is this for SC or DT? and are you interested in league or overall?I have from our team Newman, Astbury, Foley, Morton and Conca on the bench.
I went with a lot of first year players as emergencies, and quite a few GC players aswell.
Toy, Tape, Day and Swallow as emergencies will probably bring Swallow in depending on his form after a couple of games.
My back 7 are, Gibbs, Newman, Obrien, R Shaw, Bartram, Astbury and Tarant with Heppell, Tape and Toy as emergencies.
My midfield is, Swan, Goddard, Ablett, Mundy, Foley and Scully with Conca, Swallow and Polec as emergencies.
My rucks are Sandilands and Seaby, with Lycett and Campbell as emergencies.
My forwards are, Rioli, M Morton, T Walker, J Bennell, C Knights, Banfield and Petrie with Day, Mzungu and Harper as emergencies.
Thoughts are welcome, no doubt will change quite a bit in the lead up to Round 1.
my general advice would be that your forwards and backs are very light and your mids are too expensive. even your cheapies (Conca, Swallow and Polec) are the more expensive ones.
MIDS: i'd lose Ablett, at his price he's too much of an unknown with two early byes, some limitation to his pre-season and the new club. Scully is also pretty expensive after such a good debut year, he basically has to become a superstar now to justify paying that much. he may become one, he may plateau a bit, i'd rather you select a D Harris or another cheapie in there. JGreen or Beams from Brisbane, Weller from GC, ISmith from Hawthorn, Wallis from the Bulldogs are some of the cheaper rookies to look at.
BACKS: Needs more Deledio. O'Brien, Bartram, Tarrant are pretty iffy for me and i had R Shaw last year and he was terrible when he started to get given run-with roles. Andy Otten will save you money in one slot, Broughton/ Scotland or similar will score much better than any of the three mentioned above. Not sure if Tape is best 22 just yet, BJacobs from Port or Duigan from Carlton are pretty likely to play and score alright.
RUCKS: If you're playing Petrie in the forwards then Hale or JTippett on the ruck bench will give you good DP cover. Dunno about Seaby.
FORWARDS: Walker, Bennell and Banfield are similar to Scully in that they've risen in price but we don't really know what they're going to do this year; Walker for example can have games where he hardly touches the ball. I think you're better off downgrading one or two of them to the likes of CRichardson from North, Matera from GC, or even Krakouer and then upgrading the others to a Franklin, Riewoldt, Sylvia or Waite. Also not sure whether Day will score well in his first year.