

Thoughts?

You have to get Bont in ASAP.

Can you bring in Steene instead of white or don’t have the cash?

 

[St Steady]

Thinking of

Parish, Xerri and ZZ to
Bont, Gawn and White

Feel odd brining in a non playing player though.

Thoughts?

the collingwood ruck rook at least plays atm for 20k more and is dpp

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

Any advice? Currently leaning option 2, but willing to be persuaded

Really rate option 2 trust Miers being a top 6 forward a lot more than McKercher being a top 10 defender (magnet moves around too much and for his price you’re paying for him to be a season long keeper). Also like Duursma more than Rogers as a pick.

 

[Scythe]

TEAM CURRENTLY ($332k ITB):

Clark, Worrell, Windsor, B Allan, Jaques, Lindsay (Serong, Kondogiannis)
Butters, Daicos, Anderson, Serong, Parish, Bruhn, J Smith, Blamires (Grij, Watkins, Sharp)
Grundy, English (McAndrew)
Sheezel, Flanders, Budarick, Cook, Robertson, Marshall (Pou, Lombard)
Xerri

OPTION 1:
Xerri, Kondo & Parish -> Rogers, McKercher, Bont ($141k ITB after)
Bont is obviously a must have, I'm a bit unconvinced on Rogers, could do Duursma here too. McKercher IMO is probably a 10-12 rank defender but he's at a decent price. Gets rid of a dead rook in Kondo

OPTION 2:
Xerri, Lombard & Parish => Bont, Miers & Duursma ($29k ITB after)
Miers is a clear top 4 forward and Duursma should provide decent scores whilst fattening.

Thoughts?

Any advice? Currently leaning option 2, but willing to be persuaded

Prefer option 1 for the following reasons:

• Clears out a dead rookie (Lombard is still playing, at least). With Steene emerging too, I'd argue that the scoring power of the forward rookies looks a bit better than the defense ones at the moment.
• Disagree that Miers is a 'clear top-four forward'. Presuming Sheezel, Petracca and Touk (post-DPP) are the top-three, there's arguments that could be made for all of JHF, Pickett, Darcy, McInerney, Flanders etc – you could just about throw a blanket over all of them, so I'd just wait to pick off a couple at reduced prices. With the way he plays (lowish ceiling), Miers is unlikely to ever get out of reach.
• Duursma is no guarantee to fatten much. At that price, one bad score and it's basically curtains. Sydney/Geelong/Freo next three, too, so wouldn't be surprised if he throws out a stinker in one of them, and then the cash gen will basically be done.

I don't trust Clarko not to throw McKercher around; but I'd argue there's more potential upside in him at ~$450k than in Miers at ~$500k.

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

He won't get dropped until someone like Macrae or Byrnes is fit again

Can they drop a guy on $1 million? I got told Freo wouldn't drop Darcy due to his salary and he's on less than Pou.

 

[samsinga573]

Who's the best Mid <150K to bring in?

Scerri, Schoenberg, Jones, Lai, Byrne, Brodie... Murdock.
Don't really like any of the options tbh but needa bring one in.

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

Who's the best Mid <150K to bring in?

Scerri, Schoenberg, Jones, Lai, Byrne, Brodie... Murdock.
Don't really like any of the options tbh but needa bring one in.

No point going early on Murdock, save him until the week he actually plays.

Probably Jones of that lot, assuming he holds. Goes ok at AO and they are getting injuries so he may hang around for a while.

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

Duursma is no guarantee to fatten much. At that price, one bad score and it's basically curtains. Sydney/Geelong/Freo next three, too, so wouldn't be surprised if he throws out a stinker in one of them, and then the cash gen will basically be done.

Absolutely hate to agree with this point but kind of have to agree. In my spot if I went Watkins (lower BE and still decent JS and price still) I could grab Holmes like I really want to instead of Jaicos and not have to bench 1 of Blam/Cook (since he’s stuck in my mids) which I would be for Willem. Also leaves a little more playing around money.

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

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Think I’ve decided I may be doing this. Super keen on Holmes for the second week in a row but too many question marks for a defender to bring in that’s sub 523k when I’ve already got a question mark in Houston and only one solid premo defender in Sinclair. 1 half of the Blakiston/Windsor mess is cleaned up for now.

Going to wait till teams come out before setting on a plan but may like this a little bit better (pretty sure I had something very similar earlier this week). Got no question marks on Clark or Holmes and a little more price flexibility. Really wish I didn’t listen to the preseason advice on passing on Duursma but in this scenario I won’t have to bench one of Cook or Blamires (this week will loop one of Cook/Blam with Watkins via Carroll) and leave my team looking like this:

 

[Kessian]

the collingwood ruck rook at least plays atm for 20k more and is dpp

10k short unfortunately. Unless I trade Young for Bont, but he's coming back soon.

 

[Nelso]

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Going to wait till teams come out before setting on a plan but may like this a little bit better (pretty sure I had something very similar earlier this week). Got no question marks on Clark or Holmes and a little more price flexibility. Really wish I didn’t listen to the preseason advice on passing on Duursma but in this scenario I won’t have to bench one of Cook or Blamires (this week will loop one of Cook/Blam with Watkins via Carroll) and leave my team looking like this:
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I am half tempted to use a boost myself and get rid of the dumpster fire which is Parish in order to pick up Watkins.

So far have done:

Xerri to Gawn
Petracca to Bont

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

I am half tempted to use a boost myself and get rid of the dumpster fire which is Parish in order to pick up Watkins.

So far have done:

Xerri to Gawn
Petracca to Bont

I'd be very tempted to hold Trac now.

 

[SELFCONFESDAFLNERD]

Around Duursma, not sure of the price predictions based on his projected scores coming up so definitely take what i say with a grain of salt. That said, i thought he was awesome last round, missed a pretty easy shot and started the game not touching the ball for over half of the first quarter. So, hypothetically, he could've scored 120ish. He also looked to have a few short spells on ball, not really from centre ball up but around the ground he wasnt just hanging on the wing outside the contest so i think that bodes well.

My opinion is that he is probably still worth it, given 1 more good score this round and he will make a lot more cash. That said, you could look at him not getting involved for 2/3rds of a quarter as a negative too. I feel he is clean enough with ball in hand that his floor hopefully isnt too low. Naturally though, if he plays wing/half forward his scoring could vary a fair bit.

I'd say he is still a good asset but far from a lock. I got him last round and am stoked but i dont expect him to replicate last weeks form. Should make about $100k at least but if he goes big this round, he could make substantially more. Im not sure how bullish id be if i didnt have him. In saying that, the rookies on the bubble this round dont fill me with that much confidence so if looking for a downgrade maybe the timing is right?

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

I am half tempted to use a boost myself and get rid of the dumpster fire which is Parish in order to pick up Watkins.

So far have done:

Xerri to Gawn
Petracca to Bont

I rate it. Think there’s still decent money in Watkins (and less of a roadblock stopping his cash gen with a poorer score than the Werm) and from what I take it looks to have decent JS (ahead of Will Brodie at least). Assuming Brodie would be the one to make way for Wines if he’s back in and with the Rozee injury think I feel good enough about him as a pick. If we were willing to pay the price for what we did for Phillipou preseason when Watkins is outperforming him and is currently priced lower than Pou was to start with - I reckon I’m happy enough to jump on.